New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1918, Page 3

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD,‘:TUESDAY,' AUGUST 20, 1918, 3 BLACK AND WHITE MINGLE ON DIAMOND Boston Store|CAPT. HARGREAVES —_— TELLS OF TRAVELS If You are |mritet by Recepion in Engiand | Mail Orders . | ‘ and France ; - ln Need @{ . Captain Harry A. Hargreaves writes | Fo sting letters from across the At- | lantic to his wife. Trom England he 2 fEM | o “Here I am in England—the land j 4 [ any O of my forebears, and I realize now . more than ever why it is that an | 3 Englisi loves his home land. Our | . trip acr the country to this rest | camp was through beantiful country wherein were quantities of cattle peacefully g zing oblivions of = the fact that the “Yanks were coming”, = 15 or that there was any war at all g pond’ was most pleasant and without any alarm- ing incidents. The food was good and the present is a good time to purchase | the weather delightful and the spirit of the men irrepressible. them and be in advance of the lm:\‘i“’" ‘T have experienced many strange feelings and have pictured others, hut to have marched through a hig Brit- JRRNT ish city with a band and the old 2 Stars and Stripes fiying in the breeze We are showing a good assortment | and receiving the plaudits of the peo- ple as our long khaki line their thoroughfare, wa unique of all Dress Ginghams from 33c to 42c. ‘Our trip by railrpad of nearly a day’s duration was another experi- ence. The trains seem miniature when compared with ours—eight men to a compartment or five in first class. prices that are bound to came later. Two scenes from an interesting baseball game between negro and white teams of the American forces which was played on the Hyde Park baseball ground. These games are do- ing much to popularize our national sport with our Allies, and after the war we may expect to see baseball the national game of Great Britain (British Official Photograph, c, Imderwood & Underwood.) raversed | s the most ifn the following lines Fifteen Dresses T of Styles, All Sizes. Yard-wide Percales at 25c. and 38c. R Beach Cloth and Poplins in all the | We crossed through a pretty section post office officials to have the carrier: ale Price with here and there the quaintest lit- ndle cards such persons who are : desirable solid colors.—Also a variety | tle vi es. Al the houses were nable to go to the post office lobby, ; brick and some had thatched roofs. “One cannot help but notice the ibsence of men of the age of our sol- 1nd attend to the checking of cards as was originally intended. When the campaign was conducted, ‘persons | Workers, whi¢h partly were privileged to designate the place | 9€lay in getting at the we S women working cheerfully and doing where they preferred to buy their | Who are trained specially! - a man’s work. Truly they deserve the — — — stamps, and naturally those who had | ©f Work are required and highest praise, for their realization of — heen in the habit of buying them from | have done such work in thi man for service. i s inmzm purchase those from him also. | toTy Will not appear until fa “Our present location is very pleas- After considering the matter, it was ant and for rest purposes is ideal. A | Tound that the task of checking the / little village is close by and green I e R A TR T R O DR P 2 | éards would be too much for the car- \ fields and roses are on every side TS | viers and the Metropolitan company Reception in France. i | has decided to relieve the situation Captain Hargreaves put foot on ' g | This matter affects only those who = French soil July 28 and he wrote as designated the mail carriers as the | i d follows: ' | place of purchasing. Those who have 3 il “Well here T m ian France and our 1greed to buy their stamps at any one fip here from England has been of