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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-24
A Pretty Memorial
Day Custom

r the soldiers homes in Washing
"a ton and at Wilmington bands of
"a little girls clad in white accom-
pany the veterans to the burial
places, and as each grave is reached
a veteran stands at either side.
The child salutes, then kneels down
and lays bouquet upon the grave, the
men standing at salute meanwhile.
Rising, the little white clad girl again
salutes, turns, and all march away to
decorate the next grave.
This pleasing ceremony is also car
ried out at Battle Ground cemetery at
Washington, two miles north Of Sol
diers' home.
This plot, the smallest national bury
ing ground in the United States, covers
just one acre of ground, but each Me-
mortal day 1t is accorded as full and as
beautiful ceremonies as are held at
famous Arlington, across the river
This brave little eternal camping
ground contains the bodies of forty
soldiers Of the civil war, who fought
and died in what Is known as Early's
raid, the one conflict Of the civil war
taking place within the confines of the
District of Columbia
The Union soldiers who fell In this
conflict were inferred close to the bat
tlefield, where they now lie, the graves
ranged in a circle around natural
mound, in whose center the stars and
stripes fly from tall flagstaff. On the
lawn in front granite monument tells
the story of the conflict.
This Gods acre gains its chief inter-
est from the fact of its being the scene
Of the one battle of the civil war wit
messed by President Lincoln.
Lincoln had driven out with his
friend, DR.. Crawford, to Fort Stevens,
close by the scene Of action, to watch
the course of events. The strife was in.
progress, and he climbed the rampant
to look on.
His tall, spare figure was SO conspic-
uous an object for the enemy's bullets
that those about him begged him to de-
sceDd. He would not, seeming to feel
no fear and expressing sorrow for
those engaged In the struggle.
The danger to the president was seen
by his friends. and General Wright,
who was in command of the fort, went
up to him and said
Mr. President, know that you are
commander Of the armies Of the Unit
ed States, but l am in command here,
and as you are not safe where you are
standing and as | am responsible for
your personal safety. l order you to
come down"
"Mr. Lincoln looked at me-" said Gen
eral Wright in telling Of the incident
later, Smiled and then, more in con-
sideration of my earnestness than
from inclination, stepped down and
took position behind the parapet =
Boston Globe.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-24
Cross of Flowers For Memorial Day

In Larned Kan, beautiful cere-
mony takes place each Memorial day
in honor of the unknown dead who lie
In the military portion in the cemetery
of the town.
The remains of the men who lie here
were brought from the old battlefelds
of the Indian wars, and their deeds are
commemorated by great rough hewn
monument, which tells of their hero
ism Of pioneer days.
A wooden cross pierced full of holes
ON all four sides is erected in front of
the monument, and as the services pro-
coed those who take part In the cere
mony fill the holes with bouquets of
flowers till at the close a great floral
cross stands to tell of the prowess Of
those who sleep beneath it on the field
OF battle with earliest foes.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-24
Five Minutes
For Memories
: loon!
The last of the twelve strokes

A The last of the twelve strokes
of countless brazen clock
tongues was sucked into q 81
lence dead as that of the grave itself,
but yet vibrant with an emotion that
gripped the heart.
Humanity, en- masse, had become en-
tuned with the infinite
Countless thousands of men and wo-
men and their little ones stood with
barred heads; the elders, understand
ing, knowing full well the end to which
all paths lead, with eyes cast upon the
earth to which they must some day re-
turn; the children with faces fearless
ly upturned toward the great face of
the God who had given them beauti-
full day.
In cemetery, in public place, wher-
ever men and women of sensibility con-
gregsted, all thought of self became
merged in that of memory of the he
roic dead who gave of themselves that
On this day our country might be good
to live in. Here and there In the many
varied throngs stood figure conspicu-
Gus because of the plain blue garb it
wore. In itself humble, bowed with
the weight of years, with the suffering
of long ago,.it yet typifed the spirit of
the nation that leads men to dare and
do and die for what they conceive to
be the right. And eyes were dimmed
at the sight, and souls were made glad
that the Great Commander had spared
even a few of the mighty host that
once Jared boldly forth.
And the soft spring winds whispered
their appreciation, a murmured re-
QUEEN of the spirit which led so many
to give five minutes Of their lives on
Memorial day for memories-to the
playing of that sad, sorrowful, set to
those who have fought good fight
peace bringing memory game. And in
the resting places where veterans and
their friends of all races and creeds
and ages brought tribute of their love
and respect, the grasses, and even
weeds, seemed softly to re-echo the
benediction of the winds.
Even the meadow lark cilcling over
head, nature taught, hushed its futed
note. The redhird for the moment for
got its ancient choral rivalry and
gazed mute with bright, alert eyes
upon the unaccustomed throng.-Phil-
adelphia Presa
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-24
The Day OF Memories

