The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-07

color bearer of the association ad"
yanced to the flag staff, and while the
band played The Star-Spangled Ban
ner and the people stood with barred
heads, the flag was drawn up to the
top-staff, and so remained until sum
SET
The women now advanced and dec"
GRATED the graves. Then a cornettist
sounded taps, the parade formed and
marched back to the meeting place.
where another concert was given by
the band, after which everyone dis
persed to their tents for dinner.
Community Program
I In the afternoon the people assem-
bled in sheltered spot at the edge
of the timber, where an organ and song
! books had been provided, and a COM
munity program was carried out. inc
principal address of the day was CIV
en- by DR.. Gilmore. Speeches were
made by the old scouts and by num-
Der of the younger men, leaders in
their community. Exclamation was
made of the war situation and mill
tary registration. Elaboration to
loyalty was the chief note in the
speeches made by the old scouts.
One of the old men said that when
he thinks about the war he wishes
that he were young once more that he
might again serve his country. He
said he could not imagine what the
war of these times would be like, but
he would like tooknQWmapd she was
sure that some great gOoawt0 the
world will come from it all. When he
enlisted he did so because he thought
it was his duty to serve in the United
States army against the tribes. which
were the enemies of his people and
also the enemies Of the United States.
He did not realize then as he does
now when he looks back at those times
and sees results from that service.
He sees now that his people and the
white people and the people Of the
tribes that were hostile are one peo-
pie, one nation and one in interests,
working together in peace. Great
good has come that he never antici-
pated, more than he ever expected, out
of the service which he and his COM
rades did in those days, and he be-
lieves that some great good will come
to the world from what the United
States and the friends Of the United
States are doing now.
Giving of Gifts
Community singing was interspersed
with the speeches, and then was serv-
ed feast, to which all sat down to-
gether. Then there was giving OF
gifts. People gave gifts in memory
Of dead relatives and in their names.
These gifts sometimes were to indi-
viduals; =. again to organizations OF
which the dead had been members.
After gift-giving the people sang in
English, God be With You till We
Meet Again." dispersed to their tents.
packed up, broke camp, and soon, all
but few who lived too far away to
reach home that night were trailing
away over the prairies on which they
had hunted the buffalo and the hostile
Sioux but generation ago, but which
now TEEN with prosperous farms and
great herds of fine cattle. t,':'
= The northwest owes a great debt
of gratitude to the Fort Berthold In
dams. The Arikaras, Mandans and
Hidatsas, always peace-loving, thrifty.
tillers of the soil and good husband
men, were ever hospitable to the new
conner. Preyed upon by the savage
Sioux and driven from village after
village on the banks of the Missouri.
they doubtless held kindred feeling
for the wanderer and the oppressed.
It was with these kindly Indians that
Lewis and Clark, more than century
ago, found haven throughout the long
cold winter, and it was their provisions
and the Crow-woman guide, Sakaka-
wea, found in their camp that enabled
the explorers to again turn their faces
westward in the spring and to press
on until they had added to Americas
domain great northwest kingdom.