The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-06-01
MEMORIAL
DAY FUTURE
Theme OF Address by Hughes
at Veterans Annual
Observance i
SUNDAY SERVICES
BY REV. ID. E. TROUT

Ideal Weather Conditions Prevailed
Exercises, Procession and Decora-
ticn Of Graves Carried Out Along
Usual Lines.
The Memorial day observances Sunday
and Monday were under weather condi-
tions ideal for the participants and those
who gathered to do honor to the veterans.
On Sunday morning the members of
Sedgwick post, G. \. r., attended the
service in the Universalist church and lis
tened TO strong sermon by the pastor
Rev Delmar +. Trout.
Mr. Trout spoke on the force Of per-
sonality as necessary to make concrete
the abstract principles of peace, love and
truth In war the soldier sacrifices com
I fort, health and often life in the interests
| of peace, and in times of peace the citizen
should work for the uplift of mankind.
| Abraham Lincoln, in knocking the shack
I les from the slaves, drove home the truth
! of the brotherhood of man. The ideal OF
the future must be the development of
national life into the broader field of the
international life, for ehe present. war
has shown Enthusiastically that all nations
are linked through national life one to
another.
In the afternoon at 1 o'clock a delega-
ton from the post went to West Dunn
lmerston, where exercises were held and
the graves of veterans decorated
4 large delegation went to West Brat
tleboro Monday morning for the memo
rial services in that village, and in the
iafternoon at , o'clock the annual exer-
discs were held in the Auditorium IN
(which was a large audience. The front
of the stage was banked so!idly with flow
ers, later used for the decoration Of the
graves. and on the stage were seated Rev.
Roy NJ Houghton, who offered PRAYER
Rev Nelson Kellogg, who invoked the di-
wine blessing at the monument on the
common; Rev. Delmar f. Trout who pro
nounced the benediction IN the Audito-
rium and later offered prayer and gave
the benediction at tla camatery; Col.
kittredge Haskins, who presided and read
Lincolns Gettysburg address; Abbott
Richmond, who sang Let Us Have Peace
, and The Flag that Never Fell; States
!, Attorney Q. b. Hughes. who delivered
! the address; Marshal Luke J. Ferritel
and his aids, Timothy W. Eason and Ans
itin IT, Ward and the members Of the
, First Regiment band.
The program opened with a patriotic
selection by the band after which Mr.
Houghton offered prayer. Col. Haslins
after reading the famous address of tbs
! Imartyred president said when Mr.
!, Everett had concluded his long address
President Lincoln stepped to HIM to con
graduate him and Mr.. Everett replied
: Mr. President the words you have just
Ispoken in two minutes will live in tn,
! hearts Of the American people long after
; -bC,, aIJraS. hoS
c Future of Memorial Day.
! Mr. Richmond sang and Mr. Hughe
, WAS introduced. He spoke Of the futur,
of Memorial day in Brattleboro. He re
ferred to the conflict now raging abroad
and the possibility of the United State
being drawn into it as giving to the ris
i ing generation a new meaning and fulle
realization of MEMORIAL day. He pointed
q out that with increasing years. falling
strength and diminishing numbers tn
veterans of the Civil war are no longe
I able to do much of the active work o
preparation for the observance of the da!
as in years gone BY. He asked if tn
;, : town as an organization and the citizen
J as individuals are doing what they shoult
= to perpetuate the memories of that ter
!, rible struggle for freedom and liberty.
Each year at the annual town meeting
: it is customary to pass lightly over th
article calling for an appropriation 70
. Memorial day, many not knowing thu
; amount of the appropriation. With ind
: viduals it IS much the same, for they re
gard the day as a holiday to be devotet
y to self pleasure. Brattleboro was one o
= the most important places in the state il
! the days of the Civil war. The principa
!, hospital was here and more than half o
the regiments organized in the state rem
dezvoused here and the town sent man,
It men to the front. He suggested that tn
Z, time has now come when some dehnit
g organization should be formed, the puT
5 pose of which should be to finance ant
: perform the heavy work of preparing 70
II the anniversary and to do all that tn
= members of the post are willing shout,
= be lifted from their shoulders.
I Parade to Cemetery.
r Mr. Richmond again sang and the bene
+ Idiction was pronounced by Rev. Mr.
Trout The audience stood and sang twt