The Southwest World (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 13, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 26, 1900 Page: 1 of 8
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THE SOUTHWEST WORLD
Vol. I
GUTHRIE, OKLA., MAY 26, 1900.
No. 13
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Memorial Day; the deep drum sounds
A call to seek the soldiers' mounds.
Come forth, ye martial band !
List to the loud reveille beat;
Kilter the Post, your comrades meet,
March to the burial strand.
A phalanx of unswerving: men
Kepose in yonder quiet glen;
Their work on earth is o'er,
No more they sound the battle cry.
No more on field of carnage lie.
Their colors ne'er to lower.
Here, in the calm and holy shade
Our comrades we have gently laid,
And beat the muffled drum;
The bugle's pealing- blast we sound.
With immortelles we deck the ground.
And fire the minute gun!
Devotion here hath lingered 'round
Each spot of consecrated ground.
And hill and valley blessed;
Here, where our loved ones oft have strayed.
Here, where they loved and wept and prayed,
Here, where their ashes rest.
Yet while by life's endearments crowned,
To mark this day, we gather 'round
And strew their graves with flowers.
And to our brave defenders raise
A song of gratitude and praise.
Throughout these hallowed bowers.
A clime there is from danger free;
God fit these souls that clime to see.
Who can return no more.
It hath no wounds to thrill and bleed,
No staff of trust like broken reed.
No griefs from earthly shore.
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MEMORIAL SUNDAY
MAY 27TH.
Memorial services will be held at the
Baptist church at 3 p. m. Sunday. Mem-
bers or the G. A. R. all soldiers of the
Civil and Spanish-American wars and
Ladies of the Circle and Relief Corps, and
all others, who desire to participate in
Memorial services, are requested to assem-
ble at the Royal hotel at 2:30 p. m. for the
parade and march to the Baptist church,
where the following' program will be the
order :
Opening hymn,
Prayer,
Song by choir,
Memorial sermon by Rev. Mansfield,
Benediction.
DECORATION DAY,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30TH.
Decoration services will be held at the
First Baptist church at 2 p. m. sharp.
It is requested that all business houses
lie closed and that all business be generally
suspended from 2 to 5 p. m. on Wednesday.
The procession will form on Harrison
avenue in front of the Masonic Temple at
1:30 sharp and march to the church. The
following is the line of march :
Band,
Company "A" Oklahoma National
(Guards.
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Let hovering angels watch the spot
Death spoke in every booming shot
That knelled upon the ear!
Let sage and bard here shed a light
That never shall go down at night
Till each in Heaven appear.
Clijah Moore,
Edward Ilixon,
McCarthy,
iV. P. Meadows,
J. Kuysler,
Geo. W. Parker,
R. C. Ross,
A. R. Underwood,
Geo. W. Taylor,
Wm. M. Salisbury,
Landon P. Tipton,
John R. Kelley,
Arelius Richardson,
T. A. Blanchard,
David Rasure.
J. T. Ginn,
Thos. B. McPherson,
John Michael,
Rev. John M. Green.
Wm. M. Carver,
John II. Small,
S. S. Soule,
Joseph Waldron,
Thos. Seeley,
Noah Syre,
Win. A. Purcell,
John McCord,
Freedom Jones,
Alexander Howe,
at tjie city of the dead—
The committee will strew Mowers over
the graves afterwhich a special detail from
Company A will fire a salute and the bugle
will the blow ''taps."
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
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In Memory of Fallen Heroes
HON. DICK T. MORGAN,
Memorial Day Orator.
Ilartranft Post "No. 3 and old veterans.
Ladies Circle and Relief Corps.
Mayor and council.
Fire Department.
Citizens in carriages.
AT THE CHURCH.—
Music.
Prayer by Rev. Marsh.
Music.
Reading orders. Lincoln's speech at
Gettysburg. Roll of Honor. Salutation
of the dead by Adjutant of the Post.
Oration—HON. DICK T. MORGAN,
of Perry, O. T.
Short addresses by Hon. A. II. Huston,
Prof. Campbell and others.
Music.
Benediction by Rev. Cohegan.
THE SILENT SOLDIERS.—
The procession will form and march
to the cemetery, where the graves of the
following soldiers will be decorated :
Albert G. Boggs, Henry Bryerton,
Richard Cunningham Abram B. Coker,
Theo. F. Cass, Ben. F. Dilley,
Sam'l Elrick, Geo. J. Evans,
Since the last memorial day the statis-
tics show that 40,(100 veterans of the civil
war have been laid to rest, and the numbers
are rapidly decreasing. It is almost im-
possible to keep a record of the deaths of
the boys as they disappear and die without
knowledge of relatives and friends. Decor-
ation day has been the day to commemorate
the memory of the boys, who have passed
away, that served their country from 1861
to 1864. The old veterans are passing a-
way so rapidly that the patriotic men and
women will have to take charge of the
Memorial Day exercises in the future.
While strewing flowers on the graves
ol the old veterans, it would be appropriate
to place some flowers on the graves of the
men, who lost their lives from shot, shell
and sickness in the late Spanish-American
war.
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