The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-05-31
in READINESS
FOR MEMORIAL
CELEBRATION
BOY SCOUTS AND q. A. =. nnB1As
TO DECORATE WAR HE1oEs'
GRAVES IN VARIOUS GENIE
TERIES<
Big Parade VIII Pass Through Streets
and Meeting WIN He Held at the
Auditorium.

Memorial Day will be generally OBJ
served as a holiday today. the observ-
ance taking PLACE on Monday. May 3lst
as the SOth OF the month fell on Sum
day.
All Of yesterday, squads Of little ones
Journeyed 10 the country districts and
gathered wild flowers by the armsful
! TO be used in the Decoration Day SER
vices.
Local florists stocks will be sold
down TO minimum and the flowers in
green houses and Conservatives In the
! Wheeling district will be depleted, as
owing to the fact that the late World
war created profound and terrible
impression upon all. the realiza ion that
tho heroes who lie under green mounds
died Tor their Country's sake has been
awakened afresh.
The boy scouts. under Scout Execu-
tive II. O. Portz and Scout Commissions
er o. a. thinner man, are among the
most Jealous OF those who will partici-
pate In the decoration OF graves and
the youngsters have seen that a good
suPply OF floral offerings will be on
hand
,, Early Monday morning under the
guardianship OF members Of the ]. w.
I! Holiday G. \. r. post. Boy Scouts will
visit the various cemeteries where the
dead of the Civil. Spsnlsh-Amerlcan
every grave with floral rememb ranccs.
Taps will be rendered by boy bug
lcr. the q. A. r. veterans standing with
bare heads and the wailing bugle tones
, echo through the cemeteries.
When this ceremony has been conclud-
ed at III" grave yards the party will
return to the city Hall where the two
divisions forming the Decoration Day
parade will rest, in formation, until the
command Ia given to march.
Taps will again be rendered at the
Soldiers and Sailors monumen: on the
city Hall front and a detail Of Spanish
American war veterans will fire a sa-
Lutte.
One OF the distinctive features of the
narad" will be the color guard. bearing
the Stars and Stripes. All Of the mon
under the banner marching in the guard
will be regular army SOLDIER. stationed
here on recruiting duty. The detail will
he in command OF a sergeant for this
occasion. acting as color sergeant.
Captain T.. II. Carrigan. OF the regu-
lar army. Will act as An aide to Grand
Marshal O. A. Zimmerman. as will
Bernard Alexander. Of tho American
Legion. They will head the first d.
vision.
The second division of the parade will
he in charge OF officers Of the American
Legion. Wheeling Post. No. l. All Of
the members of war societies In the
parade, G. \. r.. Spanish War Veterans
and American Legion. have been asked
TO appear in their service uniforms. An
escort of police. under Chief Fred Fraz-
Ter, will lead the parade.
One of the big features OF the day
will he n vast chorus Of | 900 children's
voices which will greet the parade as II
reaches tho Market Auditorium. The
members have been painstaklngly drill
cd in chorus work by Miss Lucy Robin
son. and under her able direction will
render patriotic songs.
At the Auditorium patriotic addresses
will he delivered by Hon BENJAMIN
Rose nbloom and Hon. W. r. Taylor.