Show — IIANSTUFT CHAS LAMMERSDORF Pres Cashier A V HUISII Hans Tuft W H Drown DIRECTOR'S— Chas Lammorsdorf P C Scorup A Ve Huieh James FaivelL Chris iFirst State BANK Saline of Drafts drawn on all the principal cities of the United States and Burope Banking in all its various forms Accounts Respectfully Solicited Four per cent interest paid on time deposits Morris by ' Qporap °y— i"" DAY thousands N DECORATION of men women and children throughout the length and breadth of the land will gather and In the various cemeteries lay garlands upon the vast restthat ing places of the soldiers have laid down their lives In defense of their country In practically every city hosts of veterans of the Civil War will gather and hold reunions to speak of the past the anger and passion deadened by the lapse of time while at ten national homes more than 20000 In the day men usher will thankful that the United States of all nations Is a republic that for services Is not ungrateful under Its flag performed The veterans of the various wars notably the Civil and who went through New Train Service VIA DENVER & RIO GRANDE In r SANTA 'vV THREE FAST ISLAND ROUTE ROCK TRAINS PACIFIC MISSOURI EAST UNION PACIFIC - or szzvvcxpjyiz ROUTE BURLINGTON vvww With Connection FE ROUTE TWO NIQHT8 ink the first rows then follow those less afflicted that all are given equal advantages as far as it possible to arrange In the vast amount of work to be done at the homes the Inmates take their part and thereby earn a little extra for themselves for the government pays them according to what they can attached do have farms of the homes Some on which the men do considerable of the work At other homes the men look after grounds while at all of the homes there are those who act as en THREE SLEEPERS so Is 10 CHICAGO TWO NIGHTS TO ST LOUIS THROUGH NIGHTS CHOICE YORK TO NEW OF ROUTES TO see any D For further information ent or address CHICAGO KANSAS CITY A I ST LOUIS F or guides money they receive for their work la all extra' for they receive their pensions Just the same and they are at liberty to either spend at the commissary or their funds for luxuries One send checks to their relatives great trouble that the commandants of the various homes have had has been the control of the soldiers who the saloons persist In patronizing that are to be found Just beyond the old the gates but by vigilance men are kept from getting Into any A GAPD PDA BENTON & R G Ag- Salt Lake City Denver WADLEIGH Colo guards The the conflicts unscathed are conThere are the stantly In mind Grand Army of the Republic Loyal Legion and Army and Navy Union which splendid organizations to( many of the officers and men who In the Civil War belong fought while the veteran association of the War holds the membership of many who went through that struggle In the national cemeteries here and there and In other burial are stones that mark the grounds where spots Jle the remains of In the conthose who participated G&ZVt&y’ 7V flicts and each succeeding Decoraj&GAZZ tion Day their memory Is kept alive all of the homes are similar for they buildings by the floral offerings strewn upon their graves But what about the veterans who returned are operated on the plan of giving one and all from the front torn by shot and shell unable to the same Some of the homes like the one at Va are situated upon the banks of a resume their places In the ranks of the workHampton ers without means of stream but then there Is one in the mountains and unwilling to thrust themselves another in the land of continual sunshine and upon their kith and kin? California while each posseses some flowers At the close of the Civil War when more than natural characteristic to differ it from the other half a million men laid down their arms of war from were transformed and In a few months Tlit however Is the Immaterial side of the and conveniences homes for it Is the comforts soldiers to citizens the question of what to do afforded the Inmates that draws the attention of arose with those who were Incapacitated visitors and sends them away filled with thoughts “Pensions are well enough in their way but citizens of a of of kindliness and ” declared being proud sufficient not are Congress pensions nation that is so lavish In Its care of those who of the members “We must do more" continued have upheld the honor of the flag In the face of “We must establish a both House and Senate the enemy and this home for those who have no homes” are the buildings Amid parklike surroundings Into what Is now one of sentiment crystallized on which are the flanked with broad porches the most Important features with which the nasettees where basking in the sun may be found tion deals who are ‘more content to reold soldiers those The National Home for disabled volunteer solpose with pipe and paper than to join their comof Columbia diers Is located lu the District rades beneath the trees or strolling around the There are branches of the National Home at grounds Me Wls Milwaukee O Togus Hampton First and all Important Is the military side of Santa Monica Kan Cal Leavenworth Va Each inmate Is always In uniform the home Danville Johnson City Tenn Ind Marlon Ail and army discipline prevails and Hot Springs S D men on the grounds salute their superior officers for disabled homes volunteer state There are as they pass and there are stated times for dosoldiers by the states of California provided ing stated things so that there must be absoIllinois Idaho Connecticut Indiana Colorado lute order MinneIowa Kansas Massachusetts Michigan At 5:30 in summer and 5:45 In winter the men New HampNebraska Montana sota Missouri to the men return After breakfast turn out York North New Dakota New Jersey shire barracks make up their beds and put their their Island Rhode South Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Then un'ess assigned to doty in order things Wisconsin and Vermont Washington Dakota as room orderly or on guard mount at which all Wyoming in the barracks have to take their turns the solSome Idea of the extent of the properties supdier Is at liberty until tattoo at 8:30 when he had be the Federal government may must be on hand to retire when taps are sounded