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The Thompsonville Press
The “Press” has a larger circulation in the territory between Hartford and Springfield than Any other newspapers – It Pays to advertise in it.
Established 1880 Thursday, Sept. 13, 1917 Single Copy 5 cents Vol. XXXVIII No. 20 Page 1
TIMELY SUGGESTIONS ON LOCAL PATRIOTISM
OUTLOOK NOT ENCOURAGING
In the Most Discouraging and Disheartening Year of Its History the Town of Enfield. Is Confronted With the Most Serious Financial Crisis in Its Experience.
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The comments in last week's Press on the town budget for the coming year offer abundant food for thought. It is to be hoped that a perusal of the articles will stimulate a train of thought in the mind of every tax payer in the town that will be fruitful in results. In the most discouraging and disheartening, year of its history the town of Enfield is confronted with the most serious financial crisis in its experience. Conditions were never worse from the view point of the tax payer. Never during its existence has our town stood in greater need of honest, disinterested, nonpartisan, earnest consideration from its intelligent and capable advisors.
Patriotism as generally applied and understood suggests love of country, loyalty to and firm belief in the great principles "of democracy upon which our nation is founded. In, this sense we are proud to be considered loyal, we proclaim our loyalty loudly on every and all occasions. But while we extol and honor this brand of patriotism let us not forget that there is an other, a more intimate, one that, in a way, touches us more nearly, a local patriotism, And I hold that the citizen who possesses local patriotism to the full, who places local welfare before party consideration, who singles out an supports the men of whom his honest judgment approves, who is willing to devote effort and thought to further the affairs of his home town, makes the very best of all patriots.
Few towns are affected more unfavorably by war conditions than Enfield. We are making absolutely nothing demanded by the nations at war. The product of our great carpet corporation, such a solid dependence in times of peace, is, in the final analysis, a luxury, and rising values have put it in the class of exclusive luxuries. The inflated wages of the numerous war industries with which we are surrounded have lured away many of our workers. Our rural population is struggling with the problems of high wages, increased cost of fertilizers, feed, seeds and implements. Our merchants are depressed by poor business conditions. Out of this gloomy picture, in the year of all years when we are least able to pay, we are confronted with the specter of a, seventeen mill tax.
It serves no good purpose to go into details of reason and causes; we are face to face with a condition of the, gravest import. It is a time for the best thought of the best minds. Every, tax payer, every citizen of our town should make' a careful study of that budget as interesting him individually and as it affects the future of our town. It is a time to show local patriotism, to enroll as a local patriot. It is very possible that all the items in that budget are not absolutely necessary. Individuals are denying themselves, are going without things, are postponing to a better time, possibly the town can do the same. How many of us are turning the old rugs around, are putting off the painting of the house, postponing repairs? How many of us are looking over the old suits and getting busy with cleaning preparations? How many families are holding solemn conclaves discussing ways and means?
Let us treat our town just as fairly as we are treating our own business and family. Let us exercise the same good judgment in town affairs as we try to use in our private business. As a town we must spend just as little money as possible during the coming year; as local patriots we must make up our minds to submit with patience and resignation to conditions made necessary by a retrenchment that is imperatively demanded.
DR. GEO. F. FINCH.
. NO HANDS, WORKS
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Maimed Soldier Goes Home and Learns to Do Things
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Designs and Manufactures Apparatus Which Enable Him Almost to Ignore His Mutilation.
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One French farm is being cultivated by a former soldier who lost both hands in the war. Jean Baptiste Ledrans is the man who has overcome this handicap. When war was declared Ledrans was a young handy mechanic, accustomed to repairing plows and reapers. At the call to arms he rejoined his battery as a cavalry sergeant. He distinguished himself by manning a bomb mortar and advancing with the infantry to the attack of a strong redoubt. This exploit earned him the rank of under-lieutenant.
After fighting safely through many battles, Ledrans was wounded near Arras and upon his recovery was transferred to the infantry, says a correspondent of the Chicago News. In his new position the young underofficer, because of his mechanical ability, was assigned to the grenade section; where he soon became proficient. Finally he became an instructor.
It was while instructing some young soldiers, about to leave for the front, that Ledrans received his terrible wounds. A new recruit produced an experimental grenade from his pocket and gave it to Ledrans. The instructor began his lesson, releasing the fuse lighter which, unfortunately, was connected with a loaded grenade, and not one as used in practice. The grenade exploded, killing six men and wounding several others. Ledrans was pounded in five places; a rib broken, right eye put out, one eardrum pierced and his two hands carried away.
This was in 1916. In spite of his injuries, Ledrans' fiancee remained faithful, and two months later received a letter written by her future husband. In January, 1917, they were married and Ledrans is now cultivating his father-in-law's farm.
Putting his ingenuity to practical use, the former soldier has been able to design and build apparatus which enable him-almost to ignore his mutilation. He can hitch up and drive a horse, driving by sitting on the loop of the lines and guiding with his arranged forearms. He can load and unload the wagon, care for
the horse and manage a team as well. The whip passes through a ring in the right arm equipment.
By means of a special harness Ledrans can work in the fields as well as anyone. A steel plate strapped on the body, and supplemented with leathers for the arms, support the interchangeable tools which are needed to perform various operations of farm work. On the left arm is carried a ring through which the handle of the rake or shovel slides like through the hand. The right arm is equipped with a socket and set screws in which the tools t can be placed and fixed. There is a complete assortment of farm tools and special hooks. The farm soldier takes off his "working arms, and his wife adjusts a pair of elastic gloves which accommodate the smaller articles of dally use. With these gloves Ledrans can write, shave, eat and dress himself. He drinks by taking the cup between the two elastic gloves. Combing his hair, brushing his teeth and adjusting his collar become simple operations to this injured man, who has solved, for himself, one of the great problems of the war.
Letters from our Soldier Boys
STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART
A Few of the Many Expressions of Appreciation From the Boys in Khaki Who Were Remembered by the Red Gross and Town Committee
The Press has a large number of letters from the "boys in khaki," all expressing heartfelt appreciation of the remembrance of them by their townsfolk through the comfort kits sent out by the local Red Cross. The letters speak for themselves. More will be published next week.
Letter From George Chalyin.
Great Lakes Naval Training Sta., Sept. 8, 1917.
Gentlemen: This is to let you know that I received the comfort kit you sent me sate and sound. I thank each and every member of the committee and all-those connected with it for the most useful and practical combination of necessities and even luxuries that the bag contained.
A certain mother wrote to me recently saying that we boys couldn't realize how much it meant to the folks at home to hear from us and urged that we drop a message, no matter how small, whenever it was possible.
That condition reversed applies equally as well. You folks at home cannot imagine how very much it means to us to know that you are all interested in our welfare and stand ready to do anything that you can to make it easier for us while we are away from the comforts and security of home and friends. Let me say that those who had to do with the selections of the articles contained in the kits showed fine judgment and it seems that they acted on experience.
I'm sure that every boy who is fortunate enough to get hold of one will be overflowing with thanks to you and will be more than ever pleased that he comes from Thompsonville-where they don't forget the boys. Thankfully and sincerely, C. Geo. Chalyin
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Only One to Receive Kit.
To the Editor of the Press:
I would like very much to thank the Thompsonville Red Cross society through The Press for their comfort-kit that I received today. It 'made me feel" very good when I opened my package and took that bag out with the cross on the side; it .certainly makes a; fellow feel proud of his little village and the good work that is being done to help the boys in the service. In reading “The Press"* that I received I noticed that our little village has now quite a number of boys with the colors and the great send-off that they are getting to speed them on. I take great interest also in reading The Press away down here where we never get much news from the north.
It is very warm here at present and the boys from the north drop here quite frequent, and we have to sleep with mosquito netting hung over our cots to prevent the malaria mosquito from getting at us during the night. I am the only boy in our camp to receive the Red Cross comfort kit so far, and they are from all over the states down here; that makes me feel proud of my little home town up in Connecticut. Hoping that the good work keeps up and with three cheers for the Red Cross society, I thank you in advance.
Pt. Harold V. Purdy• Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Alabama.
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More Than Pleased.
J. L. Freeman Sergeant-overseer, Quartermaster Corps, New York, son of the manager of The Press, writes as follows: "I wish you writes to the Press: "I wish you would thank the Thompsonville Red Cross people for the comfort kit, which came to me a few days ago. 'It is fine, and I knew that every boy "who receives one will be more than pleased. All of the Massachusetts boys who passed through the city last week had sweaters, knitted helmets, and wristlets given them by the Red Cross organizations of their home towns."
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Sept. 3, 1917
Editor Thompsonville Press:
Please give our sincere thanks to the Enfield Red Cross for the presents we received today. We are pleased with them and we thank your committee for the presents. The Thompsonville chapter opened the way and we hope all other cities will follow our city in that respect. We expect to leave for France as we are part of the 16th Infantry which is on the front.
Gregory Petrohilos,
Charles Altiparmakis,
Rokopios Vetsika,
John Kalogirog.

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“Happiest Moments In Camp." Sept. 11, 1917
Editor of The Press:
I wish to expend to you my thanks for your kindness in sending me a copy of your paper each week. I can say that some of my happiest moments in camp have been spent reading The Press, Wishing you success, I amLaurence Thomas Downey, H.J Seaman Training Sta.,Newport, R.I.

