I was starting out to tell you all about our Decoration Day doings here, I've. never seen Iowa Center look any prettier than it did last Tuesday with the flags all flying and the blossoming shrubs out in everybody's front yards. The school children, the lower grades' that is, all marched with their flags and baskets of flowers to sprinkle on the graves. They looked sweet enough to hug, every last one of them with their clean white suits and dresses. Just behind them came the Boy Scouts, then the American Legion, and behind them the two veterans, riding in an'auto with the Mayor and the minister and priest. Last of all came the Fire Department looking just about right in their red shirts and black helmets.
Your Pa always will march with them, even if he is only an honorary member now, and he gets terribly tuckered out you know. But Land, he says there's plenty of
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