Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-06-03
Homage To Memory
Of Fallen Heroes

Inc little green tent5 where tne
soldiers sleep, and the sunbeams
play and the women weep, are COW
cred with flowers today; and be-
tween the tents walk the weary few,
who were yo1ng and stalwart in
'sixty-two, when they went to the
war away"
Backs were trifle more bowed,
footsteps less elastic and heads a
shade whittier. this year as Memorial
Day rolled around again for the rem
mont of the old Grand Army of the
Republic to pay their debt of honor
to the departed comrades, yet the
spirit that led these men to fight for
their country's needs and give their
lives II needs be for this country is
as valiant as in the days of Ell,
when the gray haired men who gath
cred in the cemetery Friday to deco
rate the graves of sleeping comrades
marcIled out to conflict as spriehtly
as their grandsons have in the past
two years.
AS Memorial Day is ushered in
each year more graves are found to
be decorated, and fewer comrades
left to perform this touching act OF
memory, but the services this year
were recognized by a greater num-
Der of people and in a more fitting
manner than has been observed in
many years. Burnside Post, G. A.
r.. and Burnside Relief Corps ar
ranged program appropriate to the
occasion which was carried out in a
particularly creditablc manner.
Promptly at 9:30 o'clock the par
ticipants of the parade formed on
the Plaza Friday morning and took
up the line of march to the Ashland
cemetery where memorial ceremon-
les were observed. Headed hg the
Ashland band with j. P. Sayles as
marshal. the memorial parade con-
sisted of the National Guard, G. A.
r. Post, World war soldiers, Wom-
ems Relief Corps. Yreka High School
Cadets, Ashland Boy Scouts, Junior
Red Cross, and school children, A
large concourse of citizens on foot
and in automobiles alco accompanied
the parade to the cemetery and wit
messed the beautiful l'itualist services
there conducted by the Grand Army
Post and Women's Relief Corps. At
the close OF the latter firing squad
from the National Guard fired sa-
Lutte. while taps we're blown by Bug
Ter Henry B. Carter.
After the ritualistic ceremonies
we're completed at the plot in the
cemetery the members of the Wom-
ems Relief Corps decorated floral
column in honor of the soldiers and
sailors who have fallen elsewhere
and their graves cannot be remem-
bered by their comrades at home.
| The graves of those soldiers sleep
ing in the city Of the dead were
then decorated with the beautiful
flowers brought for that occasion,
after which the procession again
formed and marched to the armory
where special memorial services
were conducted by the officers of
Burnside Post. After q selection by
the band and proyer by Rev. G. F.
Koehler, Captain Thomas read Lin
tcoln's Gettysburg address, and spe.
cial music by q male quartette and
solos by Mrs. Julia Hockett were
pleasing features. The address OF
the day was given by Rev. Z. A. Ed
wards, who paid glowing tribute to
the boys in blue, whose valor of over
d half century ago had kept the
country undivided, and the boys in
khaki whose recent efforts had made
this country a world power.
A large assembly of citizens par
ticipated in the services Friday and
helped make the day a particularly
notable one.