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Bridgeport Herald, Jun 15, 1919
The Whiz Bangs Are Home again
Photograph – Cutline – Convalescent Entertainers, “The Whiz Bangs”
After weeks spent in the mud and noise of the trenches, after the doughboy had once ore become a normal American, and after the wounded had lain for weeks suffering from the terrible wounds of battle, the problem of providing suitable amusement, something wholesome with which to divert their minds and sustain the morale so necessary to the army was one of the gravest which confronted the officers in command of America’s best.
The YMCA and Knights of Columbus provided cheerful rest huts, but the boys needed something in the line of amusement, something which would take the place of shows and vaudeville performances back home. Therefore when nine or ten of the convalescent men on their own initiative put on a performance for amusement of the wounded in Base hospital 46 the Bazeilles-on-the-Meuse, officials immediately took steps to keep the organization together.
Lawrence Hager, a resident of Bridgeport for some time before entering the service, was one of the boys in the company. He had been on the stage with musical comedies, among which were Harry Orr’s “There She Goes,” and the Lakeside Opera company at Denver, Colo.
REVIEWED BY ROYALTY
Photo of Lawrence Hager with cutline: Lawrence Hager. Mr. Hager entered service with the 82nd division Co. A 230th machine gun battalion on April 25, 1918 and sailed from New York to Liverpool. During his stay in London his division paraded before the King and Queen of England and finally was sent across the channel to France. Here they were placed with British troops in the Toul sector. The division was afterward brigaded with French troops in the Marbach and St. Mihiel sectors and were fighting almost continuously. Mr. Hager states that he was in the engagement in which Colonel Pike was killed and the division was also in engagements at Bailney Carpentry, Fleville Chehery, in the Viergette sectors, and in the Argonne forest from September 30 to October 31. On October 15, he received a wound in the forehead at St. Juvin during an advance, and the scar, which results will be a forceful reminder of the many days spent under fire of the German guns.
Making his way to the dressing station, the only one left of his squad, Private Hager received first aid and was later placed on a Red Cross train and arrived at Base hospital 46, where he remained the weeks.
It was during his convalescence here that he met Val Marconi, well known among theater goers of the United States. Marconi has thrilled audiences of this country from coast to coast with his superior playing on the accordion and at the time of entering the army was engaged in playing at the Hippodrome in New York. He had been also one of the best drawing cards at the La Salle theater in Chicago for a long time.
Connected with an ambulance corps, he spent his spare time in playing for the sick and wounded in base hospitals and one day came to the ward in which Private Hager was recovering from his wound. The reunion was a pleasant one for both who had known each other in the professional world of the states and in the exchange of confidences, it was learned that several more well-known entertainers were located in the same town. It was then decided to give a vaudeville show for the entertainment of the sick in Base Hospital 46. Preparations were started at once and permission was obtained from the military authorities.
Among the professionals rounded up to supply the talent were many whose names are familiar to Bridgeporters.
Val Marconi needs no introduction as his execution on the accordion has afforded many Bridgeport theater patrons hours of pleasure.
Sunshine George Hall, who appeared with Mrs. Vernon Castle in the screen film “Patria” and who was connected with the Mack Sennett screen offerings before entering the service is also familiar to many local people was secured. His monologue, “Back from the Front” was one of the numbers which never failed to please the doughboys.
Victor Orr, whose wonderful voice is better known in the west, was a member of the Oregon Opera Company, was another whose services were enlisted.
Charles Bauer, another familiar vaudeville entertainer, has also appeared in Bridgeport with a vaudeville team known as Bauer and Saunders. He was a member of the singers trio known as “That Trio,” and joined the troop.
Jack Weyman, whose antics in Gus Edwards presentation “School Days” has given local people many laughs was also rounded up for the entertainment.
Johnny Byam, a clever dancer, who appeared in Chicago and the middle west with a “jazz” specialty act, offered to appear with the boys and was a decided addition to the organization.
The name of Charles Spidell, another member, is one which needs no introduction. His connection with Remick’s music publishing house of New York and his many compositions have been sung in thousands of Bridgeport homes. It was largely due to his efforts that a fine program was arranged, and several of the songs rendered were of his composition.
Jack Belco, formerly with the “September Morn” company was also asked to join.
Charles Bowman, a blackface comedian, completed the organization. Mr. Bowman has appeared in theaters all over the world and was at one time booked in an English music hall with our own Charlie Chaplin.
The Whiz Bangs
The organization was called the Whiz Bangs and was the original company, and while many whiz bangs companies have since come to life among the entertainers of the A.E.F., these were the real original company.
When the first entertainment had been rehearsed, not only were the convalescent soldiers allowed to attend, but officers and nurses and all hospital attaches witnessed the performance. To say that the voluntary entertainers scored a hit, it putting it very mildly. The pleasure of both the convalescent and the home sick Americans as well of those of other nations at witnessing a real American show was so great, that steps were immediately taken to hold the organization of “Whiz Bangs” together. Permission was finally given the boys to tour the country. They were placed under the direction of the YMCA, who arranged the bookings, and they were relieved from all military duties although still in the service. When some of them were offered a chance to return to the states, they refused, as they fully appreciated the great pleasure the soldiers took in witnessing a live American show so far from home.
Entertainments were given in hospitals, theaters, rest camps, embarkation camps, in fact anywhere that a tired or homesick soldier was on leave or able to witness a performance. Many boys, tired and jaded after many weary weeks of fighting, whose interest in everything had made him almost a wreck of his former self, was aroused to an active interest in things of the world and forgot for a time the horrors which can never entirely be obliterated from memory.
AT MONTE CARLO
One of the most interesting places visited by the Whiz Bangs was Mote Carlo. They staged their show at the world-renowned Casino, and one of the spectators was the Prince of Monaco. Other members of royalty who witnessed their performance were the Queen and Princess of Romania and the Infanta of Spain.
They also played three dates in Paris, the last one in the famous Champ Elysees theater on April 17, 18 and 19 of this year.
In one of the rest camps, the audience for the three nights in succession was composed of 7000 soldiers on leave. Everything pleased them and their appreciation of the efforts of the Whiz Bangs was noted by the many encores to which thery were called to respond.
The program consisted of general vaudeville entertainment with the usual songs, dancing and general “jazz” added to give zest. Both sentimental and patriotic songs were rendered and most of them were the compositions of Mr. Speidel. One of the numbers sung by Mr. Hager was his own.
Some of the cities at which they appeared were: Aix-les-Bains, a famous health resort; Chamonix, at the foot of Mt. Blanc; Grenoble, which is noted for being the place at which the painting “September Morn” was … …..

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Bridgeport Times and Evening Farmer
(From Masthead): The weather report: For Bridgeport and vicinity: Cloudy tonight and Tuesday, probably rain; cooler Tuesday.
Vol 54, No. 219, Est 1790 entered as second class matter at the post office at Bridgeport, Conn under the act of 1879.
Subscription rates by mail; daily $6 per year. One month daily .50 cents. 179 Fairfield Ave. Bridgeport
Price TWO CENTS
September 16, 1918

--To erect one hundred temporary houses here, housing situation so acute government adopts expedient to relieve situation – will accommodate 1,000 people

Housing Situations So Acute Government Adopts Expedient to Relieve Situation- Will Accommodate 1,000 People

Bridgeport will have 100 temporary houses in the vicinity of the Remington plant, for the accommodation of about 1,000 people who will come to the city on account of the demand for munition workers.

It was stated on good authority this morning to a representative of The Times that the government plans to erect these houses at Central and Boston avenues, on property owned by the Bridgeport Hospital location, and owners of the Lewis property. The land will be leased at a figure decided by the government, for the period of the war, and the houses will follow the type erected in other cities similar to plans followed in New Haven and other places where the necessity has arisen for such homes. They will follow the lines of the portable homes which have become so popular at beaches and summer resorts.
The houses will be erected under the direction of the United States Housing Corporation and will follow their set plans.
The Bridgeport Hospital committee has appointed Walter B. Lashar as its representative to carry on the necessary negotiations incidental to the lease of the property to the government and negotiations have already been begun with owners of the Lewis property relative to the use of that land.

Wood structures with wood posts and no permanent foundations which can easily be disposed of after they are no longer of use, but all possible comforts will be provided for the tenants. The sites are particularly adapted to the purpose as the sewers and streets are already in use an the expense will thereby be much less.

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ROCKVILLE FAMILY HOLDS FULL HAND
SEPTEMBER 15, 1918 Page 4
What the MAIL BRINGS FROM OUR BOYS IN THE SERVICE
TENT AND DECK NEWS OF INTEREST TO THE FOLKS AT HOME
FIVE SOLDIER BOYS AND ONE FAMILY
SONS OF MR. AND MRS. JW NORTH OF ROCKVILLE IN SERVICE-ONE HONORABLY DISCHARGED

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph North of Rockville have four sons in the service of Uncle Sam and the fifth son has been honorably discharged because of injuries received while in the service. Mr. and Mrs. North were born in Claytonville New York but have been living in Rockville a number of years. There are five sons and two daughters in the family and the four oldest sons are in the service, with three of them with the American expeditionary forces in France and one training in this country.
Henry T North, 31 years old, is now connected with Company C, 321 field signal Battalion, located at Camp Alford Vail, Little silver New Jersey. He was quartermaster sergeant in old Company C when that Company was located in Rockville. He went to the Mexican border with the first Connecticut signal Corps. He was called out a year last March, when the troops were mobilized, but was discharged on account of dependents. On August 1, 1918 he voluntarily enlisted in the signal corps and was sent to camp Alford Vail New Jersey. He was transferred to Camp Meade Maryland and has been transferred back to camp Alford Vail.
William J North the second brother, 28 years, joined the merchant Marine service last June in Boston. He was sent to Camp Upton and was transferred to Camp Meade, Maryland. He is connected with the 315th infantry machine gun Company, and at present time he is with the American expeditionary force in France.
Francis R North, the third brother is 25 years old. He volunteered for special service in July and was sent to Franklin Union Institute in Boston. After six weeks training as an automobile mechanic, he was sent to France with the American expeditionary force. He is connected with Company C, 315th automobile truck Battalion.
Patrick W North, 21 years, is the fourth brother in the service. He is connected with Company A, 326th field signal Battalion of the American expeditionary force.
He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1912 and has seen service at Veracruz. He was honorably discharged the service in 1915. He enlisted for service with the American troops at the Mexican border in 1916. On July 15, 1917 he was called to the colors and his Company was sent to Niantic and after a stay of a few months, the Company left for Spartanburg South Carolina and went to France from that camp.
A fifth brother, Charles S North, 22 years, has received an honorable discharge from service because of injuries he received at the Mexican border. He enlisted April 15, 1916 at the state Armory and was sent to Niantic with Company A first infantry on July 18 for training. His Company left for the Mexican border on June 28 and was stationed at Nogales Arizona. While working about the camp, in a thunder shower, he was struck by lightning on July 27. He was sent home on three months Furlow, after which he was ordered to the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington for an examination and was honorably discharged. He again entered the service, when war, was declared, on March 15, 1917, and was sent to Waterbury and from there to Danbury. He was discharged at Danbury on April 15.

FORMER COURANT MAN TELLS OF THRILLING JULY DAYS SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE
CHARLES A PLUMMER OF SOUTHINGTON DESCRIBE SCENES OF EVENTFUL PERIOD WHEN ALLIES WERE DRIVING GERMANS TOWARD KAISER LAND-SECOND DIVISION DID ITS BIT
The following letter has been received by Dr. and Mrs. Paul Plummer of South Main St., Southington, from their son, Charles a Plummer, who is in the quartermaster’s corps in France. Mr. Plummer was a former member of the city staff of the Courant, which place he left last summer to enlist-
Somewhere in France August 6, 1918
Dear mother, father and all
It seems like ages since I received my last mail; that was two weeks ago, and then it was more than a month old. As you all probably know the second division has been doing some work, and has been for the last three months. The first and second divisions are Uncle Sam’s shock troops-and they sure did shock Heine on July 18 but-I don’t believe we’ll do much more shocking for some time. So few of the old bunch are left that we are going back for more training of the kind we had last winter and spring.
Eventful July days
I’ll never forget those five days of July, so long as I live, as hell was never like those days and I never want their sequel. “Blood and brains”, to express it as the old Collinsville Fire Chief did, does not describe the really terrible scenes. Dead men were more numerous up around long point and Soissons than flies on a dead horse. Not only men, but horses, too-the roads were lined with dead, dying and wounded. It seemed impossible to evacuate the wounded and bury the dead. They used all the German prisoners and the noncombatants during those days to bury the German and Allied dead. The thousands of prisoners were made to work, carrying the wounded and to do stevadora work at advance rations and munition dumps. The night before the attack, which began by the opening of that terrific barrage, we had arrived from Château-Thierry and Montreux –Lion sector, we also made a name for ourselves.
We proceeded with 58,000 rations-a ration is three meals for one man for one day-right up to the third line, which is pretty well advanced. We were at the top of a steep hill, right in front of the artillery, which had been taking risky steps by advancing during the previous two or three days. We parked our 75 3 ton Packard’s at the top of this young mountain in the middle of the famous Bois De Villers Cotterets (The Villers Cotterets woods). Traffic was blocked, it was growing dark. It started to pour, but it was necessary to get munitions etc., further up the line. There was a terrible feeling of anxiety for what we guessed was going to happen-would not take place. We could not get off the highway as the trucks would sink hub deep in the soft mud. Consequently, the French, Moroccans, and the American artillery men drove through the mire.
The munitions got there and so did the allies but I tell you it was some work. The draft animals seem to know that they must put forth their utmost effort and strength and they did. The mules pulled like wind lasses and every man put his shoulder to the wheel and helped. The traffic continues throughout the night. Not a man could see another straight, it was so dark, and when the lightning flared or, occasionally, flashes from guns lit up the scene, they were weird faces one saw; marked by lines of determination and belief that they were god’s free men, sent to accomplish his will. While all this was going on, the veteran French Zouaves and Moroccans and Americans marched by, if one could call it marching. Rather they stumbled and waded through the mucky ditches at the roadside. It seemed as though several thousand passed every hour, but the parade never ceased that night. About 2 o’clock in the morning I was awakened from my sleep and watch the bread trucks by the fire of the art heavy artillery which we had passed the previous afternoon while going out of Velliers Cotteret.
On the run
The thunder had also done its bit to waken me. The rain was pouring down in torrents. I sure did feel sorry for those doughboys, who did not seem to mind it a bit. The column halted for a minute or two, when the order came down the line “ throw away all packs, and unnecessary equipment, and double-time ahead,” and it was not a minute after that command was given that the column was on the run; most of the soldiers in shirtsleeves, with their rifles unslung ready for action. All had extra bandoliers of the ammunition which seemed their only baggage. The gas masks, of course, were at alert position.
France’s land again
It is not necessary for me to tell you what happened. It did not happen right at that time, but it has happened since we moved up here. ”Soissons is recaptured, Château Thierry is once more France’s land and the Germans have been sorely defeated. Their center push formation has been thrown back-and Paris is safe
Did their bit
We did not do a whole lot, but we did our bit and the boys of the second division know it and are proud of it. I am enclosing a copy of the orders for your information which refers to our fight at Château Thierry where the Marines did their work in the Bois-de-Belieau, and the tenth infantry took Vaux. Our casualties including wounded, were large.
Well, I think that I will close for tonight, and I hope that this finds you all in good spirits.
Your son and brother, Ted.

