Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-05-31
MEMORIAL EXERCISES.
Day Is Cold and Windy. Yet Hundreds
Of People Turn Out.

l. Lie WedlneTndIl StlON0u dItOIler
icicle down our backs yesterday and
then laughed in glee. 1t was a mean
trick to play on day of such signiti-
canoe when everyone wanted to turn
out. Nevertheless hundreds of citi-
zens gathered at the court house
square to listen to the exercises and
followed the procession to the ceme-
terry.
AT the time set for the preparation
Tor the exercises, the Columbia band,
Co. G and the Spanish~American war
veterans marched from the armory to
the county square and formed circle
around the monument. Members of
| Cutler Post assembled at post head
quarters in the court house, and filed
| out and took their position about the
monument. The exercises began.
The Columbia band gave several
selections, the male quartette sang
several appropriate songs, and Rev.
| (. G. Grauer of st. Paul's church
made most excellent address. Rev.
Grauer has strong voice and his re-
marks were plainly heard by every
one in the audience. He touched up
on the part the veterans OF the civil
war have played upon life's stage, and
the significance of Memorial day.
Prof. S. B. Tobey who had accepted
detail to read Lincoln's Gettysburg
address, was unavoidably absent, (the
reason thereof is given in another
column of this issue,) and adjutant
Maxson of Cutler Post assumed that
duty. The only thing that marred
the harmony of the exercises there
was the believing through mega
phone by young man, announcing
that the ball game would begin at
800, fact known to every one in the
large crowd present who were intent
on listening to Memorial exercises for
those who saved the union, and there
by made the country what 1t is, even
for the one who CONSTITUTES liberty as
meaning license to disturb quiet and
orderly assemblages gathered to pay
respect to the dead heroes who died
that the country might live. There
is a statute in Wisconsin which for
bids disturbing the peace and har-
mony of any public assembly, under
quite heavy penalty, and Memorial
day exercises are especially mentioned.
At the close of the exercises at the
court house square, the veterans,
their wives, the flower girls and es-
cort boarded the street cars for the
cemetery where the flower girls deco
rated the graves of dead soldiers.
The veterans proceeded to the chapel,
where the ritual ceremonies prescribed
by the G. A. r. ritual were performed.
After which Prof. G. G. Parlin de-
liyered most excellent address along
different line from most memorial
addresses. 1t was Of an historical
nature and showed most conclusiyely
that the rebellion must come and
come when it did-the Southern peo-
pie must surrender their supremacy
in congress, their state right fallacy
and other matters of less note or rebel.
They chose the latter and the result
is now conceded to be satisfactory to
all except very few hot heads.
The exercises in the Presbyterian
church on Sunday were largely at
tended. The sermon of Rev. w.
Everett Johnson of St. Johns church
was scholarly and of deep thought
and gave many of his hearers fuller
and higher conception of the COM
mon every day life of mankind. Rev.
Brigham of the Methodist and Rev.
Crippen of the Baptist church also
took an active part in the exercises.
The members Of Cutler Post G. A.
r. and all other veterans of the civil
war who took part in the memorial
exercises of May 29-30 wish through
the PILOT to publicly and gratefully
express their thanks and acknowledge
their appreciation of the efforts of
the general public in making the
exercises so complete success.
Especial thanks are due to the
mayor and common council for the
liberal appropriation, without which
exercises would have been fat
failure and no small credit should be
and is due to the pastor and member
ship of the Presbyterian church and
and choir for their generous service
and to Rev. Grauer and G. G. Parlin
for the parts they took.
Since the old soldiers last met their
ranks have been somewhat thinned
by death, and there are several new
mounds in the cemetery. This OF
course is but the sequence of age and
we will all travel the same road.