Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-06-01

The weather was fine, the flowers
abundant. the attendance general, the
music excellent and the entire pro-
gramme for Memorial Day passed of
without the slightest interruption to
detract from the solemnity of the
occasion.
Under direction of Grand Marshal
Cuddy and Master of Ceremonies
Frank ]. Cayanaugh, the exercises
were conducted with promptness and
celebrity. The old cemetery was gar,
landed with an array of flowers such
as was never displayed before, and
the Woman's Relief corps received
liberal congratulations for their verv
successful management of the affair.
The day was observed as a partial
holiday stores closing during the ex.
ercises. The appearance of the sew
eral score little children from the
primary grade, under direction of
their teachers. lent fresh color to the
occasion.
The parade started at 10 o'clock
and reached the cemetery in thirty
minutes, when the programme opened
with music by the Tonopah Military
band. which had rendered its ser
vices for the occasion free of charge.
Rev. j. NJ. Swander invoked a bless
ing, the joint church choirs sang an
anthem. Lavoy Davis read Lincoln's
address at Gettysburg and Judge J..
X. Chambers was introduced as the
orator of the day. He delivered a
speech replete with patriotic lessons
as follows:
amid the expiring strains of ma
tional anthem, we have assembled to
commemorate the memory of the
brave and patriotic men, who gave
their lives to preserve a government
founded on the equal rights of men,
and as expressed in the memorable
words of the immortal Lincoln, That
government of the people, by the peo-
pie, for the people shall not perish
from the earth
'.The history of that conflict marks
one of the most important epics OF
all the ages. II was an event no less
momentous than that of the French
revolution. or that of the reformation.
II was contest between two great
principles that could only be settled
on the field OF battle. 1t was a con.
iiict on the great question was to be
decided whether this nation was ia
remain perpetual union under one
flag and under one constitution, or
whether IL was TO become a mere
confederation OF states without any
bond Of union,
"The very existence Of the nation
depended on the result Of the con
aict And that II resulted In the
preservation Of the union Is due "a
the honored dead who gave theiI
lives for the nation and 10 the sur
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