Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — The Grant Memorial Service. [ARTICLE]

The Grant Memorial Service.

What the Rensselaer Post, Cr. A. R. are doing: in the matter. At the regular session of ihe Post, last Friday evening, a committee was appointed to make arrangements for a Grant Memorial Service, and up to the present writing the following is the out-line of the committee’s work: They will say in their “That the Rensselaer Post, No. 84, liept. Ind., G. A. R , will meet at the Post Hall, Tuesday, August 4th, and drape the Post Hall in morning. Such emblems to remain, publicly exposed until after the ceremonies on Saturday, 'Aug. Bth. On Saturday, the G, A. R. and all old soldiers will be invited 4o meet at the Poss Hati and all the Societies of the town will be asked to meet at their various halls, and at the liriug of a signal gun, march td Court Square. The signal gtin will be fired .about 2 o’clock p. m. and the Rensselaer Cornet Band will be invited to take a stand at Court Square, and play a Funeral Dirge from the firing of the first gun until the various organizations have reached the gronnds. The Court House bell will be tolled, and minute guns tired. y ' The citizens will be invited to gather in Court Square- The funeral service of the G. A. R. will be held a Military Salute tired after which eulogies, wil be made by old soldiers and citizens. Tne committee will ask all the business houses to close during the ceremonies on Saturday. This is the outline Of the committee's ■ report. Surely & this, the greatest of the nation’s bereavements, when he who saved to us this land, gas a whole, when all-the old soldiers will come out to show respect to America’s greatest dead, ohrcitizens should not be behind them, in their acts of love and sorrow. Every house should show the emblems of mourning, for every one respects the heroic, self sacrificing acts of'the noble dead. It is td be hoped that Rensselaer will not be behind her sister towns, but will turn out as & whole and vie with the old Veterans, in showing respect to the memory of thier great Commander, U. S. Grant.

COMRADE.