The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-06-02
MEMORIAL DAY
IS OBSERVED
suslNEss SUSPENDED IN HONOR.
or DEAD SOLDIERS.
MRS HASKELL SPEAKS

MRS HASKELL SPEAKS
indians Present at Ceremonies Held
al Cemetery Which Many Attend
and Large Audience Witnesses Ex-
ercises at Opera House.
From Sundays Daily.
Most successful of all Memorial
days observed in this city was that
commemorated yesterday.
The entire day was observed as a
general holiday by a majority Of the
business houses while a number OF
the stores remained open in the
morning and closed in the afternoon.
Numerous places of business were
decorated with the national colors
and The stars n stripes tioated ma
~iestically in the light breeze from ev-
cry flag stan in the city.
G9 AT L00 uItL IAO uouNA SSAS
monies commemorative of Memorial
day were held by the decorating OF
the graves of the departed soldiers. "A
very noticeable feature Of the pro
gram at the cemetery was the par
ticipation Of Chief Plenty Coos and
his band of % Indian braves who,
with uncovered heads devoutly paid
tribute to the white soldiers who are
sleeping in the local cemetery.
Services at Cemetery.
Services 1T the cemetery were at
tended by a large number OF people
Who drove out from the city with
flowers and assisted the Grand Army
veterans and the Women's Relief
Corps in placing flowers not only on
the soldiers but other graves. Little
girls dressed in white together with
the women Of the Relief Corps at
tended to the placing OF wreaths OF
evergreen and small fags-on the
graves A firing squad from Company
4 fired three volleys owe the earthly
resting places Of the dead patriots
after which the assembled mourners
returned homeward to the city.
Preceding the exercises in the af-
ternoon a parade headed by the Sec
ond Regiment band was made through
the principal business streets Be-
sides a platoon Of police several fra
ternal organizations were in line in
GLIDING, the knights of Pythias,
Mountaineers and Yoemen together
with Company K and G. A. R. veter-
ans.
Exercises in Afternoon.
S M arorr;oi dou ovoroicnC wArA held
in the afternoon at the Babcock OPP
era house at which a large audience
was present. Judge James R. Goss
conducted the services opening with
a few general remarks on the COM
memoration of the day. Chaplain g.
II. Frady offered a prayer seeking
safety for the remaining veterans
from the Almighty and was followed
by a selection by q quartet composed
OF Misses Alice Walk and Winnie Bur
ton, Messrs. q. -. Esselstyn and Clif-
ford Helgeson.
Captain Pease IS adjutant read the
general orders for the observance OF
the day. IA. u. Babcock then In q
brief address presented a bronze tab
let with Lincoln's memorable Gettys-
burg speech inscribed thereon to be
placed in the z. M. @. A. building, in
which he commented upon the immor-
tally OF the Grafton and expressed
the hope that it would be a lasting
memory to the children of future gen.
erations of the old soldiers who so
bravely defended their country.
Col. Babcock's Address.
s4The reading OF Lincoln's Gettys-
burg address has universally become
a part of the program of each succeed
ing Decoration day service of the
Grand Army of the Republic; and in
hundreds of cities and villages
throughout this land today are these
memorial services being held.
1.-The ranks Of the Grand Army of
the Republic are fast being depleted;
but a few more years and the last sur
vivor of the great civil war Of 1861 to
1866 will have passed to the great be-
yond, in answer to the final roll call.
1T is fitting and proper that the
brave men engaged in that long and
bloody war should be associated with
and dedicated to the words of Lincoln
expressed at Gettysburg; and it at
fords me great pleasure at this time
to present to- the citizens of Billings
this bronze tablet of President Lin.
coins address delivered on the bat.
tlefield Of Gettysburg IN November
10, 1853, and, it is also an equal pleas.
ure to dedicate this memento of our
martyred president, in memory of the
soldiers of the civil, a
Brightest Gem Of Language.
This address Of the Immortal Lin
coin is recognized as one Of the
brightest gems Of the English Ian
guage,8 and, is an inspiration te
thoughts of patriotism, loyalty anG
love Of country, should be placed il
daily association with our people.
The officers Of the Young Mems
Christian Association of this city have
kindly provided a suitable place fol
this tablet in the hall of their new
building, promising that it will re
main where placed for all time; ant
in after years, when the last remnan
of theHGrand Army OF the Republi,
shall have passed away, l hope thi,
tablet OF bronze and marble will serv'
to remind the children Of that day o
tn uhequaled patriotism, loyalty an,
devotion to country and its flag tina
SO i~mmeasurably inspired the sol
dlers of the civil war; a war result
ing in loss of life, suffering and priva
ton such as is recorded in no othe
war in history"
"a reading OF the address by Captail
Pease was followed by a patriotic mt
steal solo nv Miss Alice Walk accom-