The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-31
CAVALRY IN The PARADE
Graves Of County's nlustrious Dead Of
Many Wars Decorated by Their Com
rades and Friends Address Post
Poned Because of the Weather.

| With more fa1tering steps, perhaps,
but with the same unfaltering determ-
nation with which they followed the
flag more than fifty years ago, the
members Of the Fred S. Lowell Post
No. $50 of the Grand Army of the
Republic, together with the Woman IS
Relief Corps, the Daughters of the e..
| A. r., and the Kenosha Cavalry Troop,
marched and stood through downpour
of rain Wednesday morning in order
that they might carry through the Gus
tomary Memorial Day ceremonies for
! the comrades who have already ans
wered the last roll call. The parade
which formed at nine o'ciock in front
of the G. A. r. Hall. was stopped at
| Library Park in order that floral tri-
butes might be placed upon the
soldiers monument and the Lincoln
memorials by the patriotic orders in
! the line. Al the cemetery the rain
made it impossible to continue the
Decoration Day program beyond the
ritualistic service of the G.. A. B., bat
arrangements were made for the Sons
of Veterans to complete the honor
due the dead comrades by placing a
wreath upon the grave of each as soon
as the weather would permit.
The fact that the United States~was
again in war seemed. to give added
significance to Memorial Day and
thousands of Kenosha people turned
out on the streets to honor the soldiers
| of yesterday and today. The, place of
| honor In the parade behind the police
of the city and the Since Band, was
| accorded to the twenty five gray haired
| veterans of the Civil War. Following
them with scarcely less honor were the
Sons of Veterans, who served the ma
tion in the Spanish-American War, the
Woman s Relief Corps, the Daughters
of the G. A. r. and the Kenosha Cav
airy Troop in command of Captain
Coney. Youth and age mingled in the
parade as the line was fanked on each
side by a single row Of Boy Scouts.
At Church and Main streets the pro-
cession turned westward to perform
the usual ceremonies in decorating the
monuments in Library Park. 1t was
greeted here by the school children of
Kenosha, each holding flag and many
marching with the procession out Park
avenue to Green Ridge cemetery.
Here in front Of platform erected for
the occasion, in spite of heavy rain,
veterans and recruits, the women of
the orders, who were no less patriotic
in their services and many citizens
paid honor to the illustrious dead of
Kenosha county by listening to the
ritualistic services of the G.. A. r. as
read by the officers of the Post. The
sincere devotion of all who waited as
an appeal was made to the "God of
Battles and Father of Us ALP to
watch over both dead and living, was
proven by the determination with
which the exercises were completed In
spite of the unfavorable weather.
Comrade Leonard, who was the com
mander of the day, made the speech
Of presentation, in which, in spirit, he
placed wreath of flowers on the grave
of every comrade whether he lay in an
unknown grave on a southern battle
field, or was buried here among his own
people. The regular Memorial Day adj
dress, which was to have been delivered
by the Rev. o. w. Taylor, was indef-
nitely postponed, but viii probably be
given sometime this week at one Of
the local churches. The mission of
love and duty was completed by the
return of the companies, still intact, to
the hall of the Post.
Wednesday afternoon the graves of
the soldiers were decorated in honor
Of the services they had performed for
their country in its time Of peril.
Comrades of all the wars of this
nation even the Revolution were in
cluded as every soldiers grave was
marked with the wreath of honor.
TIL presence of the Kenosha Cavalry
Troop in the parade caused many TO
think of the Memorial days of the
future and it was a source of pleasure
to the few remaining members of the
G. A. R. to see that there were two
splendid organizations in this city
today who were willing to offer them
selves to preserve the heritage for
which tia veterans of former years
ss;nnohf-auds died.