Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-30
NAUGATUCK NUGGETS.
Memorial Day Service-19th Anniver- sary of Dedication of Monument.

sary of Dedication of Monument.
 Memorial Day is being generally observed as legal holiday. The fac tories, the schools and the banks are closed for all day and many of the stores Will close at noon. The post office closes at noon.
 The First division, A. o. H., hold a picnic and field day at Linden park
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 local nre department team port.
 F. F. Sullivan was in New York city Saturday on business.
 James Peurose is visiting relatives in Colchester.
 The May festival will no. r1ose un- til tomorrow evening.
 The fire department team defeated the Watertown team on Hotchkiss field Saturday afternoon by a score of to 8.
 w. B. .Glynn of this town rode in the bicycle road races in New Jersey to-day.
 Tea will be served at the Golf links this afternoon. It is expected that all the members of the Golf club will be present.
 To-day the living members of the Grand army of the republic garland the graves of their deceased comrades, some of whom have passed away since the blessed veil of peace fell gently over the dark, heavy blanket Of war that enfolded the republic from north to south and east to west i'll the trying days of the rebellion. Some there are ~ls oAA 1Nin SAc n% dI1fv some lie buried in this borough while others sleep their long last sleep in unknown and unmarked graves in the south.
 Nineteen years ago at the dedication of the soldiers monument the Rev Ed win s. Lines of New Haven, who de livered the oration of the day, touch ingly referred to the known and un- known dead when i'll speaking of the men who had enlisted from Naugatuck he said, Gladly, did time permit, would I speak particularly of them, the times of their enlistment, the places of their service and especially of the dead As I read the honored list, they live in my memory for most of them I knew. Many of them sleep the last long sleep in our own burial yards, and the river they knew so we'll, flowing by their graves, sings for them an amending requiem. Some of them sleep in the far off southern land, in the land of the palmetto, the magnolia, the cypress, where the James, the Ro- anoke and Mississippi flow sluggishly to the sea-" Two hundred and thirty six men enlisted from Naugatuck, and out of that number but few are alive to-day. Twenty are known to have died in the service. So to-day the few living members of Isbel Post, es- corted by the uniformed Rank, K. of F. and marching now to the soul stirring strains of Dixie, and. now to the solemn funeral dirge. visit St Francis, Hill Side, St James and Grove ceme- teries and there over the graves of the dead comrades they place the choicest blossoms of spring in loving memory of those who fought and bled and died for the maintainance of the union. Is- bell Post, c. A R. was named after Lieutenant John D. Isbell, who was born in Naugatuck, April 9, 1S4O. He enlisted at the opening of the war and received a lieutenant's commission in Go H, of the Eighteenth Massachus- setts regiment. He had not finished his first year of service when he succumbed to typhoid fever, and died July 16, 1862, at Havason's landing, Va His body was brought home and on July 24. 1862 he was buried with military honors, from St MichaeTs church "And all that was mortal of him whose honored name is borne by Isbell Post, c. A R.. rests in Hillside cemetery upon the knowl near the northwest side which overlooks the road along which the river runs beside which he as boy went day by day +o school