Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1919 — BLUE AND KHAKI MINGLE FRIDAY [ARTICLE]

BLUE AND KHAKI MINGLE FRIDAY

OLD AND NEW SOLDIERS WILL JOIN IN TRIBUTE TO DEPARTED HEROES.

Church and Sunday school organizations, fraternal orders and other societies and associations of the city are leaving nothing undone in the way of preparing for the Memorial day exercises which are to be held Friday, and it is hoped that the program which will be held that day in reverence of those who died for their country will be the nicest ever held in the city. Business houses will be closed during the afternoon, and if the weather continues pleasant there is small doubt but that the attendance at the exercises will be the largest in Memorial day history. The recent war has brought more forcibly to the younger generation a true spirit of the occasion, which in the past has been largely a sacred reverence which their elders alone could appreciate and understand through having lived at a time when men sacrificed their all for the liberty we are now enjoying. Khaki-clad youths, participants in the recent world war, will mingle . with the blue uniformed heroes of Appotomattox, Gettysburg, Shiloh, Missionary Ridge, Stone River and other famous battles of the civil war. l£ will be a proud moment for the veteran and the stalwart youth when they gather together to pay homage to their comrades who once fought so valiantly at their side. For many years the civil war soldier, with a solemn pride which he alone could understand, has made his way each Memorial day to the graves of his fallen comrades, there to pay honor and tribute. Now the thinning ranks are to be revived by the younger soldiers who are ultimately to take up the work which the veteran knows he must soon give up. It will be a beautiful scene—the khaki-clad and the man in the faded blue trudging along together—and one which should both inspire and thrill. iThe committee in charge of the celebration urges that each soldier who can possibly do so be present at the court 'house at 1 o’clock Friday in uniform to march in the parade. The following is the order of march and the program which will be carried out during the services: Program for Memorial day services at Weston cemetery, Rensselaer, May 30, 1919: Parade will form on Washington street in the following order: Sunday school children Boy scouts Soldiers and sailors of the world war All fraternal orders Relief Corps Ladies of the G. A. R. All civil war soldiers War Mothers. At the cemetery the parade will re-form and march to <the new cemetery addition, where the War Mothers will dedicate the graves of the soldiers who gave their lives in the late war, by planting-trees. Music by quartette. Gettysburg address. Invocation. “My Country ’Tis of Thee,” band. Reading of John A. Logan’s first order, H. W. Wood. Address of the day, William T. Barbre. Captain Watson, of Co. M., will form the world war soldiers at 1 o’clock.