Mower County transcript., 1903-10-21

follow initial plans for proper survey
and plating of the recently acquired
contiguous addition, and the result has
been a creation that to every citizen
among us is an object of civic PRIDE.
What is patent to every intelligent
man IS hardly necessary to repeat, that
the affairs of the Association have been
wisely administered, and even with in
creased care incident to enlarged plans,
there have been corresponding time and
labor freely rendered, and as it seems to
me, most sagacious planning and fore<
| thought, ~...- ,~.....
And assuming, in this presence to
speak for the Austin Cemetery Associa-
tlon' and in view of history, some parts
OF which today l have briefly recalled,
teeE shall be derelict in duty if fail
to express on this occasion the Associa-
tion's gratefulacknowledgment for serv<
ices rendere&in the past by many of our
citizens, many ofsthem living, some dead.
Mr.. c.. H. Davidson, for more than
twenty FIVE years the efficient secretarv
OF its board OF trustees dying out yonder
among the sleepers), N. P: Austin, Tohn
r. Cook, A. P. kirkland, w. T.Wilkins
and A.: D. Fairbanks all gone: Mr.. L,
NJ Griffith, yet living, one of it's incor-
porators more than forty one years ago;
its first president, and for many years
filling the same office, MIR. RIO Hall.
toryeafs unsparing of time in its service.
and wise adviser on its official board,
H: w: Page and C: M. Fernald removed
Others are with US and of u.s., Messrs.
Decker Litchfeld, Pooler, Greenman,
Mcbride, Leonard, Scott and others,
honored citizens. =.
At the last annual meeting of lot overs
IN March last, there was authorized the
erection OF vault and chapel, and it is
the carrying out of this expressed desire
that the present board of trustees pre.
sent to you to-day this completed work,
IN its designed purpose for the free use
hencetorth of every lot owner in this
cemetery, and with the accompanying
i guaranty of free perpetual care of every
grave wlthln its borders. Your trustees
submit it as the best result obtainable
from the expenditure made, in the firm
1 belief and ardent hope that it will meet
your approval.
i The total cost has been $4,000, a sum
! far exceeded by. the value: of other pro
sft'ertfes owned@by> tn. Association OUT
=; slde'the cemetery grounds, and here my
i friends, follows fitting place for some
words concerning your present official
: board.
On these it is not for me to bestow
praise that might be by any one con-
sldered invidous. know what be-
lleve. These men have wrought in
harmony with ambitious endeavor and
pride tor the attainment of the end they
sought and have found. Difficulties
ot which the public knows little they
have overcome, and today, my friends,
in full view of a broad pathway from
which all obstacles have been removed,
let US as citizens award honor where
honor is due, In generous appreciation
of rendered services one of the present
board has within a few days informed
me in writing that to Mr.. D. H. Stmson,
president of the board, more than to any
other man, is due the crowning success of
this great enterprise. 1t is the testimony
of co-laborer and in accordance with
the formal resolution as copied in the
records. And this statement in no way
detracts from his associates, DR.. Hollister,
Mr.. F. w. Kimball and Mr.. S. A. Smith,
or from our most efficient superintendent,
Mr.. A. Friedrich, the need to them be-.
longing.
My friends, today we have assembled
within the precincts of city whose tide
of population is ever incoming and never
outgoing. All about US are these
memorial stones impressively reminding
6 of our common mortality, and in their
very silence appealing for kindlier feel
ings between fellow men.
r With these before us we bow with
: reverent spirits to the Divine behest,
J "Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou
RETURN" and in the ceremonial of this
hour dedicate this finished structure to
. the service of our dead for ever more.
:, We dedicate it in the faith of Christian
men and women, with songs of praise
and Of thanksgiving that these spirits.
are linked to an existence beyond this.
life, and that for the hope that is set be-
fore US we may cry out 20 death. where
is thy sting? 0 grave, where is thy.
victory?" Thanks be. to God who
: giveth US the victory through our Lord
!. Jesus Christ. ~ 4.
Amid all the glories of this autumnal
, day, we dedicate it with ascending prayers
:. to the Eternal Goodness, the Father Of
Lights and Of these spirits. that upon