The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-06-01
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE
Grand Army and Citizens Unite In Honor.
ing the Nations Heroes.

lh8 tuc Nat1OnS Heroes.
Memorial Day, Tuesday, May soth, was
an ideal day for the memorial services
The public offices, banks, schools, stores
and factories were closed all or a part OF
the day and business was suspended entire
ly by order of Mayor Shales from 1 to 4
p. m. Flags were at half-mast on the pub
lie buildings and at many private residences.
Delegations from Thomas II. Marshall
Post, G. A. R., placed flags at Grove and
the various near by cemeteries in the
morning. A company of little girls bear
ing flowers marched to the Eastern S. S.
Co.'s wharf, under the direction of Mrs.
Beryl Ludwick and Miss Lillian Spinney,
led by a Post delegation, and scattered
flowers on the bay in honor of those who
died in the navy. 1t was very pretty
feature of the day.
The procession formed at 1.3O O'Clock on
Church street, the right resting on Market
street, as follows:
Marshal, G. P. Lombard.
Aids.
Mounted police
Belfast Band, =. J. nRlgby,, Leader; W. H.
Belfast Company, U. R. K. Of p, Fred D.
Jones, Captain.
Canton Pallas. P. NJ, /. o. O. F., D. F.
Stephenson, Commandant.
Thomas H. Marshall Post, G. A. R., G. W.
n Boq!ter, Commander, in carriages.
The Ladies of the ThOs. II. Marshall Circle,
G. A: r., Mrs. Ellen A. Strout, President.
Miss Spinney'S Glass of Little Girls in Car
riages.
Orator and Chaplain in Carriage.
Citizens in Carriages.
After the usual line of march they pro-
ceeded to Grove Cemetery where the regu-
lar ritual memorial service was performed
around the Grand Army lot. After this
service the procession returned directly to
Memorial Hall and disbanded.
THE EVENING SERVICES.
The Opera House was crowded. all the
standing room taken, during the evening
service. The decorations were principally
of draped flags. The Belfast Band did
escort duty and the services opened at 8
O'Clock. Following is the program:
Medley OF war Songs, Boyer
Reading of General Orders,
Adjutant, A. O. Stoddard.
Address of Welcome,
G. W. Boulter, Commander.
Prayer,
A. F. Clark, Chaplain
Mr.. John Parker.
Singing by Young Misses under direction
of Miss Lillian Spnney.
Miss Cleora Haney.
Patriotic Song,-Hail Columbia,
By Chorus of Voices.
By Rev. E. E. Colburn of Brooks.
March-We'll Never Haul the Old Flag
Belfast Band.
Nearer My God to Thee, (by request.)
America,
Belfast Band.
BenedictiOn.
Rev. F. f. Colburn of Brooks gave a
forceful and interesting address, dealing
mainly with points of unwritten history of
the two types of civiization-one to the
south and the other to the north-whch
came to our country from the old world
The south was peopled with the descend
ants OF royalty and aristocracy,w who brought
with them their notions of caste, the north
with freedom loving and deeply religious
people. There was not room for both class
es and the right triumphed by long and
arduous war. He referred to General
Wheeler in Bangor as an illustration of the
putting aside of the bitter sectional feeling
and was very scathing in his remarks of
the small northern class called copperheads
The drill and singing of the little girls in
white was very pretty feature of the ex-
ercises.
VIM. II. Quimby presented the G. A. r.
with $40 to be expended in flowers and the
Post extend earnest thanks for his thought
fulnesS.
The following have been added to the roll
of honor the past year: c. c. Rowe, j. B.
Ferguson, Geo. W. Morse, Charles j. Hatch,
Jesse Priest, Ilowes Mayo, John B. Walton,
c. F. Cobbett, ID. w. Billings
For the first time all the members of the
Grand Army Post were in carriages in the
parade Provision had heretofore been
made for the crippled and intrm, but the
time has come when the veterans as a body
are no longer equal for the long march and
IN future they must be provided with
carriages.