The Press., 1916-08-24

included a visit to the summit of Mt.
 Washington.
 The pupils of the Pinney grammar school are anticipating the junior fail to be held about the middle of Septem.
 ber as last year. The boys will exhibit the results of their labors in their gardens, and the girls will show flowers which they have grown. Both garden and flower seed were purchased
 by the grange and distributed by teachers of the Pinney grammar school. The girls will also exhibit their summers work, course of ten lessons in sewing, consisting of apron, cap, sleeve protectors, holder, towel, corset cover, darning, patching, hemstitohing and featherstitching.
 Miss Estella Sprague, state super intendent of club work in Connecticut, under whose supervision the work has been done will be present at the meeting of the club in grange hall, Friday, Sept. l.. The fair was a decided success last year and it is hoped it will be more so this year as the, different committees will have profited by last years experience. Adults are invited to exhibit; vege- tables, fruit, fancy work or anything of general interest
 The following letter was sent to F. A Lasbury:
 .Pharr, Texas, Aug. 12, 1916.
 It is needless to tell you how pleased and surprised I was to receive your package. You would not understand, unless you had been in circumstances similar to these, what it means to know the people back home think of you occasionally and wonder how you are getting on. I do not suppose you expected me to wait fourteen days to open all the packages, at any rate I have broken all rules and opened them the first day. I never would have been able to sleep nights if had not done so. After all it takes a man to know what man likes and you have made me about the most man in the company street to-day with the box of cigars and cigarettes. 70" company is without any partiality made up of the best crowd of fellows any company or regiment can boast of, and what one of us gets is common property. almost as far as it goes. So unintentionally, Frank, your cigars have brought more pleasure than you imagine. As you know I am corporal in the 23d New York infantry, enoamped at Pharr, Texas, a regular frontier town about five years old and so unimportant until the militia arrived that it was on very few maps. It is some eight miles from the Rio Grande and about forty miles from Brownsville. The entire New York division, consisting of eight regiments of infantry and all the attached cavalry artillery and field. hospitals, are stationed within a six miles radius in the towns of Mac Allen and Mession, both much more civilized than Pharr. About every other man besides the minister carries a revolver and rides horse. I xu0pn6orol bok of r,1o in at first, but, apparently it is almost as safe as some parts of New York. The people simply believe in prepared ness Once in a while someone gets too much whiskey from nowhere and starts row in which few shots are fired sthat make the guard sit up and take notice the rest of the night. Otherwise it is peaceable enough. Our first impression of the camping grounds was a sea of mud, and we have had the same scene before several times since, with the only dry spot the ground our tents covered. We had to pitch tents in the stuff Mud is not a real good name for it, it. anywhere from ankle to knee deep and as sticky as glue. It hardens where it sticks just like cement, in fact the people here use it for such things as laying brick and making huts. Luckily it dried enough on the first day so that we could sleep comfortably. Com fortably may seem a queer word, but compared to the five days and five nights we spent crowded into day coaches on the Erie, it was fairly a luxury to be able to stretch out at full length on bed sack full of hay, rolled up in our blank cts. The possi bilitysof rattlers and tarantulas did not worry us that first night. We spent the first week in making the camp inhabitable, digging trenches to drain the streets, etc. Then we started drills. It took about one day to fill the hospital with cases of sun stroke. We simply could not stand it to drill in the middle of the day with the thermometer up as high as 125 degrees most of the time, and drill hour wat changed to the evening which works very we'll. Drill to us meant march
 ing before we came here. Here il means dig and cut misquit wood and cactus. Texas realty companies mai
 pictures of palms and cute little houses to their customers, but the Texas have seen is not like that. The palm: are here alright. but in gardens along with solitary lemon and orange trees instead of groves. My idea of Texas will always be g sketch of white o, slate. oolored sand that turns into z blinding dust the minute the wind blows, or miles of sage brush and cactus and crooked little trees about the height of a mans head. I had almost sas soon see hill or stone af a moving picture show. In going or E: lnx oho