Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 20, 1918, Page 11

LADY ASSISTANT "AN Cafts Answered Promptly p,;um'm DR. F. C. JACKSON DR. D. J. COYLE DENTISTS 203 Main St., Norwich, Ct. Office Hours: 9 d. m. to 8 p. m. Telephone LESTER E. WALKER, . D. ROOM 306' THAYER BUILDING Hours: 9-10 a. m, 2-4 and 7-8 p. m. Phone: Office 1262-4—House 1228 DENTIST Take elevator Shetucket Street entrance. Phone ARE YOU OBLIGED 6 clear your throat often and do you wish you didn't have to. Just try some of our BRONCHIAL LOZENGES and see how they clear away that thick feeling in your throat. 15¢ a box at DUNN'S PHARMACY 60 MAIN STREET Del-Hoff Hotel EUROPEAN PLAN HAYES BROS, Props Talephone 1227 26-28 Broadway JOSEPH BRADFORD BOOKBINDER Blank Bocks Made and Ruled to Order 108 BROADWAY THE . W.W. BACKUS HOSPITAL Free Dispensary Hours In order to give better service to the needy poor the hours of the Free Di pensary of the W. W. Backus Hosy tal have been changsd from 215 to! 4.15 in the afterncon to 9 to 10 in the | morning, and will be under the direc- tion of the Visiting Staff of the Hos- | pital. GET OUR PRICE ON STORAGE BATTERIES BEFORE PURCHASING The Garlock & Haynes Co.- NEW LONDON, CONN. MlmManOMon—lgmhen Devices | AMERICAN HOUSE | First-class Garage Service Cnnntc(ed! D. MORRISSEY, Prop. ' | hone Shetucket Street | OVERHAULING AND REPAIR WORK OF ALL KINDS ON AUTOMOBILES, _CARRIAGES, WAGONS, ; 'TRUCKS and CARTS Wechanical Repairs, Painting, Trim- ming, Upholstering and Wood Work, Blacksmithing in all its brances, Seott & Clark Corp. §07 to 515 North Main St. John & Geo. H. Bliss | reached THE WEATHER. The pressure over (he eastern hut ot owntry continyes to give mflwwu‘flu iddle At. mi o lantie s mevzg tlantic doas the north Atlantie will be gentle to :\odenu shifting; becosting south fair weather. - ‘Middle Atlantio—~gentle to moderate cast to south, fair weather, Forecast, Southern New Bngland: Fair Fri- day, somewhat warmer on the main- land; Saturday cloudy and warmer, probably rain west -portion and by nlght sast portion. The lewes TEbEAL Sopocerd trom e foll s, reporte The Bufletin’s observations, show the changes in temperature and the baro- metric changes §p.m . Highest 3 Comparisons. Predictions for "Phursday: Fair, Thursday's wefther: Fair, west to scuthwest wind. GREENEVILLE A rosident in Greeneville kst a handsome dog Thursday about 12.30 when a truck that was heading for the city ran over him. The dog gave a vell and the driver stopped his car and found the dog w: Private Rainsford was a visitor in Plainfield_Thursday. James Ryan has returned to. the submarine ‘base” after. spending a few with his parents on Seventh stroet, A friend in the village received a letter from John Hoar, who is serving the colors in the nayy in foreign ser- vice. He is the son of Edward Hoar, who resides on Twelfth street, and is the only son. He enlisted ghout a year 20 went to the Newport train- g school, from there Was transferred to New York navy yard, and then wis board a ship. Later he went into foreign service. Since leaving York he has seen some parts of the world, for he has been in Genoa, Mar lles, Bizerta, Tanglers, Portue: Spain, and many other places. atroled the coast of Africa for {hirteen days before the Germans signed the armistice. He expects to home again in the middle of y if he does not have {050 (o If he goes to Turkey, he will not be home for two years. He is sta- tioned at present at Gibraltar. Private Leonille Blais has returned from Fortress Monroe, Va. He left Norwich with the last quota of men from this city. Edmond Coughlin is confined to his home with a_slight attack of illpess. mond Burke is spending a few days at the home of his mother. TAFTVILLE Pirick Pepin arrived home Tuesday fter being mustered ouf at Camp De- He left Norwich last August 1p Greenleaf. He was later for u.mster-ed to Camp Sheridan. M GREGDR PAYS RECORD FIGURE FOR TROTTER John A. McGregor, woh is president of the Union Twist Drill company of Athol, Mass.,, and was the president of e Hopkins & Allen' Arms company who made such rosy promises for Nor- wich at the time the company toolk the contract on