The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-06-03
MEMORIAL TO HEROIC DEAD:
SERVICES AT MANKATO THEATRE
From Mondays Daily.

Better weather never favored tho
northwest on Memorial day than wa.
the case tins year. Out of u cloud
less sky the rays of the sun shot
down, without those storm danger
signals that often mar the enjoyment
of the day. through fear of rain. Had
parade been arranged. it could have
come off on dry streets. and ont OF
door exercises could have been held
for the air was warmer outside Of the
opera house than inside of it.
The annual services were in charge
this year of Company II, and took
place at the theatre, commencing at
ten o'clock The company members
acted as ushers. 4 fair sized audience
was present. including Wilkin post and
the w r. c.. which marched in from
the post room in a body and took re-
served seats. with the beautiful silk
flags furled. In the audience were also
many specimens of Young America,
some very young, but with well de-
veloped lungs. and during the address
lungs "''''' i'''' -
so successfully that some points made
by the speaker were missed.
Decorated With Flags.
The stage and boxes were decorated
with flags. and on each side of the
stage was shelter half more com
monty called dog tent. and in front
of each were small arms stacked \
cross of evergreen was placed on the
left hand side. The scenery used rep
resented sylvan scene, and the entire
effect was very pretty.
The exercises opened with selection
by VERSIONS orchestra. that was very
enjoyable. A picked chorus OF thirty
five voices from the sixth and seventh
grades of the Union school, in charge
OF Miss Beatty, sang The Flag Goes
BY" very nicely and deserved the
hearty applause received.
Rev. I. Ross Paden pronounced the
invocation. and the audience followed
by singing America" ]. G. Fowler.
adiutant of Wilkm post. read Cover
nor Eberhart's proclamation. He closed
by giving the number of soldiers
graves in various cemeteries in this
vicinity. as follows: GlenwOod, %;
Calvary. %; Lutheran. II: Minneopa,
%: Tivoli and Eagle Lake. 20: Rapi-
dan. 3: Good Thunder. 3: Garden City,
%; Hebron, &; German Lutheran, l;
total. pa
Judge Loren Cray said that the war
had left many problems to be solved.
and it was well to hold such meetings
as this. not to keep alive a warlike
the war and to turn the mind to the
solution of the problems. We all are
fast forgetting what Memorial day is.
We should remember that it is Me-
mortal day. Judge Cray introduced +.
F. Ellsworth OF ST. James as the
speaker, saying that his father was
an old soldier and he himself Span
ish-American war soldier.
Address BY Mr.. Ellsworth.
Mr. Ellsworth is an easy, pleasing
speaker. He said:
My mind reverts today back TO
scenes across the waters-the era of
the inglorious reign of Elizabeth. |
picture group OF men in thick jer
kins, heavy high boots. sugar loaf hats
and steel plates on their breasts, and
women dressed in hOmespun frOcks and
garments. sitting ut the spinning
wheels. | picture these stubborn non
conformists oppressed by Elizabeth and
crystalizing their religious sentiment
under the continued OPPRESSION of James
vending their way from the island to
the mainland and | picture in my
minds eye Holland village sentinel
studded by slumberous armed Dutch
windmills-peaceful, tolerant Leyden-
where these religious heretics, So
called. eked out an unmolested pursuaI
of their Christian faith.
The oppression of British stunted
and killed the faith and the sluggish
Indifference of tolerant Holland was
not fertile soil for the propagation of
the spirit of a true religious and civil
liberty
Then picture the stirring scenes on
this side of the Atlantic. Transplant
these picturesque, quaint and curious
men and women and the tiny gabed
cascades of Plymouth. Salem. Provi-
dence. Picture to yourselves the early
hardships. devotion, heresy
and steadfastness of this sturdy peo-
pie and its kindred neighboring bands
contending for the establishment of IA
true system of civil government and Il
liberation of religious institutions. as
they laid the foundation stones for the
best government on earth.
This was an age Of poets, preach
rrs. philosophers, soldiers, martyrs. pat
riots. orators and statesmen 1t was
an age of sentiment. All! What con-
trast with the present! An age of
financiers, inventors. polit-
clans. brokers and maenates. History
is the study of contrast
Would Go Back Many Years.
Il would that could 90 back and
resurrect Governor Carter and wheel
him around on one of those fourteen
thousand mile presidential tours and
let him see the America of today. /
would break ruthlessly into the mytho-
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