Decoration Day and its Observance.  Wednesday will be a day long remembered by the citizens of Sidney. It was the first time Decoration Day was formally recognized and celebrated in Sidney and to say the exercises of the day were a success would be as weak as it would be useless.

Although the early part of Wednesday threatened rain, the work of decorating was pursued, and as the day grew older the clouds in the heavens began chasing one another, until old Sol reigned supreme in the great cerulean vault. The day was very warm, and with scarcely a breath of air stirring, rendered pedestrianism somewhat laborious.

At an early hour people began arriving from the country, and kept on so doing until the streets were crowded with vehicles of every kind and description, and with the sidewalks thronged with a seething multitude, rendered the scene animated, and gave to the streets the appearance of a circus day or a Fourth of July celebration.