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Show Hyrum Notes Decoration day was a holiday here. f The leading business houses closed and all the people assembled at the I cemetery, where a program was I arranged and rendered In good shape. I The Stake choir rendered appropriate J songs. James Unsworth was chaplain I .( and he ottered a beautiful prajer which suited ccry heart and appro- I priato to the occasion. Every one felt that his words were for them and his pi ajer was just such as each one , desired to olTer from the heart. Major i O. M. Wilson made a speech on the V "Pui pose and oilgin of the day." Ills 1 talk was listened to with marked I attention and was dcllvcied In a credl- n table manner. Miss Ela Parkinson A lecited, C. P. Olsen gae a leading, ' and the next was a speech by C. C. ma Shaw, subject "Our Dead." While f3, v,'5 his remarks weie mainly directed to the living, jet he made a pretty good speech. W. II. Israelsen gac a rending. rend-ing. Hlshop Allen otlered the benediction. bene-diction. The gathcilng was alaigconeand the progi.un was a success. The giavcs of all the departed had a little flower placed thcieon and In cvciy dhectlon could bo seen a weeping father oi mother, a husband bowed over the testing place of, and com- H miming iusoul with, a dcpaitcd wile; S a wife with tear dimmed cjes arrang- 9 Ingtlowcison the mound thatmaiks R the place of her life's companion. H Jftie uboc Is not enough to pain the human hcail, look in one mote diicctlon and sec a half a do.en small children gioupcd aiouud two mounds, side bj side marked "Fathei," H "Mothei." H All these scenes aie common In our H cemcteij on Decoration day and to N witness them makes one resolve In his K heait to be kinder to his fellow man K and to I0o the little ones whoaro 1 left lu hind. 12 The audience voted that tho major l r appoint canvassing committees to m ji' solicit means foi the election of a per-R per-R mancnt and suitable placo to hold .mnual sei vices at our cemeteij on Dccot.itlou daj'. D |