The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-06-15
FIREMEN REMEMBERED
DEPARTED AT GREENWOOD
Memorial Sunday Was Observed by Members Bemid Fire
Department-Ser at Greenwood Cemetery
and the Presbyterian Church.

| land live useful and noble lives when
living true to duty in their impor.
tant calling, join praise to praise
and give honor with honor, where
others have spoken it before, in
memory of these men who have
fallen from the ranks of the living
to find rest in the realms of the dead.
They were brothers who felt the cry
of human need. Let us be Christian
men who feel for them the sad
human thrill which bespeaks for US
the brothers. gratitude.
E. H. Cornwall delivered an ad-
dress to the fremen, which was as
follows, and is given by request of
some of the fire laddies:
Ladies and gentlemen, friends
and brother fremen:
We are assembled here this
Sabbath afternoon to perform duty
to our departed brother fremen.
A day has been set apart by
humanity to commemorate the acts
and deeds of those who have
carried the rifles; but no day had
been set apart for those who carried
the lantern or those who carried the
hose. 1t appears to me that, in this
| matter, humanity is indeed neglect
full in its duty towards the fremen
of the land. On that day we find
the school children strewing flowers
on the graves of the army who
carried the rifles.
The same cemeteries have the
graves of the fremen who did equally
as many heroic deeds, and their
graves were not decorated. I am not
drawing this comparison to detract
in any way from the great acts of
patriotism and valor that were per
formed by the boys in blue in 81,
but I am simply drawing the COM
parison to illustrate if possible what
humanity is doing for one and not
| doing for the other
Though history may fail to record
your deeds and your doings; though
people may fail to recognize your
deeds; in spite of all that, even if all
has been neglected, do your duty.
Because, just as sure as the fremen
of Bemidji, of the nation, and of the
world, continue to do their duty in
future as in the past, so sure the
day will come that the acts. deeds
and devotion to duty of the fremen
shall be recognized by humanity as
we'll as the deeds of the army that
carried the rifle.
A fireman may have to die to
save the life of his fellow man, yet
he may not receive the approval Of
the people. But if you have done
your duty, as you should have done
it, that is the greatest reward. But
it is not the reward; it is the
thought of having done your duty.
It is thus with all the great men of
ages, and it will be so with you.
At the State Firemen's conven-
ton held at Mankato in 1908, the
second Sunday in June was design
ated as fremen's memorial day. And
it is for the purpose of paying re-
spects to our departed brothers &c
Fuller, w. B. Carlysle, John Wash.
burn and J. M. Stafford) that we
are assembled here today. Fratern
! ally, the fremen of our little city
stand solid and in the lead, ever
ready to care for their sick or dis
abled brothers and the widows anc
orphans
/ The service held at the Presby
terian church in the evening were
as follows:
Selection-Choir.
| Prayer-Rev. S. E. P. White.
| Solo-A. Rood.
Selection Choir.
Address S. E. P. White.
Selection-Choir.
I Benediction.
The address delivered by Rev
White is spoken of very highly a.
being appropriate and we'll given.
4 His muSicianship is of high order