The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-12
ARMTSTICE DAY
OBSERVED HERE
MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD
AT HIGH SCHOOL AT
ELEVEN O'CLOCK.
FRIERSON TALKS
Day Was Generally Observed AS
Holiday In Columbus
Places OF Business
Closed.


exultant victory were beautifully
blended at the Armistice Day mem
orial service at the Stephen d. Lee
High School yesterday morning.
Armistice Fay dawned beautifully
a warm autumn sun shone resplend-
emily following a dismal and gloom
the day before, and nature seemed in
harmony with the sentiment of the
day, perpctuating as it does the dawn
of a new day in the world and the
close of one OF the mightiest conflicts
the wo.ld has ever known.
But only fair sized audience
gathered to pay homage and tribute
to the memory of the brave and
heroic American boys who lie yonder
in Flanders fields sleeping the long
long sleep of the dead,
Business in Columbus was suspend
ed for the day and classes were susp-
ended at the college in general OBJ
servance Of the occasion.
The memorial occasion was arrang-
ed by the Daughters Of the Amer
lean Revolution, and it is planned to
make it an annual event. The ex-
ercises were presided over by DR.. j..
w. Lipscomb with his usual grace
and ease. lie expressed the senti-
ment ard purpose Of the occasion in
a short address, and in introducing the
various numbers of the program
sounded the keynote Of the occasion,
He said that it was an occasion Of
rejoicing over victory as well as a
time set aside to pay tribute and
love Of a grateful people to the mem
ory of those who made the supreme
sacrifice
In the audience there were mem
bers of the families of the heroic
Lowndes county boys who lie under
the sod OF France and in this coun-
try.
The exercises opened with the sing
ing Of america" by the audience.
Tnen came the Introductory remarks
of the chairman and followed by a
solo, Dear Old Pal Of Nine" by Miss
Altee Holmes OF the college voice de-
partment
In a fervcnt and earnest prayer
Rev. J. II. Felts Of the First Methodist
church invoked divine blessing On the
occasion and prayed for the guidance
Of the Almighty in the nations pres
ent crisis and state of unrest,
Dr.. Lipscomb then read the roster
of the Lowndes county boys who gave
their life in the fight for freedom and
democracy The list follows:
Atwell Lincoln.
w. S. Mullins
Hayden Brooks.
William c. Colshorn.
Joseph J. House.
Nathaniel b. Thornton.
Llewellyn Brownlee.
Eli Ashmore.
Will Strauss.
Robert Lee Mobiles.
G. s. Keenum.
Greenwood Bailey.
f. G. Flippo, Jr.
Tom Golding
John Wheeler.
John Williford.
Jarvis Seals.
Frank Childs.
j. S. Peters.
George Barrow.
Sam Mullins.
After the reading Of the list Miss
Grace Wright sang Service Flag
Flying" ard this number was fol-
lowed by the main event Of rh pro-
gram, an address by the Hon. John
f. Frierson.
Mr.. Frierson reviewed the events
tha. led up to Americas entry in the
war, and told Of the ideals for which
the American government and the
American people had fought since
the birth Of the nation in the War Of
the Revolution. tie paid tribute to
the great leadrs in their time and
made beautiful reference to the her
itage that IS Americas S because of the
heroic deeds Of those who have fought
her battles in the past. He linked
the heroes Of the World War with
these Of the past, and declared that
the hope Of any nation depended on
the observance and proper regard
for is past history, and the preser-
vation Of that history accurate and
correct. He deplored the seeming
lack Of proper resard for the perpetu-