Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-02-23
Around the Campfire.

About $50 men enlisted for the re
cent war have been ordered discharged
from Fort Ethan Allen. Onlv few
desire TO re-enlist.
Deputy Sheriff Glenn of Macon,
Mo, came to Fort Ethan Allen last
week to arrest Milton Sickles, pri.
vate in Troop G, Sd cavalry, on a
charge frape committed last summer.
James A. Grace, an inmate of the
Soldiers Home at Bennington, died
in that institution Monday Of last
week Of consumption, aged SO years.
He was a member of company A, l4th
Vermont infantry. His is the Goth
death that has occurred at the home.
He entered the home just five years
ago.
VIM. H. Boynton Post, G. A. r., OF
Mortified, at a recent meeting
adopted patriotic resolutions showing
the burial of sectional strife and ac-
knowledging the unmistakable evil
dences that the Confederate veterans
are as patriotic and truly loyal to this
government as are the people of any
section OF the country.
Capt. Edward Stearns, who died in
New York last week, was born in
Bennington and went to Brooklyn
when young man. He invented a
steam derrick and was master of the
first vessel which used independent
twin screw propelers. He also in
vented a steam and hand winch and a
three-wheel truck used on docks.
During the war he sailed the lighter
Wallace in Charleston harbor in the
service Of the government.
Bennington has been represented in
every battle that has taken place,
either on land or sea, since the be-
ginning Of the Cuban war. Some Of
her sons we're present when Dewey
gained his victory at Manila; her boys
were at III Caney and at Santiago. |
One Of her people was with the |
marine at Guantanamo and another
at the Smelling of Santiago and Matan-
zas. In the recent fights at Manila |
the first Wyoming, in which Arthur
Carpenter, son of Mrs. David Car
penter, is a corporal, and the LIST Ida
no, in which Robert Nichols is a pri-
vate in Co. A, took conspicuous parts,
the major Of the latter being killed.
Both boys went West about three
years.
Colonel f. G.. Ainsworth, chief Of
record and pension office, Washing
ton, by direction OF the secretary Of
war, has informed the adiutant gen.
erals Office Of this state that the
charge of desertion standing against
the name of Samuel Richards, Co. +,
Sixth Vermont infantry, is erroneous,
and that the soldier died at or near
Fort Harrison, Va, on or about
IL, 1862. Private Samuel
Richards enlisted from Salisbury, Vt,
and is buried in grave No. 4,69s in
the National cemetery at Hampton,
Va. Adjutant General Peck desires
that the Vermont state papers copy
this notice in order that the friends of
the deceased soldier may learn this
good news.
The Vermont Veterans association
held its llth annual camp fire and re-
union at Young'S hotel in Boston last
week. Gov. Smith was represented
by Lieut.. Gov Bates, who made the
speech of the evening. He
extended Nermont's greeting to the
veterans and expressed the states
pride in her soldiers. Her Aliens and
Bakers in early times illustrated the
character of her people. The same
,pirit is now displayed by her son,
Dewey. The people of Vermont
,tand for their beliefs and ideals.
They are opposed to a government of
he people by the railroads and cor
lorations. There was not Vermont
older in the recent war who would
Tot have voted to ratify the peace !
reaty.