A meeting was held at the City hall Monday evening to arrange a program for the dedication of the marker for the Civil War veteran, Joshua Simmons, who is buried in a private burial plot about seven miles west of Lincoln.
Representatives of the Woman’s Relief Corps, Mrs. Amanda Borman and Mrs. Charley Brown; Glen Mancotte, representing the American Legion, and Alvin Lewick Jr., representing the Veterans of Foreign Wars, A.J. Stanley and Bill Headley met to arrange the program, which will include the color guard of the VFW, the firing squad of the American Legion, and a ceremony by the Woman’s Relief Corps, and a few remarks by A.J. Stanley.
Invitations have been extended to a number of out of town folks to be present, among them, congressman Wint Smith, congressional chairman of the commission for the centennial of the Civil War; E.J. Klag, manager, Veterans Administration, Wichita, and Morris J. Krouse, chairman of the Kansas Veterans Commission, also of Wichita.
The dedication will be held on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, at 2 in the afternoon, and all interested are invited to attend the ceremony. The marker, supplied by the War Department, was set in place last week by Alvin Lewick Jr.
