Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-05-13

posts of the G. A. r. are taking more
| than usual interest in the coming
Memorial Day, and are arranging to
commemorate the lives of the departed
| soldiers with elaborate and most fit
| ting ceremonies. The soldiers vii,
| visit Peninsula, Greenwood. Mount
Wood, Mount Calvary. Stone Church
and Mount Zion cemeteries for the
purpose of conducting the usually in
teresting and impressive services and
decorating the graves with flags. On
Friday afternoon preceding Decora-
| ton Day committees of the G. A. r.
will also visit the High School and
the various ward schools TO assist the
| pupils in conducting exercises of u
| patriotic nature.
Those composing the various squads
that will have charge of the services
in the morning at all the cemeteries
excepting Peninsula, are as follows,
namely:
Greenwood - Richard Robertson,
commander; George B. Caldwell. T. H.
Crago, Capt B. B. Dovener, William
N. Ingersoll, Hugh Sterling, William S.
Grafton, James A. Henry, Edward c.
Harry, Charles Fl. Watkins, Thayer
Melvin, j. D. McFadden, B. ONeill,
J. T. Roseberry, William H. Travis.
William H. Chapman, George Fittner,
George Crumbacker and M. A. Liller.
Mount Wood-Caleb Sylvis, com
mander; Henry Pebler, Fred, Burk-
hart John Batchler, William NJ, Nor
gan, Andrew Gray, William 7. Ham
ilton, Hugh H. Alexander, ]. R. Foster,
j. w. Harrison, Thomas R. Belleyille.
| Thomas V. Salisbury, H. t. Mayer,
John McAdams, Albert Stump, Daniel
Uselton, J. N. Taylor, Charles F.
Klievis. James Montgomery and Fer
dinand Fey
Mount Calvary-H. T. Felber, COM
mander; Col Thomas O'Brien, Levi
Bacher, D. F. Mckinley, Patrick Ma
honey, John J. Myles, Bernhart Metz
ner, James mckinley, William Tucker,
John l. Blowers, John LAUREL AMI
Frank Plankey.
Stone Church-Charles T. Reed.
commander; J. N. Little, Nehemiah
Nickerson, l. V. Barton, Henry Lunan,
| Samuel Davis, John L. Wise, Samuel
Laughlin, w. w. Rodgers, r. s. Taylor
and John Long.
| The following committees have been
chosen to visit the public schools:
| Washington School,. w. Harmi-
son, Ferdinand Fey, John B. Batchlor,
II d
Lincoln School-B. B. Dovener
Caleb Sylvis, E. E. Harry and Andrew
Gray.
Clay School-C. T. Reed, Thomas
Salisbury, John L. Wise and William
| Tucker.
Union School-R. S. Taylor, John
McAdams, VIM. Ingersoll, John B.
| O'Neill, l. " Barton and Patrick Ma
| honey.
Center School-James H. Henry, j.
D. McFadden, Levi hatcher, Charles T.
Kleivis and VIM. H. Travis.
Webster School,. F. Mckinley, F.
! Plankey, Henry Pebler, Bernard Metz
ner and w. w. Rodgers.
Madison School-H. j. Felber, A.
Stump, C. F. Watkins and William H.
Chapman.
Richie School-Members OF Steph-
ems Post.
| The principal exercises of the day
will be held in the afternoon at the
Peninsula cemetery, where all the
members of the local organizations of
the G. A. R. are expected to assemble.
| The chief addresses of the occasion
will be made by Governor G. w. Atkin-
son. and the programme will be varied
by appropriate musical selections.
According to custom, the members
of Stephens Post will march to Mt.
Zion cemetery in the morning and
will hold services of a specially inter
esting nature. The post will be &C
companied by firing squad COM
posed of soldiers of the Spanish
American war and also by five or six
! hundred pupils of the Ritcnie schools.
These children will assist the soldiers
in decorating the graves. The prin-
cipal address at this cemetery will be
made by Frank w. Nesbitt.
! At each of the various public schools
| in the city the exercises on Friday
afternoon preceding Decoration Day
will consist of patriotic music and
reeitations by the children and a2pTo-
pirate addresses by the visiting mem
bers of the G. A. r.
Among those who will compose the
committee for the High School are
/ Congressman B. B. Dovener and Rich
ard Robertson. Every department OF
the Richie school is arranging a
programme for the day