riflds for the Belgian government, has just paid a record price for a_ trotter at an auction in Worcester, Mass. Mr. McGregor bought Baron Atta, paying $5,100 for this headliner of the racing stable of the late W. Starr Lee of Athol. The purchaser of this trotter, says the Springfield Republi- has maintained a smail ible for the past few years and ie president of the Worcester Nortiwest Agricultural society. The sale at- tracted prominent horsemen from all over New England, including Harry Brusie, Piliie Flemming, Roger Rourke of Greenfield, Wecks of Sterling, who id 53,000 a few weeks ago for Di- rectum J., J. H. Bronson of New Ha- v Owner Thrall of the Windsor, Ct., Lon McDonaid of Boston, D. &. v of Ware and others. Several I | of the above came prepared to go as high as $4,000 for the Baron, but the | bidding got too stiff for them after that figure was reached and passed The first bid on the Baron was for $1.000, and $3,500 was soon reached. The bidding after that sum was was between Mr. McGregor and R. E. Bartlett of Ludlow. Auc- tioneer W, ‘Tuttle of Keene, N. H, | finally knocking the horse down to the former. This is the highest figure paid for a race horse in New England in years and even tops the prica paid for Directum J. the lcading pacer winner of this pest season. A few minutes after he was sold Baron Atta was taken to his new owner’s barn at Athol Highlands. Red Cross Chairmen. Chairmen in the Red.Cross Christ- mas roll call for the townms in the southern end of the county are the following: Waterford, Mre, E, C. Hagn« Mrs. H: S. Reynolds; Niantic, Miss Elsie Beckwith; Flan- ders, Mrs. James Bathgate; Noank W. i Spicer; Groton, Mrs, C. R. Heffer- nan; Stonington, L. D. Fairbrother; Montville, Mrs. Ralph Meleer; Old Lyme, Mrs. Ernest Chadwick; Fisher's Island, Mrs, Shankin; Ch:nerfleld and Konom? Miss Ruth Morgan; Mystic, James Cooper. Benches Back at Town Hall, The benches from the town hall, which were: used in the Thayer build- ing store at the time of the united war work campaign, have just been taken back to the hall. ORE THROAT / or Tonsilitis, gargle with, warm sait 4 then number of members sought is to reached. 11 a d Following is the muwn’ the teams, based on the to cnurg»u Mrs. Lfmfl.tkm-tunha:d representing everything turned y the team captains for the first three days of the drive: PRIVATE M’'DONALD WAS NEAR CASHING IN, HE SAYS Private John J. MacDonald, Battery E, 56th_Artillery, has written to his father that he is in - 2 hospital in France and has been a hospital pa- tient since Oct, 7, after-getting gassed and then having influenza and bron- cho pneuymonia. Now, says Private MacDonald, under date of Nov. 24, he is able to be up and walking around. Ris letter follows: Base Hospital 38, Nov. 24, 1318. Dear Father: I thought I would write you a few lines to let you know how 1 am getting along. § am in a hospital, and have been since the seventh of October. I was treated first for gas, was geiting alon® finely when I got the influenza, then I got broncho-pneumonia. Was pretty sick for & whil, and came near cashing in as one nurse told me she never ex- pected to see me up walking again. T am up walking around the ward a week now and feel pretty good, but I get tired out if I walk just a little ways. We get the finest treatment and have Red Cross nurses. Tell mother not to worry about me as T will bé all vight in a week or so, 1 was an automobile truck driver and was first driver. We used to m‘l ammunition to the guns. As our we was at night it was dangerous on ac- count of shell holes and I got stuck a good many times, ‘We have been on the front for four months, and have done some great shooting, according to_the reports we received and when I left the battery we had never lost 2 man, that is, we never had 2 man Kkilled. The last place I was with the battery was Hill 304, Verdun, and the. officer made a mis- take and brought us within teg min- utes from the infantry. We had to lcave qur trucks on the road on ac- count bf the heavy. shell fire. ~The Germans certainly sent over a lot of zas shells. They kebt it up for over four hours, and the shells were failing