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Show y L EmPloyee$ Dedicate Service Flag1 wtiM. f : rou)d Attends Local Ceremonies f .nil ecs of the O. S. L. at the base of a nwZJZ ' J . Jewries thirty-four stars, two of which a m 'D "0rth yard3 dedlcatlnS a service flag. The flag I about fifty stars. Artistic work on the flag wan T , " iucomPlet8' the work is complete there will 'town in the above picture at the sido of the' seivic n Andrew Basrnussen, order clerk at the shops. He is I - . . ' Steel Flagpole Raised; Patriotic Pa-triotic Addresses Are Delivered. APPROXIMATELY 250 men, women wom-en and children attended and participated in a flag-raising and dedicatory exercises of a service flag in the north yards of the Oregon Short Line railroad .yesterday noon. The exercises were in charge of Amos Hudson, chief clerk at the shops, as master of ceremonies, with the'Rev. P. A. Simpkin and Attorney Parley P. Jensen, the principal speakers. Patriotic Patri-otic music was supplied by members of the tabernacle choir and the throng. The exercises were conducted in tront of the main storeroom of the O. S. L., with the immense roundhouse forming an appropriate background. The crowd was plentifully sprinkled with women, some in civilian dress, but most in jumpers, jump-ers, identifying the wearers as workers in some department of railroad activity. ac-tivity. Just before the commencement of the ceremonies stout hands raised a great steel flagpole some sixty feet high, the handiwork of shopmen, front the peak of which was unfurled a national flag, 12 feet wide by 18 feet long. It was about the foot of this pole that the day's program was held. The Rev. Mr. Simpkin devoted his talk to the work accomplished by railroad rail-road men who have gone into the armv or entered some other essential branch of service. Mr. Jensen took for his subject "Our Flag,'' and spoke at length upon the history of the colors and principles for which it always has stood. He designated desig-nated the Stars and -Stripes the emblem of humanity. At the conclusion of the set program a massive locomotive steamed up exploding ex-ploding torpedoes placed on the rails. There was an explosion for each man In service. |