The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-06-07
P AY Low In 6
TRlBU 7 E TO
DEAD
THREE HUNDRED WOODMEN
MARCH TO CEMETERIES.
Judge Howell Speaker Of Day-Four
Monuments Over Departed Neigh
bors Unveiled.

Memorial services for the deceased
members of the Woodmen of the
World, were held yesterday. Fully
three hundred OF the GOO members of
the organization In this city turned
out. and paid tribute to their dead.
The day was perfect for the occasion
and at $50 o'clock a parade was
started from the corner of Twenty
fourth and Washington, led by the
Degree team in full uniform, follow
cd by the officers of the camp In their
Tegalla and then by the members,
800 strong. The line of march pro-
ceeded first to Mountain View ceme-
terry. where monuments over two
graves, those of F. r. Speak and ST.
mon Nelson, were unveiled. Thirteen
graves were also decorated with beau
tiful floral offerings,
At 2 o'clock In the afternoon the
parade was again formed at the same
place and. led by the Auditorium
band In TWO divisions. proceeded to
the ogden City cemetery, twenty
three of the marchers carrying the
beautiful floral decorations which
were to be placed on the graves OF a
like number of brother Woodmen who
are resting there, Arriving at the
cemetery, monuments over the graves
of the deceased members. L S, Luty
and Louis Allard. were unveiled. The
speaker of the day was Hon. j. A
Howell. who was introduced by Com.
mander Samuel Kline, who after a
few appropriate Introductory remarks.
surrendered the temporary speakers
stand built on the Woodmen lot. TO
the Judge.
Judge Howell's address In part was
as follows;
Again a year In the cycle of time
has rolled by and again We Woodmen
meet together as we have met year
by year. for the solemn purpose OF
bedecking the graves of all OF our de-
ceased neighbors, now numbering thlr-
ty-siX. with sweet flowers OF remem-
brance and to perform the sacred duty
of dedicating these substantial mon
uments Of stone to the latest of our
honored dead memorials symbolic
of the rock-ribbed honesty and integ-
rity of the enduring faithfulneSs to
home, to employer, 10 fellow worltmen.
and TO friends and neighbors Of these
men who a little while before the rest
of us have passed into the valley of
the shadow Of death. They are no
longer in the camp of the living, yet
we can say Of each OF them. as our
great founder and leader. Fanlken-
burg, has said of every Woodman:
But he Is not forgotten, for some day
With solemn ceremonies, grand, sub
lime,
They place a marble token Of esteem
And plant sweet flowers from a sunny
cline
Upon his grave, and with an ancient
They 'consecrate 1t and themselves
anew.
And with purse water pledge him
once again
To those he loved to be forever true"
Today with ceremonial whose form
is peculiar to our order, we fondly
recollect our dear departed dead. but
the purpose which actuates us In so
doing is as old as the worlds history;
1t Is an acknowledgment of our indebt-
edneSss To the past, for this custom
of remembering the dead with proper
ceremony goes back into the very
dawn of civilization The magnificent
pyramids of old Egypt, the most an
cient country in the world, those col
ossal structures which are mysteries
to the historian, whose purpose the
archaeologist mas sought in vain to
unravel, whatever else they may be,
are certainly memorials to Egypt's
dead, for upon them, by pictures and
signs, are emblazoned the lives Of the
men Of her momentous past
Just as in the times that are gone,
as far back as the transactions OF the
human family are recorded, men have
In stone and In bronze
the lives Of their predecessors; SO do
we now: so will our successors. as
long as mankind recognizes Its obll-