Norwich bulletin., 1917-05-31
WESTERLY HONORS HEROIC DEAD
Pays Tribute Also, Survivors of Two Wars-Parotic Ex ercses-Eloquent Address by Rev. Howard w. Benedict Chaplain of Connecticut House-Flowers Strewn on Waves, Memorial to Sailors.

So closely connected is Registration day to Memorial day, the observance of the day specially designated in re- spect to those who risked their lives for the preservation of the union, was
 of even more than the ordinary inter est heightened naturally by the fact that the fast disappearing of the men who composed the army that saved the union was noticeable in Westerly as elsewhere in every northern state where the veterans of the Civil war paraded.
 Stars and Stripes in Westerly We'd nesday and the marching body, With the vets in automobiles, was patriotic ally greeted all along the route. The line formed at 1.30 in Elm street, right resting on Broad, in the following or der:
 George E. Leonard, marshal. Colonel Everett F. Whipple, Major Arthur N Nash, aids.
 Westerly band, Charles O. Gavitt, leader.
 Company c, Third regiment, Con necticut Home guard, Captain Shelby BudEong post, No. IS. G. A. R., Amos P. Chapman, commander. Hancock post, No. s1, G. A. R., De-
 partment of Connecticut. Abel D. Bab-
 
 Robert Brucker camp, No. 6, U. $. W. ". Eugene H. Partelo, senior vice commander.
 Honorary color guard. a detail from Second company, Connecticut Coast artillery, Sergeant Grant Westerly volunteers in Naval Coast
 Defense reserves. H. L. smith ensign. @ Charles H. Ledward.
 Westerly troop, Boy Scouts, Charles Fowler, master.
 The procession moved over ttIs line of march: From Elm street to Grove avenue. to High street, to Broad street, to Pawcatuck river bridge, where a halt was made, the band playing dirge while members of Budlong and Hancock Relief corps placed flowers
 on the waters in memory of the sailors buried at sea The march was then continued to West Broad street, to
 Liberty street and to St. MichaePs cemetery, countermarchtng to Dixon square, thence to River Bend cemetery,
 where the band played Nearer. My God, to Thee, and America, the Memo
 rial burial service was conducted by Budlong post, with benediction by Rev.
 Frederick A. Macdonald and taps by
 bugles. In both cemeteries and in others in this vicinity potted plants
 were placed on the grave of each veter- an of the Civil and Spanish American wars by their surviving comrades. Exercises were held in the evening in the town hall. Abel P. Chapman, commander of Budlong post. presiding. A Boy Scout bugler sounded assembly,
 and the scripture reading was by Rev. Clayton A. Burdick, pastor of the Seventh day Baptist church. and the prayer by Rev. John c. Dutton, pastor of the Broad street Christian church. A quartette. Miss Frances Pierce, | Miss Abby Denison, Thomas James and William H. Browning, sang Low 1 in the Ground They're Resting and Joel Novogroskf recited Lncoln's Ad-
 dress at Gettysburg. Stephen A. Cong
 don then gave a necrology for the
 year. The quartette sang Rest, Peace fully Rest.
 The Call of the Hour was the sub iect of the address by Rev. Howard W Benedict. pastor of the Methodist church in Bloomfield and chaplain of the Connecticut house of representa-