The Press., 1919-02-13
Miss Jennie Mullins of Hartford

l Miss Jennie Mullins of Hartford jspent the weekend in town.
 | The Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the Methodist church will l meet with Mrs. F. F. Patten on Friday afternoon at o'clock
 Mass, the New England manager for the L. E. Myers Co. of Valparaiso Ind, was guest of F. A. Sweet one day this week.
 B The playlets, The Train to Mauro" and ''The Dolls Teaparty," and reel pIAsstions which were given by group of children last summer for the bene- fit of the Red Cross, were repeated at the sociable at the Congregational chapel last week. The sale of tickets was necessarily limited at the first sciated the willingness of the girls to prescnt it again.
 At the meeting of the Current Events club Monday evening" Miss Charlotte Beckwith gave most inter esting talk on Russian music. She gave brief outline of the general ovsky and Rachmaninoff, illust rating her talk by playing the Rachmaninotf prelude. In the unavoidable absence .of Mrs. Schoonmaker, who was to have addressed the club, Mrs. Kitch- -olt of Hartford spoke on Women and Reconstruction" She first gave a brief synopsis of the programs of the British labor party and the Methodist church in Canada. Her talks about Connecticut state politics, particular ly the Connecticut senates action last week in regard to the ratification of tie prohibition amendment, was most Illuminating. As the practical side she gave examples of beneficial read l ing in the Eel ruary magazines tend l ing to roaden a womans outlook and showing some definite ways that wom- en can help in the problems of recon structiOn working in cooperation l with men. Mrs. H. A. Pownall, Miss l .lantine were the hostesses. Stafford ; The following letters were received | by the father of Norman B. Phillips:
 Dommartin, France, Dec. s.
 I am writing this letter in our mess hall. We are feeding great now, buy ing the stuff with the co-funds we had 1 at Westfield. I can tell you little of | where we have been after landing at l H.svre We went to Sartes where we drilled uatil February. Then we started for the trenches at Sossons N<a had a good fight the first night, ! doing the Germans up good and l brown. We pulled out of there some time in March, just before the Huns l made the big drive in that part. East | CT Sunday we were rushed in trucks ! to the Foul front and fer three months | did some hard fighting, the whole 18th 1 division It was here our regiment l got it's flag decorated with the Croix l de guerre. No other regiment except l the famous Princess Pat has been so honored I was told. I was wounded at Royalnix Gam not sure of the spell l ing). After getting out of the hos l pital spent some time in replacement ! camp Then we drilled hard for three l weeks for going over the top. Then | we went to St. Mihiel and went over | the top there. I made that O. K. | From there we went and made new lines on the left of the French, who | were holding out until we relieved l them. We stayed there a long time. | Then we went to the north of Verdun, | and was there when the war was over. l That sure was a hell-hole. It was shells, shells, big and all kinds, Nov. l 9th we went over the top in the after noon, then the first thing in the morn | ing, Nov. 10th, we went over the top | again. At noon the top sergeant said | and three others were to have a | seven days furlough. I could hardly l believe my ears I didn't stop to ask | questions, but put on my pack and | rifle and reported to Regt. Headquar- CTS without any delay, before the | order was changed, as that was the l rst furloughs any boys in our divis- on had teen given. So you see l was lot in line the last few hours of the | lighting. No Dad, no war relics for | ne I did pick up three revolvers, | { ut gave them away as souvenirs. l :ould have filled the house from top to l ottom with war junk. It was some | hange sleeping in bed, from shell | lole water soaked It seemed funny | o see trolley cars and hear the little | els tingling.
 Dec. 19.
 There Is talk of us moving, but l | don't think we will be home this win l .er. How it rains here, day and night, | but drill goes on just the same, rain | or shine. Our general addressed us l and said President Wilson was to re- 1 4 tut I did not go and see him in the l 4vening. The good old 104th regiment and gave a minstrel show You must hear our band when we come home, we are proud af it.
 Dec. 26.
 I do not have to drill mornings as l make the billet reports of our com pany to the mayor of this town. We had fine time Christmas. We gave money to our chaplain to get presents for the people. You ought to have seen how pleased the old people and the kids were. I have just read the Boston speech of Gen. Edwards. He is a good man and a good general. To %r;o l,; ;r ha1 on hn