The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-05-28
Decoration of Soldiers Graves on
aturday, May Goth.
PROGRAMME.

PROGRAMME.
PRoCEssION-ORDER OF FORMATION.
The Crescent City Band will form
on the corner of First and Main
Streets. All soldiers who wish to
march in the procession will form on
First Street, with the right resting on
Main. Masons in rear of soldiers on
First Street.
The various lodges of the i. O. 0.
F. will form on First Street, below
Main.
The Temperance Societies will form
on Second above Main.
The Evansville Turnverein on Sec
ond below Main.
The Democratic Silver Band on the
corner of Main and Second Streets.
The Cornet Band on the corner Of
Main and Third Streets.
The Artillery and Fire Companies
will form on Third Street, below
Main.
Wagons, buggies, and all vehicles
will form on Third Street, above Main.
The procession will begin forming
at one o'clock on the corner of First
and Main, and march to the GENE
terry.
The various organizations will be
assigned their places while forming,
as follows:
1. Crescent City Silver Band.
2. Soldiers.
3. Masonic Lodges.
4. l. o. o. f. Lodges.
5. Democratic Silver Band.
6. Evansville Turnverein.
Z. Temperance Societies.
s. Evansville Cornet Band.
9. Fire Companies.
10. Artillery. .l
IL. President Of the day and Speak
ers.
II. Mayor and Common Council
13. Vehicles.
Upon arriving at the Cemetery,
the procession will be halted long
enough for those persons ia vehi-
Giles to secure their horses and take
their places again in the procession,
which will then move into the GENE
terry and be distributed By divisions
among the soldiers graves When
the entire procession is thus stationed
a salute viii be fired by the artillery,
which will be the signal for the deco
ration of the graves, accompanied By
music from the bands, After the
decoration is flashed, the assembly
will repair to the stand at the summit
of the grounds, where the following
order of exercises, interspersed with
music, will be observed:
l. Prayer, by Rev: r. Andrus.
2. Address, by Col. j S. Buchanan.
3. Address, in German, by Rev.
Chas. Runck.ss
4. Address. by Rev. j. ?. I. Kun
Ter.
5. The procession will then be re-
formed and march back to the city.
OFFICERS:
President of the Day, Colonel Jas.
G. Jones; Marshal Capt. H. Q. Good
ing; Assistant MarshaIs, Captain 7.
@. Smith. T. w. Murray, Major Jesse
Walker, Samuel Wytteubach, Peter
Marker, Colonel j. T. Grill Captain
Alex. Darling, Capt. d. D. Doughty,
Captain L. K@hler, DR. NJ Null
hansen. H. G. GooDING, Marshal.
The EVANSVILLE & ILLINOIS
RAILROAD AN IMPORTANT MOVE
MENT.-The people of Evansville, we
are glad to see, are waking up to the
importance of opening up railroad
communication with Illinois. The
fact has become palpable to our bust
ness men and capitalists that if we
would retain the trade that we have
heretofore commanded, aud would Sc
cure the additional trade that legiti-
mately belongs to Us, we must have
railroad communications with South
eru aud Southern Central Illinois.
The progress now being made in the
construction of the Vincennes 4 Cairo
Railroad admonishes our citizens
that the time for action has come.
Subscription papers were opened on
ednesday, and S27, 900 have already
been subscribed, and it is expected
that by to night $50.000-the sum
necessary to form a company-will be
subscribed, when the company will be
at once organized. The design IS to
build railroad from this city to some
point in Illinois, in the direction of
GRANVILLE or Carmi. not only to tap
the Vincennes & Cairo road, but to
connect and form part Of one of the
roads extending through Southern
Illinois in the direction of st. Louis
or Chicago. This is an enterprise Of
vital necessity to the commercial
prospects of our city, transceuding in
| importance all other railroad enter
prises now projected. With a rail
road built from this city into Illinois,
connecting with the railroad system
of that State, and with the f. III. &
! N X r eompleted. the straight-lIne