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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1927
Page
3
An editor's note presents a copied essay on Memorial Day that earned second place in the Wilmette Optimist Club annual contest. It was written by Wilmette grade school pupils and likened to the first prize essay appearing in Wilmette Life.
The piece honors brave U S volunteers and fallen soldiers, tracing Decoration Day from Southern graveside flowerings to its 1868 formal designation by General John A. Logan. It notes regional differences in observance and ends with a poetic blessing for the departed, reflecting on sacrifice and remembrance.
A group of young Wilmette girls left Thursday for a two week outing at Juniper Knoll camp near Elkhorn Wisconsin. Names include Phyllis Carleton Ruth Solomon Virginia Oakley Vivian Grigsby Martha Erickson Agnes and Helen Jones Lucia Hollister Jane Crawford Marjorie Houghton Barbara Munn and their chaperones Mrs F R B MacKinnon and family. Earlier a Lake Geneva day trip brought five girls Mary Clark Weber Jane Horsting Eleanor Williams Mary Vila Wardner and Cecelia Mackinnon to visit Jane and Funice McIntosh at their summer home in celebration of Eunice McIntosh birthday.
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