The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1909-02-18


|ening. The numbers were given as
announced on the program, as fol-
lows:
Organ Prelude ..................
...... Miss Mae Millar, organist
America. ...... Choir and Audience
....... Rev. T. V. Dugan
introductory Remarks, Post Patriotic
Instructor Frank S.Stone presiding
Solo, The Star Spangled Banner" :
...... Mrs. Virginia X. Logan
Recitation, Gettysburg Address"
Miss Lola l. Perkins.
Solo and Chorus, "Tenting On the
Old Camp Ground" .......a..
DR.. Fred Jarvis and Choir
Sousa's STARS and Stripes For.
ever ................ CHOIR
Address, life and Character Of
Lincoln ....................
Post Commander John F. Lacey
Battle Hymn of the Republic. Choir
Recitation, 20 Captain! My Cap
tain!". Miss Lola |. Perkins
Nearer My God to Thee. ......
............Ch Choir and Audience
Doxology.. ...... Choir and Audience
Benediction. 80. Rev. Carl @. Petri
Organ Postlude. ................
Post Patriotic Instructor. Frank S.
Stone gave a brief introductory speech
in which he paid glowing tribute to
the martyred president whose mem
Tory was honored by the exercises OF
the evening. He spoke as follows:
I'VE meet today to celebrate the
Tooth anniversary of the birch OF Q.
man who although belonging 10 no one
class, yet was typical of all classes.
Born in rude log hut, OF parents So
poor that the cheap tallow dip or the
times was unknown in the house, he
was forced to study by the light of
the pine knots In the rude fireplace
Yet from this humble beginning he
arose to be the chief ruler OF the
proudest nation on earth. The col
leges would not call him an educated
man as he was mostly self-taught;
but one short speech OF his will live
after the words of all the scholars OF
his aud our day will have been for
gotten. The churches would not con-
slider him a religious man, for he be-
longed to no denomination, but his life
and words bear witness that he was
of deeply religious nature, ana some
have said that he was the embodiment
of the Sermon on the Mount. He re-
minds us strongly of his great proto-
type, THE Man of Galilee,' for he, too,
was man of sorrow and acquainted
with grief He carried the sins of
his country on his broad shoulders,
and at last gave up his life that we
as nation might live. The unions
would say that he was not laboring
man, but ii was through the labor OF
his great heart and brain that we are
today united people. Such was
Abraham Lincoln. whose birthday we
celebrate"
Post Commander Major John F. La
cey was the orator of the evening, and
he delivered most interesting ana
thrilling address on the Life and
Character of Lincoln" In the way
of introduction he emphasized the re-
markable fact that February, the
shortest of all the months OF the year,
was distinguished in marking the
birth of the two greatest Americans,
George Washington and Abraham Lin
coin, and also the fact that the nine
teenth century opened with the birth
of an unusually large number of prom
inent men. This age Will be marked
in history. he said, as the age of Lin
coin, the man who was giant among
giants in giant century. When elect
ed to the presidency he was one of
the most obscure men VINO ever rose
to that high Office, and yet in the forty
three years which have passed since
his tragic death, many of the greatest
men OF his day have disappeared.
while the Emancipator stands in bold
er relief than ever. His birthplace
in the lowly cradle at his fathers
home in the wilds of Kentucky was
even more humble than the manger of
the lowly Nazarene, and his early oc.
cupation as commonplace as the car,
penter shop wherein Christ labored
But he felt the heartheats of the peo-
Pile and raised his voice for humanity.
without regard to race or color. He
was always a man of the people,
The singing was led by Mrs. vlr,
giniaN knight Logan, who also rendered