Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1906 — FRAGRANT HONOR TO THE MEN OF ’6l [ARTICLE]

FRAGRANT HONOR TO THE MEN OF ’6l

Flower* Are Strewn Over the Graves of the Heroic Dead—Observation of Memorial Day. Chicago, May 31.—1 n every city and hamlet of the country the annual strewing of flowers over the graves of the dead who died that their country should not be divided took place as usual on Memorial Day. Here 2.'0 public sehooh took part in the exercises, and everywhere where the weather was nt all propitious the veterans paraded In their constantly thinning ranks. President Roosevelt, with bis wife and two of his children, went to Portsmouth, Va„ where lie was scheduled to deliver the Memorial Day address. The Woman’s Relief Corps at Wash Ington held annual exercises at the base of the Lincoln statue in the rotunda of the Capitol.