People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — I. O. O. F. [ARTICLE]

I. O. O. F.

Decorate the Graves of Departed Brothers at Remington, Last Tuesday. There is certainly no more fitting tribute to be paid to our departed friends, than by the strewing of flowers on their graves. It is a gentle remembrance that their good deeds are still in our memories. We had the pleasure of attending this beautiful observance, on last Tuesday, by Schuyler Lodge and D. of R., I. O. O. F., of Remington, and we must say here that the entire program was one of the most beautiful sights we have ever had the pleasure of witnessing. The kcal lodges at Remington had made great preparation for visiting brothers and sisters and no one who was there went away feeling that they had not been treated right. Everything that | could have possibly been d >:jo for the gratili<-;iti > , i <r theit guests was pleas-».i Jed <o. They tried to make you feel that you were really their guests in every sense of the word, and those who were privileged ,to attend certainly ,cantlot say that they did not enjoy it. There were present not less than 250 representatives from the lodges , at Remington, Rensselaer. Wolcott and Goodland and at 2 o'clock the procession moved to M. E. church to listen-to a masterly address by Bro. David Handley, paster of the M. E. church of Remington. Lt was fitting to this occasion and the church was crowded with listeners. Several beautiful musical selections were rendered by a special choir and the Wolcott band. After these exertises. the procession w r as reformed, and headed by the Wolcott band, marched to the cemetery for the purpose of completing the program by the decoration of the graves of the depart■ed brothers and sisters. This

was certainly a memorable occasion for Schuyler lodge and it should be benefited by it in many ways. There were about forty persons went from Rensselaer to assist in the observance of the day.