The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1919-01-23
MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO
CARROLL ROWE, HERO
On Sunday Night This Community As
sembled For the Fourth Time to
Honor a Son KILLED
in Battle

Carroll Rowe, who volunteeded his
services to his country just prior to the
declaration of war against Germany,
and who was among the earlier Ameri-
can contingents to land in France and
check the Hun in his victorious and
relentless drive toward the capital of
| that fair and blood drenched land, was
fatally wounded in the Argonne on
| October Sth, last, and died the follow
ing day.
The fact that the command to which
Carroll Rowe belonged, the End En-
gineers, entered the initial American
drive with the Marines at Chateau
Thierry, June l, and that he was
wounded during the severe Argonne
fighting October s, leads one to con-
clude, without evidence to the contrary,
that the Second Engineers were engag-
| the intensive American drive than fin
ally broke the German line; and the
wonder is that the regiment was not
entirely obliterated
On last Sunday evening the people
of this town and vicinity packed the
Community church to honor this young
hero who will not come back.
The program arranged for this oc
casion was opened with "America, -
sung by the as~emblage. N. l.. Agrell
gave the invocation, and was followed
with an anthem, "Lead Kindly
Light" +" by the choir. The 'Assemb-
ly'' buglc call was given by Roy Car
gill, after which Attorney Pennell read
the community Honor Roll; then, at the
call fof "Taps,' the roll of the heroic
dead was read And these names are
emblazoned thereon: John Cecil Cox,
William Fl. Booth, Basil Yates and
Carroll Rowe.
superintendent G. J. Skinner of the
Nezperce public schools next read the
following poem, which he wrote and
dedicated to Carroll Rowe:
Tonight we meet--our eyes are filled
To mourn for him whose blood was
spilled
On Belgium soil across the sea,
Where battles ragged for liberty.
He went from us-a happy lad
In the youth of life-and ohl so gladl
Away from home, and away from us
To mingie his blood with the Belgian
dust.
To join the flag and all it means
To save the world from demons fiends.
He fought, and bled, just like his
mates,
Along with Cox, and Booth, and Yates;
And there he lies in moulding clay,
But his deeds will live to another day;
And the lilies will bloom above his
grave,
And the poppies blow, and the grasses
wave.
Ruined homes close by will stand
And guard him in that martyred land;
And a wooden cross to the stranger
The name Of lad who fought so well.
Yes, father and mother, your hearts
will yearn
For your soldier son, who will not
return;
But the spirit of him wings over the
OF cause that is won, for you and
for me.
So let us take cheer and do our part
well,
Since he did his midst cannon and shell.
For the mothers and babes of
wronged ones bless
The flag that he followed; they love
and caress,
For war is no more with its blood
curdling scene,
But freedom and peace and all that
they mean.
Then, following song by sextette,
addresses were delivered by Revs.
Claude Martin and Geo. H. Ellis, in
which Rev. Martin paid the following
fine and deserved tribute to American
"Carroll Rowe had that caliber of
manhood that makes America what she
IS today
"John r. Mott asked general why
t was that the American soldier could
ict so courageous the first time under
ire. 1T is very simple, said the gen.
sral 1T is because of the tradition
If American motherhood.
GIVE have brotherhood today be-
,ausc of the motherhood of yesterday.
"Carroll Rowe's sacrifice is not in
vain, because Christ still stands and
S more supreme because of this sacri-
pice.
Another song by the sextette was
followed by impressive addresses by
Miss Retta Martin and DR.. Mark Free
nan, and the ceremony was closed with
he song, "Abide With Me-" by the
.hoir.