The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-06-06
MEMORIAL DAY
AT ToWNER.

Towner. N d, June ITO The Fo-
rum: We had such glorious exer-
cises on Memorial day that am asked
to tell you of it, so that comrades all
over the state will rejoice, and so, too,
will the ladies of the relief corps
Our Sunday morning memorial SER
mon was the keynote of the week, with
Its present day reminder Of patriotism
in living for ones country and Rev Mr..
Hall pointed a moral and adorned his
tale
Tuesday a cool, cloudy morning de-
termined an indoor programme and the
young mems club decorated the high
school auditorium with flags and flow
ers Sons Of veterans took an auto and
carried Comrade e c Stevens up to our
Interest cemetery, where he planted
flag on each grave for the afternoons
adornment There are six of them
At noon comrades came in on the
Maxbass branch, on the Sherwood
branch and No. 6, @. N. railroad and
dined together with great content.
At 1880 p. m. they gathered in the
w. r. C. hall, and sang old war songs
round the piano till the band came, who
viii forget?
At p. m. procession was formed,
band, veterans, w r. c.. and boy scouts
(but one dear old comrade. who had
always marched, felt his limbs, gall
liant supports for seventy years, failing
him, and he slipped away formed in
line and followed our fine streets amid
respectful lines OF citizens to the school
house which was crammed with waiting
friends.
There the veterans were seated in
fine arm chairs, brought for the oc-
casion, and they faced, sadly enough,
long line of vacant chairs, decorated
and named But in the center was one
chair, unnamed. and loaded with bios
SONS Well, we all knew whose chair
II was
George III. Soule had often helped
his comrades strew flowers in memory.
Now his own turn had come
And their stood a tail pine. Hon
Horace Bagley, county judge, a man
whom we all respect as living in the
front rank Of our citizenship Two
years ago he pledged the listening vet
Grams that while a stone stands in
Towner, their graves shall be Kept
green and enshrined in the hearts Of
all
His little girls helped in those de-
lightful school exercises which Smith
Stimmel characterized as the best, the
most appropriate, he had ever heard
school give on Memorial day. We gladly
tell this for the sake of thanking Miss
Phoebe Jones and Miss Kate Mitchell,
two of our standbys Miss Carlson
holds her own place in our hearts with
her music; Miss Johnson's zeal and
earnestness are a comfort and cheer
and Professor McLain's heartfelt care
for all the maynard boys, as well as
his enthusiastic planning have endear-
ed him to many hearts in Towner.
Hon. A. M. Christianson, as chair
man holds unique place in our hearts.
Many have done well. he best of all.
For he loves us, and he spends him
self that North Dakota may thrive. He
and his charming little wife entertained
our speaker, Hon. Smith StimmeL
After the commander of Jerry Rusls
Post, Comrade o. O. Potter Of Gran
vile had read the orders and z. C..
Stevens. officer OF the day, had exc
cuted them, the Relief Corps decorated
a little monument lettered to the un-
known dead, and their speaker coupled
Herewith the story of dear old lady
In the Mouse River Loop, whose hus-
band fell In a skirmish I'm Tennessee.
The letter, written two days before.
told his wife and BARNS on the little
farm In Illinois that If he fell it would
be with HIS face to the foe. No need
to tell that the letter wore out with
frequent perusal 1t was all that was
left to them, while they grew up in
industry and respect The chaplain Of
the corps called on department senior
vice president, Miss Maude Rosecrans,
to lay the blossoms on the altar. They
were white honeysuckles from the
garden Of the son of veteran, Henry
Erickson, who, with his brother, Mar
ius, had hurried home to see his faith
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