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As the centuries go on I believe, or at least I hope, that mankind will turn its attention more and more to the humanizing problems, and less and less to industrial and business activities. Life then may be slower, but it will be more humane. Man will realize that of all the things in this world the greatest and most important is the spiritual life. The mind and the spirit of man distinguishes him from the rest of creation. The spirit of man cannot be completely satisfied by the development alone of material things. God alone can satisfy the human spirit. In the year 2124 there may be as great progress in the knowledge of the eternal and heavenly truths as there is progress today in material science. We must believe that God has created us not for this world only, but rather for the world to come, and a sense, possibly even a knowledge of that · world, greater than we dream of now, will be part of the achieve- ment of the future. More intimacy with God will increase man's sense of responsibility. There will be less need for new laws and a better observance of old laws. Life may be quieter but it will be cast in a nobler and more durable mold.
More than we may realize, the character and standards of men and women of the future Walpole depend on us. We are laying the foundations now for the city of 200 years ahead. One part of that foundation is patriotism-the love we have for our country and the devotion with which we serve her true interests and obey her laws; another part is religion-our responsibility to God for the righteousness of our daily life; another part is justice and love for our fellowmen so that we may deal honestly and fairly toward every- one; another is the community spirit by which we work together for the improvement of our town, its schools, its government and all that contributes to its beauty and advantage. If we are true to our
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responsibility to God and to our fellow citizens in laying well these foundations, the hand of time will deal gently with our children, and their children, for centuries to come.
Written for the Walpole Bi-Centennial Anniversary by Isaac Newton Lewis, Esq.
PART I THE MEMORIAL BRIDGE I
0 VER this ancient, spring fed millstream, named by Founders Allspice Brook,
Hastening onward through its meadows, down Neponset to the sea, Where Heaven's breezes chant their requiem and God's sunshine overlooks,
Raise we shrine to all who made us, "Home of the brave, land of the free."
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From Port Royal to France, so helpless, two long centuries we have striven,
Loyally forth in strength of manhood to do battle for the right; Liberty, justice, home and country, freely to all peoples given, Ever leading, never faltering, to be worthy in God's sight.
III
Have you tears, then shed them now, think of fallen here today; It was you for whom they suffered, though fair Freedom, slave, and France;
Pause and think-war's struggling, suffering, bleeding, dying may be but God's way,
When great blessings fail to move us, that mankind and world ad- vance.
Invocation
Only a bridge, yet God of the patriot, bless it, accept it, make it thine;
Aching hearts crave e'en this offering, guard it, keep it for all time.
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PART II
ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES
Salutatory
God of the Universe, sole guide of our Fathers, ever unfailing in cloud or in sun,
Be with their children here festally assembled; Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done.
Tenscore years ago, through Heaven, our forefathers formed this town,
Took the name of Robert Walpole, then Prime Minister to their Crown;
So, today, in grateful homage, drawn from many different climes, With old memories freshly stirring, flock we gladly to their shrines. Sound, sound bell, drum and trumpet, fling to breeze our starry pride;
Loyal hearts are come with greetings; welcome, welcome far and wide;
Hail! then honored guest and Governor, Commonwealth's rare gift to man;
Hail! Right Reverent Son of Albion, our famed namesake's kin and land;
Hail! then Dedham! blessed Old Mother, so oft found of genuine worth;
Hail! fond, watchful, wistful sisters! types of staunch New England birth;
And you fearless, sea-tossed founders, whom no tyrant could make quail;
You, our sainted, brave first mothers, true and patient, hail! hail! hail!
God above with infinite wisdom, guided your footsteps, guarded your way,
Here to found a refuge of Freedom, where fixed laws, not man, should sway;
By your virtues, like your forests, rugged and steadfast, bent on high, Laid you firmly those foundations on which Nations since rely.
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When our forefathers first arrived here some three hundred years ago, Found they wolves, fierce bears and wildcats, struggling hard with Indian foe;
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Massasoit and Tisquantum fought and struggled in their turn, And when homes at last were builded, Indian braves began to burn; So amid such cruel perils our forefathers tilled their field, Gun by side, with anxious vision, axe and spade they stoutly wield; But alas! when chiefs ceased fighting, which was only at their death, Young King Philip and Josias grasped the quarrel they had left.
