The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-05-12
MEMORIAL DAY HERE
FITTlNCLY OBSERVED
HONOR FOR THE LIVING AND REV
ERENCE FOR THE DEAD.
Dinner Served Veterans by Daughters
of the Confederacy-Exercises
in Opera House.

Across the so1abre stiffness of the
wide chasm of fifty years was heard
in Newberry on Wednesday the phan-
tom echo of the reverberation of Beau
regards guns playing upon Fort Sum-
ter, and Of the shock of battle which
rolled from Manassas to Fredericks-
burg. and from Fredericksburg to
Charlottesville, and on to the Wild
erness, and then to AppomartoX'
vher it was stilled by the agonizing
deatb-cry Of the Southern Confeder-
acy. For in Newberry On Wednesday
a grey column again formed under the
Starry Cross, and Southern war songs
again thrilled the veterans Of Lee.
Pausing for few brief hours in the
rush of business, NeWDerry on Mem
orial day gave hersem unreserVedly
to the sacred duty and the high and
holy privilege of honoring the heroes
of the sixties who have not yet an
sWered the final roll call, and of pay
ing loving tribute to the memory Of
those who gave their lives on the field
Of battle, before the star of the storm
Graded Southern nation had reached
the western horizon in its brilliant
passage athwart the heavens, and
those who have since joined the
peaceful camp beyond in the steady
march of the ranks in grey through
the valley of the shadow.
The program for the day had been
arranged by the Drayton Rutherford
and Calvin Crozier chapters, I. D. c..
and i was to their labors, with, the
assistance Of the D., A Dickert chap
ter, Children of the Confederacy, and
the Jno NJ. Kinard camp, Sons of Vet
Grams, the fitting observance Of the
day was due.
Wherever there was Confederate
grave or a Confederate monument in
NeWberry on Wednesday, there were
wreaths of evergreens bound with the
colors Of the Confederacy, and the
choice flowers of the spring-tlme,
tenderly and reverently placed by the
Daughters and the Children of the
Confederacy Early in the day the
school children marched to the Con-
federata monument in the public
square, each bearing a wreath for
the marble shaft that commentaries
the valor and the patriotism of the
men whaose self-sacrifcing devotion to
duty is being held up to them by the
devoted daughters of these men as an
inspiration to high ideals and high
endeavor, and as a priceless heritage
10 be handed down by them to their
children and their children's children.
Following the exercises in the opera
house in the afternoon the various
committees decorated every grave.
The decoration of the Calvin Crozier
monument, in Rosement cemetery,
was in charge of the chapter which
bears the martvred Texans name.
Some three hundred veterans were
in the city for the day The recipients
of every attention which the people
of Newoerry could bestow. it was a
day of pleasure TOR them. but Of pleas
ure mixed with deepest sadn SIS as
they recalled the .aces ana forms Of
many of their comrades who met with
them on last Memorial day and for
whom during the past year taps have
sounded Conspicuous among these
we're the late COL O. L. Schumpert,
who for many years was adjutant of
the James D. Nance camp and in
charge of the veterans on these Me-
mortal day occasions, and the late
Chief Justice Young John Pope. Beau
tiful tributes were read to the memory
of these two gallant veterans, and the
other twelve veterans of the James D.
Nance camp, who have died during
the past year, and it was a sacredly
solemn moment as the roll of the
dead was called. The tribute to Col.
o. l.. Schumpert was in the shape of
resolutions passed by the Drayton
Rutherford chapter. u. D. c.. During
.hA reading of these resolutions by