The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-05-31
TENDER TRIBUTE PAID.
TO SOLDIER DEAD
Business Suspended to Fittingly
Observe Decoration Day and
Remember Fallen Heroes.

Decoration Day, with It's tender
memories, was more solemnly and
generally observed by Emmett people
this year than ever before. Grim VS.
aged war, with its possible and prob
abe consequences, gave to the day a
greater significance and to the exer-
cises deeper solemnity. The weather
was perfect and large crowd parti-
cipated.
At 10 o'clock the service for the
sailors was performed at the bridge
over the Farmers Cooperative canal
and flowers cast upon the waters IN
memory of those who had died In the
marine service Then the procession,
headed by the band and followed by
the veterans of the Grand Army, the
Relief Corps, Boy Scouts and a COM
pany of bright faced girls and citizens
marched up Main street to the rail-
road crossing, where conveyances were
at hand to transport the crowd to the
cemetery.
In the G. A. R. burial plot mound
had been made and monument erect
ed in memory of the unknown dead
Here the exercises, in charge of Post
Commander George Gardner, were
held. George Zimmerman read in an
impressive maner Lincon's Gettysburg
speech and followed it with few
pertinent remarks. Chas. L. Gamage
read Gen. Logan's order at the insti-
tuition of the G. A. R.
A pretty and impressive feature
of the program was the simple SER
vices performed by a company of
young girls, dressed in white, in mem
-ory of the unknown dead. These girls
also assisted in strewing flowers on
the graves of those soldiers who rest
in the cemtery.
The address was delivered by Rev.
Stuart Mex Hunter, and it was a
splendid effort, filled with PATRIOTS
sentiment, and an earnest and elo-
quent appeal to respond to the coun- |
try's call for service that liberty may
not perish from the earth. He said |
in part:
We again gather to celebrate this |
day hallowed to the memory of the |
patriot dead. Never has the day been
observed under as grave conditions as
confront the Nation today. We do not
know how serious or how long this
war will last. When the first call
for troops in the Civil War was made,
it was thought three months would see
the end. But it lasted four bloody
years. Today we are assembled 10 do
honor to the bravery of those who hat
tied for the right as God gave them to
see it in that conflict. There is now
no distinction between the blue and
the grey; the same flag flies over all
and under its folds a united people
enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
The world never saw such wonder
nation. Into its strong fibre has been
fused the blood and Drawn of earth's
finest people Children of all lands
,ome to our shores and honor and love
he flag; they grow up loyal citizens,
wiling to lay down their lives If
necessary for the country of their
ldoption. i
The speaker eloquently told of how !;
his nation had been blessed with
,eace and prosperity for so years. He =
allied attention to the fate of those +,
Iations which had forgotten God. Man
must atone for his sins at the day of
Judgment, but nations must be punish
d in this world He predicted that :
america, fattening off the worlds
var and humanity's desperate need
7ill have to pay in blood to the utter r
1ost farthing. But when America is
ried by fire and her gold purified and
he dross burned away, God will use
er for punishment of wrong and the
Inmate triumph of the right. f
Who looks upon the flag today with 1
ut an exultant glow? Who has not
eace in his heart though war is with G
ut, because he knows we are entering p
pom a righteous conflict. Who but D
ready to answer his country's call o,
nd give his life if need be for the c,
.iumph of a righteous cause. The lc
,untry will soon call out certain ones u
nd greater honor that to be select
/ cannot come to man. What a thrill
vept through us when the first gun OF
as fired and we learned that its e,
,eeding shell had done its part C
sweep from the seas as black pir- W
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AS in '61, freedom, democracy and is
luality were at stake, so today the je
,ys march out again that the world he
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