THE HARTFORD COURANT PART FOUR
SPORTS THEATER AUTOMOBILES Section, Page 1
HP HS SPORTS LOOK PROMISING
FOOTBALL ALREADY UNDERWAY-OTHER ATHLETICS IN PREPARATION
REVIEW OF OUTLOOK FOR COMING YEAR
VETERANS AND PROMISING CANDIDATES IN EVERY FIELD
The opening of the Hartford high school last Monday also meant the opening of the athletic season for 1918 1919. The football squad has been practicing last week and looks promising and in the basketball squad will be found a number of veterans, the only two who will be missing will be Capt. Nordland and Babe Goetz. Prospects also loom up rosy baseball, hockey, tennis and track. When the call is sounded for candidates for the various teams, many veterans and experienced players will respond and will be prepared to hold down the positions they have held for the past few years.
Enthusiasm high
The enthusiasm shown by the majority of the pupils at the school and all sporting events makes one believe that this branch of school life is becoming more popular every year. The teams are handled in best of ways and are under the care of the pick of the school who are chosen by the faculty nominated by 25 members of the athletic Association and is finally elected by the whole school. The captains are chosen as before by the members with whom they play. Below is a review of the captains, managers and players who will take care of the sports of the HPHS for the following year.
Football
The football squad has been busy practicing during the past week and although the season is young, some fine material has shown up. Sam Suisman was elected at the close of last season the captain the team. He began his football career in the grammar school from which he entered high school and under able coaching made the freshman team. The following year Suisman without for the school team and the early part of his sophomore year was devoted to practice. Since that time Suisman has been holding down a regular berth with the team. After showing his wonderful ability in all last year’s games, Suisman, who was often acting captain, was finally elected captain.
Rube Cohen was elected to all the post of manager. Cohen is also a player of the game and all around man. He is arranging a schedule and to date has arranged but one game with New Britain, to be played in Hartford on November 9.
Basketball
Read Layland, the lad who has been with the team for a number of years and is one of the five veterans, will hold down the position of captain for the following year. With a fine, combination of veterans like Sam Suisman, Rube Cohen, Barrows and Clarkin it is expected that this team will be a winner.
The manager this year falls to Eddie Suisman. Eddie was last year’s assistant and practically held down the manager’s position, for Coogan, last year’s manager; was sick at the end of the year and was unable to take care of the team.
Baseball
The captaincy of baseball this year went to Rubin Cohen, another all-around man. He has been with the team now for two years.
William Coughlan, commonly known as Bill, will take care of the financial side of the game this year.
Track
Thurston Rowley will pilot the track team for the coming year. Captain Rowley is very fortunate in having under his care of raft of good material composed of veterans who have had one and two and even three years with the track team. The team has lost very few men in the graduating class. Among the quarter-mile men the team Vennet, McKniff and Rahausky. The dash and jump men are Hartzmark, Liley, Burke and Addiego.
Bill Burke will take care of the financial and schedule side of the game. Burke was last year’s assistant and is himself a track man.
Golf
Golf team has a fine outlook for the coming season numbering among its men Harold Deschamps, who won the committee cup at Goodwin Park last month also Percy Griffith, who does the course in 79. He will also be manager for the coming year. Two other men on the team are Gorman of two years’ experience, and Hartzmark. As yet no captain has been chosen for the coming season, but with trials coming up it will probably soon be known who will be Capt.
Tennis
Sam Snyder, who won the city amateur tennis championship, will captain the high school team. Richard Lienhard, one of the veterans and a football man, will be Snyder’s partner. To accompany them they will have Robert Hoskins and Babe Hartzmark. Hoskins was also elected to be manager of the team.
Athletic Association
Besides the many offices he already holds Sam Suisman is president of the athletic Association. The following are the remaining officers: vice president William Gillette; secretary Red Layland; treasurer Samuel A Albert of the faculty.

High school lads in football mill
The Hartford high school football squad for the third time this week appeared on the field at Elizabeth Park for practice. With the passing of each day’s practice the squad is beginning to thin out, and the better material is being left for coach Gardiner, who made his initial appearance yesterday. Although coach Gardiner did not put in his appearance yesterday, Mr. Fox was on hand and put the team through its preliminary practice.
The best choice for the quarterback position, as seen from yesterday’s practice, is Capt. Suisman, who has now held down that position for two years. For center there are still two opponents in Borg and Dunn, the latter a brother of captain Joe Dunn, last year’s captain of the team. The former has already played with the team, having been present at a few games at the beginning of last year’s football season, and of the latter, although a newcomer, is showing pep And vim.
For the line of the other men who are out for position on the team are Cain, Borg, Dodge, Newton, Clarkin, Coughlin, and Manning. For positions on the backfield, there are Capt. Suisman, Barrows, Eddie Suisman, Mag Write, Newton, Cohen and Leyland.

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BIRDMAN PUNCTURE SKIES IN FLIGHTS
YOUNG OFFICERS THRILL FASCINATED ONLOOKERS WITH THEIR MASTERY
FLY IN ECHELON AND DEFY GRAVITY LAWS
SHOW WHAT THEY CAN DO ABOUT St. Mihiel -OR RHINE.
Before an enthusiastic crowd of nearly 35,000 people at Goodwin Park yesterday afternoon three young aviators of the 48th squadron, United States Army signal Corps, demonstrated their ability to perform in the air many stunts that some acrobats would not of attempted on land and incidentally lent great assistance in the war savings stamp drive that was brought to a climax in Hartford yesterday. It was Hartford’s first great ovation to any group of aviators and during the full hour that the officers were in the air the mammoth crowd stared aghast in admiration at what was formerly black art, even to the pioneer aviators themselves. Golf was indeed a minor affair and the links from the first to the night holes were roped off the more than 200 automobiles parked against the ring with their occupants standing on the running boards and the rest of the crowd with necks craned far back in order to carefully watch every movement of the air men. It was a night once common at Hendon field, England, at Toronto, or at the Texas aviation field.
The preliminary excitement started when the three planes driven by Second Lieut. JW Frost, SW Torney and G D’Orsay, who left their station at Mineola yesterday morning at about 830 o’clock, arrived in Hartford shortly before noon and were seen circling over the city. Traffic stopped in the streets; trolley cars and jitney’s passed and people stared upward at the cries “there they are, aren’t they wonderful?” One of the machines was headed for the Travelers Tower and the owners seriously thought that the work of months would be knocked away at a single blow when the skillful air man swerved his plane and spiraled upward within a few rods of the building. The crowd gasped in delight.
The trip from New Haven to Hartford was made in 25 minutes. The three lieutenants had quite a thrilling time at the Yale bowl. Flying above it and volplaning and eventually landing in the bowl itself.
At Goodwin Park, the Courant reporter was fortunate in interviewing the officers. All three were splendid types of young college men, trained perfectly for their task and as fearless in the air as when casually sitting beside their machine smoking cigarettes.
“On the way up to Hartford, “ said Lieut. Frost-who by the way was the cleverest air men of the three-” we successfully bombed South Norwalk, Westport and Bridgeport, not with hand grenades of the poisonous kind of that the Boche use, but with war savings literature which we hope will do some good. We had to land for a moment in Milford because the valves on Lieut. D’Orsay’s plane went bad, although the screw remained intact. Having repaired that, we went on through New Haven, stopping at the Yale bowl and making Hartford about 2:25.
Lieutenant Frost was the one who made the sensational loop the loop around the Travelers Tower and later did a nosedive inside charter Oak Park. He and Lieut. D’Orsey landed a Goodwin Park at 1 o’clock and then were taken to the University club for dinner. Meanwhile Lieut. Torney had landed in Colts meadow, a spot which he designed as one of the finest landing spots he had ever seen.
Later in the afternoon the crowd kept coming to Goodwin Park in special cars and by automobile. The monotony of waiting was broken by the music furnished by Hatch’s band and the natural curiosity which everybody had in looking at the great artificial birds marked with the red, white and blue bull’s-eye. Each plane bore the name of the pilot take it on the underside and the soubriquets Jack’s, Jim and Stu printed on one end-these being the nicknames of the aviators. It was after 3 o’clock and the fourth plane which was supposed to complete the flotilla had not yet appeared. It was later learned that Lieut. MG Cleary, who is ordinarily in command of the three planes driven by the other three officers, was sick when the trio left Mineola yesterday morning and consequently had given up the trip. In addition to the three officers there was a master signal electrician for each ship, these being Sgt. Still, Bernstein and Higgins, who also are from the 48th squadron, United States signal Corps.
At about 3:30 the aviators appeared and began donning their leather coats and buttoning up the fur- lined caps with the goggles held around them. Each man looked appraising lead up at the sky as if in judgment of the clouds that were quite thick at the time, but not hanging very low. One of the officers said that they would probably not exceed 1500 or 2000 feet in altitude as they were under orders not to do so. They were even obliged to refuse the request of Mayor Kinsella and the representatives of the Hartford newspapers to go up with them in short flights.
At the suggestion from one of the officers that they “ get in the air “ the other two agreed and, after cries of “contact” and “reverse” from pilot to electrician and the test of the great screws, Lieut. Torney got underway and sped rapidly down the fair green toward the clubhouse. He seemed to have a bit of difficulty in getting up enough speed at first and had to go a little further than he expected. Then he turned the wheels of his machine being still on the ground and, amid a burst of applause from the crowd, began to soar, rising to a height of about 1000 feet. He was followed in close succession by the other officers in turn, each going through the same formula in getting underway. The crowd settled back to watch while the giant engines were noisily whirring overhead and that the pilots were testing the altitude. They were like three black mammoth birds as they soared higher and higher and as if to put reality against artificiality, two swallows were seen to fly in and out amongst the planes. Thus one had the experience of seeing imitators and imitated close to each other.
Suddenly at the arm signal given by the acting commander the three planes formed “Company front” and dressed in a perfect line, called back over the links. Next came “squads tight” in perfect precision and then the three planes separated and formed a triangle in the air. The well-known loop the loop, which aviators say is the easiest of all air stunts, came next and then as if not satisfied with the common plane trick, the commanding pilot signaled for a “tailspin”. Immediately the three planes spread apart and revolved over and over upward, the chief movement seeming to come from the tail of the machine. Lt. Frost did with ease many of the tricks in the clever aviators’ bag, including the “reversement”, flying on his side with engine reversed, the “vertical reverse” and the “whip stall”. The sensation of the afternoon came when Frost side slooped down towards the crowd and seemed about to smash into the spectators. His machine was going sideways, circling a bit and continually coming near the ground, but with a deft upward plunge he soared away again and the crowd breathed easier. The echelon, much used in aviation drills, was another very pretty spectical, the three machines flying so close together side-by-side that the wing of one seemed almost to overlap the wing of the next.
“My, but this is a beautiful chance to give the beggars hell!”-Claimed Capt. Cable, late of the Royal Flyers corps as he watched the aviators, and so it seemed, for one could readily imagine the tricks which were used for the amusement of the crowd being utilized over the German trenches with machine-guns spitting fire from the sky in answer to the anti-aircraft guns. Capt. Cable has had his chance at “ giving them hell “ for he was shot down in France last Thanksgiving and very nearly lost his life when he and his plane smashed into the ground. The Tommyies rushed out and brought him back to the rear of the lines half dead.
After a full hour in the air, the three planes landed again and the crowd was universal in its opinion that it was the greatest show of the sort that Hartford had seen for years. The three officers then made a brief trip over Wethersfield, New Britain, Bristol and Waterbury and returned to Hartford last night in time to be the guests of the special box party at Parsons theater arranged through the war savings committee of Hartford. About 300 women under Father MP Barry were busy at Goodwin Park throughout the afternoon selling war saving stamps, and slips of paper upon which were written “we are doing our bit to fly to victory! Are you doing yours? Buy war savings stamps!“ were dropped into the crowd by the airmen.
Two companies of the Connecticut State guard under major Frank E Shea with Company C commanded by Capt. PJ Cosgrove in the third separate Company, commanded by Capt. GP Hurd were of great assistance to the police force under Capt. John F Butler in managing the enormous crowd. Much credit is also due to superintendent of parks George A Parker and S Wales Dixon of the arrangements at Goodwin Park for the occasion.

