Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-31
Observance Today


today will be observed in the af-
ternoon with a parade of the veter-
ans organizations and the Augusta
units of the Maine National Guard
to Monument Park, where the floral
tributes will be placed against the
base of the beautiful monolith in
honored memory of those who in the
service of their country have given
their all in the wars since the
founding of the Republic.
Memorial exercises in the Penney
Memorial United Baptist church
will follow the program at Mont
ment Park, and the orator Of the
day will be Hon. l.. T. Carleton of
Winthrop, himself a veteran of the
Civil War and a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
AT 10 o'clock this forenoon the
annual ceremony for the sailor dead
will be conducted on the Kennebec
bridge under the direction of the
General Phil Sheridan Circle. Ladies
of the G. A. r. Graves of veterans
in the several cemeteries of Angus
Ia will be decorated in the morning
by details from the II. A. STAPLES
Camp. S. of ", and American Leg
ion.
For the parade this afternoon Jo-
seph. p. Grenier is Marshal of the
Day. The line will be formed on
Water street at 2.15 o'clock. and the
order of the procession win be as
follows:
Platoon of Police. WI. Skehan chief
j. +. Gren1er, marshal of the day
Aides:
Lieut.. Col Charles W. Savage
Major Emery o. Beane
Augusta Cadet Rand
Frank A. Dennis, director
Co. +, 103rd Regiment Infantry, n.
&. S.. Capt. Frank b Sprague
commanding
seth Infantry Brigade Headquarters,
Capt. Almon B. Sullivan COM
handing
James Fitzgerald Post, No. 2. Amer
lean Legion, Commander Reuel B.
Soule commanding
Henry G. Staples Camp, Sons of
Veterans, Commander Fred Tickle
commanding
Seth Williams Post, No. 10, G. A. R,
senior vlce-Commgander D. w.
Pettingill commanding
Disabled soldiers in carriages
Seth Williams Independent Relief
Corps
Gen. Phil Sheridan Circle, Ladies of
the G. A. r.
Seth Williams National Relief Corps
Sons of Veterans Auxiliary
Daughters of Veterans
The American Legion Auxiliary
Orator and President of the Day.
Hon. l.. I. Carleton and Ralph H.
Conant
United States and State officials
Augusta city government, clergy
and citizens
Route of procession: Up Water
street to Bridge, up Bridge to State,
down State street to Monument
Park, where the column will mass
and Memorial services will be held;
after which and at the sound of the
assembly the post. camp and legion
will reform and march to the Penney
Memorial church.
The exercises at Monument Park
are scheduled to start at 2.30 o'clock,
and as soon as the column of the vet
Grams has formed about the monu-
ment, the order of exercises will be
prayer by Charles F. Tibbetts; chap
lain of the Seth Williams post, G.. A.
r.; Address. Judge Robert A. Cony;
Decoration of the monument by
Past Commander Nathaniel w. White
assisted by Sons of Union Veterans:
| Memorial services for the deceased
veterans of the World War by the
James Fitzgerald post, American Le-
gion.
Ralph II. Conant, president of the
Common Council of the Augusta CITY
/ Government will preside at the SER
vice in the Penney Memorial United
Baptist church at o'clock, and the
program will be as follows:
Star Spangled Banner
Augusta Cadet Band
, Invocation
Rev. William r. Wood, D. d.
"reminiscences of '61
Augusta Cadet Band
Reading OF Orders JohniC. Howes
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Boyd Blanchard
Battle Cry OF Freedom"
Augusta Cadet Band
Grafton Hon. l.. T. Carleton
America Band and Audience