Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-24
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renee, Kans.; N. B. Dicken. Nash
vile; Charles F. Hoke, Atlanta; Geo.
w. Phelps. Cincinnati; w. H. Wright,
Haleyville, Ala; Edward c. Roach.
Evansville; Virgil c. Petite. Jones'
boro, Ark; Clarence Tandy, Nc
Alester, Okla.
At APO the meeting adjourned and
the happy crowd was soon back in
town and getting ready for the pub
lie meeting at the Tabernacle.
Night found the weather still
threatening, but about 1000 people
attended and heard number of ex-
cellent speeches.
The boys to the number of rs were
seated on the platform and others
were in the audience. A life.size oil
painting of Maj. Terrell was on the
stage.
Chas. M. Meacham was master OF
Ceremonies.
REV. Hugh Gregory, of the class
Of 1900, pronounced an appropriate
invocation, after which the presiding
officer stated the purposes of the
organization, saying:
why are we here tonight? Why
is it that this unique body of busy
men. have laid aside their duties for
the day and gathered for common
purpose? Until to-day many Of
them were strangers to each other.
Ranging in age from young men
standing on the threshold Of BUSH
ness career to the grandfathers- OF
three score years, whose life work is
behind them, there is but little in
common to bind us together when
measured by ordinary standards.
; Gathered from many states and
from almost every field of action,
these men have come together for
something more than the idle fes-
t1gities of summer day. They are
not inspired by pride of alma mater.
The institution in which they were
taught was not great university
whose very name causes a thrill OF
pride in its graduates. The school
was a modest one and it has long
since ceased to exist. Why then. 1
repeat, have you come. some of you
from far off states, TO take part IN
these simple exercises? You are
here to honor the memory OF an in
dividual, a mere man-but with all
that a man who has left his impress
upon the characters of 600 men who
went forth to fight the battles OF
life stronger and better men for
having had their characters moulded
by contact with his rigid discipline
kind heart and faith in God. 1t is
not my purpose to pay formal tri-
butte to his virtues at this time.
That pleasant duty will be perform
ed by more eloquent tongues than
mine. But this demonstration here
tonight is joined in by the beardless
boys. the busy leaders ofcommercial
activity and by old men whose
whitened locks have been thinned by
: the ravages Of remorseless Time. yet
ali are proud to be called by the old
time name of Ferrells Boys, because
the sturdy old warrior who bore the
nape was largely instrumental in
making them what they are. Cow
errng period of 80 years, lacking a
few weeks, he taught many fathers
who sent their sons to sit in the same
seats they had occupied themselves
and to drink from the same fountain
of knowledge. Itisfitting that those
of you who have come from other
localities should be formally well
coined and to that end shall intro
duce Mr.. Geo. E. Gary"
Mr.. Gary's address was in his best
vein, clothed in faultless diction and
embellished with bright ideas. his
words of welcome were cordial. his
tributes we're graceful and his speech
closed with short poem written Tor
the occasion.
MIR. GARY'S SPEECH.