Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1906-06-01
IN HONOR OF DEAD HEROES.

| Decoration Day Beautifully and Patrioti-
| calIy Observed in Hot Springs.
Wednesday was decoration day, and
a delightful day it was as to weather
the first bright day following week of
rain.
| Promptly at nine o'clock the bugle
call was given at the bridge where the
citizens, soldiers, and school children
gathered to pay homage to the veteran
sailors who went to a watery grave.
The Relief Corps had charge of these
exercises and together with the little
children made most impressive and
beautiful ceremony in scattering
flowers upon the water.
Following the exercises at the water
the procession vas formed and march
ed to the Soldiers Home cemetery
where the usual exercises by the G.. A..
r. and w. r. c. we're held and the graves
of the veterans strewn with flowers
each having been previously marked
with little flag.
In the afternoon at the city hall a
large assemblage listened to the pa
triotic and impressive program. The
| Home orchestra played some excel
lent selections, and the singers was
much appreciated. The ritual ser.
vices by the G. a. r. and Lincoln's
Gettysburg speech were important
features of the exercises. \ sweet
little duet by Flora Barnes ane Marie
Mcgowan was an interesting feature,
as was also an appropriate recitation,
splendidly given by Darrell Applegate.
| Following a well-rendered and beauti-
! fu! solo by Mrs. Fall, Rev. p. M.
s5mocll delivered the Grafton of the
> u, lapleSe with eloquent praise for
heroes Of the war, of the dead and the
living, and expressing the sentiment
/ thhat too much could not be done to
promote the comfort and happiness of
the surviving veterans. He criticised
the national and state laws, or rules of
Home boards, and of Home manage
ments, that meddled with pensions of
the old soldiers who we're members of
the management for discharging veter-
ans for any cause from home that
was built for them, and declared in the
language of the great Patrick Henry,
that if what he said was treason, to
snake the most of it,
Commander Fassett of the G. A. r.
reminded the audience that there was
too much laxity, he thought, about dis
playing Old Glory. He thought the
stars and stripes should be floating
from The top of the school house, court
house and city hall upon such occas-
ions, and that the patriotism of the
people should be aroused to see that it
is done
Closing with music and benediction
the procession was formed and march
! ed to Evergreen cemetery, where the
vetalaft dead Of tiat white city we're
CIV Slod WiUH liOWSTS.
The exercises were all splendidly
managed and were beautiful, solemn
and Impressive.
The part the little children took
added much to the interest and beauty
of tho solemn occasion.
Messrs. e. Elsey and A. G. Forney
served gallantly as marshals of the
day
The martial music was most inspir-
lng and was greatly enjoyed by the
veterans and all who heard it, 1t was
furnished by Guy Goddard, John Field,
3. G. Anderson and Ray Goddard.
There was an abundance of flowers,
gathered by loving hands, both old
and young, and the many mounds in
the cemeteries that MARK the resting
places of the gallant boys who went
forth i'll defense of the stars and
stripes were handsomely remembered.