The Press., 1918-08-15
Regular meeting of Rebekah lodge.

Y., spent Sunday with his wife ant son who are staying for two week! with her parents, MT. and Mrs. Al phonse Garvais.
 | Grace Church Notes: There vii be morning prayer as usual next Sun day morning at 1O.30. There will be no celebration of the Holy com munion until the rector returns from his vacation, the first Sunday iI Eeptember.
 The following is from letters sent by Bartholomew w. Mullins:
 l have been quite busy since I land. I'd on this side, been moving here Ind there. I surely have seen some dountry since left the U. s. We lave landed in place where we will stop for some time I left the com. Bany about three weeks ago and an lioW attending school trying tc learn a few points on a certain
 tEat may come in handy in the near future. The quicker we learn these q ings the sooner we get home, SC you can imagine how hard am work ing While sitting here writing am also watching a German airplane being chased around the clouds by our aviators and aircraft guns. It is quite interesting, although it is an every day occurrence, or rather night Over here German aviator is called Jerry" We never look for Jerry in the daytime and it is very seldom that he comes, but we can al ways rely upon him coming over at a certain time at night. If he doesn't come we are quite disappointed, for we always wait up for him so that we can see the fireworks. Talk about your Fourth of July in the U. S., it's nothing but a shooting gallery com pared with one of these air raids. The only fault we find with raid, If you would call it fault" is that they don't last long enough. Jerry no more than gets over here when they start banging away at him with our anti-aircraft guns, or chase him around the sky with our aerOplanes until he is doWned or driven back over the lines. Most generally he is and very seldom gets a chance to drop his confetti where he wants to. It reminds me of the way you used to chase a fly around the house with fly swatter-you' either chase him outside or kill him in the end. I'm just longing to get back to the company so that I can get some of the mail that must be there from home.
 July 16. ,sss Anls back with my eQmpaBy again. They are in reserve now Just come back from the front line trenches. I landed here yesterday. The first thing I looked for was mail, and just as I expected, had nine letters wait ing for me. You can easily guess what I did with myself for the next couple of hours. We expect to be in reserve for six OF eight days; then we move to the support. I don't think any of us are worrying about what line we are in, first or third, it's just as comfortable in one as in the other. I suppose you all are thinking what a miserable life it must be over here in the trenches. We'll let me tell you it's nothing like you imagine at all. You see we are not in the trenches any length of time, never any more than a week, then we are relieved and we go back and rest. Although it is pretty noisy, no matter where you go, but one gets used to that after awhile. I'll tell you what it makes me think Of-a big thunder Another thing in our favor is that you can always hear the high explO- sives coming, and in what direction they are heading. Then all you have to do is get out of the way. That's generally done by running a couple of miles in half that many seconds comprehend" You said something about sending me stuff from home. Now I would love to let you do that for me, but there is nothing that I need that you could send me, only mail, and I hope you never will get tired of sending that. You see we have all American tobacco and cigar rettes issued to us. I have never been out of smokes since I've been in the army. You cant even buy eats over here, say nothing about buln- ming them. The best we can do is to buy eggs and have some French woman cook them for us with French fried potatoes, but no bread; we cant get that with love or money. Am awful sorry to hear of Ed. Foley's death. -...,.. Battle