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Years thus passed till rash Josias trailed the Mohawk to his lair, Came not back; his fierce foe scalped him, and his braves shared equal fare.
Then sly Philip waxing bolder, stirred up redmen far and near, To drive whiteman back o'er ocean whence he came so boldly here: Whereupon our scattered fathers joined their forces for his doom; Just his fate, incurred by treachery, no arch traitor dies too soon. After Philip's stern removal, one great menace still remained,
In our present Eastern limits lay an Indian stronghold famed.
III
Chicataubut in a compact with some white men in their church, Made this region free, and sacred from all redman's future search; Chief Josias so preserved it, justly left it to his son, Wampatuck, as Charles Josiah, firmly clung as tribe had done; To remove this Reservation our forefathers strove in vain,
Governors Stoughton and shrewd Dudley, legal guardians, did the same;
After long, persistent effort, bought at last and gave relief, Ponkapoag was given to Indian, and this tract released by chief.
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But, in fact, as all had dreaded, reckless braves refused to go; When our weary fathers rested, crept they in to warm hearth's glow; Were they hungry, sick or idle, flocked they round for bed and board, Food demanding, pipe beseeching, stealing from the scanty hoard. So went on till startled fathers rose at sight of human gore, Forced the General Court and train band peace and safety to restore; Send their fearless tried Lieutenant where his statue now appears, To expel the treacherous redmen and remove all present fears.
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Dark and hard those years of horror, when our fathers fought for life, Home and household, all held dear, prey of savage brand and knife;
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Naught of hope, peace, joy or comfort but in trained men, true and brave,
Who left home and tender offspring, strangers' homes and lives to save;
One of these, year after year, led his men o'er land and sea; Governor honored, by men revered, sacrificed for you for me. On a square by patriot given, to recall his martyrdom,
Now a fair memorial rises which has long a shrine become.
Lord God, eternal that bronze protect lest justice die, and men forget
Man's supreme last sacrifice and victory won!
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It is well! Old town we'll honor; Heaven sent founders we'll include; Earnest heart, the high endeavor, hand untiring for our good!
Though frail man is weak and narrow, ingrate let him never be To the Lord, His dead, His Sabbath all be true eternally.
Priceless now our rights and privileges, bought with blood of mar- tyred men;
Who so fought, bled, died or suffered, take just heed and honor them;
Lost and ruined that ingrate people, sinking fast to barbarous mob! Base and cursed with shame and sorrow, town that wrongs its founder's God!
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When fixed peace again returned here, lay forefathers in the grave, And their sons, now joined by others, followed still the course they gave,
In their long rough ride to Dedham to their church and duties untold, Any failure in strict performance bringing censure, fine and scold; .
To escape this fast grown hardship, full seven strenuous years they spent,
For division from Dedham township, Dedham yielding but late consent;
With high hopes for a town of their own, then they hied to General Court,
Where with Palmer, Quincy and friends to that end long, doggedly worked.
VIII
On December the twenty-first, seventeen twenty and four,
Came due fruits of faithful effort, this town, named from foreign shore.
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All were proud of Walpole's great name, their tried friend and keeper of peace,
Not a being so shallow here then, as to cavil or seek release;
Promptly they met as High Court directed, Joseph Belcher called to preach;
Undertook a meeting house fair where to vote and spiritually teach. Preacher Belcher soon removing, Phillips Payson they soon procured, And thus planning, working, praying, civic standing firm secured.
IX
From Port Royal to Louisburgh's siege few were called to here bear arms;
But Old Ty. and Crown Point soon followed with sad toll from workship and farms.
"Ring, ring, ring your silly bells," Sir Robert called to lawless bands, "In a few short months of broken peace, you'll wring your hearts and hands."
