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Great Crowds Celebrate Parade and Memorial Day in Grafton
Crowds filled East Main and St. John streets for a parade led by Reno Post No. 7 and visiting veterans. Stuart Reed delivered the day’s address at the National Cemetery, praising patriotism, memory of the fallen, and the value of public virtue, while ceremonies included prayers, flags, and a gun salute.
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East Main Street
St. John Street
Jupiter Pluvius
Old Sol
Grafton
Reno Post No. 7
Grand Army of the Republic
North
Brinkman
National Cemetery
Silver Leaf Arard Corps
Na‘tioval
Woodmen of the World Band
Miss White
F. G. W. Ford
Grand Army
Barnhouse
H. R. Hess
U. B. Church
J. @. Lewellen
Silk Leaf
French Creek
Rowlesburg
Reform School Band
Supt
H. B. Flesher
Woodmen of the World
James W. Love
Stuart F. Reed
City of the
West Virginia
Arthur F. Richardson
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
J. A. McClelland
First Presbyterian Church
Reed
of the Republic
Philippi
Broaddus Institute
Fort Sumpter
America