The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-29
All Topeka Will Take Part in
Decoration Services.
Flags of Allied DemOcracies to
Float Over City.
BIG PARADE IN AFTERNOON
School Children, Soldiers and
Civilians Will March.
Ritualistic Services at Lincoln
Post Hall at 1880 A. NJ.

1000 O'CIock-Committees and comrades
meet ut Lincoln Post to march to Melan
bridge and the cemeteries.
10:I5 O'Clock-Services at Melan bridge
in memory of the sailors lost at sea.
1918 O'Clock-Services at Mt. Calvary,
Mt. Hope, Mt. Auburn and Topeka GEM
1900 O'CIock-Dinner served to the COM
rades and committees by the Women's Re
lief Corps, No. "a, at 119 West Sixth
street.
1880 O'CIock-Parade, starting at Ninth
and Quincy streets.
$3.50 O'CIOck-Patriotic and memorial
program at the city auditorium.
$500 O'Clock-Battalion drill on the
south campus of state house grounds by
boys of the Industrial school.
Roses for the blue, lilies FOR this
gray, OLD Glory for both, and, for the
first time in the nations history, a
Memorial day. tomorrow, will find
flags of the allied democracies of the
world entwined in Topeka; the former
in memory of the dead and the latter
in silent reverence for the living.
Emblems of France, England, Rus
STA, japan and other countries wer"
on sale i'll profusion in Topeka stores
today. Many already were swapping
the air, side by side with the stars and
stripes.
Fittingly, the most sacred Of pat
riotic holidays of the United States.
the youngest debutante. in the war
against lIHpSTldllSIIl, Will De observed
tomorrow by one of the most gigantic
demonstrations ever PLANNED here.
Ten thousand or more Topekans COM
pr;sed OF school children, the Grand
Army of the Republic and it's allied
organiza tions, active military units
and civilians and home guards, will
march or Kansas avenue in a mon
Ster parade.
A total of fifty orga nizations will
take part.
Schools to Dismiss.
All Topeka schools, it has been an
nounced, will be dismissed to enable
the students to march in the parade.
With the city financial institutions
taking the initiative. practically every
business house in the city will close.
Parks will run full blast. Conveyance
companies will press extra equipment
into service to care for those seeking
these places.
The Soldiers plot in Topeka ceme-
terry, where more than 800 men who
fought in the Civil and Spanish-Ameri-
can wars are buried, will be profuSely
honored with flags and flowers. At
! Rochester cemetery plans are being
made for elaborate exercises. Ritual
/ istic services will be held at Lincoln
Post hall at 10 o'clock in the morn
ing.
/ Members of the G. A. r. and loyal
| Topekans will assemble on Melar
I
! Second Regiment band, will sing pa
| triotic music. All during the patriotic
musical program, flowers will be
strewn upon the river in memory OF
| the sailors who have died at sea, thou
| sands of whom persisted unknown
Battery A will attend the ceremony
| Officers in charge are: VIM. Peters
E. L. Forsy, C. n. Bacon, w. ]. Ar.
mold, n. Hoover.
Cemetery Services.
At the cemeteries. Mount Hope
Mount Calvary, MCunt Auburn and To
| peka, special services will be held fol
| the soldiers buried there. Fifteen hun
| dred American soldiers are buried il
/ Topeka, nearly 800 of whom were laio
away with their names unknown, bu
they were soldiers. The most elabor
ate services will be held at Topeka
/ cemetery where there are nearly 800
soldiers buried IN one small plot, neal
the Cages monument. Ritualistic ex
| ercises will be conducted at the othel
cemeteries.
At Mount Auburn cemetery the
| Twenty-third regiment band will pla!
patriotic wartime tunes as a part o
the special service. ]. K. Miller, chap
the Invocation D. H. Brannaman will
talk on patriotism of 1851 and Oul
DUTY Today" Other numbers on tn,
program are an address by Mrs. Hattie
Smurr. Lincoln post No. l. and a read
| ing by Mrs. Mamie Phyley OF relic
corp No. "a.
The program to be given at the cit,
auditorium at $3.50 o'clock will be ded
icated to the soldiers of today who ar
liable to be called into service at an!
moment. This feature will be the on
innovation of the program. 1t will no
be in memory to the old soldiers blu
for those of today. Patriotism ant
loyalty will be the key notes.
Following is the program:
Temporary chairman, William E. Con
order of General Logan appointing Me
mortal day May 80, David T. Gregg.
Patriotic airs medley, Santa Fe orches
ira.
Invocation. the Rev Irwin B. Pulliam
Selection, high school glee club.
Introduction. master of ceremonies, Cap
Joseph G. Waters.
America the audience. Organist, Mis-
Florence P. Campbell NJ. c. Holman, con
ductor.
Lincoln's Gettysburg address. Henry S
Selection, high school gIee club.
Address Rev. Stephen S. Estey.
"Star Spangled Banner" Santa F
Flag pledge and salute, the audience
Song-"keep Your Home Fires Burnin
TIL the Boys Come Back Mrs. Harve
Doxology, the audience.
Benediction, Comrade J. X. Miller.
Flowers gathered by the 5000 pub
lie school children, who will marc
in the parade, will be collected fror
the school houses Wednesday morn
ing at s o'clock
A request has been sent out by F
/ L. Moon, who is in charge of tn
/ program, for motor cars to be use
/ in carrying the old veterans in tn
L parade. Nearly 100 cars are needle
and less than so have been offere
/ to the organization.
The boy scouts will be staticne
Il al tho lima of with
| aid equipment to care for any emel
/ gency that may occur. An ambl
lance will be stationed at the Farm
| ers' State bank all during the pa
1 rade. Other stations will be mar
l tanned at SIKH and at Eighth ar
Il Kansas avenue.
Following is the order of march
i the divisions and formation points f,