!" lie captains aud the armies who,
q after long years of dreary cam
III paigning and bloody. stubborn
fighting, brought TO close the
civil war, have left US even more than
a reunited realm. The material effect
of what they did is shown in the fact
that the same flag dies from the great
lakes to the Rio Grande. and all the
people of the United States are richer
because they are one people and not
many, because they belong to one great
nation and not to contemplate knot
If struggling nationalities.
But besides this, besides the mate
rial results of the civil war;, we are all,
north ard south, intellectually richer for
Its memories. We are richer for each
grim campaign. for each hard fought
battle. We are the richer for valor dis
played alike by those who fought SO
valiantly for the right and by those
who no less valiantly fought for what
they deemed the right. We have in us
nobler capacities for what is great and
good because of the infinite woe and
suffering and because of the splendid
ultimate triumph Theodore Roose,
welt
Blessed is that country whose sol
diers fight for it and are willih.. to give
the best they have, the best that any
man has. theif own lives. to preserve
1t because they love it. Such an army
the United States has always com
manded in every crisis of her history
From the War of the Revolution to the
late civil war, the men followed that
flag in battle because they loved thai
flag and believed in what it represent
cd William Mckinley
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-24
Memorial Day Again

r I il Memorial day again. We bring
N our annual Offering to the graves
n of our honored dead. As we sad
~ strew our flowers and stand
In the camp of the fallen heroes our
hearts are mellowed with emotions of
praise and thanks. The practice Of
having one day set aside each year for
commemoration of the soldiers work
has become fixed The Both of May is
a legal holiday almost nationally OBJ
served. The day needs no proclama-
ton. 1t is unnecessary for these In au-
thcrity to urge its observance. Com
memoration Is a natural emotion, and
memorial exercises become personal
ceremonies,
We must be alive to one fact. In
short time these commemorative exer-
cises for the sleeping soldiers will not
be carried on by those who fought by
their sides. The impressive scene Of
the surviving veterans marching to
church on Memorial Sunday to listen
to a sermon which their own lives have
made real to the world and the more
impressive scene as the same scared
veterans carry their floral tributes to
deck the graves of their heroic brothers
who lie sleeping that the country may
live will soon exist only in our memo
ries. You and must aid the soldiers
son and widow in honoring the men
who generation ago faced death that
this government might not perish. 1t
is privilege that this sacred trust
comes TO our hands. We must prepare
ourselves for it. Though our hands are
unused to the instruments of war. we
must keep green the graves and the
memories of our heroes. - Wisconsin
Memorial Day Annual.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-24
Memorial Day at Gettysburg.

The ceremonies at the Gettysburg
cemetery are especially impressive. The
exercises Of the day center at the ros-
trum, which stands on the spot where
President Lincoln delivered his Gettys-
burg speech.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-24
IN EYOND a golden edge the Slides
II Are sapphire; drifted Grg0stes
Bear Aprips shoaoery peosgs
d1DQu

