The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-05-29
|fOR DECORATION DAY

FOR DECORATION DAY
Program for the Day and List Of the
Soldiers Whose Graves ia Leon
Cemetery will be Decorated.
Tomorrow is Decoration day, and
the custom OF decorating the graves
of deceased soldiers and sailors will
be observed this wear with more
than usual interest, now that the
great world war is over and when
the graves of the departed in our
home cemeteries are strewn with
flowers, everyone will be thinking
of the graves of our brave boys who
made the supreme sacrifice and are
buried in France.
the Leon cemetery, who were partl-
cipants in four wars, the Civil War,
the Mexican War, the Spanish
Wide War With Germany, which has
terminated in victory.
The Memorial sermon was preach :
ed at the M NJ Rax E church su3day nba
PASTOR metorns of II tYhe Af Presbyterian churc
it being a union service, and special
music was provided for this service
by the various choirs, seats being
reserved for the soldiers.
The program for, DECORATION day
chrdS will be Erdav Eyen in ua1 the P Preseyepaa
at al O'clock, as follows:
Song, Star Spangled Banner. -
Invocation-Rev. Hitler.
Reading of Orders.
Music-Boy Scouts.
''Lincoln's Gettysburg Address" =
John Stockton.
Music-Boy Scouts.
Address-Rev Henry Esch.
Music-Boy Scouts.
Song, America
The G. A. R. and W. r. c.. earn
estly request, all soldiers of the
Spanish-American war, and the
Worlds war to join them in observ-
ance of Memorial and Decoration
days and to be at the court house 15
minutes before beginning of each
the church. Lieutenant Rumley
will be in command of the soldiers
of the Worlds war.
FLOWERS
All persons who can donate flow
ers are asked to leave them at the
lGS..,A. r. hall in the Finley building
" as possible the morning of
tNsPORTATION
G. les will be in charge of
The following is a list of the sol
diers buried in the Leon cemetery:
Capt. A., j. Allen, Co. B, 18th
Asahel Allen, CO. I, e1st N. Y. Inf.
w. A. Brown. Co. l., ;3rd Iowa Cav.
Samuel Burnison, Co. B, 43rd
John Bennett, Co. G, 3ard Mis-
Joseph G. Boyer; CO. 3, 18th Iowa
Inf
tresd fs55bf Bd5b &C Co. < G. 1t9 6h Mo Kansas 81
J: P. Bobbitt, Co. c, 9th Iowa Cay.
Wheeler Boyer, CO. NJ, l59th Inf.
H. B. Burns CO. D, 4th Iowa Inf.
D. T. Black, Illinois Inf.
Samuel Benefiel, Mexican war.
F. +: Bedier,1 Co.. G. 1st Mo-. Inf.
J. G. Bullard, Co. H. 1o2nd Ill.
John D. Bethards, sth Ohio Cav.
Abel p. Chase, serg., Co. D, 39th
Iowa Inf.
>. W. Curry, Co. L, 3rd Iowa Cav.
Joshua Carmean, Co. X, 14th Iowa
Samuel Coover, Co. c, 18th Ohio
Inf. II.
J. N. Combs, 2eth Iowa Inf.
I. N. Clark, 7th Mo. S. M.
Charles Carroll, Mo. Vols. Vols; :,
Allen Dunn. CO. A, 18th Iowa Inf.
A; J: Derrick, Co. L, 3rd Iowa Cav.
Tip Dusaver, Co. G, 46th Iowa Inf.
III r1n n n
James Farley, Co. L, 9th Iowa
Cav.
Elbert Ernest, Co. c, 9th Iowa
Cav.
J. P. Finley, Surgeon,
James Finley, Co. D. 4th Iowa Inf.
John P. Finley, Jr., Co. D, 4th
George Foreman, Co. C, 33rd Iowa
Wade H. Fulton, Co. K, aoth
Iowa Inf.
7!,e Jesse B. Ga Garrett, lieut., Co. A,
David Garrett, Co.>C, 9th Iowa
Garrett Gibson. Capt, CO. G, 5th
William Graham, Illinois Inf.
John Gunter, Co. M, 5rd Iowa
e. A. Glllham, Co. ID, 4th Iowa
Cav
William Gray. ST., private Iowa
Inf.
William Gray, Jr., private Iowa
Inf.
. Caleb Gray, Co. c, 33rd Indiana
Inf.
James Coin, Mexican war.
Robert Good, Co. A, 18th U. S.
A. s. Gardner, Lieut., Co. l, 34tn
Iowa Inf.
Capt. John W. Harvey, Co. G, 18th
Iowa Inf
VIM. W. Holden, Co. I, 51st Iowa
Inf.
John H. Holiday, Co. B, 55th En-
gineers.
VIM. Hawkins, Co. D, 4th Iowa
Inf.
John C. Harrah, saith Illinois.
w. G. Hebener, Lieut., West Vir-.
Francis NJ. Huston, Co. X, 9th
Mo. s. M.
Geo r Hall. lieut.. Co. I. 5th