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Pilgrimage To Battle GroundMuch interest is being shown in the Pilgrimage to the Tippecanoe Battle Ground of the Society of the war of 1812 on Sunday, Nov., 5th, next—the 105th Anniversary of the Battle of the Tippecanoe.The United States Daughters of j 1812 will join officially in this Pilgrimage.The Tippecanoe Battle Ground, on the banks of the Wabash nine miles north of Lafayette, Indiana,is now a very beautiful park'^with a large auditorium and otherbuildings. A station on the Mon-on Railway is at the entrance to this park.There will be appropriate exercises including a program of music and patriotic addresses, beginning at 2 p. m.The facilities of the Monon and and other railways and of the In-terurban will permit those who wish to go this Pilgrimage to leave home Sunday morning, attend the exercises and reach home the same night. If the day is pleasant, the exercises will be held in the open air. Otherwise in the auditorium. The mayor and citizens of Lafayette and surrounding territory are giving their hearty co-operation.Every one is invited to join in this Pilgrimage and will be indeed welcome. It is especially desired that youths and children attend.For firfl information of this Pilgrimage, or of the requirements of membership in the Society ofthe War of 1812, address John M. Stahl, President, Illinois Society ot the War of 1812, 2401 MichiganAve., Chicago, Illinois, or James Edgar Brown, Sec'y-Treas., Illinois Society of the War of 1812, Conway Building, Chicago, 111.The jurisdiction of the IllinoisSocietv of the War of 1812 coversthe entire United States west ofPennsylvania and it has members ♦and officers in Indiana, Michigan, etc., as weil as Illinois.m tv
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Darlington Herald
Darlington, Indiana, US
Fri, Oct 20, 1916
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