Show I CUSTERS I MEMORiAL o I t I E t I Monroe Mich Juno 4 With President President dent dont Taft In attendance as the orator of the occasion the tho nation state city and adjacent farming district united hero today In paying tribute to the tho memory of General George Geor e Armstrong Custer who with of his cavalry cavalrymen men was slain by Sitting Bulls Dulls baud ba d dof of Sioux Indians at tho the battle of ot the Little Big HI Horn In the Band Lands of or Montana June 25 1876 An equestrian statute of General Custer for which the legislature of Michigan appropriated atel was unveiled by b tho the Gen Generals Generals Generals niece Miss Katherin DIsbrow Governor Fred M 11 Warner was wasI official representative at atthe I tho the dedication and anel veterans of tho the thoI I four tour Michigan cavalry regiments that composed the Custer brigade In tho the civil war acted as an escort ot or honor to the President in III tho the parade paralIe An Interesting participant was the tho Indian scout who at the thc time Ume ot or the battle was a n young youn boy boyl and the thc only member of Custers command com command l mand to slaughter Thousands of visitors heard the tho ad address address address dress of President Pre Taft and there were cre many distinguished guests In Including eluding Mrs John A Logan United States Senator William Alden Smith and a number of General Custers army arm comrades of the Civil war After the exercises exorcises here President Taft and hit party wont to Jackson Mich to participate In the thc dedication of a tablet commemorating the tho organ organization organIzation of or tho the Republican part party under the oaks at Jackson In June 1854 1554 i |