Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — Decoration Day Observances. [ARTICLE]

Decoration Day Observances.

Again it is our pleasure to record the fact that another Decoration Day has been observed in due and proper manner and with the general participation of our people. The ceremonies were, of course under the general direction of the G. A. R. post, of this town. The procession formed about 2 o’clock, Monday afternoon, and was thought by many to have been the largest that ever marched to Weston cemetery, on Decoration Day. At head was the Cornet Band playing appropriate music. Following them came Rensselaer Lodge, K. ofP., with mourning badges, next Iroquois Lodge, I. O. 0. F., in regalias and mourning badges; then R. H. Milroy Camp, S. of V. and lastly the members of the Renssellaer post G. A. R. and old soldiers not members of the post. The turn out of soldiers was especially large. At the cemetery the solemn and beautiful apjwinted memorial service of the G. A. R., was executed in-an entirely successful manner. The graves ot the sleeping soldiers were then decorated With a profusion of beautiful flowers and floral emblems, by little girls, the daughters of soldiers, and the exercises closed with a funeral salute of eight gtnweach, tired by a detachment of the Sons of Veterans. The people of the town and surrounding country were present at the exercises in large numbers.