There was no observance of Armistice Day here. Nobody forgot. It just happened that nobody took the initiative and started something. With the American Legion going to church on Sunday and the Red Cross staging its annual roll call drive Sunday, the local leading patriots probably decided there was enough on the program already.
Nobody was critical over the failure to observe Armistice Day proper. Ten or so tin-hatted files in the army that went west marched off to the wars from the burg. The first three Armistice days were punctiliously kept. But the anniversary this year was on an inconvenient day of the week. Practically all other towns in the section honored their checked-off heroes but here, somehow, there wasn’t time, and all such reasons.
From the front page of the Daily Free Press, Kinston, N.Y., Nov. 12, 1922
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