The Holt County sentinel., 1919-06-06
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sacrifice.
The parade came at the noon hour,
and was preceded by the executive
committee of arrangements, and was
led by Craig's McNutt's band, of st.
Joseph, followed by members of Com
pany l., and members of the various
companies and regiments, in which
Holt county boys served. In this col
umn were members Of the 35th, S9th,
42nd, 32nd, and Both Divisions. Men
from every branch of the service; in
fantry, cavalry, artillery, engineers,
medical, signal, air, marines.
Just preceding the column, a hand
somely decorated truck, with body
frame containing some 80 young la
dies, who scattered flowers along the
pathway as the boys came marching
on. As truly as memory fingers these
boys had a triumph as well as well
come, as its line OF march through the
streets, justifying by their fine SOL
dierly appearance the applause their
record had already earned. In the
immediate rear came the Red Gross
ambulance.
The procession moved to the city
park, where q large detail of the
Mound City Red Cross chapter had
everything ready to feed the multi
tude-and II was fed with the best of
everything from the abundant Holt
count larder-Oh, so much! and 40
much of the very best! And II came
not only from the larders Of the good
people Of Mound City, but from those
who came from every nook and corner
of good old Holt; they brought liber-
ally and bountfully, that the boys
might have the feast Of their lives
and they had II.
The ladies' were ready TO serve, as
the boys came marching in, and filed
in 20 their places at four lO0-foot and
one 60-foot tables, and things began
TO move and then disappear. IL was
a wonderful sight to see them eat and
seemingly enjoyed every bit. The
ladies of the Red Cross of Mound City
are to be congratulated on the Won
dcrfully systcmatizcd order they had
in feeding that monster crowd-its
like We never saw beforc-ncvcr will
perhaps, ayain In our county.
At 200 o'clock the band called the
people TO gather at the park, and
Chairman Frank Pctrce, began the
exercises Of the afternoon by inviting
rhe veterans Of the Civil War TO the
platform - 80 answered. "America"
was sung by the audience. and Rev.
Howard offered the invocation, and
the chairman then introduced Senator
George Click, VINO delivered the adj
nress OF welcome 70 poth the return,
ing soldiers ana the people VINO hau
come from every NOOK ana corner OF
the county TO welcome our boys BACK
nome ne senator on this occasion,
40 oh al Gs"e,s, NO Una mater Mn'ie wv & you
& pus H'"'' 70 e''' 'qu'' W '"e o''"''
e'Vn. m.i po,ro. ,ho, t,,roa,.oa
,ho nin,s"r, a,,,ac,,o%n % IN ,ho narson
of s W. Downer apaddvI who was in
the .Y" work and with COMPANY l..
Srd ba,,,lion oS Tho iaoth infnntry'
during their entirc stay In the AZ,
gonne offensive. His address glis-
Tened with interesting phases of the
Argonne battles. and how brnyely our
bows fought; of their suffering, of
the wounded. and how he helpcd 10
hurry the dead. All the horrors of that
terrible battle were yiyidly portrayed
in fascinating English, and during his
30 minutes talk, not a single person
in that great mass of humanity, left
their seats. MIR, Downcr did not like
Governor Aliens course, nor was hc
pleased with the conduct OF Colonel
Ristine of the l3Oth. and EXPRESSED
himself in language most plain.
po,oro ho,innin. bis addross la
asLed Tho "IS vetasans ~ of 'si no ,ohe
Their saats IN rron, n, b;,, anJ tSms
nn, i,,e ne shado 7, ~ w.s . araa,,y a nrs an,
nreciatcd % and he had M hetter ;s,ep.
r. ,San ,ans. ~ So % ..aii Go'sS =, %,
nm, .""n an ."''' oV "" 'y,' va
Inc star spahgled banner was
sung py the audience, joined py the
consolidated oahns, which was iur-
hished py the visiting delegat'ohs'
Craig-McNutts Band, OF st. Jo-
seph.
Oregon--Howells st. Joseph Band.
Maitland The Maitland Band.
Mound City-pattersOu's New Point