Neither war, nor forced taxation, while in power would he demand; Food tax, stamp act, tea tax, army on his death, soon grasped our land;
Boston's siege and fell embargo early roused our quiet town,
Food and fuel from our homesteads, free and ample soon stole down.
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Then the more stern England threatened further strained all peace relation,
. Not a penny of tax we'd pay without first due representation;
Still for years, though vexed and suffering, no one dreamed of armed resistance,
But when forced to take up arms, two full companies marched the instant.
"One if by land, two if by sea" and bold England's search for stores Warned our watchful little army peace had vanished from our shores:
April 19th of '75 seemed so glorious first attempt,
That to drive her from our waters, on the foe we kept intent.
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From that fateful morn at Lexington to blessed Yorktown's glorious close,
We stood firm for country's freedom, stoutly faced both want and foes;
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A FAMILY OF EARLY SETTLERS GOING TO DEDHAM TO CHURCH (1720). Third Episode
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Into that long, doubtful conflict sent our fifteen score ten men, While at home, through stress and hardship, strove for victory's . peaceful end;
And around on reddened hillsides fearless men their lives laid down; God's and Nation's blessed immortals! Freedom's jewels in our crown;
Thus our war for Independence, of independence later came By the war of 1912 England hoped to us regain.
XII
That forced war was most unpopular, still when danger threatened most,
On foot company, sons of patriots, marched from here to guard the coast.
It was time of great expansion, one by one, with tireless wheel,
On our Indian stream, Neponset, twelve new mills brought fame and weal;
With the sawing, forging, grist, which from earliest times appear, Iron, woolen, cotton, paper, axe, hoe, plough and household gear; Sawmill Road soon outvied North Street, Norfolk Pike the Old Post Road,
Never was the town more prosperous, seldom sought so far abode.
XIII
Then came the Black Hawk and Mexican wars, the John Brown raid, secession,
When Heaven's swift avenging sword cleft us twain o'er Black's oppression.
Northern hearts were wildly throbbing, rushed to arms at Lincoln's call,
Loving home as did their fathers, but resolved on slavery's fall:
Then rang out North's call for action, stirring deep the long tried soul:
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"The hour has come from coast to hill, Minute Man, My Minute Man; For one high purpose, glorious will Minute Man, My Minute Man; For life or death, for weal or woe, Up, onward, fearless, hopeful go; Shield thou the home from vengeful foe, Minute Man, My Minute Man. [ 333 ]
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"I hear the call of fife and drum, Minute Man, My Minute Man; I see a flash from sword and gun, Oh, Minute Man, My Minute Man. Stand firm, hold true, lone patriot band, Grasp firm the Great Jehovah's hand, May a grateful country prove thy land, Brave Minute Man, Blessed Minute Man!
III
"Ye Sons of Freemen, rise once more, Behold the fruits your courage bore; In every nation, farthest climes, Your stars of Freedom lordly shines; Your strip of shore, grown West to coast; A world power nation's mighty host; The slave and captive for'er set free; Your land the Shrine of Liberty."
But alas! of those vast thousands, but few now of life's fair roll, Right and justice oft since then have here appealed for hope and aid. . Cuba, Haiti, San Domingo, bleeding France; their fame ne'er fade!
XIV
Looking back from this far milestone while two hundred years roll past,
Many are the marvelous changes, comprehension strives to grasp: Humble cot with its tallow candle; now fair mansion mazda bright; Toiling ox, cart, horse and saddle; rushing car and airplane flight; Thirteen feeble British colonies; independent, rival nation;
Rustic plough, flail, scythe, and sickle; tractor, harvestor, gas motation;
Human voice sent round the world, wireless, dynamo, power and lights,
X-ray, radium, anesthetics, Negro freedom, Woman's rights.
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And amid all this world progress, has the soul of man kept pace? Has celestial fire been quickened, like improved the human race? Rugged virtues of the fathers, faith and reverence tossed aside;
Bold self seeking, greed, high finance, pleasure worship in place supplied;
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BUILDING THE FIRST CHURCH IN WALPOLE (1728). Fourth Episode
NATHAN HALE WITH HIS COMPANY (1776). Fifth Episode
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Schools and roads, all vital functions, by rash action causing woe; Little thought to towering burdens, galling debt man's deadliest foe; Make strong effort for improvement, honor, truth, respect maintain; Never were our towns so lawless; bring God's Sabbath back again.
