Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
.B|O|||M||E:. !. POST Plans
FOR MEMORIAL DAY
G. a. r. OF STATE INSTITUTION
TO OBSERVE SATURDAY,
MAY 70.
HORTON OFFICER OF DAY;
BENNETT CHIEF MARSHAL
Change Order Of Services Over Previous
Years-Post and Corps From City
Invited to Take Part-Rsv. James p.
Linn to Give Address-Men,oria
Sunday Observance at Home.

With somewhat of a departure from
the stereotyped observance of Memo
rial Day as it has been carried on for
years at the soldiers home, plans have
been completed by Gen. Phil Sheridan
post for the annual exercises. to be
held this year on Saturday May 80.
Col. c. c. Horton, commandant of
the home, will be officer of the day,
and Quartermaster H. j. Bennett chief
marshal. The assembly call will be
sounded at $3.50, in front of the main
building, and all veterans are expected
to march with the post to the home
cemetery. The post will be in charge
of Commander Orlando Hartman, Mrs.
jeanette Todd, president of the W. r.
c. of the home, will take charge of that
organization, and Mrs. J. j. Beedy will
have supervision over the section
formed by the ladies Of the G. A. r.
Exercises at Monument.
The exercises are to be conducted at
the monument erected to the unknown
dead in the home cemetery. Rev. n.
F. Hicks, pastor of Bethany United
Brethren church, is to give the opening
prayer and read Lincoln's Gettysburg
address. Ritual work will be con-
Quoted by the post, and the women of
Winchester circle. Ladies of the G.. A..
R. and Of the w. r. C. will strew
flowers on the graves while the home
band plays dirge. The gun squad
will fire a salute, and taps will be
sounded, bringing the morning exer-
cises to close.
Afternoon at Park.
In the afternoon the exercises will be
held at Cottage Grove park, following
the assembly call at o'clock, when
the procession will move from the main
building to the park.
The program will open with selec-
ton by a quartet composed Of Mrs. E..
E. Gildner, Mrs. r. B. Davidson, DR..
L. F. Kellogg, and Ralph Fletcher.
Rev. Mr.. Hicks will sgive the invoca-
ton. and the quartetcwili2 sing again
preceding the address of the afternoon,
which is to be given by Rev. James P.
Linn, pastor of the Presbyterian
church. The quartet will also sing fol-
lowing the address.
At the home boat landing services
in honor of the sailor dead will be
held by the w. r. C. Of the home. A
SelcCllOH NY lHc DdHu Will pTcC0uc TIE
exercises. and Rev.fMr., Hicks will pro-
nounce the benediction. .9
Post and Corps to Attend.
The soldiers home post and it's al
lied bodies in the home have extended
an invitation 20 the Frank NJ. Thomas
post and corps, other patriotic
societies and the public in general, to
join in the observance at the home.
The formal observance Of the day by
the Thomas post and corps will take
place on Monday, May 81.
Memorial Sunday Planned.
Memorial Sunday which comes May
%, will be observed at the soldiers
home this year. Many of the members
Of the home are too feeble to partici-
pate in these exercises down town, as
has always been the custom, and for
this reason the home post has ar
ranged to observe Memorial Sunday on
the grounds. Chaplain H. o. Pratt will
give the address in the assembly hall.
To this observance the down town
post and corps have also been invited.