But leave-thelr rdtnboao tis,ts sr-
passed
on field and toold, the foioers of Moy;
Departing May; that In her arms
These infant blossoms of her chGrms,
The dearest gathers, and her last
FGreaoeH bestoioi,a0 comes to cast
Them ON the mound of memory
WITH martial step and roll OF drums
What spectral host Is this that comes
Betaoeen the gates that guard the de0dy
Haste they to seek the aoilli',g beds
impatient Is the 0ri2sled head
OF d0isied pilloaos Say not SOL
While yet their 1ointer pdsseth stolo
Here blooms perennial their spring,
And here the pledge Of hope they
And love-that dieth not, bcstoao.
An, let the banners come and 30
For old reDlc1n brunce; dip them Ioao
Above the deaf that ddred and died;
God bn0a0eM a0ho are justified.
About his acorE he naoVeth slo1o;
The roses fall, the roses bloso.
He gctU not hasten, tho aoe food
The earth aoith our impatient blood,
Nor that avail Of all zoe shed,
To paint one rose deeper red
Nor heeds the rose, " of the clay
Beneath the tint be bLle or gray;
Nor toue, aOhile human It's to err,
Shall be truths hard Interpreter.
Plant nothing over me that keeps
M heart apart from hin. that sleeps
As faithful In his mGrroao bed
As I In mine shall; aotth the dead
The dead are reconciIed-aaor zoe
Dare break their hGIlo1oed Gn1ity.
Plant then the myrtle-blue and 1oh1se
Its 0O1oer, as southern suns delight
To deep tts ttnt-or northern snotos
To bIGncb its color. Plant the rose
Both aohtte and red, and for the stars
The pertacinkle; fade the bars
OF separation; stripes as red
As the one blood their fathers shed.
Bring pc and bind the peace that saVes
In unity these sacred grGUes.
The dGgi Their sacred heritage,
Their childrera's children shall engage,
Their sponsors IN a mem baptism
For them to cherish. Let that chrisDs
on their dead Jro1os descend and bless
The ancient 5oad of fGitbfultess
With its reneae0l; so shall a0e
March o7larard to great destiny,
Nor one untos10rd memory stand
BetWeen as in The motherldnd.
John Harrison Mills II, Buffalo
Times
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-24

neutrality-suspicious. 'ticds the pale
moonlight
They looked as feAite as their brota-
erst
And so aH night marched TIE nations
deal.
With neger banner above them
spread,
Nor badge, nor motto Jpandishcd.
No nGrh-sGue the bare uncovered
heed
OF the silent bronze reUic%er,
With neuci an arch SAGE tic UGuIted
sig
With never a foieer SAGE those that lie
On the distant 0raUeS-for lore could
bug
No gift that aoas purer or truer.
So all night tong scept the strange
array,
So all night long till the morning gray
aodtched for one aoho had passed
With q reverent age and sconder,
TIL blue cap acdped In the lenOth'nin1
line,
And knea0 that one fcds kin of mine
Had come, and spake-and 1oi that
sign
Awakened me from my slumber.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-24

n In Washington's chiefest ave-
nue.
Tsoo hundred thousand men II, blue,
/ think they said soas the number
III seemed to hear their trdmpltn0
feet,
The bu0le blast and the drums quick
beat,
Tho csdtter of hoofs in the stony street.
FAe cheers OF people Uho came to
greet,
AVID the thousand details that to re-
peat
Would only my verse cucumber
Tiu / fell in a reUerie, sad and s1oeet,
And then to a ftful Stumber.
When, 10! In a piston / seemed to stand
In the lonely capitol. On each hand
IGr stretched the porticO, dim and
grand,
rs columns ranged like martial band
Of sheeted specters, aohoDa some COM
Had called to q last reUieloing.
Ard the streets of the city aoere White
and bare;
10 football echoed across the square,
But on. of the misty midnight air
heard i'm the distance q trumpet
bIdre
And the wandering night a0i1rds seemed
to bear
The sound of q far tGttooing.
Fhea, I held my breath aoith fecr and
dread,
For into the square, aoith a bragen
tread,
There rode figure tohose stately head
Overlooked the reUieao that morning
That pever boaoed from Its firm set seat
When the liviug column passed its feet,
Yet noao rode steadily up the street
TO the phantom bugle's aoarniag:
RfH 1t reached the Capitol square and
toheeled,
And there IN the moonlight stood re-
A 4ceU knoaom form that IN state and
field
Had led our patriot sires,
Whose face aoas turned to the sleeping
camp,
AjGr through the rtUer's fog and damp,
That shoioed no flicker, nor tOG,,ia,g
lamp,
Nor aoasted biUouac fires.
And saao a phantom army come,
With never a sound of fife or drum,
But keeping time to a thro6bing hum
OF acditing and lamentdti0n
The nGrtyred heroes Of MalUerD Hill.
OF Gettysburg and Charlottesville,
The men aohose aoGsted figures fill
The patriot grdUes of the nation.
And there came the nGn,eless dead
the men
Who persisted in feUer saodDtp and fen,
The sloi0ly starred of the prison pen
And, marching beside the others,
Came the dusky martyrs of PilIOto's
fight,
With limbs enfranchised and bearing
bright
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
WAR TAX EFFECTIVE
 BEINNING THIS MORNING

