Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-31


 exercises were carried out.
 Formation of Procession. The formation of the procession was as follows:
 Platoon of Police.
 Marshal Col. Charles W. Gale. Aaides, Leonard Q. Smith, J. Henry
 Buddington. Otto F. Ernst
 Tubbs' Military Band. Fifth Co., c. A. C., c. N. G., Capt.
 William G. Tarbox. Third Co.,, c. A. C., c. N. G., Capt.
 George E. Church.
 Spanish War Veterans
 Sons of Veterans.
 Boy Scout Troops.
 Co. I, First Regt., Tierney Cadets. Sedgwfck Post, No. 1, c. A. R., in
 Automobiles.
 Court of Common Council.
 City and Town Officials.
 Citizens Corps.
 The police platoon comprised Capt Dennis J. Twomey, First Sergt. Allen c. Matthews, and Officers Thomas Brock, Henry Fenton, Timothy Dris- coll, Patrick Murphy, John Casey, Mi chael Carroll and Matthew Delaney.
 In the front line of the Boy Scouts were Scout Commissioner Benjamin M. Bruce, Scoutmaster H. J. Wyckof, As- sistant Scoutmaster Ray Gilmour, bugler; Assistant Scoutmaster Roswald Batty, drummer; Assistant Scoutmas- ter Allan Brown, ScoutmaSter Victor Davis and Assistant Scoutmaster Ar mitage. Troop was the honor troop and carried the colors, as Troop g failed to appear.
 The cadets appeared in natty uni- forms of blue and white blouses with blue ties. Their officers are as fol- lows: Captain, Thomas Connolly; first lieutenant, Raymond Fontaine; second lieutenant, Edward McVefgh; ser geants, Ernest Gagnon, Francis Pin eault, Raymond Fitzgerald, Thomas Aubrey and Philip OTBrien; corporals, Floyd Aubrey, Andrew Sullivan, John Furlong, Albert Clark, Jerome Shea, John Murphy, William Guinan, John l O'Neil; color sergeant, Lester Bel captain and first and second neuten- | ants carried swords loaned by Philip 1 Spelman.
 Commander Price Makes Opening Ad- dress.
 l The opening address was made by Commander Orrin M. Price. 1 The commanders address was as ] follows:
 To His Honor, the Mayor of the City 1 of Norwich, the Common Council i Selectmen and Other Officers of the City Government:
 As commander of Sedgwick Post, G A. R., and in behalf of my comrades welcome you to this, our public ser vice. Also you, the members of the Coast Artillery and Spanish War Vet. erans, who have offered your services as escort; also the Sons of Veterans and our noble Citizens Corps, and would also mention the Boy Scouts the Cadets, and all who this day pal honor to the patriotic dead. Thei memorable deeds will serve not onl! to make American citizenship in thest days more respectable, but also t maintain and perpetuate through al future generations, the Union and au thority of the United States of Ameri ca.
 Comrades and Friends: The duty o today is of impressive significance You have met here today to honor ou . dead and to deepen our reverence fo their worth, to encourage more gen erous charity for our comrades wh are sick or in distress and for tn } destitute wards of our Grand Army This is the national day of memoria the time when in mind and though . our glorious past is made to live agaiI It is the hour when a nation awake to the remembrance of deeds of he , roism performed in its defense; tn day when a loyal people, grateful fo service rendered their country, unit bO PcOI1 0CdO- A14ICA . ence of party, creed and sect are to day forgotten. North, south, east an . west, all over our broad land, our peo : pie with reverent hearts circle the sa l cred monuments where sleep ou country's dead On this Memorial da let us not forget that many eyes al 2 clouded with tears, that many live , are desolate because of the father ( brother, the husband or lover, wh . did not come back. Let us ming1e tender sympathy for the living wh mourn for the loved ones they ha1 lost. Let us recall to memory the me | who in time of danger made the E breasts a barricade between our couT ! try and it's foes. Let us recall the . tolls on the long weary marches, the | their fearful sacrifices in the prise e pens, their sublime heroism in u ' days of battle. May we join so rel T. erently in these exercises that whi W we call Memorial day may be to ol '- dead their day of coronation. a Prayer was offered by Chaplain
 F. Pendleton and a selection by u
 band followed. The Memorial Day o
 ders and the obituary record were thu z read by George Kampf. The Getty burg Address was given by Georl
 A. Keppler and the decorating of tl :" monument was in charge of Chapla
 Pendleton.
 at The Eternal Call of Patriotism. 2 The Memorial Day address W = made by Rev. Charles H. Ricketts, t lle pastor of Greeneville Congregation se church. Rev.. 4r Ricketts, addrei '. which was on The Eternal Call of F Ss triotism, was as follows: L In the simplest terms, patriotism ra the love of country; or. as Bisn ~ Berkeley expressed it, ''the passi {. that one has to serve his country" ii we study the records of human h
 tory we find that patriotism is an { iy passion, like the love of home a in kindred and of God Himself As m oy is an instinctive being, we disco that his great impulses. capacities 2