Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1912-05-24
SUNDAY MAY 26, AND THURSDAY
MAY 30, TO BE OBSERVED.
TO HONOR SOLDIER DEAD
APPROPRIATE SERVICES WILL Be
HELD BOTH SUNDAY and THURS
DAY BY WAR VETERANS.

year both for Memorial Sunday and
Decoration Day. Memorial Sunday
services will be held at the Morris
Grand opera house, Sunday, May Goth.
at 2:3O p. m. The joint Decoration Day
services will be held at the same place
and at the same hour on Thursday.
May 3Oth. Committees in charge have
endeavored to produce the best pro-
grams possible, for both occasions and
all citizens are urged to cooperate in
carrying their programs to q successful
completion. The CITY council has al.
ready thoughtfully decreed that no
games or sports shall be indulged in on
Decoration Day. All parties, owning
rigs or autos are asked to kindly
donate the use of such on Decoration
Day to help convey the soldiers and
their wives to Evergreen and the State
Home cemeteries.
Below are the programs In full:
SUNDAY, MAY 26TH.
The three patriotic societies will as.
semble at the Evans Hotel corner at
two O'Clock, and form in parade as
follows, with the head of each order in
commands:
Womans' Relief Corps.
Grand Army of the Republic.
Spanish War Veterans.
The parade will march to the Morris
Grand where the Memorial services
will be held and program given as
follows:
Song by Methodist Episcopal choir.
Prayer, Rev. Charles H. Holler, Bap-
tist church.
Scripture reading. Chaplain Chas. B.
Clark, Sanitarium.
Announcements by chairman, IF. A.
Fsssett.
Memorial sermon, DR.. Grover G.
Clark, Sawyer Avenue M. E. church,
Chicago.
Song, America" by choir and con-
gregstion.
Renediction.
DECORATION DAY, MAY 3OTn.
At nine O'Clock q. m., Thursday, May
Both, a procession will be formed in
front of the Evans, march to the bridge
where the Women's Relief Corps will
conduct services, and assisted by the
children, will strew flowers on the
waters in memory of the sailor.soldier
dead. At the close of this service,
under the direction of Marshall Bert
Shirley, the procession will proceed to
the State Home cemetery where SER
vices will be conducted by the G. A. e.
and W. r. y. Graves will be decorated
with the assistance of comrades and
friends. At the conclusion of these
services, the assembly will be dismissed
to meet ut the Morris Grand opera
house at 2:30 p. m. where the joint
program OF the day will be given.
While the morning services are being
conducted down town and at the State
Home, the regular National Home pro.
gram will be carried out, beginning at
$3.50 O'Clock, at Battle Mountain SAM
tarium, under the direction of Chap.
lain Charles B. Clark. At the call of
"Assembly" the column will form in
front of the administration building
and proceed to the cemetery in the
following order:
Sanitarium band.
Civil War Veterans.
Spanish War Veterans.
Civilians
Having marched to the cemetery,
the exercises will be as follows:
Music by the band
Prayer by Chaplain Clark.
Remarks by Rsv. D. d. Tallman,
Chaplain of Spanish War Veterans.
Music, three volleys, TAPS" and the
decoration of graves by the children.
The column having returned to the
Sanitarium, will assemble at the amphi-
theatre or chapel, as the weather may
dictate, for the following program:
Music c...............S .Sanitarium Band
Vocal, "Rest, Soldier, Rsst,". White.
"Soldier's FAREWELL. .kinkel.
Sanitarium Glee Club, Under the
direction of ". H. Kinross.
Address, Lawrence Hedrick
The Soldiers of the National Home
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