New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1918, Page 3

4 Boston Store BEACON BLANKETS We have just received from the factory a case of the ever popular “Plaid Blankets” This is the first lot of these | goods we have had this season. Nice soft warm goods, exceptionally beauti- ful in designs and colorings, in two different grades, at $4.00 and $5.00 a pair. Special showing of COUCH COVERS Ranging in Price From $2.00 to $4.00. McCALL PATTERNS 10c, 15¢ and 20c. Magazine 10c, CITY ITEMS LeWitt ha member of the association. Geor been named as a | ational Vaudeville St. Joseph's A. A. will give a dance Booth's hall on Friday evening. 45" tournament, Elks’ club, Thurs- | day night.—advt, The members of White Rose Camp at NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1918. 'LIFE IN “BLIGHTY’ 1S NOT HALF BAD Buell Describes Exeriences in Johns Hopkins Hospital More letters from William Buell, an ambulance driver in rance, to his | parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Buell of Winthrop strect, have been released { for publication in the Herald. Life {in Johns Hopkins hospital, estab- lished in France, is de bed and, ac cording to the letters “it is just like home.” American patients and life is made pleasant under the e ting circumstance; The letters follow Johns Hopkins Hospital, October 2. I am feeling a great deal better to- The doctors are getting the up- wrote you a long letter y won’t write much today. ceived no mail first of September, when some came marked August I guess a ship must have sunk, as there is a big jump in the space of no letters from August to the last of September. I am afraid my packages vou wrote about have gone down, erday, I I have re- October It raining hard today. I very comfortably fixed in my though and so am keeping dry. I got back from the hospital last night. This morning I drove down to let the doctor look me over. I think tomor- row will be the last time I shall have to go down. After seeing the doctor this morning, I went over to Neuf- chatrau and got a hair-cut. I sure needed it as my hair was so long it hung over my coat collar. It would have hung over my ears too, but T could cut that myself and so kept it short. Just think of a hair-cut for about eight cents. It cost 50 cen- times which is about eight cents. There are 100 centimes in a franc and a franc is worth about 17 or 18 cents. This is the first rainy day we have had since we left Verdun; it rained hard that day, September 14; ever since we have had wonderful weather. I think the reason I felt so cold was because of my condition. ome troops came in yesterday that live very near us in the States—an ar- tillery company. I can’t tell you any am car | particulars as the censor will object. T met some United States troops to- day that I knew, though we think a ship must have gone down, as none of us have received any mail dated the first two weeks in September. I hope my milk chocolate hasn't gone down. I am looking for that. In Paris and Bar-le-Duc we can get milk chocolate will meet at the home of Mrs. Mc- | Donald, this evening at 0 to take | tion on the death of Mrs. Malley. | English of 41 Clark street for the Wilson sanitarium, | where he will undergo an | Mr. English, who at one | leading member of th profession, and travelled | i need om Jeft today Hartford operation time was a theatrical , the wide world, has for the past few ; vears made his His many present home in New Brit- friends will learn of illness with regret. Miss Madeline Bardeck, daughter | Mr. and Mrs. Philip Bardeck and student at Laurelton hall, Milford, was injured while coasting in that town yesterday. Miss Bardeck's sled struck a tree. She was removed to St. Raphael’s hospital in New Haven treatment. ain his of for ANDERSON-VOLZ. Arvid Anderson, son of Mrs. sephine Anderson, of 237 South M street, and Miss Laura Volz, daughter | of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Volz of 231 | South Main street, were married this morning at St. Peter’s church, by | Rev. Charles Coppens. Fred Volz, brother of the bride, was best man, | and Miss Katherine Klar was brides- | maid. The bride wore a gown of | white crepe de chine and carried a bouquet of lilies of the valle The | bridesmaid wore a pink silk taffeta | dress and picture hat. After the cere- | mony there was a reception at the home of the brid Mr. Anderson v formerly at Camp but was ited industrial exemption, | being employed at Pratt and Whit. | ney’s in Hartford McMAHO! The \zainst Ginsburg and been settled by Mr. ing $351, for alleged When the Ginsburs: property, it was understood that Mr. McMahon took enough money from the price to