ported by In from the last report of the board of managers at 9 which the acreage of the homes is set down as While at liberty during the day the soldier may On this land are valued at $48347485 5369 for a pass He leave the grounds by applying a value of $1061364842 aggregating buildings may secure a pass to remain outside the grounds to It maintain and to this To acquire property so not only for a day but even for 90 days if h outof soldiers the total care for the thousands Tfiere desires and his behavior has been good the close of 1911 has been In the neighlay Is but little restraint upon thp men and they are borhood of $90000000 as free as though they lived in their practically within When the first home was established own homes For those who prefer to remain within the the year there were 910 veterans cared for Then each succeeding year increased at the rate grounds of the home there is much with which to or ennui drive away either discontent of almost 1000 per year until In 1908 the greatBesides est number 34949 were taken care of At the splendid libraries where may be found not only but daily papers from difbooks and magazines same time the death rate among the veterans ferent parts of the country there Is at each home Increased year by year and from 1095 per 1000 hall where there are billiard an amusement In 1867 It has advanced to 8560 per 1000 and the when one takes Into consideration Yet pool tables and many small tables for cards checkers and dominoes physical condition of soldiers when admitted to is the hand roncert diversion Another each the homes and that it has been 47 years since Is really low for amusement Another and afternoon iman (the Civil War the death rate the average life of the old soldiers has been a portant one Is the theater Each of the homes Is equipped with a hall large enough to seat practrifle more than 70 years— a ripe age for the manottically every Inmate and at the end Is a stage of jority of men Indeed this alone Is Itsa most excellent size Theatrical able tribute to the government for generous companies playing In care of its wards nearby cities are engaged to give a to at the hall and the performance usually is have stand” To visit one of these national homes proves a great treat a treat for nowhere will one find a more happy In the seating of the veterans there is system r set of men Except for the or contented for the deaf and the exercised are glv- location and style of architecture of the u M SAUSAGE Fresh and Memorial customs Introduced at the close o! war In compliance with plans made by John A Logan will be observed this year In thousands of cities villages veterans still taking a and hamlets the surviving the in exercises part It is they who have made the arrangements for the ceremonies they will go early to the cemeteries and place blossoms upon the graves of their brother soldiers they will constitute a pathetic and Inspiring feature of the parade Some day they will not be here to plan and execute for Memorial day Some day they all will have gone Into camp on the plains and in orre day a grateful the cities of the dead public will look In vain for any of them Then what? Will the day and Its beautiparade ful customs so dear to them Were that patriotic and observed? cease to he remembered Were that question submitted to the people today it is certain that the votes against remembrance and observance would tje too few lor enumeration The soldiers have led the way they have shown the people how to plan and execute lor a There have been cessful observance of the day not a few but thousands of deeply Interested participants All of the patriotic societies that have giown out of the Civil war are among them and their members are numbered by the tens of thousands Then there are the societies which have come into existence as a rsult of the revolutionary war the war of 1812 the war with Mexico the war and the Philippine insurAnd these are not all Millions of tnen rection nnd women who have come from the school ana and girls now other millions of hoys in the would forbid a suspension schools ot Memorial day observances Pass the word along the thinning ranks of every veteran parade In the country they served so well that the custom initiated by them and their sleepthat It ing associates shall not be abandoned shall be handpd on from generation to generation MEATS Taking Their Measure people who moved Into the flat hall seem to be desirable neighbors?" man the "l watched every "No” replied the woman thing that came out of the moving van they haven't a thing that we would care to borrow’ those the Mother ot and GROCERIES The White G W Front LONG WBzmmsmmm COFFINS and CASKETS and Burial Supplies 1 kept in stock at my store imported from leading deal-§- 5 ers You can examine the goods and make seletion at Ei any moment Call in and see my stock of burial goods fef PFPETERSON Furniture Store! LUMBER SEv LUMBER I the Civil “Do across asked Like to maka 1 C—Choicest line trouble When a soldier is stricken with Illness he Is sent to the hospital attention Is where every possible His diet is specially given him prepared to suit his needs and there It Is nothing too good for him might be added that the hospital Is for there are always well occupied many who are falling In health and strength and are patiently waiting the setting of the sun When the last day has come and the soldier has gone to join his com rades on the other side his body is borne to the a minister of his religion says the last chapel rites over him and then In a casket borne upon a caisson and escorted by a squad of men under arms accompanied by a fife- and drum corps playing a dirge he Is given full military honors Including the rattle of muskets over his grave The cemeteries by the homes are growing each year but every stone Is a monument to a brave heart who gave his est years In order that the nation might endure The Day of Memories Fine nsed Nephi Plaster Portland Cement and a fine line of Builders Hardware Doors Windows JOHN s Phone 16 Black Moulding ARNESON LUMBER CO MaaaetNeaMaaaaaiHifcoaaaMmaaccaatMMtaaiMa uwmi ijijiiunn Why not say Hello to them? 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