Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-05-25
MEMORIAL day
WILL Be Celebrated.
The Usual Ceremonies uil1 Take
Place.
pLEASAHTVILLE WILL TRY 10 Do her PART.
AN EVENING CELEBRATION WILL BE HELD
AT THE BAPTIST CHURCH-THERE WILL
BE SPEAKING, REGULATIONS, AND SINGING
III
OF THE NATIONAL AIRS.

Memorial Day will be celebrated here
as usual, and if the day is pleasant a
very large crowd may be expected from
Atlantic City to join our citizens in hon
Oring the memory of the dead.
The railroads will run special trains
during the day, and large numbers OF
people will come over the meadows on
their wheels.
Commander Ivory, of Joe Hooker
Post, has made the following assign
ments of veterans in details to decorate
the graves in the several cemeteries iii
the southern section Of the county, the
Posts of Hammonton aud Egg Harbor
City performing the same sad duties in
their own vicinity:
Mays Landing and vicinity-Com-
mander R. C. Ivory, commanding 2. ?.
Commanders George F. Currie, l.. G..
Albertson, HI. e. Norman, Henry Benin,
L. +. Ham, Chaplain Hiram Williams,
s. NJ, Samuel R. Stebbins, Comrades
Joseph Ell. Holmes, W. ID. Bright, JUS
tice Selbert, A. H. Crapper. j. W. Hol-
mes, John s. Risley, John S. Ireland,
Enoch Shaw.
This detail will return and all other
comrades of the Post not otherwise de-
tailed will report at Post Hall at 1.30
D. m. to proceed to Atlantic City Gene
terry for the purpose of holding memorial
services.
Salem, Central, Asbury and Zion ceme-
teries-S. V. Commander John K. Mac
Allister, commanding p. 2, Command
ers George Fl. Perkins, s. l.. Westcoat,
d. Fl. Mckinney. Thomas c. Adams,
Adiutant George B. Z1ne, Comrades
Abel English, Samuel s. Somers, j. V.
Albertson, Samuel Horn, Charles W..
Fisher, Lewis Robinson, Thomas Samp-
SOD, Henry Somers, Elisha Ingersoll,
Aaron x. Smith, David R. Lashley
John FL. Broner. ,
This detail will return to Pleasantville
for the purpose of assisting at Atlantic
City Cemetery at 8 p. m.
Mt. Pleasant. Absecon, Smithville,
Leeds Point and Port Republic ceme-
teries-J. V. Commander Charles Horner,
commanding, P. p. Commanders. Henry
Higbee, B. F. Comley. B. L. Stevens,
Henry Lake, o, G.. John T. Smith, Com
rades Albert johnson, A F Higgins,
jesse L. Clark. Henry Bates, Jacob
Stoke, Albert Horton, Martin Valister,
Adam Zsigler, Merritt A. Sizer, Cornelius
Dutch.
This detail will report at Post Hall
at 6 80 a. m. to take the 40 q. m
train on the W. j. R. r. for Pleasant
vile, thence by carriages to the above
named cemeteries.
On Sunday forenoon Rev. james Luff-
barry will preach a special sermon, ap-
propriate to the occasion, at st. Johns
Church, to which. the old soldiers and
the patriotic orders are especially invit-
ed.
Monday evening, Union services will be
held in the Baptist Church, Rev. Arthur
Douglas pastor. The pastors of all the
churches have been invited to take part
and several well-known citizins are also
expected to make addresses. A pleasing
feature will be the singing of the
National Airs by the United Church
choirs-closing with "The Star Spangled
Banner" in which the audience is invited
to join.
The Press would like to see celebra-
ton befitting the Day and the occasion,
and hopes to see handsome procession
headed by the Band, the Mayor and
Borough Council, the civic organiza-
tions and the Sunday School children,
all escorting the old soldiers as their
guests of honor. There is time enough
to make all the needed arrangements
Let Pleasantville take the lead and make
the Day one to be remembered With
pleasure.