Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-10-04
THE Hath VERMONT REGIMENT.

at the town hall here on Tuesday.
There were quite large number of vet
Grams in town, but only 80 of them be-
longed to the good old 18th.
In the morning the local members of
the regiment, accompanied by other vet
Grams, proceeded to the depot to meet
those coming on the 945 trains from
north and south. and, with an improvis-
ed drum corps, they made very credit
able appearance when marching up to
town. Ranks were broken at the Grand
Army rooms, and everybody went where
he liked until the meeting in the town
hall at l o'clock.
Capt. VIM. II. Mum of Co. H., Troy,
n. Y, president of the association, call
ed the meeting to order promptly on
| time. There were good number of the
old soldiers in the hall and few citizens
at the time, but the audience became
larger and larger until noon. Secretary
f. II. Shepard of Fair Haven read the
minutes of the last meeting at Benning-
and they were adopted. 1t was
moved that committees should be APP
pointed, and after settling this and
relating questions, committees on nomi-
nations, resolutions and place of meet
! ing next year were appointed by the
chair. Each company represented in
the convention was also represented on
the committees, so far as the representa-
ton went.
The committees retired to consider
! their business, and then came very en-
iovable half hour of talk on old times,
which was started by Capt. Mum, and
was participated in by several others,
among whom we're Capt Charles f.
Abel of Orwell, Capt. Dunshee of Bris-
tol and Surgeon l.. ID. Ross of POultney.
There were many good speeches made
from the ranks during this brief half
hour, in addition to those from the Of
tcers.
At II o'clock Capt. Mum announced
that dinner was ready, and there was
then great rush for the dining room in
the under hall The dinner service was
under the direction of the Ladies Aid
society of Middebury, of which Mrs
| Henry Currier of West Cornwall is pres
ident. She was the guiding spirit, and,
with the assistance of her associated la
dies and others not belonging to the or
ganization. but efficient helpers, they
succeeded in giving good meals to over
| 200 people in about two hours and Il
half. The provisions were provided by
members of Company Sc, living in
| Mlddlebury and its vicinity, who also
had the good will of many friends. as
well as their assistance, from other or
CARNATIONS, and abundantly from the
merchants and people of Middiebury
who never had chance to 90 to the war.
The afternoon meeting was scheduled
to begin at 80 o'clock, but it was after
o'clock when it was called to order
in felictous remarks by President Mum,
and the first thing was the report of the
committee on nominations, which was
presented as follows: President, j. G.
Griffith of Dandy; vice-presdents, G. p.
Hathaway, Co. A, of Bennington; Will
liam ID. Sherman. Co. g., of Rutland; \.
/ i. sheldon, Co. c.. of Rupert; Samuel
Northrup. Co. d.. of Shoreham; Otis
Abbey, Co. f of Middlebury: :. b. Rice,
Co. F..Of Dresden, y. y: Henry c. Ros-
coe, Co. F., of New Haven; II. p. klns-
man. Co. H., of Rutland; L. c. Middle
brook, Co. l., of Nergennes, and George
F. Brown, Co. H., of Rutland; secretary,
f. II. Shepard of Fair Haven; treasurer,
G. +. Beach of Burlington. The report
was unanimously accepted and adopted,
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