The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-10-26
TO Be SET SUNDAY.
Receptacle Containing the Records OF
Kenosha County Soldiers to Be
Placed on Sunday.
ALL CITIZENS ARE INVITED.

Formal Invitation for the Event Has Been
Issued by the Post The Principal Ad-
dress of the Day Will Be Delivered by
the Rev. Henry Scott Roblee-Entire Col
lection Not AS Yet Ready for the Placing
of the Box.
The first public ceremonies in con-
nection with the Soldiers monument,
to be presented to the city by Hon. z.
G. Simmons, will be held on next
Sunday afternoon, when the old
soldiers of the city will gather at the
base of the monument to deposit in
the proper receptacle box containing
the records of the different Kenosha
companies in the war of the rebellion.
The exercises will be of an exceed
ing1y simple nature and will be in
keeping with the sacred duty of the
post in thus calling to mind the lives
and services of their deceased com-
rades. The public invitation to the
ceremonies was issued from the head
quarters of the post this morning and
reads as follows:
Headc uarters Fred S. Lowell Post,
No. $780, Department of Wisconsin, G.
A. R.: Ali members of this post are
requested to meet at the post hall on
Sunday, Oct. %, at 2 O'Clock p. M, to
participate in the exercises incident to
depositing the copper box of records,
relics and rnonentoes in the base of
the Soldiers monument. Ali soldiers
of the civil war and of the Spanish war
are urged tormeet with us and to take
part in the affair.
GEO. HALE, Commander,
Fred S. Lowell Post, G.. A. r.
The proper receptacle in the base of
the soldiers monument is ready to re-
ceive the collection of records, relics
and mementoes such as are usually
deposited in the corner stone.
The forma1ities common to such
occasions viii be observed Under the
direction of Fred S. Lowell Post, Grand
Army of the Republic Ito whom Mr..
Simmonszhas referred the whole mat
teri on Sunday next, October 10Th, at 3
o'clock in the afternoon, at the base of
the monument. 51I .an
1t will be unnecessary to say that the
affair will be entirely in harmony with
the sacredness of the. dayaswhen the
program is announced as follows:
Prayer-Rev. S. W. Nay1or ia veter-
ans SOM. 5foacvI, 5-f
Song America, by the assemb1age,
led by Comrade c.. F. Stemm.9s. I'll
Address-Rev. H. S. Rob1ee IA vet
Grams SOM.
Song-To be selected.
Depositing box of records.
| Benediction.
The public are cordially invited to
attend and to join with heart and voice
in the simple exercises.
GEORGE HALE, Comdr,
Fred S. Lowell Post, G. A. r.
The members of the Post are all
busy collecting the necessary data to
be placed in the box and SO much mat
ter of interest has been found that it
may be found necessary to have two
boxes placed in the base of the monu-
ment instead of one, as was at first
planned. No list of theseu n1etnen toes
of the past will be given out until
after they are placed in their last rest
ing place in the base of the huge gran
tie shaft. The members of the Post,
however, have been very careful in
the collection of the material for this
memorial, and it is assured that no one
will be forgotten, and every hero from
Kenosha county who fought under the
stars and stripes will be remembered.
1t is to be hoped that every one in the
city will turn out and assist in the
placing of this last tribute to the living
and the dead which will be handed
down to posterity by the magnificent
Gift of Mr.. Simmons.