Memorial Day Established by Gen Logan
Memorial Day observance began with General John A Logan’s order on May 9, 1868, designating May 30 for laying flowers on Union soldiers’ graves. The 1869 proclamation urged nationwide reverence, urging citizens to honor fallen defenders, widow and orphans, and to maintain the memory of the Civil War dead through yearly observance. General Logan ordered that the observance be kept from year to year, with ongoing participation by veterans and communities.
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Johm A- Logan
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army of the Republices
Tiese
Gopiainder
Memorial Day Parade Seeks School Participants
Students from all grades including senior high are urged to join the Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Day procession in front of the VFW home. They should bring a flag and four bouquets of flowers. gathering is at 8 50 a.m. in front of the monument at City Park.
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Grage
Surviving Civil War Veterans Reach City List
Seven surviving Civil War veterans are identified as residents of the city. Names include Oliver C. Smith, James Davids, Richard Marilyn Jobs Bell, Jay Smith, Christopher Hi, Walford Pimehun, and others. The piece notes their longevity and memory as a golden time.
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Yiuinity
Olver
Gakon
Smith Tames Davids
Richard Marylin
Jobs
Bell Jay Smith
Christopher Hi. Walford
Memorial Day Speaker Stover To Address Rites In City Park
Stover, a former Army veteran and longtime Western Pennsylvania businessman, will deliver the Memorial Day address at City Park at 10 o clock Tuesday. Born December 2 1874 in Emlenton Venango County he served in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection, later becoming active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars United Mine Workers and several fraternal orders.
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Ied Stover
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the
United States
Io City Park
Emlenton
Venonga County
Stover
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Port McPherson
Atlanta
17Th
Georgia
Philippines
Comtate Stovey
San Francisco
Tridlana
Cavite
Manila
Jolo-Stui Telands
Stavep
Grove City
Veterans Oforeign Wars
Rom
United Mine Workers of America
Fru Synal
Odd Fellows, Masonic Fraternity
Knights of Pythias
Helgalea
Rott Jang
Memorial Day Program Planned in City Park
Memorial Day activities are set in City Park with Milan Waller as emcee. Rev G Stanley West will lead, Corry High School Band to perform, and Mayor Frank England will read Gen Logan’s Order No 11. Walter H Seat VFW commander and Lloyd Stowe American Legion district commander will introduce surviving GAR members. Gerty High School Band, M G A Quartet, and Fred Stover past national commander will address. Benediction by Rev Perry Haines. Star Spangled Banner and Taps conclude.
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Milan
Stanley West
Corry
Frank Z
England
Benediction
Perry Haines
Gerty High School
Mining Squad
Milan Waller
Memorial Day Parade Precedes City Park Program
Memorial Day parade, larger than recent years, will form at the V. F. W. Home in West Washington Street just after 9. It runs in two divisions across First Avenue and west of the intersection, following a route to City Park. Organized units include Massed Colors, G A R members, Post Company A, high school band, Knights Templar, Old Fellows, and multiple veterans groups. Citizens urged to keep organizations intact at Grey Park for services.
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V. FW
Washington Street
First Avenue
South Street
City Park
Dy C.F. Bennett
Charles P. Keating
112Th Infantry
Clarence Commandery
Knights ‘Templar
Independent
Order of Old Fellows
Stanford Hoss
Oller
W. G. Arnold
W. F. W. Bugle
W. F. W. Bugle and’ Drum Corps
Women's Relief Corps
United Spanish War Veterans
Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary
American Legion
Boy Scouts of America
Grey Park
Memorial Day Observance Led by VFW Post 264 Since 1923
The local observant of Memorial Day has been in charge of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 264 since 1923. Surviving G A A members were made honorary members when admitted to the jail post, with recent years seeing cooperation from the United Spanish War Veterans and the American Legion in observance arrangements.
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United Spanish War Veterans
American Legion
Revolutionary War Soldier Linked to Corry Lineage Buried East of Columbus
A Corry area article recalls Jacques Raymond born 1766 in Norwalk Connecticut, buried December 1844 near Columbus Warren County Pennsylvania. He served briefly in 1780 and 1781, later moved to Commods, married Sarah Sears, and is remembered by a simple tombstone under a cherry tree within a fenced plot east of Columbus along the Roosevelt highway.
