The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-27
HEROESREMEMBERED
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVED
 THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH.
Flowers Placed Upon Graves of the Dead and Salutes are Fired-ora-
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tors Tell of Deeds
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 Mobile, April 26.-(Special )-Sever- al thousand persons participated in the memorial exercises at Confederate Rest in Magnolia Cemetery this afternoon.
 The base and mound of the Confed- crate monument was covered with floral pieces and the shaft was draped with the colors of the short lived republic. The ladies of the Memorial Association were drawn up in the space around the mound and grouped in the avenues surrounding the Rest were the Daugh' ters of the Confederacy, the Mobile camps U. c. ". Sons of Confederate Veterans. the Mobile Battalion, A N G., Battery A, Alabama Coast Artillery and visiting Veterans and Sons of Veterans.
 The services opened with the hymn Nearer My God to Thee" the entire assembly joining in the singing. Rev. Gardiner c. Tucker. who has acted in this capacity for many years, invoked the Divine blessing.
 At the close of the prayer the bugler sounded taps" and the artillery fired the farewell salute. All united in singing God Be With You Till We Meet Again" And Mir. Tucker pro- nounced the benediction.
 The veterans and the citizen soldiery assisted in placing the wreathes on the graves and the crowd scattered through the cemetery, inspecting the mowers which covered many private graves and the graves of soldiers in private lots,
 one of the interesting events of the afternoon was the. presentation or wreath by the Senmes Camp, U. .. V" to the keeper of the National Gene tery to be placed on the monument 10 the memory of Federal soldiers. The hHy Daily. daughter of Adjutant Ropert Daly. part of the service, giving the participants thorough Wettins' Every detail of the exercises was car ried out as planned, however. Ine Veterans were accompanied in their visit to the Federal graves by all the other organizations and by the greater number of the civilians present. Jefferson County Observes Day. Birmingham, April 26-(Special)- Memorial Day was observed in Btrm- ingham and the entire district by the camps of United Confederate Veterans, assisted by the Daughters of the Con- federacy Sons of Confederate Veter- ans and the Children of the Conteder- acy
 Many citizens turned out and at tended the exercises In the VAtlous places In Birmingham. the BirminG- ham battalion. infantry. cavalry and artillery. turned our
 At Oak Hill Cemetery in the after noon exercises were held at which pr; A. P Montague. president of Howard College, of East Lake, was the orator. Rev. M R. Wells delivered the inyo- cation and Rev. L. S. Handley ths
 Camp Bob Mckinley. of East Lake. was assisted this afternoon. by the Daughters of the Confederacy ana the cadets of Howard College. The ex- ercises were held at the Ruhama sap list Church and Hon. Sidney J. Bowie former Congressman from the Fourth Alabama District and Colonel Sumpter | Lea, were the oratora ] At Woodlawn, the Veterans turned out. while the Ensley Veterans were assisted in the exercises by the Daugh- ters and Sons of Veterans and others Rev. pr. A. Crawford was the orator of the day At Bsssemer. the veterans turned out.
 Day at Columbus. Ga.