Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-08

William Bowen, the news dealer on North Main street, received the fol- lowing letter from Thomas P. Sears, qparteFmaster:
 fI.'' Oct 16, 1918
 Dear Bill. Far the last couple of weeks nay thoughts have been back around that little store on the corner of North Main and Fifth street and tho hours that ! used to spend there.
 RemenabsF the hot days in the sum- HsFtlnle ghen it was too hot to do apYthing but sit on tho front step and watch Doe Rudd came down the street with his baby carriage full ef buckle berries, And the cold days when you couldn't sec out of tie fSoRt windows and the old store batting about 300,
 Gas, Bill, these were the good old dsys, and I often think Of taern. supnqae the people ba~e changed. but fhe old plaee must he the same, that can't ever change. Of course Tate BFoFn never hikes by with the mail saGk on his back nor ScnaF Fletcher and pencil ana get so excited that b4 E1s to ruR like the devil to catch his car. Bill. I look back to those times with q sort of g funny feeling. I think If l am ever fortunate enough to get back to Ged's country again it will never De tine same. I'll just be one Of these that lean up against the coun- ter watching the people, mostly stran- gers, come and go. Tonight thar. old p.aee Is pretty YiYiG In nay meFhor.,, suppose Nou'd like te know g. lit- tle about what I am doing over here. Well, Ell, there's just one thing w4 sceuF the hrinY deen fer the tin 1IGh. We can't pieY these fields and over trenches midst sas ana shrapnel which is daraed hard tuck sn epr- part ,nor have We been able to take part in any great naval battle because there :sn't any but if there is, will be the first te bs called upen as our base is the nearest to German ports. So we have C contaNt ourselves at the present time with ridding old Father Nep. of inc Tia Fish When the Hun sticks
 ais peristope sP three times and reads the |. $. S. C-1g1 on our bow sAy--he inks to the bottom and he inover comes up. BHl. l dient think could ever get i Sc herd-hsart@d, hut, honest. if could i lsH ray handhonfs on one of those i Dutch f-S I'd kill him, ey inches. That i TAamerad stuff would not get .hira a
 ---- tiiag. IT you could see the sights PYe seen and some Of the un- i deJhanded tricks they pull you'd feel ! the same way. Why one sub 4 short ! time ago, knowing of a certain life buoy 2 very important guide to ves- sells. had been washed away on the ccGst Of the eouRtry which we patrol 1 took up It's position there and flashed our .oeculatins light just like the light { ships either Ignorant of Ihe fact that l the light had gone or else thinking 1 that it had been replaced, passing close by made a wonderful target. l They're full of such tricks. They'll i sink 9 no account fishing smack and follow tho survivors for mites in their l boats, waiting fer a big boat to stop and pick them up and if they do | zingo, q torpedo hits them in the g-oins and there's another disaster 1 But the subs are laying pretty low
 now. We, got the hodce sign painted
 on them and they fear us more or as l much as any boat over here.
 That vas rather tough cn Nevins, wasn't it. His boat has been into ouY ! base several times, but I didn't know 1 he was a. meE9beF of the crew. We've had 8 little hard luck over here con
 corning shore liberty We have been ] setting g. four day leave every month and take a trip to the hig city. tThey toll Us wo need recreation after bat fling out in the deep on patroD, bNt owing to the Spanish influenza we are rot sllawed to travel any until the epidemic is quelled, theagh we have
 not felt it at all in comparison to the
 way in the states,
 Teday. after being at sea for euI regular patrol we faund that the lib ertN had been restricted in town owiae sto the tact that a few hot-heaaed American g0bs got in battle and ir1et to ldll 8 few of their brothers in arms
 But guess everything will be al
 Rlght again in 8 few days aud tn,
 world will move on as before.
 Yours truly,
 l. THOMAS P, SEARS,
 | QuaFfermaster. The Centrafs of the village defeated the West Side football team last Sun
 day afternnon and was $ fast game aNheugh the game wss played t1poi
 the fairgrouHds and a good size,
 crowd of far& were present. This Sun Ed&y the Centrala will hne up aaains Es fAst group of football players fyon New Londan and the game will b | played upon the MosacgaA Park Aeld Il The CertraIs are composed of 1sf Academy boys and also men from tn