Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1918-12-05
ELKS MEMORIAL SERVICE MOST
IMPRESSIVE EVENT MANY ATTEND
give Members Lost During Year, Two Of Whom Were in
Service--EuIogies Delivered by Members Who Knew
Them Best-Goverror Sanders Makes Address
E. r. Cassidy Presiding.

life Of the former well known Co
iumbia citizen.
]. A. Spekenhier gave the eulogy
on A. z. Jones, the only member OF
the Bogalusa lodge to die while in SER
vice in France. Mr.. Spekenhier said:
ssAnother gold star has been added
70 the service flagrOf Bogalusa, La,
ID. p. o. E. Lodge No. 1888.
"Life's light is lowered while death
strikes the hour.
'eWhile this eulogy is being given
all that is mortal Of Brother A. e..
Jones lies folded in the embrace Of
{ the sacred soil Of France. Our
hearts are bowed down in sorrow
over this sad and untimely end Of our
young brother, who left as perfect
specimen of physical manhood, but
we receive solace and comfort from
the fact that he died hero.
"At the first roll Of the war drums
and bugle call, Brother Jones ex-
pressed his determination to enlist in
the great worlds war, and he prompt
ly fulfilled his pledge.
''His presence in the lodge room
was like ray of southern sunshine,
and the sessions always were made
more lively and gay when he an
swered present at roll call. His I'M
failing good humor, deep appreciation
for the work Of the order and his
keen wit made him valuable men,
Der, and while his voice is forever
stilled, there is nothing that can take
/ from us the fond memories of him
which we shall cherish.
/ t'No man who is fit to live need
fear to die. To us, here, death is the
most terrible thing we know. But
when we have tasted its reality it will
mean to us birth, deliverance, new
creation of ourselves. It will be what
health is to sick man; what home is
to the exile; what the loved one given
back is to the bereaved. As we draw
near to it a solemn gladness should
fire our hearts. It is Gods great
morning lighting up the sky-our
fears are the terror Of children in the
dark. The night with its terrors, its
darkness, its feverish dreams, is pass
ing away and when we awake, it will
be into the sunlight Of God.
Brother A. z. Jones made the SUI
preme sacrifice"
G. G. Undertake, who delivered
the eulogy on A. T. Lewis, said in
part:
81 have been called upon to say
few words in memory of our late
brother, A. 7. Lewis, and, my friends,
while death comes as shock in any
form, it comes doubly so as in the
case of Brother Lewis, for its hand
was laid upon him in an instant. He
left his family and loved ones and
these, his fellows of this lodge, in per-
feet health and manhood, to be in
stantly killed in a railroad wreck
within few hours. He was born in
Johnsonville, S. c., on May IA, 1882,
and died on the morn Of August 3
Of this year year
Brother Lewis death was loss to
everyone; to his family, who lost a
dear and devoted husband and IA
Their; to this lodge, who lost true
and faithful member, and to this
country, who lost loyal and pa
triotic citizen. He has not lived in
vain, for through his living we have
learned an example we all can fol
low, for he died as he had lived, de-
voted to the ideals of Charity, JUS
tice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity"
Following the eulogies, Miss Al