The Cordova daily times., 1919-03-24
TRIBUTE PAID
TO MEMORY OF
CORD0VAB0YS
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song, "My Country IT'S of Thee; ad-
dress, Charles J. Goodall; solo, "Reve-
lation," Mrs. T. N. Hubert; benedic-
ton; National Hymn and Simple Con-
fession, orchestra
The address made by Mr.. Goodall
was as follows:
eve have met here this afternoon
hoping to find some means, In mes
ure at least, to express our admira-
ton and respect for the three brothers
and friends, in whose honor we have
three golden stars on our honor roll,
and who gave up their lives in order
that liberty might not perish from the
earth. l gladly accept the duty as
signed to me to say word in their
honor, though realize how far must
fail in expressing all that our hearts
feel at this time. But no matter how
poor my efforts may be they cannot
detract from the admiration, the love,
affection and esteem that flows to
their memory from all Of us who knew
them well and admired their courage
and patriotic spirit. When we, the
called upon to put aside our ordinary
affairs and daily occupation to defend
from q NJ
ruthless enemy who threatened the
destruction of all civilized institutions
in an attempt to enslave the whole
world, we looked to the young men
to prepare and meet the enemy in
battle on land as we'll as on sea, and
it may be said to the glory of Alaska
that the young men of this far north
did not hesitate. These loyal sons of
our country, from our town, from our
home, from our lodge, and from
among our friends, were among the
very first to answer the call, and in
this connection may l not say even at
time like this, when our hearts are
heavy and sad because of the great
loss we have sustained in the ranks
of our soldier boys, that yet we are
mindful of feeling of gratitude and
gladness because of the soldiers re-
turned. I see many of them here this
afternoon and we are glad to have you
back with us. We honor you. You
have done your duty fully And, like
our heroes that FELL were ever ready
with the same courage, and in the
same spirit that made possible a re-
of promise fulfilled repre-
scented in the stainless beauty bf our
glorious flag
We regret to say that we have
merely the briefest detail as to just
how these boys met their deaths. All
we know is Billy Jones, while raiding
on troop train somewhere in France
met with some accident and died a
few hours later. James Bennett also
died while in the service: He was at
some military camp in France. John
ME Jones was more fortunate, if may
sc speak, in that he lived to actually
face the enemy on the field Of battle
and died gloriously for the cause Of
liberty. France, too. was grateful to
him and recognized him as valiant
soldier and pinned on his breast the
Croix de Guerre, the French war cross.
1t is the highest honor that that
illustrious republic can bestow on a
soldier. As you know the Jones
brothers spent the greater portion OF
their time living with their parents at
Mile SO. working for the Copper River
Railway company, but came to Cor
dova frequently. and It was my pleas
ant privilege to impart to them the
first lessons and fundamental prin-
ciples OF our great brotherhood, the
Knights Of Pythias. James Bennett