Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-02-18
CAMPFIRE NOTES.

The Sons of Veterans OF Vergennes, play
ed the drama, drummer Boy of Shiloh"
at that place Feb. 4, 3 and and at Bristol
the l1th
A committee has been appointed by Gen.
VIM. Wells camp, S. V. OF Burlington, to
consider the manner of erecting soldiers
monument in that city.
There died OF apoplexy at the Soldiers
Home Feb. 6, William Trendell. late of
Co. NJ. 1st, VT. Cav. He was admitted to
the Home Jan. 2, 1889, from Brattleboro.
This is the 22d death at the Home.
Superintendent X. J. Coffee OF the Sol
diers' Home has received a letter saying
that Lieut-Col. Worthen of the 18th Vt. had
arrived at Lebanon, N. H., had improved
in health and would remain there with
relatives and friends for the present.
Gen. VIM. Wells Camp Sons of Veterans
and Ladies' Aid Society No. OF Burling
ton, observed "Union Defenders Day" in
an appropriate manner, with an address
by Quartermaster Leonard Fiske, short
speeches and music by members of the
two organizations.
The "Banner" corps of the w. r. {. of
this State, in regard to the work done to
help their posts, are the l.. III. Bostwick of
Underhill, and Whitney of Tunbridge, the
L. ii. Bostwick having given to their post
the last year $50, 50, and during the last
two years and three months $3.50. The
Whitney corps had given in one year up
to Sept. 1, S1i0, and since then to Feb. I,
had added $50, and this with a member
ship of only 20. With this aid, the BCst-
wick post have built fine q. A. II. hall,
which is an honor to the organization.
Department Commander Morgan in his
annual address, paid this deserved tribute
to the Sons of Veterans and their auxil-
iary, The Ladies' Aid Society: In this gal
liant organization (The Sons OF Veterans)
every thoughtful comrade must have the
kindest, heartiest interest. They sare our
sons; in their veins courses the blood of
the veterans; our cause is their cause; and
they seek but to perpetuate the record OF
their fathers and maintain the principles
for which we fought. Their camp-fires
blaze with patriotism and Iing with the
old songs sung by US in camp so many
years ago; and as we see them proudly
marching in their suits of blue, we see our
selves, as, when, in years long past, we
marched forth to defend the Union and
the flag. Let Us, comrades, extend to this
organization all the aid and encourage
ment in our power to give, mindful that
the time is not far distant when we shall
ask the same of them.
Side by side with the gallant sons stands
new organization of loyal young women,
banded together under the name of the
Ladies' Aid Society. The Vermont diyis-
ion, organized in April last, now numbers
u societies. What the relief corps is in a
social way to the Grand Army these socie-
ties are to the Sons of Veterans, but their
primary and chief object is to aid and care
for helpless and disabled veterans and
their families, to perpefuate the memory
and history OF our heroic dead and their
sacrifices, and inculcate loyalty and pat
riotism throughout the land. They too
are kin OF the veterans, and as they come
to our assistance. let Us hail
them with the same glad cheers we ever
greeted reinforcements-