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1(34 THE MAINE BUG I.E.
Banquet of the Somerset Braneh.
The Somerset County Association of the First Maine Cavalry
held its Fourth Annual meeting and banquet at Hotel Hcsclton
Monday evening the 9th instant; the twenty-ninth anniversary
of Lee's surrender at Appomattox, and of the practical close of
the War of the Rebellion.
The officers of the association for the past year Cai)tain
Zenas Vaughan, president; F. J. Savage, vice president; J. 11.
Wyman, secretary; Llewellyn Goodwin, treasurer, were all
present at the business meeting. Frank J. Savage of I^^airfield
was elected president for t!ic ensuing year; A. F. Rickford, vice
president; S. H. Wyman, Secretary; II. J. Varney, Treasurer.
Mark Harville of Skovvhegan, a veteran, was elected an
honorary member of the association. It was voted that the
ladies be invited to participate in the banquet to be held Ai)ril
9th, 1895, \\liich will mark the full thirty years since the close
of the war. At nine o'clock, upon completion of the business of
the association, the comrades repaired to the spacious dining
room where " mine host" Heselton had the banquet spread in a
style at once artistic and appetizing.
The personnel of the company was as follows: Members of
the association, and veterans of the First Maine Cavalry; F. I.
Savage, Fairfield ; A.
I*". Rickford, j. II. W\man, Geo. I^. Good-
win, Zenas Vaughan, Sewall Smith, Dr. S. A. Patten, H. J. Var-
ney, Charles Smith, Dennis Murph\', Llewellyn Goodwin, all of
Skowhegan ;
honorar\' members of the association and \eterans
of other Maine regiments. Geo. R. Safiford, F. R. Ruck, Mark
Harville, E. L. Walker, R. D. Savage, E. F. Fairbrother, J. O.
Smith, all of Skowhegan; invited guests, A. G. Rlunt, J. A.
Dealey. C. A. Marston, R. T. I'alten, Geo. D. Arnold. I'\ .
Cairns, C. J. Dow, C. D. Miller, James Lumsden. all of Skow-
hegan ; C. T. Walker, Lewiston ; Daniel W. Ames, Ambrose