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The Sanitary Commission—Major Bush, of this village, delivered a lecture on Monday evening at the Presbyterian Church, presenting the claims of the Sanitary Commission. The weather was unfavorable, and as consequence, the audience was small. Mr. Bush made some interesting statements relating to the operations of this worthy organization. He spoke of its several departments, and gave some illustrations of the systematic and efficient way in which its work is performed, in relieving the sick and wounded. At the close of the Lecture, a Society was formed as an auxiliary in the work of the Commission. Similar societies have been organized in nearly all the towns of the county. A committee of 12 ladies of Cooperstown were elected as the Executive Committee for the “Soldiers’ Aid Society” of this town. Mrs. M.F. Foote was unanimously chosen as the manager and also as correspondent and manager for the county. (Ed. Note: In lieu of a government funded Veterans’ Administration, the Sanitary Commission was a national effort to support the physical and social needs of seriously wounded soldiers returning from the Civil War battlefield, and their families).
April 29, 1864
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