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6,000 Make Pilgrimage to Lebanon
Side by side on the speakers’ platform on Barracks Field at Lebanon, Governor Marcus H. Holcomb, Connecticut’s third War governor, and Reverend G.B. Cabanel, chaplain in chief in the famous French Blue Devils, were that chief figures in the speaking programme at the patriotic pilgrimage to Lebanon on Sunday, arranged for by the state council of defense in connection with the celebration of Lafayette day. For each of these 2 speakers, it was his first visit to this historic shrine of Connecticut, and for each there was an enthusiastic greeting from the 6,000 to 7,000 pilgrims who were there from all parts of the state to participate in the exercises of the day.
Parked solidly all around Lebanon green, both North and South of the Congregational Church, were from 1100 to 1200 automobiles, it was estimated, everyone bearing the “Bound to Lebanon” sticker that gave them the license to travel on this second of the “save gasoline” Sundays.
Governor Holcomb told his audience that it was Connecticut boys were first to land in France and it was Connecticut boys were proving to the consternation of the Huns that they can and will fight, making the Germans say that these Wild cats don’t fight according to any rules. America is preparing as only America can prepare and will have an army of 4,000,000 overseas next year ready to fight until they cross the finish line in Berlin. We have got to crush the German army before we can reach the German people, and if it is necessary to kill the whole German army, then let us kill them. I wish, said the governor, I had nothing to do for the rest of the war but kill Germans. Anyhow, I’m going to do the best I can as long as I last, he continued when he could make himself heard about the applause that greeted his vigorous words.
Earlier in his address he sketched briefly what Connecticut had done in man-power in the revolution and the war of the rebellion, furnishing 13 per cent, or about 27,000 of the men in Washington’s army and again 13 per cent of the men in the armies of the Union. This means 54,600 men which was 6000 more than the state’s quota. Now Connecticut is credited by the government with a population of 1,719,000, which is 350,000 more people then there are in the state, but she is still responding nobly to the call and so far about 3 per cent of the population has been sent into the army.
Connecticut had been foremost in all measures for prosecuting the war, he said, taking the first and most complete military census, instituting the Home Guard from which 5,000 men had already gone into the army, and responding to every call, men as well as women.
The governor’s address came in the afternoon programme which opened at 1:45 after the interval at 1 o’clock for basket lunches. It was preceded by a spirited song service led by about 300 members of Liberty choruses who were present. J.S. Stevens of Hartford, musical director on the state council of defense, conducted the singing in a way that brought every voice into participation. Tubb’s band of this city, John M. Swahn, director, furnished the music, and the governor was introduced by Reverend Hollis A. Campbell, Pastor of the Lebanon Congregational Church, who also delivered the invocation. C.C. King, Lebanon Liberty chorus leader, assisted Mr. Stevens.
Immediately after the governor’s address, the American and the French flags were raised while the respective national anthems were sung.
Reverend W.A. Keefe of Plainfield made an eloquent introduction of Chaplin Cabanel, declaring that America was in the war to man the best flag in the world to the flagstaffs of old Berlin and that we were consecrating ourselves to follow as the war governor and President Wilson lead the way, and were ready to pay back with our last drop of treasure and of blood the debt we owe to Rochambeau and Lafayette.
Father Cabanel, who is the first priest to be decorated with the medal of the Legion of Honor, wore that medal with its red ribbon on his breast and alongside it the metal with palms.
As he rose to speak it was raining slightly and some at the rear of the crowd shouted “Down with the umbrellas!” The momentary interruption took the chaplain unawares and his unfamiliarity with the language made him look questioningly around, but at a reassuring word in French from someone on the platform he turned again to the crowd with a winning smile and a little gesture of his hand to speak.
He referred to the beautiful symbolism of the 2 sister flags in similar colors rising side by side, an act of faith and an act of friendship, to go on together to victory forever.
I have seen your soldiers he said, and I love them as I love my Blue Devils, the terrors of the German soldiers. The Germans are afraid of them and they are right to be afraid. The Germans have lied, they are lying and in the future they will lie, he continued with an expressive downward motion of his finger, which caught the crowd. They said France was crushed, but France is showing how she is crushed.
He told the story of the death of the last descendant of the Rochambeaus in his arms with the words “France Forever,” and he said this was the message he brought here. America and France Together in Victory Forever.
Charles D. Lockwood of Stamford and Mayor George Quigley of New Britain were the concluding speakers and the day ended with a 10 minute devotional service in the church.
In the morning program mare EE Rogers of New London had spoken at 11 o’clock at the Trumbull tomb, linking New London’s war activities with Lebanon in his inspiring remarks. At 11:45 Aubrey L Maddock of Hartford, secretary of the department of publicity, spoke at the war office along historical lines.
Mr. Maddock spoke in part as follows:
We have again turned to the shrine of our fathers in an hour of trial and need. Ever as the 13 English colonies in America turned, at the outbreak of the revolution, to Connecticut and to Lebanon for direction and aid, so we of today have come to this ancient town, have gathered beside this historic war office, in order that we may return to our tasks filled with a greater determination to contribute our maximum to the success of American arms. Here, at this old war office, or revolutionary governor, Jonathan Trumbull, and is council of safety, held their meetings and contributed their mighty share to the cause of American independence. Within the walls of this little war office, more than 1109 sessions of the council of safety were held, and it is recorded that governor Trumbull never missed a session.
Soon after the Lexington alarm, the Connecticut General Assembly, realizing that it must delegate its powers to provide for the sudden and imperative daily needs which would arise when it was not in session, passed an act at the May session in 1775 creating the council of safety, and this act, with subsequent additional legislation, continued the council of safety In this acct, with subsequent additional legislation, continue the council of safety in office throughout the entire war with Matthew Griswold, Eliphant Dryer, Jabez Huntington and Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Nathaniel Wales Jr. Jedidiah Edlerkin, Joshua West and Benjamin Huntington as its members.
It is evident that the General Assembly in creating this committee intended that it should meet at Lebanon, the home of Governor Trumbull, because 3 of its members were residents of this ancient town, and all of the other members, excepting deputy governor Griswold, lived in Norwich and Windham, then adjoining Lebanon.
The record of the state of Connecticut is written in letters of pure gold upon the pages of revolutionary history. Whatever was wanted, whenever help was asked, Connecticut responded “Ready,” and supplied the need. If this state, today, is to continue its leadership, among all the states of the union; if Connecticut is to meet its obligations to the fullest extent, then all Connecticut must rally to the support of the nation, the chief executive of the state, and the state council of defence, just as the colony of Connecticut rallied as a unit behind the cause of the American colonies, the Revolutionary war governor, and the council of safety in the long and weary months from Lexington to Yorktown. In those heroic days, every man and every woman, every farm and every forge, contributed its shared to American victory. So today, every person and every resource must be placed unreservedly behind our armed forces to help send the armies of the grand alliance across the Rhine and on to Berlin itself.
It is fitting, indeed, that we should honor this ancient structure today so my: for its threshold in years gone by was crossed and recrossed countless times by Washington and Sullivan and Knox, by Parsons and Spencer, by Benjamin Franklin and our Israel Putnam, by Lafayette and Rochambeau and the Duke du Lauzen and doubtless by other notable officers of the French army which was cantoned or camped here on Marches during 1780 and 1781.
When America broke diplomatic relations with Germany on February 3rd 1917, and seen Count Von Bernstoff and his crew on a much belated journey back to Germany, the first telegram of its kind received at Washington from the chief executive of a state was from the governor of Connecticut, who wired : “You can depend upon the loyal support of Connecticut.” This state was a unit behind the struggle for American independence. Today this state is a unit behind the struggle for world freedom. There have been individual cases of disloyalty and of enemy activities; doubtless there still are traitors within the state would sell out to the highest bidder, or who would give themselves to the enemy without a bit; yet their number is limited and is diminishing all the time. The loyalty of Connecticut as a state has never been question from the earliest fights for freedom to the present day, and,please God, it never shall be questioned as long as time goes on.
As soon as America enter the present war and the need of munitions and supplies begin to exist, Connecticut responded with her mills and factories speeded up to the limit. History was but repeating itself, for the same prompt response came from Connecticut in the hour of need at the opening of the revolution.
Our time does not permit a further discussion of the importance of this old war office to the winning of the revolution. Every task that had to be done by Connecticut was done properly and cheerfully, and the majority of the state’s war work was directed from this ancient building. So frequently did Washington use the expression, “we must consult Brother Jonathan,” when a knotty problem arose, that soon the words became a popular and universal phrase of the whole American army. Today we have come to Lebanon, have come to this historic old war office. We have turned here in an hour of trial and anxiety like those in which Washington turned to Lebanon. The day has gone when Brother Jonathan can be consulted. The hand that wrote orders and proclamations so vital to American success in the revolution has been stilled in death for more than a century and a quarter. The lips that advised other makers of history in his day have long been sealed. Yet we come here in reverence to the memory of our Revolutionary War governor and his associates. We come to this scene of their labors and their success, not to consult Brother Jonathan, but to gain from a day at the scene of his work the inspiration to meet the problems of the new war. Jonathan Trumbull is gone, the members of his consul of safety have long since passed to the great beyond, yet their spirit still lives, and from that spirit and from these scenes of their toil, we will gain today a determination that no sacrifice shall be too great and no service too severe if that service and sacrifice will contribute to the preservation of the liberties, which they struggled to establish.
Commander Henry Hovey of Sedgwick post, NO. 1 G.A.R. of this city gave a short address at 12:30 at the governor Buckingham house. Because of a sudden feeling of weakness commander Hovey had Adjutant Arthur L. Peale read the address after the commander had spoken a few opening sentences.
Commander Hovey’s address was as follows:
We are met here today to pay homage and loving tribute to the name and fame of our war governor, William Alfred Buckingham, who was a native of this far-famed town of Lebanon and who first saw the light of day on the 28th day of May, 1804. Amidst the surroundings of a typical New England home he grew manhood’s estate. His early year and training bore the imprints of a loving Christian parentage in deacon Samuel Buckingham and wife who in turn came from the earliest puritan ancestry dating back to the 17th century, therefore we are standing at the threshold of his early home and can we not call it sacred ground? His boy hood days were occupied on the farm and attending the common schools of the village with a finishing course at bacon Academy. This schooling terminated at the age of 18 after which he taught for a year or so.
He then left farm and home to engage as clerk in his uncle’s dry goods store at Norwich when at the age of 21 he established himself in the dry goods business, continuing with market success in that, and also manufacturing of ingrain carpets at Greenville until the year 1848. After this he devoted himself to his various manufacturing interests, chief of which was the Hayward rubber company of Colchester.
His successful business career brought to him his political friends urging him to accept the nomination for mayor of the city of Norwich, to which he was duly elected and reelected for 4 years until 1857. He was elected in 1858 as governor of the state of Connecticut and for 8 consecutive years he was reelected to the same high office until 1866 when he declined further honors. During the period of the civil war he showed his highest qualities as a Patriot and war governor, not only to our state, but extended his aid to our Noble president Lincoln, who was beset by traders all around him at the national Capital and its environments extending into Maryland. Our War governor saw the perilous situation at once and dispatched special aid in the person of his son in law, General Aiken. This afforded great relief to President Lincoln and ever afterwards during the war, there was a frequent interchange of messages passing between our governor and the president.
After his term as governor had expired he remained for 2 years in private life until 1868, when he was elected to the United States Senate and served nearly is full term until his death at his home in Norwich, February 5, 1875.
The short time allotted to the speaker on this occasion will not allow a more extended tribute to this Noble Christian gentleman. But let it be further said: “His courage was dauntless, his will inflexible, his devotion to duty Supreme, his faith in God absolute.”

