The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume], May 31, 1906, Image 4

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THRONGS AT
EXERCISES
Continued from page 1, column 7
everyone an opportunity to be
present.
The weather, in spite of the
showers early in the morning
and late in the afternoon, was
bright and pleasant during the
hours of devotion. When the
crowd started for the cemetery
there was a slight flutter of rain
drops, but the sky soon cleared
and the sun came out bright and
smiling.
The crowd gathered at the city
hall shortly before 10 o'clock and
oyer forty teams and number
less pedestrians proceeded to
the cemetery and formed in the
block set aside for the G. A. R.
where thirteen comrades lie.
When the exercises began it is
estimated that fully 800 people
were present.
The regular G. A. R. memorial
services were rendered. There
was a prayer by the chaplin,
George Smith, then an address
by the commander, L. G. Pender
gast, followed by songs, such as
"America" and "Nearer My God
to Thee." Judge Pendergast's
speech was especially able and
is pne of the best he has ever
made.
The most beautiful part of the
exercises was the decoration of
the graves. Wreaths and flowers
werei strewn in loving profusion,
and oh a, large cross were placed
wreaths bearing the names of
soldier friends and relatives
buried in distant cemeteries.
Among the most beautiful floral
offerings were the magnolias
sent to Bemidji friends for the
occasion by Rev. Father Murphy
from Little Rock, Arkansas.
In the afternoon were the
exercises at the city hall. The
program did not begin until 2
o'clbck, but long betore that
time the crowd began to arrive
and the hall was soon packed to
overflowing. The seats were all
occupied in a short time and
soon there was not even standing
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in its varied and artistic colors,
design* and decorations, makes
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prized and always appropriate. The
special monogram work in gold will
be particularly pleasing to the bride.
Wehaveafujl display
sf this beautiful art work and we
shall be glad to have you come in
and see it. Beautiful
booklets for distribution
See our windows
Geo. T. Baker &
Company.
Located: City Drug Store
room. Scores of people had to
be turned away.
At 1:30 the members of the
post and the ladies of the circle
met at Odd Fellows hall and
marched to the city hall, where
they occupied a reserved section.
The school children and others
who participated in the program
also were given reserved seats in
the front of the house.
The hall was decorated with
patriotic emblems. About the
room were small flags and red,
white and blue bunting, while on
one side of the stage hung a
picture of President McKinley
and on the other one of President
Roosevelt. Directly over the
stage was placed a large shield
bearing the word "Welcome."
The program was opened with
the singing of "America" by the
audience, followed by prayer by
Rev. S. E P. White. Then came
the principal address of .xhe day
by O. E. Bailey. It was an able
effort along patriotic lines and
created much favorable com
ment. The speech in full ap
pears in another column.
The recitation of Lincoln's
Gettysburg's address by Prof.
W. B. Stewart and the address
by Prof. A. P. Ritchie also met
with generous commendation.
Professor Ritchie took as his
theme the coming patriots of
America and told how the school
children of today would be the
old soldiers of the next genera
tion, should occasion arise.
The work of the children ex
cited no end of applause. They
had learned their parts well and
performed them with childish
grace. The girls were all dressed
in white and formed a pretty
picture on the stage.
The most "cunning" number
was perhaps the "Sunbonnet
Babies and Overall Boys" by the
children of the first grade.
There were twenty five or thirty
on the stage, the girls dressed
in red, white and blue bonnets
and white dresses and the boys
in straw hats and blue overalls.
They sang and marched to the
time of little drums and com
pletely brought down the house.
The flag drill by eleven girls of
the third grade was a popular
number also. The girls marched
onto the stage to the beating of
drums and then sang a mumber
of war time songs, such as
"Marching through Georgia"
and "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the
boys are marching."
Special mention should also be
made of the patriotic song and
march number by the fourth
grade and the recitation and song
number by the third grade girls.
