Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1903 — ANNUAL MEMORIAL. [ARTICLE]

ANNUAL MEMORIAL.

Headquarter* Rensselaer Post No. 81, Department of Indiana, Grand Army of the Republic. Rensselaer Ind., May 20,1903, General Order No. 1. I. Dotted and spangled with the rich hues of beautiful flowers, the robe of green with which our common mother, Earth, has once more bedecked herself, is a reminder to a loyal and patriotic people of the near approach of the time when it is the very proper custom to pause in their ordinary pursuits and do honor to themselves by recalling and remembering tbe unexcelled heroism, sacrifices and peerless accomplishments of that Grand Army of Patriots who went forth in the great Civil war to do and die, so car as need be, that a government of, by and for the people should not perish from the earth. Also, to remember, with grateful hearts, the equally deserving and selfsacrificing wives, sisters, daughters and mothers of those who so went forth —not that we can, in any respect, affect the fallen brave by our observance, but that ourselves may be uplifted to a higher and holier plane and stimulated to an emulation of their noble virtues. 11. All members of the post are directed to assemble at Memorial Hall on Sunday, May 24, 1903, at 9:45 o’cloek a. m., with memorial badges and march to Trinity M. E. church for Union Memorial Services. Sermon will be delivered by Rev. W. H. Fertich at 10:30 o’clock. 111. The Post will meet’ at quarters in Memorial Hall on Saturday, May 30, 1903, at 10 o’clock a. m., for the usual parade to Weston cemetery and exercises in memoriam.

IV. Woman’s Relief Corps No. 39, Daughters of the American Revolution and Gen. Robert H. Milroy Circle No. 3, are very respectfully and cordially invited to attend and participate in the services and ceremonies of both days. V. All soldiers of Mexican, Civil, Spanish and Phillipine wars are cordially invited to fall in with the Post for participation in both events. VI. Albert J. Guthridge Post No. 488, is respectfully invited to assist as a Post, or to join with Post 84, it shall deem best, on each of the dates mentioned,' VII. All the Sunday Schools; Company “M,” 3d Regt,. I. N. the Fire Brigade and all Lodges, Bands and civic and military orginizations, at or convenient to Rensselaer, are invited and respectfully requested to lend their aid and in a fitting observance of May 30 as a Memorial Day. James A. Burnham, Post Commander. Geo. H. Maines, Post Adjutant.