all around us. With one other Nor- wich fellow hy thé name. of Fitzger- ald 1 got into a little dugout. We were on _the road 36 hours without any sleep. We were so tired out we fell asleep with our gas masks on and woke up in the morning and hall tear ias and sneesing gas. -1 sneezed about four hours and cried for about the same time. Imagine getting up and finding a dead Amé¥ican soldier on one side of you, and a dead German soldier on the other side of you. That's the way we found ourselves and we got out of the dugouf in quick time. Al around were dead Germans and hun- dreds of horses. T met Billy Gorman over here and he is getting along fl T have been in France eight mwenths but it does not seem so long. T do not know when I will get home but 1, guess it will be shortly. I don't think I will be able to get back to my bat- tery, and I foel dissapointed about it, as T have been with it so long and know the fellows so well We have plenty to eat and plenty of tobacco, We zet tobacco issued to uz and we also get chocolate candy. Well, father, I can’t think of any- thing else this time. T hope every- body at home has a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. BAKER TO LEAVE STORRS FOR WORK OVERSHAS H. J. Baker, director of the axtension service of Connecticut Agricultural college at Storrs, will leave the latter part of December for France, to take up work with the army overseas ed- ucational commission. Mr, Baker's work will be that of helping direct instruction in agriculture to be giyen the soldiers interested in this vocation. The commission has bewa organized under the authority of General Per- shing and is a part of the undertak- ings of the national war work council of the Y. M. C. A. It is a movement to fit the men detained overseas during the process of demobilization for some industry or profession of. their own choosing. Agriculture is but one of the vocations to be taught in this “khaki university,” but reports from France indicate that a great many of the young men hope to take up farm- ing after their return to this country. The board of trustees of the Con- necticut _ Agricultural . college has granted Mr. Baker a year's leave of absence to take up this work. Mr, Baker came to Connecticut in March, 1914, as director of the exten- sion service. Previous to that time he had been in extenbion work .in Massa- chusetts. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Agricultural college During his absence the work 8f the extension service will be directed by 1. G. Davis, county agent leader. CHRISTMAS PROGRAMME AT COUNTY HOME SCHOOL For a Christmas prpgramme which they had on Thursday afternocn the scholars® at the county-home school had an interested audience of abeut sixty, who applauded the creditable work by the little performers. - The following was the programme: Song, Btar Spangled Banner, school; seng, A Me: to Kaiser Bill, boy chorus; recitation;. Welcome, Joe Boldrighin recitation, Friends Tried. and ru% Margaret Burdick; song, O, Little Town of Bethlehem, schodl; recita- tions, Baby’s Stocking, Oliver Martin; Santa Claus, Sammie Caswell: Playing Santa Claus, Sarah Hewlitt; A Note to Santa, Avilla Goluski; A Boy’'s Let. ter to Santa Claus. Harold Lawrence tion, Glory Be to God, 12 Do. ing Your Bit, Wilhelmina salumz The Children and the Star. nine children; Oh, Christmas Bells. grades 2 and 3; song, Ring Out the Blll. school ;reci- tation, , seven Story Told by “Artists, 11 children; The Christmas’ of the Littis Pines, 17 children; What King Christmas Brought, 10 children, LATEST CONTRIBUTORS TO SANATORIUM HOLIDAY FUND Following are the latest contributors cheer toward the fund for heliday the Norwich state tuberculosis sana- | WAS THREE TIMES ON at|any connection with: the attick upon T —— RED CRUSS ENROLLMENT | ACKES AD PATKS | 21—Mps. E. W. Perkins. 23—Mre. A, H. Chase . Totals sipe evveeee....2262 §2,331.10 GIRL FOUR-MINUTE SPEAKER AT DAVIS The junior four-minute speakers spoke at the afternoon performances at the various theatres in the city on Friday afterncon and Miss Dorothy Pasnik was assigned to the Davis theatre. Miss Pasnik prepared and made a four-minute address on the Red Cross that would have done credit to many a person many years her scnior. Miss Padnik spoke as fol- 8. m‘;imvun Your generous siving, my friends, we have been able to bring this terrible war to an end. 