Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-23
TO BARE HEADS
FIVE MINUTES ON
MEMORIAL DAY
Veterans Will Pay Silent
Tribute to Dead Com
radeS
PLAN 50TH ANNIVERSARY
Program For Big Reunion of
State G.. A. r. June 6-S
Announced
PLAN 5OTH ANNIVERSARY

Five minutes for memories" will
be observed by G. A. r. men through
out the State May 80, Memorial Day,
and Grand Army men in this city will
do their part in paying tribute to the
dead. The suggestion has been made
by the Civil War veterans that the
citizens of Harrisburg generally take
part in this observance.
Orders have been issued by Col
onel c. F. Gramlick, commander of
the Department of Pennsylvania, to
G. A. r. men in this city and ap-
proximately $4,000 throughout the
State representing every town and
hamlet. as we'll as the larger cities.
that the striking of the noon hour on
Memorial Day will be the signal for
the barring of heads as a silent tribute
to the memory of their comrades in
arms more than half a century ago.
In this city the noon hour will find
most of the G. A. r. men in the
cemeteries, strewing flowers on the
gone-and there they will stand at at
tention for five minutes with barred
heads.
School children will also pay tribute
to the veterans. On Monday veterans
will make their rounds of the schools
and will tell the children of the war.
Plan 5Gth Anniversary
Plans for the fiftieth anniversary of
the G. A. r. of Pennsylvania to he
held in this city June to s are fast
nearing completion. Headquarters will
be established at the Commonwealth
Hotel where post commanders will re-
port with their credentials. prelimin-
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ment
At l o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
June I, the veterans will assemble at
Second and State streets to form in
line for the parade which will move
promptly at two o'clock, to move down
State to Front, down Front to Mar
ket; to Fourth and counter march in
Market street and dismiss at Front
street.
Immediately after the dismissal of
the procession the encampment will
convene in the Chestnut street hall
to explain the unwritten work of the
G.. A. r. that took place 80 years ago.
In this discussion the feats that oc-
CURED 80 years ago will be made
clear.
The annual business session will be
held Thursday. A session will be held
in the morning and one in the after
noon. At the afternoon session Off
GERS will be elected.
At O'Clock in the evening there
will be an open campfire in Tech High
School Auditorium, under the aus
piceS of the Harrisburg Posts. Ad-
dresses will be made by Commander
in-Chief Elias r. Monfort and Past
Commander-in- Chief Thomas J. Stew
art. Mayor Meals will make the ad-
dress of welcome. Other local speak
ers are J. E. b. Cunningham, former
Deputy Attorney General; DR.. ]. Geo.
Becht, secretary of the State Board
of Education; Henderson Gilbert, eX-
president of the Chamber of Com
merce. The committee is making eff
forts TO secure other prominent local
men to speak.
The committee on credentials is
composed of the following: Assistant
Adjutant General Saml. P. Town;
George w. Rhoads. Post No. IS; d. s.
Beemer, Post No. 139; b. j. Coll. Post
No. 157; John y. Reeber, Post No.
191. They will report to the Assistant
Adjutant General on Tuesday, June
9Th, at $3.50 p. m.