Evening star., 1926-05-31

Memorial day exercises at Battle
Ground National Cemetery are being
held this afternoon under the auspices
Of the Grand Army of the Republic
and the citizens Of Brightwood and
vicinity
The program is under direction Of
Past Department Comdr. John w.
Reid. Department of Potomac. G. A.
r. chairman. and John Claggett Proc
tor, vice chairman. Music is furnished
by the 18th Engineer Band. L. S. A..
with r. W. Treichel. bandma ster.
Assembly was followed by the rails
ing OF the American flag and salute
TO the colors by Maj. John Dewey.
The entire assemblage then sang
The Star Spangled Banner" accom-
panied by the band. after which John
NJ. Kline read the orders OF the
Grand Army of the Republic and the
band rendered the Grand Military
Fantasia" Vice Chairman John C.
Proctor introduced Past Comdr. John
w. Reid, for a brief address. Invo
cation was pronounced by Rev. E. W
Register and the Battle Ground
Quartet sang "One Sweetly Solemn
Thought" after which Arthur Brad
ley White, recited The Star Spangled
Banner" Mrs. f. CLYDE Shade sang
ilC ISuAIlC IfyIHI III fluo ItcUuOilC
and John Claggett Proctor recited an
Randolph. who sang Just Before the
Battle. Mother" Loncoln's Gettys-
burg address was delivered by Theo-
dore Hardy and the Battle Ground
Quartet sang Beautiful Isle of Some
where"
Senator GoR Speaker.
The orator Of the day Is Senator
Guy d. Goff OF West Virginia. A
paraphrase on DR.. l.. Mason's Near.
er My God to Thee" was played by
the band. followed by the decorating
of the graves by the children of the
public schools directed by Mrs. Angus
Lamond. jr.. assisted by Misses
Grace Martin. Elizabeth Gleason.
Frances Cheney. Ethel Passin of the
Thiemeyer, Vernon Thill, Charlotte
Nicholson. Charlotte Hewins. Char
lotte Con. Anne Morrison. Dorothy
Clarke, Eileen Larson. Mary Jeffer-
son Of the West School: Natalie Mar
low. Dorothy Yates. Mary Pointer,
Frances Fletcher. Mary E. Hook
baum, Elizabeth Coale, Kathleen Nc
Cormick of the Takoma School; Ruby
Grinder, Sarah Hamilton. Ethel
Baker. Marba Wollhiser. Helen Sc
well. Ruth Geiger of the Brightwood
School: Hazel Hawkins, Irene Baxter.
Harriet Erickson, Daisy Neale Of the
George Truesdell School.
America" is to be sung by the
audience, accompanied by the band,
will be pronounced by
by a bugler and a salute fired
by the firing squad. The children par
ticipating in the exercises are from
the public schools of the third division,
Ephraim q. Kimball. supervising
principal. The personnel of the Bat
tie Ground Quartet includes Mrs. E.
Clyde Shade, William w. Wallace.
Louis F.. Randolph. Robert E. Pogue.
and accompanist Harry Wheaton
Howard.
The guests Of honor include: Maj
Gen. Lansing H. Beach, Col. James
Franklin Bell, Representative Eugene
Black Of Texas, Maj. Gen. Tasker H.
Bliss, Representative John C. Box of
Texas, Maj. Gen. John L. Clem, Repre-
sentative John G. Cooper OF Ohio,
Mayor elect Ben G. Davis of Takoma
Park. Md. Maj Gen. Robert c. Davis,
Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Da-
kota, Maj. L. S. Grant, Sd; Representa-
tive Thomas Hall Of North Dakota.
Prof: r. l.. Haycock. Representative
Ira G.. Hersey of Maine. Maj. Gen.
/. W. Ireland, former Senator Blair
Lee, Commissioner Cuno III. Rudolph.
Harley V. Speelman. Registrar Of the
Treasury: Representative Frederick N.
Zihlman of Maryland. Representative
Charles Z. Winter Of Wyoming.
Committees in Charge.
The various committees in charge
of the exercises were as follows:
G.. A. r. committee in charge-John
w. Field, chairman; John Clagett Proc
tor. vice chairman: DR.. j. A. Ballard,
Frederick A. Dillon, DR.. Henry A.
Johnson. Judge III. B. Moulton, Col.
John McElroy. Col. O. H. Oldroyd.
DIR. c. V. Petteys.
Executive committee--Mr. Proctor.
chairman; George Francis Williams,
vice chairman: DIR. Charles e. Ralph.
John w. Reid. w. NICK.
Henry E. King. Elmer John
SON. Mrs. Angus Lamond. jr.: Fred
ericl1 d. Owen. DR.. c. V. Pettey's,
Topham. Lucius r. Ran
iolph, Charles w. Ray. Harry l.. Slye.
Committee on invitations--W. Nick.
ria ayton. chairman: William NJ. Han
nay. vice chairman: T.. s. Cannon.
w. Chase. Henry c. Clark. DIR.
Guy S. Clinton, DIR. James deBois, DR..
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