Show Poppy Day Next Saturday Saturday May was designated as Poppy Day in irs a n proclamation Issued to today to to- today day by Mayor Foster A. A Jones The pro pro- proclamation proclamation urged all citizens to observe the day by wearing memorial poppIes in honor of the World War dead It stated When the United States was plunged into the World War in 1917 the city of Park City responded to the nations nation's call caU callin caUin callin in a a spirit of patriotism The citizens of the city offered their efforts and their means in the nations nation's de defense de- de serving and sacrificing s in the na na- national national na- na national cause The city of ot Park City holds In proud memory Its part in the great national effort which brought victorious peace in 1918 Many of the city's young men were called into the armed services and some of them were called upon to 1 sacrifice their then lives in that tha service dying with thousands of other r brave young Ameri Amen Americans Americans cans upon the battle fields of France There over their graves craves a little flower sprang up and natures nature's tribute to the heroic dead It was the poppy and their comrades ask Mk Americans to wear a poppy in their memory one day of each year On Saturday May the American Legion and the American Le Le- Legion Legion Legion gion Auxiliary will distribute these memorial poppies in our city Therefore I I. I Mayor of the city of Park City do hereby proclaim lm Saturday May to be Se Poppy Day in the city of Park City and I urge all citizens ob ob- observe observe ob- ob observe serve the day by wearing the memorial poppy in order that the inspiring mem meni- memory memory ory of those who bo made the highest pa patriotic pa- pa patriotic sacrifice during the tho war may be recalled to every mind FOSTER POSTER A. A JONES Mayer |