By no means the least deserv
ing of mention were the pretty
recitations by several of the
children, among them being the
speaking of "In Memoriam" by
Dorothy Torrence, "Memorial
Day" by Mildred Richardson,
"For Grandpa's sake" by Ora
Derusha, "The Flag" by Cassie
Carlisle, "Decoration Day" by
Vivian Dwyer "The Glory of the
Flag" by Ethel Knox and "Old
Glory" by the children of the
second grade. Between fifteen
and twenty youngsters partici
pated in the last mentioned num
ber and they were especially
"cute."
A quartet consisting of Miss
Hattie Halderman, Mrs. G. J.
Pry or and Messrs. Charles War
field and E. H. Jerrard sang a
number of selections. Mrs. A.
Warfield played the piano accom
paniments.
0. E. Bailey's Address.
Mr. commander, members of
the Grand Army of the Republic,
Ladies of the G. A. R. Circle,
ladies and gentlemen:
I desire to assure the mem
bers of the Grand Army of the
Republic and the Ladies of the
A. R. Circle, that I appreciate
the invitation extended to me to
address this gathering today,
Whenever a nation, a state, a
municipality, a public official or a
private citizen compromises with
crime, civilization pays the
penalty. Forty-five years ago
four hundred thousand boys in
blue and five hundred thousand
boys in grey forfeited their lives
in payment of the national crime
of slavery.
Tl proclamation of emancipa
tion was written with the life
bl od of a million American
citizens.
To teach our children, and
those who come from foreign
shores to make their homes with
us that we appreciate the sacri
fices made by those who fought
for the preservation of the union
and the honor of the flag, we
have dedicated the thirtieth day
of May to the memory of the
STABBED WOMA N
IS NEARLY WELL
Sheriff Bailey On Way to Bau
dette to Get Miss Florence
Flett.
Miss Florence Flett, the wom
an who was stabbed in Baudette
by John London, now in the
county jail, is recovering rapidly
and will be brought to Bemidji in
a few days. Sheriff Bailey is
now on his way to the northern
village and will return with the
woman Saturday night or Sun
day morning.
Miss Flett was too badly
wounded to allow her removal
when the prisoner and witnesses
were brought down by the
sheriff shortly after the affair,
and has been under a physician's
care in Baudette since.
dead.
In 1619 a small sailing vessel,
carrying a few colored men
landed on the Atlantic coast, sold
the negroes to the Virginian
planters, and American slavery
was born. That event, and the
events growing out of that, are
the reasons we are here today.
Those pages which tell the
story of slavery in the United
States are the darkest pages in
our nation's history. The laws
enacted for the protection of that
infamous institution are the
blackest laws on our statute
books. Our great ship of state,
freighted with the hopes and
fortunes of the world, was al
most wrecked in the awful storm
that raged from 1861 to 1865.
When the friends of freedom
chose Lincoln, a child of poverty,
for the nation's chief executive,
the friends of slavery realized
that the traffic in human flesh
must cease. The slave states,
accepting Lincoln's election as an
indication that slavery would be
exterminated, decided to sever
their relations with the federal
government. South Carolina,
followed by other interested
states, raised the standard of
revolt, the Southern Confederacy
was organized, and the young
republic trembled on the brink
of dissolution.
Lincoln took his oath of office
and the friends of the govern
ment waited breathlessly for him
to act. There were but two doors
out of the difficulty, one was
compromise, the other battle.
The arrogance of the South
closed the first, the patriotism
of the North accepted the de
cision and marshalled her hosts
for the coming conflict.
Lincoln shuddered at the
thought of civil war. He believed
in peace. He endeavored to
reconcile the beeligerant states
He offered to meet the secession
ists in convention to see if a
compromise could not be effected
His policy was to save the Union
at any cost. He offered to take
everything from Sumpter except
the flag. He hesitated so long
that even his friends accused him
of cowardice.
After the South had rejected
eyery^offer of compromise, after
the "Queen of the West" had
been fired upon after the Stars
and Strips had been lowered
from the staff at Sumpter,
Lincoln ceased to look toward the
South for peace, and turned his
kindly face toward the North and
West looking for men to defend
the nation's capitoi and save the
Union from destruction. The
banner of the stars and stripes,
ordained by Washington, and
patterned by -the Continental
Congress, fluttered in the breeze
asking to be carried to victory
again. The Southern Confeder
acy organized armies and
directed tj^eir march toward the
banks of the Potomac. "Wash
mgton became the Thermopolae
of liberty" and justice, and
thousands of Union volunteers
hastened to defend the threat
ened capitoi. This young re
public of ours, heralded through
out the world as the land of
liberty, left the flower-strewn
paths of peace to enter the bloody
fields of war.
