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Show 'OLE! MEMORIAL DAY. Over 2,500 People Visit the Cemetery. W.IG0.V LOADS OF 1!K U Tlt'U FLOWERS. BnMiirtti Entirely SiiNpriidrd in the City awl turf Out Takes Uold H'itfa i Hill Smites at the Tabtrnatle. Last Monday was the most generally observed Memorial Day ever witnessed in the history of I'.rigliam City. Yc believe every business house . in town was closed, out of respect to our dead heroes and their day, ; and all were thus at liberty to par-; ticipatc freely in the exercises of the day. Early in the morning teams began arriving at the cemetery east of town. Many came from a distance. By noon there were not less than 2 GO or 2-50 vehicles in and around the graveyard. There was an immense concourse con-course of people present. It is estimated that not less than 2,500 people visited the City of the Dead on Decoration Day. At noon, over 1,500 people, lead by S. N. Lee, leader of the Tabernacle Taber-nacle choir, lifted up their voices in singing the song entitled, "Resurrection Day." But the most interesting feature of all were the graves with their artistic and lavish decoration with flowers, ferns and green shrubbery. F ro n i morn until eve, v ago n loads upon wagon loads of every ' variety of flowers indigenous to this locality were hourly arriving. The quantities of beautiful flowers, ferns and shrubbery that were brought to the cemetery on that day were enormous; it was really astonishing; one could hardly imagine im-agine where such immense loads could possibly come from. There were profusions of tame roses (the queen of flowers), mountain ferns, geraniums, pinks, paint brushes, lilacs, pausies, locust blossoms, chokecherry blossoms, green grasses, fleur de luce, snowballs, calla lillies, daisies, segoes, buttercups blue bells, etc., etc., etc. Some of the graves were ornamented orna-mented with exquisite skill; others were decorated with a lavish hand, while others still were less striking, strik-ing, but all showed care, neatness and tenderness combined. There were few, very few, of the 1,500 memorial mounds in the little lit-tle cemetery which did not receive a flowery token from the kind hand of some faithful friend or warm-hearted stranger. Many a silent tear was dropped here and there over the grave of a departed loved one, the sweet memories of good old days 1 mg past forced the sob to the lips, but it was heroical- ly suppressed ere it developed into an audible moan of grief and sorrow. sor-row. Such tears and such sobs, honestly spent, go to make us better men and better women; they are elevating, inspiring, ennobling. en-nobling. We are told that we should mourn for our dead, but the silent, secluded, unostentatious sorrow, not too frequently indulged in-dulged in, betokens the true man the honest, the sincere, the truly sad, distressed heart. At 2 p. in., a large congregation gathereu at the Tabernacle to witness the rendition of the prearranged pre-arranged program. It was carried out almost literally as published in last Saturday's Bugler. Each participant conducted his part of the exercises with credit, making mak-ing the program throughout entertaining. enter-taining. The entire exercises of the day were a pronounced success and Pres. Clawson and Counsellor Kelly deserve praise for their commendable efforts in working up the matter and in giving the day such prominence. |