the banks, or intend to go to the B to pinch myself to see if T am really awa 5 We reached F nee without incident and landed in a big city and HERE AfiAlN marched to our rest camp. When we left the city the streets were lined with people who presented us with bouguet after bouquet of flowers and of White irting Materials. diers, but on every hand can be seen post office and get them, may con- fice today the i . e e | tinue (o do so. as those in charze ot | HOPKiDg Happy When Postman corWacts to New B the booth will rclieve the situation urevs for the ‘prosecuti only so far as the carriers are co ' e i | Gives Him 11 From New Britain | | GRIFFIN IN HOSPITAL Sy [eaubela b Ll i The Sammies are getting good re- | o war. The variety of the contr: laced here give a little idea of o | our march was sort of a triumphal | RECOVERING FROM GAS | suits out of their hard work and just | L1¢.Censorship regulations and- co Patriotic Program Under Stafe|oreccssion ratner than o maren of ERING FROM GAS | suite oxe of there herst worle it et o0 g et T rosel - I : turers gnd the Herald are unabl some tired but happy Yankec soldiers — —— U. 8. fashion. This is what Corporal o avecifs deian ol e William M. Hoplins s DelEo kst aolsirpcardinhy in a Jetter Turiburt Strect Soldier Declares Ho | ¢4 hig mother, Mrs. W. 5. Hopking, of | 2 Council of Defense. Auspices: | emrarkes on e ereas s on e i e their hats as our colors went by and I o e e | 432 West Main street. His lotter fol- | gjomi® ol 1;1(»3 Rule & Level Co saw one baby not over two years old | ! v u s e s clght orders. The ordnance dep . The big attraction for Labor day | throwing kisses to old Glory with her i My Dearest Mother:— e e S SRR DI this year, as it has been in years| chubby little hands. | 3 Just a fewilines to lat Syou know [ drindarting ldenot o Hialar gone by, will be the Connecticut fair | «ya arrived here by train after an | Mrs hidh * Griffin of Hurl- | that T am in the best of health and | queey o ,",1',.”‘ St at Charter Oak park, Hartford. This| giernight journey and the officers, hurt Gt SRt Rl IMRCl cbeived | Peeling iine fun al i a BIU Y sHIIEpTnying | /el §ONE SRS NS SSt T S will be the eleventh annual agrleui-| o 1o sy of us, are now quartered G e e o Bt v || e L B i T Tl isels, rules, hammers, hand pung tiral and industrial exposition and |, 4, 1g French chateau that is en- { With Company H, 102d U. S. Infantry, | the present time but the Sammies arc e B S e R grand circuit meeting to be conducted | 1, ceq by high walls and surrounded jin France. The letter was written | getting good ‘results out of their I e SeARGHenY by the Conneeticut Iai ;yi«mm;ffl\;;v\. it B Al (e R . T from a hospital in France where Pri- | work and just leave it to us to do i ki o The Connecticut mdn"t ouncil o % ‘: countess entertained us at supper last vate Griffin Is recovering from the ef- | things up in real old T. S. fashion. | S - 1"‘“ tense will give an exhibition and u‘.;: evening. Her husband 1s recovering fects of being gassed which the r- We received three hags of mail the | (onirac i anstation of Connecticut's ;-]rx'v; in xm(— from wounds in Paris 3 mans ‘“shot over” while he was asleep | other day and out of said three I | e X work of winning the war that prom-| *imyo jeople in this little village are | te Griflin has been in France [ I received mone less than cloven lot- | qob ool ar ses to be classed with the m Jor at-| g5ing everything possible for our | October and in his letter he | ters, among the cleven three were | N g I e iy M el AL [0 808 B et (i (0 0 BT (TR Aviere | states that he has been in the trench- | from Elsie, Grandma and a couple of |, ~oreh < Judd AIf il Lt o o e e ol e B (Hcanhtioops have been! billcted inkthis | es six months. During all that time, | Father's and several of Lil's includ- S e stage