The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-08-29
CHRISTIANS0N
TO SPEAK AT
STATE SERY
Family Religious Services
Be Held at Mansion Thu
day Morning
BODY WILL LIE IN STATE
Public Funeral Arranged for
House Chamber at 8 p. M.
Thursday
BODY WILL LIE IN STATE

Detailed arrangements for services
to be held here tomorrow for the late
Governor A. G. Sorlie were IN.
nounced today.
A private religious service will bs
held at the executive mansion, to be
attended only by members Of the
Sorlie family, their personal friends.
and state officials. Rev. /. ]. Mon.
son, pastor Of the Trinity English
Lutheran church: will officiate.
Following the private religious
services the body will be taken TO the
state capitol building and will lie in
state in the house chamber from
1880 to $3.50 o'clock.
At 3 o'clock public services will
be held at the capitol. Rev. Monson
will give the invocation and Judge
A. M. Christianson Of the state 81.
preme court will deliver IN address.
Following the public services the
body will be taken to the funeral
parlors in the business section Of
the city. A military escort, the en-.
tire force Of workers at the state
capitol, and any citizens who desire
will be members Of the cortege on
the procession from the capitol
building to the funeral parlors.
Governor Walter Maddox today
ordered the capitol building closed
at 1880 o'clock Thursday morning,
the hour set for the private funeral
services at the executive mansion.
and no business will be transacted
during the remainder Of the day.
The governor also requested that
all business activities in the state
be halted for period Of three min.
utes at noon Saturday, the date fixed
for the funeral and burial Of the late
governor at Grand Forks.
Desks Are Cleared
Arrangements for the funeral
services for the late Governor A. 4,
Sorlie being almost complete, S.
officials were clearing their d
today in preparation for their
sence over the weekend to at.
the interment ceremony at G.
Forks.
The arrangements were n.a4
largely by the late governors pc
sonal friends among the officialdom
Of the state, after conference with
Mrs. Sorlie aud other members Of
the family.
Religious services will be held both
here and at Grand Forks, the ritual
of the Norwegian Lutheran church,
Of which the late governor was .
member. being followed in both in
stances.
Buxton Stop Arranged
At 8 o'clock Friday morning It win
be placed aboard q special train,
which will take it to Grand Forks.
The train will be switched from the
rails Of the Northern Pacific rail-
road to those Of the Great Northern
at Fargo. in order that the body Of
the late chief executive may not
leave the state during the sad jour-
ney and to permit it to pass through
Buxton, where he formerly lived. A
short stop will be made at Buxton
to permit the townsfolk Of that place
to view the body Of their friend and
neighbor.
The body will be taken to Grand
Forks in the private car Of Charles
Donnellv, president Of the Northern
Pacific railroad. The late governor
and Donnelly were warm friends,
and Mr.. Donnelly wired from the
east directing that his car Be placed
at the disposal Of the Sorlie family.
Arrangements for the special train
were made by ]. ]. Ermatinger, sec-
retary Of the state highway commits.
sion and . personal friend Of the
late governor.
About so state officials and
friends Of the Sorlie family viii
make the trip on the special train.
Rites Saturday Morning
Although plans for the services 1t
Grand Forks were not definite, the
special train is expected to arrive
there about o'clock Friday evening,
and funeral services will b held
Saturday afternoon.
Honorary pallbearers for the ssrv-
ices here include . committee Of
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