New Britain herald., 1918-08-19

B. l. Miller has announced that II men will leave PIainvilIc for Camp Upton, l.. l., on August 3O Four of them are local men. They are Philip Forcele, Paul S. Leonard, Stanley R. Jones and Albert Mckee. Four Plain vile men will go to Camp Grecnleaf Ga, August 26. They are Thomas Liu- pia, Domenick Carrello Charles Klatt, and Charles s. Moore
 Private Livingstone Writes.
 The piece of shrapneI that got me was either crazy or drunk" says Pri- Vate Walter Livingstone in a letter to h1s mother, Mrs. $. J. Livingstone of Church street. Livingstone was wounded in France on July 22. His letter follows:
 Dear Mother:
 Just few lines to let you know that l got wounded. I suppose you will know it by the time you get this letter. Well, whatever you do, don't worry because I am getting along fine l have been in the hospital five Cs,-S but expect to go to a base hospital in a few days. I will write to you again when I get to the base and give you my address. I suppose you know that Earl Madeley was wounded He got hit in two places by machine gun bull lets, one of them hitting him in the stomach an done in the arm. But I think he will get over it all right.
 l got hit on the left knee by a shfap- nel and believe me, Mother, the piece that hit me was either crazy or drunk It hit me on the outside of my leg and made a small hole and went inside of my leg, turned around couple of times turned two or three other somerSets and then shot out of my leg just above the knee. Besides putting a couple of small-sized holes in my leg it cracked the knee, but outside of that I am all right. 1 am in a fine hospital and I hope the base will be as good as this one is
 Well, Mother, I will have to tell you about the time [ was in the front line before going over the top to chase the Huns. We were holding a certain town over here on the lines It twas on our front line. Well, we were there about twelve days and While We were there we lived the life of RileNs. Feather beds to sleep on. We had chickens, pigeons and last of all a COW and garden. We used to have chicken and pigeon dinners and i milk in our coffee. Then we would 1 go out in the garden and dig potatoes. 1 carrots and onions and get some | beef from the kitchen and make our l own beef stew. We cooked most of 1 our meals ourselves until Fritzie 1 dropped trench mortar shell right 1 Tn front of our kitchen door and l came pretty near smashing our 1 kitchen all to pieces. As luck would | have it there wasn't any one in it l at the time. And believe me, for a l couple of days we were kind of shy | about using our kitchen But we had to have our chicken and piceon dinners so we soon started using ii again. We made Earle Madelev milk the COW every hnorning and night, We sure had great time while we were there. Well I just had to stop Writing because the doctor came in to dress our wounds. Well I think important we uns ure. There are about five of us. and we were operated on by a Major doctor and ne was the one that just came m to dress our wounds. VII I think this will be all for this time. I will write more when I get to the base hospital Tell the rest | will write to them soon. Will close with love to all.
 Your loving son,
 WALTER.
 The slogan in France among the Americans is, "Heaven, Hell, or Ho- boken by Christmas, and Berlin or Bust,' according to Private Dick" ff%,,