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Corry
Jacques Raymond
Columbus
Fort Sumter
Roosevelt Highway
America
Zacheus
Norwal
Conn
Warren County
Sarah Sears
Mr. Raymond
Connecticut
Couch
Canfield
Commons
Raymond
David Curtis
Pass
The Bivouac of the Dead Poem Snippet
A fragmentary wartime verse memorializing fallen soldiers. It invokes bugles blowing triumph and sorrow, flowers falling, and the nation’s call answered by brave men. Dense with imagery of battles, death, and ancestral ties across friends and families.
Veterans Honor Memorial Day at First Methodist Church
More than four hundred people attended Memorial Day services at First Methodist Episcopal Church conducted by Rev. Perry Z. Haines. Veterans from VFW G A R Spanish American War Veterans American Legion and auxiliaries were represented. The service featured period decorations and a sermon titled Universal Peace in the Light of the Scriptures with a solo of The Old Rugged Cross.
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Methodist Eipispal
Perry Z. Haines
Veterans of Foreign Wars
American Legion
Howerg
Monument shaft unveiling delayed due to labor shortages
The planned unveiling of a Civil War veterans memorial shaft at Pine Grave cemetery has been indefinitely postponed because shipments from New England quarries are halted by labor troubles. Ex-service organizations pledge to join in the ceremony at a later date.
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Pine Grave
New England
Cary High School Band Helps Spring Creek Memorial Day Services
Cary High School Band members traveled to Spring Creek Sunday morning to assist in Memorial Day services held there. Rev. W. H. Garnett delivered the morning sermon, followed by exercises at the cemetery.
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Cary High School
Spring Crack
W. H. Garnett
Memorial Day forecast calls for fair, then showers
The forecast predicts generally fair weather for Memorial Day with increasing clouds and possible local showers this afternoon and evening. Cooler conditions expected Tuesday as high pressure builds in behind the front.
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Weather Inn
Orecas
Two Confederate Soldiers Buried in Pine Grove Cemetery
Graves of the Gray and Wr Blue will be decorated tomorrow in Corry as Pine Grove marks the final resting place of two Confederates. Joe Cromer CS A has a small headstone erected by Post 70 GA R. Herman Heerlein, born in Germany 1846, lived in Corry since 1876 and worked with Hull Cigar, is survived by his widow and daughter. The Stars and Stripes will flutter over their graves alongside other Civil War veterans.
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Corry
Pine Grove
Poal
G.l. Ry
Joe Cromer
Gromer
Lee
Jackson
Bragg
Hermin C. Heerléin
Bor
Germany
America
Atlanta
Heerlen
Walon
Nashville
Tenuy
Hig Trade
Hull Cigar Company
North Center Street
George Blisworth
Heerlein
John F. Bell
West Spring Creek
Post 7
Bell
Stars and Stripes
Joe Gromer
Herman Heerlein
Flags Placed on Graves of All Soldiers in City Cemeteries
Keating and Schaub began decorating graves of about 860 veterans buried in local cemeteries including Hutter veteran plots. Flags with names marked will adorn the resting places in Inning Stove St. Thomas St. Elizabeth St. Paul’s Lutheran McCray Beaverdam and Wheelock cemeteries.
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Keating
Enaarcour Y Schaub
Hutter
Stove
St. Thomas
St Alizabath’s
St. Paul's Lutheran
McCray, Gin
Beaverdam
Wheelock
Tribute From The Air At Memorial Day Services
A tribute from the air will honor the war dead during Memorial Day services tomorrow. Local aviator Guy Athey plans a morning flight from Ripley Airport weather permitting and a flower shower over City Park at ceremony end to honor soldiers who gave their lives in defense of the nation.
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Guy Athey
Ripley
Strefe
Jura
Fragmentary dateline prompts unclear reading
A partial OCR text fragment provides no coherent event, names, dates, or locations to identify a news item. Unable to determine a specific person, organization, or outcome from the garbled line.
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J. A. Logan
Army OF Republic
Union
Tohina
Logan
the Chipman
Geneva
Fred Stover
Butler
Speaker
Treazon
Perry F. Haines
Spring Creek
Herman C. Heerlein
Gray
Cromer
Progean
Tures
iNicho
Jack
Andy An Usion
Volovs
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