Show MONUMENT MT AT THE OLD cekiel to tio citizens Part ici ato in dedicatory service cost of monument is over six hundred dollars dollar about interested citizens were out last sunday to participate in the services in dedicating the monument to the honored dead who lie in the old cemetery in spite of a cutting north wind tile the services were held and the monument was dedicated it was vas too cold for the services to be held at the monument but the south side of the high school building offered a sunny and comfortable spot upon which to present the prepared program after an unlooked unlocked tor for and unexplained delay G W coons ascended tile the steps of the building and called the assemblage to order he announced the orpheus glee club for the opening number the club sang the lord is my shepherd in a pleasing manner orson christensen offered the invocation mayor D P jensen made a short shorty speech telling of the efforts of the citizens ft nho ho had relatives buried in the old cemetery for a monument to mark the last resting place of these early residents of richfield and the pleasure and pride the mayor and city council had taken aiding in the work he urged that these efforts should not cease until the sacred spot was clothed with natures chief adornments grass trees and flowers paul poulson and W C B orrock both of whom have laid loved ones in the old cemetery told of life in those old das dais and expressed appreciation for the work of tile the committee they joined mayor jensen in pleas picas for grass and trees for the old burial burfal ground A double mixed quartette quartet tc sang two selections and an adjournment was taken to the monument blit where with bared heads and reverent attitude the assemblage stood while the glee club sang a selection and joseph S horne home offered a fervent dedicatory prayer and appeal for divine help in preseT preserving ving the grou ground iiI and monument from disaster tile the assemblage lined up on each sido side of the monument and a photographer took goolt a picture of the group with the monument in tile the center the monument is a block of dark grey eastern granite beautifully bea uti fully polished about inches resting on oil an unpolished base of native granite of a lighter hue tho thel whole resting on a broad concrete square on oil the base is a brenyo plate with the names of all the he dead who rest in the old cemetery to the number of the cost of the monument is about the monument is built to endure and if the mayors plea pica is liec heeded deI this can call be made one of the most attractive spots in the city |