The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1922-06-01
MEMORIAL DAY IS
DULY OBSERVED
Exercises in Armory Attended by
Hundreds; Rev. w. e. Dudley
Delivers Address.
GRAVES ARE DECORATED
Members of the G. A. r., Spanish War
Veterans and Legionaires Par
ticipate in Services.

ticipate in Services.
Memorial day was ushered in with
threatening skies and an unseasona-
bly, low temperature, but it takes more
than unfavorable weather to dampen
the patriotic enthusiasm Of the resi-
dents of Princeton and this vicinity on
Memorial day. When we can respond
as quickly and as generously as this
village always has when there has
been call for volunteers and can send
our men away to fight and if neces-
sary die for the land we love, we will
not soon forget the significance of
Memorial day. The hundreds of peo-
pie who assembled in the armory on
Tuesday afternoon simply responded
to the call that Memorial day has for
all patriotic American citizens. They
came to pay homage to our soldier
dead and to show their surviving COM
rades that the great service had not
been rendered for an unappreciative
people.
The little band of civil war veterans
that we still have with us met at the
Thomas H. Galley residence as has been
their custom for many years. Each
year brings some big gaps in their
ranks and the band which is gathering
on the other shore steadily increases.
The members of the Wallace T. Rines
post who participated in the exercises
Tuesday were Commander Christopher
Bridge, George Malkson, Frank Camp
bell, S. B. Heath, A. G. Howard, C. H.
Watts and John O. Beden. John
Panchot of Foreston, a mer Der
of the G.. A. R. who has been
in the custom Of meeting with the
Rines post, was present as was also
Dan Spaulding, one Of our Spanish
war veterans. Mrs. Daisie Mudgett
presented each veteran with bouton-
naire which had been furnished by the
Ladies' Relief association. The Amer
lean Legion auxiliary had also sent
flowers to the old soldiers, red peoples,
that were distributed by Mrs. Elmer
Chapman, president Of the ST. Cloud
auxiliary. The veterans were escorted
from the Galley residence to the arm
ory by group of legionaires and the
boys band.
| The auditorium of the armory was
beautifully decorated with flags, 'bunt-
ing, red peoples, columbine, and guam
titles of ferns. The platform was
banked with ferns and every radiator
converted into thing of beauty by a
blanket of ferns and punches of pop
pies AS large a room as the audi
torium is difficult to decorate effective
ly, but the members of the Civic Bet
terment club who did the greater part
Of the work achieved exceptionally
good results. They received able as
sistance from E. K. Evens.
When the audience commenced to
assemble for the exercises in the af-
ternoon benches were brought in for
extra seats. Before the program COM
menced all the seats were filled and
the room was packed almost to the
doors. 1t was one of the largest if
not the largest audience that ever as
sembled in the armory on Memorial
day.
The ex-service men, the majority of
whom were in uniform, and the vet
Grams of the civil war and Spanish
American war lent martial tone to
the assemblage.
The program opened with the sing
ing of America by the audience. Miss
Marguerite Snyder was pianist and
Mr.. Ames led the singing. Two selec-
tions by the band boys band, which
were most creditably rendered under
the direction of Charles Umbehocker,
followed. E. L. Mcmillan, who pre-
sided, pronounced the invocation. The
next musical number was a selection
by the high school girls, Memorial
day song which was most suitable for
the occasion. The girls sang sweetly
and made pretty picture in their
light, bright colored dresses behind
the bank Of ferns.
The chief feature of the program
was an address by Rev w. F.. Dudley
of Minneapolis whose, services had
been secured for the occasion by R..
P. Morton. Mr.. Dudley is an
Euglishman by birth but is now a
most patriotic American citizen. He
delivered a stirring address with
Americanization as the main theme of
his discourse. In 1910 Mr.. Dudley was
occupying pulpit in a village in the
province Of Manitoba. On Memorial
day he and number Of his Canadian
! friends motored to the nearest town
in the United States, village in North
Dakota, to see how the citizens of this
country observed Memorial day. Mr..
Dudley stated that he was so i'm
pressed with the patriotic spirit mani
tested by the people in that village
that he resolved to become an Ameri-
can citizen. He states he has never
had any cause to regret his action be-
cause he believes the American people