'Although the fighting has ceased the gziving has rot. ‘The hospitals are, filled W wounded soldiers. Every day we have painful news of some loved one who has been seriously wounded. Th men cannot be healed in a day, the need attention and it is the Red Cross that gives that attention. We must hot forget the Red Cross. We. must be thankful to the Red Cross nurse who at all times, danger or no danger, is there to heip those who are in pain, to help those who are lonely, to help those who are aching for & word of kindnéss, to feed those who are hun- ary. I have about three minutes left to deseribe to you the work of the grea est organization in this wonderful world of ours, whenever the r s called your boy, our boy, erybody’'s boy, had to leave all of his loved omes to heip his best uncle. When the boy gets to camp the Red Cross worker meets him with and welcomes him to his temporary future home and when the first day's work is done and he is lonesome for home and family a Red Cross nurse is at his side and speaks to him in such a manner that he forgets he is | lonely and is soon iaughing at a J or some funny story. The time now, arrives when our boy must g0 across the sea to pay back our debt of honor to France and save ‘the world from autocracy. On board a ship he meets 4 Red Cross surgeon and sgon become friends. After a while our boy marching with a company of fellows, it may be cold and faw after traveling ten or more w miles he meets some Red Cro ers who give him hot chocolate an something {o eat. At last your boy is in the front line frenches, the battle is raging flercely and the boy is wounded. The Red Cross nurse does all in her power to restore him to health; he may be taken prisoner by the enemy; he may be siiting in a dreary ceil, thinking we have forgot- ten him when he hears a rustle and turng to find a Red Cross nurse con- fronting him with a letter or a parcel from home. Picture yourselves, my friends, in that position. Again, T say, we mus: not forget them. We at home don't know half of the work and the Re Cross are undergoing. . I appeat those at home to stop, look and listen. Give! Give! And then give again to the Red Crose, and be able to answer present at the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. URGENTLY NEEDED MEN CAN BE RELEASED NOW Employers in urgent need of form- er_employes who are enlisted men in army camps and depots within the United States are advised to com- municate with such men. says the U. 8. smployment service hullctin, asking thesr to request their discharge of.the camp authorities. No_such requests should be made merely as a matter of convenience to | an employer, but only when the form- er employe’s services arc in urgent de- mand. The war department orders under which this discharge of necded men can be accomplished is as follows: War_Department, ‘Washington, D. C, November 21, 1918. Circular No. T7. 1—Department commanders within the United States, commanders of ports of embarkation, and co; nd- ers of camps not under the jurisdiction of department commanders or of chiefs of bureaus of the War Department are authorized to discharge enlisted men upon their own applicati is sicknees or other distres: soldier's family or when he is to resume emrloyment in or occupation in whica gent need of his sen that such discharge will cripple &n existing organization t:’z! the soldisr's services can be s Consideration will be given to the fact that the machinery of the camps must be utilized in the demobilization | of the army and due regard be taken that it is mot retarded by the d charge of personnel connected there- with. 2—The instructions contained herein apply only to individual and excep- release men in large groups or blocks for any gencral employment or occu- pation. 