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Show FLOWERS FOR HEROES. Commander Tanner Speaks In Regard to Memorial Day. Washington. Commander In Chlor Tnnncr of tho Grand Army of tho Ho-public Ho-public has Issued his annual address to all G. A. II. posts regarding tho exercises ex-ercises to bo conducted on Mny 30, Memorial dny, In memory of tho federal fed-eral soldier dead. The introduction says: "Wo havo been observing this dny over slnco our holovod Logan fasti-tuted fasti-tuted it In 1S68. This year, my comrades, com-rades, wo are crossing tho broad river at tho rntotof 5,000 a month, 60,000 a year. Soon the great majority will be sleoplng tholr last sleep, and It is our privilege now, ns It hns boon for so ninny yenrs, to pay loving tribute to their memory by decorating tholr graves with Mowers." |