And It Didn't Rain

ú day has come and gone, and tha: the most generally observed occasions of the kind ever held in the city. S how there was more solemnity attached to the R. hat than people have tofore given it. Right at this time when we are in the midst of a w.ir. the end of whieh none can foretell, the fastly thinning out ranks of old soldiers going the inereasing number of graves of departed coinrades and paying their yearly tribute seem to excite a deeper veneration in the rising generation than ever before. Bu1 very few stuy.-s opened yteeterday to do business and those that did closed al noon, her unusual occurrence in Ann Arbor. The d n ideal one. Npt too hot for the long , , the Fifth ward cemetery, where mos the r loldierjs ie buried, not too cold to be uncomfortable, and for a vonder i did not rain. This was decidedly unusual fo on day. Ileally the exercises am i atmt to Memorial day commenced Sunday when 56 old G. A. R. men accompanied by 15 Suis of Veterans marched to the Baptist church and listened to an annual sermón given this year by Rev. Mr. Y Yesterday afternoon the soldiers made decoratiou of gravea of departed comrades. The procession formed at the court house. The order ■■■ follows: Becker's Military band. Sons of Veten CT. of M. Rille.--. '.. R. (55men). ■ i ■ . : M. Battalion. Carriages. The 1'. of M. Rifles under Captain Magley made a fin. ce, every man wearing white duck trou They . showed a great proflctency in drill. At the Fifth ward cemetery an address was given by Rev. Sunderiand. In the evening exercises were held in University hall and the big auditorium was two-thirds filled with pecple. Patriotic songs were sung by Jas. R. Sage and the Mozart quartet and Prof. Renwick gave a patrotic prelude on the Columbian organ. Charles Simons, the brilliant University of Michigan orator, reeited "The Charge at South Mountain," and Hon. A. J. Sawyer gave an eloquent Sawyeresque speech- and every Ami Arborite knows that is an intellectual treat. Memorial day, 1898, will certalnly be long remembered as a most eventful one.