LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
May 24, 1912

IN HONOR OF HEROES
Memorial and Decoration Day Services Will Be Held in LeMars

The members of Mower Post, G.A.R., and W.R.C. has completed arrangements for
the befitting observance of Memorial Sunday and Decoration Day, and extend a
cordial invitation to all the citizens of Plymouth County and LeMars to join
in the celebration of these two most holy days. The exercises will be in
accordance with those held in many years past. Memorial Sunday services will
be held at the opera house next Sunday, May 26th, and the Decoration Day
observance on Thursday, May 30th.

Memorial Day program of the Grand Army of the Republic. Sunday services at
the opera house, May 26th, at 10:30 a.m.:
Invocation—Rev. J. C. Hoover
Music, “Coronation”—By Congregation
Scripture Lesson—Rev. S. M. Wilcox
Prayer—Rev. M. O. Lambly
Music, Anthem, “Be With Us Yet”—Chorus Choir
Announcements
Collection
Music, Quartet, Selected—Miss McCool, Mrs. Engelken, Homer Jones, Ed Haas
Sermon—Rev. E. E. Gilbert
Hymn—America
Benediction—Rev. C. G. Butler

Decoration Day services, Thursday, May 30th, 1912:
Promptly at 9:30 a.m. under the chief marshal, W. S. Freeman and his aids,
the column will form on Main street between Fourth and Fifth streets in the
following order:
Band.
Mower Post G.A.R.
Civic societies.
School children and citizens.
LeMars fire department
Flower committee in carriages.
W.R.C. and G.A.R. in carriages.
Citizens in carriages.

The line of march will be south on Main street to Third, east on Third to
the city cemetery, where the ritual exercises of the G.A.R. and the W.R.C.
will be held. After the completion of the decoration services, the column
will reform in the same order and march to the Catholic cemetery, and after
exercises there will return by way of Sixth to Main street and there
disband.

Our citizens are requested to bring flowers to the library building early in
the morning of May 30th.

LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel
May 28, 1912

TAKE UP THEIR WORK
PRESENT GENERATION SHOULD FOLLOW IN SOLDIERS STEPS
SET GOOD EXAMPLE OF HEROISM
Memorial Services at the Opera House on Sunday Well Attended—Rev. E. E.
Gilbert is the Principal Speaker on Occasion

Respect and honor for the illustrious dead and survivors of the great Civil
War was evinced in the large attendance of patriotic people who attended
memorial services at the opera house on Sunday morning. The heavy rain in
the early morning prevented a number from the country who had planned to
attend from being present. The gray haired warriors marched in a body from
their hall and were accorded seats in the front of the house. The house was
beautifully decorated with flags and portraits of departed generals. The
invocation was delivered by Rev. J. C. Hoover, a Scripture lesson by Rev. S.
M. Wilcox and a prayer by Rev. M. O. Lambly. Music was rendered by a union
choir and a quartet composed of Mrs. J. S. Engelken, Miss Hollie Mc Cool, Ed
Haas and Homer Jones. The benediction was pronounced by Rev. C. G. Butler.
The entire assembly joined in the singing of the national anthem. Rev. E. E.
Gilbert delivered the address on the occasion and made a splendid talk from
the words contained in 2 Kings 2:14-15: “And he took the mantle of Elijah
that fell from him and they said the spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha
and they came to meet him and bowed themselves to the ground before him.”
Mr. Gilbert after paying tribute to the valor and heroism of those who
fought to preserve the union, urged on the successors and children of these
veterans to strive and struggle for better conditions and the uplift of
mankind in general as a whole.

The veterans of LeMars have invited the citizens, men, women and children to
attend the exercises on Thursday morning, Decoration Day. The following is
the order of the exercises for the day:

Selection by band.
G. A. R. Ritual.
Song by Miss McCool’s Class.
W. R. C. Ritual.
Gettysburg Address, by Prof. Palmer.
General Order No. II, by Gen. Logan.
Decoration of Graves.
Assembly Blown.
March to Catholic Cemetery and Decoration of Graves.

Promptly at 9:30 a.m. under the chief marshal, W. S. Freeman and his aids,
the column will form on Main street between Fourth and Fifth streets in
the
following order:
Band.
Mower Post G.A.R.
Civic societies.
School
children and citizens.
LeMars fire department
Flower committee in
carriages.
W.R.C. and G.A.R. in carriages.
Citizens in carriages.

The line
of march will be south on Main street to Third, east on Third to
the city
cemetery, where the ritual exercises of the G.A.R. and the W.R.C.
will be
held. After the completion of the decoration services, the column
will
reform in the same order and march to the Catholic cemetery, and
after
exercises there will return by way of Sixth to Main street and
there
disband.

Our citizens are requested to bring flowers to the library
building early in
the morning of May 30th.

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