The questions of slavery and
the right of a state to sever at
will the bonds of federation had
been discussed from every plat
form, by every political speaker,
in every home and at every fire
side for over fifty years. The
war, then, was not one of con
quest, but one of opinions, and
every soldier, whether he wore
the blue or the gray, was fight
ng for what he thought was
right Under such conditions
the struggle was bound to be a
bloody one.
History fails to record a fiercer
conflict than the War of the Re
bellion. From the opening of
hostilities until Grant and Lee
agreed on terms ot peace, the
southern states were mighty
slaughter pens, where Americans
performed acts of heroism that
surprised the world. The crim-
3n stains on Lookout Mountain's
slopes, the ten thousand dis
figured silent witnesses lying in
front of Cold Harbor's heated
-a_^ ^%if
^r^ s^^tek *s^~
lefc*,
:J^Mirjifv
guns, the mutilated corpses in
the Wilderness, the shell torn
battlements of Petersberg and*
Richmond, thef desolation
wrought by Sherman's heroes
as they swept from Atlanta to
the sea, the blood-soaked sod at
Gettysburg, where those who
wore the blue and those who
wore the gray, rushed as fear
lessly to death as did the three
hundred at Thermopolae, the
windrows of dead on Antietem
frightful field, the hopeless
charge at Fredericks berg, where
Meayher's matchless Irishmen,
wearing tne Shamrock in their
caps, sacrificed their lives on the
altar of their adopted country,
the torn and tattered battle-flags,
the maimed and crippled rem
nants of the Blue and Grey, the
thousands of nameless, unknown
graves all over the South bear
ghastly evidence of the fierceness
of the struggle and the bravery
of the troops.
As Americans, we are are just
ly proud of the heroism of our
soldiers who .have borne the
battle's brunt." But we must not
forget the unselfish bravery of
those who perished in the prison
pens. ^Oyer thirty thousand
heroes he in honored graves, the
victims of starvation in Ander
sonville and Libby alone. There
was no martial music, no com
rade's cheer, no waving of flags
to make them forgetful of the
hour of death. Day after day,
beneath the burning southern
sun, or in the gloomy prison cell,
with little hope of liberty and
food that?worms refused to eat,
they faced starvation with a
fortitude unequaled in the history
of the world.
Members of the Grand Army
of the Republic, we owe to you,
and to your comrades dead, a
nation's deepest gratitude. But
had it not been for others than
yourselves you could not have
accomplished what you did. I
refer to that great army of silent
sufferers who remained at home,
your wives, your mothers, your
sweethearts and your sisters.
While you were fighting at the
front, they were waiting anxious
ly for some report from the
battlefield. With throbbing
hearts and tear dimmed eyes
they scanned the lists of causil
ities, uttering the awful cry of
agony as some loved one's name
appeared. They wrote you words
ot cheer, encouraged others to
enlist, cared for the maimed and
crippled that returned, while in
their loved one's graves they
buried their ambitions, hopes
aud hearts-.
The enmities engendered by
the great Civil war have passed
away. The war with Spain re
moved forever the jealousies
that lingered in the hearts of
some. The sons of those who
fought with Lee touched elbows
with the sons of those who fought
with Grant, and led by Joseph
Wheeler^the noblest Roman of
them all-they conquered Spanish
cruelty, gave the struggling
Cubans liberty, and raised the
banner of the Stars and Stripes
aoove the palm trees of the far
off Phillipines. W will solve all
internal questions without resort
to arms. We will never need
raise fortifications except along
the coast. No flag will ever float
above our capitoi save the
banner of the Stars and Stripes
I want to see all our citizens
receive the benefits of modern
civilization. I want to see the
homes of poverty made as pleas
ant as the homes of wealth. I
want Jo see telephones in every
home.' I want to see the rural
free delivery extended so that
those living in the country can
receive their mail each day that
they can keep in touch with the
markets of the country and take
advantage of the rise and fall of
the prices of the world. I want
to see our flag of commerce
kissed by every breez I want
to see our merchant ships, laden
with American manufactured
goods, sail every sea and enter
every port in Christiandom.
