Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-09-19
HUNDREDS ATTEND
LAST RITES FOR TWO
COMPANY c HEROES.
BUDDlES WHO DIED FOR OLD
GLORY WHILE FIGHTING IN
FRANCE ARE BURIED SAME
DAY WITH OWN kITH AND KIN
TO MOURN AT BlERS.

! hundreds OF OttaWans turned out
yesterday to Iay last tribute to
two heroic members of Company c,
l29th Infantry, whose remains had
been brought from the shel.torn bat
tlehelds of Frame for final burial in
the peaceful Ottawa cemeteries. II
was the first occasion upon which two
| overseas veterans had ever been
buried in a single day in Ottawa.
The funeral services for Corporal
Emmett Moran were held at l:3N
o'clock at St COLUMBIA Catholic
church. At 3 o'clock in the First
Baptist church funeral services for
Corporal Fred Zeller were held.
Both edfces we're decorated with
American flags and many handsome
floral pieces which had been sent by
admiring ottawa friends were ar
ranged around the fiag-draped caskets
where the bodies of the dead heroes
were resting and around the chancels
OF the edifices.
Churches Filled to Capacity.
The two churches were filled to
overfowing, and many friends who
were unable to find seats inside
grouped around the doors OF the edi
fees, waiting for the services to be
concluded The funeral corteges were
both very long and were headed by
members of Company c, the Amer.
can Legion and organizations to
which the dead heroes had belonged
during their residence in ottawa.
Full military honors were accorded
the dead soldiers at the cemeteries.
Frank Pool, Walter Lindemann, Will
liam Harden and William Clegg sery
ed as color bearers at both funeral.
Dean Maddens Tribute.
The Very Rev. Dean Thomas L.
Madden, rector Of st. COLUMBIA church,
oi1Ciated at the service of Corporal
Moran. During tha service ThomaN
b. Farrell and James O'Toole sang
Ave Maria" and Abide With Me
Dean Madden preached one Cf the
most beautiful and stirring patriotic
sermons ever delivered in Ottawa,
saying in part:
I'm 1914 the bloodiest war the world
has ever seen was inaugurated Sci
hshness and greed were at the bot
tom of it, One nation would make
itself master Of Europe. For many
years she had laid plans and trained
her sons in the arts of war She had
almost succeeded in her purpose. BY
1917 she had driven England and
France to the wall and had almost
entered Paris. There was Only one
hope-would the United States enter
the war? Would she save democracy
and liberty for the people of the
world? England pleaded. England,
who sixty years ago looked with ap-
prCval upon the rebellion OF our south
ern states; England who las years
ago would hold us as vassals and tax
us without representation, cries ou.
in despair like Peter upon the waves,
Save us or We perish.
April 6, 1917, we decided to enter
the terrible conflict. Young America
entered the army and navy as volun-
teers, and | want you to remember
that over 40 per cent Of the volun-
teers were Catholics although we
were only 16 per cent of the popula
ton.
'What can make man so good Il
ClllEeU dS tHe EBllSlOH WHICH Teaches
the oneness of truth and fidelity to his
country, to his marriage vows, to his
consciousness, and applies itself
every day to strengthen those forces
which preserve and purify society
and exalt the soul.
in April, 1917, out came the flag
we had furled so tenderly in 1868.
There it was, an inspiration to all the
world, the Star Spangled Banner,
There glttered upon it one and all
the stars that of yore lit it to glory,
the old flag. 1t rose without stain or
blemish from one hundred battle.
fields; it never knew disgrace. Now
it was carried to the new fields of
battle upon foreign shore.
Would the men who unfurled il
now and pledged to 1t answering
loyalty and devotion keep it from ever
touching the ground? Ask vimy
Rridge, st. Miheil's the Argonne
Woods. Proudly our young men
planted it upon the fields of France.
They told the enemy, like the noble
600 at Thermoeple, You shall not
pass