The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-06-06
STREW FLOWERS ON The LAKE
For First Time in History Of the City
Pretty Ceremony to Mark Memorial
to Dead Sailors Is Carried out-Thou-
sands at Cemetery Services.

| 4eoh1IS GuG OIu SGep OHCo nOI6 anu
marching off to the familiar music of
war time airs the members of the
Grand Army Of the Republic on Thurs
| day held their annual celebration of
Memorial Day and there was never a
day in the history of the annual Gus
tom when the ceremony was more Ia
keeping with the purposes of the day.
After a day of almost winter weather
| the sun came out clear Thursday
morning and drove away the clouds
making the day perfect one for the
annual service of commemoration. The
observance of the day was not left to
the veterans alone and hundreds and
even thousands of patriotic citizens
Joined in the various services of the
day.
/ The members of the post to the
number of sixty-fve, the largest num-
Der seen in Memorial day parade in
years Went early in the morning to the
cemeteries on theS north of the city
and strewed flowers on the graves of
soldiers buried there. Returning to
| the post hall the procession was form
ed. 1t was headed by the Jacoby band
and in the line were the members of
the Grand Army, the Woman s Relief
Corps, the Ladies Of the Grand Army,
| the Daughters of the Grand Army, the
Sons of Veterans, little company Of
Spanish American War Veterans, three
companies of Boy Scouts headed by a
drum corps and scores of conveyances
and automobiles Most of the mem
bers of the grand army sphrned the
invitation to ride in automobiles and
only those who were disabled on ac-
count Of infrmaitives accepted the
chance to ride to the cemetery.
There was a pretty ceremony at the
soldier S monument in Library Park
where the marching line of veterans
was greeted by company of more
than thousand school children sing
ing StMy Country lis Of Thee and
waving flags. Here Mrs. Eliza Leon
ard with few appropriate words
placed wreath of flowers at the base
of the monument as a memorial to
the unknown dead. The next stop was
at the statute of Abraham Lincoln
wreath to the memory of the soldiers
of the county buried in other places.
The long line proceeded to the
soldiers lot at the city cemetery where
the regular ritualistic work of the
grand army was carried out under the
| leadership of Commander G. E. Likes
after which the members of the post
scattered to all parts of the cemetery
and st. James cemetery adjoining and
| decked the flag marked graves with
flowers.
At the call of the bugle the mem
bers of the post re-assembled and
marched to the Guild Hall where the
the annual public memorial service was
held. Commander Likes presided.
Prayer was offered by the Rev. Peter
Stair, pastor of Park Avenue NJ. E.
church after which the annual memori-
al day address was delivered by w. 7.
Marlatt, city editor of the Evening
News.
The observance at the Guild Hall
closed with the singing Of 8 America. !,
Dinner for the veterans was served
by the Ladies of the Grand Army at
Guild Hall and by the members of the
Nv. R. G. at the First Baptist church.
The feature of the observance of
the day came at three o'clock in the
afternoon when tribute was paid to the
sailor dead by stewing flowers on the
bosom of Lake Michigan. The serv-
| ice was held at the foot of English
Court and more than two hundred peo-
lple gathered to take part in it. The
exercises were under the direction of
the w. r. G. and the Daughters of the
Grand Army and they brought the
most beautiful and impressive serv-
ice ever seen at memorial day in
Kenosha. Mrs Frank Lane was in
charge of the ceremonies of the after
noon She read the ritualistic work
with the aid Of others of the Corps
and the Daughters after which Near
| er Ny God to Thee was sung BY the
audience The Rev. S. f. Dimmock,
pastor of the First Baptist church, of
fered prayer after which the assem-
bled gathering sang 1.-THE Battle
Hymn of the Republic. Then mem
bers of the various organizations scat
| tered the flowers on the lake each Civ
ling tribute to the sailor dead The
closing ceremony came when Com
mander Likes threw far out into the
flake great wreath of violets and
spring lowers and as it doated ont over