Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-06-02

served to the close of the war. Sar-
gent Beuchecker enlisted as private
and was promoted to sargent. His
was the regiment who by gallant
service became famous under the
name of the Buck Tail regiment,
their badge being the tail of deer.
They were from Pennsylvania and
mostly mountain hunters. Comrade
Beuchecker was one of the men who
served in the mine operations which
resulted in blowing up one of the
forts defending Petersburg. We now
mention one of the incidents of the
day not on the printed program.
After the program had been COM
pleted Prof. VonProsky suggested
that he and drum corps would go
around at sunrise to play before the
door of each of the veterans of the
civil war and the widows of a veter
an. This being carried out was one
of the most touching membranes
of the days of the war, for it called
to mind so wildly the drumming
for volunteers" as it was called then,
The drums and fife with the flag
marching through town, statement
of the needs of the country, and
those boys, now old men, if they
lived to come home and their days
have been continued to our time,
followed the flag off to war to battle
for right against might; to interpose
their lives between destruction and
their country.
Can you younger persons realize
what 1t means to say that some of
these old men at their country's call
dropped their ball bat on the school
house play ground, left their books
: in their desk, yes some even their
= marbles in the ring, their third read
! ers to their sisters, and stepped into
the ranks beside the grizzled veter-
ans of Palialto and Beuna Vista,
: that we can today have In peace our
. homes in great Nation under the
, protection of its laws.
: THE GRAFTON
We do not believe that we are
, able to discuss effectively the ad-
dress by the orator of the day, Mr..
Davis of Greensburg. From others
and especially the old soldiers we
heard nothing but praise, for the
r manner of its delivery, and the sub
ject matter of the address. 1t was
along the lines generally treated of
on such occasions but was yet diff
ferent. There was considerable
: feeling and strong sentiment prevail
: ed it. That being natural, for Mr.
4 Davis father sleeps on battle field
, in Virginia. He spoke of the causes
which led up to the war; of the prin-
} ciples which each side believed
underlied their action. Passing on
: to the results attained and the final
| triumph of the ideas involved, into
, the strong, united Nation of today.
Then reviewing the striking incl
dents of the carnage he paid high
: tribute to the heroism of the actors
= in the great drama.
Frequently he turned to the old
soldiers seated on the stage and i'm
pressed a point by addressing his
words directly to them. The audi
ence followed him at every turn of
his theme in rapt attention.
THE PROGRAM
The interesting recltatlons by the
| children, songs by the quartette and
a violin solo by Prof. VonProsky
, and short talks by the old soldiers,
with recitation by Mrs, Thomp-
son, solo by Miss Maude Pinnick
and reading by Miss Ada Plnnick of
! Fowler, reading by Miss Florence
r Bowen and solo by Miss Lucille
Leach which we're we'll delivered,
, closed the day. We took notes for
mention of each one and each fea-
ture of the day, but when later we
= we took an inventory, we found
5 that there was more than could be
handled. and cut it down to gen.
eral description of the day.
Won PRosKY's BAND
We have a word of commentator
for the band boys. The service
rendered in the decoration day OBJ
, servance was tiresome in the extreme
for men who spend their time mostly
in the house out of the sun. The
music was the striking feature of the
day and one that supported all the
f other features. The boys marched,
and played from sun up until late
{ in the afternoon or at least some of
them did, and all worked hard.
The music which they treated the
crowd to IN the afternoon from the