a moving picture ‘_”“"'(”"‘"‘“l‘ particular spot, so we are quite a | he stated, the month of July was the news of all put together I think | pionya e oo S ki ST DD L o reity) sl it werel My homcedisin tors. Austrian soldiers are listening | Nardest montn of all on the hoys. The | 1 could tel all that happencd that | Lron7e cavalry bridies, brass pug stand, withiscencs sfoming od hove own hall and the mayor has giv- R ; ; i S text of the letter is as follow: fiElTal Rookiessforsiheilastithree || Saic i SECES IR RE SI0CERt the front, the pictures having been au- ”l“" e ol aan An Austrian searchlight on the Ttal- | for the approach of Italian aircraft | : side o flv(, Rockies for the last three | ;0 piolh ! . en us us t ; ; S e ., Underwood & Underwoc Somewhere France, onths. Believe me a nice long let- s S ol thorized by the government “The ride across France was very | 1an front equipped with sound detec- (e, Underwood & Underwood.) | new tuhnlv l” “f'\ix‘ :n’ ‘f‘y")u\ h(mw\(fl\' wlr St e Landers, Frary & kT an E ain exhibitic building has £ 54 2 S x e July 29, 1918. 1 ter frc SReEBL g AY 29T | der from the surgeon reral for e e moe ullding has ! pleasant and the scenery reminds one | Dear Mother any kind of = alsease over here: sWellis B 00 T 0 8 IEEGRSSEEEE SER State Council of Defense and here they | very much of that in the vicinity of strom, Co. B, 301st M. Gun B'n, A. E. | When they see they are cornered | I thought I would write vou a few [ expect mail today but T won't be sel- | S 5 2 gl P 5 (50 0 ons - ol ufi\"qag i . i merns| CampiDoyens B S SRinE Evon T IR N ol S5 | VS e SRl Ry ond il e aih e ifiine= you know that I am get- | fish. DIl be satisfied with ten this | ;- a0 (508 GO0 10 ST OO T de here in Connecticut for the sol- | “While I am handicapped = some- |}, o)n and siving my best regards to | here on the whole although quite oft- | ting along all right, hoping that you | time. Since the government has put R . bt sy whatiininon BeinzabiclioMispenk (e B MG en It clouds up and it rains during the | and all the rest at home are the same. | a stop to sending packages we could | 1208 W B8 TRaCe 107 . fier needs in the wav of wearing | French, nevertheless I feel that T can | “"yo, . "Son " ana brother, ‘ms;m, y ; Well, I suppose you are reading the | make good use of reading material | e POREC G0 TEVEW. apparel is made in the state of Connec- | Soon overcome this, as There one ARVID. | “The Red Cross is certainly doin papers about the big drive on the | such as papers and magazines. o [ 010 009 othier for traven licut. There will be a reproduction of | hear nothing but French he surely P, S—Will be home soon | sreat work. During our drive the | Germans. Right along, we gained a | let the girls feel patriotic and send a dials for machine gun tripods, hi G ATEhne Sibion e Uin aa| tiiat ploiiERipiin somb vlm:r(,(\] i gtiles | Workers would come right up on the | whole lot of ground and things were | few magazines this way. Libraries [ ;1% B e e RS . 5 . e chateau has a = line and give us chocolate and ¢ | e 1 til the fift ; h & e 5 are scarce this end L een at the front, with its ambulance My room in the c £ ~ 3 « | line gi going zood until the fifth night when | and reading rooms are scarc is shine e B ik eaiig, i b matiem. 