Seward daily gateway., 1923-08-11
MEMORIAL EXERCISES FOR LATE PRESIDENT DRAW LARGE CROWD
LARGE A. B. HALL CROWDED TO DOORS BY CITIZENS ANXIOUS
 TO PAY HOMAGE

yesterday were largely attended, the simple, appropriate service appealing to every citizen paying homage to the memory of our late President. The exercises were under the auspices of the American Legion and Civic com mittee and were as follows:
 1. Song: Nearer My God to Thee"
 By Audience
 2. Abide With Me" Quartet 8. Salutation; Post Commander of
 American Legion 4. Prayer Chaplain A. E. Fucker g. Eulogy Hon. L. V. Ray G. Lead Kindly Light" Quartet '. "The Star Spangled Banner"
 By Audience
 g. Taps Sgt. w. o. Perry
 Mayor L. V. Rays eulogy on the departed President was one of the best ever heard in Seward, at times reaching classical heights.
 It was in part as follows:
 Warren Harding came of hardy pio- neer stock He was born at Booming Grove, Morrow county, Ohio, Novem Der 2, 1865, a son of George T Hard ing, a country doctor. Like most coun- try boys, he went to country school between his morning and night chores He later attended college at Iberia, Ohio, and tried school teaching for a year, but having had the smell of print ers' ink, while sticking type for his college paper, the lure of the game drew him into the newspaper field.
 The Harding family in the meantime had moved to Marion, and it was here the young man obtained his first job on a newspaper and where his ambi- tion crystallized to become publish CT. This was realized at the age of Is, when he bid in the Marion Star at a Sheriff's sale. The paper was purchas- ed under heavy mortgage and friends of MT. Harding have often said that the struggles and hardships overcome by the president in making the paper a success had much to do in fashion ing his character and developing the broad patience and toleration which were his chief characteristics as the nations chief executive.
 Harding's ability as stump speak CT won him early party recognition. His first office was as state senator, to which he was elected at the age of 34. He served two terms and later was elected lieutenant governor. In 1910 he was a candidate for the governor ship of the state of Ohio, but was de- feated Four years later he was elected to the United States Senate, where he served six years. Much of this time he was a member of the important for eign relations committee. From this place he was elevated to the presi- dency in 1920.
 Following, a bit of unpublished his tory shows the kindness of the late president:
 Rear Admiral Grayson had been President Wilson's personal physician for eight years and knew Wilson's case better than any other physician could. When General Sawyer arrived as Harding's physician Admiral Gray sons assignment ended and he was subject to detail elsewhere. Without request or suggestion, Harding per sonally ordered the navy department to assign Admiral Grayson to duty in Washington so he might be available to attend Wilson in case of a recur- renee of the illness which attacked him during his term as president. When President Wilson reads this dis patch he will get his first knowledge of Harding's action.
 In the broader field of activity and responsibilities, as President, we found man well-equipped for the task before him.
 His gentle manner, his modest de meanor, his considerate treatment of those associated in office with him, his fidelity and his intellectual powers early aroused confidence and won the