Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — WAR HEROES ARE HONORED [ARTICLE]

WAR HEROES ARE HONORED

COMMUNITY PAYS HOMAGE TO THOSE WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR OLD GLORY.

The Memorial services in honor of the Grand Army of the Republic in this city Friday were largely attended and exceptionally impressive. In the line of march to Weston cemetery were the Sunday school children, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Soouts, the members of the Independent Order'of Odd Fellows, the Grand Army of the Republic and the soldiers of the late war. This procession was lead by the city band.

At the cemetery the program was very interesting and was in charge of Comrade D. H. Yeoman. There was music by a male quartette, consisting of Dr. E. W. Strecker, William Waymire, C. E. Prior and Dr. W. L. Myer. Miss Mary Potter recited in a very impressive manner Lincoln’s Gettysburg address Comrade H. W. Wood read General John A. Logan’s first order. This was followed by the address of the day by Rev. W. T. Barbre, of the First Christian church. Rev. Barbre was a lieutenant in the late war and he gave the soldiers of the conflict much praise, but his address was in the main a tribute to the Grand Army of the Republic. He said Americans had fought and won six great wars. This he thought had been done not by advantage of position or in war equipment, but by the “American Spirit,’’ or Americanism. The address was one of the best ever delivered here on Memorial day. . , . ' Following the program in honor ot the Grand Army of‘the Republic, the Wat Mothers, assisted by the boys in khaki, dedicated eighteen trees in honor of those who had passed into the great beyond while soldiers of this laat great war. A short address was made by Richard Bowie, of Wheatfield, after which a War Mother and soldier marked each tree and marked it in honor of the fallen hero. Those thus remembered were : Died in action oversears: Wilferd Steveson Dewey McGlinn Died from disease overseas: John Knox Dewey Biggs Raymond Lanham Joseph Meehan Died from disease in American camps: Earl Caster Thomas V. Budd William R. Myers • Arthur Murray George Fritz William Stath Lonnie Davisson John Stein / George Gratner Clark Warfel Calvin Maddox Virgil White.