0| GUN SAVES SOLDIER |l éad s ue chocoluie ana dlent | gomng good us h night when | and readin ehino Co in attendance. The women's division | high ceiling Lo o | : 3 ¢ 1 was asleep and another hoy was be- | of the globe ST combe ek o ghts b ; s at night. hen T | we were tired and hungry. They are | side me, wh e G mana o i < an NIt 3 D Eriz will display a day nursery and model | lights but candles at nigl 3 FROM TWO WOUNDS | we were tired ar : 2i 11C | side me, when the Germans shot over The Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross are | , ..o fopagr chests will be made playgrounds. The food supply and | throw open the windows in the morn- j also doing fine work giving the folks | gas at us. Well, I got a touch of gas | doing wonderful worlk over here. They the Stanlev Work tion department will have an | Ing I am greeted with a beautiful e j at home news of our welfare iand T was sent to a hospital and be- | send us cigarettes, tobacco, chocolate, U R . OB s s | £ dland and meadow, flow- : ; ; : 2 : : i P. & F. Corbin will manufact] interesting exhibit of activities along | view of woodland a 2 3 L T T e i e e s | lieve me am getting along fine. We | and other things when we are in the |, =5 0 0 207 this line and the fuel administration | er ardens and sunshine—and this is . 1 | INSURANCE COMPAN l;fflcvm'\‘ get \umw‘ m,,m )H(:,wlnwnl trenches and aic nflv;!] v’(_’(:(‘»l\u: \\'h;!vi e Corbiti Cabinet Trock {00 will conduct an educational campaign | war 3 Top in Big Drive Against | Y = 2 JPQ | fiere and it won't be long before we | being relieved from the trenches by | o, iy padloc to promote more intelligent use of tha — . | WILL SELL STAMPS | win get back to the company. Hobl eocoalior [coffeliand’ Dbelievel meé 5 = vatlable fueld It i= 2lsolplanned WILL BE HOME SOON, the Germans. i Pl i : What does father, and the rest at | these things hit the sptl\' and the good N, CRE T * have an exhibition of the wark of tho - k b . .| Metropolitan Will RRelicve Letter Car- | home, think about the great war? | thtngs are rememberec EGAL STAG State Guard in putting Connecticut on SANDSTROM WRITES : On his first trip “over the ']r‘“ g f Much Extra Work Through | A5k him how would he like to he over Weather Like New England’s. The name of the Hotel Regal % the present great oftensive ’rivate | riers of Much i ork L I > d = his ahell - 1let: z " i I he Tt a war program o ere ducking big shells and bullets - : i reather is | Peen changed to the Hotel Verm < 1 Srick r f Company 02¢ : e temperature and weather i 4 The grand circuit races will include | __ S I Erick J{llll)mn of ( pany x'\, 102a i Booth At Post Office. the same as we do. I suppose he is erhi\lmt "lmuwl in New FEnglana |and the policy of the hotel has ‘b e ieic Chatfer Oak ltrot for = |New Britaln Sol : g Fl\ll‘Cfl States Infantry, whose home :\[ lfe=tins alons betien i iona < e LS SdliatRanonnd SR e w ¥ S | i i et e e e purse of $10,000; the Battle Roval, S o S = in Meriden but who has many friends After compiling figures in connec- | yeremiah got my letter ent him. SlofeElabies sl e e | Will be received therc R T O T (e o e Beautiful With Everything in New Britain, narrowly escaped be- | tion with the W Eupine s § ool Bicay S 0RwonTa ke o Mo e rof | Elotel Somtonta Do b e (s ac the | 5 < un The ¥ 3 - i 1 o M ‘ 5 earlier days. 3 ing 'S’ days e = r-olds, purse 000; the Nutmeg “Green and Growing” ing wounded Tl hail of shot from ! campaign held weeks ago, When | \yiliie was sent. 1 didn't get mail mx_lv_] d; xf : '”",f n “f‘!:mm Ee for two-vear-olds, purse $2,000: and h the machine guns did not draw many | the people of the city were asked to sm him in a long time, and not a } here any road i " 1 s T L the Whirlwind pace purse $3,000 In a letter to his ' parents Arvid | casualties. He was carrying his rific | state just how many stamps they | jerter evon, from Atice. in. quite 4 | for a canal. _E 1 voke, a 3 ¢ rvAT 1 F bt ts struck it and i ) the > g2 s 4 phnts ‘ I wish I could tell you mother, and | been approved executrix o Indications point to a large list of | Sandstrom, formerly of 61 Harvard |in front and two bullets struck it and | would purchase before the end of the while. Did Connie Lynch go yet? If i ST S estate of Hyman Sirlin entries In the competition for cattle, | street, says that France is a beautiful | another damaged his