The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1910-06-02
People Turn Out in Large
Numbers to Pay Honor
to Sleeping Heros
Tribute TO LIVING AND DEAD
Annual Memorial Day Grafton is De-
livered by the Rev. Fred Ingley, Rec
tor of st. Matthew's Church-Many
Graves Decorated

With hearts filled with patriotism,
with cheers for the living and
tears for the dead the loyal peo-
pie of Kenosha turned out on Mon
day to pay their annual tribue
to the soldiers living and dead and when
the shades of evening fell the grave
of every hero had been made a gar
den fair on which bloomed flowers
sweet and over each sleeping form the
flag under which he fought was float
ing in the breeze.
In every cemetery of the county the
love of loyal people was manifest and
every grave bore a silent token of fond
remembrance. 1t was day for mem
cries and no one who attended the
solemn ceremonies at the soldiers plat
at the city cemetery and later at the
First Baptist church could say that
Memorial day had lost its meaning.
The old soldiers of the city and
county turned out in force but the peo-
pie who cheered the marching rank of
the veterans could not but notice that
the line was growing shorter and that
the men in the line were q little more
grizzled than they were a year ago
But they marched out boldly to the
martial music and many of them de
clined to accept the proffered rides in
automobiles. 1t was an hour of sad
ness as we'll as glory for the survi-
vors of the Civil war and they recog-
nized that not d few Of the men who
had marched in the column year ago
were on Monday sleeping under the
flags and the flowers.
The members of the Woman s Re
lief Corps and members of the Daugh-
ters of the Grand Army together with
many patriotic citizens marched with
the Grand Army members to the ceme-
terry where the annual ritualistic serv-
ices were held under the direction of
Charles r. Likes, commander of the
post. A stop was made at Library
Park hong enough to place a wreath
on the soldiers monument as a mem
orial to the dead sleeping on the sunny
plains of the southland and a similar
wreath was placed ON the Lincoln mon
ument as a tribute of memory to the
late 0. NJ Calllins.
A special service was held at the
grave of the late Z. g. Simmons in
he cemetery and it bore the same
token of remembrance as had been
placed on the graves of the men he
had been honored by calling comrades.
Early in the morning members of the
post went to the cemetery on the north
side of the city and returning they fell,
into the line and went with other mem
bers of the post to the court house
where the new flag of the county was
unfurled under Grand Army auspices.
A short patriotic address was made bv
the Rev. Florence Buck after which
Comrade Leonard assisted by c. E.
Dewey the oldest member of the
county board, run up the flag,
Returning from the cemetery the
annual service in memory of the
soldiers living and dead was held at
the First Baptist church and the
church was we'll filled with patriotic
people Commander Likes presided
and special music appropriate to the
day was rendered by the choir of the
church. The annual address was de-
livered by the Rev. Fred Ingley, who
paid fitting tribute to the membery
Of the dead. He said in part:
eff Abraham Lincoln had tried to
write a message for 1910 he could not
nave done better than when he said
Let reverence foro law be taught to
our children; let it be preached from
he pulpit; let it be proclaimed by the
'ress, until it is enshrined in the hearts
If the people"
"AIl thoughtful persons must admit
mat as people we make light Of law
md authority. 1t is one of the I'M
fortunate signs Of the times. Not
many weeks ago President Taft was
invited to address a Woman s Suffrage
invention. Because he said something
which displeased the audience they
Kissed. 1t matters not what he said.
lnasmuch as he is the president of the
United States he is entitled to respect
full hearing and the reception given him
on that occasion shows that we have not
yet learned to respect authority.
It IS true that sometimes the law