Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-19
PLAINFIELD

Miss Agnes Peltier. a student nurse
 at St. FrancisS hospital. Hartford. is
 MT. and Mrs. Paul Peltier, of Babcock | avenue. Miss Peltier. who is now in
 the second year of her training. was
 graduated fro Plainfeld High school
 in 1917.
 Albert Phillips. who is in the employ
 of Arthur c. Tillinghast at the store
 is enjoying week vacation 1 Benjamin Bertwistle, who returned
 from overseas last spring after having
 been gassed in action, has been ap-
 pointed to government school of tepecial instruction and has taken up his. course as a student in Hartford.
 l Word has been received that Sergt.
 Cia,tr ce w. Kingsley. overseas, Is on
 lelve in Ostend, Belgium. and will re-
 turn with the regular army. divisions 1 when they leave the Rhine for Amer ica Sergeant Kingsley. who is in the
 medical corps. speedily won. his rank. l as sergeant. Letters from him have been received while sat Coblenz. also i at Ehrenbreitsteip, the famous fortress on the Rhine over which the fAmerican flag now floats proudly.
 Burtch s. Hebert. brother of l.. S.
 wood. Greene & Co. at, the Lawton
 mills, has been spending a few days
 here. After having spent.e1S months | overseas as corporal with the 161st | regiment of infantry. attached to the
 fist (Sunset) division. he returned to | this country a week ago Wednesday,. While in France Corporal Heberd was an instructor for replacements in 1 trench mortars After spending a
 short recess with his brother he will
 start out on the remainder of his trip | to his home in Seattle, Wash. es Miss Helen Curran of Norwich is | spending the vacation with her sister, l Mrs. J. M. Sullivan.
 Miss Anna Cornell of Providence, | has been spending a few days with | Mrs. Thomas King.
 Joseph Raftree. well known among the young people of the town, visited friends here Thursday. Mir. Raftree l is now living in Maiden, Mass. Frederick Marriott of the U. S. S. Chester which saw active service
 overseas during the war. has been on ! furlough at home the past few days. 1 Harold Burke, another sailor boy, has, just returned from Norfolk, Va, from
 which port he will join the new Pa cifc fleet under Admiral Rodman. who : assumed command at New York a few :; days ago when Admiral Mayo relin- i quished his command of the fleet. 1
 Henry I. Dodge. who recently en- , listed in the merchant marine, has ;, been assigned to the Willimantic, j which will go to sea this week.
 Norman Whipple. who has been in | the transport service. making several { trips to France is expected home af- which is expected to be the last. |
 At recent meeting of the alumni :. association of Plainfield High school a roll of honor was presented Princi- Il pal John L. Chapman. The roll in \ cludes 66 young men who were in IA service during the war and whose rec ords show that they honored their alma mater. Among the names on the roll are three graduates who were commissioned officers, a captain. . first lieutenant and second ieuten- ant. All three are graduates of Yale university. Captain Howard T. Byles won his commission as captain after having finished his course in field ar tillery at Plattsburg barracks, New York in the summer of 1917. Captain Byles was then assigned to Camp Devens and later was detailed to the firing school at Fort Sill. Okla. On account of army orders the captain was detained in this country until a few weeks before the final drive in the Argonne and arrived. overseas too late to get into action. He is still in France and is expected home soon.
 The next officer is First Lieutenant John F. Sullivan. who returned from overseas three weeks ago after IS in service. six months with the army of occupa tion on the Rhine. Lieutenant Sullivan after having seen service during the summer of 1916 with the Yale battery during the Mex f Ican crisis, was recommended for. al h which recommendation 1 f was of great value to him after com V oleting his studies at Yale He en- VI .ered the second training camp at b Plattsburg, from which he was grad l lated as provisional second lieuten- n mt, being one of 40 chosen for regu- t ar army artillery. Immediately upon tI arrival overseas in January 1918, a Lieutenant Sullivan, was sent to the u American artillery school at Sasfnur N where he attained a splendid record ! b ind gained the first assignment which ts vas the position of mechanical officer s1