Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-27
MEDALS ARRIVE
FOR SERVICE MEN
Dover Announces Program for
Presentation Exercises There
on Memorial Day.
Special Correspondence Of Every Evening

Special Correspondence Of Every Evening
Dover, May 27.-The medals for the
service men who were IN actual service
overseas and in camps in this country,
provided for by an act of the Delaware
Legislature, have arrived and the legis
lative committee, consisting of Governo-
Townsend, chairman; Representation
William Lyons, Jr., secretary: Senators
/. d. Short, Charles ID. Murphy and j.
Carey Palmer and Representatives Alex
ander y. Corbit and Harvey " Hastings.
are preparing to distribute the medals
through the several American Legion
posts of the three counties.
The Legislative committee has been
untiring in its efforts to get each service
man $ record, name and address and while
they feel that they have not secured the
entire number of men, they are hoping
that those who do receive he medals who
may come in contact with or know of those
who have not received their notice, may
present their names and reoeSve the
medals IN the due course of time
So far the number of medals dior istri-
button in Kent county will be $40 and in
Sussex SS4. OF these numbers in both
counties some of the mems 5 addresses are
missing. but ii is hoped by Decoration
Day, when the medals are to be distributed
that all those entitled TO the medals may
secure them through the sources desig-
mated.
Walter l.. Fox, Post of the American
Legion. No. 2. of this town, are preparing
10 distribute their medals on Memorial
Day with fitting exercises on Dovers
hist oric Green, IN front of the State
House. The presentation exercises will
be held after the Memorial Day exercises
have been concluded at Silver Lake
Cemetery in the afternoon. The hour
for the exercises on the Green is fixed for
clock United States Senator Josiah
Q. Wolcott will make the presentation
speech. after which the medals. each one
bearing the name of the service man,
will he presented by members of the
Walter l.. Fox Post. Following is the
list Of the Dover service men or men who
lett Dover and vicinity. as we'll as the
service men from the adjacent towns TO
Dover, whose names have been secured
by the legislative medal committee. and
10 whom medals Will be presented on
Memorial Day:
List of Dover service men. entitled 10
State Medals: Albert A. Abbot, Brady NJ.
Abbott, Raymond G. Abbott, Nathaniel
Anderson, Edward A. Anderson, John W.
Argo, William G. Behen, Bernard A.
bencil. oscar berry. fuNaru ii. BOStlc,
Irving H. BoggS. Charles c. Braag. John
w Brown, Howard L. Bullock, Calvin
Burton, Thomas II. Burton, William H.
BsUer, Clarence Barrett, Daniel Cald-
we'll. Jr., Andrew Cleaver. Joseph Cleaver,
William NJ. Clark, Armstrong Cullen,
James +. Covington. Timothy Crowley,
John Cubbage Herman b. Carrow, Clar-
ence Davidson, Charles Day, William f.
Dewitt, Walter Dernckson, George Y.
DeRevere, John II. Dore. Hugh H.
Downing. John : Downes, George
Driver, Freeman l. Dyer, William A
Ellingsworth. Harvey c Ennis, Harvey
Q. Faulkner. Homer Ford. Robert |
Frazier, Elmer l.. GRAY, Franklin T.
Goldey, Samuel A. Granger Ienadcr ]
Gritzan. Joshua Griffin, Maurice A Hart
nett Jr. Frank G. Harlesfy Ralph G.
HAYES. James II. Hazel. Willard HeStel-
ton. Edwin 4. Hoey, Norman ; Hoffecker
John W Holston. William Honey, Jr..
Howard f. Hooyen, Earl Ilooyen. Melvin
Hopkins, Donald 7. Horsey, CasceIle
douston, Lester Huntley, Leon Hurd.
Richard r. Hurd Arthur ] Hvland,
george II Jester, James Johnson. Isaac