Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-06-02

prayed in Gethsemene's garden during
the quiet peace of the midnight. Abra-
ham Lincoln prayed during many long
nights alone and while the silence of
the night was rent by thu cries and
screams of the wounded mea and boys
and his feet were splashed in pool OF
blood and tears. Yet he arose and
called for more men to come and do
their country's work.
Think what it meant to those peo-
pie during all the long four years.
They all had their faults the same as
the rest of us but what wonderful
pacifer it has been; death has sancti-
fed it all and those who have gone be-
fore have surely found their way to
the heavenly father. A few more
years and the last empty sleeve will
have been laid across the sunken
breast and given back to mother earth.
Spring, summer, autumn and winter
will come; new generations will be
born, live, work and die, but the splen-
did story of the sacrifice that they
made during the four years will live
on forever. The flag represents all we
are and ever can hope to be and sure
ly, if the immortal dead are not above
all joy and sorrow, they will look down
today upon us and rejoice that the old
stars and stripes are still waving over
our heads
March to Cemetery.
Another musical number by the
quartet closed the exercises at the
church and the people adjourned to the
cemetery where the second and con-
Guiding part of the services were held.
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patriotic citizens on foot and in both
cars and buggies followed to the bury
ing place of the honored dead The
procession advanced slowly to the
martial music, entering at the side en-
trance, and moved toward the monu-
| ment, the unwilling and presentation
gram out of doors.
Arriving in front of the shaft the
band and soldiers separated, the veter-
ans taking their places directly in
front of the monument and the must
clans grouping themselves at the rear.
After another selection by the band
the presentation speech was made by
Rev. NJ. D. Cox of the First Methodist
Episcopal church at Agency. Rev.
Cox told of the custom of the ages in
commemorating great events in mar
BILE, granite or bronze He skstched
briefly some of the more important his
torical clinlaxes which had been re-
corded in that manner. On behalf OF
the citizens of Agency and vicinity
the speaker then presented the monu-
ment to Winslow post No. 1O7 G. A. K.
George l.. Nye, commander OF the
post, then took charge of the exercises
and accepted the monument on behalf
of his comrades, using the rituallsic
services of the G. A. r., for such an
occasion. A group of little girls sang,
Columbia the Gem of the Ocean The
commander ordered the flag to be run
up. Just as old glory mounted to the
top of the pole and flung out her folds
to the breeZes, the band struck up
THE Star Spangled Banner and
Misses Vesta Mccoy and Mabel Cow
ger pulled the cords, locsening the
large flags which had inclosed the
monument and the shaft was seen
in all of it's beauty of. lines
The ritualistic work by the
veterans continued and as the sun
from the western hills was beginning
to send the long shadows across the
graves of the dead heroes. the bugler
founded taps and the service was
closed.
Beautiful Monument.
The monument which is now the
property of Winslow post, is an excel
lent piece of work and a very fine
addition to the cemetery. The total
height is eighteen and half feet.
The shaft proper is surmounted by
life sized statute of union soldier.
Growing the top of the shaft at the
base of the statute on each side in bas
relief is one of the emblems of sold
Ter. The south side bears the canteens,
the west the crossed swords, the north