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44 Pages New Haven Sunday Register Weather Partly Cloudy Full report on page 2
Volume XL Number 32 New Haven, Conn. Sunday, August 11, 1918 Price Five Cents
Lieutenant Charles E. Lockhart Gets French War Cross for Bravery at Seicheprey
Photo of Charles E. Lockhart
First Lieutenant Charles E. Lockhart, of New Haven, has received his French war cross, which was awarded to him for bravery in the Seicheprey fighting, according to word received from him yesterday by his mother, Mrs. Nellie Lockhart of Greenwich. Lieutenant Lockhart, who was sent home after being wounded twice overseas, is now stationed at Camp Pike, Little Rock, Arkansas, as an instructor.
Lieutenant Lockhart went to France with Company E., 102nd regiment. He is a greaduate of Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, class of 1909, and is 34 years old. His wife and son, Thomas Howard Lockhart, are now living in Little Rock.
His story of the battle of Seicheprey, published in The Register shortly after that fight, was the first authentic account to reach this country, and has been widely copied because of its graphic narrative of the famous struggle in which New Haven troops won such glory.

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Last Edition New Haven Evening Register Weather Showers and Cooler
Volume LXXVI Number 187 New Haven, Conn. Thursday, August 8, 1918 20 pages Price Two Cents
ELM CITY FLYER BRINGS DOWN FIRST GERMAN AND GETS CROIX DE GUERRE
Lieut. Charles T. Buckley in Furious Air Battle Accounts for Enemy Craft and Promises Another Soon.
Local Airman Bags First Victim – Photo of Lieut. Charles T. Buckley -- (Page one article)
In one of the most thrilling air battles fought over the area of France, Charles T. Buckley, of 1601 Chapel street, who is now a First Lieutenant in the French Escadrille No. 129, sent his first German aviator crashing to the grown, and as a result has been given the “Croix de Guerre with the Palm” which is the highest citation obtainable with the “Croix de Guerre.”
Buckley, who was born and reared in New Haven, and who until recently was connected in business with his brother in the conducting of a druggist establishment at Congress avenue and Baldwin street, is known, especially in sporting circles as “Bud,” and has been across the sea in training and fighting for over a year.
The battle high in the clouds, took place on July 15th , several days after the Germans started the latest drive, and according to Buckley was one of the worst conflicts which any of the French pilots have thus far engaged in.
Early in the morning, with the battle below raging with savage intensity, seven French machines including the New Haven boy’s airplanes went across the German lines about twenty kilometers above the ground. Just before the leading machine reached the German trenches, the French aviators were discovered, and a terrific bombardment from the ground opened up. The seven planes stuck together and because of the violent efforts the Germans were making from the ground to stop the advances, it was necessary for them to skillfully maneuver their machines by resorting to “viraging,” as Buckley characterizes it, banking, zig-zagging, and then suddenly pushing the nose of the machines still further skyward. Despite all their efforts to dodge the shots from the aircraft guns, which were speaking vigorously and continuously from the ground below, several shots exploded in the middle of the attacking formations. Two of the planes, driven by Buckley’s companions, had their tails completely shot off, and were forced to head homeward, it later becoming known that they had reached their own lines safely. Every plane which anticipated in the attack was struck at least once, but the efforts of the Germans below in so far as stopping the attack were in vain, and soon, the remaining five machines were a number of mile past the German lines into German territory.
A few minutes later, after they dropped all the bombs they had in machines onto their objectives, eight German airmen flew out of the clouds suddenly and pounced upon them. At this moment one of the worst cloud battles of the year began.
Three German planes flew in different directions at Buckley, who suddenly turned his machine in such a way, that he made for one directly of his left side. Buckley immediately opened with his gun and after firing but a few shots noticed that his opponent “stalled” and went into a wing-slip. A bullet from Buckley’s gun must have killed his opponent instantly, for in another second, the German machine, appearing for a moment like a runaway in the clouds, crashed to the earth striking the ground in a mass of flames. In the meantime, several of Buckley’s companions engaged the other Germans who for a short time had made the battle a most uneven one, and after, seeing one of their machines shot from the sky, the Germans turned and fled.
In a letter to Attorney John V. O’Brien of the probate court, his brother-in-law, Buckely wrote as follows:
“Just now my happiness is marred. An awfully nice kid known to us as “Dick”, who was observing during the battle, was shot when the thing was at its height, but his pilot succeeded in landing the machine within our lines. Dick has been with us since February and I got to know him very well. A wire just received here, as I am writing this letter, stated that the Kid died from his wound – a shot in the stomach – a shot in fact that might have picked any one of us. Well its all a life from ?????, but I am happy now to know that I got my first German, and it won’t be long before I get another one.”
Buckley enlisted on the 22nd of June 1917, and was sent to Forggia, Italy, arriving there on September 25. He entered a training school at that place and on March 1, 1918, was assigned to work on the western front in France.
Quentin Roosevelt the deceased son of ex-President Roosevelt, was also a member of the game escadrille to which Buckley was attached.

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Norwich bulletin. (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, April 18, 1917, Image 5
Mobilize Home Garden Forces

Local Committee Sends Out Appeal to People of Norwich Will Distribute Cards Asking Information' in Regard to Available Garden Plots and Workers.

A meeting of the committee on home gardening was held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms Tuesday evening when organization was completed by the election of Edward J. Graham as president, Herbert R.
Branch, as secretary and George H. Loring as treasurer. Plans were formulated for carrying on the home garden project.
It was decided to send out the following appeal to the people of Norwich:
Our Duty aa Citizens.
The war with' Germany has brought td every one of us an opportunity to render patriotic service in promoting economics preparedness and social welfare. The importance of these activities Iri the present crisis Is generally realized and people throughout the nation are showing their willingness to co-operate but few of them know just hew to proceed'. The president of the United States in a proclamation to the people made a special appeal to the farmers to to use all their resources to raise crops to supply the people of but
own country and those of the warring nations. We people of the town also can hely greatly in this work. We
cannot all go to the front and do active service, but we can do out part by co-operating with the government m its effort to increase th food supply. To further this work, a joint committee from the Chamber of Commerce and the New London County Improvement League has been, appointed. This Committee wishes atoltce to get all possible information in regard to available garden plots, workers, etc. To ascertain this, cards are to be sent out asking for the information and it is hoped that all who receive these cards will fill out and return them at their earilest convenience.
Norwich Chamber of – Commerce Home Garden - Committee
GeMlemen: To those who have land available for public gardens: I hereby offer for cultivation In small garden plots during the season of 1917. the following tract of land. It is understood that this land -will be
given the necessary fertilization and eare and that it is offered gratis forsuch purposes.
Location. ... . . . i . . Size.
To those Interested in working a garden:
. 1. Boys and girls who Would like td enlist in the Home Garden work. Have you a home garden lot ?..... I Would you plant and care for a garden if th Iitid were provided?
: 2. Men and women who would like t enlist In the Home Garden work:
Have you land for garden purpos
Would, you plant and care for a garden If the land were provided?...
Do you wish assistance in securing seeds, plants, fertilisers, etc.?
Fill In and return this card on or before April 25. 117.
(This form may be filled out and mailed to the secretary of the Chamber bf Commerce.)
The members of . the committee are Edward M. Graham, Herbert R. Branche, F, C. Warner and F. P. Bushnell.

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The Thompsonville Press
The Press has a larger circulation in the territory between Hartford and Springfield than any other newspaper – it pays to advertise in it
Established 1880 Thompsonville Conn. Thursday, February 21, 1918 Single copy 5 cents Vol. XXXVIII No. 43

WARNS THE NATION TO GUARD GIRLS (Appears on PAGE 8 – last page of paper)
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“Keep Them Out of Factories."— Man Workers Are Not Exhausted.
Miss Margaret Slattery of Boston, known from coast to coast as a lecturer on girlhood, Sunday night denounced factory managers who seek to have girls take the places of" men in their plants. The address, entitled "American, Youth and Democracy” was delivered at a meeting of the Ford Hall Forum.
''You business men of America, keep your hands off American girlhood," she cried. "If there is a real shortage of man labor call upon women over 25. They can do the work with less danger to prospective citizens of new America than can girls in their ‘teens."
She also spoke of the danger to girls that lurks in the streets of every great city. She said that in New York it was found that lists of missing persons included more names of girls between and 19 years of age than of any other class.
"In the recent draft thousands of our boys were rejected as physically unfit. Why? Because the mothers of these boys were forced to work over machines when they were in their 'teens. Employers are putting girls to work running elevators and doing men's work in stores. They say they are unable to get men to do the work. In many cases the fact is they employ girls because they can pay them cheaper wages than they can men."
Many unscrupulous manufacturers are taking advantage of present day conditions and falsely asserting that male help in unobtainable. Miss Slattery hits the nail on the head when she says "In many cases the 'fact is they employ girls because they can pay them cheaper wages than they can men." There are thousands of men in middle life who are still able to serve efficiently - in all lines of endeavor.

The Thompsonville Press
Thompsonville, Conn. Thursday, February 21, 1918

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING
MANY EXPECTED PRESENT.

Interest Will Center Around Levying of Town Tax.—Some Reasons
Why They Should be Kept Down. —Outlook Bad Now, but After the War Watch us Grow
This evening at 8.15 p. m. in the Casino Hall will be held a special town meeting for the purpose of levying a town tax and a large number are expected to attend.
The levying of a town tax is always important and therefore everyone
in the community should take an active interest in the meeting. It is the easiest thing in the world to levy a tax, and our country in so far as taxing the people is concerned is advancing at a mighty rapid rate. United States Senator, George McLean stated in the Senate the other day that the Idea of levying taxes in this country has gone beyond reason and necessity, and that Congress must be careful not to tax people to the extent of being forced into bankruptcy, many believing that money should be borrowed, in so far as paying is concerned they say. "Let the future generations take care of it." If we are going to be proud of what we are doing in this generation we certainly must be careful as to what we hand on as a heritage.
Last year in Enfield the tax was twelve mills and by economizing and
careful administration the town ought to get along with that amount this year. Public officials should be able to say "NO" where a great many,
propositions are presented to them and the public should realize that the
money in the treasury of the town should be carefully conserved. The
selectmen, of course, will be ready to answer all questions and will have
a thorough, explicit and comprehensive report to make to the citizens in
which they will show their needs and requirements for the ensuing
year, and there may be some measures that they will advocate which
could just as well be eliminated at the present time.
Just because the tobacco growers are getting good prices for their
product it must be remembered that labor is high, fertilizer is high, food stuffs are high, insurance has increased and the net profits are not more now to the tobacco grower than they were years ago.
Aside from that all the spare funds that he has today he is asked
to put them into Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps, investments which he
must necessarily make if our army is to be equipped and supplied with
food and ammunition.
In the Thompsonville district it is estimated that from two to three
thousand people have moved within the last year and one half. Our
principle industry is running on short time and if there was ever a time in
the town of Enfield when taxes should remain as they are or be decreased
this is the time, because in increasing the taxes means an increase
in the living expenses of every family and every person in this community.
After the war Thompsonville ought be one of the most thriving places
in the country and when the boom comes then will be the time to increase
the taxes so that debts already incurred might be paid but at this
time taxes" should be left as they are and town officials should eliminate
every unnecessary expense.

