The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-05-30
Address on Occasion of the
Annual Memorial Services,
Was Made by Hon. Frank
Shuts of Aurora, Ind.
THOSE I'M UNKNOWN
GRAVES REMEMBERED
Short Talks Were Made by
Judge Henry C. Fox, County
Clerk Harry Penny-Party
Attended from Richmond.

Since the custom of decorating the
graves OF the solder dead was inau
gurated in the United States more
than thirty years ago, the little vii
/ lage of Bethel to Richmond'S north
| has always taken an active interest in
such memorial exercises, and through
the excellence of these celebrations
the name of Bethel has Travelled over
eastern Indiana and western Ohio
and on the day of celebration at that
place, the village is crowded with Wis
itors who come from miles around to
attend the services.
These memorial services were held
Wednesday afternoon and a tribute
was paid to the men who have fought
so nobly in the country's several wars,
and who are buried in the little Reth-
e: cemetery lying to the east of the
town. Those men who fought for
known graves on the great battle
fields, around which hang so many
historical remembrances, were also
thought of by the speakers of the
day. No more inspiring and pathetic
scene could have transpired than that
when the old soldiers, whose locks
are silvered, and whose bodies are
bending and tottering from the raw
ages of time, laid their boquets on
the monument to the unknown dead.
The impressiveness of the scene
touched every heart of the five nund-
red who surrounded the monument
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and reverently layed on the monu-
ment The wives, whose minds re-
verted to the long and fearful struggle
of the sixties, also added to the al
ready large mound of boquets, with
their offerings.
Owing TO the extremely cold wealth
er, the decoration services were held
in the new church, an Innovation in
memorial services held in Bethel
Hon. Frank Shuts Spoke.
The address of the afternoon was
delivered by Hon. Frank Shuts, who
when but a small boy was a resident
of Bethel, but who for twenty-five
years had not visited his old home
He is a son of Abraham Shuts. who
was at one time one of the best known
residents of the vicinity of Bethel.
Mr. Shuts is now lawyer at Auro-
ra Ind, and is making name for
himself. His address was one of the
finest memorial day orations ever
heard in Wayne county. 1t abounded
in flights of oratory that held his au-
dience spelibound as he depicted the
heroes of the war of the rebellion
and how Indiana had been in the
thickest of the fray from the start.
Mr.. Shuts pictured very wildly the
battles of the war and stated that not
withstanding that to the younger peo-
pie, the stories of the war in which so
many men bled and died that the ma
ton might be continued in its great
ness, are matters of story, to the old
soldier. the review of the events re-
news vivid remembrances. In con-
he shid: Your record is writ
ten and it is done Other wars may
follow but never will be found a prou-
der record than the great civil war,
where self sacrifice and heroic wor-
ship of country were uppermost.
Many of the veterans here today will
soon follow the great generals who
have in most recent years died, but
when these veterans are gone the
fires of patriotism will burn in the
hearts of Your children. Fathers
sword, fathers mssket and uniform
and fathers stained and SCARED old
battle flag shall always and eternally
be honored.
Music for the occasion was furnish
ed by the choir of the church while
Mr. Lacey of Fountain City, sang a
solo.
To The Unknown Dead.
Following the services in the |