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OBSERVED IN ANAnnual Event Participated In By Citizens Generally.ADDRESS GIVENTHIS AFTERNOONPhilip Zoercher, of Indianapolis, to Speak—Features of the Day.Memorial day dawned this morningin Lebanon as an ideal one as far asweather conditions go. By o’clockthe whole city was in gala attire with flags, hunting and flowers. All of thebusiness district wnc decorated andnew flags wore unfurled from severalpublic buildings. Business in generalwas suspended. Many local businesshouse- and the factories closed downfor the rut ire day. Public offices didnot open, Others remained open inthe morn'ng to close in the afternoon.The members of the Grand Army and Woman’- Relief Corps assembled uptown early w ith their bouquets and1^, baskets of flowers prepared to dec-ill orate the graves of veterans at Cedar Ilf Ifdl cemetery. This little company* i loft the G. A. R. hall shortly after 10.o’clock, and marched from there to thecemetery on North Park street.It is expected that, barring unexpected bad weather, there will be a 1 , large crowd at the cemetery this af-j term.on to hear the address by the| Hon. Phil Zoercher, of Indianapolis, j The afternoon .'orvieos will begin at 1:00 o’clock sharp. The lino of march 'will be formed uptown by the school •children, the veterans of the Civil war. members of'tin' W. R. C., Span-JJ . ish W ar V eterans, and Company M, local militia company, and led by theband, will pierced to Oak Hill eeme-tervThe dame.-;own hand is to render a » .musical number on the arrival there.; following which the children will dee-: orate the gr.ivr,- of tin* deceased veterans. The address then will be given.A New Feature.iI” A feature of the exercises this year .-t was scheduled for 12:00 o’clock noon, no At tlicit hour, the fire and church 17 bolls are to ring for two minutes dur--t ing which time every citizen is ex-iO ported to stand uncovered, as a mark iis of re.-pert to the soldiers of Ml and ti. the braw boys who arc now fighting st on thr battlefields of France, d- Special prayer services wore held y, during the morning hour in response ia to the .-uggestion of the president, g. The pic cat conflict brought home t viv idly to all the meaning of war and as a re-ult the annual “festival of »h flower.-” wa- more generally observed »a than ever before.The veterans of the t’ivil war are growing fower in number witli each T. year and civilian bodie- are taking h over, gradually, the arrangements for L tin* observance. But always the fea-d, turos and the purposes of the day are Hi preserved and the veterans of thee, Civil war. living and dead, receive h their full meed of honor at the hands t- of a grateful people.
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Lebanon Daily Reporter
Lebanon, Indiana, US
Thu, May 30, 1918
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Lebanon P.
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