Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1904 — Decoration Day Proclamation. [ARTICLE]

Decoration Day Proclamation.

Governor Durbin has issued the annual proclamation setting apart May 30 as Memorial day. He recommends that the day be observed as a sacred holiday in bar« mony with the patriotic purpose for which it was institued by the cessation of usual business, by appropriate ceremonies and exercises and by the usual adornment with flowers of the graves of soldiers.