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Vol. Il. No. 3 
HONORED DEAD. 
Manchester Post decked graves of Departed 
Comrades with Beautiful Wreaths 
and Garlands. 
Memorial Day with all its hallowed 
and sacred memories, when the ever 
decreasing number of battle scarred 
heroes of the days of °61, with their 
ever weaking step march forth to 
honor their departed comrades, the 
day of all daysin the year when the 
fragment of that vast army who 
fought for the nation’s honor and pre- 
servation are held up before the youth 
of the land as a lesson in patriotism 
and loyalty, has come and gone. 
In Manchester the day was fittingly 
observed with memorial exercises in 
the town hall in the afternoon, fol- 
lowed by ceremonies and decorating of 
the graves at the various cemeteries, 
and in the evening by a patriotic en- 
tertainment in the town hall. 
The day was ideal, it being cool 
enough to make marching comfortable, 
quite in contrast with last year when 
LYMAN W. FLOYD, 
In command of Camp 149, S. of V. 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1905 
EF LEP WoUR, 
Three Cents 
the veterans marched out in a pouring 
rain and decorated the graves. 
Shortly before two o’clock the mem- 
bers of Post 67, headed by the Man- 
chester Brass band, and under escort 
of Camp 149, Sons of Veterans, 
marched from headquarters to the 
town hall, Camp A. E. Lowe, U.B.B.A. 
following in the rear. 
Here the usual form of program was 
carried out as follows: 
Selection, ‘‘ The Call to Arm,” by Veazie, 
SOC Gab id fe be toter ..High School Glee Club 
BYraverats csnres 7: Rev. Darius F, Lamson 
Reading of the Genral Order by the Post 
Adjutant, James H. Rivers, closing 
with a reading of Lincoln’s “ Speech 
Before Gettysburg,” by Allen S. Pea- 
body. 
Selection, “Pro Patria,” by Wilson, 
NN eta re ore a ae Glee Club 
Singing, ‘‘ America.” 
The oration, by Rev. Dr. Berle of 
Salem, was one of the most eloquent 
ever delivered in the hall. Himself 
the son of a Missouri veteran, the 
speech was overflowing with patriot- 
ism and expressions of loyalty. 
“It is likely as the country expands,” 
said the speaker in the course of his 
address, ‘that we shall have added 
occasions like these but none which 
shall exceed in impressiveness the ser- 
vices of Memorial Day. There is a 
rising generation to which the Civil 
War is only a matter of history.”’ 
He then urged a more thorough 
study of the nation’s history by the 
children, saying that on this depended 
a great deal of the nations strength. 
“The war,” he declared, “‘was the 
widening of the wider door of the gen- 
eral liberty of mankind.” Continuing 
he said in part: 
“As time advances more and 
more it becomes clear that the 
great Civil war of America was one 
of the most unique and impressive 
events that has happened in the his- 
tory of the world. Before the gen- 
eration that actually engaged in 
that great and bloody struggle has 
passed away, we are face to face 
CHIEF S. S. PEABODY, 
Who led the Parade, 
with the singular and almost un- 
heard-of spectacle of the return of 
that battle flags by the late war- 
riors, and the exchange of courte- 
sies and hospitalities and the foster- 
ing of friendships among the men 
who once sought to annihilate one 
another with the destructive and 
bloody instruments of carnage and 
slaughter. 
“T count it among the happiest of 
omens that this should have been 
accomplished before the men who 
were in the Civil war have actually 
passed from the scene and the 
Grand Army will have no greater 
glory than this: that before it 
passed out of existence it has seen 
the animosities and hatreds engen- 
dered by the Civil strife wiped 
away, and possibly the time will 
come when we shall take the old 
standards from their old cases and 
burn away even the last traces of 
the war itself. Could anything show 
the nobility—the moral splendor of 
the American nation better than 