3—Application for the discharge un- der the provision of this circular will be made in each individual case by the soldier concerned and tlirough his \immediate eommanding ofiicer. No man who volurtarily enlisted prior to April 1, 1817, will be discharged under this autbority. HOLMES CASE GOES P FORWARD FOR A WEEK The ease of Royal G. Holmes charged with assault upon Capt. James Lennon on the night of Dec. §th at the captain's home at 40 Bos- well avenue, which was to have come up in the police court here this (Fri- day) morning, has Peen put forward to_Saturday morning, Dec. 2. Prosecutief Attorney Lee Roy Rob- Dbins had invited State’s Attorney Had- Ial A. Hull to sit with him in the case in n:e pollee court and as Mr. Huil was to be engaged on other legal bus- iness this morning, it was agreed be- tween Judge John H, Barnes and the counsel on both sides to put the case forward to,the date stated. - Mayor J.'J.'Desmond is counsel for Mr. Holmes, who has denied having Capt. “Lennen, and it is understood that his_ defense will be an alibl, en went to Putnam on ‘Friday. for a visit with friends there. 2 when there |, tional cases and are not intended to | UICKLY RELIEVED ¢ i You'll find ‘Sloan’s Liniment ‘sdftens the severe rheumstic ache o B ey g et 1 e m a of soothing relief soon follows! Enemal aches, stiffness, soreness, i < ' back * fiEh: ofi t.he relieving qualities of 's Liniment, = Clean, convenient, economical. Ask any druggm for it. Linitgent Halls:Pain: i 30c, 60c, $1.20 three times taken to Newport News to be sent overseas, but each time re- called. Once they got as far as actu- ally being leaded on a transport when orders came for them to disembark and th again came back to the soil of Virgis EXPECT -BUSY TIMES AT “PARCEL POST STATION From now on busy times are looked the for at the posta big store in the Postmaster John P, lished a temporary ceipt of p: ost packages only. Clerk James L. Tourtellotte was in sub-station in charge on Thursday, equipped with the appliances weighing and scampm packages. The office will be ued each evening between and § p. m. Clerk Tourtellotte i d by Substitute Clerk H, Smith, who has recently returned from | Camp Upton, This parcel p a great conve want to s chrough the day- until Monday the hours of 10 a. m. t station will Ll nce to PLACING CHRISTMAS TREES ALONG MAIN STREET n street began to a al when | arted hndge to} evergreen in decorating the s far as Frank- ish the rest of ch pole has one it on the side towards placed about four and et froi the ground. Assaulted Berry Picker, Fined. A verdict of $300 for Mrs. Anna Carlson of Prospect was refirned by a jury in the district court at Wates- bury Wednesday afternoon in an ac- tiow against Laverne Clerk of Prospect for alleged damagi Mrs. Carlson med she was assaulted after she picked berries on Clark’ the work tree nailed of Norwich, in his ar- gument for the plaintiff, id a man it. Never judge a joke by the way wo- men laught at it. MARRIED. OULLEY —PHILLIPS —In Westerly, muel S C\x!le'» R DIED. GEER—Tn " Stonington. Dee, 17, 1918, Augusta Geer, formerly of Middle- boro, Mass,, wife of Charles A. Geer, ged 81 years. KENOWLES—In Stonington (Paweca- Dec. 18, 1918, Ida E., daughter fam L.'and Ida May Budding- owles, aged 14 years, BLAIR—In Norwich, Dec. 19. 1918, son of Times and Mary A a3 FAil be held at Chareh . Allen’s, 15 Main stveet. Saturday, Dec. 21, at 2 p. m. Burial in Maple- vood cemetery, s city. Dec. 18, 1918, Comstock, wife of of 81 Peci street. parlors of Cummings Saturday morming, Dec. 21, Requiem mass in St. Pat: rch at 9. Burial in St cemetery ZOLLFR—In 191! Josephine, daughter’ a Mary Zoller Ring 3. