The Press., 1917-10-04
WILMINGTON

Next Sunday Bible school will commence at 10 o'clock and the preaching service at II o'clock, the Lords supper following.
 South Willington.
 Mir. and Mus. W. H. Brackett visited the County Home at Vernon last Sun. day.
 Holman Hall left last Friday for Wallingford where he will enter the Choate school.
 w. H. Braokett and James Service, Jr., were delegates to the Ashford Baptist convention at Warrenville last Wednesday,
 Dominic DeCrew, who has been employed in the bleach house of the Gardiner Hall, Jr. Go. for the past 12 years, has accepted a position with the Underwood Typewriter Go. at Hartford.
 West Wilmington.
 The following letter was received by Mrs. Bugbee from her son. Walter, who is a conductor on a train carrying ammunition to the front: American training camp in France, Sept. 20. By day and by night the men of the American regiment of engineers, which has taken over an important line of the French Strategic railways, are hauling tons upon tons of ammuni- tion and other supplies to the French ormv uniko nporokiu0 oOninoE kho v mans. The American regiment has been turned over as a unit to the French and is getting all it's supplies except clothing from the French government. The officers and men entered upon the work with the greatest enthusiasm, and they already have been under German bombs and machine gun fire from airplanes. Within the past few nights a heavy train of supplies hurrying toward the front was attacked by several enemy planes. None of the planes came dang close, but every time the | fire box of the engine was opened for stoking, the planes swooped down up- on the train and spattered it with steel -jacketed bullets. This fire got so hot that eventually the train was stopped, the crew taking refuge be- heath the engine. Relating their ex- perience atterward these trainmen rather "swakked" about it over their inexperienced brothers. The spirit of adventure is strong throughout the American ranks and the engineers who so far have not been bombed are openly jealous of their more fortunate comrades. SO far none of the regiment has been under shell-fire, but the men may yet have taste of the noisy German 5 .g's and the whistling Percys, :" swooly -bears'' and "whiz- bangs. The regiment was recruited from American railroads and all classes, train operatives, dispatohers, etc.. are included. There is great spirit of comradeship among the officers and men, most of whom have worked together and have known each other for years. The regiment is known as an operating unit, as opposed to the engineers enlisted as construction units. Before proceeding to the front the regiment was quartered in pretty little French town within the zone of the French army. The arrival of the Americans in this town was kept secret and they marched into the place late at night after all the lights had been extinguished. The soldiers were not allowed to smoke, strike matches or speak. Despite this steal 'thy entrance, however, the French townspeople knew quickly of the arrival and soon the streets were filled with a quiet throng which joined in among the Americans and paraded with them arm in arm. It was one of the strongest welcomes any troops probably ever received any where, but it was at the same time one of the most sincere.
 The railroad regiment referred to in the above dispatch probably with out doubt is the regiment recruited almost entirely from the operating services of New England roads and includes many men from this section, the Boston & Albany system alone furnishing like 160 men for it's ranks, and others coming from the Boston & Maine, New Haven, Maine Central, Central Vermont and other New EnoIan6 1inoS Cnrin0f1a16 JInion