The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1922-05-23
THE AMERICAN LEGION Will HOLD
memorial SERVICES NEXT tues.
STORES WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY AND APPROPRIATE
SERVICES HELD IN THE NEW AUDITORIUM
DECORATE GRAVES OF DEAD SOLDIERS
You Are Urged Give Information of the Name and Location Of
Grave of Any Soldier Who May Be Buried IN the Lubbock
Cemetery Whose Identity Might Not Be Known.

when IL rains--it pours," and so
Il happens in Lubbock. When one
thing starts everything else in the
country starts with it--and the re-
suit Is that we are rushed to death .
until il is all over. And the funny
thing about il is-in Lubbock some
starts almost every day and the
things that follow never catch up un-
I'll something new is started.
Commencement week is ] st clos
ing when the Plainview Convention
the Elks Ceremonial, and Chautau-
qua week starts, and Tuesday Of
next week is Memorial Day and the
American Legion announces special
memorial service and program for the
day. An the stores Of the city win
be closed in conformity with an
agreement signed last year de
claring five holidays per year. The
first in each year on Memorial Day,
the next the 4th of July, the 1lth
of November and then Thanksgiving
and Christmas. IL Is expected that
every business house in Lubbock win
be closed for the entire day next
Tuesday, the 30th.
AT 9 a. m. every ex-service man in
Lubbock and adjoining counties will
meet at the court house in uniform,
where parade will be formed and
march to the new auditorium where
appropriate services will be held. A
complete program will be announced
in Fridays paper The G.. A. r.,
Old Confederates, Spanish War Vet
erans, ex-secrvice men Of the late
war-any ex-service men Of foreign
wars in any other army or under any
flag--all Of these are urged to meet
at the court house promptly at 8 A.
m, in uniform as far as it is posi-
BILE, and to join in the parade TO the
Auditorium. The band will lead the
yat the auditorium all will retire TO the
cemetery where the graves Of old
soldiers and others who served their
country in any of the wars viii be
decorated with flowers.
Any one knowing Of old soldiers
buried in the Lubbock cemetery win
confer a favor upon the Legion by
calling Harold Griffith Of Rix's and
making sure that he has the name on
his list Of graves 10 be decorated
OF course we think we viii have
every grave in the cemetery identi-
fled but there might possibly be some
one soldier overlooked unless you
phone.
Rixs Undertaking Parlors will be
receiving headquarters for flowers
with which to decorate the graves Of
these men. IL is asked that the flow
ers be not made into funeral wreaths,
crosses, etc, but that they be made
into plain bouquets, or sprays. do
not wrap with American flag, for
the flag should never be allowed 70
lie on the ground or have anything
placed on top Of it. The colors, red,
white and blue, may be used II desir-
ed but not the flagD
Everyone Is Asked 10 Display a Flag
In keeping with the policy Of the
American Legion TO better observe
our National Holidays every mer-
chant. business house, private resi-
dence and other buildings in town is
asked to display an American flag
during the whole of Memorial Day.
The flag should be raised after sun
rise and taken in before sunset.
They should not be left out over
night As far as possible the flags
should be displayed from a staff or
at least in an upright position and
never placed so that any part can
touch the ground. II you haven't
good grade flag. you should pur-
chase one. They cost less than a dol
lar and will last indefinitely. But
IL you simply do not have one and
will never think to order a good one
in time for the National Holidays.
at least get the largest cheap flag
you can and display il. Let every
house in Lubbock display the Ameri-
can flag Memorial Day.
The men who lie in Flanders,
whose blood has stained the field Of
honor, are entitled 10 your reverence
and honor toward the flag for which
they paid the supreme sacrifice IL
stands for the Liberty, Peace and
Protection that YOU enjoy pur-
chased with their blood--and 1t Is
little TO ask that you do them this
honor.
Full detailed announcement will
be made in fridays paper as to the
program. In the meantime. spread
the news in all the adjoining counties
among your friends and invite all
ex-service men of all wars TO join
with the Legion next Tuesday In
| fitting memorial service.