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MEMORIAL DAY DIA Beautiful Occa»ion in Wilmington. Attendance Very Large.Weather conditions were perfect for the observance of Memorial day and the attendance, both at the Opera House and Sugar Grove cemetery, was very large.At the former place the stage was | lt;-decorated in flags and flowers. Mr. S.AweatinRMaA. floladay presided. Excellent mu Tioccria,milof l brikti:traDilt;celBuEpthlt;thethlt;thlt;inpirMrpo]torsic was 'furnished by the Wilmington Military band, the audience standing during the rendition of the national air, and the singing of ‘•America,” which followed.The invocation was made by Rev. Nancy A. C. Leonard, and Misses Anna and Hazel O’Neall sang the favorite old song, “Tenting Tonight,” with Charles Fisher at the piano.Mayor Huffman conducted the ritual of the G. A. R., a part of which was the reading by Judge Kimbrough of General Order No. 11, instituting by Gen. John A. Logan the observance of a national memorial day in 186*. Mr.1C. N. Browning, who was in the audi-; ence, attended the tirst decoration service at Arlington cemetery, Washington, D. C\. in that year, at which Gen.! Logan presided, and Gen. James A.1 |Garfield delivered the oration. Mrs , '' I). F. McCoy read the general order of the W. B.C.| President Lincoln’s Gettysburg ad-1 i dress, always a part of the Memorial ; day program, was read, and very well • read, by Mr. J. W. Walker. IMrs. Lulu F. Huffman delivered the j address. Mr. Holiday introducing her as the past department president of,| the Ohio W. R. C., composed of thir-; teen thousand patriotic women. Her | address, which was an excellent one, was made even more attractive by the interpolation by Judge Kimbrough, assisted by a chorus, of a number of old j war-time songs, “The Battle Cry of i Freedom.” “Tramp. Tramp,” “Just Before the Battle Mother,’’and others. Mrs. Mary F. Wright played forjJJ; the musical numbers.Mrs. J. C. Linton sang a beautiful arrangement of national ai rs, her clear, ^full voice filling the hall with its mel-1,0 ijody. Miss Nell Devanney aceompa-i! nied her.A flag drill by sixteen young girls,j Mr r* » iinTTn- ■ 1“prlt;inMicalAFrSOIsaifrcmitoCOpeeagobeis(siiar:ciItfuU[td«f the direction Mr. XT. A. Holla day,charmed the audience and they responded to an encore.The procession to the cemetery was an imposing one, and was made up as i published in the Democrat last week, with the exception of the Knights of [g Pythias, who were unable to be in line j [| on account of a Dumber of the mem- = [bers being in attendance at a funeral. I S Flowers were In the greatest abund- J= anee, and the cemetery was like a l£ beautiful gardeD, and each soldiers' fl grave, and indeed, nearly every grave | j in the cemetery, having been banked with bioom during the forenoon.' Further ritual work of the G. A. R. and the W. R. C. was given, and the •j firing squad gave the final salute, the band playing a number of appropriate j selections.
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Wilmington Clinton County Democrat
Wilmington, Ohio, US
Thu, Jun 06, 1912
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