pay the t This was not done, however, and suit w brought, but the execution was levied against McMahc Jo- ain Devens PAYS case of the town Edward, Jacob P. S BACK TAXES. | of Berlin and Hyman McMahon, has McMahon p: back taxes. bought the | es. HIGH SCHOOL NOTES Tickets and posters have been dis- tributed today at the school for the triangular debate to be held a week from Friday in New Britain, Hartford and New Haven. Cornelius Prior, of the affirmative team, has returned to school and will take part in bate here. Mever Goldber k in place of Prior, will act as alternate. The 115-pound to spe: basketball league was started yesterday afternoon with a fast game between Captain Bunney’s and Captain Dudack's teams. The second game of the Y. W. A. A. league will be played today. The teams representing the Sophomore and Junior girls will play. GERMANS TAKE DUTCH SHIP. Copenhagen, Jan. 23.~~The capture by German warships of the Dutch steamship Luna, 1,269 tons gro: trom Holland for Sweden with cargo of ) reported in a Stockholm the National Tidende ama wa into Swinemuend is to | most used to. | a letter from you for two weeks. | furnishes the de- | who was | but in these small towns all we can get is sweet chocolate. It is ver coarse and has a peculiar taste. You not worry any more as I shall be all right now We were given a mayor of Verdun, in ognition our work in the attack, also a p: officially stamped as evidence t genuine. All the roads in are good, even country roads are as good as the turnpike at home, all be- ing lined with trees. Ever road goes, for mile: cross there are trees alongside. medal by of is fields, Johns Hopkins Hospital, October 6. I haven’t written for two da am in the hospital again. I came back vesterday noon. This morning I had Quaker oats, milk, toast and coffee, the first oatmeal I have had since leaving the States. Also, the toast was made with American white bread, and the coffee as it is made In the States. A fellow does appreciate what we call home cooking. of course the French food is excellent, but one likes to taste the kind he is Now Ma, you don’t need to worry while T am here. This is just like home. We have Amer- jcan ur and they certainly treat us great. A wealthy Baltimore wom- an sent over 3,000 comfort bags to be given to the patients. TIn each bag, there is a bar of soap, a towel and wash cloth, tooth brush and paste, a mirror, a package of cigarettes and box of matches, buttons, needles, pins and safety pins, a game of checkers and a handkerchief. Then yesterday | 2 Chicago woman gent 25 knitted muf- flers to our section. the The peoplo in States sure are looking out for us fellows over here. The only thing lacking ome mail from you. T wonder why it is. I haven’t received The last letter I received from you was dated August 2. The Y, M. C. A. us with plenty of reading and we have the European edition of ew York Herald every day. This is a wonderful place to be in. Here is a funny one. The man in the on my left has been in the States. He is a Belgian refugee. Ie worked in a brass foundry in Middle- town, Conn., for three vears, and stra I st 1 meet him. I've got that citation | we were expecting. W [ than we expected. We received a sec. | tion ation from the 2nd Army G x de Guerre with palm leaf t is the highest honor that could | be conferred on us. Only one other | such citation has been granted and that was to a French regiment, being a section citation, it is higher than if it was an individual citation. We got a certificate showing we were in the section. Our testament wears a | Croix de Guerre with palm leaf, and we all have a Croix de Guerre and palm leaf painted on our cars. The citation was given us for our work at Verdun. The might before 1last, we had a celebration and, as I was sick, T didn’t ring in on it. The fellows had goose, omelet, cake, steak, French friend potatoes, champagne, cigars etc all T got was a small piece of | the goose. T have no ambition; guess | T win while; don’t even ca or writing the I wrote vou, got bette for a reading tbout nurses attend the; per hand of my troubles, and, as I| from you since the the | where the | || hope the fellows bring me some mail this afternoon. Don't worry, I shall be all right soon. | Johns Hopkins Hospital, | October 7. i Today one of the fellows came in | from camp, and brought two letters | from you, one from Aunt Mary and | one from Bill Lamb. I guess after | all that no boat was sunk, one of! yours letters being mailed Sept. 6 and the other Sept. 10. You see none of us in the section received mail from | the States post-marked between Aug. | 21 and Sept. 10. Consequently it | looked as if a