The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-23
WALLINGFORD.

Saturdays heavy downpour of rain ptu a stop to all the out of door sports that were booked and made about ev- l erybody disgusted with the weather.
 The new uniforms. blue with gray
 trimmings, for the Wallingeord base ball team, arrived here Saturday, but were not put in use
 l The high school graduating class will | have a reception in the armory this | evening
 l A. J. Atkinson, Jr and bride are home from their bridal tour. The Center street open car was on duty again on Friday.
 Miss Mary R. Bond left Saturday for , Maiden, Mass.
 | Miss Katherine Backes left Saturday 1 for Keene, N. H.. on a visit to her sis I ter, Mrs. Norwood.
 Mss F. D. Packart left Saturday for | Bridgewater, Mass.
 John Bruton was before Judge Judd Saturday morning and was fined s7 and $17S0 costs and thirty days in jail for
 drunkenness and s25 for breach of peace.
 There were plenty of fishermen out on the lake Saturday, Everybody got wet and some caught fish. Judge J A. Martin has coco young peach trees besides several hundred
 pear apple and plum trees on his farm on Cook Fill.
 The merchants had to stand another
 stormy Saturday night.
 First Assistant Engineer Cannon is in
 receipt of letter from John J. Fran
 cis, corporal of Company K, Twenty
 seventh U. s. A., now stationed at
 Bongoa, P. l. Under date of April 6, he
 writes in part:
 T am enjoying the best of health.
 I have travelled good bit since l left
 the old town. I have seen such cities
 as Gibraltar, Spain, Velleta, Malta,
 Alexandria, Egypt, Port Said, Suez,
 Alden, Colombia, Ceylon, Singapore, but there is no place like the old burgh
 for me For I am Walllngford
 boy with an 1S-carat number at that and in 1904 this old soldier will march on the wideawake borough and the people will think that there is some sporting blood left in some os her sons for am not stayign three years in the Philippines for the glory there is in it. I have not had a sick day since I left the states and good many cannot say that.
 "The climate on this island is fine but the water is not so good, We have not had hike since I have been here and that is something new for me. It is a small island, 1000 miles from Ma nila in the Zuba group and just thirty five miles from Borneo. So I am a | far Pacific islander for fair. The na- tives are mostly Moros and are very | Warlke among themselves. We have | to keep them from scrapping and show l them the beautiful side of civilized life. | They look very polite saluting you with 1 bolo. They generally make their | bow at forty paces. That is near 1 enough for they look more like the | devil than human being and they are l devils when they are fighting for they | have no religion and believe they have to kill man before they go to heaven.
 They are called Mohammedans and 1 worship the clements. There are | few Japanese women and Chinese here. When I look at them my heart gets sad | and I think of some of the girls I left behind me If there is anything do admire it is beauty and the Torpado girls hold their own with the world. Give my regards to all and tell them that Jackie is still in the ring and wishes them all good luck"