Campbellsport News, June 2, 1910

SOLDIERS' GRAVES
ARE DECORATED
MEMORIAL DAY IS CELEBRATED
IN CAMPBELLSPORT

  Another Decoration Day has come and gone and the line of blue is growing thinner each year. Appropriate exercises were held in this village Monday, through the weather was cold and disagreeable.
   The local G. A. R. post attended divine services at the German Reformed church, Sunday forenoon and listened to an eloquent and scholarly address by Rev. Wm. Landsiedel.
   Monday afternoon the Isaac GHendricks Post, G. A. R. met at their lodge rooms in the Odd Fellows' building and Marched to Braun's hall where they were met by the Campbellsport Band. The parade then proceeded to the High School and were joined by the school children, when the entire procession marched to the cemetery and decorated the twenty-one graves of the departed heroes who are laid at rest in the Campbellsport cemetery.
   After flowers and wreaths were placed on the graves, the parade was again formed and marched down through the lower part of the village and up Main street to Boeckler's hall where the following well prepared program was rendered:

Prayer......Rev. D. W. Shipman
Song--"Praise of Our Country"
   ..............High School Pupils
Recitation--"Drummer Boy"...
   .............Six little pupils
Recitation--"Indepdendence
   Bell".....Mathias Boeckler
Recitation--"Mother of a
   Soldier"...Ruth Scheid
Song--"They are Growing Old"
Auburn Graded School Pupils
Dialogue--"American Flag"....
   .............Three Little Girls
Recitation--Eulogy on Grant....
   .............Anna Lade
Recitation-"Boys of Sixty-one"
   .............Leo Uelmen
Music......Campbellsport Band
Address..Rev. W. J. Cory
Recitation--"Vulunteer Soldier"
   ..............Clarence Kuehl
Recitation--"Our Roll of Honor"
   ..............Verna Romaine
Recitation--"What little girls
   can do"..Esther Lade
Song--"Our Country We Will
Ever Love.High School Pupils