Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-05-31
GREAT FALLS PAYS TRIBUTE
TO S0LD|ER-SA|LoR DEAD
No Veterans Grave Sighted in Either Cemetery
When Flowers Are Strewn; Impressive
Ceremony at First Avenue Bridge.

patriotism that filled the Grand theater
lin the afternoon to hear closing pro
gram of the day. Invocation by The
Rev. L. L. Totten. pastor Of the FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN church. was followed the
singing of the Battle Cry of Free
dom" by nearly 100 Junior high school
pupils. under the direction of Miss
Gertrude Skinner. Charles Wegner.
lG. A. r., read General Logan's Order.
lLincoln's gettysburg Address was
read by Ted Peterson, high school stu
dent.
Musical Program
Musical numbers were given by Hill
dus Baldani, who sang the Sword OF
Bunker Hill" by the same group of
girls who sang in the morning at the
cemetery, and by eight young ladies',
pupils of Miss Louise Valverda Kelley.
They were Genevieve Van De Putte,
Kathleen O'Leary. Marie Hagner, Olga
Trina stitch. Gladys Heany. Tia Atkins,
Levora Pophal and Mary Seelinger.
Virginny." Other musical numbers
were under the direction of Mrs. AIDE
|laide Donovan. The theater program
closed with benediction by the Rev.
Totten and the singing OF the star
~Sapangled Banner" by the audience.
Before the program was concluded
Captain Cobb announced the prize win
ming schools which participated in the
flower contest. First prize of 50 went
to the Lowell school for the largest
quantity of flowers contributed; second
prize. 81 for the most artistically ar
ranged floral offering, went to the
Whittier school. The Hawthorne school
was awarded a prize of So for the
second largest quantity and the Nc
Kinley and Emerson school received
awards of $3.50 each for artistic dis
plays. The Longfellow and Franklin
schools were given honorable mention.
V. V. Lopez, pastor of the First Con-
Rev. Loper's Address
The address of the day by the Rev.
%gregational church, which dealt with
the significance and meaning of Mem
orial day, was the main feature of the
theater program. He said:
Ceremonies and rites in honor of
the dead are as old as time. AS far
back as we can reach into history,
we find primitive man mindful OF the
sacred heritage of the past. The Greeks
had impressive rites which they called
Zoai. The Romans honored their an
cestors in a festival which was called
Parentalia. These consisted of elaborate
ceremonies which lasted from February
10 to q. The raves were all decorated
with wreaths and flowers. The Druids
had their ceremony in commemoration
of the dead about the first of Novem-
Der, when they supposed that their
god, Saman, passed judgment On the
souls of those who had inhabited the
bodies of animals during the year for
their sins. The church has always had
its similar festivals in harmony with
its teachings.
First Memorial Day
"One flower of this movement which
has come down through the ages has
been the annual celebration in Amer
lea of Memorial day. The first evidence
of a bud was an editorial published in
the New York Tribune two years
after the close of the civil war. The
editorial simply stated. The women
of Columbus. Miss. have shown them
selves impartial in their offerings made
to the memory of the dead. They
strewed flowers alike on the graves of