ship had gone down, as surely you would have mailed some letters during those ten days. If Bill Lamb is deaf he will not mind the bombardment. One doesn't want to hear, only see, and some of the sights one doesn’t care about see- ing, either. We have had the bombs land five and six feet 3 cars blown up. You write you wondered where T s sleeping on the night of Sept. 4. t looked up in my diary and find that I was sick abed or rather on a broncard from the effects of getting gassed the night before. On one trip that night I had six gassed victims, and when I got to the hospital four of them were dead and the other two pretty far gone. I am feeling a great deal better. I am going to stay here for a few days though and get thor- oughly straightened out. I got only soft diet—eggs, toast and chocolate. Dix is in the other end of the ward. October 10. I am feeling fine this morning. The | doctor says perhaps 1 can get up to- day. I didn’t get any mail yesterday; can’t expect it every day though Some of the parents of fellows here write they haven't received a letter for three months. Up to mnow the time has been six hours ahead o vour time, now it is five hours, unde the daylight saving plan. The clocks are set back an hour in October, and ahead an hour in March or April | I wish some newspapers would | come. They are always slower than the first class mail. About Verdun The Boche never got clear to the city They are being pushed back and, course as the lines go back, our posts are moved also. Where we are camped was at one time the advance posts. Now, the advance posts are eight or ten miles We were camped about eight or ten miles from active front and our advance were three-quarters of a mile the trenches. At one place on road Fritz could see us, and we could see him. The S. 8, U. No. 1 “Section, Sanitaire Americaine Numeral Un (one the U. means Ameri or Ftat-Unis , (United Stat The vors Autos “Ambulance he 1 (e} Wi the Bureau Censaire Milita h the military cen- sor). Tt is not hard to understand the French now. The only trouble talk so fast when they get to the tune of sixty miles an hour, we Pas Vite (not so )i or petardenient (slowly). At present we forty miles from the Boche our advance poste de se- aid hospital) we were s of a mile, we 1 several postes, we would get the all of the advance postes v them to the t field b . those who had died in our car aken out and others intensely were then we too ita] beside o imp. The “movies” in London are similar ours. We can smoke in thc the- Tn the afternoon they serve in the evening, beer. Tce cream »t known in France, 1t can be <otten in the Y. M. C. A. cantine in | Paris, and when I go to am going to malke a hee-line for hope to go to Paris soon, to re-enlist The United States has taken over the American Field and we shall soon be released and as Dix and T would like to stay in Red Cross work for a while, we plan to enlist in the trans- portation department of the Amer- jcan Red Cross, which is a part of the expeditionary forces with headquar- ters in Paris. We will drive ambu- lances, trucks, staff c on call all of the time, to go wherever sent. \’ back. the posts from the ans Con- n is they chatt 3 say si re about line At cours (first three-quarter vho given them hyper- to the ng to aters. tea; Paris T some. I October 12. s allowed to get up for two hou is morning and afternoon two hours each. T hope to be able to get out of the hospital by Monday or Tuesday. Tt raining \in today. Tt will last several days and sn be pleasant for a of then some more ay with the v. At Verdun weeks, and Yesterday is t wee lon e rain. 1ple That is the weather in this count t rained for two then cleared off until hin came. 1t is much more pleasant now that I am up. This place is just like home and if I wasn’t anxious to get into Paris to start my new work, I'd bhe content to stay longer. We get meals and have a bed and warm place to sleep. I am wondering where T will live in Paris. For a few weeks T expect I shall stay at a hotel Yesterday the Y. M. C. A. gave us cach a bagz of “Bull”. Relieve me, the fellows think more of the Y. than ovy Tt sure is doing a lot for us fellows, and deserves the support of every one in the States. The copies of our Croix de Guerre with thq palm leaf citation have come. T haven't read it yet the fellows but y it is a good one. solid fine a October 13. Yesterday T received six letters and believe me T was glad to set them. Tt is still raining. T haven't received any of the papers you sent for a long time; perhaps the best way is to send clip of the important items. T have only received three papers since being oven here. T am glad some of | my mail gets through. 