The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16
MONTPELIER
City Does Honor to Men and Women
Who Served in the War.


! in city hall since the war broke out met |
there Wednesday evening for the purpose |
of listening to Capt. H. r. Sheldon of the |
| l02d machine gun battalion tell the par
ents of Montpelier boys what the 26th |
division has accomplished in the world |
war, and for an hour and 20 minutes the |
audience enjoyed conversational ad |
dress upon the subject and would appar-
emily have listened as much longer. 1t ,
was part of the ceremonies in which |
Montpelier honors her native sons by the |
erection of memorial in the form Of an
honor roll in front of city hall, the UNI
yelling of which took place preceding the
address There are 466 ncmes of men |
who have gone from the city and eight |
names OF women who have contributed |
their services in the war. This does not |
include many of the citizens who have
been on important committees and have
accomplished good things in support of |
those who have left the city and of |
whom there is considerable talk of show
ing credit in the future
Capt. Sheldon is Fair Haven man, |
who was lieutenant in Company A, LIST |
! Vermont regiment, when it went to Fort |
| Ethan Allen, and who was transferred in /
1
gun battalion, earning his promotion aft |
err he reached France. He gave his au-
dience story of the early days of the
battalion in the different sectors about
Toul, entering into detail about the first
real battle near Toul in which the bat
TALON, which was largely outnumbered
by Huns, stopped an attack and then
counter attacked When the Vermont
| /, 4har,
found the three machine gun crews dead
by their guns but they showed many
more Huns had been killed by these Yer
monters before they gave up. The l02d
was made " 80 per cent of Vermonters.
He then told IS audience of trench
warfare and the withdrawal from that
sector and the going into the Chateau
Thierry sector, where the Huns learned
to fear Yankee rifle work and where the
commanding officer declined to brigade
with French troops out elected to have
the division takes its medicine alone and
Icame out OF the scrap with DONORS That
fight commenced the undoing of the Huns
and put them on the run. For 10 days
the 5lst brigade, in which Capt. Sheldon
had charge of six companies of machine
guns, was advancing with little to eat, no
sleep, but willing to 20 forward He re-
hearsed that famous command but left
out the name of the commanding general
who made it, in which the counterat
! tack was made. He told how the drive
against the Huns commenced at 4;05 on
July Is following the previous three
days fighting for the 26th division, and
the drive which the Huns have not for
gotten, making a very interesting story
of it all in detail. He attributed Ger
many's attitude to a crazy lot of in
human people bearing upon the animal
side of life and that the prisoners gave
Americans that impression of Germany
He said when the history Of the war is
written that, in his opinion, the 26th di-
vision will show it saw more days of &C.
tive fighting than any other division,
. suffered greater losses and obtained more
obiectives than any other division from
this country. He paid General c. r. Ed
> wards a fitting compliment when he said
Z that, in his opinion, General Edwards
: was as good soldier as America sent to
y France He spoke of the generals appre-
! citation Of his mems efforts for him and
i his orders, and recited couple Of incl
dents to show his meaning Rev. F. B.
n Leach also spoke briefly upon Vermont
7 Mayor r. w. Mitchell presided. The Vic
? tory chorus sang selections, while the
G Montpelier Military band also furnished
G music.
Harold Walton, who has been visiting
=. with Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Walton, his par
d ents, has gone back to his duties in the
= inspectors office in the radio station at
# Baltimore, Nd.
p The fourth annual session of the Yer
4. Imont Conference Of Social Workers com
menced Tuesday afternoon in the Kel-
e logg Hubbard hall in Montpelier with a
5 small attendance of those interested in
IS the work Prof X. r. B. Flint presided
b. over the meeting. In the evening the
n guests attending went to city hail. where
# they listened to Capt, Sheldon speak
Is and then went to the parlors of the Pa
wilton hotel, where +. c. Mower of Bur
n lington and j. Prentice Murphy Of Bos-
a ton discussed for the conferences benefit
20 the work which can be done in aiding the
# returned soldiers. In the afternoon W
a H. Jeffrey and Miss Lena Ross of the
4 board of charities and probation spoke
"a lupon the work which has been done by
J that organization in its 20 months his
=, tory. Ella CraEdall of New York and
q Elizabeth Van Patten of Burlington
4 spoke upon public health nursing. The
" former is the national secretary of that
organization, while the latter is the. sec
II rotary of the Thomas Thompson trust
! recently formed in Brattleboro for sim
liar work.
In probate court Edward Gill has been
h appointed guardian of w. H. Morgan
II who suffered shock two weeks ago and
! who is in Heaton hospital A. d. Lamsor
- of Montpelier has been appointed admin
- istrator of the estate of Abbie Lamson
u late of Cabot b. G. Rogers of Cabot
~ has settled his account in the estate Of
. Philura Durham, late of that town.
=. The annual meeting of the Montpelier
"a Industrial corporation took place OF
n Wednesday evening. The old board Of
:, directors was reelected. The directors
y viii elect the officers this afternoon.
e. The card party that was to have oc
,r CURED in the State House Wednesday
n evening did not materialize, having beer
10 postponed after the tables had arrived
a to be used in connection with the party
s. Rev. w. A. Dawson of Burlington wai
here to-day to attend the annual socia
workers conference.
The condition of Harvey Goodell wat
improved this morning. He is in Heater
II hospital.