The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1918-08-22
The News of Somerset's Busy Towns

toying week at Smithfield In the
party are Miss mise Miller and Mrs.
Linnion French, Florence Blaisdell,
OF this town, Florence and Shirley
Baker, Mrs. Edwina Gray and little
son Earl, Leona, Lora and Vera Yea
ton of Sandy River, Christine Moore
Edna Adams and Ethel Hanson OF
Madison.
Ben Tracy of Mercer and now in the
training camps at Camp Deyens was
visiting in town one day last week
A number from this place attended
the Yeaton reunion at Sandy River
last Sunday. Among them were Mr.
and Mrs. c. A. Bracket
The new fire alarm was used to
notify the people of fire on Monday
for the first time since it was install
ed. In some way the underbrush
caught fire in a clearing near the
Joshua Hilton farm and as the wind
was blowing hard the flames soon be-
came unmanageable and had 1t not
been for the efforts of the men who
were quickly summoned, the pine
woods and the buildings near would
have soon been destroyed. AS it was
the flames we're confined to the clear
ing and aside from the loss of small
amount Of fire wood the damage was
very slight A code of signals has
been made for the fire whistle that
people may know where to locate the
fire and will be published next week.
One of our unusually smart old
ladies. Mrs. Sam Albee celebrated her
S0th birthday one day last week. Mrs.
/ Albee does her own housework for
/ herself and husband and is always as
/ interested as the young housekeeper
In canning and preserving for winter
use and her flower garden also shows
her love and care for pretty and rare
/ plants.
Mr.. and Mrs. Irwin Morrill, are the
happy parents of a son who arrived
at their home last Thursday.
A very handsome new flag has been
purchased at the Baptist church and
pole has been erected for its use on
the church lawn.
Sergt. Fred Wing was the guest of
his mother Mrs. Wing and sister Mrs.
George Carr over Sunday. Sergt,
Wing is at present stationed at the
Commonwealth Ave Armory in Bos-
ton but expects to leave very soon
for overseas duty as an expert drug
gist
Join the eyour-home-pape
club You will be in good company
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Bracket recent
ly received word from their son Carl
of Co. K. that he was in hospital
in France after having been in the
front lines and receiving a shell shock
The following interesting letter was
written by him while he was in the
hospital
Somewhere in France, July "a, 1918
Dear Dad
Will try and drop you few lines
this morning | don't hardly know
what to write about tho. I suppose
can tell you about going over the
top for | had a pretty fair experience
in that line, this last time to the lines
we went over twice. The first time
we went over just at daylight to take
large town that they were holding
and we caught them mapping. You
ought to have seen the devils running
out with their hands over their heads
hollering kamrad (they got kamrad
believe mel. Well we got the town
and went a little beyond and dug into
wheat field and stayed there two
days and nights. then we went over
the top in the big drive. You talk
about bullets flying, they sure did fly
around us and how | ever got thru
that machine gun barrage Is more
than | know. got thru anyway and
got started up big hill by the Ger
man front line when a big shell
struck behind me. | saw the fash
and that's all remember until
came to the first aid station. When
came to | thought l must be either
in heaven or the other place but
was not hurt much just the wind OF
the shell hit me in the back and
knocked the wind out of me. Well
I will close. Write once in while
Dad.
Love from
| CARL V. BRACKETT,
Base Hospital No. 30, A. f. F.
Later Mr.. and Mrs. Bracket receiv-
ed another letter from their son stat