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Show DECORATION DAY. r, Holiday.; Largely Observed by the :$&dar People. Work-of Plgji'B Water to Cemetery Consummated- Pitting Mem- orlal Services, ft It was Jndoed a proud moment in the history ,nf Codar wbon crystal jots of plpovnter shot into tbo nlr ond fell' B8j" 'n cooling sprays over tho 'parchod soil of tho cemetery. Never untlfj1 the momout that this accessory ofiOlvlllzatlon appeared in the oomotery an actual fnot did tho pooplo of Codar fully realize tbo possibilities wltblu tboir reach for improving and making beautiful their oity of the dead. That they aro taking a lively interest, however, was shown by tho number who-visited the oemotery Saturday. "All day long n stream of people on foot and In vehicles passed baok and. forth loaded down with flowers ; and Wnnuy woro tho graves remembered with tbeso fair tributes. A number 'of tho moro practical minded tbok'ihoea, shovels and rakes and put iny their time cleaning up their family plots. In apito of the intense hoat which kept mnnynwHT wbo would havo liked to bo prosont, n good crowd was in attendauoe ut tho I o'olook sorvioes. Tho choir was out, and sang a number num-ber of appropriate selections which sounded very sweet in tho snored quiet of aJ burying ground. "Tho Origin and' Purposo of Decoration Day", formed tho subject for on eloquent elo-quent address by Ellas Corry, in whioh bo paid a glowing tribute to tho heroes of the Civil War in whoso honor tho day had been founded. Dr. Middletbr gave iun address on teoinaJ3ec;cjivwrll?n. VHti$J, Ho describedtStho pifttbboy of Westminster in Loudon, and expressed ex-pressed tbo desire to soo a similar national burying ground established in the United 'Statos, in which tbo groat of tho notion oould find a resting rest-ing place, and whioh would provo u bond of patriotism among tho pooplo poo-plo und an Inspiration to men to dovoto tboir lives to grent and good oausos and thus merit a worthy distinction dis-tinction when their lifo's work was ended. Tho speaker also desoribod tbo beautiful comotory of Gettysburg, and oonoludod with an inspiring appeal to tho pooplo of Codar to beautify thler own littlo cemetery aud mako it n flt resting plaoo for tho bolovcd members of tholr households wbo lio burled thoro. A sontiraout by Kato Palmor and n reading, "Tho DIuo and tho Gray," by Myrtlo Dookor mode up tho rest of tho program. pro-gram. Altogether it was of such ox-aollcnco ox-aollcnco that it can only bo hoped that in tho futuro similar exorcises will form part of tho program of ovory Deooratiou Day obsorvod In Cedar. That the pooplo aro awako to tho possibilities within roach for beautifying beautify-ing the oomotory would soom apparent from tbo interest which has boon taken in it not only within tho last few days but. within tho last year. A numbor of haudsomo monuments ranging In prices" up to 8500 hnvo been lately put up; the sagebrush is boing grubbod out; driveways and woIks hare boon smoothed nnd lovollod; many family lots show tho rosultof rorsonul supervision. Onoof tbo greatest linprovotnouts has been made in tho romovol of tho fences from around tho family lots. Thoy gavo tho graves n lonely, shut-in look, and cannot begin to compare In at-trnotivouoss at-trnotivouoss with tho flowor borders aud greon bodges whioh will soon take-tholr take-tholr pIboo. Now all that Ib ueeded is ouorgy nnd a very llttlomoahs to mako 'our comotory a must beautiful .spot. It is within tbd$owef of every 'citizen to oontributo'somb'tlilng to thjsond ; and if opoliwlli consider liimsolf under n 3ucrod obligation to push' the labor of planting lawns, flowerbeds and shade trees, "it will not bo long beforo Cedar vilf, buvq a tjlty pf tho dead whioh wflljjplje pride hniVtnlki of all southonf'utab, .' , |