The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-06-09
FRATERNITY MEN PAY TRIBUTE
TO MEMORY OF DEPARTED
BROTHERS.
A GOOD CROWD ATTENDS
Program Rendered Suitable to DC.
casion-Judge Glenn's Address
Feature.

TOM OF long SIdHulHB met at OdkWOOu
Cemetery Sunday afternoon for the
purpose of paying the annual tribute
to their departed brothers. Many
citizens Joined in the tribute and
listened attentively, the men with
barred heads and the ladies with sor-
rowing hearts, to the splendid pro-
gram especially prepared for the oc-
casion. Among the features of the
short program we're the reading of
Crossing the Bar" by Miss Winnie
Simmerman, and the memorial adj
dress by Judge Glenn. Songs were
sung by a double quartette.
The graves of the following de-
ceased members were decorated with
fresh and fragrant flowers: w. A.
Gibson, James A. Smith, Jno. p.
Morton, w. H. Griffin, z. Wayne Grif-
fin, Oscar Midkiff, Sam X. Cox, and
c. NJ. Barnett. A tribute was paid
to the following buried elsewhere:
DR.. S. d. Taylor, Beaver Dam; J. p.
Mckinney, Rochester; E. ID. Guffey,
Morgantown; DR.. w. w. King, Hope
well; d. F. Gibbs, Rockport; Arch
Lewis, Red Hill, Daviess county; Will
Bonner, Macon, Ga.
The address of Judge Glenn fol-
lows:
"In the midst of the hurry and
hustle of our modern life it is peculi-
arly fitting and appropriate that We
pause and turn aside into the quiet
ways of life and give thought to
those near and dear to us by ties Of
love and friendship who have crossed
the dark waters of the river of death
and are now camping on the other
shore, tenting on the camp grounds
of Eternity. 1t is a sweet and prec-
ious custom, reading beyond history
into the dim dawn of legend and
song, to place upon the graves of our
dear dead the beautiful blossoms of
springtime as a token and testimony
that their memory blooms and bloss-
oms in our hearts as fresh and frag
rant and unsoiled as the day we laid
their bodies to rest. Founded and
grounded on this ancient custom or
rite which has a place in the hearts
of all the orders of Knights of Py-
thias has set apart one day in each
year to decorate the graves of those
of its members who have gone on be-
fore and the local lodge has set apart
today for that purpose.
standing abs we now are in this
silent city of the dead, l know of no
more solemn or sacred occasion. AS
we look around us upon the shafts of
marble and mounds of green, few
there are, if any, into whose vision
there does not come the dear, dead
faces of those bound to us by ties of
whose bodies lie beneath
these mounds Wondering back to the
earth from whence they came.
We all cherish an abiding hope
that some how, some time, in some
way, beyond our knowing, these bod
ies of our precious dead at the call of
God shall come from their dwelling
of earth clothed with such a radiant
that we shall know them
as we are known.
1t is feeling deep in our hearts
that there is something beneath
these mounds that is not all of the
earth but has the possibility Of life
that causes those who have relatives
and friends of these homes of the
departed dead to frequently go to
their graves and stand around them
in silent meditation and thought with
of the feeling that we
place flowers on he graves of our
family dead. The local lodge of the
X. of p. have assembled here today
to again strew flowers on the graves
of its dead workers and then by
our actions pray tribute or respect
to their memory.
In life they were bound together
and to us in fraternal bonds whose
purpose and object was in all good
endeavors to aid and help a brother
and in no way to be to him a stumb-
ling block and cause offense; to do
good in the world of men, to hold up
the arms of all who are battling for
the right and especially any of the
brotherhood, is the leading idea on
which the order is built.
Let us hope and believe those
who lie here have fulfilled their high
iestiny and that because of their liy-
ng among us the world is better and
brighter for some one.
over their faults, If any they had;
he grave has drawed curtains
If charity and their virtues in let
ers of living light in the hearts of
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