shoe. Private | vear, the War Savings committee |not give him mv regards and alas | describe some of our every 2y soenes | I entries for which close next Saturday. | country, with everything green and | Hillbon writes under date of July 31: | finds that between 4,000 and 5,000 | Ny and 1t would make on fnferesting let- || == e — N Fal . i H 9 2 er b as s the same ling is Ir "he entries for poultry closed on Mon- | gro . His letter follows: A long time has passed since I I persons have agreed to purchase their St v = < | ter but as it i i o hen i P TS Lo | Erowine SRt o E o, 1 | IRonshave ! flice Piell o hels Dhate bur slementhsllie oo ie e e Re e $100 Reward, $100 av, the 19th. Another department wrote to you last, but really it has | stamps through the local Dost office, | iy the trenches but the month of July ) ot et i The readers of this paper will that is showing keen activity is that| Dear Mother, Father, and Sister: been impossible to find the time, the | by buying them from their Mail At~ | was the hardest month on the boys, | A interested in it e Nl lesen e 1em et thero @ ut o for women's work. Entries for this Just a few lines to let you know | place or the paper vou have seen | rier. 1t was found however, that the | we)1 of course, we had to go “over | it- Aeroplanes, raids, barrag S B35} one dreaded d that science b clase on the 24th. In addition to these | that I am safely overseas. This letter [ by the papers we have been in the bix | force at the post office is far t00 small | ho form anq we cortainly diq want 4 | 204 shrapnel shelling are our every e te cune A here will be competition In bees and | may not be very interesting as I am | drive for the last two ov three weeks, | o handie this work, in connection | oip 0 S e CEETY AIE want & day specialty. AT J e s Onalti condiii honey, frults, farm and garden prod- | not accustomed to the censorship'so | and consquently letter writing has ! with the regular deliveries, and to re- | pricy o tig%e SETang. f have not Well, Mother, T know you el || Y oo o ucts, home garden exhibits, flowers| ) have to be careful and not | been impossible | lieve the situation, the Metropolitan | (cr rhe hospital thai I am in is cer- | like to know that all of ”w, : 10\1\\ 2 Catarrh Cure is ;:7\;:\"\":‘11‘\»\!::)‘;1 and plants and farm implements and | o (o f0 “Since [ last wrote I have heen | Life Insurance company hus offered | (3ii s wondertul place and I will be | are feeling fine and \‘\ml‘lxll‘ like to be | and acts thru the Blooc on the Muc e he concesslons along te | « 1 hape you got the cards and letter | ‘over the top! tywice and we have been | 1o take over this part of the WOTk to & | a1 vekt in o fow dive, 50 Bt 1oy remembered. Crean is still anchoring | Surfaces of the System hereby midway are about all allotted and have | tn,¢ 1 mailed previously as I know | pushing ahead very fast ever since We | certain extent. Tt is generally known A down his good job. 1 haven't seen | G fhe patle { strength by builal been selected with o slew of maklot] you all have the habit of worrying. | began. The fipst time wewentoverit | shat mail oavelers carty & sUpply of | Sl o oo ot (L R o oo e Lo | e A S d G ol t as diversified as possible. “There Will | iy s o heautiful country, everything | was broad daylizht, about 3 o’clock in vmps with them each day and that TAMES! fiz & counle ot duys s and seld he|ifire in, doink 8, Fank Eho Bi be plenty of free shows nice and green and grow | the afternoon. We got ot in a Wheat | cither Thrift Stamps or War Savings | 3. ang Mrs. Griffin have two other | Was fine. Fddie Hintz is as happy a O e Dol e Excursion rates on the railroads v e : Rir i 2 and the Boche | (+ 2 S lheha 1 ever and is still spying for the Ger ter fundred Dollars for xeursion rites on the raifrondswill | =544 s your garden? TIl