The new war tax started today, and from now until the end of the war the poor consumer will be compell- ed to dig up for all he eats, drinks, wears and reads. The new regulation requiring three cents postage also went into effect. Just what. the peo- pie have to pay and whom they will pay it to. is a mystery. as the govern ment beyond stating the fact that taxes have been levied have issued no instructions to any one. It Is ex- pected that within few days the tangle will be strengthened out and the wheels of the government libeE- ally greased with Alaska simoleons.
 George Hermann is in town from the Granby today.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
SEATTLE BARBER.
 KILLED BY R0bBER
Bold Highwayman Enters Lodging
 Refuses to Deliyer

SEATTLE, Nov. IA masked robber shot and dangerously wound ed J. T. Evans, a Seattle barber. last night, when the latter refused to turn over his money to the highway man. The robbery was one of the bold est yet recorded, as the highwayman entered the victims rooms at TIP First Avenue, and shot and robbed Evans with a house full of roOmers all around him, who came to his res cue just as the thief disappeared down the stairway.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
SEATTLE SCRAMB[ES
 FOR CAMPS TRADE
Threat of Gen. Greene to Withdraw Patronage Causes Mad Rush to
 Clean Up City

SEATTLE, Nov. 1.-The munich pal authorities, under the lash of pub lie opinion over the threat of General Greene that he would not allow the soldiers from Camp Greene to visit the city so long as vice was permitted a free hand, are engaging in a mad scramble to clean Vp the city. Pros titutes and their hangers-on are be- ing railroaded as fast as the police can bring them in.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
MiRIPOSA SAILS WITH
 CARGO RAILWAY SUPPLIES

SEATTLE, Nov. 1.-The steamship Mariposa sailed at c this morning for Anchorage with cargo for the gov ernment railway at that place. in cluding 200 tons of Panama railroad equipment. Her passengers for Val deg are Mrs. 4. C. Cole, Mrs. Charles Sanborne. G .Esterly. Mrs. J. II. Thompson. For Ellamar, F.. E. Loom is, E.. NJ. McKew, Edward Jean. Guy l.. Banta.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
GUNNERS SEND
 SUB 10 BOTTOM Sailors on steamer Lewis Luckenbach Sink Submarine and are in
 Turn TOrpedOed

ATLANTIC PORT, Nov. 1.-Three hours before the Amarican steamship. Lewis Luckenbach. was togpedoed and sent to the bottom, the naval gunners aboard the ship sent shot squarely into the periscope of 2 German sub marine which arose directly in, her path, sending the U-boat to the bot tom. An officer of the Luckenbach arriving here today is responsible for the story.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01

ty years of close association with its people. which association has carried much affeetionate sentiment on my part, 1 wish to say, in no spirit Of malice or resentment, that the Board of Road Commissioners and myself. personally have. unfortunately. not all ways received the united support that should have been given us in this work, in order to have produced the maximum of benefit to the Territory; largely on account of ,wilful misrepre- sentation, and lack of understand ing, on the part of many people, of the difficulties that confronted the Board in the matter of obtaining funds, as well as of the cost of con- struction and maintenance of roads in Alaska.
 The Board needs no defense of it's work. speak with no egotism. but ra- ther with an intimate knowledge and understanding of facts, when | say that the result obtained for the money expended so far are of char actr to challenge any analysis of com parison. and do credit to the energy and faithfulness of the superintend- ents. assistants. and employees of the Board in the field, in various parts of the Territory.
 In case should have the good for tune to return to Alaska I shall do so with eager pleasure, but in the case l do not shall hope to see this impor- tant work, now but fairly begun, go forward, and I shall not fail to give encouragement and support to it OF every occasion that may arise where I can do so.
 w. P. RICHARDSON.
 President of the Board.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01

 BEING RUSHED Chairman Hurley "f Shipping Board Announces Million Tons Ready
 by March First

WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 1.- Chairman Hurley of the Shipping Board, announced today that the Am erican shipyards would have million tons of shipping completed by March first, of the coming year He stated in 1918. This will give the United States the greatest tonnage of any nation in the world
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
HERT[|NG WILL
 ACCEPT OFFICE
Newly Appointed German Official Ne gotiating with Reithstag With
 Probability of Acceptance

BERLIN, Nov. It is officially announced here that Chancellor vOn 'Iertling. who has recently been ten dered the premiership by the kaiser, d view to accepting the appointment.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
PHONE. OPERATORS
 60 ON STRIKE
Bell Telephone System All Over State of Washington Tied Up by
 Striking Operatives

