The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-29
Soldiers of Several Wars VIII
be HOnored in Their Graves
by Keokuk People To
morrow.
SPROWLS TO BE ORATOR
Procession to National Gene
terry Will Assemble at Two
O'clock at Sixth and
Main.

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a holiday tomorrow.
The banks will be closed all day,
and so will the public library
The city hall offices and the coun-
ty offices will be closed, and none
Of the courts will be in session Inc
Gate City will not issue tomorrow
evening.
The postoffice general delivery and
stamp windows will be open an hour
from IL o'clock to noon. There Will
be an early morning delivery in the
business district and collection In
the evening down town, but no serV-
ice on the rural routes.
The day is given up to memorials
to the dead soldiers of the wars IN
which the United States has been en-
gagged. There is revolutionary sol
der buried In Lee county, and q few
veterans OF the Mexican wal. and the
war Of 1912 lie in Lee county GENE
teries.
Many Soldiers of Several Wars.
Many soldiers of the war between
the states are buried here in heokuk
in Oakland, the Catholic and the Ma
tional cemeteries, which really make
one large city of the dead here Some
Spanish war and world war heroes
are in the list here also.
number of confederate soldiers
are buried here, as Keokuk had four
large base hospitals during that war,
in which thousands of soldiers lay
on cots, and some died
At the headstone Of all of these
there will be an American flag to-
morrow. and flowers will lie on every
soldiers grave.
The memorial services will be up
to the very high standard maintained
for years by Keokuk in doing honor
to her soldier dead
A Remarkable Parade
The assembly for the procession
to the cemetery will be at Sixth and
Main streets at o'clock
The procession win be a long one,
and it VII move out TO the National
cemetery, where the formal services
will be held in the natural amphf
theater, as usual, beginning before 8
o'clock.
A specially interesting program
has been arranged, and the process
sion will include soldiers and sailors
of the world war in uniform, and the
Spanish war veterans, as well as the
old G. A r. 1t will also have in 1t
Boy Scouts, the Modern Woodmen
degree team. the knights and Ladies
of Security and the big Keokuk Con-
cert band.
Order of the Procession.
The order of the parade forming
at Sixth and Main streets is as fol-
lows:
Marshal of Day-Captain C. E
Powell.
Aide-Lieutenan Fred Brown.
President of the Day-Lieutenant
Leo G. Mckinley
Vice President-E. L. Williams.
Parade forms on Sixth and Main
streets, and moves promptly at 2
o'clock.
Line of march out Main street to
Eighteenth, then out Eighteenth to
the National cemetery.
The formation of the procession
will be as follows:
Military guard.
Keokuk Concert band.
World War soldiers and sailors in
uniform.
George ". jenkins camp, Spanish
war veterans.
Boy scouts.
M. w. A. degree team.
Knights and Ladies of Security.
G. A. r., officers of the day and
speakers in automobiles.
The committee requests that all re.
turned soldiers and sailors form on
Sixth and Main streets under Lieuten
ant Louis A. Rovane and Lieutenant
Leslie Vaughn and the colored sol
diers under Lieutenant Ralph Tebeau
To Decorate the Graves.
The following Is list of pupils