XVI
Keep your churches pure and sacred, fit for God and Heavenly ken; They were made for holy altars, not for noisy hive and den; Bar the Christless from the pulpit, flippant jest, and false accord, Every church should be a temple, reverently heed, commune with God!
Such they were to those who built them, angels there in past have been,
Make them worthy of such presence, free from rudeness, reckless sin. Choose but worthy public servants, by truth, honesty, justice led, Loyally stand by them while serving, honor pay alive and dead.
Valedictory
Hail! then hail! then venerable Walpole, may Heaven bless your future years!
Home of our fathers, native home, home of anxious hopes and fears; I now near the silent sea and the hand that leads all o'er,
Visions dim far beckon me, hushed the pathway, calm the shore; Thou will bide when I am gone, hold to honor, merit praise;
Though men rob thee, though disgrace thee, upward, onward, thy length of days.
WALPOLE'S HISTORICAL EPISODES
W ALPOLE'S pageant presented in the form of ten episodes from the town's history was a brilliantly spectacular event. Under the blue-white glare of the powerful lamps, the scenes pre- sented in the beautiful out-door theatre were full of the spirit of romance and the charm of realism.
First Episode. In the beginning were woodlands and Indians. Wigwams stood where now are schools and churches. Blazed trails have widened to automobile highways. In 1630 part of the land that is now Walpole was purchased from Chickatabut. In 1669 the balance of the town was purchased from King Phillip.
The opening scene showed two Indians following a trail. Then a band of Indians with their wives and children enter and make a
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camp. They gather around a council fire and hold an Indian peace ceremony.
Second Episode. About 1659 the first white settlers came, lured by the timber in the Great Cedar Swamp. Houses were built. Giant trees were brought to earth. The Indians saw their hunting grounds shrink.
In 1671 Zechariah Smith stopped over night with Mr. Church, near the saw-mill. In the morning Mr. Smith started for Providence and was murdered by hostile Indians. Sagamore John, a friendly Indian, found the body and aroused the villagers, who gathered at the sawmill and sent out a party to hunt for the murderers. One, of the hostile Indians was captured and beheaded, the searchers bring- ing back his head, which they paraded on a pole as a warning to the other members of the hostile tribe. The Indians held a council of war and danced a war dance, disappearing from view on their way to Mendon, which town they burned as an act of retaliation.
Stanwood Merrill impersonated Zechariah Smith and the Indians were members of the Franklin Red Men.
Third Episode. It is 1720. The Indians are vanquished. Walpole is not yet in existence. The little village is a distant suburb of Dedham. The nearest church is eight miles away-a far walk over winter trails, a long ride.
The action of the episode showed a family on the way to church. The actors were Mabel Morse, Eugene Hartshorn, Roy Ingram, Fred Smith, Nancy Allen, Esther Holbrook, Jean Hendrickson and Cynthia Holbrook.
Fourth Episode. The settlers desired their own house, of wor- ship. Years of bickering with Dedham followed. Walpole was at last set apart as a separate town. The birth year was 1724, two centuries ago.
The scene opened with a group of women and children gathered around the plot on which the meeting house is to be built. Two men are consulting plans and staking off the ground. An ox-team arrives with a load of timbers. Prayer is offered and the work of breaking ground and preparing the timbers is begun.
The principal actors were J. Edward Plimpton, Ella N. Plimpton, Frank Fisher, Edith Fisher, Winthrop Yeaton, Georgie Yeaton, Charles Carey, Annie Carey, Porter Boyden, William Roundy, C. W. Bunker, Thomas Bateson, Evelyn Bunker, Sylvia Johnson, Edgar Turner, George Roundy, Barbara Bunker and Doris Bunker.
Fifth Episode. Nathan Hale (1756-1776), American spy and hero.
