Show decoration DAY next thursday may 30 will be 1 decoration day the day set apart more particularly for the soldiers that lost their lives in the late civil war 1 but now being used by the people to decorate the graves of 0 all their beloved departed dead kat at first erst the occasion occasion 1 was called memorial day but decoration day it is now the appellation generally adopted the custom of decorating the graves of fallen sold soldiers ierg originated in the south where for several years after the Civil 0 vil war it was observed with avith reverence and devotion and with bc befitting fitting public exercises the practice was also followed privately in the north for some years after the close of the war but in 1868 general logan logaa then commanding the gra grand nd army of the republic issued an official 0 oder der making the observance a national one declaring it to be ids his purpose to inaugurate au this observance witti with the hope that it might be kept up from year to yen year A fact that since the issuance of the day thus set apart has hai constantly increased throughout the country of all national observances connected with public events in american history this appropriate and beautiful custom appe appears ars to have taken the deepest hold in the iop peoples fes heart a as s the observance of the day include ceremonies that befit all the sexes bexes and all ages of the hum human aacen |