Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-05-30
MORNING PARADE
Will START At
9 O'CLOCK TODAY

F. L. Merrick. marshal Of the day,
announced last night that the morn
Ing parade will start from Common
street promptly at o'clock and in
the afternoon the parade will start
at exactly 100. Following is the
forenoon program:
The w. S. Heath, Post, No. IA, 6.
A.. r.: Garfield Camp, No. /, Sons of
Veterans; George N. Bourque Post,
pany G, 103rd Infantry. N. G. s. NJ,
led by the Waterville Military band,
will form on Common street a little
before o'clock and will march to
Fort Hill cemetery, Winslow, where
the usual exercises will be observed.
The parade will halt on Ticonic
bridge, where exercises in memory of
the sailor-soldier dead will be con-
Quoted by Dorothea Dix Tent.
Daughters of Veterans; prayer by
Rev. joni H. Yates: singing, and
strewing flowers on the water.
Following is the afternoon pro-
gram: The line will form a little be-
fore 100 on the west, side of, Main
street, the right resting on Silver
street, in the following order: Pla-
toon of police in uniform; Waterville
Military band, leader, J. A. varney;
Marshal Of the Day F. L. Merrick and
aids: Company G, 103rd Infantry,
n. G. S. NJ, Captain S. Parker Foss;
Bayard Co.. No. 9, U. r. K. P, Cap
tain F. J. Cotes; Canton Halifax, No.
"a, I. o. o. F., Captain w. I. Sterling:
Modern Woodmen Of America, Chief
Forester W. A. Burke; Kennebec
ans. Commander Charles Quimby;
George NJ Bourque Post, American
Legion, Commander Paul Julien;
Garfield Camp. No. 1, Sons of Veter-
ans, Commander F. D. Robinson;
w. S. Heath Post, No. IA, G. A. R.,
Commander F. d. Lunt. in automo-
biles; Mayor Leon o. Tebbetts and
the city government in automobiles;
clergymen in automobiles. The line
of march will be down Silver street
to Sherwin to Summer, to Pine Grove
cemetery, where the exercises will be
as follows: Music: prayer by Rev. r.
A. Pollard Jones: decoration of
graves at sound Of bugle; benedic-
ton.
The line will reform and march
up Summer to Redingto INTO Elm
street and to the soldiers monumnet.
where the following program will be
carried out:
Prayer by Rev. Walter Quarring-
ton; selection by Waterville Military
band; special services by w. S.
Heath Post; decoration of the monu-
ment; calling of the roll of honor;
salute for the dead.
The column will reform and march
up Elm street to Main, down Main
to the Opera House. where the pro-
gram will be as follows: Selection by
the Waterville Military band; prayer.
by W. A. Smith; reading of general
orders, G. A. r.; address by F. u.
Lunt, commander of w. S. Heath
Post; cornet solo by Hilliard Sawyer;
address by Mayor Leon o. Tebbetts;
reading General John A. Logan's
general orders, by Edmund Sweeney;
music; Lincoln's Gettysburg address.
by Arthur Levine; drill by school
children: poem, Nothing But Flags,
Ly Emily kinney; grafton by Albert
Raymond Rogers; music by band;
benediction.
Aides of the uniformed orders VINO
are to march will report to Marshal
F.. l.. Merrick at G. A. r. hall. Com
mon street at 100 P. NJ. Any other
societies not in the list which wish to
participate in the parade will he as
signed a place by reporting to the
marshal.