The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-12-03
WAITSFIELD
John Colebrook Sees Places of Military
Renown and Gets Many Souvenirs.

The following letters from John L.
Colebrook to his mother will be of inter-
est to his friends in this vicinity. The
of personal matters, he goes on to say.
Il never see any of my old pals from
Fort Ethan Allen any more, as / am back
again with headquarters and am working
in the adjutant's office of this division.
Everything goes on pretty much as usual
over here. Hundreds of prisoners are
coming through every day and of course
the Yanks are on the push all the time.
You ask in every letter about the
weather here. 1t rains all the time. If !
said the sun was shining it would be
news. I'll bet in the last three weeks
the sun hasn't shone five hours, but that
is TO be expected. have sent you SOU
yenirs from time to time, but don't know
about sending more now, as they are
hard to send. Have to get them o. X
ed, etc, by an officer of the rank of ma
| or.
Il have been over some of France al
ready Now that it is over, | might say
that | was in Chateau Thierry a couple
of days after it was vacated by the
boche, also have been in several places
of great military renown. Will tell you
about them later. sent Lee pin from
a German machine gun that was used in
the battle of Chateau Thierry. Did he
receive It'll
"A lot of fellows are going on leave,
but guess / don't care to 90.
| There are no leaves granted to England
and there is one place | wanted to go"
! THE second letter was written Nov. A..
| OF his experiences in battle, Mr.. Colebrooll
has the following to say: Have been
under shell fire few til times, which
was highly exciting to all parties con-
cerned. One has peculiar feeling in the
region OF the diaphragm when a shell
comes whistling over, even if it does
strike quite a way off. OF course, you
get all the latest dope as soon, or soon
er, than we do, so | can't tell you any
thing that would be interesting We all
hope and expect to see the end of it all
before spring
when we get paid, we think by the
| size of the roll that we are millionaires,
| but oh srne! it lasts only few days.
There are paper notes from one-half
! franc to thousands, and copper, silver
and nickel coins of all sizes and shapes.
Nothing looks so good as a real old
u S. William had to pay $3.50 box
for the paper this letter is written on,
A very pleasant Thanksgiving observ-
ance was held at the home of Lauren Po-
land of this place when a company of rs
enjoyed their dinner together. Among
the guests were Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Rus.
sell of Middlesex, Collins Luce and fam
lily of Warren, Andrew Church and sister,
Cora, Conrad Brown and family, includ-
| ing his mother, Winnie Brown, Walter
Mann and family and Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
thur Poland.
The Y. P. S. G.. E. of the Congregation
al church met Friday evening with Elsie
Long. The class purchased a Christmas
label for Percy Airing and packed his
box. Resolutions were drawn up and
adopted in regard to the death in service
of Harry McAllister, one Of the class
members. After assisting Mrs Miller
, with the decorations at the church, So
eial time was enjoyed and popcorn and
apples were served,
/ A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Whitcomb Saturday night.