SEATTLE. Nov. IA state wide strike was called by the Telephone operatives and linemen in this state last night. the unions demanding shorter day and more pay. The Elec- trical Workers are also out on strike. Mediator Reed, who is in Frisco. at tempted to postpone the strike by ap- pealing to the patriotism of the oper- ators. but without avail.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
OLD PARTIES
 ARE AMAZED
strength of Socialist Party has In- creased Alarlningly in New
 York Politics

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-The leaders in the Democratic. Republican and Fusion parties are greatly alarmed at the unexpected strength being dey- eloped by Hillquit. the socialist can didate for mayor. Socialism has been growing at an alarming rate turnout the east and 1t is feared that New York may yet see mayor of that faith.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
ALL RESTRICTIONS
 WAIVED FOR ITALY
terial Crisis Requires

WASHINGTON. D. S., Nov. 1.- All export restrictions have been waived in forwarding supplies to It. ally for the purpose of checking tho German Austro invasion. The Italian government will be permitted to take what materials it needs most to the limit of it's tonnag"
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
BREAKS ARM
 BY FALL FROM CRADLE

Tuesday noon the two-year-old soh of Mir. and Mrs. w. Hiking had the misfortune to break it's arm. by fall ing out of it's crib. Dr. Silverman was called and reduced the fracture and the young patient is doing as we'll as could be expected under the circum- stances.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
GERMANS
 |NC|TE STRIKES
my to Investigate Alleged Plot to Cripple Republic

BUENOS AIRES. Nov. 1.-The gil are now believed to be at the bot tom of the numerous strikes which are crippling the industries of the re- public The government is mobilizing its troops in anticipation of further trouble.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
SQUIRREL V|liHiSKEi Vi is K|Ei :,
 GIVEN ID NATION
Sixteen Hundred Quarts of Bootleg gers Delight Turned into Nation-
 al Council of Defense

SEATTLE, Nov. 1.- Sixteen hun dred quarts of bootleg liquor, were turned over to. tho National Council of defense by the city and county of- ficials here today It will be saved for whatever doubtful medicinal purpose it possesses.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
TEUTONS TAKE
 MANY PRISONERS
Men one Thousand Guns Taken From Retreating Italians

BERLIN, Nov. 1.-The war office has announced that since the German drive started in the plains of the Tag liamento 12O.OOO men and 1000 guns have been captured, as we'll as an en- ormous quantity of supplies of ev- cry kind.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
AMBASSADOR MORRIS
 PREsENTsk CREDENTIALS

TOKYO. Nov.4-zAmbassadar Nor ris. who arrived here Saturday. pres ented his credentials. and was later received by the Erperor and cabinet
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
SOLDIER IS SHOT
 RESISTING ARREST

CHARLOTTE, N. C., Nov. L. Frederick von Bethoven, a private in the Oregon national guard. was shot by a military guard when he broke away from the military police as they were attempting to arrest him on a business street today. Won Bethoven's condition Is serious.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
v ALL PHONES IN OREGON
 ARE SILENT TODAY

PORTLAND. ,Qss.., Nov. 1.-All phpnaa in the stats o8 Oregon are si- .ent today the operators having gone out on the strike which reaches from the Canadian line to the Mexican bor- der.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01

Joe Spenard writes that he and his wife arrived at Earlier, California, and are enjoying the sunshine very much. He states that business is rush. ing in his section of the state and that everyone is working at good wages. ..........-....
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
GERMAN PLOT SUSPECTED
 IN BALTIMORE FIRE

BALTIMORE, Nov. IA German saloonkeeper and an Italian laborer were arrested by federal authorities on suspicion of causing the recent fire here.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01

Attempt to Outflank Army
 ROME, Nov. 1.-One of the leu ton armies is endeavoring to break thru the Italian defense in the Car nic Alps in An attempt to outfiank the Tagliamepto line.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01

Guy Banta. of Ellamar. is a re- turning passenger on the steamer MaripOsa which sailed from Seattle today.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
wages.
Ketchikan Fish Prices

KBTCHIKAN, Nov. 1.-Ketchikan prices at noon. October thirty first: 'halibnt thirteen and, one-half cents; sable fish three cents: red rock fish .ons and one-half cents.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01

Corp. Rowbottom left Tonsina south this morning with his famous dog team.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-11-01
NOTICE! NOTICE.

On and after November first the admission will be raised to thirty cents to cover the war tax recently levied. Saturday shows will be dis continued.
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