The Press., 1918-01-24
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was one of Unions most beloved and attractive daughters. Unfortunately she did not live to see the success and manly achievements of her three sons. COloHel Paine's school day were passed in the little Axe Factory school-house. over the line in Ea' tfOrd, supplemented by short course in the Putnam high school. It was while york ing on n farm in Pomfret that he took his ex- animation at Daniels0n far the West Point cadetship There were about thirty compe itors in this examina'i ion, but the farmer boy carried off tue prize. In his letter Colonel Paine speaks of being ordered to return to the United States. He wac then stationed in the Philippines where he had been for two years This was his second term of service on the islands During his service in the army he has been stationed in many of our states and did much constructive government wo'k in Cuba
 31Oth Military Police, Can D ~uster, M'chiRsn, Jan 1, 10 8.
 Dear Uncle and Arnt:
 To-day we are beginning 2 irw year with the grenr war anding s the most impressive and tremeud5 us thing iu the thoug' and iUtsr' stS of the civilized people of tue ear h. I have been here since Oct ,. trying to do ny bit to help out. h Au!n>t was aRreeahly surpI ised at the -riv of oahled information tlIa' 1 was ad- vanced to be a colonel of infantry lh the new national army. and l Nas as soon as possible which I did came here and am still tue command of trains of the 85th- division have little or no idea as to when 1 shall cross the Atlantic. We have 8 large camp, or rather oantonmenr here, supposed to be for drafted men from Michigan and Wisconsin. The construction and esta hlishment of the cautoument was in itself, I think. quite a remarkable ach evement. cou- sidering the short time in wh ch it was done. On the whole we are quite comfortable although we have had much bad weather. Michigan has pretty severe winters Our canton ment is only a few miles from Battlt Creek, the celebrated home of break fast foods. Belle is boarding with a family in the city. and shall spend sometime there, but mostly stay in my quarters in camp Our people seem to be about as usual. hear that Merrill has been drafted, but he had not been calle to join the last knew I suppose he will go to Camp Devens at Aver, Mass am inclined to congratulate him, it is the place for our young men, aud barring the chance of bad luck, it is to be expected that the ex perience will be good for them. Most of the men used to know about home are like myself, advancing in years and are probably too old to begin in army exparienoes.s I Ipresume those who have gone would not know. For the year 1918 the hope and prayer should be for our success in, the war, aside from this, almost anything that may happen to us or to our country looks too small for us to think much about. The best wish that we can offer to each other at this holiday sea. son is that we may each accomplish something that will help. We may all give thanks to God: that we are not troubled Ur immediately threatened with the terrible things that some other @ pie of the world are enduring May all be well with you through. the year 1918.
 Your nephew,
 William II. Paine.
 Copy of letter to H. R. Howard from Second Class Gunner Paul Rinzer, stationed at Fort Amidor, Balboa. Panama, Dec. 27, 1917.
 Hello Holly:
 l received your cards and was very glad to get them. I am we'll just at present, hope you are the same I hope you enjoyed your Xmas dinner We certainly enjoyed ours after having our Thanksgivi out of our mess kits. We were out at camp for a month and came ina week ago and for Xmas we had the mess hall decorated and had new VictrolH which the com. pany commander bought out of the oompany's funds for Xmas Had 8 lot of new records and had the music on while we were eating dinner, which was turkey, celery, cranberry sauce, green peas, sweet potatoes, pickles, mashed potatoes, bread and butter, pies, takes, ice cream, candy, apples, oranges, lemonade. cigars and cigarettes. We had lot of stuff, and three days off for Xmas, but Xmas eve I felt little sad thinking about home. They have entertainments here and swimming contests, but I stayed around quarters the three daSs. Dld you say to bottle up some warm weather and send Tt along I would 4A T 4G WhkAA tlO4Os The rainy season IS due to be over soon, so we will have four months of d,y weather, but we have some awful showers during the time. You ought to be here to see some of the sights. ' There are a bunch of Porto R.cans here and they are going to have it out some day ln good old style.
 P. s received so many cards for my birthday, most of tIrem con- ing from Union, and if I was to answer them all would have quite a job on hand; will you do me favor auu thank them through The Press If any Cf the boys aIe gong to join tue amy give them my advice to joIn the Coast Artillery Corp, 1t is harn