bet it Is| fleld in a skirmish line and the Boehe | Certificate stamps. ms purchased | yong jn the service. James, from | ever and is still spying for 1 fhat i€ to cure. Send for 1 be In effect as the management Was|.oming fine and of course that will | machive guns opened up with an aw- | prom them at any tin This they "\ }om the letter was received, was the | 2D government. IO g : : e received a ruling from W, (¢ Medoo, | UL %, "reel a it he was a regular | ful hull of bullets. It Aldn’t seem as | il oo rimn e fo do, but 80 far as Tl s e e Gailatien wasipacle for ono day e s i & CO., Tole L istration. cranting o 1onnd. | favmer. Hus Arthur Olson or any of | if a fly could get through, but some- | recent campaign is concarned, the | arst -0 B8 o Camp Devens, hag just |13 looking finc SO San e oros oad administration, granting a round- | FEVIEE - COS AL | now most of us got there, I was car- | woml of ehecking up the varlous | o ol LIOBAS 25 CRED Devens, ording to | Mack a few days ago and he would trip rate of one and ane-half times| S AU EER o) Athert to write | i my gun in front of me and it | capas, nearly 5,000 in number, would | {ong€ SEREY QLIRS BEEOrdIng like to be remembered to the famil G FOLe SO ONERRY g once in a while? 1 know he can find | was hit twlee within a few seconds | o (o6 mueh | liam, the last to be drafted, is in Bos- | &5 \\"wH”h\)mg ]l son wlw‘ el e = T g tme in hetween trips I have not i and saved me from two wounds, one'j qpg - Njerropolitun compa WHI o0, in the secret service, rounding up Well, 2 ot ‘nx ‘|‘-‘ e \l o TONIC - UPBUILDER heard a word from him since May, | in the stomach and the other in ‘w T e the post office lobby | wh\]\(‘ for KI“, \!_ oo at you : vhen we were in Brockton foot. Talk about lucky in a fow days, the n nents for | 5 hs, Weak Lungs arnd Colds R i 5 ¢ sure did | L x 1 S % | h love to all the family from Stubborn Coughs, o E Did Nona o on her | good luck piece you gave me sure did | i pyving peen taken over a week ago | DIRECTORY DELAYED. | With Jove to all |\u i y o to the | the trick that time | by a local contractor. As soon as this | = | i e Eckman’s Alterative shore? When you see Al again tell | “We are safc for a While now, pos- | i yooqy (e War Savings committee | (qnyas About to Bogin On New Iesue | o For T vears this Calclum prepar him that Oscar Ny n is over her > | sibly a long 2 = e e will turn eards 2 Al —Workers Needed. Sergeant H. Ernest Hopkins that he | © ton hos maintained an ever-increasing | somewhere with this outfit and that I | worrying. [t seems hough the | {5 by their stamps fr¢ ¢ post o o Serg H. B L Eepitat oo e oo rlaBinE eCud, BR e e oin g to try andilookihim D ! Kaiser is on the vun and we are g0ing { oo "' (1 0cq in charge of the booth, | The publication of the 181§ direc- | ayrived IouRmsea R S D often iemark £ ot s i him going all the tim <0 ledged to buy their | tory will be delaved this vear owing | the 311th Field Artillery a 1 . a: Well, dear folks, I must quit for this l to keep him = { and persons W > P E - I E ear & 4+ d A 2 Si: 9 ) he hollering for mer I S ado he labor shor B d. He left for France two days $2 Size $1 aéza time and go and get some sleep. but | that he'll soon he hollering for mer. | 00 bevsons BIE are asked to | to th or shorta The canvas | Mead. Ho left for France tw hom now $1.50 now 80c SRy 5 < o o Boche are only too ready to X « booth and get them. FHow. | for the local directory is now about to | after spending a furlouzh a S oo Tnotudes War Taz. AW Druggtsts, | Wil Write again in the near future.|cy. The B ) a2 | o to this be Ci o Gt o apending s furlous :;u‘ s Lavoratoey o A aaconis. )My address is, Sergt. Arvid N. Sand- | put up their hands and ory ‘kamerad' | (0% HT U0 orent will be made by | begin, althonsh there is a shortage of [N man Laboratory : ¥