Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-04
MEMORIAL DAY.
A Record Parade from
Every Point Of View.
Moving Pictures Of
Parade Taken

The Memorial Day parade which
occurred last Friday was the finest
event of the kind which has ever been
pulled of in Watertown The day
could not have been finer and every
thing went off as by clockwork.
Five prizes were awarded for floats
in the parade. Paul Dory won the
novelty prize with a car representing
boat. The Rebekah lodge won the
prize for the best lodge float The
Monitor club won the ladies club
first prize in a pink and green auto
mobile. The J. l.. Savage pony rig
won first prize in its class, and the
best commercial float prize was
awarded to the Wolf garage.
Captain Wright Tarbell was mar
shal Of the day and had general
charge of the parade.
The South Dakota State college
cadets under command Of Lieut..
Briggs. battalion quartermaster, act
ing as guard of honor" headed the
parade.
They were followed by the civil war
cannon drawn by four horses.
w. B. Mcpherson, fifer, and John
Rogler, drummer, headed the local
post, Freeman Thayer Post No. So,
G. A. r. These men are members of
the famous Morgan g. A. R. drum
corps Of Minneapolis, which is com
posed entirely of civil war musicians,
and which cannot be duplicated in
the United States. The music rem
dered by this drum corps was espee-
tally pleasing to the old soldiers who
had turned out in goodly numbers
These we're followed soy5 The Wonlen,s
Relief Corps, IS 3z.s; " n
The Daughters of the American
Revolution provided the elegant
wreath for the court house monument
The graves of all the Spanish-Amer-
ican war veterans were decorated,
as was also the grave of the one Con-
federate soldier, whose remains lie
buried in Mount Hope cemetery.
These ceremonies of course, occur
red on Saturday.
Also, on Saturday the old drummer
played taps at the monument in hon
or Of the unknown dead, and the boys
bugle corps did the same.
The ceremonies opened at 1:45 on
Friday by fag-raising, salute by the
4 squad and "The Star Spangled Ban
ner' by the band.
One of the prettiest ceremonies of
4 the day was the May pole exercise
by number of young ladies'. Nov
ing pictures of this were taken, as
was also the case with many of the
other portions of the parade and 9th
er features of the day.
The cadets from the state college
were delighted with their treatment
by Watertown, and with the entire
Memorial Day program, and express
ed their desire to come again next
year.
The dinner given by the Royal
] Neighbors on Saturday at 11:3o was
dndulged in by about 125 people.
Mayor Wagner made a few pleasing
remarks, and Mrs. DeGroff gave a
reading. Mrs. Geo. Whiting spoke
very seelingly Of those who have
gone, her remarks bringing tears to
nearly all eyes in the audience.
Messrs. Heath, Perrin and Hushaw
gave war "reminiscences, and book
lets were distributed giving a history
Of the writing of aThe Star Spangled
Banner by Key. The H. B. William
son Co. furnishing the music on q
Victrola. After the dinner was fin
ished there was q general good time
indulged In by social intercourse. s
The committee feels very grateful
for the generous response given it
both in a moral and financial way.
to the end that it was such q splendid
success It is expected that the mo-
tion pictures will be ready for exhi-
bition in about q week. ss