Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-30
RICHMOND TO PAY
| HOMAGE TO HEROIC
|. DEAD OF TWO WARS
Score of Organizations
Take Part in Annual Ex-
ercises in Hollywood.
WHARTON TO EULOCIZE
CONFEDERATE DEAD
j. E. Dunford Will Pay Trib.
ute to Fallen Comrades
in France.
PARADE IS A FEATURE OF DAY
VIII Form mt Fifth and Grace
strccts md Move Promptly
mt 4 o'clock
WHARTON TO EULOCIZE
CONFEDERATE DEAD
PARADE IS a FEATURE OF pAr
VIII Form mt Fifth and Grace
Streets md Move Promptly
mt 4 O'Clock.

Richmond's annual tribute TO her
heroic Southern dead will be held
In Hollywood Cemetery this after
noon at o'clock, under the aus
pices OF Hollywood Memorial Asso-
citation. Following the usual custom.
offices. banks and stores will observe
the holiday. Today Is a legal holi-
day and is observed in connection
with the national observance of Dec
oration Day. In the majority of the
Southern States Memorial Day is OBJ
served April IS.
Twenty five organiza tions will
take part In the exercises. which will
be Of dual character, tribute be-
ing paid to the memory OF those who
made the supreme sacrifice in the
War Between tho States and the
World War. a
parade. under the direction OF
Captain A. w. Miller. of r. Z. Lee
Camp. No. /, Confederate Veterans,
Will form at Fifth and Grace Streets,
moving promptly at o'clock. A
number OF organizations will take
part in the parade.
Formation OF Parade,
In line will be n platoon of police,
Cadet Corps. Benedictine College.
veterans from the soldiers Home,
Hollywood Memorial Association.
lakewood Memorial Association. Mrs.
]. T.. Hughes, president; Hebrew Me-
mortal Association. Mrs. S. 8. Rosen-
dorf; Junior Hollywood Memorial AS
sociation. Mrs. S. ]. Dudley: Confedr
crate M emoriar Literary Society, Miss
n ich ,,l
Chapter. United Daughters OF Con-
federacy. Miss Nellie D. Spence: Leo
Chapter U. d. c.. Miss Bell Perkins:
Grandchildren's Chapter, Miss Annie
Crump. president: Chesterfield Chap
ter. Mrs. w. L. Drew. president;
Stonewsn Chapter. Mrs. Newton Nc
Weigh; the Service Legion, Mrs. G.
T. w. Kern, and the Womans Aux
iiiary, American Legion. Mrs. e. D.
IIotchkiss.
Carriages are asked to be in line
at $3.50 o'clock. The line of march
will be Grace Street to Second.
franklin to Laurel. Laurel to Floyd.
and Cherry to Beverly Street gate
ut Hollywood. Only the military and
pedestrians will enter the main en-
trance OF the cemetery on Cherry
Street.
VIII Decorate Graves.
The address of the occasion at the
cemetery Will be delivered by Rev.
Fl. NJ. Wharton, D. D.. a prominent
Baptist minister OF Baltimore, who
will speak in memory Of his COM
rades In the Confederacy. and Cap
tain ]. Earle Dunford. who served In
France with the Seventy DI-
vision, and was wounded while on
duty, will pay tribute to those who
laid down their lives IN the recent
struggle.
y. II. Hopkins Will be master OF
ceremonies. The singing will be
under the direction Of Morris l. Ty-
.er. and. while Onward. Christian
Soldiers" is being sung. the Grand
children of the Confederacy will
place a wreath upon the monument
| dedicated to the memory OF the wom-
Ell OF the sixties.
Mrs. - G. Waltha!l is In charge
Of decorations and asks memters OF
patriotic organizations to assemble
at he Beverly street gate at Holly
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