The Thompsonville Press
The Press has a larger circulation in the territory between Hartford and Springfield than any other newspaper – it pays to advertise in it
Established 1880 Thompsonville Conn. Thursday, February 21, 1918 Single copy 5 cents Vol. XXXVIII No. 43
Letters From our Soldier Boys (appears on Page one, above the fold)

The Home Town Paper Again

Former Member of Father Matthew Drum Corps Now in France. Jan. 8, 1918.
Editor of The Press:
I wish to thank the Red Cross for the Christmas box. We are very well over here in France. I enlisted with the boys of Thompsonville, but am now in the 102d U. S. Inf. Band as base drummer, and am very much satisfied with it. Music is what keeps us cheerful. I and all the rest of the boys expect to return home with victory. I have also received a box from the Alvin D. Higgins school and was pleased, and so were the rest of the boys; also the sweater and cap from the Town Committee, and we all realize that the good old town of Enfield is with us.
As I am an old member of the Father Matthew Drum Corps my work over here in the band is practically the same.
I shall be glad if you will send me The Press, as news from home is very interesting here; we always like to know what is going on at home. I received a copy of The Press from my folks and it was so interesting to me that I sat down and wrote to you as soon as I read the first page.
Trusting you will answer soon.
Yours truly. Musician Edward L. Galipeau. 102d U. S. Inf. Band, American Expd. Forces. (Passed by Censor)
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Feb. 11, 1918
Editor of The Press:
Through The Press I desire to express my thanks and sincere gratitude for the splendid comfort kit received by me from the Red Cross of Enfield, and wish them much success in the futherance of the great work which they have undertaken to perform in the present crisis.
Sincerely, Sergt. Frank Hartig. Co. F. 327th Inf., Camp Gordon. Atlanta, Ga.
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Following is a copy of a letter received by Mrs. Thomas Chadderton from her son Tom:
Jan.. 28, 1918.
Dear Ma: — Just a line to let you know I'm well and feeling fine now. I was in the hospital sick and the day I was going to be discharged to go back to my company a fellow got scarlet fever and we were quarantined for several days so that I was in there for seventeen days. The last seven days I was helping the orderly in my ward, so when I get back home I'll be able to do anything, such as washing dishes, mopping floors, fixing beds and lots of other things.
We've been having fine weather for the last three weeks; the sun has been out every day and we've be able to go out with only a jacket on. While I was in the hospital I met a good fellow that came from Chicago and the both of us used to work together.
How is every one at home getting along lately? I see by the papers that you've had quite a lot of snow this winter. I haven't received any mail since I've been down here but I expect quite a few letters when I get back tomorrow, and I sure hope there's one from home for I like to know how you all are. Well, this is all for now so I'll close with love. I remain
Your son
Prvt. Thomas Chadderton,
Hdqrs. Co., 102nd U. S. Inf., A. E. F. via N. Y.
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.A letter has been received from Prvt. Henry Bradsnyder, who is with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, in which he wishes to thank the Red Cross committee for the knitted outfit which he received in France, and he also writes that it seems good to know that they are not forgotten back home. The outfit came in mighty handy.
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Corp. Thaddeus Blazejowski, who is with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, has sent a letter home in which he states that the boys have received their first pay since leaving the U. S. A. He also says there is lots of trouble about making change as money is so different in France; ten dollars over there is fifty francs.
The Thompsonville Press
Thompsonville, Conn. Thursday, February 21, 1918

MORE YOWNG MEN GO INTO CAMP
Last 15% FOR DIVISION NO. 8

There Are Eleven Towns in, the District • Thompsonville to Supply 17 Men.—List of the Draftees as Given Out by the Draft Board.

The draft board for Division No. 3 has announced the names of the remaining 15 per cent, of the first draft who have been chosen for service. Of the 1 l towns comprising the district; Thompsonville will supply 17 men. The young men together with a few alternates who will leave soon for the National Army cantonment at Camp Devens are as follows:
Peter Bonola, 29 Morgan street, Hartford;
Fred W. Viets, East Granby;
Ernest Dibble, 36 Thomas street, Westfield, Mass;
Alek Makowski, Main street, Windsor Locks;
Ernest Veronesi, Simsbury;
Pathy Virdiglio, 65 Church street, Thompsonville;
George R. Ramsdell, 31 Court street, Windsor;
Duncan W. Hebbebrand, Windsor;
Vamdano Emilio, 77 School street, Thompsonville;
Audrea P. Pizzale, 17 1/2 Whiton street, Windsor Locks;
Fred W. Wilson, care Live Oak Inn, Oakdale, Cal.;
Joseph P. Long, 83 Prospect street, Thompsonville;
Alfred W. Neelans, Hazardville;
Carl E. N. Carlson, Collinsville;
John' Camoch, Suffield;
Felix J. Zero, Russell avenue, Suffield;
Guiseppe Sant Andrea, 63 School street, Thompsonville;
Nick Antink, Windsor;
Luigi DeFeo, 90 North Main street, Thompsonville;
William Reiner, Bloomfield;
Philip Guglielmori, 33 Whiton street, Windsor Locks;
Jarvis B. Lovell, Windsor;
Carmine Conte, 33 North River street, Thompsonville;
Joseph A. Bodkin. Broad Brook;
Arthur C. Lewis, Windsor;
Leon E. Perry, R. F. D., Bloomfield;
Michael A. Vlazlo, Hurd avenue, Bridgeport;
Giovanni Valentini, 2S Whiton street, Windsor Locks;
Eveipetes Danil, 21 Cottage green, Thompsonville;
Alexander L. Bridge, Hazardville;
Alex .1. Goodsky, Collinsville;
John J. Pietraria, Windsor;
Theodore V. Peterson, R.F. D., South Glastonbury;
Guiseppe Mallardi, 5 Park avenue, Thompsonville;
Francesco Sferrazzo, 9 New street, Thompsonville;
Guiseppe Bevando, Boswell, Pa.;
Tenkrid A. Thoren, North Granby;
Alfred W. Merritt, Windsor;
Andrew Titus, Windsorville;
Lester M. Bradley, Canton;
P. Edward O'Brien, 24 Alden avenue, Thompsonville;
Herbert A. Marks, 9 Franklin street, Thompsonville;
Benedeto Alfano, 34 Tariff street, Thompsonville;
John J. Lang, 167 Allen place; Hartford;
Richard B. Eldridge, 9 Avenue B, Schenectady, N. Y.;
Hugo B. Carason, Collinsville;
William B. Midwood, 25 Andrew street, Springfield;
Abram Bower, Windsor;
Giles E. Porter, 27 Burns avenue, Thompsonville;
William McNash, Suffield;
George B. Lynch, 115 Elm street, Thompsonville;
Andrea Positano, 31 South Elm street, Bristol.
The following are the colored registrants in the remaining 15 per cent, who will be assigned to some camp other than Devens:
Charles Jordan, Windsor;
Clifford V. Barber, Windsor;
Charles McCray, 72 Suffield street, Hartford,
James A. Sailor, East Granby;
Otis Duncan, Box 196, East Granby;
Charles E. Peniston, South Orange, N. J.;
Carl B. Babcock, Windsor;
Robert Reynolds, 100 Walnut street, Hartford;
Hansiell Dunn, Windsor;
James Sands Windsor;
Lerov T. Jackson, Windsor;
Henry Jones, Enfield street, Enfield;
John Rice, R. F. D. Perry, Ga.;
George L. Niles, Cook Hill, Windsor;
Eugene T. Bolden, East Granby;
Joseph E. Miltier, East Windsor Hill;
A. D. Leonard, Broad Brook.

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All the news that’s worth printing
Republican farmer
Established A.D. 1790 Bridgeport, Conn. Friday February 15, 1918.
--Will prosecute coal hoarders in Connecticut
Will Prosecute Coal Hoarders in Connecticut

Hartford, Feb. 14 – Thomas W. Russell, Federal Fuel administrator for Connecticut, has received from Washington explicit directions to aid the National Fuel Administration in the prosecution of coal hoarders. Announcement of the order, received Wednesday, was made today by Charles W. Jaynes, first deputy to the state administrator.

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All the news that’s worth printing
Republican farmer
Established A.D. 1790 Bridgeport, Conn. Friday February 8, 1918.
State Schools May Be Closed For One Week
Hartford, Feb. 7 – As a result of the desperate coal situation in Connecticut, Thomas W. Russell, federal fuel administrator for the state, issued today an appeal to the school authorities of cities and towns in Connecticut which have a population of more than 5,000 according to the 1910 census to close the school houses in their communities all next week as a coal conservation measure.
In making this appeal Mr. Russelll said he was doing it in the hope that the response would be such that it would not be necessary for him to issue a formal order prohibiting the use of fuel to heat schools in those cities and towns from Feb. 11 to 16, inclusive.
Boys Steal Two Tons of Coal
Defy Watchman and Barbed Wire, Making Big Haul at East Side Coal Yards.
An eight-foot fence, topped with several rows of barbed wire, and watchman at the Wheeler & Howe coal yards on Crescent avenue meant nothing to six East Side schoolboys, who stole two tons of hard coal from a carload standing in the yards yesterday afternoon.
These lads were fully equipped for the coal party. They drew their sleds and carried one or two hemps bags. Their mothers had told them to go out and get some coal. The dumps were frozen over and none was being distributed at the several coal yards they visited. They were on their way home when they spied a whole carload in the Wheeler & Howes yards.
They peered through the pickets and saw the watchman. One suggested climbing over the top, but another spied the barbed wire. The smallest lad in the group suggested crawling under the fence. His suggestion was no sooner offered than they were all at work digging a tunnel under the fence.
They burrowed a hole large enough to allow two of them, dragging their bags behind them to enter. They climbed into the car, filled their bags and pushed them back through the hole under the fence. The other boys’ bags were filled and they all returned for me. They had got a second helping before being detected.
They were in the act of filling the last bag when the watchman started in pursuit, but the boys had disappeared when their pursuer had reached the spot. They were last seen running as fast as their legs could carry them with their sleds trailing behind. The boys had eluded the watchman by ducking in Burroughs street. When the carload was weighted up it was discovered the boys had taken nearly two tons.

