The Press., 1918-08-08

\ C0ApL9k Oi me SOu OA O0mOcE1Cy. {.
 Tender Memories: MT. Chapin her
 has turned the searchlight upon Presi
 dent Lincoln's problems, much the samt
 as President Wilson's were Lincoln
 during the civil war Cranks and mis through all the turmoil he laid out
 straight path and followed it to what ht
 knew was the best policy of the nation
 There is pathos, too, as Lincoln tells tho
 simple story of how he persuaded {
 preacher to perform the services over tho
 grave of Lincoln's mother. .. ..
 Harry Webster is enjoying a vacation
 with friends in Wakefield, R. I.
 Rev. c. H. Puffer and family are al
 Laurel camp, Mashapaug, for the month
 Herbert Glover and son of Providence,
 are the guests of Jacob Glover and Mrs
 Emma Whiten.
 Mrs. E. c. Pinney and Mrs. H. F. Cady
 left yesterday for Nantssket Beach, where they will spend fortnight.
 MT. and Mrs. Jerome Orcutt have re- turned to their home in Bridgeport after spending several days with Mrs. Julia Johnson.
 A party of seventeen young people Weut to Ocean Beach last Sunday, mak- ing the trip in the Hudson garages Buick truck.
 While at work last Saturday in Smith X Cooiey's mill at Glynville, Joseph Con- nors fell down the elevator shaft, injur- ing himself severely.
 Seaman Fred French of the U. s. $. "Illinois" spent a few days last week with friends, returning to Fortress Mon roe, Va, last saturday.
 George Rhodes attended the funeral of Mrs Emma Lombard Miller at Troy, Vt, last week. She will be remembered by many as a native of this place and her ear life was spent here.
 A door has been cut on the north side of the grange building, making an en- trance into w. T. Jones office In the meat market. For the present, at least, the loom will be used by ]. J. Clark for a barber-shop.
 Mrs Eva Whitaker iS making slow re- eovery from injuries received when she fell the full length of a flight of stairs some two weeks ago. Her spine was in iured, and for several days she was un able to move. but is now improving.
 A second letter received last week from \ Norman Phillips since he was severely injured in France, says he is yet in the hospital, but his wounds are neatly all healed and he will "very soon he in it again, and then will get even and more, too"
 About tM enty of the friends of Norris Keefe gave him farewell party at his home last Friday night as he left Mon day for the military training school in Syracuse, N. '. He was presented with q wrist watch, safety razor and set Refreshments were served and general good time was reported.
 Emma R Lombard, wife of Wallace D. Miller, of Toy, Vt, dleL at her home July. 24th, after a short illness. Mrs. Miller was born in Stafford August 9th, 1856, daughter of the late Wyman 0. and 5. LOusia Cummings Lombard. On Jan. Llth, 1887, she married Mir. Miller. She caves besides her husband two sisters, Mrs. H D. Miller of Westfleld Street and Mrs. Alice Lombard of Hartford
 MT. and Mrs. George Rhodes last week eceived mall from their son, Willard, liter a silence. of two months. He is 3ergeantin the artillery and has been at. ending gas school, where there was no censor and as 8 consequence no mail got through. Besides daintily embroidered silk souvenirs he sent two postals, one of them showing a group of American soldiers and fair Parisians in, and sur donkey cart.
 This letter was sent from France June 18th to Matthew Keefe, Jr.
 DEAR BRO. MATT ;-I think it is about time wrote to you have been very slack about writing, but then there is lot of times we cannot get paper, and then we only get two sheets and envel Opes. We are having fine weather here now. The sun is out good and strong every day and the mud is all dried up, but oh, boy, when I first landed here the mud was something fierce. We were in. barracks in one place In the woods, and there was board walk all around the same. If you slipped of from that walk you would go up to your ankles in mud. These were the only barracks l have slept. in, We are always billeted in barns. Sometimes there is straw in them and again nothing sbut the soft side of a wood or stone floor. There isn't any kind of 8 shack that l know of that l haven't made my, bed in 30 when I get back home again Il am just as liable 10 want to sleep on the wood pile as in a bed. 1 spent a few days in the trenches, and things were quite exciting once in awhile. How those Dig shells hum when they 20 over one head. Believe me, there are quite 8 number flying some times, but when the machine guns open up one thinks he has struck hornets nest, and it is pretty good idea to keep your head down. There is very little sleep while in the trenches. We are in the support now about two miles from he front lines in 6 town that has been pretty we'll blown to pieces. There isn't any people living here at all except few French soldiers, and the Boches' shells come over to visit us once in. awhile. They send a. few gas shells. One s just as liable to wear 8 gas mask for Gwhile in the night as not. If one loesn't hear the gas alarm and don't wake up on time he is out of luck. The 3oehe aeropIanes give us 8 visit occasion lily, but the anti-aireraft guns keep him on the move, so they don't have much lime for any looking around. | have Ieen one Bocchs machine come down in