Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Memorial Day, Headquarters Rensselaer Post, No. 84, Department of Indiana, G. A. R. e Rensselaer, May 20, 1912. To the Public of Rensselaer and Vicinity: >• This Post is sure that it voices the sentiments of all the soldiers in requesting merchants and business men of our city to close their places of business from 2 to 5 o’clock on the afternoon of Memorial Day, May 30, 1912. It is urged that aU properly decorate for the occasion. Everybody is respectfully invited to participate in the spirit of the day, and all orders and Sunday schools and individuals are asked to march in'the procession. The afternoon will be observed as nearly as possible according to the following ITINERARY. The court house bell will ring at 1:30 P. M., when all civic and military bodies will assemble at their respective quarters, organize and proceed to the court house square, reporting to the Officer of the Day, Henry Wood, or to his Aides. At 2 o’clock the bell will ring for the formation of the parade. The Boys’ band will move to the crossing in front of the. court house as a starting point and the organizations will take position as directed by the Officer of the Day. The position will be as nearly like the following as possible: L Military, Company M, 3rd Infantry, I. N. G. 2. The Sunday Schools of Rensselaer. 3. Fraternal Orders. 4. All soldiers. 5. Citizens generally. 6. Rensselaer Fire Department. 7. All other vehicles. The line of march will be weSt on Washington street to Front, thence via Susan and South streets to the cemetery. PROGRAM; 1. Call to order by the chairman, Comrade D. H. Yeoman. 2. Invocation, Bev. J. C. Parrett. 3. Music, male quartette. . 4. Opening remarks, by Chairman D. H. Yeoman. 5. Reciting Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. 6. Music, quartette. 7. Oration, Rev. W. G. Winn. x 8. Dirge to fallen heroes by the Boys’ Band. 9. Music. 10. Benediction, Rev. 0. L. Harper. 11. Return march in reverse order ? with exchange of courtesies on Washington street, where the parade will disband. By order of Attest : J- M. WASSON, Post Commander. W. W. REEVE, Post Adjutant.

T. K. Harmon, of Rugby, N. Dak., arrived here this morning in response to a telegram and went to the home, near Surrey, of his brother, Jerome Harmon, who has been very sick for the past several months. Mr. Harmon’s condition is very serious now, and it is believed by doctors that he has no chance of recovery. An added feature of the Indiana Society’s picnic at Culver, Ind., June 1, will be a series of ay Ivan tableaux by the Culver military academy’s cadets. A committee of the society’s officers visited Lake Maxinkuckee Sunday to complete the details of the picnic. Almost a thousand persons are expected, to be present / Samuel Duvall Jr., while doing a painting job on South Cullen street at the Hammond property, now occupied by John I. Gwin, fell from a ladder and sustained a dislocated collarbone, and also strained ligaments. Dr, English re-set and treated the Injury. Sam will probably be on the shelf 4or a few days.