Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-15


 by high wire fences. the same as our own, adjoined ours. At night when the French prisoners were walking up and down their enclosure enjoying their smokes. we would follow, like dogs. along behind them on our side of the fence, waiting for them to cast away cigarette butt. The quickest man on our side got tiff it fell within reach. And after a while it got to be a common practice among our men to steal out of the bunkhouse at 3.30 in the morning. or at the first sign of the fight of day. to search along the edge of the French enclos-, ure for the precious butts. Frequent | ly we'd get them by reaching through l the wire.
 q never thought at home that I'd become butt-hunter, but here I was | competing with all my energy for butt or two that would give me a puff or two. And if got four butts ahead, how carefully I would preserve | them, forcing myself to smoke as lit tle as possible. I think the strain we were under made us want to smoke | much more than would have been the | case under normal conditions. I heard | one of our men say one day: Just | think of us fellows getting up at the | break of day to hunt for a cigarette butt. Why along Broadway we could | find enough butts in ten minutes to last us a year! Some remsmbrance! We didn't stay at G;esser long on | that trip. We were sent out, late in November, on a special train, of pa.- senger cars for the Americans. and were sent to Metz. arriving there on | Thanksgiving night. Outside that city we went into a rest camp for a few days. and then aboard train for Nancy. As we approached the old fighting lines many things came back to our minds. Where were the boys of our outfits that had come across the o>ean with IFS? How many were liv- ing. how mary dead? We had much Co thnk of!
 Finally WE were told that our train vas running through No Mans Band The line hal been restored since the signing of tho armistic? and Ct~ train was the second to run across what had Leen strip of death. Let me tell you that trip acrt.ss No Mans Land was much more pleasant, easy and com. fortable than the last trip I made across il. al different tolnt on the l.nes and as a prisoner cf the Ger rlans
 "our trip ended in Paris, where we 'anained for nearly week and then hack to ioin up with old C Com pH.'y of the 102d. then hiieted near pognc Marie. Those O. the old boys ryho were left received n3a like one re- turred from the grave ard was in- tausely happy 10 see them. and, in tdrn. sorry to hear that 90 many of my friends had been killed or had died of wounds or otherwise gone west.
 "f was sticking around awaiting to 'l.C part in eScOrting President Will son on his visit to Chaunort when [ WFs taken jil with inf]u"t'2a and had to ro to thr hospital. I had suffer ed one attack of it while ir Germanv. and the Huns kindly cHvc me two days off They made m" return to " n,i- on the third day. though I was Uore ill than at first. The second attack foun6 me in the hands of the 7vCeis of Re1 Cross nurses and thov iiL everything for me thai one could do for another who is unable 10 help LmSelf
 "i recovered after wh!e and was ordered home. We came 2 ross with @H incident landing at Newport cws. Va.
 Here ao come with my good fath- or and mother and my brothers and
  When I arrived in from of the house lest Tuesday I pinchnd m~self to see if it were really true. i wo1tdn't want 'n 20 through again what I have eN- rc"icinced since April oh of last year, mt ! am r1ichtv proud that [ bad a chance to do my bit fir Uncle sam the greatest uncle that cyer was,'
 Mrs. Etta z. Some. e2. yy,is of Sid uey Stone Gied Frida" morning at| tiic.r hone ou Prospect street.. River Iy'ew. Mrs. Stone had hecn in poor health for nan- years She was a Tativo of tho town (; !Eillin"lv a da1ghter of Eden and Lucy Corcv Aldrich. of a family that lived fo" 'a3rs in tho SrarI;s distr. ,t and has hccn identif7cd with the affairs of ti'linglv for many years. Mrs. Stone " as for years a n'emb"r Of the Ton- | i 'jsOn Methodist church She leaves her brother two aieteYo Mrs W. T. Young and Mrs. Edith Fiske, and brother Leri Aldrich. all If Daniel son.
 Mrs Eliza Troyvbridqe, Si died Fri He, where she had lived for many years. She was native of Trow- fridge. England, and the widow of T:arher Lewi@. Mrs. Lewis died at lthr home oi Ter son. Lev! Lewis. Announcement That thc borough | drHt will be shown bv The torthcom- , ing annual report to have been reduc ICd by st.3!0 and tha; the borough | viii end tre fiscal year with a net saving of s5S04. is good news to tax Il ayers aud citizens generally, and q ciusc for COT graduating the borough Ic cTcisl fami.y, of which Warden r i F Cunnecn. is the head. The good | showing has rzen madc Iy exercising strict eSonorrv = applying good bus | iIeSs principles 70 aalniris,rring the borough's affairs.
 i Coroner Arthur C. Eli began Fri day morning his inquest into the ac- 1 cident3l killing, at Diyviilc Thurs ! day afternoon of Willard T.. Jordan. The witnesses before him during the morning SC ssion were tie men who were riding on the truck at the time it figured in the accident. These men were the owner, Charles Como: the driver, Albert Gordon. and William iTravernier, who was learning to drive the truck, but was not handling it at
 Il time of the accident. All are res idents of the town of Plainiield.
 During the afternoon Coroner Bill
 questioned men who were working with Mir. Jordan's forces q the time the accident occurred. ate in the afternoon Mr Bill said thaL he was net ready to give out fer publication any of the facts that were developed
 at the inquest. which has not been
 completed. He has sttl. to question lother members of the road force, in- cluding Nestor GodreaU. who was in ljGred when Mir. Jordan was killed, and
 who is now at the Day Eipball hos p.tal in Putnam. Mir. Cm;reau's in-
 iuries are of a serious and painful
 raturc, but his recovery seems cer-
 tain.