New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1918, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1918 FIGHTING MARINE WRITES TO FATHER Feingold in Hospltalee Months; Praises U S». Marines “New Britain gent many fighting lads to France and they have their share Joseph Feingold. son of Mr. and Mrs 4 Feingold of Lafavette street He has through all kinds of suffering, has been gassed, bayoneted 2si wounded by a bullet, and he has een In a hospital for five out of the 17 months he has been in France He scems to care not for his personal been united the are working for each other all the time. Feingold was in the Marines when war was declared ain. He wanted to saw it and in the can soldier fashion he is before done | interest but shows that the war has | soldiers into one unit who | Among them is Private | glad that he has had the experience. | 1¥is letter follows: “Dear old Dad Well, Pop. we have done the trick, We have ten the old Dutchman and beaten him so badly that he has already turned over to us his Dbig | | fleat of battleships and sneaking sub- | marines. He did it with a deep n and also turned over huge ammunition, and his supplies beaten and so bad that he will able to stand on two feet aln to start another argument. Just think of it Dad, your own boy was one of them that helped do it for when the Marines kicked the hell out. of him at Chateau-Thierry he never was able to get over it and as a result he had to go back so far that Yyanks, could see the Rhine ‘the use of opera or fleld gla Your own son has made a repu tation as a fighter over here that you may be proud of. Yes, I am a MARINFE—spell it in capital letters— of the fifth old United States for France on regiment that left the | June 12, 1917, Tomorrow will be | the day which will celebrate our “weventeenth month in France I have been on four different fronts and over th p four tin I'v stuck my bayonet in a good any Heinies and really 1 have s also. A have heen gassed s the stomach with a dum-dum budet but am now able to write this letter to you in the best of health. I'm une of your boys'and I am also one of Jershing's veterans over here. I'm a member of the second divisio the real fighting division over he: And I am also one of those good old fighting Marines that have done all the heavy pping. Sammy’s best in the best corps in the world and if that isn't enough to mpke vou swell up and bust 1 miss | | | ame of Feingold is one of the | fighting stock now and I have fought I'm one of Uncle | and come out victorious, Cheer up and | might get home for u all about it. the best old laugh for I Christmas and tell y “Hooray for Amer land there is and three cheers for vou too, Dad. Drink a glass of beer and say it is for me and then drink ®one for yourself and wait patiently until ir little fighting devilish Marine ts home. Gaden 2. BOY JORE.” WRITES l;é'fll‘ER oF PRAISE TO MOTHER Gamp Upton Capizin Advises Millard | Strect Woman of Ier Son’s Fajthful Service. Mrs. Mary Jones of Millar received a letter from Captain Sea- ,.mans. commanding the 152nd Depot .de at Camp Upton, informing that her son, Private Arthhur Jones, is to be given an honorable In this letter the cap- tain arm in h young New Britain soldier. Another brother. George Jones, is in France. The leiter follow ,8th Bn., 31st Co., 152nd Depot Brg. Camp Upton, N. Y. December 12, 1918, Mrs. Mary F. Jones, 28 Millard Street, New Britain, Conn My Dear Mrs Jones: praise for the | l i A commanding officer of your son, | who is about to be discharged from the army, it seems my personal Aduty to tell vou that vour soldier is one of whom you have a right to Siteel His service has been filled, with hardships | of proud perhaps. more or less desree, but he, like( thousands of other Americans, ha accepted whatever has been his duty without faltering. As a result he is| to be honorably discharged—a very £004 recommendation for the future— aand he has the knowledge that he has faithfully performed his duty to his country, He will, without ques- tion come home a better man in many respects than when he military career. Army experience is valuable to a man in the battles of lie. him ever success in civil life and ) that he may command the respect and confidence as a civilian which was his as a soldier. Sineerely Yours, C. 8. SEAMANS, Captain, Infantry, Commanding. OCALFIOUN’S GRANDSON DEAD AT THE AGE OF 76 New York, Dee. 19.—~John C. Cal- Boun, grandson of thé great Southern statesman whose nameé he bears, and >ester@ay in his 76th year. began his | In closing I may say that I wish | ;- | Argentine Citizens General San Martin, the South Am- erican liberator with a model of the | statue of San Martin. The sabre was made by the Argea- tine ministry of war, nied by a book of thase who subscrib- ed to the gift, containing the names y of the ministers of formerly a cotton planter, died here Britain, Italy and Belgium and charge d’affaires of the United States. | der Tompkins; COME TGO HARTFORD Slater’ Shoes, Slippers, Rubbers, Rubbcr Boots and Overshoes [?r t.he entire family at.grea.tl\f reduced prices. 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Private Joseph Pinto of 82 West Main street has written to his parents that he recovering from the effects he sabre is nied by a | re parchment in whis shal Foch is | fi told that it is sent to him by those | urer, John same Argentine citizens who early in | Miller; ording secretary, David Bev ancial FOCH IS HONORE 1 Marshal Copy of San Martin's Sabre. Your children will not always be with you. Make them happy the war signed the testimonial de- | Thompso junior henchman Vi | Beunos Aires, Dec. 19.—Prominent | manding that the Argeatlne govern- | Low; sencschal Jjohn Grant; warder, ;qu(;l{.: aaa chest Ny ;;;;nedm;l;?:dl e, Gt e conn e leren e Chrions teey Argentine citizens have rendered | ment joln the Allies; that no reverse | §. Leonard Litflejohn; sentinel, Dav- | the mustard gas while fighting in dhe time—TODAY. Ile FLACE-—Storc formerly: occupled by H. [ nomage to Marshal Foch by sending | of the war has ever shaken their | id Gordon. Cr Th He w f e { him a copy of the sabre used by | faith tr Sre G Seatariis e AU ) faith in the cause of the Allies and| — with messages for 24 hours after be. . WAGE BOOST S COTTON MILL STRIKE ster, England, Dec. 19—The striking cotton operatives here held a mass meeting today and decided to return to work at once. They eccepte ed the torms of an agrcement by which they will recefve an increase of about 30 per cent. over their pres. ent wages. that they now wish to send this sym- bol of their joy at the great victory in which they have been dealed a part. GUR BT ing gassed. The last thing he remem- bered was arriving at a first aid hos- pital. He has three brothers in the service in France. They are Privatea Michael, Joseph and Fred Pinto. P Charles G. Bodley who enlisteq in the navy last sprisg has been honor- ably discharged. GARDNER NUFR Phone Valley 192-4 It is accompa- CLANX DOUGLAS ELECTS France, Great Clan Douglas, O. 8. C., has elected the | the following officers: Chief, Alexan- John Miller; tanist,