Show M MORIAL 0 AY W W OBSERVED so I 1 N PRICE 1 A appropriate PROGRAM PREPARED AND RENDER X le rev v JL J E ferns ferris and president G A iverson the orators of the day memorial day was generally observed in community and the program arranged by the mayor practically carried out promptly Pro at 10 00 M the price band gathered on main st and played for the better part of an hour it then wended ite its way to the town hall followed by the interested public and opened the formal exercises there there were some alternations in the singing otherwise the pr program was rendered as on originally planned rev ferris made the opening ad dres dress and dwelt upon the significance of the day as a remembrance of the I 1 blood atonement lie called attention to the fact that fill MI the great truths had been consecrated by blood and blood alone had teen been gien gilen their vital force ye ile showed how death that sometimes dreu I 1 spectre was a hallucination more or leto le to and how age and infirmity were generally figa ment ments of our own creat tin hi ile showed row ow the old vold ler abt d and nd infirm irm would suddenly shako from his frame all 11 the th and weight of his years ears by the rit remembrance of his deeds and participation in the came cause and he made the deduction that by being dedicated tu to the cause and by that alone could mankind roach mach the summit of ite its power it is by the holiness of the he cause and by mans sincerity towards it that he 8 accomplishes hia his supreme moment in life to which death is but an incident he ile remarked that battlefield battle field or the political arena wera not the only the only places to show the merits of real living but also in the sm smaller ae r c cial life v duties and the simpler affair of f life real heroism was not spectacular president iverson followed we do not enaw it impressed others but it to the humble reporter that the two speakers consciously or put tere vere actuated from the same impulse pres iversons Iver sona address was really an n appeal for justice to the character and motives pt pf alexander 11 stevena stevens the brains and the force of the confederacy and for those who were associated with him he ile called attention to service of these men to the nation to their conduct during the war and to their resignation in the final hour of defeat he ile recited one of father ryans beautiful poems and dwelt upon the authors sweet character his conscientious life and loyal service he ile showed how they in their bitter hour had bad neither malice nor envy and were still obsessed oba essed by their one main impulse the obtaining of what they considered to be a fund am antal right and how they put upon the shoulders of the fea leaders deris of the union the weight of consciousness in the accomplishing of that same matter pres iverson that slavery was but an arz incident of the war fot tot its real cause evidentially Evi dentally referring ferrine re to state rights both addresses address es were remarkable not only from their diversity of view and commonness of purpose but also from their breath in the handling and strength tn in the presentation sen tation those who were present went away with a better acquaintance of the worlds struggles ard ita its consequences than they could have had ad before the a program waa was concluded with bereal bere dlton tion by the rev nichola nichols formerly of price but now of salt lake city |