Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-05-15
MEMORIAL DAY.
Program of Exercises to be Held at
Cresco on May goth.

TlEAD2UARTERS,
MEMORIAL PosT, No. .216, GAR,
Cresco, Iowa, May 9, 1896.
General Order No. 1.
l. In obediance to General Orders,
Department Headquarters, the mem.
bers of this Post and all old soldiers
will assemble at Post Hall at O'Clock
a. M, Saturday, May goth, to observe
Memorial Day.
II. The committee to decorate
graves at Oaklawn will meet at court
house at 7 O'Clock a, M, sharp. Said
committee is composed of Comrades
N. S. Durg!n, A. McAndrew, M. A.
Taft. All Comrades are invited to
assist in this decoration.
Ill. AT 9 a, m. the column will
form in front of court house park and
march to Market street, South Side,
where teams will be in waiting to
convey the Post and Corps to New
Oregon cemetery, where the usual
cemetery exercises will be held. The
procession will form in the following
order, viz:
The Band.
Memorial Post and all old soldiers.
The Women's Relief Corps.
Floral Brigade, in charge of W.R.C.
The Public and Parochal Schools.
Civic Societies.
Citizens.
~. Memorial Post, Relief Corps,
Sons of Veterans, Public and Parochi-
al Schools. and Civic Societies will
meet at Odd Fellows Hall at 1:,o
p. M, and march to Court House
Park, where usual services will be gone
through, viz:
Decorating Soldiers Monument by
Floral Brigade.
Music by the Band.
Song.
Prayer by Rev. o. H. Holmes.
Song.
Grafton by Rev. Comrade S r.. Fer
guson, of Waukon.
Song.
Benedlction by Rev. Geo. Leslie.
V. Commander c. H. Miller will
act as Marshal and will be obeyed aud
respected accordingly.
vi. Color Bearer. Alex Mcintosh,
Is hereby detailed as Color Bearer
and will carry the Post colors.
VII. Committee on Music-Com-
rades c. H. Miller, S. D. Towne, PC.
Howe.
VIII. Committee on Teams-Com.
rades S. d. Towne, N. S. Durgin, Jay
VanSlyke.
IX. Committee on Grounds Com.
rade N. S. Durgin.
Committee ou Program, Invitations,
etc., c. II. Miller, w. B. Webster,
P. ]. McCullow.
X. Committee on erection of stand,
seats, etc.-Comrades N. S. Durgin,
H. c. Howard, Geo. Watts, P. ]. Nc.
Cullow, S. D. Towne, Jay VanSlyke,
c. H. Miller. Committee to meet at
9 O'Clock a. m, Friday, May 20.
Al. Committee on decorating sol.
dier's graves at St. Joseph Cemetery
L. Breen, Thos. Cummings, Thos.
Walsh.
XII. Business men of Cresco are
requested to close their places of bust.
ness between the hours of and d ..
m., May 80.
XIII. The attention of all our citi.
zens is respectfully called to the fol.
lowing resolution adopted by the
Nineteenth Annual Encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic:
"Memorial Day is the choicest in the
calendar of the Grand Army, day of
sweet remembrances, dear to every
loyal heart, and any violations of its
sacredness by making it an occasion
of frivollty and amusement, such as
characterize the Fourth of July, should
be treated as an indignty to the com.
rades who died that this country might
live."
XIV. Memorial Post, Relief Corps,
all old soldiers and Sons of Veterans
will meet at Post room, May 24th, at
2:5o p. M, and march to court house
to hear the Memorial sermon by Rev.
I. E. Taylor.
By order of
c. H. MILLER, Commander.
p. !. McCULLow,