The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-08-09
MARION n TODAY
RECEIVES HER
H0N0RED
Special Train Bears Body OF
Late President to Little
Ohio City I'd Rest
SERVICES ARE SIMPLE

Mrs. Harding DEGREES None ol
State Funeral Ceremony
Shall be Repeated
Marion, o., Aug. s.-Traveling
slowly through long lines Of
home folks the funeral train car.
rytns President Harding's body
arrived At blAfa68 at HISS >. m,
hours and - niratss ls4e.
Marion, o., Aug. 9.-Hlis home town
OF Marion awoke today eagerly await
ing the arrival Of the funeral tsain
bearing back to Ohio FOR Nkeenal re,t.
the body Of Warren e. HatAthk,
! Scarcely had the wheels Of the IN.
coming train ceased to turn before
the bells Of the churches of Marion
began tolling slowly for the city's
distinguished son-Home to rest for
ever with the friends and neiehbors
he loved best of. all.
Before the coffin was taken from
the train those who had accompanied
the body from Washington stepped
upon the station platform and got in
to waiting automobiles. At 1912
o'clock the funeral procession from
tne train reached the home of the
dead Presidents father, DR.. George
T. Harding Sr. and the body was re
verently carried into the house for
brief privacy before it was to lie
| In state. a'st
Mrs. Harding, still calm and com
posed. was one of the last to leav,.
the train. As the cortege had neare,;
Marion she had sat at the window ~
her compartment watching the silen,
crowds composed Of some she hac
known since girlhood and scenes sh,
and her husband had loved bette
than any they had seen of the re-
cent and ill-destined trip.
= s. Through Old Home
There was Mansfield, visited bv
mr.. Harding as a boy enjoying the
frequent trips ito the city," for
Manifold then was the largest place
IN this section Of the state. Durine
the campaign Of 1920 Mr.. Hardin
often motored to Mansfield in search
OF recreation on the golf links.
Then there was Caledonia whe,n
Warren Harding spent his boyhood
When he became President the proud
citizens Of Caledonia erected a laree
sign board beside the Erie railroad
tracks and painted thereon "Haro.
ing's boyhood home" Today the
sign was draped in mourning. The.
citizens Of Caledonia were proud
even in their grief for the boy VIII
had lived among them and had tough,
good fight.
Before reaching Caledonia tho
black draped train passed within ty,,.
miles of the old Harding homesteua
at Blooming Grove, purchased by M.
Harding last spring not, as was SAID.
to provide home for him on leavinc
the White House but to preserve thu
farm from those who might colonize
it. He decided it two months ago 10
two nephews.
(By the Associated Prsss)
Washington, Aug 0.-Laden viii,
all the honors the American peope
could bestow the nation today ga>
Warren G. Harding back to Ohio.
Yesterday while Republic, mourn
ed at his bier the great governmeht
OF which he was head performed fun.
eral ceremonies such as are reserved
for departed Presidents.
Tomorrow in the shaded quiet Of q
grassy slope Marion, Ohio, will en-
tomb citizen, the fifth son Of Ohio
brought home from the presidency
to rest.
For at the express command of his
heroic wife there will be in Marion
none Of the solemn and impressiye
display with which nations entomb
their chief magistrates. The rum
bling caisson which carried his cas-
ket over the route travelled by the
nations great dead in Washington
will be replaced by loving hands of
FELLOW townsmen. the cayalcade OF
troops which escorted the body of a
commander-in-chief will be replaced
by home folks doing their last duty
to a friend and neighbor.
The picture in the great vauIted
dome of the capitol where the others
OF the nations great dead look.
ed down upon the solemn ceremo onv
will give way to a simple scene in the
Marion cemetery which will commit
Warren Harding to the tomb like
other native sons before him.
Warren Harding left Washinston
forever last night and today he viii
be back among the home folks no
loved 90 we'll, to remain until Ju.,s,.
merit.
Same Train Carries Hin.
The same train which bore him
away from the capitol confident and
we'll few short weeks ago and then
returned him for short day Of eere-
nony. Q figure Of history. Departed
from Washington at 8 o'clock last
hight for the last part Of its cor
rowful journey. MI Nj.
Immediately sfterwards IL win be
dissembled and never run o Que
rain again.. q &.
TontRht auother train. hearing 4
president westward, will roll out of
The capitol: but Il will not f1ke Cal
,in Coolidge to represent at Marion
the government over which q nov Z.
CONTINUED on Pags Thrss)