The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-10
TO THE LOST CAUSE
In Memory of Heroes Who
Wore the Gray.
Raleigh Will Pay Its Tribute OF Praise
in Speech, In Procession and in
Flowers On This HaIIoWed
Memorial Day in May.

Again Memorial Day is upon us and
again the people or North Carolina
and the South pay heart tribute in
memory Of the heroes who wore the
grey.
With each recurring anniversary
which places year by year in the dis
lance the days in which the soldiers
of the South stood for the Cause the
day is celebrated, wreaths are placed
upon the graves of the heroic dead,
and in speech is told again how these
men and boys of the South stood
steadfast, how the followers of Lee,
and Jackson, and Vance and IIamp
ton, and Hoke and all of that gall
liant company of brave men stood
storm of shot and shell because they
stood for their homes and their ma
tive soil
Once again the people Of Raleigh
will go to the silent city Of the dead,
bearing the faint and sweetest offer
ings of the spring to gid with glory
the gloom of the grave and to pro-
claim to all the world that there is
no dishonor in the death these men
died.
An interesting programme has been
arranged by the Ladies Memorial As
ISOLATION, assisted by the Daughters
Oh the AOIIGuOtdIAt uiltlGI w IlOoC aus
pieces the exercises will be conducted,
The people of the city are cordially
invited to attend and participate in
the exercises, both in Metropolitan
Hall, where Col w j. Saunders will
speak and in the Confederate section
OF lakewood cemetery, where exercises
will be held flowers placed on the
graves and q volley be fired above
these. AT one o'clock q lunch will be
served on the Capitol Square TO Con-
federate Veterans.
Tho events of the day begin with
the meeting of the Confederate Vet
Grams of the county, the fall program
of the day being as follows:
Program of The Day.
1900 m-Annual meeting Wake
County Confederate Veterans Sur
vivers Association, Election Of Off
GERS. Annual roll-call.
Music by l.. OBJ. Branch Camp
Confederate veteran Drum Corps, the
only Confederate veteran drum corps
in the South
100 p. MUNICH to veterans in
Capitol Square.
200 p. Veterans will visit
Museum to see the battle flags re-
turned by act of Congress.
400 p, NAT four o'clock the
people VIII dSSenUIeN WIN the COllIeu-
crate Veterans at Metropolitan Hall,
when Col. Saunders will deliver an
address on the military services of
"Manly's Battery The order of cx-
erciSes at the hall and at the cemc-
te,y 10 which the people will repair
after the exercises at the hall is as fol-
lows:
-Quartette-M Maryland! my
Maryland! Mrs. Charles McKimmon,
Mrs. J. J. Thomas, Messrs. A. c. Jack
son, Farley Hughes.
Prayer by the chaplain, Rev. r. +.
Bumpass
Music-"od Save the South
Presentations of crosses Of honor
to the following heroes. Messrs. $.
Badger, n. n. Bunch. l.. Nj. Green. w.
B. Register, J: A. Higgs, G. w. Par
tin.
Music - Quartette - "Tcnting To-
night"
Grafton by Col William J. Saun-
ders. Subject, Manly's Battery"
Music-"Dixie." by the l.. OBJ.
Branch Drum Corps
After the exercises at the hall. the
services will be continued at the com
etery.
Prayer by the chaplain.
The choir will give musical sclec-
tons While the graves are being deco
rated.
A volley will be fired by the Oak