二,目 The fifes shrilled as alertly as ever, the snare drums rattled as rythmically as they did in '61. There was a clapping of hands. The holiday crowd stood quiet and tried to swallow the lump that kept creeping up in its throat. But the shuffle of old feet that had tramped for Abe Lincoln went marching on. The head of the column of veterans of the SpanishAmerican War passed the reviewing stand-middle-aged men, lacking the slimness of youth, some of them with uniforms pretty well filled. Medals decorated chests; these were the men who were at Santiago, San Juan and Manila Bay. Veterans of Foreign Wars followed them and the Society of Santiago de Cuba. General George Bell, Jr., strode at the head of his staff. Hats came off as the massed flags of the posts of the American Legion passed by and stayed off while automobiles passed carrying sick and wounded men from veterans' hospitals. The men of the Combat Medal Men's Association brought cheers. So did the posts of the Legion as they followed one another with their blue standards. It wasn't so long ago that the crowd that watched them was reading about them, peering eagerly for the names of Chateau-Thierry, St. Mihiel, Cantigny, and the Meuse-Argonne. No slackers here. "I will gladly lay down my life for my country. Our buddies can sleep in peace," read the banner they carried. Next a Salvation Army rolling kitchen dragged by. The Chicago Highlanders' Pipe Band in their kilts led a contingent of Canadian, British and Anzac veterans. The horizon blue of the poilus of France, the khaki of Belgium, the olive gray of Italy, broken here and there by a black shirt and the horizon blue again-this time of Poland-marked sons of Chicago who had fought in allied armies. There was no cheering as the gold star mothers and gold star fathers came by with their flags and their memories. But hats came off again. Major-General Milton J. Foreman led the men of the 33d Division. Behind him came Brigadier General Abel Davis, commanding the 66th Infantry Brigade, and then the ranks of the Illinois National Guard-infantry, artillery, anti-air craft, engineers, medical regiment. Marshal Edward J. Buckley commanded the contingent from Chicago's Fire Department. Thirty thousand marchers were in the column, which took two and a half hours to pass a given point. At Oakwoods, the Abraham Lincoln Post of the G. A. R. held memorial services. At Mount Hope, the five surviving members of the J. B. Wyman Post, and the members of the George G. Meade Post decorated the graves of their comrades. Military mass was celebrated at Calvary and Mt. Carmel. George H. Thomas, John A. Logan, Columbia, and Old Glory Posts of the G. A. R. held services at Rosehill. MR. AND MRS. NOAH FRANKLIN CELEBRATE THEIR SEVENTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Franklin, prominent pioneer residents of Lexington, McLean County, Illinois, celebrated the seventieth anniversary of their wedding day on Sunday, June 29, 1924. The event was observed by a family reunion, relatives coming from Chicago, Kansas City and Bloomington to pay honor to the couple. Only one member of the immediate family, a granddaughter, Mrs. E. J. Richardson, of New York City, was absent from the group. In the afternoon open house was kept that the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin might call. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin were married in Bloomington, Illinois, June 29, 1854. The Chicago & Alton Railroad, then in course of construction, sent a special train from Bloomington to Lexington-a distance of sixteen miles-to take the bridal party to the county seat, where the ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Perry, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Bloomington. This was the first passenger train run over the C. & A. tracks. Of the forty persons who comprised the bridal party, only five now are living, including Mr. and Mrs. Franklin. Mrs. Franklin, nearly 88 years old, was born in Money Creek Township, near Lexington, July 11, 1836. She is the daughter of Jacob Spawr, a Lexington pioneer, who lived to be 102 years old. He kept an inn in Lexington, where Abraham Lincoln was often entertained. Sunday, June 29, was not only Mr. Franklin's seventieth wedding anniversary, but the ninety-third anniversary of his birthday, June 29, 1831. He was born in Owen County, near Spencer, Indiana. He came to Illinois in 1850 and settled in Lexington. He became a farmer and stock raiser and accumulated a fortune in land holdings. He is president of the State Bank of Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin both are in good health. Mr. Franklin takes daily walks through the streets of Lexington. He is erect, swift of foot, keen of sight, hearing and mind, and might easily pass for a man many years younger. 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