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V.1To Be Observed with Appropriate 1 j;% )Service. •'i:.1VslisiIIIcIf(I(I(I(Next Tuesday. Memorial Day, will be observed in Wilmington with exercises befitting tlie occasion in accord ance with custom.The preceding Sunday morning, Mav the memorial sermon will be Me live red in the M K. Church by Uev.M. K Ketcham. The service will be--in at 10::0and the comrades of Mor ris McMillan I’ost. (1. A. lb, with the \\ R. C ill meet at the C. A. Ib hah at :.;o and go to the church m a body. 1 VSunday afternoon the C A h and ^ the W. lb C. will go to Springfield js church where they will decorate the graves of soldiers buried there and nold services, which will occur at 2:30 m the church, the usual program being observed. ,lt; )n Tuesday the W. lb C. will meet , in the (». A. H. hall at S:J0 a. m to, , prepare the flowers for decorating the soldiers graves. All citizens are re-juested to send what ilowers they have for this purpose to the hall bv nine o'clock that morning.The* Boy Scouts are asked to meet , at tlie opera house at n a. m. Memor- ^onal Day to assist in placing the Hagon the tower. At t a. m. they are requested to meet at the C. A lb hall to assist the \Y. lb C. and the C. A. lb The program to he given at the *opera house Tuesday will begin at -p.m. The oider of the exercises will be as follows:Overture by Wilmington Band; song, “America: invocation, Rev. E.S DeMiller: song, “The Star Spangled Banner. by children of the fourth grade: oration, Rev. N E. Bennett: vocal solo. F. L. McDonald; reading. Helen LeRoy Linton: song. “Our Soldier Heroes Sleeping. fourth grade lt;children: reading. Virginia Baldwin;; song by lt;iuartette, Miss Kate Merri- j man. Mrs. Call M. Clevenger, F. L. j McDonald, Clem Brann.At the close of the program the profession wul form for the march to the cemetery. The formation of the pa rade will be: Wilmington Fire De-; parliih'lit, Wilmington Band, colots,K. of F lodge, J. o C. a. M. lodge, Boy Scouts. C. A. lbAt the cemetery the exercises w ill consist of the chaplain’s praver, the commander's address, music by the band, proclamation of the otlicer of the day, strewing of the flowers over the soldier’s graves by the children, taps by Edwin Bath, song. “Nearer I My Cod to Thee, and the benediction by Rev. Leroy Linton Dorter.I'he list of Die graves to be deco-] rated is given below. An item of interest and one that Is pronably not generally known is that two lie roes of the Revolution are buried m the old Methodist cemetery on Wall street. These two soldiers are Captain Joseph; Darrett and Benjamin Fuller and their graves will be fittingly honored along with the graves of ali other soldiers.Detail 1. (.’apt Ceo lt;irebiugh David T. White,Henry S. Doan, Datrick Den ver 1*1*2, Lanius R Imn, J L llin man. D 11 Blackmon*. Jacob Car-! roll. T'hos C. Morris. W C. Worthington, J. M. Hinman. D H. Horseman, Ephraim Kibby lMJ, W F Johns, Jos'-ph lbipp, Ceo W Moore. J. lbWnhams, Dempsey. Daniel WChase, A/anuh Cuslis, J M IVn hington, (’. C. Mennington, Rufus Mari in, John Skimmings, Frank Babb, Benjamin Fuller ITTti
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Wilmington Clinton County Democrat
Wilmington, Ohio, US
Thu, May 25, 1916
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