VETERANS LEAVE FOR HISTORIC BATTLEFIELD

DEPARTURE MARKED BY ATTENDANCE OF CITIZENS

Citizens Turn Out and Unite in Giving the Old soldiers a Send Off-Anticipated a Happy Time

   Monday morning a large crowd of citizens gathered to witness the departure of the veterans for the Semi-Centennial reunion at Gettysburg, and gave them a hearty sendoff.  At 8:30 the Oxford Band marched around LaFayette Square and when ready headed the procession to the Lackawanna station.  Colonel Graham, superintendent of the W. R. C. Home, provided carriages so that the members of the Home could join in bidding them good-bye.

   It was a most happy time about the station.  Neighbors and friends whose estimate of the value of the Boys in Blue were present congratulating them that they had lived to see the time when the Blue and the Gray will assemble on the historic battlefield, not in hostile armies, but as foes who have united in patriotic devotion to the same flag.

   When the train came in the rear coaches were filled with veterans from Norwich and other points north of here.  The train moved out amid cheers.

   The principal event of the celebration are scheduled for July 1, 2, 3 and, but in order to avoid congestion of traffic on the railroads and confusion at Gettysburg, the camp was opened on Sunday evening, June 29, the first meal to be served at supper time.

   The following members of Edward E. Breed Post, No. 196, G. A. R., of this village are planning to make the trip, A. B. Bennett, George W. Lewis, J. D. Smith, L. G. Lindsey, T. B. Harriott, D. E. Lanwers, G. L. Lamb, Albert Wells, J. S. Benedict, Chris Schweitzer, Reuben Wright, J. W. Sherwood, Peter Peterson, Cornelius Myers, Franklin Baldwin, Arthur A. Solomon and Frank E. Dunham.

   Those who applied for transportation have received bronze medals, which are to be preserved as souvenirs of the occasion and which are very beautiful.  They bear on their face the heads of Meade and Lee, opposing generals on that battlefield.