Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1881 — DECORATION DAY. [ARTICLE]
DECORATION DAY.
Programme of Exercises. The citizens will assemble in the Court House Square, and at 2 o’clock sharp will form iu the following order and march to the Cemetery : Rensselaer Cornet Band. Soldiers of the late War, the War with Mexico and the War ' of 1812. Town Council and Officers. County Officers. Puolic School. Citizens.J Chaplain and Orators. Little Gills with Flowers. Arriving at the Cemetery the following Programme of Exercises will be observed: Music by the Band. Singing. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. A. Taylor. Singing. Oration by Hon. E.P. Hammond. Singing. Oration by Rev. J. W. Loder. Music by the Baud. Decoration of Graves. Mordecai F. Chilcote, Frank J. Sears, Chas. H. Price. Committee
