The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-06-04
Kenosha Turns Out on Memorial
Day TO Honor the Memory
Of the Soldier Dead
WORTHY IN WAR AND PEACE
Annual Memorial Day Address of Ro-
bert Verne Baker Declares Duty
of People is TO Garry Out
Ideals of Heroes

| Stepping off to the music Of the same
battle hymns to which they marched to
the field Of battle in 1861-1865 the
members of the Grand Army in Kenosha
land host Of patriotic people marched
Ito the cemeteries on Saturday and paid
their annual tribute of love and affec-
tion to the memory Of the soldier dead.
The line was not as long as it was a
Iyear ago and the hair of the veterans
was little grayer-their steps were
more hating but they marched as proud
Ily forth as in their younger days ana
Ealong the line Of march they received
1.-THE plaudits of a grateful people. It
was an ideal day for Memorials. The
rain of Friday night had made every
thing fresh and green and the bright
sunshine Of the morning drew out one
of the largest crowds that ever attended
the Memorial service in Kenosha.
Over forty years have passed since
the last sound of battle in the Civil
war but the interest in the Memorial
Day exercises shown by the people on
saturday proclaimed the undying love
of the nation for the soldiers living and
dead.
With the members Of the Grand
Army post marched the veterans Of the
Spanish war while the members of the
Woman s Relief Corps and many citiz-
ems followed in carriages
A short stop was made at the soldier s
monument in Library Park where a
wreath was placed as a memorial to the
unknown dead sleeping on Southern bat
tlefelds
At the cemetery the usual ritualistic
service was CARED out under the direc-
ton of Charles Likes, the commander
OF the Post. After the service had been
read taps were sounded and the veter-
ans scattered about the cemetery and
decked the graves of their sleeping
comrades in arms. One hundred and
seventy-four graves were decorated in
the various cemeteries about the city.
/ OF this number two were of soldiers
who served In the war of the Revolu-
ton, four who served in the war with
England in 1912, four who served in
the Mexican war, four in the Spanish
American war and the remainder of the
graves enclosed the remains of the We
terans of the great rebellion. At night
every comrade who had answered the
final muster slept beneath a canopy of
flowers.
After the tribute of remembrance
had been paid at the cemetery the
crowd marched to the Henry M. Sim
mons church where the memorial SER
vices were held. The church was filled
to the doors
The service opened with a prayer by
the Rev. Edgar T. Farrill after which
there was music by the Svithoid Sing
ing club. The annual address, a beau
tiful tribute to the memory Of the
dead and glorious praise for the living
was delivered by District Attorney
Robert Verne Baker He said in part:
This day is witnessed in our coun-
try, a ceremony, beautiful and tender
as any the wide world affords-a nigh
ty nation paying tribute to each brave
heart that throbbed for her, and that
she might live, grew still.
emo matter how humble-no matter
how friendless, poor, forlorn, she scat
tiers flowers on the dust of those she
loves. Drops IN each grave affection s
tears. All over this land today are
gathered loving groups, who with rev
erent hand place on each soldiers rest
ing place the perfumed tokens of never
ending love.
eff the dead but know how thew are
remembered, many weary heart that
sadly beat, many a loving heart that in
i life knew but GOODNESS, will this dav
quicken and warm at feeling it is not
forgotten. For no grave is neglected.
Did he like a soldier die, that is enough.
Though, when in the world, he was
alone save for his brothers in the ranks.
Forty years or more in the life of
this country are So full of change, so
pregnant with events that call for pres
ent attention; the daily battle of life
lstrews so many victims along the way,
that it is only on an occasion like this
when men cease from their work and
give themselves wholly to the past and
tits dear dead, that we realize what
mean the small mounds so lately viewed.
They mean that forty years ago
great danger threatened our beloved
country, that she had need Of assistance
from her boys and called them to her.
aid. They mean that those boys for
igetful Of self, throwing aside all ambi-
ton, resigning to the care Of God every
thing that they held most dear, break
ing ties, the severance of which caused
the heart to ache Id every fibre. turned
their backs on mother, home and
friends, and, for the sake Of country
fought and died. They mean that
those boys were soldiers of the great
lest, the grandest, the noblest army in
! the history of the world; an army
not for conquest but for conscience, not
to enslave but free; not TO DESTROY but