Welcome Home
Celebration
Monroe’s official “Welcome Home” celebration to the men who
served in the world war will be held Tuesday, November 11th. All
soldiers and sailors with their families and friends are urged to be present on
that day. Entertainment will be furnished the ex-service men, a feature of
which will be a barbecue.
On this day, memorial exercises will be held for those Union
county boys who made the supreme sacrifice.
The executive committee of the Union County Memorial
Association met last Saturday and made plans for this service. It was decided
that all member so families of deceased soldiers would be given an urgent
invitation to attend and that seats be reserved for them. Messrs. G.B.
Caldwell, R.B. Redwine, F.H. Wolfe and Clifford Fowler were appointed as a
citizens committee to confer with soldiers regarding the exercises. Committees
were also appointed to give publicity to the Peace Day celebration and to make
plans for publicly welcoming the returned soldiers and sailor.
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