The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-31

accompanied by the speakers and Of
ficers and many old soldiers. Autos
were provided for those who were too
feeble to walk
Program at the bridge:
My Country, IT'S of Thee.
Second Regiment band
''The Unknown Dead. H. S. Halleck
Ritualistic service.
Commander. Capt. William Peterson
Officer of the day. C. w. Allen
Nearer. My God to Thee" Assembly
Taps.
Salute Battery A
AT Topeka Cemetery.
At the Topeka cemetery twenty-five
little girls dressed in white, decorated
the graves of the soldiers at the plot
following the ritualiStic service. The
remainder of the graves were deco
rated by the Boy Scouts under the di-
rections of the Sons of Veterans.
The program at Topeka cemetery:
Selection. old Abe camp drum corps
Salutatlon Commander
ffdyer .Cnaplalll
.4ara ''''..'. - w 2G Gs,iitI,
Cover Them over With Beautiful
Flowers Quartet
The Unknown Dead. Hugh T: Fisher
Benedlct1on --.-..- u H. Fazel
Taps Herman COffman
Salute Battery
Decoration of graves.
At Mount Auburn.
The ceremonies at Mount Auburn
1efnefeey aS lVSo wiIc CLOCK were COM nm
mander of Old Abe camp No. 16, was
master of ceremonies. The program:
Music, Star Spangled Banner.
.Jackson's 23d Regiment band
Invocation Rev. ]. K. Miller, Tope-
ka Post, No. II CT. A. r.
Singing America Audience
Address. F. NJ. Kimball, Lincoln
Post No. l G. A r;
the Ocean," Jackson's Military band
Patriotic Address Mrs. Julia Gordon
Rock of Ages Variations -.
Misses Hazelle Wells, Edna McCar-
ty, H. A Gungk, L. s Young.
Cover Them over With Beautiful
Flowers :. .Woman's Relief Corps
Benediction Rev. Geo. D. Olden
Taps. David Williams, Boy Scouts,
sas National Guards.
Decoration of soldiers and sailors
graves. Delegation of boy scouts.
Memorial Service.
The annual memorial service for
the veterans was held Sunday morn
ing at the First Methodist church.
With the G.. A R. members, the Wom-
ans Relief Corps, the Sons of Veterans
and the Sons of Veterans auxiliary
marched to the church prior to 1 l
o'clock to attend the exercises. DR..
Benjamin Young preached from the
text: "Oh God, the Lord the Strength
of My Salvation Thou Hast Covered
My Head in the Day of Battle"
1--WE look with sorrow upon your
depleted ranks. The gray hairs, the
furrowed faces and the hating step
remind us of the flight of time. When
the Grand Army has been mustered
out the nation will be infinitely poor
err" said DIR. Young in the course of
his address.
Members of the Grand Army
many of your comrades sleep beneath
the sod of distant battlefields. Some
have been tenderly relaid in national
cemeteries where the soil has been
baptized in blood and hallowed with
many prayers. Others rest, we know
not where. Innumerable graves have
been marked unknown but in the
sight of God it is blessed to remem-
Der that there are none such. You
will go out tomorrow as others all
over the land to Strew the graves of
comrades with flower and evergreen
and as you go you will not forget to
leave the flower upon the billowy
mounds of the men you fought
against. God has done His work and
He is still working among the hearts
of men in the development of ma
tons"
Appropriate memorial sermons were
preached by many of the Topeka pas
tors.