Abraham Lincoln Centenary

LINCOLN, RICE, HAMMELL, MCDONALD, FOSTER, RIPPLE, MILLIKAN, RICKERT, COLLINS, WRIGHT, TAYLOR, BOOMERSHINE

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 6/8/2010 at 10:52:55

Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, February 11, 1909

Abraham Lincoln Centenary

An Abraham Lincoln Centenary Program To Be Held At Rice’s Opera House, Friday February 12th, 1909.

The following program will be rendered under the auspices of the Grand Army of the Republic and Women’s Relief Corps:

Tri-State March-Hammell’s Orchestra.
Call to order at 7:45 p.m. by Post Commander Jas. McDonald with bugle call.
Song by chorus and audience-“America.”
Invocation-Rev. A. T. Foster.
Song by chorus under direction of Mrs. S. E. Ripple-“The New Columbia.”
Reading of Governor’s Proclamation.
Song by sextet-“The Stars and Stripes Forever,” with flag salute by Women’s Relief Corps.
American Overture-Orchestra
Address by S. F. Millikan-“Watching Lincoln Grow.”
Song by chorus-“A Hundred Years.”
Address by E. L. Rickert-“Our Inheritance By Lincoln.”
Song by sextet-“Just Before The Battle Mother.”
Address by Charles Collins.
Song by Fred Wright-“Babylons Fallen.”
Reading by Frank Taylor-“Captain, My Captain.”
Song by chorus-Patriotic medley, arranged by Mrs. Ripple
Doxology by chorus and audience.
Benediction-Rev. D. F. Boomershine.
Honeysuckle March-Orchestra

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