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank the many friends the beautiful fioral offerings, and; recent bereavement. . AND MRS. JOSEPH CARPENTER AND FAMILY. CARD OF THANKS We take this method of thanking the many: friends, the L 0. O. M. and ially the Polishers of the Marlin- Rockwell -Corporation, for their kind- nese since the death of our husband and father. MRS. I STOCKDALE Charch & Allen 5 15 Main Street | FUNERAL DIRE CTORS EMBALMERS Lady Assistant Telephone 328-3 HENRY E. CHURCH WM. SMITH ALLEN AND FAM- TEAMING and TRUCK!NG DONE VERY PROMPTLY AND AT, REASONABLE PRICES ARTHUR H. LATHROP Phone 175 who strike sa woman ought to pay for | == | 512 weeks at $5 per ¢| partial dependency. and economical. shipped you. Use this delicious food and get this beautiful Parisian set of china This tasty margarine has a place on every table. (we prepay shipping charges). floral design and a heavy band of gold. China is hard to get and expensive when you do get it. We. placed car- load orders direct with the pottery early, therefore we are able to make this offer which is certainly profitable for you, Ask your grocer for FIRST PRIZE NUT MARGARINE Get the “Continuation” Sets. Send 25 more coupons and $3.75 and we will send you the second set of 35 pieces. dition to your set. Then, to complete the full set of 112 pieces, send 25 more coupons with an additional $3.75 and the balance of 35 pieces will be We prepay shipping charges. Save the coupons that come with Baby Brand Cleomargarine and redeem them with the others. This is a strictly pure, high grade food product, Remember it is flavored with genuine creamery butter. Send coupons and money to P. BERRY & SONS, Inc., Hartford, Conn. 7 Sole Distributors for New England States It is highly nutritioas ade of pure coconut oil and peanut oil churned with whoie milk. Contains no animal fats whatever. Each pound in a separate carton. With each carton we*pack a coupon. / . and then send them to us with $3.75 (cash or post office money order), and we will immediately ship you this handsome 42-piece Parisian set of china Beautiful pattern, decorated with a pleasing Save these till you have 25 This makes an appreciable ad- COMPENSATION ORDER FOR BRIDGE WORKER’'S DEPENDENTS The Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins cor- poration, which has had a contract on the new Thames river bridge at New London is to pay compensation- for week, according to a decision by Commissioner J. J. Donohue, as compensation to the par- of a man who was drowned off a lighter tied up at the bri Bernard Cooney, whose parents are Bernard and Rose Cooney of North Dorset, Vt, was tMe employe of the company on whose account the claim for compensation was made. On the night of July 27, 1918, he went aboard the lighter where he was to be night watchman and tend the fires until morning. The next morning he was missing but his_body found in the river several weeks later. T commissioner ruled that the degth the man had arisen out of his employ ment and that pavments should be made to his pafents on the basis of ‘The respondent company is to bay $100 funeral ex- penses, $100 for the 20 weeks from July 27 to Dec. 13 and at the rate of $5 per week thereafter to make up 312 weeks, Workmen’s Compensation. The following workmen’s compensa- tion agreement has been approved by Commiissioner J. J. Donomu: Ship Construction and Trading Co., Stonington, employer, and Z. Def- fosseg, Old Mystic, employe, left in- step bruised at rate of $14. Ashland Cotton Co., Jewett ployers, and Alex Dombrov ett City, employe. thumb rate of $10.03; and Agata Fumm Jewett Cit; mploye, left arm i 30. dislecated, at rate of $i235. Cn Wounded List. The name of Louis E. Rader of Nor- wich was given in the casualty sued on Thursday night. He is re ported wounded, degree undetermined. The address of the nearest relative to be notifierd was given as Mrs. Mary Woodmansee, 27 Little Flats, Norwich, Conn. Some men make opportunities others to take advantage of. for POINT OF GOING ACROSS SHEA & BURKE 41 Main Street Fqneral Direct_qra Open Evenings DR. LESLIE GAGER (Continued from Page Eight) reople, had some excellent meals and nearly froze to death in the coalless Grand Hotel. Also I went down to Luneville and found our old patient, Rene Zimmerman, big and stout. Com- ing back, the train was filled with lib- ed prisoners, hundreds of all na- tionalities. Three Rumanians crowd- ed into our compartment, stalwart chaps, two year prisoners in Lerraine, eaking German. which in the camps gets to be the unjverssé language of Russmn and Pole, ‘Frenchmen and all the rest. They had been fairly well Ll'eate«i—fax'nl work. But at Nancy three bloomin’ Brit- ishers climbed aboard and they were the lads. golden lads! Irishmen, all