Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — DECORATION DAY OBSERVANCES. [ARTICLE]

DECORATION DAY OBSERVANCES.

. last Thursday was- Decoration Day and extensive arrangements had been made, as usual, for its observ- | ance in Rensselaer, but the extreme- i ly unfavorable character of the weatfteT*rendered nugatory all preparation for observance on that day, and exercises were accordingly postponed until Sunday afternoon. The ! weather at that time was far from favorable, being cold and threatening : and the streets wet and muddy; but the exercises were very creditable, in spite of all these meteorological disadvantages. About two o’clock the! procession was formed, at the public square and proceeded to Weston Cemetery, where the beautiful and impressive appointed services of the Grand Army of the Republic were "executed, and an able address deliv- J ered by Mrs. Julia Healey, president of the local branch of the Women’s Relief Corps. The order of march to the cemetery was as follows: Martial Band, Oddfellows, Fire Company, Detail of Children with flowers, Relief Corps, j G. A. It., Unorganized citizens.