This government is bound to
live. The great questions aris
ing from time to time will be sue
cessfully and satisfactorily
solved. These school children,
wearing the national colors and
marching through the sand be
hind the grizzled veterans of the
G. A R. these instructors teach
mg patriotic songs these flags at
half mast these garlands we
have laid on soldier's graves,
these citizens devoting a day to
the memory of our dead, all give
guarantee that this Republic will
survive.
Members of the Grand Army
of the Republic year by year the
scared and crippled veterans of
your heroes' order fall,out of the
reach of war into the arms of
peace Years hence, "when busy
Time hath written Death upon
your badge," when you, too, great
soldier citizen, shall pass away
serenely as the autumn dies
when from the lifeless lips of
oldest veterans the weird camp
songs shall be no more when G.
A. shall be a part of history,
we will perserve your trophies
o'er your conflicts and your
camps, the guns, the drums, the
tattered flags, with the liberties
and sorrows of the war.
Tne wneat crop of tne Punjab sec
tion of India for this year has broken
all records, being 500,000 tons in ex
cess of the previous best cron
SeS8j*SS
L0MEN WORKIN
FOR NOMINATION
Norman County Candidate for
Secretary of State Visits
Bemidji
J. J. Lomen of Ada, Norman
county, was in Bemid]i Tuesday
in the interest of his candidacy
for the republican nomination for
secretary of state.
Mr. Lomen visited anumberof
prominent business and profes
sional men of the city and talked
over the local sentiment on his
candidacy. He declared that
things looked extremely favor
able and that he expects to have
the greater portion of the dele
gates from the northern part of
the state with him.
ATTACK BRITISH CAMP.
Rebel Zulus Finally Driven Off With
Heavy Loss.
Duiban Natal, Maj 31The rebel
Zulus have again attacked Colonel
Lauchai column The} fieicely as
saulted the Biitish camp, fought ob
stmatelj foi seveial houis and flnallv
weie beaten off with heavy loss bj
the steady fire of the troops The
British had three men killed and
twelve wounded
County Commissioners Meet.
A special meetingof the county
commissioners was held at the
court house Tuesday and con
siderable business was trans
acted r-
The petitions for new school
districts from the following ter
ritory, one from the townsoip of
Lee one from the north half of
the town of Hamre and one from
the Village of Island Lake and
surrounding territory, were
granted.
The auditor was instructed to
advertise for bids for road work
as follows- two and a half miles
of road in the town of Taylor and
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we Sale
at the Berman Emporinm will be continued
to Saturday evening, 10 o'clock, in order to
accommodate those who could not attend
this great sale on account of the indecency of
the weather.
Ou store is still filled with uuusual bar-
gains.
Styles and sizes complete in every depart-
ment, at the most remarkable prices as quot-
ed in Monday's paper.
THE BERMAN EMPORIUM
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road work in the town of
Summit.
The Kelliher-Battle River
road was granted an appropri
ation of $1,200 00, and Anton
Johnson was appointed overseer
of the construction work.
$150 00 was appropriated for
road work in the town of Sum
mit, $200 00 in the town of Black
duck, and $500.00 for the Sum
mit and Blackduckroad.
Hans Hanson was awarded the
contract for road work on the
road called the Mud Lake road
G. W. Hedghn for work on the
town line road between the
towns of Turtle Lake and Dur
and, Prosper Albee for work on
spur road No 105 in the town of
Parley and H. A. Matheny in the
town of Taylor.
A number of minor matters
were attended to and the usual
grist of bills acted upon. The
board adjourned late Tuesday
evening to meet June 7th, at 10
'clock.
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Graduate Tonight.
The second annual commence
ment of the grammer class of
the Bemidji public schools will
be held this evening at the city
hall. A class of thirty one boys
and girls will be graduated from
the eighth grade. A pleasing
program has been prepared.
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