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The Litchfield Enquirer
ESTABLISHED 1825 VOLUME XCII NO. 38 LITCHFIELD, CONN.
NOVEMBER 1, 1917 WHOLE NO. 4773

THE LIBERTY LOAN RALLY
Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Sothern Charm and Entrance a Large Audience
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Sothern have had the admiration of Litchfield as the most distinguished members of our summer colony since they came here several years ago, but last Wednesday they won the affection as well of all who attended the Liberty Loan Rally at Colonial Hall. .Litchfield has a right to feel proud of its showing in this Loan. Against a maximum mark asked for by the government of $244,000, the town had already subscribed $155,000 before the Rally, and in the thirty minutes that subscriptions were open the amazing total of $98,750 was taken, including the subscriptions of the two local banks, bringing the grand total well above $250,000. Final figures are given elsewhere in this issue. Such a result is perhaps a better voucher for the enthusiasm and patriotic fervor aroused by the inspiring example of Mr. and Mrs. Sothern than any verbal description can hope to be. Mrs. Sothern herself was the first to hit the trail as a subscriber to the Loan, and besides Mr. Sothern, each member of their household subscribed. And soon the audience as a whole seemed to have only the one thought of buying bonds, and for the thirty minutes already referred to Charles H. Coit and his assistants were literally swamped with subscriptions.
Not only was the Rally entirely the idea of Mr. Sothern, but he planned all the details of its program and himself presided over its carrying out. His own enthusiasm for the Allied cause was rendered doubly moving to the audience by the impassioned and very beautiful recitations of Mrs. Sothern. These included The Star Spangled Banner, Verdun, Flanders Fields and the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the very pieces which have been associated with the name of Julia Marlowe, ever since the outbreak of the war, wherever our language is spoken. The informality of the occasion may have served to draw her hearers closer to her; at all events it seemed as though she could never have put more feeling into each of the heart-stirring lines.
Mr. Sothern also read a poem of the war, the powerful Maktoob, by the ill-fated soldier poet, Alan Seeger. His serene interpretation of the lines brought echoes to the mind of the finest passages of Thanatopsis. Mr. Sothern read also the Liberty Loan Proclamation of President Wilson, and a number of newspaper and other documents bearing on the crisis. But the most vital of all to the Litchfield audience was his reading of the Litchfield Roll of Honor, which had been compiled for the occasion from all the sources so far available by Miss Dorothy Bull and each name on which was received with the most reverent and deeply felt applause.
The details of the Rally were carried out well in keeping with the occasion. The stage had been artistically decorated by Miss Adelaide Deming and Mrs. Charles H. Coit with laurel and with a series of flags of our Allies, loaned by the bantam Anti-Friction Company. The American Flag was brought in by an escort of the Home Guard consisting of Corporals Woodruff, Coe and Griffin, while about thirty-five other members of the Home Guard attended in charge of Lieutenants Guion and Kirwin. The various bugle calls sounded by bugler Hausmann gave an effective military touch to the proceedings.
Financial particulars about the Liberty Loan, relating to the different ways of subscribing, were given by Charles H. Coit, who later had charge of the actual sale of the bonds, with astonishing results already stated.
It was a great disappointment to everyone that Mrs. Cecil Cunningham Doster, who was to have spoken on her personal experiences in hospital work in France, was unable to be present, having been detained in New York with her husband, Alexis Doster, who was on the point of sailing as an aviator with the American Expeditionary Forces for France.
Last, but not least, should be mentioned the general singing of patriotic and martial songs, especially during the period while the purchasers of Liberty Bonds were hitting the trail. The singing was lead with great spirit by Miss Frances Olmsted, who was admirably accompanied by Miss Josephine Brewster at the piano, and by Miss Elizabeth Potter and William Beach with their violins; and the audience joined in with a will.
Indeed, the evening was in every respect a memorable one for Litchfield and the heartiness with which the cheers suggested by George C. Woodruff for Mr. and Mrs. Sothern at the close were given furnished proof, if any proof were needed, of how much the Litchfield Liberty Loan Rally had really meant to one and all of those present.

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The Shore Line Times and Country Chronicle
Volume XL – Number 34 Guildford Conn., Thursday May 31, 1917 Price: Four Cents
THE GOVERNOR’S WARNING WORDS
APPEALS TO THE PEOPLE TO PREPARE FOR EMERGENCIES
Asked For and Received Authority to Make a Census of the State of Men Available for Military Service and For Power to Prepare an Inventory Of the Resources Of the Commonwealth in Case of War – His Message Received With a Storm of Applause – Calls Connecticut Arsenal of the Nation.
Governor Marcus H. Holcomb, before a joint convention of the General Assembly called at his request February 6 asked for the authority of the state to make a census of the men of Connecticut available for military service and for power to prepare an inventory of the physical resources of the state which war would call into requisition. His message, which he read in the hall of the House of Representatives, beneath crowded galleries, brought a storm of applause. The message follows: “The world is face-to-face with the gravest crisis in modern history – if not in the history of all times. A world conflict of titanic proportions is rocking civilization to its foundations, and the laws of the nations wrought on the anvil of experience and rendered sacred by the sanctions of organized society, are being isolated with reckless abandon. Hitherto it has been he official view of our government that the interest of the United States in this crisis is that of a neutral, although profoundly concerned, spectator, and we have not witnessed the immediate approach of the conflagration to our shores: but the swift march of recent events has compelled us to view gravely the immenence of our enforced participation in the mighty conflict. It, therefore, behooves us to reflect seriously and act wisely.
The scheme of government set up by our fathers vests the power of declaring war and making general provision for the national defense in the federal government, but it also imposes upon the several states of the union certain subsidiary obligations of serious moment. As members of the American family each must perform its full part. Both patriotism and common concern prescribe this inexorable duty.
“Aside from the general considerations of love of country and sate responsibility, our state has its own direct and peculiar interest in national defense. It might almost be said that Connecticut is today the arsenal of the nation. If the naval stockade which may shortly be called upon to protect us from attach should be broken through or destroyed by means of a numerous and powerful undersea fleet and a foreign force should reach our shores, among the first blows to fall would be one aimed at the highly organized industries of this state. It would be the purpose of the invading strategist to destroy or control the munition plants of Hartford and march up the Connecticut valley to the Federal Arsenal at Springfield. The great munition plants of Bridgeport, New Haven and eh Naugatuck valley could also be made immediate targets for like attacks.
“In our preparation for this contingency, we should take counsel of the unhappy experience of one of the great nations now at war, which found itself unprepared at the beginning and learned from costly experience that a pre-requisite of the mobilization of men and industry was the collection and classification of information as to the available resources of the country. Modern warfare calls into requisition with feverish intensity the complex agencies of man-power, materials, production, finance and transport, and if this Land of Steady Habits is to serve itself and the nation bravely and efficiently, it must begin early and act promptly.
“In view, of this situation and these considerations, I recommend that power be given to your governor to take a census, classified with a view to their availability for the various activities of war, of the state, together with an inventory of those physical resources of the state which war would call into requisition. If I am granted this authority, may from time to time consult you further as the work progresses, especially if I find that it promises to be expensive. I believe that sufficient information for our immediate needs can be secured at a small expense. Much of it is already in the possession of various state and municipal departments, chambers of commerce and similar civic organizations and can readily be collected and made available and I am confident that volunteers can be secured to do whatever is necessary outside of the clerical work involved.
“I make this recommendation with confidence because of the high traditions to which your honorable bodies are the heirs. Throughout the whole history of the people of Connecticut, whether in colonial times or under the existing federal constitution, this state never has fallen short or been found wanting in the hour of danger. When the news of Lexington was brought over the hills, the towns of the colony answered the call without question or delay, and sent their quotas to the aid of a sister state and the defense of the common cause of our invaded rights. In that other struggle, still vivid in the memory of the thinning ranks of a once great army, Connecticut’s part is thus eloquently described by one of its historians: “The first great martyrs of the war Ellsworth, Winthrop, Ward and Lyon – were of Connecticut stock. A Connecticut general, with, Connecticut regiments, opened the battle of Bull Run and closed it, and a Connecticut regiment was marshalled in front of the farmhouse at Appomattor when Lee surrendered to a soldier of Connecticut blood. A Connecticut flag first displayed the palmetto upon the soil of South Carolina; a Connecticut flag was first unfurled before New Orleans. On the banks of every river of the South and in the battle-smoke of every contested ridge and mountain peak the sons of Connecticut have stood and patiently struggled. In every ransomed state we have a holy acre on which the storm has left its emeraled waves – 3,000 indistinguishable bullocks on lonely lake and stream, in field, and tangled thicket.
“Such has been the steadfast spirit of the sons of Connecticut in every hour of peril. Marching in company with the heroic past let us, in this untoward hour of world agony, face unflinchingly the menacing tide of events.”

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The Thompsonville Press
May 24, 1917 VOL. XXXVIII, NO.
Page 1, May 24, 1917
WARNING! United States Registration
All male persons in the Town of Enfield, Connecticut, between the ages of twenty-one (21) and thirty (30) both inclusive are hereby warned to present themselves for Registration TUESDAY, JUNE 5. 1917, BETWEEN 7 A. M. AND 9 P. M. at the usual place of holding elections in each of the Voting Districts in said Enfield, to wit:
In District No. 1, at the Town Hall, Enfield Street
In District No. 2, at Town Court Room, Thompsonville
In District No. 3, at the Institute in Hazardville
(Male Persons subject to registration are all whom have attained their twenty-first birthday and whom shall not have attained their thirty-first birthday on or before June 5, 1917.
Penalty for neglect or refusal to so register as provided by law is imprisonment for not more than one year.
Board of Registration for Enfield, Connecticut,
ALBERT J. EPSTEIN,
J. HAMILTON POTTER,
JAMES T. BURGESS,
SYLVESTER L. MITCHELL.
Dated at Enfield, Conn., this 24th day of May, 1917.

BY HIS EXCELLENCY
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB, GOVERNOR
A Proclamation
WHEREAS the Proclamation of the President of the United States issued under act of the Congress of the United States entitled "an act to authorize - the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States" requires all men not now in the military or naval service of the United States, who on June 5th, 1917, have attained their twenty-first birthday, and who have not attained their thirty-first birthday, to appear at the registration place in the precinct wherein they have their permanent homes on said 5th day of June 19l7, between 7 A. M.-and 9 P. M. and register, the penalty for failure so to do being imprisonment.
Now Therefore In compliance with said proclamation and the instructions given thereunder, the Mayors in the Cities of Bridgeport, Hartford, New Britain, New Haven, Stamford and Waterbury, shall appoint registration boards; in the cities of Ansonia, Bristol, Derby, Norwalk, New London and Shelton the registration boards shall consist of the Mayor, the City Clerk and the Registrars of voters; in all other towns of the State the registration boards shall consist of the first selectman, the town clerk and the Registrars of voters; the mayors and the first selectmen shall be the executive officers of their respective boards; said executive officers shall appoint all registrars necessary to execute such registration, and shall provide places for registration in every voting precinct in their respective jurisdiction. Those who through sickness shall be unable to present themselves for registration shall apply to the clerk of the city or town where they may be for instruction as to how they may be registered by agent. Those who expect to be absent on the day named from the city or town in which they have their permanent homes may register 'by mail, but their mailed registration, cards must reach the places where they have their permanent home by said 5th day of June, 1917. They should apply as soon as practicable to the clerk of the city or town wherein they may be for instruction as to how they may accomplish their registration by mail.
On the day set for registration, all sheriffs and their deputies, police officers, constables, and all members of the Home Guard will render whatever assistance may be necessary in preserving order at the place of registration and in assisting the consummation of the registration.
I trust that the services required to accomplish this registration will be rendered voluntarily and without expense to the government, and I earnestly urge all persons and organizations within the State to co-operate in every way possible to insure a full compliance with the President's Proclamation.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and seventeen, and of the independence of the United States one hundred and forty-first.
By His Excellency's Command:
FREDERICK L. PERRY.
Secretary.
M. H. HOLCOMB.

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THE BRIDGEPORT EVENING FARMER
BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1917
PRICE TWO CENTS

WEALTHY TO GIVE LAWNS FOR TILLING

The beautiful lawns fronting Park Avenue, Waldemere Avenue and Park Place, as well as elsewhere in Bridgeport, are likely to become large potato raising grounds during the coming season.

Led by the owners of the big Bronson estate at Greenfield Hill, where the handsome lawns and meadows are to be plowed and fertilizer and seed potatoes distributed to the farmers about that section, and Denver H Warner, will perform like service in Fairfield, and even offers his spacious lawn in Bridgeport for crop planting if if necessity demands, owners of other big areas of ground are enthusiastic in the plan.

The Broadlawn club grounds may be turned over to the Council of national defense through Gov. Holcomb for planting purposes in the possible food exigency.

Among those homeowners in the park district who are reported today to be in absolute harmony with the spirit which actuated the foremost families in Cleveland Ohio to donate their well-kept lawns on Euclid Avenue to the inroads of the plow and the hoe are Nathan W Bishop, LB Curtis, Wilson Marshall and Dr. Virgil P Gibney. There are a score of others.

