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MEMORIAL TABLET UNVEILEDMIDUMUAL TAIiLKT I .WKILKDLast Sunday evening- just at the setting, of the sun a beautiful bronze Memorial Tablet was unveiled on ; the Square in front of the Postoffice.; The tablet is set in a large boulder : se--uiit*d from the mountain and ! marks the Elm Tree Memorial plant-; -d over a year ago to vusiimemorate ; the hoys ot Bedford who made the ; supreme sacrifice in the World War.I r'l ♦ T 4 a _me Inscriptions on the Tableti gain a crucial hour of our history had struck. Liberty was at stake. The fate of our free institutions hung in the balance'. More than one nation across the sea believed our form of government, would reveal a f.iia! weakness the moment any .-train of international significance w.i-; ’ ut upon it. Our power to unite for .. great purpose and in a supreme concerted effort was seriously doubted. The greatest skeptic of all was William Hoheuzolleru the one-time dreaded emperor of Germany. Buts-e how magnificently our constitution adapted itself to the new and awful emergence. Witness the con-: are:| ! Howard 1\ Booty, killed j script ion act that called to the colors[ August 7, 1018, along the Yesle Iliv-j er, near Fisuics: Sergt. Charles IS. •Leader killed Sept. 29, 1018, in the j Aigonne Forest; Private First-Class ! fdiy 1 Sol linger, killed Sept. 27, Av-‘gonne; Sergt. Cyril .J. Straub, died (Jet. 1, 1918, front wounds received in the Argonne: V. S. Army Xur.se L. Mildred Parsons, died Oct. 8 at Embarkation Hospital, (’amp Stuart, I .Newport News; Li . Alexander M • Mussel 1, killed Xlt;v. I, 1918 nearthe finest and best from every fireside in our broad land. Behold our boys, the flower of our young manhood. in uniform and trnind for successful battle in a time so short that all the world was amazed. In conjunction with our valient allied armies they broke tlie sword of militarism. for all rime let us pray, they hurled autocracy from its throne,they set the trembling peoples free. !.lt;nri they laid low -he frightful m~-n-i Haumont, France. “Future 'z:ev:i-1 :Tf,v 1hnf ThrPiiroiiPrl onr purity n:id tarns will perpetuate the memory of I upon Amorimm soil,our heroes by i en'ewiny;, ever, at this spot, a memorial elm/’IVof. J. Anson Wright, Cashier/ ofBur. ah, my Mk* prfwsmistrwi snrc of liberty bus always boon pn?l!v. Tts price js sar-rifie^ and suf-| (he Hartley Hank made tlio address | H'-vin-r b!ood and V»:irs. As wo rnjnice of the evening-which was as follows: I !lt;d:«y in our triumpus. wo think am*Cel low citizens! By wb.at a proud ) title indeed I am permitted To salute | you when I address you as fellow citizens; citizens'Of our great Ameri-of I he seventy thousand brave Ariai'i-sloop henenlh the blnor]-**:? ] rmd soil of Frn nt’o. That is flu* r* a son for; can republic, at once the most po\v-j°ur ff^thorinir hmv in t.hn quiet and : erfuland the most beneficent dem- lenity of this Snbbnih evening; ocracv of all the time. Yet only yes-i rerday. so to speak, we were engag-; ed in s mighty struggle, involving on one side or the other practically all the nations and peoples of. the earth, to determine whether govern merit by the people should live or die. and whether we should be able today and in future years to greet one another as fellow citizens or as fellowhour.This elm i‘~ planted and flvs !oh-it and stone arc Y: up in m.i-nvvT of th.osf- of our own town who made I ho supremo sac-'dficp in I he World War in order iliar ri free -nation.with its free insfiiuIinn« might re-linrn to us and In those that sue. 11 follow us.Tt is fitting that this beautiful me-subjects. We are met. to honor and j morial which we now dedicr,^ shouldso far as possible to perpetuate the P need in no other spo than theone in which we now stand. It tnomemory of a few of those who inthat great struggle gave up their'lives-ihat our common country mightcontinue t-o be the land of the free.We are at this moment surrounded on every hand by reminders of the free institutions under which we live, by symbols of the rich inheritance won and preserved by those who gave all or risked all that this;heritage ’might be ours.... 3?-here A stands - the county . court ^tkmset a: witness to th ecb'mpl eteness ’• plfa our...; self•^gpveruineii'L. Enter: its doors, as you may without let or hindrance, and look upon its venerable records. You may see there, for : 'example, in his own hand the signa-• jture of one of the great generals of : | the Revolutionary War, the first pro-. | (honorary of Bedford County. He too. j ’lived in a crucial hour of our history.! Tt was in the time of the immortal . .'Washington, the time when it had to r,'vl „ t:the name of their home and orspirits of the departed ever return to the scenes of this earthly life, surely the spirits nf those whose names are here reeorled. in bronze must linger often and long about these Familiar grounds, llrs meeting place of their childhood dlt;fs.