The Wheatland World

Memorial Day Observed.

Memorial day services were held at Wheatland Saturday by Henry Tisch Post No. 112, G. A. R., assisted by the Modern Woodmen camp. The orders met at Goodrich hall at 10:30 a. m., after which they drove to the cemetery, where beautiful and appropriate services were conducted, and the graves of all old soldiers decorated. The services were very interesting and were witnessed by over two hundred people who were in attendance. C. D. Griffin was in charge of the services as commander.

Much has been written and said concerning Memorial day, but no more beautiful tribute has been paid to the memory of our soldier dead than are the remarks made by Abraham Lincoln in his address at Gettysburg.

Mr. Lincoln's address was short, but was a masterpiece, and the remarks are so true to the exemplary life of that great statesman that we reproduce them here:

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We are met to dedicate a portion of it as the final resting place of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a large sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us. that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth."