Show MEMORIAL DAY DA y DARK DAK SAD MEMORIES OF oi PAST ARE MEWED ACCENTUATED BY BV GLOOM MM OF Ii TOE TIlE CLOUDY SKIES AND RAIN I un Sun Shines but a Moment Recalling Hopes of Peace in Early Days of JV War r Thunder Reminds Veterans Veterans Vet Vet- erans crans of Cannons Cannon's Roar J i Ji Symbolical of th the dark days dars that tha r. r hovered over o the tb country during th the at and blood bloody struggle lo of ot 61 to 65 60 WAS wae the w weather in Salt Sal Lake City to io f. f da day Durin During tho the Carl early arl hours of ot th the morning peals heals of thunder and flashes of Ji lightning were heard and seen seeD re roo f I. I the ns of the cannon canno roar iud and the nash Hashes g from the mouths of or th tho grim monsters of oC death at Shi I r f loh oh Antietam the tho Wilderness Mission ri ridge ge Gettysburg Lookout mO mountain I Chickamauga a and n a score of f other I b battlefields Tor por l less than tyro two minutes shortly after 6 G 6 0 o'clock clock this morn morning mornin in f th the sun broko broke through the heavy clouds i md was then lost to sight G G. A A. R n R. R veterans who wore were about aboul at t that fl hour ur believed cd that tho sun was x to to shine and that after the dark hours of i-of ot of tho the early morning it was to be bo a aI aday I t. t day of p pea peace peace- a o o such is as followed the aw- aw fui struggle lo of four 3 Years ears Again tho the weather n ls was tras but symbol symbol- ic kali icaH 1 th the little rift of sunshine was likened to the feeling that spread over the country after the tIlt battle of Shiloh wh when ii it was felt in ill many q quarters that l w war r was over o IJ Like riko l e the coun co country unU un- un U try at that time timo were those who had bad hadI I 1 for a a. a fair day the they were doomed to disappointment The hc ram rain commenced to fall faU and f for r hours bourn it continued to fo fall slowly one of those k kinds of f. f ra rains rain nS' nS that raised the waters of oZ Sn c creek in McNairy McNair county Tennessee C li on April 6 1862 1862 and pip pip- v rit d General Lew Lu Wallace and his front reaching Grunt Grun to take part in the first di day of the battle of Shiloh a it failure th that t nearly nearh cost tho the union rii n forces a crushing defeat Sli Shortly after 8 o'clock this morning Veterans of th the Grand Army of the tho l Sons Son's of Veterans Veterans or th h AJ War and la Ia- iU of the v various rious auxiliaries c corn corn- m mit it to gather ather at G. 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IHM headquarters is on Postoffice place py were wore hoping that tho the weather would cl clear r and inn that the tho elaborate programs Ih had d been beci arran arranged cc for tho the three cm cemeteries would vo be bo carried out At 9 o'clock cJ ck a co conference was held at which it tvis was decided ll d that it would be De u unwise to to attempt to Il hold ld the exercises on on- on the tret ct ground and aUti in a downpour of rain raiD and rid for the first time timo in the history Grand Gran-d Army of the Republic in Salt Cit City no exorcises exercises of f any w wc c held beld from front tho the McKean M and fn Howard ward p i posts st w went nt to 10 Mount Olivet ami 1 placed flowers on ou the graves grave of ot th their ir departed c comrades mr I a committee from tHe Sons of ur Veterans went to Fort J las and andl l performed a similar Jabor labor t whilo hila a committee from rom the i I war y v veterans t rans went to cemetery and placed flowers flo on tILO graves of their departed comrades XI o services of ot an any oth other r kind were yere held beJ holiat at t cither ith r of ti the three cemeteries The Tha committee in iu In charge e of of today's t announced that arran arrangements ri be bo made mado to t secure some church ZhU hill for nc Sunday at which memorial me me- mc morial l rial services rv c will wi be bc b eld cid Tb The ho pla place aud time timo will m b be announced later The committee that went to Mount Olivet to was os' w n at Carried from tho the headquarters to to tho rv in in three bi big automobiles who visited the other othor two cemeteries took street cars 1 Despite tb the heavy heay downpour of oC ruin rain there were many pe people plc who visited the city it cemetery and Mount OU Oliv Olivet t this morning ariL amt i l placed fow flowers rs on on the graves of ot their loved ones Unlike most niost memorial daj's ns however those thoo who nho visited i it remained l IO d the c rcman enly Jong on n enough o h to o pa pay their r respects to the tho departed and then hurried to their th fr homes oi Tho The day ayl only added to te tot t their e sadness and aud each person seemed anxious to get et away awa- from the tho sil si nt as soon as possible 81 I II I it who had bad bd laid in a laJ large c coc oc of flowers anticipating a h heavy avy run un of f complaining bitterly bit bit- s. s terl terly 8 morning of f tho weather con con- h declared that that at t least half balf of the stock sto y that they ball bad would be e leftOn ct on their hands whereas had hail the weather J be e u. u u. u good each expected to toc noon c out ut hi 1 his entire stock dock long before beCore |