The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-06-05
MEMORIAL DAY IN BELFAST.

ACCORDING to custom, etails from Thomas
H. Marshall Post, G. A. R. and Camp A. E.
Clark. S. of v. visited the cemeteries in the
morning and decorated the graves of all SOL
diers and sailors with the cedar spray and cut
spring flowers. In Grove Cemetery the graves
of sleeping comrades were marked with the
flags and floral offerings. Unusual care had
been taken with the G. A. R. lot and with the
decoration Of the mound for the "Uuknovn
Dead" At 1.30 p. m. the procession started
from the Memorial building. the Sons of Vet.
Grams acting as escort to the Post Circle and
and Auxiliary, who rode in buckboards md
carriages. The line of march was over Chnrch
to Miller street, up Miller street to CONGRESS-
street. over Congress street to Main street
At the cemetery the usual exercises were hold
in accordance with the Grand Army ritual
On returning to Memorial hall the annonnccd
program of exercises was carried out with
the exception of the Assembly and TAPS.
which were omitted because cf the absence of
Roy Coombs. The audience sang America
Win enthusiasm. AdJutant Thomas Cannon
read the General Orders and the Roll of Honor.
Chaplain j. G. Harding offered prayer: Com
mander L. c. Putnam extended the address of
welcome; Mrs. S. A. Parker read with feeling
and expression decorating the Graves of the
Blue and Gray" Leon Beckwith SANG "Tbe
Sleeping Sentinel" Rev. Arthur Rla;r
oeh'ereo an address on the gratitude we
should have for the members of the Grand
Army ter the par they took ip:: preserving our
Union and the subsequent influence thew had
exerted on the free home. the school and the
ballot Miss katherine E. Brier sang .The
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" Mrs. A
X. Fletcher read Lincons Gettysburg sneech
and Herbert A. Drinkwater rendered from.
oohe SOLO. linus closed the exercises, which
oespite the unfavorabe weather were success
1ully carried out in every detail, and all felt
that the day had been fittingly observed
AT the request of Supt. W. B. Woodbury. all
the schools devoted some time Thursday to
the sentiment of Memorial day. The North
and South schools had regular programs and
IN the higher grades selections and quotations
were interspersed with the regular work
NORTH SCHOOL
Song. "America," Scbool
Concert Recitation, Flag Day." Grade II
Flag Song, School
Recitation, William Whitney
concert Recitation, Heroes of War"
Grade III
song, "Oh Little Children School
Recitation, Dorothy Clark
Eecltation, Dorothy Spear
Song, Hail Farest Land" School
Dialogue,
Dorothy Clark, Waldo Craig, Jane Tara
baine, Randall Upham, Mabel Hill, Eu-
gene Urham-
Song, Decoration Day. School
RECITATION, Emerton Gross
Dialogue.
Hildred Patterson. Violet Piper, Louise
Gray, Wesley Patterson, Kenneth Moore,
Theora Gross. Nina Moore, Lewis Men
dali, Sidney York, Marvel Orchard
Song, Memorial Day." School
Salute to the flag and flag song, School
SOUTH SCHOOL.
Opening Song, Memorial Day, Grade "
Exercise, Flags, Grade III
Elwood Gay, Harry Bowen. Oscar Gray,
Floyd Winchester, Erwin O'Leary Har-
old Staples
Exercise, Grade "
Ralph Perkins, Harry Rumney, Paul
Graisbary.
Song, The Old Song, Grade "
Rec, Marion Rhoades, Grade II
Exercise, Memorial Day Remembrance Grade
Linwood Cooubs, Lawrence Curtis. Flor
ence Young, Daisy Harmon, William
Tuttle, Edmund Brown, TheIma Nichols,
Martha Allen, Eli Cobb, Ula Wiley,
Audrey Chalmers
Song, Decoration Day, Grades and II
Exercise, What we do on Memorial Day,
Grade "
Roy Bradford, Wyman Ladd. Roland
Thomas, Alton Anderson, Wellington
Winchester, Walter Whitehead, Paul
Graisbary. Carroll Pottle, Perrin Arnold
Exercise, Flowers, Grade IL
Mildred Black, Violet Dexter. Elizabeth
Hanshue.
Rec, Katherine Frost, Grade III
Exercise and Chorus G and Army, Grade w
Gertrude Titherington, Elizabeth Doak,
Eva Dutch, Marian Cousins, Miliy Whit
comb, Mary Chalmers Margaret Rogers,
Georgia Knight.
Flag Exercise, Grade and II
Wight Robbins. Alvin Clark. John Morri-
son, Donald Wilson. Gordon M kenney,
Lloyd Clement. Norman Coombs
Song, John Browns Body, Alvin Clark,
Exercise, Grade III
Ruth Bradford, Fa1stina Condor. Bertha
Bartlett Frances Wentworth, Violet
Everett, Nettie Cobb, Maud DcLeod,
Hazel Wentworth. Alice Robbins, Ger
aldine Cassens, Edna Mcleod, preceded
by Erwin B. O'Leary carrying flower
deched ship
Recitation, "Cur Offering" Airline Curtis
Grade ~
Recitation, "Sleep On Ethel Dexter
Memorial Day Exercise Grades | and II:
Alice Wadlin, Beatrice Dutch, Idres
Rogers, Beatrice Bartlett, Ruth Sturte-
want, Dorothy Long, Annie Hunter,
Frances Bradford, Rhudola Crocker.
Recitation, my Country's Boy"
Tom Shea Wadsworth
Grade
Recitation, Walter Whitehead Grade w
Song. "Tenting Tonight, Carlton R ad
Grade II
Recitation, Gu, Flag. Carroll Pottle, Grade "
Exercise, Girls with Baskets. Grade III.
Madeline Chalmers. Edna Mcleod. Ruth
Bradford.
Exercise, Ons Country, One Flag, Grade "
Elizabeth Doak, Perrin Arnold, Albert
Morey.
Song. Song Of the Flag,
Gertrude Titherington, Elizabeth Han
Recitation, Nettle Hartman, Grade II
Exercise and Chorus, Grade II
Ruth Partridge, Ethelyn Gailford. Dor
othy Thayer, Clayton Colcord, Josephine
Stevens, Lavaughn Coombs, Herbert
| Rogers.
Recitation and Singing by school,
Margar Drinkwater. Grade III
Exercise, Grade Nv
Georgia Knight. Mary Chalmers, Marian
Cousins, Gertrude Titherinpton. Mar
| garet Rogers, Ethel Dexter.
Recitation, Paul Tuttle, Grade II
Song, The Flag, Grade and II
Tho Soldier's Flower and Tho co1a;.., E,