South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-30
Business to be Suspended Dur
ing Day-Parade Prom
iSeS to be the Biggest
in Years.
SERVICES TO OPEN AT
SHAFT AT COURT HOUSE
Attorney A. E. Martin to De-
liver Address of Day at
Cemetery Exercises on
spirit of Liberty"

With business suspended, patriot
ism on a peace footing, brass bands
playing. and local G. A. r. posts,
Sons of Veterans. Spanish War vet
| Grams. the Army and Navy union,
and other military organizations in
line. supported by the various frater-
/ nal societies. city officials etc, South
Bend will today pay homage TO the
I soldiers who wore the blue, in a
! Memorial day parade which prom
Uses to exceed any held here in
years.
There will be > additional graves
| to decorate this year. in excess of
any previous year. 8 being the num-
! Der of old veterans TO pass away
during the last IL months. In all.
| 526 veterans of the civil war are
! buried in local cemeteries; $50 at
the City cemetery: n at Riverview;
AZ at Bowman cemetery 20 at
Cedar grove; Hebrew cemetery, one;
Highland cemetery, one: in addition
to which are IS Spanish War vet
Grams South Bend soldiers buried
at other places number three.
observed Memorial day since the or
ganization of the day. For As years
the members of the post have
marched to the. cemeteries of the
! city to pay tribute to the past COM
| rades. When they first observed the
day they were in the prime Of life,
| but today those that are left are
stopped and their hair is streaked
with gray.
Program at NOtrc Dame.
! This morning. at Notre Dame SOL
emn high mass will be held at s
/ O'Clock i'm honor of the soldiers
that entered the rebellion from the
university. The mass will be fol-
| lowed by exercises in Washington
hall. the same hall where the Grand
Army post of Notre Dame was form
ed, when the deeds of the heroes of
/ the war will again be recalled.
The program in the hall follows:
Musical selections by the univer-
sity orchestra.
The Gettysburg Address" by
Leonard Carroll.
National Loyalty" by Hugh Car
roll.
"Chivalry in Modern Life" by
Thomas Mclaughlin.
The Memorial day ode will be de-
/ livered by Edward y. Marcus.
The exercises will be given under
the auspices of Notre Dame post,
| No. $50. G.. o. r. Military commits
sions and prizes will be presented
at the close of the exercises.
The services of the local organ
izations will open this morning at
lie o'clock at the Sailors and Sol
| liers monument, court house square.
and at Howard park AT the latter
place tribute will be paid TO the
sailor dead by strewing floral
wreaths upon the water in memory
OF the heroic work OF the sailors.
Line of March.
! The line will be formed at JEFF
/ ferson blvd. the right resting on
Main St, at o'clock. From that
| position il will move at $3.50 o'clock
TO the City cemetery by the follow
| ing route: East on Jefferson 70
| Michigan: north on Michigan TO Col
I fax av.; west on Colfax av. to Elm:
north on Elm TO the cemetery en-
| trance.
At the high school building the
| lines viii halt. Auten and Eddy
posts. G.. A. r.. and George NJ. Pom
sett garrison. Army and Navy union.
| and Harry q. Perkins camp. Span
ish War veterans, will form in dou-
bic column, open order, and ex-
| change flags for flowers from the
hands Of school children. The line
will halt at the cemetery gate and
open order.
The G. A. r. posts the Sons Of
Veterans, Spanish War Veterans
and members of the Army and Navy
union will march through the line.
deploy TO the right and left at the
cemetery gate. and deposit their
flowers as they march across the
cemetery.
Order of Parade.
The order OF the parade will be
"a follows:
Platoon OF police. Willard r. Kerr.
chief; field officer of the day. Ed
ward 2. Chaplin: aids. Fred r KEN
bic. Clarence Stoudt. Louis Orvis.
Norman r. Neil; bugler. william
Longenecker: Notre Dame cadets
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