Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-26
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE
PLACED IN YOUNGER HANDS
BY VETERANS OF CIVIL WAR
in Grand Army Posts of Perry County Rapidly
Dwindling and Several Are Unable to Continue the
Work of Annual Decoration Ceremonies

Marysville, Pa, May 26. - Perry
boasts of having furnished a larger
percentage of men to the Union
Army during the Civil War than any
other in the North, now has remain
| ing only a greatly thinned rank of
those men who offered their all that
the Union might be preserved. Not
more than 1875 Civil War veterans at
the most survive in the county, it is
believed.
So thinned have become the ranks
of those gray-haired heroes OF the
sixties" and so decrepit have be-
come many of those who still sur
vivc that but three posts of G. A. r.
men still continue active in all Perry
county. And one of these trio of
posts that still maintain an organi-
zation has found 1t necessary this
! year to give over to younger hands
! the duty of making preparations for
| honoring those who have departed
! to that bourne from which no travel
er ever returns.
The past several years have wit
messed the sad surrendering of char
ters by two G. A. r. posts in the
county, those located at Marysville
and at New Bloomfield. Advancing
age and decreasing vitality prevent
ed the energy to the maintenance or
an organization and the performance
of the duties connected therewith:
Veterans of the World War ana
veterans of other wars Will nave an
important part in honorins tne
memory of the departed warriors or
the past. In every borough and COM
munity in Perry county in Whlch
Memorial Way services have been
arranged, prominent places have
been assigned on the programs 10
the men who have already returned
from service either on this side or
on the other side of the Atlantic. In
several instances they are taklns
| leading parts in the preparations.
That their ranks will have to be
come even thinner and the surVlV-
ing members even weaker oetore
they think of relinquishinG the du-
ties of honoring the dead or the
North and the South, is the senti-
ment expressed by veterans or ootn
the Lieutenant Arnold Lobaugh Post
No. 297, of Newport, and Lieutenant
william Allen Post No. 1876, of Dun
cannon. I'VE had vitality enough
to whip the stuffin' out o Jeff Davis
and l guess that eighteen OF us ought
to have sufficient stamina TO do such
little thing as honor <our dead
comrades" one of the Duncannon
veterans said when told of the pre-
parations being made in some of the
other boroughs.
Lieutenant William Allison Post,
of Duncannon. is one OF the most
active in the county and includes on
it's membership roll eighteen names,
being one of the largest surviving
posts in the county. w. H. Pennell
/ is the commander of his post. The
other members are: John B. Boyer
David Coulter, Sampel Finkenbinder,
Edgar Greybill, Frank Lopfer, Will
| liam Leedy, Samuel Baker, John H.
Mutzabaugh, George Pennell, Jacob
F. Sterner, Ira Stuckey, Robert B.
Valentine, William III. Willis,
Charles Kugler, David Sellers, John
Benner, John G. Kugler.
During the past year, three deaths
were recorded among post members.
They were George w, Dill, John E.
Pierce, George Sheath.
Lieutenant Arnold Lobaugh Post,
of Newport, with less than ten sur
viving members, has not let the fact
of small numbers deter it in its ef-
forts and just as elaborate an OBJ
servance as ever will be held this
year. MOSI Ol Ine "OTh has De0H
done by the members themselves.
D. P. Little is commander of this
post. Members of the post who will
participate on the Memorial Day
program. in addition to Commander
Little, are Josiah Zeigler, ]. A. Tit
ler. Daniel Ramp and ]. S. Super.
Lieutenant John Q. Snyder Post,
No. 40S, located in Liverpool, one
of the smallest boroughs of the
county, has a comparatively large
enrolment of members, thirteen in
number. They have been compelled,
however. they say, to relinquish the
authority of making preparations
for Memorial Day to Liverpool
Camp. No. PIT. Patriotic Order Sons
of America. This camp has invited
all Sons of Veterans and veterans of
past wars to assist in the arrange
ments and all will take an important
place in the memorial services.
The membership of the Lieuten-