of them, with Irish broguc and Irish wit—Kipling’s Soldiers Three in real life. Al veterans of Indian campaigns South Africa. _ They went r with Kitchener's First Army, fought at Mons and then on the Aisne got capti Four ‘years and two months in German prison camps. Promised lots of things when, the Huns tried to_get them -to join in,the Irish_Brigade movement to encourage the Sinn Feiners and.internal revolu- tion in Ireland, treated, when they refused, by being split up and scat- tered to iron factories and sulphur mines, and rock = quarries—plages where they were given 1§ hours of ork or more a day—they -worked iill they had broken the stipulated quéntity of rock, or took the punish- ment. Never a bed in the 50 months, food of the meagerest, black bread in- e hat of the ciyiligns, whi inferior to the military ade from burnt barley. rd game to play and the | three were the remnants of hundreds ho died of starvation, exhaustion, sickn Micky Kearn played the game so well that he got 52 changes of employment, so_he said, in his four years, uptil finally. ho got a “light”.job on which he throve—farm labor for 16 Lours a day for the two months before freedom ~came. Eye trouble got him out of fhe. sulphur mine to a hospital for treatment and reclassification. An Jjection of petrol jnto the arm was tuce an inflammation .re. it care—unfortunately, some whe tried it got blood poisoning and lost arms and even life. Micky escaped oncé from a heavy job in the Buy Useful Gifts For “Him” Bath Robes, Neckwear, Shirts, Silk Mufflers, Men’s Plain and Initial Hand- kerchiefs, Fancy Armbands, Belis, Silk Hose, Dress Gloves, Men’s and Boys’ Sweaters, and many other useful gifts can be had here. *° MAKE YOUR DOLLARS COUNT BY TRADING HERE SALOMON’S GENTS’ FURN{SHINGS HATS AND BOYs'J)vEAR 100 Franklin Streeta 5 S = i glass factory. Got half an hour’s start on a Monday morning before roll call in those early days the prisoners had civilian clothes, with stripes that could be ripped off—and made the woods. He had a couple days’ rations, he got more when he ran into an English prisoner on a farm and drew his at- tention by whistling an grmy call. He had two hats—a cap and a tam-o’- shanter—invariably after meeting one group of people on the road he would change to the other hat, changing his description thereby, he said. Finally he came to the. bridge at Coblentz, with freedom almost certain on the other side. Micky gave the- toll-gate keeper 10 pfennigs and didn’'t know the charge was only seven. And when ! he kept on without waiting for the change, the gate keeper was suspic- ious—it was a violation of every tenet of German thrift—and on the other end of the long bridge Micky found himself again a prisoner. One of his companions spent twelve months in a prison at Cologne; he too had his story of attempt at es: cape foiled by sentries on the Holland border. They were full of tales and descriptions as they rode in this ex- press to Paris, after walking all the way, 300 kilometres, from the place they were casually released across the frontier, through Metz and down to Nancy. ' They had two pleasant mem- ories—the prisoners had cleaned u their guards before leaving and brok- en a few faces; and they had had a fine weicome from the Americans— and Micky swore he had eaten six pounds of meat at one sitting. Four years had ‘given him some annetite. ‘Well, they had a lot of stories, some humorous, and others not so much s0, prisoners steamed alive, lefttodie in prison camps. These thin-faced, deep-eved Irishmen, Kitchener's men told the truth and a lot of it. And we're glad to sec things going forward as they are, without Iistening to the Huns who howl. They have got to pay for the thing, and when they get throush paying, never be able to do the'same thing over again, It has cost too much for any half-way ending, as I xnow from my litile bit of expegience in the midst of the first Americah training area, in the grip and_pneumonia epidemic that we saw in PBrittany, and mors lately, in_ the operating rooms of the surgical hos- pital behind the Lorraine front. Yours truly, LESLIE T. GAGER. Norvach, Cnnnoohcut 3