The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-05-31

memory.
Memorial day yesterday opened
with the assembling of the members
of the Grand Army of the Republic
and Daughters of Veterans at $3.50
in the morning. The Moscow city
band concert was given on Third and
Main streets and the city was virtu-
ally deserted in the visitation to the
graves of loved ones and the dedica-
ton ceremony of the GAR memorial
presented by the Daughters of Veter-
ans to the members of the GAR. J.
and by them dedicated in memory
of our departed comrades"
The services were beautiful in their
simplicity The flag of an indivisable
nation was slowly removed by Mrs. R.
P. Drury after the presentation adj
dress by Mrs. Nellie Hall, president
of the Daughters of Veterans, and the
soldier of 81 had begun his loving
vigil over the graves of his comrades.
Barton's Dedication Address
Post Commander r. p Drury ac-
cepted the statue for the GAR. and
a guard of honor was detailed from
the ranks of the living veterans.
Symbols of the navy and the army
were laid beside the monument while
the ceremonial of the Grand Army of
the Republic was effectively given.
Col r. H. Barton then delivered the
dedication address as follows:
Il am glad to be with you today
to assist in my feeble way in the uIl-
yelling of this monument erected to
the memory of our dead comrades who
have preceded us to the other shores
as we'll as to the remaining few who
must soon follow.
Forty-five years ago I buried
daughter, two years old, in this ceme-
terry. There was only one soldier
Of the civil war buried here at that
time Now, what mighty change.
Instead of one, there are one hundred
and eleven who here sleep the sleep
that knows no waking.
'sIn looking over this audience,
miss so many old-time familiar faces
who used to meet with US in our
Memorial services, reminding us that
we are not all here Time has thinned
our ranks-Langdon, Smith, Elyea,
Howard, Carter, Hoagland, Jameson,
McBane, Olson, Mix, Oylear, Carpen-
ter, Mathews, and many others, our
eyes seek you in vain in this little
broken band. You are gathered to
your fathers, and live only to your
country in her grateful remembrance,
and your bright example. You lived
long enough at least to know that
your work was we'll and nobly done,
and to enjoy the victory of the peace
that your valor won, and to receive
the plaudits of grateful people
before you should close your eyes
for ever on the scenes of this world. |
Heroic Deeds Endure
Our poor works may perish, but !
yours will endure. This monument /
may crumble away, the solid ground |
upon which it stands may sink to the
level of the sea, but your heroic deeds
will not be forgotten while this re-
public endures.
Veterans, you are the remnants of
many a hard-fought battle. You bring
with you marks of honor from Shiloh,
from Gettysburg, from Stone River,
from Petersburg, Lookout Mountain,
Chicamauga, Anteitum, Cold Harbor,
and the Wilderness.
Veterans of more than half a cen
tury, when in your youthfuldays you
put everything at hazard in your
country's cause, good as that cause
was and sanguine as youth is, your
fondest hopes and expectations did
not stretch to scene like this, to a
period you could not have hoped to !
reach to moment of such national
grandeur and prosperity, you could
not have foreseen. You have lived
to see your country again united
more firmly than ever before that {
great conflict for the perpetuation OF r
the union, and to make the Declara- 9
ion of independence good q
United Army Is
g You have seen our country enter a
INTO two foreign wars, one humani-
.arian war to lift the heavy hand of 8
oppression from the people of an OPP b
pressed and down-trodden island. We '
,eheld the sons of Union veterans S
marching shoulder to shoulder under
he same old flag, The Star Spangled r
Banner, commanded by generals who 9
ed the Union hosts, and generals who L
the confederate legions In. Il
hat conflict in which you took so
IONS picuous a part, each equally brave
md equally true to the government of O
he United States and to the flag which a
and which is the ensign of O
reedom. s,
You have lived to see our country
row from thirty-one, to one hundred r
md ten millions of prosperous con- r
ented and liberty-loving people. You al
ave seen our settlements extended t(
rom the Missouri river to the Pacific p
cean; you have seen the great N
american desert of your boyhood days :
nade to blossom as the rose, cover