The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-12-08
PIERCE LEAVES
FOR TEXAS CAMP
Former South Londonderry
Attorney Made First
Lieutenant
GIFT PRESENTED
IN COUNTY COURT
Remarks of Judge Fish in Behalf of
Windsor County Bar, Deputy Sheriffs
and Court Officers, and Lieut.. Pierce's
Acceptance.

At the opening of Windsor county
court at Woodstock Thursday, Dee. 6,
Judge Frank L. Fish, in behalf of the
members of tde bar, the deputy sherifs
and the officers of the court, presented
LIST Lieut.. Loren X. Pierce of Wood
stock. Unknown attorney, formerly
of South Londonderry, military
wrist watch. Lieut. Pierce left that
day for camp at Leon Springs, Texas.
Judge Fish S presentation and Lieut..
Pierce S reply were as follows:
Judge Fish's Remarks.
Loren Il. Pierce. lst lieutenant in
the United States army, commissioned
at the second training camp of United
States Volunteers at Plattsburg, and
under orders to leave for service today
to take up your duties as a training
officer at the military camp at Leon
Springs, Texas, member of the Wind
sor county bar. and native of the
county of Windham, you arc presented
by the members of the bar, the deputy
shcrifrs and officers of this court, with
this military wrist watch as an evidence
Of their regard and trust. 1t Is great
personal pleasure to have been commits
stoned Ivy the donors to present you this
gift. You will wear il in memory OF
the friends whose thoughts will 60 with
YOU in the enterprise in which YOU are
TO act for them as well rs for your
self. Whatever experiences may be
yours wnCn YOU are in the discharge
of the duties which your patriotic I'M
pulses have impcllcd YOU to undertake,
il is the hope Of the donors of this
gift that the memory of their friend
ship may be with YOU to cheer and com
fort YOU in each trying hour.
Gou are the second representative of
this bar to enlist in the defence of
your country in the great undertaking
in which it is now engaged; but in a
former time a goodlv number OF tnc
honored members of this bar enlisted
in the war to save the Union and 20
| crush slavery. These men distin gui2hed
themselves on many hard fought field,
and returned 10 hear the plauditS Of
their fellow citizens.
You represent, too, the good old .oun
| ~ of Windham, the county Of your
birth, of your preparation for and adj
mission to the bar, where. too, YOU
praeticed your profession until recent.
| ~. The Windham county bar fur
lishcd many an honored name to the
roll of the soldiers Of the Rebellion, and
today the county has thc proud dis
tinction Of being the only county in
| Vermont, and believe in New Eng
land, that has furnished enough vol
untccro SO that the provisions of ;nC
draft have not had to be enforced
Sufficient has been said TO indicat,
to YOU and to impress upon YOU til,
high trust that is yours as YOU 80 out
from among Us to defend your countrJ
in the theatre Of war. May God b,
with YOU and give YOU strength arC
consolation in all the experiences which
are to be yours, and may it he Hi
will to bring YOU back to youl friends
and may you then hear from them tn,
deserving words, "Wcll done, goo,
and faithful servant
Done in court at Woodstock, in tn
county of Windsor, the 9th day of De
ccmbcr, 1917.
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