New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 22, 1917, Page 5

BUELL TELLS OF L Y.M.C.A WAR WORK! Local Boy in France Says It Shonld Be Snpported A perieg of interesting letters, tell- ing of his experiences at the front as an smbulance driver, have been re- colved by Mr. and Mra. Frederick H. L BueJl gt 74 Winthroep atreet from their ¢ ~mon, Willlam. Extrpcts from these . follow: —DO YOU LIKE MUSIC?— Here’s a Choral Service of Beautiful Breton, French and Haytian Christmas Carols at the South Church-Sunday, 4:30 P. M. The Public Most Cordially Invited “September 17, 1917.° = - = = = “Today the army division we served “I have a French cavalry rifle I am ' dinner with the priests and doctors at Vordun came in to the village ‘en }t‘oinx t‘l’] b:l;x );n:ma twnh me. 1 last night proved to be a banquet El‘nd opas ave collected quite a few souvenirs, ; believe me it was some feed. '0- L also. When the men SAW US|, "poone helmet and a Boche gas night the buncardlers arc going to We were again swamped as the chil- | g Boche cap, Boche buttons and give us another. They don’t seem to had swamped us the day We | .5, 5iq other things. I'also have an be able to do enough for us. When In. Each one wanted to shake | g uoriment of various sizes and stvic: we go along the streets the troops #s with us, and thero were 10.- | o¢ Cartridges and some pieces of - stop us and shake hands with us. It| 980 men! We know personally the | 1 yoco one piece of edat that v .{ makes a felow feel good to get such huncardlers (stretcher bearers) as| ynrouzh my car and killed a blcssic a welcome from comparative strang- tney had our cars at the poste. Each | inyqe 1 have a brique that one of ers. An American,!s no stranger in bunrardier would shake hands With |y plesges gave me. It 1s made | France though, old and young, wom- ' us and sall us by the number of our| ¢, 3 trench fire shell and has a | en and children are friends, and want oar, and introduce us to his particu- | qys centime coin in one end and a!to be doing something for us. They lar friends. 'I shook more hands iR | 55 .ontime coln in the other. Match- ! bring out the best they have for us. &“‘ “1‘:‘:‘“2\;:':’; “1. have In MY/ ca arn scarce here, and fo evéryone and when we asked directions, they 'd“*"n T e e (o SSora | Uses briaues. The invitation to take | take tho trouble to go with us, instead hands with us passed around ciga- fottes. i had all my pockets full when ‘we got through. 2 e dugre Slogkion | W ITR T T | wishing You and Yours B onyor tat 0 s 1ok, e, oty : Merry-Merry Christmas = anc A Happy and Prosperous § years old and vet he looked 30. New Year. 'he war makes cverybody grow old 1 3 guess. 5 “Yes. I miss tho sweet corn. We &Kot about everything else, peas, toma- toes, plumes, peaches, egg plant, pota- Deas, strawberries, raspberries, | ‘ll;:le:,rel:v"d The utrnv\berljlilalb t.n? 9 : £l oh the ekt o Yave: Intithe We will not handle any Storage Birds ‘of any o T e e kind for Christmas. All of Our Stock is Guaranteed ~fine, and T have learned to. like It. Absolutely Fresh. We do not ask vou to buy, all we § ask is to have you take a look at our stock and tlwn you can suit yourself about purchasing. .We will have Fancy - Fresh Ohio Turkeys. We will have Fancy Fresh' Vermont Turkeys. We will have Fancy Fresh Rhode Island Tur- We will have Fancy Fresh York State Turk: These Birds are of all sizes. Youngfluls B Young Toms. It 18 lucky I do, as we get lots of it. ‘We also have caullflower and varipus kinds of beans. We have plenty to eat, and the food 1s of good quality. | The only hard food for me is the war bread and tho pinard. We get fairly sood water here, s0o we are laying off on the pinard for a while. The Quality Cannot be Surpassed. : We gmrm tee every bird sold out of This Market. ] Fancy Fowl 33c. . Fancy Roasting Chickens 35c. Fancy Fresh Ducks and Geese, ofAll‘Sbu. Fancy Western Rabbits (nice and plump) Fancy Jack Rabbits (6 to 8 lhavenp) Nice Fresh Fancy Squabs, 60c pair. TRINITY METHODIST WISHES YOU A CHRSTAS FULL OF AND MEANING of pointing out. the way. All the lit- tle children say *“Bon jour” every time they meet us. They cross from the other side of the street to !peak to us. They seem to love us, and we | sure do them. They are just greut to us. “Tomorow Wwe expect to leave this place. I made one run to Paigny to take four men to the hospital. I am writing on my knees and have no ink for my pen. I should like very much to get some mail from any of the people at home. A fellow out in this country and under these circum- stances likes to receive letters from home."” Procrastination is the thief of healt 5 Keep yourself well by the timely use and help of BEECHAM'S ——— PILLS Snl of A Ho&hh Worl. e u‘:h |h- orld. TODAY , Voice.” I h ‘genuing’ 't-nuu n.