Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-23
JEWETT CTTY

The funeral service for Private AL phonse Lynch was held at St. Mary's church Tuesday morning. Rev. Dan iel Masse officiated. at the mass. Bur- ial was in St. Mary's cemetery and the bearers were Thomas Cunning ham, Walter and Albert Stankana, Jo- seph Houle, A. Houle and Lawrence Joliet. A delegation from A. A. Young Jr, Hose COIN 1. escorted the body as a guard of honor. An American flag draped the cas5et. The flag on the town hall and on A. A. Young's 1lagpole were at half-mast and other flags were displayed. The children at St. Mary's school attended the ser vice. The arrangements for the fu- neral were in charge of Undertaken Hourigan.
 Mrs. Noble Symington died Monday night after two weeks illness with pneumonia. She was born in New Britain February 22, 1896. the daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. Alexander Ma gel. She was united in marriage with Noble Symington three years ago last June. Mrs. Symington was a member of the Congregational church and for some time was a member of the choir. | She possessed artistic ability, having l taken several prizes in painting, draw 1 ing and embroidery. She leaves her husband and two children, Noble R., aged two years, and Arlene M., aged 1 year, her parents and two sisters, Misses Mena and Helen Magel, and a brother, William. The circumstances attending her death are exceptionally 1 pathetic, as her husband has been i'll 1 and is still unable to leave his bed, and her brother is ill with pneumo- l mia.
 The assessors are at work in the town hall
 The Red Cross has placed recep- l tacle for nutshells and fruit stones at William Johnston's store. Tuesday l morning. he found the shells strewn all around the platform. Some addie-pate evidently thinks such vandalism a l smart stunt.
 Mrs. E. S. Montgomery has receiV' i ed very interesting letter from hel husband Lieutenant Montgomery, z 1 balloon observer in France. Some 0.
 his experiences follow: Yesterday a Boche observing plane
 came over at 4.30 D. m. and sailed
 monchaIantly through the barragt
 put up by the anti-aircraft guns, ant
 stayed overhead about an hour taking 1 photographs. It was clouGy and ht
 was up about 5000 feet. He started
 back for his lines at 5.15. Five al
 lied airplanes spotted him and sait
 Welcome to our circlel' Boche climb ed away up into the clouds in an at tempt to hide and make get away. 7 No chancei We heard firing, the al
 lied planes were after him! Boch came out of the clouds in a downwar
 spiral, under control, about five kilo meters east Of here. Four of our plane were lowering over him, and one wa
 on the trail of his machine Boch !. was about 500 meters high. Suddenl : he up-titied his tail, nose down. an 7 crashed to the earth. It sure was grea t to see that Boche come down! Tn ] Huns certainly do not mean for u ] to be up if the visibility is anywher s near good, as he repeatedly burns tn 1 balloons all around us.
 I Thursday 1 went up in the baske 8 at 5.30 a. m. with another lieutenan { It was still dark, with a heavy fog 0 the ground. The artillery was makiH = qute a showing No answer from ff . Huns. They were too busy keeping ur
 der cover, as the artillery preparatio for the infantry attack was somethiI -l terrific.
 At 5.45 a. m. after the all night al q tillery preparation the infantry wei \ over the top. We did what observ;
 tion work possible under prevailir H weather conditions until 12.15, wht
 three Boche planes attacked us wht
 we were. about 1900 feet high, and ov
 the side we went. They did not SUI
 ceed in burning the balloon, but q h two to the immediate right and thr
 and four on the left. The signal
 danger to the basket is one blast A horn, then two blasts ge! ready al
 a klaxon to get out Well, we hea t the two blasts and the next thing W
 machine gun fire. Needless to say '
 did not wait for the klaXon with t
 Boche shooting at us. The other lie tenant being the heavier. went fir \ then jumped. Sure is great. Just st over the side of the basket and jun We'll, it takes your breath away un \ the parachute open which is approl
 mately after a drop of say eighty fee
 The only thing I was afraid of W that one of them would start after and turn their machine guEs on us, we descended, but the fire of our m chine guns on the ground, [ thing, W