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Show In Jleiiiorium. Union Memorial services wero held In tho Stake tabernacle Sunday afternoon. after-noon. Thu front seats were properly occupied by members of the W. T. I Sherman Post N. 0 G. A. R. and tho I Woman's Relief corp.. Meeting was in charge of Prosl.lent Partridge of Utah slake, while the i choir which furnished such magnlUceut . nimlo was led by Gat. Buries, ( Openliu prayer was offered by Rev. H. S. Goodwill of the Congregational I church. Rev. J. Ed wntd Klrbyo of the Methodist church was the (list speaker and confined his remarks' to an attempted at-tempted Justification of the administration adminis-tration foi taking forcible pot-session of the Philippines and exterminating the natives or tbo Islands in the tianie of patriotism and ChrlHtiaiiltv. niloo oT thought which wo believe lo le at least out ot plaee on such an occasion. At a later tlaiu we will offer further criticism. Prol Geo. II. Brlmhall delivered nn eloquent and touching address on the Civil wtir veiei aits, the oolilu cause of freedom for which they fought, the sacrnfleeB hey made and the grand lesulia achieved In thu tianie of liunmn llteny. President Reed Smoot offered the benediction. On Tuesday morning, wo regret to say, that only a few citizens usetiihled in honor of the day, but tho circus was undou')it)dly the occasion of their forget for-get fulncKB. The proceshlon of the G. A. R. und citizens proceeded to thu cemetery whero the ceieninnies of tho diywere proceeded with Tho '"City of the Dead" was nicely arranged Hint during ttm day, Superintendent Tltad H. Cluff advised us, thai visitors numbering num-bering over threo thouxaod people came to tho cemetery fr.nn all directions direc-tions nnd did their duty In the decoration decora-tion of tin honored dead. |