‘mfl ‘Company, Victrola VI-A, $30 Oak §. * Yes we get plenty of reading. The } A Y. M. C. A, furnishes us with all the | ere you can i reading we want, and are doing o : = wonderful work here among the men, | & ; ::4 hfrm:d x;ny :;b”r")?o“' hthe;e is V l uch ne or the wor! 13 . M. RSy uy your Victrola port of everybody in the States. v B camub as To1 Ty = N B y ' "\‘ the f t t th t t S e Rl R in New Britain Oday wounded. Tt was funny vesterday, we would be walking down the street and- d one buncardier ‘and_ six o eight ot Owing to the enormous demand it is pos- - lende, en m e ren S, el Rl gible that some Victor dealers may not have e in stock just thé style Victrola you want—but A : friends.’ Then the next time, if we ' it is also just as reasonable to su pose that the Choicest Cuts of Fancy Milk Fed Veal. - - hapoened fo meet any of the friends Vi 1 AN d at some Fancy Genuine Lamb Legs 34¢ £ . ot this buncardler, we had to shake exact Victrola you wgnt “&1 3l = 1 un dabel Chmmg Cuts of Heavy Steer Beef. hana: igain d with all th w T et e o e the mew | of the regular quah ed dealers liste ow: Fresh Water Eels 35¢ 'flt things to shew vou how the French : i ) Cape Cod Cranberries (large m" h, he A § a. ¥ xx‘ecm‘;:e:;kt e o ak G- L Pierce & Co.21 Main St English Walnuts (new goods) 28c b .. a@vance poste, grabbed Dix and I and O: L Pierce|& BE Almonds (new goodg) 28¢c 1b [ 1] inte the kitch The kitch- v > e et o e el st | Filberts (new geods) 28c Ib. : t«i e ;&ndfl:ulhzebdh?dw e e tobK Fancy Mixed Nuts (niedy ntnl)‘!lc’!h. ; three more. He sent a Polju out for | e o o B G . Fancy Fresh Heads of Endi lm #'bottle of wine and he hfought out | VlClnlty (o} ew Dritain Fancy Celery, Sweet Pohlnu, " R and Broccoli—Figs, Ormgesandm S Bristol Naugatuck i i Birdsall, 83 Maple St. ‘Watkins Bros., Inc, 238 Main St. {V R le;sl?w, 5 Muelzgow ot Collinsville South Manchester tarts, cakes, etc. We certainly had a feast. I think we are going to get that citation I spoke of in a previous | jetter. Some French officers were around vesterday to look us over and count the edat holes in our cars. | This morning the priests and the! 7 doctors at Champoulllat, one of our: postes, came over to see us while we wng { Victrola IX-A, $57.50 r Mahogany or oak wére eating breakfast. They thanked | us again for the way we took care of the wounded and havp invited us to have dinner with them tonight. 1T bet that will mean another banquet and believe me these French-fried po- tatoes—wel] we have them almost every day. Loak at all the good times we got. In the army one is ordered to do things. Ours Is all volunteer. ‘When we roll we roll in order. The first car at the poste, leaves first, and when he returns he takes last place, ete. “Somcwhere in France, ‘‘September 19, 1917. “I am writing pretty early in the mopning (8 2. m.) and as We are en repas wo have nothing to do to | We sure are glad of thc | apeak of. rest as all of us are In poor condi- tlon. After such heavy and nerve- racking work wo need the rest. One of our men has brokemn down with nervous prostration from our work. I am all right though. Yesterday l oan two of us' walked about miles. We had some French rl ex and went huriting wild boar. around here but we only saw one' small one,” We both fired but we are | not gxpert marksmen, so didn't score & hit and the boar beat it for the thicket. “We tramped ali over the side of | % Tountajn all the afternoon and we discoversd am old chatteau. It is de- serted now, only the tower and outer walls &are standing.. We could see the i port holes for gheoting at the ememy and the hot water dedrs and fire places, next to them. It was the cus- tom to threw bolling water down on the storming party in the old days. Also we uw the remaing of an old dnw— and the moat. We found i many plum, pear and apple hmgt Pear tree I have seen, some of them ay large a8 ' ge maples. I had a sack with we filled it with fruit, Thi e best tlme of year for fruit Mahogany or oak B\ Vietrola X1-A, $1 10) Mabegany or osk Arthyr H. Eaton. Hartford Brown Thomson & Co., 942 Main St. T8 Glinton Coy, 231" Asylum St. A kS::;hmn.n Muém Slu;g,g_l‘l{c i Bran, Tc, 241 Asylum St Watkins Bros,, Inc., Asylum St. Meriden Griswold Richmond & Glock Co, 2 Main t. J. A. Thomas, 21 State St. Middletown J. F. Conner 96 Main St. Henry S. Hsl 22 Silver St. Victrola X-A, $85 —— S Victrola XIV, $168 - Mabogany or osk. Mahogany or oak 979 an St. Victrola xvn‘.’!’uau.“ $270" Watkins Bros., Inc, School and Main Ste. To W. W. Mertz Cn 84-88 Main St. W. J. Trieschman, 53 Main St. Wallingford M. B. Sanders Co., 18 N. Main St. Waterbury Fulton Driggs & Smith Co,, 158 Grand St. Reid & Hughes Dry Goods Co., 122-40 Bank M. Steinert & Sons Co., 20 W. Main 8t. Watertown D. G. Sullivan, Main 8t. Victrola XVII, electric, $328 Mahogany or oak Cooking. recipc outfit. Pursc. Cranes fine writing paper. Shopping List. ‘Writing Paper with Mono- gram. BIG SISTER— Manicure Set. Address Book. Fancy Boxed Stationery. Photo Albums., Jewelry Boxes. « LITTLE SISTER— Paper Dolls. Picturc Books. Pencil Boxes. AUNT— Sealing Wax Sets. Letter Openers. Calendars. Tourist Cases. CHRISTMAS CAR DS, BOXES, m TAGS, ‘WHITE TISSUE, TINSEL CORD, POST CARDS. ADKlNS PRINTING CO‘ 66 CHURCH STREET