Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-05-29
DECORATION DAY.
T. OMORRow brings the beautiful festival

OM0RRoW brings the beautiful of decorating the
of the dead soldiers whose lives
salvation Of their country In community like Tonopah the
practice has assumed general is custom to
decorate the of all relatives and friends whose
been inferred the local cemetery That
be universal is enjoned all business
that close during the morning when the
the cemetery In the large cities the day Of
anniversaries the calendar and the sentiment
been cultivated to such an extent that all deprecated
profaning the memories associated with the day
Memorial Day although formally established by the Grand
Army Of the Republic that noble society loyal veterans
as matter OF fact originated with the Southern
copied scaerngy by at various dates
IN the joyous spngtme for natural On May 1868
Gen John Logan then commandernchef Army
the Republic issued order appointing May year
Grand services decorating graves choosing that day
possibly being the date of the last Union voun
ter Of the The which observe day adopted
singly, there is such thing a national holiday
In this connection it timely recall the fact
field OF Gettysburg where the Grand Army held its latest grand
1913 apart great national buryino
ground for the soldiers who had lost their service of
their country On November 10Th 1868 cemetery dedi
Gated with solemn and impressive
of the nation there Edward the most accomplished
public speaker of the time delivered long scholarly Grafton
1t expected that President Lincoln would give appro
pirate and perhaps lengthy address He proper
men and drew from his hat half ooscap which he
had written memorandum Of what he intended TO saw The
speech brief but classic forever nger in the
minds of the American people acts of great
statesman 1t fitting that these words should repeated today
to revive the spirit that prevailed toward the close
Every schooboy and schoolgirl should by and
transmit to future they revere the memory
of the martyred president 1t is follows:
-Four and years fathers brought forth
this continent nation conceived dedicated
to the proposition that all equal
Now engaged in great civil war testing whether
that nation nation conceived and dedicated
endure We met great battlefield war have
10 dedicate portion Of that field resting place
those who here their lives that that nation might
altogether fitting and proper that should do this
But larger dedcatewe
eratewe cannot halowths ground The living and
dead who struggled here have power
add dact The little note nor long remember
what here but il forget
for the living rather be dedicated unfinished
work which they who fought here thus
rather for to be here dedicated the great
before ushat from these honored dead
ton to that for which they the
devoionhat here highly resolve that shall not
have died in yan that this nation under new
birth of freedoms and that the people BY the
people for the people shall not perish from the
That all The sortnes of the speech people
think but little of the time The effort of Edward
Everett the orator believed Of the day Lin
coin himself said his failure Secretary openly ex
pressed his disappointment but little by little began to dawn
ON the minds Of all classes that the little speech was