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| May 25, 1997 | ||||||||
25 Years Ago PAST NATIONAL COMMANDER SPEAKS ON MEMORIAL DAY—Claude L. Callegary, past national commander of the D.A.V., will be speaker at the annual Memorial Day services sponsored by the Hesson-Snider Post 120 of the American Legion in Taneytown. The parade will move promptly at 1 p.m. Monday, May 29 immediately after a brief ceremony at the Soldiers Monument at the Taneytown Bank and Trust, corner of Uniontown Road and East Baltimore Street. The parade will proceed down Main Street to the Memorial Park where the program will be held. The native of Baltimore left school in the seventh grade to go to work. At 18 he enlisted in the Army and served in the second world war. While on a combat mission in the South Pacific, his plane crashed and he was one of the few survivors. The Carroll Record, May 25, 1972.
50 Years Ago MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR FRIDAY, MAY 30TH—Memorial Day will be observed in Westminster on Friday, May 30th, with special exercises and a parade. The observance will be under the direction of Carroll Post No. 31. The American Legion, J. Albert Mitten, Past Commander, chairman of arrangements. Final plans have been completed and all units planning to participate in the parade will assemble at Belle Grove Square promptly at 9 o'clock where the parade will be formed and march to the Westminster Cemetery where services will be conducted. All school children are requested to bring flowers and march in the parade. Following the exercises, children will strew flowers on flag marked graves. In case of the inclement weather the program will be held in the auditorium of the Westminster High School. More than ever it is important that our citizens set apart this day to honor our heroic dead as well as to remind us of the sacrifices that are yet to come. Democratic Advocate, May 23, 1947.
75 Years Ago MEMORIAL DAY—Memorial Day will be observed in an appropriate way this year by the ex-service men of Westminster and vicinity. A service in memory of their comrades will be held in the Armory at 2:30 p.m., May 30th, to which all are invited. An address will be made by a man who had an active part in the World War, and one of our townsmen. The Westminster Band will have part, heading the procession, followed by the ex-service men, firemen and citizens. The school children will have a prominent part after the services at the Armory. A parade will follow to the cemetery and the decoration of graves. All ex-service men are urged to turn out May 30th. Democratic Advocate, May 26, 1922.
100 Years Ago One Thursday night several weeks ago a stranger called upon Canon Taylor, Rector of Ascension Church, this city, and informed him that by the will of a lady of Virginia, lately deceased, the Rector of the Parish had been left a legacy of $1000. He presented an alleged letter from Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, and said he was on the staff of a distinguished Confederate General during the late war. After a pleasant talk, in which the stranger showed that he was a man of culture, he left the rectory with a promise to call the next morning and pay over the legacy. Up to date he has not appeared. Two persons are working the "legacy" scheme in Pennsylvania, and a pastor of a Lutheran Church at Columbia was swindled out of $35.00 to "pay costs" connected with the legacy. Democratic Advocate, May 22, 1897.