Weekly journal-miner., 1915-06-02
VETERANS TURN OUT ID HONOR
 DEAD HEROES
STIRRING MEMORIAL ORA TON IS DELIVERED BY COUNTY ATTORNEY P. w. O'SULLIVAN.
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

impressive memorial exercises IT
 honor of the dead heroes of the Civi and Spanish-American wars were held at the Citizens cemetery yesterday by the c. A. R. Barrett Post No. } Sons of Veterans and the w. R. (.
 The members of the three organiza lions met at the c. A. R. headquarters at the K. of F. hall and accompanied by children from the Lincoln school who assisted in the exercises, took autos and rode out to the cemetery.
 The exercises were opened with the song, "Ncarer My God to Thee" by the school children under the direc- ton of Miss Mabel Barnard. Acting Commander A. J, Judd and Chaplain c. w. Read of the local post then read the ritual of the C. A. R.
 President Lincoln's Gettysburg ad- dress was recited by Miss Dorothy Day and County Attorney P. w. o. Sullivan gave an eloquent oration, ap- Dropriate to the occasion. Taps were sounded and the ceremonies closed with America" by the school chi1- drcn.
 After the ceremonies the graves were strewn with flowers by the w. R. C. assisted by the c. A. R. mem 6crs and Sons of Veterans. Among those of the c. A. R. Members pres cnt were A. J. Judd, Dr. w. E. Day, \. J. Doran, George w. Read, Geo. w. Taylor and w. H. Heiner.
 Other memorial exercises were held 1t the High school, each room having some appropriate exercises The High school pupils heard very in- tcresting address by E. S Clark.
 Sunday morning the w. R. C., c. A. R., and Sons of Veterans held their annual memorial services in the North Marina Street Methodist church. Pastor R. w. Raaf delivered the ser mon. a ..sl- -at
 Attorney O'Sullivan's speech was in part, as follows:
 Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic and Ladies and Gentle
 men:
 We are assembled here today in pursuance of an annual custom, to lay upon the graves of the dead heroes of the war of the rebellion, our frag- rant tokens of regard and affection and it has fallen to my lot to pro nouncc at this time the few and brief words that shall testify that the memory of our dead soldiers is still fresh and green, and their loving sac riice still unforgotten"
 As the poet said:
 "On famc's eternal camping ground
 their silent tents are spread,
 And glory guards with solemn
 round the bivouac of the dead"
 Fifty years ago this spring the armies of Lee and Johnson surren- dcred to Grant and Sherman. The brave men who wore the gray gave up the struggle and renewed their allegiance to the flag of the union. The boys in blue then stacked their arms and returned to the peaceful pursuits of domestic life. Through | the sublime courage and patriotism of the Union army the nation was held intact. the rebellion was crushed. and the old flag vindicated.
 When the stars and stripes was riddlcd by shot and shell as it float cd from Fort Sumter, the loyal men of the North. from Maine to Cali fornia. rushed to the defense of the country in response to Abraham Lin coln's call for volunteers. They came from farm and hrcsidc, and from city and village, and their motto was; "Thc Union now and forever, one and inscparablc." When the battle of Bull Run was fought and lost, President Lincoln issued a new call for 500000 voluntecrs,-and they came; they came from the Green |, mountains of old Vermont and the of New York; they came rom the wheat fields of Ohio and he corn fields of Illinois; they came rom the snow drifts of Minnesota ; md the wind-swept prairics of Kan ,as; they came from the pine forests of Wisconsin and Michigan and the placer fields of California; they came rom every loyal state of the Amcri- r an Union. From first to last over ',SO0,OOO men enlisted in the Federal q rmy in defense of the Union Those ,atriots fought and blcd at Shiloh and and Chickamauga and Stone river and Antictum and Man J ssas and Charlottesville and Cold } iarbor and Spottsylvania. Their U food made slippery the summer u clds of Gettysburg and crimsoncd u he December snows along the Rap hannock's shore" For four long ears they had to fight under almost fl