Connecticut western news., 1921-11-17
NORFOLK'S DEDICATION
 OF SOLDIERS MEMORIAL.
1,5OO People Attend Most Impressive
 Ceremony

On Friday of last week, ArmlStlce Day, the town of Norfolk, with a most impressive ceremony, dedicated memorial to it's soldiers who served in the World War. Stirring addresses by Governor Lake, former governor Holcomb, Captain Lockhart and Hon. H. H. Bridgman were made A number of ex-service men from this town participated, while a still larger number were in attendance.
 The days program began with a street parade, starting at 1O:3O o'clock from the town hall to Me morial Green. The procession halted en route while Maurice F. Butcher, an ex-service man in overseas uni form put a wreath at the foot of the Civil War Monument.
 Order of March
 Captain E. Chipman Harrington, who was adjutant of the old First Regiment, c. N. G., as marshal, head ed the parade, followed by the Gov ernor's Foot Guard Band of Hart ford. Governor Lake, Adjutant General George M. Cole, State Police Commissioner Robbins B. Stoeckel and Captain Lockhart on foot and ex-Governor Marcus H. Holcomb, his executive secretary, Major John Buckley and State Police Commissioner Harvey P. Bissell rode in Commissioner BisselPs sedan. Followed ex-service men, town off cials and guests. Roberts-Bouchct Post, No. 81 of Norfolk; Garvin- O'Connell Post, No. 49, of Canaan and Tuttle-Burns Post, No. 43, of the American Legion and Seicheprey Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, If Winsted, were presented among more than 100 ex-service men in line
 There was community singing If America" by the Norfolk Glee Club. the Governors Foot Guard Band and the audience, upon arrival at Memo rial Green. Rev. William B. John son, pastor of the Congregational Church, gave the invocation. He presented First Selectman August P. Curtis as the prime mover in the plan to erect the memorial and handed him the key to the bell. SelectmGn Curtis took charge of the program.
 Three bronze tablets, one on each of the three sides of the monument were unveiled by Thomas F. Leahy, John E. Moore and Lester B. Rob- erts, ex-service men relatives of Norfolk men who died in the ser vice. Two of the tablets bear the towns honor roll. The third states the purpose of the memorial. It was an impressive spectacle as the three men, all eyes centered upon them in the intense quiet, carefully withdrew the flags over the tablets and filed back to the speakers stand to lay them over the railing.
 Dedication Address
 Hon. Henry H. Bridgman deliver ed the dedication address, as follows:
 "We meet today to dedicate this beautiful and unique monument to the memory of our soldiers in the treat World War. All offered them selves on their country's altar, and tight paid the supreme sacrifice.
 "This occasion comes most fitting ly on Armistice Day, the day that commentaries the ending of the great war
 "On such an occasion as this, one's mind instinctively goes back to that great dedication at Gettysburg dur ing the Civil War when President Lincoln made his immortal address.
 'T venture to quote one passage peculiarly suited to this place and occasion-In a larger sense we can not dedicate-we can not hallow this ground The brave men living and dead consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remem- Continued on page p