Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-16
MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM.

| AT regular meeting of Cutler Post
y. A. K held last even ng the follow
Ing committee report was adopted
| 10 The Officers and MemIers of LgsGnd r
| Gsler Posi- No. So, g. A r +, IIaatsa'
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The undersigned, who BY vote of
the members of the Post, were duly
appointed to prepare and submit for
your consideration, a program for the
proper observance of Memorial Sur
day, May 28th, 1905, and also for Deco
atlon day, May 3Dth, 1905, most respect
fully submit the following:
After careful aud thorough investiga-
ton and consultation with different
parties, we have come 10 the conclusion
that the Wausau cemetery, now called
Fine Grove cemetery, is the most
appropriate and ideal place TO have the
veteran soldiers, as well as those of our
citizens who feel like doing honors to
our departed comrades, brought to-
gether for a proper observance of the
10th day of May, the day set apart and
consecrated for the purpose of strewing
flowers on the graves of those who
participated in the defense of our coun-
try during the late Rebellion, notwith-
standing the fact, that, as we under
stand 1t, some objection is made to this
plan.
The objection, as we are informed,
is, that with sucn large gathering of
people, some thoughtless person may
step On some grave or destroy shrub
berry, and that therefore these cere-
monies and gatherings ought to be had
at some other place, but we still are of
the opinion that the cemetery is the
most appropriate place for such gather
lngS anu ceremonies.
Ii the officers of the cemetery associa-
ton will establish a rule, forbidding
horses and vehicles to be driven into
the crowd assembled near the place
where ceremonies are being conducted
or people gather to listen to an Grafton,
they will help in this way, that the life
and limbs of those standing in the
roads and alleys of the cemetery are
not endangered by horses becoming
restless and frisky, and driving people
out OF the roads onto burial lots and
! among shrubbery, and if, each member
of the Post and every member of the
| Camp of Sons of Veterans will for that
occasion consider himself a special
guard to prevent people from trespass-
| ing, there will be no such trouble as
anticipated by those who oppose the
people gathering in the cemetery.
BY the observance of Decoration day,
the people at large have been educated
to take an interest in their lots on the
cemetery, aud have, as a general thing,
kept their lots in nice shape, and it is
the opinion of your committee that with
| little more caution, people can be
educated to learn and comprehend that
although they have right to gather on
the roads and by ways of the cemetery,
in the vicinity of places where cere-
| monies are being conducted or orations
delivered yet they must not trespass
on the lots owned by different individ-
| uals, and which are used for burial
purposes and are hallowed ground,
they must and Will learn to respect the
rights of others, and if some miscreant
should willfully trespass upon those
rights, arrest him and bring him before
the court, and have an example made
of him for the warning of others.
Your committee is of the opinion that
the veterans have a legal right to be on
the cemetery on that day and they do
not feel like asking permission Of Tom,
Dick or Harry for place to conduct
their services on Decoration day.
The following is the program, agreed
upon by us:
MEMORIAL SERVICES, MAY 28TH., 1905.
The Ministers association of Wausau,
has kindly arranged for union service
to be held at the new Methodist church
on Sunday, May 18th, at 10 O'Clock
A. NJ, which service will be memorial
service, appropriate to the occasion, for
which the day is set apart, including
special singing.
All are most heartily invited to attend
this service.
TUESDAY, MAY BOTH, 1905.
of Lysander Cutler Post No. 55, G.. A
r., and the officers and members of
Carl HI. Mueller Camp No. 4, Sons of
Veterans, will attend at the monument
in the court house square, and there
Sons of Veterans will decorate that
monument in memory of those COM
rades, who lie buried, but not for
gotten in unknown graves in Southern
soil, after which they will all proceed
to the corner of Third and Scott
streets, where a procession will be
formed in the following order:
Marshal of the day, Comrade E.
Young.
Members of the city council and city
officials.
Color bearer and color guards.
Uduu.
Company G, w. n g.
Carl IL. Mueller Camp No. A Sons of |
Veterans.
Lysander Cutler Post No So G. A. r. |
Flower girls in carriages.
Civic societies.
Citizens at large.
Procession will march on Third street |
to Forest, on Forest to Grand avenue |
and thence to the soldiers burial lots in |
the cemetery, where the following SER
vices will be had
Music by the band.
Singing of America by quartette and
audience.
g. A Il. ritual service.
Decorating of graves by flower girls |
and committee of members of q. A. r. |
While the graves are being decorated, |
the band will play appropriate airs and |
all will proceed to the chapel in the |
cemetery.
Assembled at the chapel, there will |
be singing by quartette. Address by |
DR.. w. O.. Carrier, president of Carroll |
college, Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Selection by quartette.
Benediction by post chaplain.
Respectfully submitted,
r. III. JOHNSON.