Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-05-16
MEMORIAL DAY
PROCLAMATION
Governor of Kentucky Writes
Chief Executive About
Mothers Day
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and in State of
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Governor Augustus E. Wilson of
Kentucky, has written Governor Mills
OF New Mexico as follows:
My Dear Governor Mills:
Il thank you sincerely for sending
me your Mothers Day Proclamation.
l did not issue one this year and Mrs.
Wilson says | was wrong and l fear
that settles it, but thought We would
need next a Grandmothers Day and
get around finally to a place where
everybody would have a day but faith
er, but it could not have done any hurt
and would have pleased Miss Jarvis
and pleased a whole lot of people, and
think Mrs. Wilson is right that [
made a mistake in not issuing a proc
lamation.'
Memorial Day.
The following proclamation was IS
sued by the governor:
1t is a beautiful custom which has
grown up through the length and
breadth of this broad land. that one
day in each year be set apart in which
We, who are living, may pay tribute
to the memory of the brave soldiers
and sailors, and to our dear ones who
have passed away and have been
judged by our Creator each according
to his real merit. As we think of
those who are gone, the day cannot
but be a sorrowful one, and yet as
we recall our fathers, mothers, broth
erS, sisters and friends, and the many
good and noble qualities which they
possessed, and think of the love which
they bore us when alive, our charac
ters are sOftened and we look upon
the cold, hard world with tender long
ing, and often through tears with
which our eyes are dimmed.
In order that proper respect may be
shown to the soldiers and sailors O
the Republic, who died while in tht
| service of our common country from
wounds received in the heat of battle
in defense of the flag, or from sick
ness incurred during service, and alst
to our deceased relatives and friends
Now, therefore, l, William J. Mills
governor of the Territory of New
Mexico, do hereby designate and ap
point Monday, May Both, 1910, as Mem
orial Day and do hereby request tina
on said day all business of a secula
nature be suspended SO far as posi-
BILE; that in the schools patriotic ey
erciseS be held, and the youth of tn
territory instructed in love of ou
country and its flag; that churche
and other places of religious worshi
be opened, SO that prayers may be sal
for those who are dead, and that tn
ipeople generally join with the fas
diminishing numbers of the Gran
Army of the Republic, in strewin
with flowers the last resting places c
the brave soldiers and sailors VIII
died fighting for what they believe
to be right under the flag carried eitI
: er by the blue or the gray, as we'll a
: the graves of our relatives and friend
} who have passed away, so that thei
t kindly deeds and good acts may eve
remain fresh in our memories.
: Done at the executive office this tn
: 10th day of May, A. D., 1910.
: witness my hand and the Grea
t Seal of the Territory of New Mexic,
l WILLIAM J. MILLS.
By the Governor:
NATHAN JAFFA,
Secretary of New Mexico.
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