The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-09-21
VERY HOT ROAST
GIVEN HARTFORD
And Her People by An In
dignant Veteran
ANENT THE SOLDIERS REUNION
Held Here Last July-ThinkS
Old Vets We're Very
Badly Treated.
TEXT OF RELATED COMPLAINT

On the 4th of July, 1909, the Ohio
County Association of Old Veterans
met at Beaver Dam, Ky. When the
time arrived for selecting the next
place to meet, several places were
nominated, and among the places
Hartford was named. A delegation
from there insisted that the meet
ing go to them, as they had never
had an opportunity to entertain the
Association, and they made the most
fiattering promises conceivable. Old
Soldiers and their families should
have a FREE DINNER, should be
met and welcomed by the Mayor;
good public speakers should be on
hand, and all manner of amusement
should be furnished, also a good
band of music should be on hand, in
fact the reception of the OLD VETS
and their friends should take on the
dimensions of an unusual DEMON
STRATION.
NJ iCAiCu iOhllhs tue flil Vi ul9 p,
1910, dawned lowering, rainy, alto
gether unfavorable, but notwith-
standing the rain and mud, many of
the old boys and their friends re-
paired to HARTFORD, and as the
papers had published a program, met
in the court house yard. A band of
Is pieces filed into the yard and
played a number of selections, then
waited for some signal from their
hosts of HARTFORD to indicate the
next move. The court house doomed
up dark and forbidding. No one ask
ed the guests in out of the WET, no
one gave them the GLAD HAND.
Hartford people stood around the
outskirts of the crowd as il wonder
ing what the assembly meant, what
they would do next, but none volun-
teered to make a suggestion.
After waiting until patience SEEM
ed to be an entirely useless virtue,
some old BOY asked the band to lead
them 20 the Fair Grounds, as that
had been selected by the Hartford
papers as the point where the enter
tainment would be continued. After
wading through a sea of mud and
water, they arrived in a damp con-
dition, mentally and physically, and
found nothing doing. No speakers,
no stand for speakers, no program,
no marshal, no Mayor, no committee
men, no HARTFORD-nothing do
ing.
Well, to say the old boys were in
dignant, would be putting it mildly.
The Army in Flanders was outclassed
on small scale, and after venting
expletives, and giving full scope to
their outraged feelings, they got to-
gether and arranged a substitute pro-
gram, and held short business ses-
sion, then hunted up some impromp-
tn speakers and passed the time as
best they could. There seemed to be
plenty Of grub on the ground, but no
one to serve it. 1t became a grab
game for dinner, as well as for en-
WHY WAS THIS THUS? Echo
answers, WHY"
Was it deliberate insult
offered to the old Vets, or was 1t
some misunderstanding among the
people of Hartford? What had the
old Veterans done to Hartford that
they deserved such utter contempt? |
Did an old Veteran ever hold any
kind of i'll will against Hartford? |
Did any Veteran ever Intentionally |
wrong the old town or its peopleY
Are the old Veterans not worthy of
the notice of old HARTFORD? Must
we understand that We are to be
kicked out of Hartford?
The two newspapers published in
Hartford are as dumb as oysters, so
FAR as the reunion on the 4th of July,
1910, Ia concerned. Was 1t not
NEWS for Hartford to ignore a civ
i gathering in their midst? Was it
not due this asSemblage of Ohio
county people, and the subscribers
10 the local papers, that they have
he news?
What In the Sam Hills the mat
.er with Hartford, anyhow?
The OLD VETERANS have no
apologies to make, and feel as
though they could finish out the