1 have tried to mail you every once in a while I could only send a card. i Yes, T sure have been lucky. My | best luck though was the way the | edat dodged me. To be sure I dodged | when I could. but there were many times when 1 couldn't dodge Dne piece went through my car about & | inches from my head, that is what T | call “Bull luek.” Now we out of front look hack our | ings are the at we 1| escapes and wonder how it ever hap- away, and had | { dirty and T am sta day. ated army are drilling pened. It was miraculous, the close calls some have had, we all had blesses killed in our cars. 1 would liked to have taken Pa up to our advanced poste de secours just once to let him see the sights. About 2 p. m. it Is generally gulet, and I often thought, I wish he was here to take a trip. It can’t be described, no vords are bad enough to describe the devastation and slaughter. One mis- take the people in the States ma they seem to think that as soon as the U. S. troops get into the trenches Tritz will throw down his arm run “like a bat out of Hell say, Don’t you believe it. re we shall win this war. I admit the U. troops will do wonders. Some of the American soldiers say, “Gee, I Wish we were in the trenches. We will show Fritz a thing or two,” etc. Those me fellows will be the first to they were back again, after There just wow! ince ind s we to war. plain Hell. Clean cloth haven’t done a bit of w leaving Crony. All them. When I get get them washed. Clean clothes and ths are unknown at the front. Sugar is fairly plentiful. I don’t c it in tea or coffee and so don't miss it much. There is lly a little in the food. Ye heavy clothes, for three wee front I didn’t have any clothes off once. T wear the woolen hose too, some nights T have slept with all clothes on, my coat on and three blanket, to Paris, I can Oct. yesterday 17 1 left the hospits and returned to camp. Before I went I ed my doctor to tell me what wa trouble. He said I had paraty phoid bordering on typhoid fever and if T hadn't been innoculated I would have had typhoid. They have traced it to the water in this village. me I am off the water wagon from now on. I ar®“4eeling all right, ex- cept that T am weak. So long in bed did that T guess. Dix and T went look- ing for a room this morning and found one for five francs a week. There are two beds, we will furnish our own. clothes though, as we don't like the color of the bed clothes on the beds now. It will be warmer th sleeping in our cars. An old man who has lost his wife lives alone in two rooms. His daughters are in Paris 50 he has these two empty beds. This man works for 50 centimes, abour 10 cents, pounding up stone on the road for macadam. They have machinery for breaking up stonc at a pile and pound hammer. It sure i method, bat labor i nch have wonderfu a. you sure have the boys off Do you know I often think ¢ way you laughed and talked Beriin station the day T was leav It was a great relief to to vou appear happ) I've scen , and when driving up to the ad de seco seeing the coming in thicker and thicker went. T'd thin Ma could the station and laugh w0 I guess I have got to go through with this. T don’t nesd w suit; we wear old clothes all time when we are working: we re a hot-looking bunch of sol- diers. The only time I have worn my suit has been when travefing from Paris to Verdun and to ti% hospital and bac Now Dix and I are going to move into our new room. n ido no oOld up with a flicient men sit e You sure ar brave the the ir me Many many mee hells as I come I left, nerve enough haye times time Poste vour . Gee, to when L one the re Oct. 18. It is raining hard again today and is cold and damp. dz little stove in our room and as wood is very plentiful we shall he to very We have a ndy able keep warm. Everything the house is old fashioned. The old man is 79 years old but is as lively as a man 40 or 50. This morning he went clambering up a ladder into the loft as if he was a kid. In the room there an old clock and cupboard that he says are 200 years old. Last evening we sat by the fire and had cheese and toast and sweet chocolate. Dix and I tr ted the old man and then h brought out English walnuts, hazel nuts and wine. When I return fo the tates I am going to bring home a bottle of Pinard so you can ftry it This old man told us last night thot before the war the population of this village was 450, and that 70 had Killed the war. Al over Fr there ave these small villa inhabitants go out into the work. They don’t live on farm the States. Dix and I going out bear hunting with him some night vs he has killed over 400 in hi He has a double-barreled shot- zun and we each have a