The Cairo bulletin., 1910-10-17
5000 PEOPLE AT UNWILLING
OF BEAUTIFUL MONUMENT
TO MEMORY OF MISS PELLY
Impressive Program Under Auspices Of Monument
Committee Addresses and Music---Large
Delegation From Cairo

Iday afternoon in the cemetery at An
ma, in the presence of over three thou
sand people.
About two hundred Cairo people
went up on the HIS Illinois Central
Ito witness the exercises Three spe-
lcial cars were attached to the regG-
| lar train for their accommodation.
About twenty citizens OF Mound City
and Mounds joined the Cairo part.
at Mounds. On the arrival OF the
train at Anna the party was met at
the station BY aost Of friends, and
many were taken to their homes or
to the hotels for dinner, and to await
the hour appointed fer the exercises,
which was 2:20 o'clock.
The Anna and Jonesboro people and
others from the country districts. who
drove into the city, We're greatly in
terested in the event
AT 1870 o'clock the people wended
their way for nearly an hour in a
continuous procession from the CITY
to the cemetery. which lies on a beau.
/, tfful knoll about one-half mile South
from the station
The monument was easily located
/. for it is one of the largest in the
cemetery. and for this occasion was
NEATLY covered with pure white cloth,
so legged that by slight movement
( il could be lifted away,
Around this spot there gathered a
1 great concourse of people Ii was a
| beautiful day, no better could haya
! been fesired, and the occasion was
one which was sad and Impressive.
/ Grouped about the grave of Miss Pei
Hey, which was covered with floral
tributes, were the relatives Of the
martyred one. They were brothers
and sisters, John Policy, of New Or
| leans; Joseph and Thomas Pelley, OF
limo, Mo-; Mrs, T. NJ. cofman and
Mrs. Joseph Klorke, OF st. Louis; and
Mrs. T. o. Garset, of Carbonate.
| A. J. Pickerill, of Anna, and Mrs
John A. Miller and Julius P. Schulz,
tof Cairo, members OF the Monument
Committee, had charge of the pro.
gram for the OCCASION
The Anna concert band played an
appropriate number. after which Rev
Father Fischer, pastor OF St Mary's
Catholic church, at Anna, gave the in
vocation according to the ritual, AMI
he blessed the stone and sprinkled it
with holy water, As the Reverend
I Father began, there was solemn
hush In the vast coacourse. and at
this iuncture Miss Ella Dolan, the
most intimate friend Of the deal
: girl, unveiled the beautiful monument
There were tears in Miss Dolan's eyes
i and she seemed almost overcome
with emotion as she pulled the cord
! that revealed fer the first time to the
assembled thousands the monument
! that is pronounced by all who saw it
a fine work of art
The Anna Pelley monument was
4 furnished by c. S. Huddleston, of the
Centralia Marble and Granite Works.
lof 'Centralia, ILL., 1t is of Barre, VI,
glanite, weighs 10000 pounds, aud
cost about $500 The Inscription on
the monument proper reads
| "PELLEY."
In Memory Of Anna Pelley.
January 10. lsSG-N November &, 1909.
On the base Of the monument is in.
/ scribed, "a Life Sacrificed But Re
membered by Friends"
After the unwilling ceremony. the
assemblage was invited to another
part of the cemetery, where the pro-
,gram was continued provisions we're
made fer the seating OF a large por-
ton of the audience, and especially
was the comfort of the relatives cared
/ for
After music By the band. Julius p.
iS2huh. of the committee, first adj
dressed the multitude, saving In part
that before proceeding with the pro-
gram, he wished to explain that Rev.
iFather Downey. of Cairo, was not
present to address them, and that
/ he regular choir Of st. Patrick
Church were also necessarily absent,
owing to the funeral of a devoted
member OF the church taking place at
the same hour,
He did not think it fair to impose up
on anyone at so short a notice to try
to fill Father Downey's place on the
program, and didn't know who to inn
pose unless It he Mr. Pickerell, and
he has kindly consented to speak
few words to you, although without
any preparation"
In place of st Patrick's choir a !
Cuartette composed of the following
ladies' sang selection: Mrs. George
Fischer, Mrs. Thomas Il. O'Shea.
M sses Edna Els and Ernestine Berk-
owitz
The first address on the program
was by Mrs. John A. Miller, one Of
the members Of the monument com
mittee, who has shown great interest
in the work pertaining to the monu-
ment. /
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