The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1910-06-02
MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES
Day Appropriately Celebrated
By Fitting Program Which
Is Largely Attended.

Memorial Day was fittingly observed
in Fallon. Monday was given over by
the entire community to reawakening
old memories and communing in spirit
with the loved ones who have passed to
the great beyond The ever growing
burial ground at the base Cemetery
butte was filled with crown Monday
morning long before the regular pro-
cession had arrived from town and
many reminiscent tear was shed over
mound of dirt, as memory was re-
kindled with thoughts that were it not
for just such days as Memorial Day ywould
soon be buried and lost in the passing
of time. And therein lies the days
zeal worth
Monday mornings procession was
the largest that ever followed the
winding route to the community's s
burial place. A body of people, some
! in rigs and others ON horse while still
others walked. formed a procession a
mile long, headed by the civil war
veterans of both contending armies that
wended its way to the cemetery, where
prayer was offered by Rev. E. l..
Spaulding, who was followed by E. E.
Winters, who spoke eloquently on the
day and its purposes, its origin and
probable future ussges. These re-
marks were followed by grave decora-
ting. The Civil war veterans first dis
tributed flowers over the five graves of
deceased veterans, and following, two
graves of those who had served
honorably in the war with Spain were
remembered with handsome wreaths.
In distributing the flowers the school
children aided. Following the decorating
of the graves of ex-soldiers, the lodges
and individuals participated, scarcely a
grave but what was remembered with
some sort of floral decoration.
The day served to bring out the fact
that three veterans of wars of this
country lie in unmarked graves in the
fotter's field and there may be still
thers. Two OF these served in the
Cuban campaigns and passed away
some years back at the county hospital
of typhoid fever One is civil war
veteran who died in distress, and whose
resources would not allow of decent
burial. 1t seems pity that these de-
Tenders of the nation in a time of peril
should sleep in neglected and dis
honored corner of Fallon's cemetery.
The services in the afternoon at
Clark's pavilion were attended by many
of the people of the community, who
filled the auditorium to overfowing to
listen to the program that had been
prepared by the civil war veterans who
had direct charge of the day.
The chief speaker of the afternoon
was T. c. Hart, who acquitted himself
in most commendable fashion. He
treated at considerable length on va
rious lines of thought that correlate
around Memorial Day and his remarks
were listened to attentively by his
auditors.
Mr.. Hart dwelt at considerable length
upon the wars of conquest of the world
and compared them with the wars in
which this country has been engaged
since the foundation of the republic
and showed plainly the righteous causes
that have brought out the American
fighting spirit. He also eulogized the
individual and called attention to the
significance of the patriotic spirit that
ran riot through the country at the
outbreak of the Spanish-American war,
when the son of confederate and fed
eral shouldered guns and marched side
by side to the front in anticipation of
battle.
The afternoons program was quite
lengthy and individual mention in these
columns is impossible. Suffice it to
say, the success of the day is due in
whole to the energy and foresight of
the old veterans of the Civil war who
left nothing undone that would tend to
make the day commemorative of the
brave soldiers who laid down their lives
on their country's altar.
To Matt johnson, A. r. Jeffrey and
S. A. Drake, the latter valiant
soldier in Albert Sidney Johnson's
Confederate legion, is due in large
measure the credit for the days pro-
gram.