Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-24

The arrangements for Memorial Day, next
Saturday, were about completed at the
meeting of the committee last night at Mu-
nfcipal Hall. Owing to the incompleteness
OF the programmes for the various GENE
terieS, an extended account is impossible
Posts3, Al, 206 230 and 259 will have charge
OF the ceremonies at Allegheny Cemetery.
Rev. M. B. Riddle will deliver the oration.
Posts IS, 12S and 162 of Allegheny, will
have charge at Uniondale and Troy HILLS
and 12S holding service at Uniondale and
Bellevue and 162 at Troy Hill. The orator at
Uniondale will be Rev. j. r. Miller. At Troy
Hill the orators will be (English) Rev. Mr..
Satchell and Germany Rev. Mr.. Pick. The
Sons Of Veterans will decorate the Soldiers
Monument on the hill and the Hampton
Monument in East Park.
On the Southside Post 151 will hold services
at the old Methodist graveyard and will
send details to other cemeteries. Frank 1.
Gosser will deliver the Grafton.
Post 236 will hold services in the Southside
cemetery Comrade Daniel AShworth of
Post will deliver the address. The Allen
School Drum Corps will escort the post.
Minersville cemeteries. The service will be
held at Oakland. Rev. c. E. Locke will de-
liver the oration. The post will be escorted
by the Washington Infantry and the Mon
Post III will hold services in the Home
wood Cemetery. Rev. Dewitt NJ. Benham
will deliver the address. Early in the morn
ing detail from the post will decorate at
the German Lutheran Cemetery.
Post will hold services at Sewickley in
the afternoon.
The services in all the cemeteries will con-
s1st as usual of addresses, singing, etc. The
most complete arrangements have been
made for the gathering of flowers and dec
Grating the graves of the soldier dead.
At the close of the general service in Allie
gheny Cemetery, Post 25e will hold its spe-
cial services at the graves of comrades VIII o
were members of the post.
Comrade Thomas G.. Sample, of Post 12S,
vii! deliver the Memorial Day Grafton at
Zel1enople, Butler county.
Samuel Harper Camp No. 162, Sons of Vet
Grams, will turn out with Post 157 on Memo
rial Day.
that lack of space prevents the publication
of Department. Commander Boyer's Memo
rial Day order. 1t is beautiful tribute to
the soldier dead and fairly. teens with
patriotism. 1t is well worthy of preservation.
The members of Mcpherson w. r. G..
Auxiliary to Post III are requested to meet
at their hall next Friday at o'clock P. NJ. to
twine garlands. They are also requested to
lay aside some of their choicest blooms, to
be placed on cenotaph in Homewood
Cemetery. A cordial invitation is extended
to everyone having friends buried in the
national cemeteries or in unknown graves
to send flowers or flower pieces, to be placed
on this cenotaph. The children of the East
End are invited to bring flowers, if only q
DOuQueG OF W1lQ DlOSSOHS OF DTdnCQ OF ever
green to lay upon the soldiers graves. All
donations of cut flowers will be left at the
office of Mr.. Krebbs, Shady avenue, near
Penn, on Friday as early in the afternoon as
possible.
Special services will be held at the Arsenal
sufferers graves on Memorial Day, under the
auspices of James A. Garfield Circle No. 10,
Ladies of the G. A. r. All sister circles are
invited to attend.
Sharon Circle No. 43, Ladies of the G. A. R.,
is busy getting ready to assist the comrades
on Decoration Day.
H. B. Hays Circle No. S. Ladies of the G.
A. r., Of Turtle Creek, will assist the post
on Memorial Day.