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W • CT b-1-! •MEMORIAL DAY,Graves Deeorated and Honor Done to Soldier Dead.Memorial Day exercises were planned and'executed on a morej elaborate scale this year than for-some time past and it is well that it should have been so, inasmuch as not many years remain for the old soldier to participate in these events. Their' ranks are pretty well thinned out, but six in this-vicinity responding’ ‘“Here” to the 1911 roll call. They were as follows: 0. E. Gaunt, IX W. Bee-• bout, Henry Switzer, T. P. Frost, G. H. Carter and ■ j. H. Thurston.f The procession formed at the• high school grounds and headed by the band inarched to the Christian church where the program wasi given, the principal address being delivered by fion. G. A. Mote, ofi, Marshalltown. ' It was a splendid . effort, breathing as it did the spirit of patriotism and a high standard I of citizenship. •Following the exercises at the church -the line reformed- and marched to Pleasant Hill cemetery where the ceremony of decorating ! the soldiers3 graves was performed.Another excellent address was e~. livered by Rev. Josiah Paxsoh on‘Our Unknown Dead.” .....Steps were retraced and .the• Friends cemetery visited and a i similar-exercise of decorating the- graves of the soldier dead gone through with.It was a beautiful day and- all- seemed imbued with a proper re-1 gard .for the observance of Memorial Day.
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Le Grand Reporter
Le Grand, Iowa, US
Fri, Jun 02, 1911
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