c would like to eat some wild [t ; it is not as fat as pork went after some at Panconleius didn’t have any luck. I hox would come now; we ar d in our room it would come ndy. By the way, the sheets on the hed are home-spun. The old man told us his daughter is 51 vears old is a in the 1tea hospital in Paris. We have heen drill- nz a little to get so we marceh together at least, as when the citati is conferred on us we are fo be dec Fefore President Poincare, € | ¢-vhing and the United States it will be a heap big time. \We a little as not to pr ent poor an appearance. You can ne what we will look like to the well-trained United States soldiers. It going to be funny. T have ot to go out now and hunt up a little for our stove. Lots of love. BILL. in been in are he st hear; v but wish vour fixe 51 nurse French he cral too ima sure vood \ Jar 1918 Notice is hereby given that the Poard of Relief of the Town of New- ington will meet on February 1st, 4th, 11th, and 20th, to hear appeals from the assessment. BOARD OF RELIEF W. B. Winter Avlan Fr W. . Pa 23, Ve it g my clothes are | ting over again on under | Believe | > | Mrs rbine | s0 nicely | © in | CHRISTMAS TREF DEFICIT 1§ §4 Difierence Made Up By Ch of Commerce Gommittq Contributior the People rding 1o the r of ¢ day $236.84 wer trr ire t of the ittee i s th to G m Phis sary exponses | the committec al annour | Accompanyi ment, is the | by the committee: i “In the face tions in which re all enga) are all desirous of dc our ward ou miry immcersed in g [ have mphatica | pre onditic whicH the unas tree Just bed] needed ith, t tree ian fa th following ot absorbing wi reus iative People | curing the ! existing cond | emblem of light, the of phi Chr and through | passible. “The previous made out of the carefully possible only the school 1S ri more the ¢ prepared Despil | rain children | holia ! sprin | Christm: | by all w Christms tion in “ARer hym and wil nthusias and carols band drs tther rou hour « 1 ho came to tree fai the open. due con voted by the finance commi have the list of donations | rather than make a financid ment of contributions with omitted. | the Peoples 1 the people which the conty ! form part should | ing to have their names maf, in order to invite further ment and suggestions mas tree celebration of the argument names of contributors the singere have had | in charge | the inspiri i cration is of et s wi public 2 composite meourage- for %41y Christ- Sir Christ ihe ground list on stated #fie of With who Christmas tree »us support follow appretiation of thosc the People’ for the ge: g cause spectfully, MORTIMER CAMP, PETER CURRAN, GRORGE MATHEWS LOUIS P. SLAD GREORGE MACAL D. McMILLAX G. K. SPRING C. G. SPRING, Traut, Christmas tree cting under Chamber of ot .2 Mrs. Elise committee a Commerce.” Contributions ¢« Christmas Tree Ealance hand M., H New, B Elise New Elise Mr. and Re Mrs Ars. Mr Miss to funr, the Dec.. 1916 People’s 1917, 26.09 10 on from $ Camp n Traut) Britain Traut) M Herald (Mrs. scord (M 15.00 Pelton 3. 10 annic 5 Mitchell BE. N. Mrs. T. B Miss Ttta Miss Anna C w1 aut . . Peter Crona D. McMillan Peter Curran William I3 D. Saxe Naughton M. Hart.... Abbe. . ard S, Hart Harry ¥E. Morton Alhert Morton B B and Mrs. J. . Andrews. 1. J. Porter »wen Co. Stanley Sweet Muaits Beers. Damon. iith V. andall Mary H. Uy Vibberts Clothing Mary W « Kimball Jennie L. P. Slade | Bernadotte Mrs N Chamberlain 1. W. Schultz Poole | Mrs. yson House. ddy Globe Bassett Loomis B Cornel Total Disbursements, Buckley $159.36 ley, Christ- & K. M3 mas tree i Philharmonic | New Britain Coal o K. Macauley Book s 2 30. hand 57 Lumber & American Co. Total Les ley < Spring & Buck- donation Less contribution Xmas tree by C Macauley of | | Total | Total disbursements receipts of'q Deficit paid by C | - | [ ARMY OFFICER A\ SUICIDEL | Mystery in Self-Destruction of Licu- | tenant in South | Spartanburs, S \ Lieutenant Dean H Buchanan, | machine gun hattalion, Pioneer vision, of Camp Wadsworth, found dead in a room in the iy hotel, this city with 1 { wound in his he He C | tanburg from Camp Gor | 186th di- was Brook- bullet to Spar- n, Atlan a car 00 | 00 | {EAD daily; Yon that we bake so many r 4 wch Ioa. for it.— | 8 | | The Sugar -Shrtage | and Your Baking Let US worry for you as fo sugar for baking. Owing to the fact that we trade with wholesale houses in different cities, we are in better position to get sugar enough to supply our customers with all of their baking, every day. Give us a call and let us show you what we can do for YOU. Hoffmann’s Bakery 62 West Main St. Two Stores 95 Arch St. and Friday S. 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