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LAFAYETTE'S RECEPTION AT THE FULLER TAVERN IN SOUTH WALPOLE (1824). Sixth Episode
A HUSKING BEE (1840). Seventh Episode
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In 1776 he marched with a company of 70 men from Connecticut to Boston, stopping to dine in Walpole on the way. He fought gallantly at Boston and New York and afterwards volunteered to act as a spy. He was captured and hanged. His last words were: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
The episode showed Hale and his soldiers, led by a fife and drum band, marching into Walpole, refreshing themselves at Jonathan Hidden's tavern, and then continuing on their way.
The cast was as follows:
Characters in Episode-
Captain, Nathan Hale, Charles George; Sergeant, T. P. Chandler, 2nd; Tavern Keeper, Dennis Higgins; His Wife, Zella Fleming; Their Children, Mildred Hewins, Eva Burt, Albert Blood; Maid Servants, Helen Ellison, Veronica Honahan; Men Servants, Charles Sumner, Harold Willis; Inn Boy, Edward Dionne.
Continental Soldiers-John Bennett, Simon Bennett, Lyman Bowker, Williard Bowker, Thomas Burns, Leonard Bartlett, Ralph Cheever, Thomas Coughlin, Herbert Dix, Emerson Everett, Am- brose Fitzpatrick, Forrest George, Frederick Gilmore, Howard Gould, Clinton Hanscom, Amos Hilton, William Jarvis, David Kelley, Ira Loring, Edward Lamore, Norman Lettney, Robert Murphy, Ellsworth Milliken, Lester Proctor, Charles Penza, James Penza, Stanley Robinson, William Stuart, Anton Survilla, Frank Kovachick, Ronald Urquhart, Hansen Waechter, Timothy Hale, William Maxwell, Charles Novick, William Gaffney, William Higgins, Hubert White.
Sixth Episode. Walpole greets the friend of Washington and of America. It is now 1824 and all is peaceful in Walpole.
The action of the drama shows a crowd gathering around the old tavern. Lieutenant William Bacon starts on horseback toward Providence to meet General Lafayette and escort him to South Walpole. The stage coach arrives and the passengers mingle with the crowd. A runner comes in announcing the approach of Lafay- ette, who is driven on in a barouche. The old man and his com- panions go into the tavern and partake of refreshment. They are welcomed and toasted by the other travellers. The stage coach passengers clamber back into their seats and are driven away. Lafayette and his party re-enter the barouche and continue on their journey.
Frank L. Mansur played the role of Lafayette. Lieutenant Bacon was impersonated by Edwin S. Bacon, his great grandson, who wore the hat which his ancestor wore on that notable occasion.
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Others in the episode were: Lafayette's companion, T. P. Chandler; G. W. Lafayette (son), Jack Tibbetts; Two Footmen; Ladies in Coach, Marion Mansur, Helen Tibbetts, Frances Leard, Frances Davis, Mildred Howard, Ruth Price; Men on Coach, Eugene Harts- horn, William Price, Charles Bean, Merrick Gray, Billy Jackson, Harold Strout; Driver, Walter Allen; Landlord, Bruce Shufelt; Negro, Forrest Swift; Waiter, Franc's Gilmore; Boy Runner, Henry Plimpton, Jr .; Crowd, Dorothy Spear, Elizabeth Bullard, Evans Spear, Nanny Bullard, Grace Kennedy, Jessie Barrett, Alice Belling, Ada Barrett, Helen Tibbetts, Ruth Shufelt, Susie Hartshorn, Catherine Bullard, Judy Tibbetts, Tom Fagin, Ruth Hartshorn, Mary Hewins, Betty Mansur, Ruth Price, Alice Mansur, Florence Greene, Squire Munson.
Seventh Episode. The year 1840 was one which brought a bounti- ful harvest. Husking bees at which the young folks gathered were the order of the day. Farmers worried little about the cost of labor. A well stocked larder, a jug of sweet cider and a big barn floor solved many a labor problem.
