Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-04-22
MEMORIAL DAY
DETAIL PLANS
ARE ANNOUNCED
Prof. Hale To Introduce
Prof Meyers,
Orator

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Americus High school, has been in
vited by the United Daughters of
the Confederacy to introduce Prof.
II. w. Meyers, of Athens. Memorial
Day orator, at the memorial exer-
clses which will be held in the Ry-
lander theater Tuesday morning,
April 26, at 1920 o'clock. Prof.
j. b. Mathis, superintendent of city
schools; Prof. j. NJ. France, princi-
pal of the A. & M. College; Miss
Sarah Cobb, principal of Furlow
Gramar school, and Miss Susie Tay-
lor, principal of East Americus de.
partment of city schools, will also
lend their cooperation to Memorial
Day plans.
DR.. Carl w. Minor, pastor of the
First Baptist Church and Rev. Silas
Johnson, pastor of the Lee Street
Methodist Church, will deliver the
invocations, and Miss Cecil Ryals
will play the memorial music and
also the accOmpaniments for Mrs.
Dan O'COnnell, who will sing a group
of songs so loved by the Confeder-
ate veterans. Included in her group
will be Darling Nellie Gray" "An-
ME Laurie," ''Massa's in De Cold,
Cold Ground and others of similar
sweetness and dearness of memory.
Miss Ella Polk, director of music
in the city schools, has arranged for
six of the high school girls to sing
tender song which has been named
Farewell"
Scouts Decorate Graves.
The Boy Scouts, under the super
vision of Mrs. Henry CIeve Davis,
chairman of the monument commit
tee, will decorate the graves of the
honored dead.
Mrs, Charles HudAon, representing
the Woman's Auxiliary of the Amer
lean Legion, will have charge of the
direction of automobile which will
convey the Confederate veterans
from the Rylander theater to the
cemetery, where the exercises will
conclude with the decoration of the
graves and the firing of the salute
by the high school boys and the
sounding of taps by the bugler of
the day. The buglar will be chosen
from among the members Of the Boy
Scouts.
Mrs. A. D. Gatewood, of the
Americus Chapter, United Daught.
ers of the Confederacy, andaAIrs. S.
+. Mckee, will have charge of the
placing of flags on the stage. Con.
federate and Georgia flags will be
used in the decoration, together
with palms and ferns. Those wo-
men havinS red and white flowers
are urged to present them to the
decorative committee so that they
may be used to beautify the stage
with the Confederate colors. If
these will be contributed, they are
requested to be at the Rylander
theater early Tuesday morning,
April &c, in order that all stage dec
orations NAV be completed before
the appointed hour for the exercises
The flowers thus contributed will
later be taken to Oak Grove to be
used in the final decorations in the
cemetery.
Small Children Wanted.
It is especially urped by the pres.
ident of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy that the smaller
children of the citv participate in
the exercises, and Mrs Harris sug-
gests that thpv take flowers to the
cemetery during the hour devoted
to the address at the Rvlander. and
place them on the graves prior to
the marching to the cemetery.
Miss Margaret Wheatlev and Mrs
Walter RvIarder have been invited
bv the DAUGHTERS of the Confeder-
acy TO eta0d at the entrance doors
of the Rylandor and pin the Con-
fpderate ard Legion rolors to the
women as thew nnter the building.
This pretty courtesy was the sug-
gestion Of Mrs. Lawson Stanleton,
recentlv elected president of the Wo
mars Auxilarv and which was inn.
mediatelv unanimously adopted.
All the schools of the city have
been asked to participate in the eX-
ercises, and it is expected that
large body of students will thus be
incorporated in the parade which
will attend the exercises.
The plans for Memorial Day this
year are more elaborate than for
many years past, and the presidents
of the various organizations of the
city are putting forth every effort
to make it memorable occasion.
Adjoining towns will be repre-
sented in the visitors present to hear
the splendid address delivered by
Prof. H. w. Meyers, who is recog-
nized as one of the most brilliant
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