Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-02-24
OLD VETS ENTERTAIN.
Associate Members Of U. S. Grant
Post Their Guests.

Eoot bUetr 1ueot8s
U. 3. Grant post, @. A. R.. added TO II
tfiumphs OF war 3 social triumph in Ii
entertainment it gave the associate men
beers and their ladies in Bethany Paris
house Friday evening. Over 200 wer
present and found that a feast both @
mind and body bad been prepared 70
their enjoyment by a committee com
posed OF Comrades c. W. A. Putnam
John Manney and Norman Nichols
whose chairman had been indefatigabI
in bis efforts to promote the affair.
L. b. johnson was drafted from amoDj
the associates TO preside over the pro
gram, OF which the opening number VA
"Swanee River" most delightfully."- suns
by the Ladies' quartet-Msses Blanche
5parbawk, Lettie Bailey, Lucille GRAM
and Minnie Barbour.
Mr.. Johnson then introduced bis fel
low House reporter in the legislature ser
eral sessions and well-known newspaper
correspondent, +. A. Mutt OF Montpelier,
who he said, was once the alarmed victim
Of a critical case OF appendicitis until
medical diagnosis relieved his apprehen.
sions by informing him that be was hav.
ing the popular ailment on the wrong
side.
After such Rn introduction Mr.. Mutt
wasn't sure but that he should have ap-
pendicitis after all and have it on the
right side. He brought TO u. 8. Grant
poet and its associates the greetings OF
the associstes OF Brooks post, Montpelier,
who number In their membership 30 of
the business and professional men of the
Capital aud hope soon to have an even
hundred enrolled. Men take very kindly
TO the idea of association with the Grand
Army aud are only too glad to be of serv-
ice to the veterans Of the Civil war, whose
ranks are growing thinner, their locks
whittier, their steps more feeble and who
are beginning to lean on the associates as
he support OF their declining years. On
Memorial day, the Montpelier associates
now furnish a strong detail of able
bodied men to decorate more than two
hundred graves and they do it, not be-
cause they think they ought to, but in
grateful remembrance OF Gettysburg,
5pottsylvania and the other bloody fields
Of the war. When the Division encamp-
ment was to meet in Montpelier the post
needed 800 and appealed to the associ-
ates, who without the least difficulty
raised 5000, everyone approached being
more than willing to contribute and sim
,erely anxious that the old soldiers
should have everything they wanted.
Now plans are under way for the cele
oration OF the coming birthday anniver-
Iary OF Gen. J. II. Lucia, who has been
me OF Randolph's Memorial day orators.
We hear a great deal at present about
be New Vermont, and the state superin-
endent OF education, NJ. s. Stone, with a
,and Of orators, is going up and down
he state preaching that gospel. In fact
he New Vermont is already here, and Is
o play no second fiddle in the orchestra
Il states. Yermonters are learning that
heir state stands for God and morality.
They are to study this great republic of
,urs and should be prepared to suggest
emedies and amendments for existing
wills. They will be known as true and
lonest men and In their official life, they
will suffer no one who is not in brain
,ower, address and character, fitted to
epresent them.
Vermonters are cultivating their minds
ind hearts as assiduously as they do their
Ioil and sill make their state as famous
or the character OF its manhood as it is
or the beauty OF its women, the quality
u its horses and its products. The sacri-
Ices OF those who fought the battles of
be SOS were not in vain. The same
,atriotic fervor fills the breast of the
american youth Of today; wives and
mothers are AZ tender, as loyal and devot
d, as willing to suffer aud sacrifice as
Fere those OF 40 years ago; the men are
$ keen, as resourceful, as alive to the
uties of citizenship, and they are so be-
ause, veterans, they are impressed by
he memory OF your deeds, your courage
nd devotion. The war was not more
otabe for its political consequences than
was for its revelation of national char |
oter. In both North and South the |
ghtest virtues we're displayed on either
de and those virtues are today the COM
ION heritage OF a common people.
We are absorbed at present in the pur-
iits OF business but the American heart /
III thrills at the sight OF the flag; the
,nse OF Justice was never more supreme
its sway through a common recogni-
on OF the rights OF our Inheritance, pur-
lased by the veterans bravery and his
eviction to the country and its flag.
A selection, "shoogy Shoo," by the
adies' quartet. preceded the introduc-
on OF Hon. Frederick @. Fleetwood of (,
louisville, secretary OF state from 1902
1908 and now a candidate for the Office
governor. Travel between Randolph
I'd Chelsea, announced the presiding
Hcer, is, generally, from Randolph to
helsea, engineered by Comrade Ketchum
I'd personally conducted by d. ID.
owe. On this occasion, however, dis
nguished stranger comes from Chelsea,
here he lectured last Thursday night, to