Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-31
MEMORIAL SERVICES IN HONOR
OF SOLDIERS HELD AT
THE HOME.
MONUMENT TO UNKNOWN
DEAD GIVEN TO STATE
Services Are Hold at Cemetery, Cot
tase Grove and Boat Landins-Rev.
j. w. Potter, of keokuk, Delivers the
Address of the Afternoon - Many
From City Attend.

With appropriate services, including
the unwilling monument to the un-
known dead, Memorial Day was OBJ.
served at the soldiers home this aft.
ernoon. A large number from this
city. and from the home participated
in or attended the ceremonies and pro-
gram in observance of the day. Rev
j. w. Potter D. D., pastor of the
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church OF
Keokuk delivered the address of the
afternoon.
Shortly before o'clock, the Frank
NJ Thomas post, and w. r. c. OF this
city, in addition to veterans and 9TH
ers, who went in a body We're met at
the gate of the grounds by delega-
ton from the Phil Sheridan post and
Ladies of the G. A. r.
Unveil Monument.
Forming in a line of march the as
semblage paraded to the buria
ground, where brief and simple serv-
ices were carried out in accompani-
ment to the decorating of the graves
Quartermaster H. j. Bennett read
Lincoln's Gettysburg Grafton. and the
graves were strewn with flowers by
the children of the Rogers school, es-
corted by veterans.
Following this service the members
of the Winchester Circle, Ladies of the
40 of he
unveiling of the monument, which the
circle purchased and presented to the
state. The unwilling was done by Mrs
DeForrest and Mrs. Walker. The pres
entation was made by Mrs. Egan, and
in behalf of the state it was accepted
by Judge G. S. Robinson, of the board
of control. A salute was fired and, with
the sounding of taps, the services al
the cemetery ended.
Program at Park.
Marching to Cottage Grove park, the
program of the afternoon, which con-
sisted of music by the soldiers home
band, which also played at the unveil-
ing and grave decorating, and voca.
numbers, We're given.
Rev. MIR. Potter's Address.
Rev. Mr.. Potters address was ar
eulogy of the bravery of the veterans
of the civil war. He touched on stats.
= tics showing the losses sustained il
thu terrible conflicts of the civil war
and closed with an urgent plea for the
veterans to be SO prepared that they
might triumphantiy face Jesus wher
the final muster call summoned then
to the throne of God.
ST count myself bannv ~ he ores.
ent on this occasion and share with
you the exercises of this day
"As 1 look over this splendid audi
ence. my heart is strangely stirred anc
I seem to behold shrinking picture
I'm the foreground l see the de.
pleting ranks of a veteran army
they move slowly, with bent form anG
bedimmed eye; their hair is silveret
with the gray and their faces are
wrinkled with the years. In the back
ground, coming over the hills anC
across the fields, with bright eye anc
elastic step move the lads who, more
than forty years ago, sprang TO arm
at the call of their country.
would you believe that the brigh
faced lads wearing the blue yonder, ar
the stopped and wrinkled veteran
here? 1t is a picture. which ought I,
produce reflection and feed sentiment
"Our gathering is to me significant
because of the personnel of the com
pany and because of the day This j
Memorial Day and we are here il
memory of the brave hearts who hav
offered themselves upon their coun
trys altar. We are here because w
are American citizens, full to tn
bubbling over with American indie
pendence.
Our traditions, our history, the al
we breathe, the broad landscape whc
stretches out on every side, as we'll a
the azure blue above, all conspire I
give us the spirit of liberty and patri
otism. Wendell Phillips once said, y
you will take a true American, cut hir
into a hundred pieces and boil hir
down, you will have a little Fourth {
July left in the dish Sirs the ma
in whom there can not be found sue
a spirit is an unworthy son of the re
public.
Gentlemen of Sheridan post, TIL
country you fought 10 save is tn
greatest country beneath the stars. ]
Is great in its area. Sometimes w
think of the states as integral parts Z
the union and forget that they are vas
empires within themselves. Iowa
larger than England, Montana is large
than Austria, California is larger tina
Italy, Kansas is larger than Turke
and Greece, while Texas is as large a
the whole German empire. Texas coul
give to every man, woman and Chill
in the world a lot 49kx100 feet, an
that is four times the ground occu
pied by the average person in Ne
York City. The average state west {
the Mississippi river has an area
$4,000 square miles, and that is lively
times as large as Massachusetts. {
twice as large as England
This country is great in it's Pre-
ducts The mountains of Missouri al
sunderland with iron. The mountain
Of the west could supply the world
demand for copper, silver and gold. W
have produced food supplies for IL
famine plagued and starving of mar
nations, while we lead the world
helpful and time saving inventions.
But perhaps our chief glory is O,
system OF education. We believe in Il
culture of brains. Ignorance and S,
prostitution must give place to the litt
red school house. We have the large
percentage Of population in our pull
lie schools of any country in I'll
world. Twenty-three per cent of o,
people are enrolled as students, viii