^And it is.by happy thought*that a part of this.-memorial is a native growing tree, and that the stone chosen is no.t -some/'carved and fashioned. piece of marhl’e bi*ought from afar’ '' rather this rugged rock, lifted from” our' own majestic •mountains, and in its natural and pristine beauty- set up in memory of these our dearl defenders. We cannot add. to the lustre of their names; we can only give gatefnl. if inadequate, expression by word and deed to our sense of pride in the heroism nf those who went forth from ourn a-j be decided by force of arms whether ! this new world, the haven of the nn-! pressed was to be free and indep-| endent or to be forever a mere pro-! vince of Great BriMan. submit tins: i In taxation without representation and to government in which the crov-hills to„vn’ite • I’.eir names andhome land in in off ac-'-nblo lpttes upon one of the brightest pages of history.France, of her own free w:B and out of the gratitude ofyarned had no voice. That was lb e; A time whr-n the clarion notes of free-!! leanherpearr.¥t flke•*PJ‘i u fi\ mer-wh- -•• thryn ^ F1 % 1 h y *!- ■ rr:f' i f‘**• 1m r-x ■: j oTOi «'»j yt\b;--•kM:i •••.‘ - :ind1 creep the graves nf lhr tboys who lie haW'd w!:• '■■■'■: dom rang out from the Old Liberty j • !l' ‘hat 1■ Bell in Independence Hall pnii'lairn-! f i;f' oome niing- ••liberty Ihrouchont. the land rind j 1,Vf,1':P °P-:n; fo all the inhabitants rimi-eof. If was ilie time when this nt w nation was .foil ndfld / the time whr-n on r ma vvelousiy per reeled consti1 ui inn was for mu in i ed and adopted. theI1 1 inlt;o \v1h'T- sf)tnc* O: 11:0 mofil r:]u‘i !h-«?(] '* nsTrs nf Amor icon oit , w'ci'f* fnrr-vor cun rn nrnorl by 7?vrw-THM'^rirm into 11 ] o snn)*r*mr* rifIsinri. Tyn:r?p(1 by tho! convf ]inuo■1 .'i!■ •*1 siu*!i r-;:ci-or] cA'i] ri:.-lit ;,r-■ i hlt;• riyii t nf ;■ sspill 1 !y ?j ?id ■ f •'■■’:•! by in?*v. \:iq u«. forint r*: ob ot*! vt'rirp :itro. Frii-ii'*'*I'M.-- -Ironri invnrlnr r.t is,\(\ «ronl fn:-! nt- Vr.-1'ny r!‘yypi •?;/-. t^i rlo ’: ni*o(1 T1'-”1 i-1 o; 17k^ 7-* r !'toj --i.rTn-bonrfimI. Fusncr- ^01- foe-11 Tr'-'if• y tbn '.viTiiioi ni' :lrif hi?-lrsnlt;1 Vi;t t'r• b'-/rur: 41-/- Vn-i but '.ui:'* Ti-riclno:’•S.] ;’ ;*iv:'.t;i ifT.;i { y \ -1 W ! 1*1-01 .'■* r»r f it qrli*‘ n -tf■ nf: it I,,\ nv711*N fl-br..1*n; ry-A •• V. r- y • ] • rjwo of t|h‘ sovnr':1.: tr *-i I - I! v i.1:- of our int'-ii, ^yrrllio! •-flom I;: rO!l.-.oi£-!':CTy OJ' 1’rd ] lt;'*'(»11 J r T: 1 Of \V!) f -:! 1 J ] J, so fb’Mr 111 OVOiy oA i .: ; ; . | ;(■ yi .'* ]' :TO I rN T ’ - i ;*• *;.l V •’ ■ ? j l i1 1-OWr !V;j\\f»W ofTi m*. : ;1 ■ ! ? yt Or! :.no. v io -'ci'Otl I'ljsi of f’• io:i r/ii;. #*oSTb'T'O: oi t i!/ 1'0*« I.i;^,hr nil:' ]K:tT0!l;:l r 0:15^ t ; T 1I: [ r}\: .* ••itir :‘V'-i‘v b:is* if r,\vr “•! n hor!i\ !! y- n w\\ v.'ovlcThat si-lent soldier srandht.v M. st:i'-uesqne fnrtii on the top of yonrp-'r granite monument, reminds us of another time some sixI y ypa rs gir,r. inthe days of our immedir-.te fathers, when aenin ir was. to he deckled only by the rtrend arbitrament (f the sword .whether the nation which nnr fo: efa J hers had established a- such • I. fearful cost- in Mood and ancuish a was ;o contimio in its rrro:i and : i. strength. or to he torn a-and 'r: j o die! her hum nr. lieir.gs in this hoasr-;A I- ‘ q r»v f -**:r:i ’1 t*! o-!! c »s 1 I . I y. 1 1 rll'l'l* 1»',r1 . _ r i i*\ f-«B f71S’,' 1 11« «-1 «*•*, T• 1’ T*•? t I I iri'*T i - ‘}) • • (i n? t f ': o r 1: ■ -f i^rl i wd n:A r-•! v ■ : • d i; c * by wr B-a ::1 ’•• 'V.. 1 I ' i * '■ '’• - P 'ijtl** .: • lt;m •a iv: 1 . ..Itl-.vI-•:i,. od land of the free, were rW h’ pitv'-j e 1 ed on the auction block an! sold io;;' - the highest hi'-Vler like horses eiultr J j ca 111 e and h e 1 d over in rho c: a ni n g j s. ! chains of slavery. That. ton. was a|c _ critical hour. T! was the day of the mi J illustrious Tdncoln. Tt was the day 1; M whcn*millions of men nf Ihe while 1; ,|race offered up their lire? that mili-ii T ions of men of the black race might j The loosed from their chains. Tt was. d ; Ihe day when union and liberty fri-jt iumpherl and when as a result of the ; utmost valor and sacrifice ibis na-: tion was not divided but was kept$ n* one Fstrnni^ nation with bnt n fiimp--,hc Hag and that Hag the STARS AX'D M STRTPES.r ■ And here before us is this hand \ j some Federal Building, symbolizing I Cat once the service and the protect- 1-s!:ng power, of our national govern-men?. Tt was the power of our national government that was challeng-s ed in the Great German War. Once
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Bedford Gazette
Bedford, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jul 30, 1920
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