Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-01
MEMORIAL DAY.
Augustus Most Notable Ser
VA vices in Sixteen Years.
Potted Plants Placed at the Graves oil
American Soldiers.
300 Men in Procession to Observances
at Soldiers Monument.


Grand Army hall, where met Comrades
of Seth Williams Post, No. 10, Grand
Army of the Republic; members of
Henry G. Staples Camp, Sons of Vet
Grams; members of Corporal Walter w.
Poor Command of Spanish War Vet
Grams: and the Women's Relief Corps.
The flowers for decorating graves of
the nations soldiers were in readiness,
and it only remained to give them out
| to the details of men assigned the task
Of placing those silent tokens of affec-
ton on the last resting places of their
comrades. Potted plants We're used
| for the decorating of graves, this year,
| for the first time in Augusta, several
hundred of them having been obtained
| for the purpose by the Relief Corps, be-
cause they keep SO much better than
| the cut flowers.
A beautiful floral tribute was sent by
| the Relief Corps to North Arson, to be
placed Oh the grave of Mrs. Edmund
McMurde. formerly of Augusta, and a
| valued member of this Corps.
Details of comrades from the Grand
Army. Sons of Veterans, and Spanish
War Veterans were assigned by Quar-
terrnaster Lewis Selbing of Williams
Post to carry the decorations to the
several cemeteries in the city, and
place upon each soldiers grave the
| floral tribute and the flag of his and
our country AS they passed along the
streets on their errand the hand was
I often raised in military salute to the
flags floating at half-mast from the
public buildings, and from many resi-
| i g ,,ci
The first detail started at o'clock,
under command of A. A. Nichols, past
| post commander of Williams post, go
| ing to the cemeteries in Ward 5.
| The second detail started at S.50
| O'Clock under command of James w.
| White. junior vice commander of Will
liams Post, going to Riverside ceme-
terry.
The third detail started at o'clock
| in command of Hugh Rogers, officer of
the day of Williams Post, going to the
cemeteries on Bolton hill and near the
Insane asylum.
The last detail started from the hall
at go O'Clock in command of Mandred
To- Savage. commander of Williams
Post, going to Forest Grove, st. Mary's,
Mt. Vernon. and Mt. Pleasant cemeter-
les
| Rations were spread upon the tables
in Grand Army hall at noon, for the
benefit of the men who had assisted IN
the duty of decorating.
The procession for the ritualiStic memo
rial services of the Grand Army of tht
Republic formed in Market square anC
moved up Water street shortly after
Io'cIock The order of the procession Wa;
las follows:
Platoon of Police 6 men, in command OF
| Henry NJ. Brecn, city Marshal.
| J. A. Jones, Marshal of the Day.
George Doughty, Assistant Adjutant Gen
| eral for these obServanc"S.
| George +. Gay, Chief of Staff.
Stephen A. Thomas, Guidon,
| Ralph w. Smith. BUgler
Frank White II. r. Hopkins, Joseph w
| Hanson. Aids.
Lafayette Bard. Is pieces. Aphonse D
Ruel, Drum Major
King Comuany, No. 4, Uniform Rank
Knights of Pythias. Is men il comman,
of Theodore NJ Ware, Captain.
Canton Augusta. No. .. Patriarchs Mill,
| tart |. o. -. F.. - men in command OF
George r Andrews captain.
st. Jean the BAPTIST Society of Augusta, a
men in command of Peter Lambert
| Chief
Red Men ~ men in command of GeorG,
| Long SaChPnI
Walter w. Poor Command. Spanish War
Veterans Is men in command of Dana
| w. IOvcjoN. Captain.
Henry G. Staples Camp No. ., Sons of
| Veterans, II men in command of Robert
Il. Morton. Captain.
ISnth Williams Post. No. 13, Grand Army
of the Republic, and disabled veteran sol
diers in carriag es. u men in command of
Mandred o. Savage, Commander.
Orator and Chaplain of the Day in Car
| riage.
IGovcrnor John F, Hin. ex-Governor Selden
| Common, and Members of the Governor s
| staff. in Carriages.
Mayor GuStaVnS y. Robertson, and Nom
hers OF Augusta City Government in
| Carriages.
| The line of march was up Water street
to Fridge street. up Bridge street to State
lStrcet, and down State street to Monu
lmcnt park. 1t was the largest procession
that has assembled on Memorial day in
augusta since 1887. when Cutler Post, &.
IA. r.. of Togus, participated in the cX"r-
ciscs of the day at Names capital city.
At the Soldiers monument in Monument
lpark. prayer was offered by Rev. Norman
Mckinnon, chaplain of the day, and The
impressive ritual service of the Grand Ar
my in memory of the dead was conducted
lby Post Commander Mandred O. Savage
The people in attendance at that simple
land beautiful service would number CON
lSidcrably more than "A thousand.
At the close of the service the proccs-
sion was reformed in it's original order
and the line of march taken up along
Grove and Water streets to Market square
where. underneath the warm afternoon
lsun, the procession disbanded and the ser
vices of the day were at an end. there re-
naming the exercises of the evening.
a party of young ladies from the
store of Buckley e Goodrich enjoyed
the holiday, Saturday, by a trip to
Lewiston to see the Bowdoin- Bates
game. They left town on the forenoon
train, took dinner at New Meadows
Inn, and went up to see the game in
the afternoon. The party returned to
Augusta on the Pullman.
Startling Evidence.
Fresh testimony in great quantity is
constantly coming in, declaring Dr.
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton. Coughs and Colds to be unequaled.