Norwich bulletin., 1919-01-09
JEWETT CITY

| Mrs. Marceline Lafesche, S. widow
CT Francis Lafiesche, died at the home
| of her daughter, Mrs. Mary A. Liberte
on Hill street. Wednesday afternoon.
She was born in Canada She is sur
vived by two sons. Emile and Napo
leon Laf1esche and a daughter, Mrs.
Liberte of Jewett City, and four step
children, Mrs. Herbert of Plainfield,
and John, Joseph and Peter Lafesche
Edgar P. Knox has received his hon
orable discharge and is at his home,
The officers elected to serve the Ca
lanthe club are Mrs. Ernest Blake.
vice president Mrs. William John
stone, and secretary and treasurer
Mrs. George Robinson.
William Duggan went to New York
Monday to visit his brother. Corpora
James Duggan, who arrived week
ago from overseas.
A letter received from Hector La
favre, by his father, John Lafavre, o.
Jewett City, reads:
Brandeville, France, Nov. "a
Dear Father and Mother: As still
alive and in the best of health anG
having great old time over her
these days. Have just left one OF tbs
few towns that we captured end Oh
the way to the Rhine, which 1 sup
troops moving toward Germany. Our
division, the 5th, is going, so I guess
it will be a few more months of rough
ing around here with packs on our
, backs l am still wishing ] had Ma
poleon with me yet to do little of the
marching around here. now that ev-
erything is quiet over here. He was
r wishing so bad TO get over here to nd
me in France. Always on the road we
e.t1 +I11, n
week lately. 1t was something like
when 1 was home start from the house
. and never know where / was going tC
land. Here we start from one town
and don't know where we are going
to land into the lines for Il little scraI
or two. I've been in the front line
: trenches four times and in two bis
,, drives which 1 guess you have read
about or heard about. If you have no
, some of the boys have. which were
| the Metz drive and the Argonne drive;
: and believe me, the Metz drive wa!
. a picnic beside the last drives at thu
: Argonne woods. l guess that we di(
> our share in that, too. We went il
: for a while and then came out for {
q while, and then went back and staif
in for three weeks. Talk about dig
ging. l dug more holes around her
J. in one week than l did when I wa;
:, working for Gilbert all summer! Blu
= they do sure protect a fellow. believe
: me. 1 had one small shell land RICH
| on the edge of one of the holes, an(
Il clean all the dirt from where / hat
thrown it. 1t was just before day
break. Instead of digging a hole I hat
to dig myself out. l thought l wa.
a gone goose! I had a few close call
= from the big guns. 5lnd from macbin
= guns ] had a thousand close ones Blu
Il a fellow doesn't mind m g. as nue.
as he does big one. When one 0
d the big boys comes over, it will max
d hole in the ground big enough t.
put a house in. A fellow will lool
G for a shell hole before digging a hol
e "a fox hole we call it,. We sure cal
Q dig when the shells come over. n
istopping like we did at home. If
r was to dig a hole at home like tn
q ones we used to here it would tax
an hour. Here it would take US fiv
Il minutes. I forgot to tel you we jus
h moved from Brandeville and are nov
, at Louppy. 1t is hell when a felloE
n starts a letter and don't have time t
get it done, and has to finish it in an
n other place, eh? And in the dar
v with no candles to write with, usin
y German heat to write by. You don
&C know what that is I never saw an
n | my oCli ulllil L IdllItU Ill IpIdIIuGN1ll
and l found a few cans Of it. 1 Wen
cut tonight and tried to steal me
couple of candles and when I stuc
my head into a window someone turn
ed on lights. Talk about gettin
: scared. No big guns scared me an
X worse. I don't know where the powt
/ comes from, but if I ever get bac
n, don't know what I'll do to see
y house full of the light I've nevt
l. seen any for quite a while. I will hay
to close because we have to MOI
III again. We have to pack up our house
le hold and put it on our back and be o
T. for a twenty mile hike.
- Regards to all the Jewett City pei
IL pie. Hoping to see them all some
. these days, Merry Christmas and
IA Happy New Year to them and all 4
family,
From your son,
HECTOR LAFAvRE.
DIS Co, 6, 61st Inf, A. E. F.
i'll Mrs. Salone Champagne, 43. di,
r suddenly at her home IN Mechan
ly street, Monday. She was born
1k Suncook, n H., the daughter of Ma
ne Pluf and Frederick Damux. She
survived by her husband, Oliver Char