The farmer and his wife are standing beside the corn rigs as the scene opens. A hay-cart, loaded with young people, is driven on. They jump out with joyous shouts and are soon busy husking corn. The first red ear is found and the customary ceremony is followed. The work is finished. The floor is cleared. A good, old Portland Fancy is danced and the party breaks up.
The farmerettes and farmers who participated were:
Cora E. Welsh, Grace Williams, Maria P. Morrison, Catharine E. Stone, Kathryn Langen, Alice Snyder, Julia Engel, Nellie Fallon, Esther Griffin, Marjery Gainley, Gertrude Fahrenholt, Chas. Kemp, Ralph Taylor, Frederick Quimby, E. T. Cobb, Geo. Fahrenholt, Willis H. Hoyt, Roy Argood, Roland Bullard, Ira Jonah and Harold White.
Eighth Episode. In 1865 the boys of '61 were welcomed home by the dames and lasses of the old-home town.
Clad in Union Blue the soldiers marched on the scene and were royally welcomed by their sweethearts and mothers who were await- ing them. Their return was celebrated by dancing an old-fashioned Virginia Reel to the sweet strains of "The Turkey in the Straw."
Prominent among the personnel in this episode were:
Dancers-Richard Glass, Henry Spear, Kenneth Bonney, King Paterson, Elman Smith, Albert Boyden, Franklin Miliiken, Edward Manning, Barbara Morse, Ruth Hill, Alethea Hill, Olive Ferguson, Ruth Howard, Muriel Dole, Elizabeth Morse, Marjorie Elkerton.
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TORCHLIGHT PARADE-CLEVELAND-BLAINE CAMPAIGN (1890). Ninth Episode
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Eighth Episode
RETURN OF THE BOYS OF '61 (1865).
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Onlookers-Grace Percy, Effie Ames, Ada Jonah, Freda Walker, Helen Walker, Doris Battles, Muriel Jonah, Shirley Battles, Esther Walker, Arlene Corey, Jennie MacLennan, T. P. Chandler, Thos. Gove, Chester Gove, Ira Jonah, Margaret MaeLennan.
Ninth Episode. The war scars have healed. Decades before the radio appealed to the ear, the torchlight parade enthralled the eye. There were fire and color in an election then.
In this episode was shown a realistic picture of a night during the Cleveland-Blaine campaign. The stump speaker was there and the boisterous audience and the boys in their picturesque garb carrying the torchlights, but the great attraction of the act was the funny appearance of the female sympathizers with their balloon sleeves, wasp waists and bustles. The cast was the one used in the fifth episode with one or two additions.
Tenth Episode. The hamlet of 1724 has grown into a busy town. In the old days there were those who loved it enough to fight for it. Once again Walpole played her part in a war, the greatest of all wars since history began.
This episode was the most beautiful of all. It showed a group of Red Cross nurses at the close of the World War and the return of Walpole's soldiers. It was a fitting climax of the day's work.
The members of Thomas H. Crowley Post, American Legion, represented the returning soldiers and the following women and girls were the Red Cross nurses:
Daisy Boyden, Marion Harper, Ethel Page, Mildred Dolan, Mary Whitcomb, Alice Young, Mildred MacCarthy, Florence Brumitt, Rachel Lewis, Mildred Gay, Bessie Morris, Margery Andrews, Ella Hartshorn, Erline Everett, Lillian Allen, Helen Tibbetts, Rose Battles, Evelyn Bunker, Kathleen Bonney, Frances Davis, Mary Lewis, Abbie Barry, Margaret Fitzpatrick, Mary Coyne, Margaret Goodfellow, Eva Thomas, Bessie Thomas, Irene Hannaford, Mar- garet Farrell, Elizabeth Hilton, Annie Meyers, Mary Thomas, Frances Huff, Gertrude Giles, Helene Buker, Eleanor Goddard, Ida Caldwell, Ethel Caldwell, Jessie Bentley, Susie Hartshorn, Margaret Hartshorn, Alice Gray, Lucy Sumner, Hazel Pembleton, Sarah Chandler, Bessie Connell and Pearl Shirley.
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