The Holbrook news., 1921-06-03
AMERICAN LEGION AID SERVICE MEN HOLD MEMORIAL
 SERVICES

ed for an hour in the Pastim, Theatre where a beautiful an, impressive Memorial Service wa held in honor of cur failel heroes.
 All seats except those reserv ed were filled when the orches tra opened the program witl overture to which a company o. veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and tht Great World War marched, in Included in the company were ; number of visiting soldiers iron Fort Apache.
 After the singing of the Ma tional Anthem Bishop o. C. Will hams of the Mormon church of fered the invocation. This was followed by a splenCid rendition of an anthem, Even Me-" by the Union Choir. the baritone solo part being taken by MT. H. Perry Carter. Mir. Carter also led the congregation in singing 'The Star Spangled Banner. " Nearer My God to Thee" and America" :"
 On the platform. besides the seats occupied by the singers and others who took part in the pro- gram, three chairs, draped in flags were reserved. each for a representative of the three late wars. One was occupied by Frederick Leopold, who was wounded while fighting in the Argonne Forest. For some req son, the chair which should have been occupied by a Spanish American War veteran remained vacant, but on the third was seated George L. Ulyard who followed '0Id Glory while ser syins ill the. 2ad C44iforaia Regi- ent--Holbrook's only Civil War Veteran, affectionateIy known to all as Uncle George.
 After the second overture by the orchestra it was announced that It would be necessary to make a change in the program as printed. for Uncle George" had been induced to sing a song of the Sixties. Then without orchestra or piano accompani- ment the lone Boy in Blue" brought smiles through tears as he sang in a clear tenor voice several stanzas of Hoist up the Flag" Uncle Georges singing was answered by a volley of ap- plause.
 The Memorial Address deliver ed by Rev. Frank R. Speck ot the Methodist Episcopal Church was given undivided attention.
 Rev. Speck took for his text the thirteenth verse of the ff- teenth chapter of St. John: For greater love hath no man than this, that man lay down hls life for his friends.
 The discourse might well be copied in full but we shall at tempt to give 1t only in part.
 His first words brought the audience into close sympathy with the spirit of the meeting. Words were inadequate, he sad. in dealing with so sacred 6 theme, that it was impossible to exaggerate the deeds and vir- tues of those who had summed up and perfected by one supreme act the highest virtues of men and citizens.
 He said. that he believed if the spirits of those men and wo- men who had laid thelr all on the altar of American ideals could speak. they would ask that rather than rehearse their deeds and virtues. we might spend the hour in thinking of the princi- ples for which they had made their sacrifice. He told how from the very inception of our nation, America has stood for freedom, justice and truth to all men and among all men. Because of these ideals, because America has always honored God, for these reasons and these alone. she has become Q great nation.
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