New Britain herald., 1917-08-23

OAAA SAAoN vile. Until a few years ago there were a, dozen or more enrolled in this command from Plainville. Until T few years ago there were five or six other old soldiers who religiously at tended the reunions. but now all of these old veterans have answered their last Roll Call and only MT. Ush- CT remains to attend the reunions and to live again, once a year, the trying days of 1861-1865. The Twentieth Connecticut regiment was recruited from this district. most of the sol- diers having enlisted from Southing- ton, Plainville and nearby towns. The regiment was recruited in the August of 1862 and was sent to New Haven where the command embarked for the mobilization camps at Arlington Heights, Washington, on September il, 1862. MT. Usher was one of the original volunteer members of this command and was with the com- pany during all it's trials and tribu- lations throughout the southern cam paigns and during it's triumphant march throughout the south at the close of the war.
 Rev. MT. Burton, pastor of the Church of Our Saviour, while in con- versation with MT. Usher this morn ing, discovered that the company in which the present town clerk was enrolled as soldier over 8 half cen- tury ago performed many war time activities in the vicinity of his own boyhood home in North Carolina. Rev. MT. Burton is himself the son of Confederate soldier, his father having been captain of the Cleveland Guards at Shelby, N. C., and later having been commissioned as major of the Second North Carolina Reg iment. One particular war time in cident of his boyhood days that MT: Burton recalled wildly this morning was when his father returned home from the front to visit his family. They were living on 8 plantation and While his father and another com rade were there a squad of northern soldiers visited the house. His fa- ther, a giant of man, over six feet four and weighing over 250 pounds, fled through a rear door and across the fields while the northerners tried unsuccessfully to capture him. Rev. MT. Burton also recalls another time when squad of northerners visited his home on a foraging expedition. Both MT. Usher and MT. Burton were of the opinion that the Twentieth Connecticut Regiment was in that vicinity at the time but they were, of course, unable to tell whether or not any of MT. Usher's campfire com- rades took any part in the visits to the home of the present Plainville clergyman. Another incident re- called by these two gentlemen in which the Twentieth Connecticut played an important part in the life of Rev. Mr. Burton occurred later in the war. Major Burton, father of the present clergyman, had invested his entire fortune in cotton and tobacco which was stored at Columbia. The stock was valued at between $2O0,000 and $300,000 and when the Northern forces, including the Southington command, occupied the district and razed the city the fortune of the Bur- ton family was lost. Rev. MT. Bur ton remarked that when General Lee surrendered the family fortune had dwindled to a five dollar gold piece and a barrel of worthless confederate currency.
 On Long Auto Trip.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles Diggle and
 
 an extended automobile tour during which time they will tour northern New York state and the White Moun- tains. They will be gone three weeks or month and their route will take them to Saratoga, N. Y., through va rious points of interest in the Cat skills and the Lake Champlain re- gions and thence into Vermont and New Hampshire and through the fa- nous White Mountains.
 Many Have Hay Fever.
 The blossoming of the fall golden rod and the ripening of other herbs l and plants giving forth pollen which l irritates the nostrils of those afflicted | with hay fever is causing no little an- noyance to large number of people | in, this place. Red, swollen eyes, | shiny noses, thick tongue when 1 talking and an almost continuous de- l sire to scneeze are the symptoms. 1 Druggists report increased sales of | witch hazel and other medicines used | in alleviating the annoyance.
 Pleased With Remembrances.
 k. D. Spelman, who observed his eightieth birthday on Tuesday, August 21, was given a surprise shower of l several scores of congratulatory cards and messages by his many friends MT. Spelman was much pleased with ,hese kindly rememb brances and de- sires to thank his many friends through the columns of the Herald.
 Town Peaceful Again.
 A wave of genuine peacefulness seems to have struck this place as several days have now passed and no ransgressor who has violated the law las been apprehended and cast into 1urance vile, or in other words, ocked up in the iron barred ''cooler" md advised to wait until he sobers ID when he can tell it to the judge" However, a new gang of freight han Hers from New York have recently