In the Greenfield District it was announced this morning that the Bronson estate, formerly occupied by the late minister to Japan, Lloyd C Griscom, will be opened for the first time in two years. 1000 bushels of seed potatoes and a car load of fertilizer have been purchased through Conrad Buckingham at Southport. It is the plan of the Bronson estate managers to divide the ground among farmers, the land to be worked on equable shares. The owner will furnish both seed and fertilizer.

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The Farmer today said that in this time of emergency the country homes of all city and country residents where tillable land was available, should be placed at the command of the authorities. He will aid in both the Fairfield District and in Bridgeport in any measure that may be desired.

In the absence of Charles G Waldo, newly elected president of the Brooklawn club, who is absent from the city today it could not be definitely learned whether official action had been taken in offering the spacious grounds of the club to the Council of national defense but members of the club asserted that the action was proposed.

Throughout Fairfield, Westport and the inward lying districts where the homes of many wealthy New York residents are located it was reported that instead of greensward this summer the fallow ground of cultivation would be seen. Among some of the big estate owners there are miss Anna Jennings, Oliver G Jennings, ET Bedford, Fred Bedford, Fred C and Henry Sturgis.

The greatest need of that community, according to farmers, is the distribution of seed and potatoes which are extremely high and beyond the means of agriculturalists of small means.

Although it has been intimated widely that Seaside Park will be offered to the state in its food conservation program no definite action has as yet been taken by the park board. Such action will come only after the needs of the Council of national defense are made public here.

HOME GUARDS MAY BECOME FARMHANDS
SPECIAL TO FARMER
Hartford, April 14- Upon the acknowledged principle that bread and bullets are equally essential and that victory in the present crisis will depend entirely upon the food supply, serious consideration is today being given by officers in command of the Home Guard to a proposition that the big organization be utilized during the summer months in the work of field tillage and later harvesting while the women of the state now being organized under the National League for women service, be employed in the lighter tasks.

Senators and representatives at the capital who have had the project in mind have submitted tentative plans for the consideration of the Home Guard commanders throughout the state.

With concurrent thought throughout the country, fully acquiesced in by suffrage leaders that the women of America should shoulder the hoe as well as the lighter burdens of business and industrial occupation which men may release that they can do the harder work of raising supplies for America, and that boys shall give up their vacation periods to become of similar service, the proposition has presented itself that the Home Guard, filled with able-bodied men, may be of greater service in the fields than as military.

What action the Home Guard commanders will suggest to Gov. Holcomb has not become known as yet, but that a strong appeal for use of the Home Guard in agricultural pursuits is known to be in a formulative process among the Granges and farmers of the state at this time.

It is asserted by farmers throughout this country that while many of the Home Guard may not have technical training in agricultural pursuits the members may readily take to the lighter tasks at first, help about the stables, barns, gardens and orchards thereby releasing the agriculturally trained owners of the farm for the more intricate work of planting and cultivating. During the harvest season expert knowledge is of small importance, but many hands are the chief requisite.

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be utilized first in the early morning and that early nightfall, attending to harness and driving cows to pasture, feeding pigs and what is generally termed chores on the farm. During the early potato planting season their services would be in great demand quartering the spuds, in drilling fertilizer in the trenches plowed by the farmers and their trained assistance and in the dropping of potatoes. From that occupation the planting of corn, both by the hoe and the automatic hand planter would come under the attention after the ground had been marked out by the owners of the fields. Following this planting would come the hand cultivation of the gardens, the back-breaking process of weeding, and the upkeep of the fences all of which would relieve the real agriculturalists of the country from much time taking but worthless labor in the time of national emergency. Those now in the Home Guard, whose early training upon farms gave them the knowledge of driving horses, milking cows and other semi-expert farm occupations can also greatly relieve the daily pressure upon the farmer of marketing his products.

During the haying season, when many hands make light labor, Home Guard services would be in great demand and Brawn would be at a premium. As the potato and corn crop is being harvested the services could again be utilized in a hand digging, picking and bagging potatoes and in the cutting and Husking operation that attaches to the cribbing of corn.

It is been shown to commanding officers that with a force of 5000 men which it is planned that shall be enlisted in the Home Guard, the food supplies of the state may be materially increased and the shortage of farm labor be proportionately overcome.

Bridgeport with approximately 1000 men or a regiment, used for this purpose, would be greatly aided and would have an opportunity of showing well against more fertile counties already under larger cultivation. The needs of Bridgeport in its table necessities today, if cut off from the outside supplies would almost demand such procedure, and able authority asserted here today.

Among prominent members of the Home Guard, who, if called for such service, might be seen in the fields, our ex-president William Howard Taft, Isaac Ullman of New Haven and in this city, Mayor Wilson, city clerk JAH Robinson and a host of persons prominent in the social, civic and political circles.

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BRIDGEPORT EVENING FARMER
BRIDGEPORT CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS

MILITARY TRAINING IN BHS

BRIDGEPORT HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS WILL BE TAUGHT ARMY DISCIPLINE AND EVOLUTIONS, BUT NOT COMPULSORY

BOARD OF EDUCATION LIKELY TO ALLOW DIPLOMAS TO ADVANCED STUDENTS WHO ENLIST IN THE FEDERAL SERVICE

Steps have been taken by the public school authorities of Bridgeport to graduate with a diploma advanced students in the high school were called to the National Guard or federal service under the flag. The graduation, however, will depend upon the students conduct during his previous school periods.

Though the intention of the school authorities has not been advertised in the effort to enforce enlistment, it is known that two students are now enrolled who may be subject to a call to arms.

Consideration of their cases has caused the decision to be taken warranting their being given diplomas. This action is similar to that already taken by boards of education elsewhere through the country. It is likely that the Bridgeport Board of Education will approve the plan at its next meeting.

A committee of school board met this morning to consider organization of the faculty and student body of the high school in the matter of military training pupils.

It was decided that enrollment, which will be upon a purely voluntary basis, will begin Monday next. The course to be prescribed has not been fully outlined by the committee has yet and is subject to revision according to the needs of the city. As far as possible it will follow closely the military training suggested by the Council of national defense.

It is expected that several field units will be formed, and military evolutions will be taught, but there will be no equipment with regulation arms. The course besides being included in the winter curriculum will also extend to the summer periods if continued as now tentatively planned, Superintendent Samuel J Slawson said today.

“Bridgeport should fully understand in advance, ” said Superintendent Lawson, “ that this movement is not obligatory upon pupils but will be purely voluntary. ”

BOY SCOUTS ARMED WITH BIG PISTOLS

What is believed in some military quarters here today to have been a bold attempt to ascertain the contents of military dispatches being transmitted for National Guard and United States officers from the armory to the Eastside, has resulted in the arming of all United States Boy Scout orderlies on duty at the armory.

Tuesday night a US Boy Scout messenger carrying dispatches in the vicinity of Seaview Avenue, near the munitions plant was roughly handled by three unknown men who took his papers from him and detained him in a place not as yet made public.

When his long absence was discovered a military patrol was at once sent in search for him. After several hours he was located in the matter is now under investigation by military authorities.

As a result the boys, while on duty, carry fully loaded 38 caliber revolvers of modern type strapped to their hips. There are instructed to defend themselves against attacks.

Col. Frank Armstrong, chief of the US Boy Scouts, about 16 of whom are doing duty at the armory declared today that the arming of the boys came as a military necessity. He refused to discuss the holdup beyond admitting that it was committed by three men on the Eastside and offered the explanation that “it was generally believed the incident originated in the form of a joke. ”

That the military do not consider the incident a joke is seen in the fact that the messengers are now fully armed men on the streets.

It is explained for assurance of the public that the boys now doing service are thoroughly acquainted with deadly arms that all United States Boy Scouts are fully trained in their uses when in summer camps and no boy under 14 is employed in the messenger service.

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BRIDGEPORT EVENING FARMER,
Bridgeport Connecticut
APRIL 7, 1917
Price two cents

WATERBURIAN HELD FOR REVILING FLAG; ANOTHER TRIES TO KILL SOLDIER

Waterbury, April 7-John Hurnick, 31, who said he was a Russian, was bound over today to the Superior Court in bond’s of $1000 by Judge John F McGrath on the technical charge of breach of the peace. It was charged that Hurnick had insulted the American flag by saying “to hell with the flag; America is no good."

William Lanky, who overheard Hurnick, made complaint to the police. Hurnick denied having insulted the flag.

Judge McGrath who ordered John Grossnoff, 38, a Lithuanian, held for the Superior Court in $2000 on a charge of assault with intent to kill. Rostov, it is alleged, fired a shot through the window of his home at private Norman England of Company B, first Connecticut infantry, who was patrolling the property of the New Haven Rd. close to Grossnoff’s boarding place. The bullet struck the ground a few feet in front of private England and tore a hole in the ground, according to England's testimony.

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Bridgeport Evening Farmer, March 20, 1917

The Irish Rebels

Editor Troup, of New Haven, in his address before the Knights of St. Patrick, last night, discussed in an interesting way the psychology of the Irish rebels. Their acts and purposes, he said, could only be appreciated, by seeking the same viewpoint they entertained. It was the studious view of Mr. Troupe that the unfortunate leaders of the rebellion did not expect to prevail.

They were determined to offer to the world, at the sacrifice of their lives, evidence of the determination of Ireland to be independent. They meant to ensure Ireland a place in the discussion which will prevail at the Council board of the nations, when the war is over, and the rights and destinies of the small nations are being determined.

This view is reasonable, and, as Mr. Troupe exhibited it, convincing. Admitting that the Irish rebels had no hope of victory in the use of arms, they are enrolled among the loftiest idealist who have laid down their lives for an idea. They are in the category with John Brown. Their souls will go marching on.

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The Bridgeport evening farmer
Bridgeport, Conn. February 24, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS

OPPOSITION TO BILL TO STOP NEWSGIRLS SELLING IN STREET
Hartford Feb. 24.
The judiciary committee found itself face to face with the sociological problems of the times, from the support of inebriates on the state farm to the sale of newspapers on the street by newsgirls and the night work of boys in bowling alleys, at its hearing yesterday afternoon in the old Senate chamber.
The bill prohibiting the sale of newspapers on the streets by girls was confronted by two groups diametrically opposed to each other on the question. Christine J. Haas, representing the Hartford Council of Jewish Women strongly favored a measure which would impose a fine of $20 on girls for each offense of selling newspapers on the streets.
O. A. Phelps of Hartford told of an instance involving a newsgirl who was assaulted as the result of carrying on her work on the street. Nathan B. Stone, president of a business college in New Haven strongly objected to a state-wide bill to prevent 'girls from selling newspapers on the street. He said he know of at least two girls, in New Haven who were earning their living in this way and that if they were prevented from selling papers they would be posing their livelihood. He couldn't see how the business offered more temptations than the average work which took women on the highways.
Miss Mary Hall, superintendent of the Good "Will club of Hartford strongly objected to any measure which, would prevent the girls of the state from selling newspapers.
Miss Mary C. Wells of Newington, was against the idea of girls selling newspapers on the street. She told the committee that girls went into the saloons to sell, their -papers and followed-up drunken men .because
they never asked for change.
Miss Caroline M. Hewins, librarian at the Hartford Public Library, said she had known many newsgirls who had made their living selling papers. She was not entirely in favor of the plan to allow girls to sell papers on the streets.
The bill providing that no child under 14 years of age shall be employed on bowling alleys and preventing boys under 16 from being employed on such alleys without certificates from the educational authorities resulted in keen discussion before the members of the committee who heard all sides, from the glowing accounts of the money saved by the lads to the alleged evils of the work. Bowling alley proprietors before the committee urged that no change be made in the present law.
A. P. Hayes and Herman. Wiseman of Waterbury appeared against the measure. The speakers said the boys of certain alleys in Waterbury made as high as $12 a week and were given a chance to earn a clean living and earn money to go to college.
Chairman Klett asked Mr. Wiseman if the reports were true that "pin boys” fell asleep over their studies in school. Mr. Wiseman said such might be the case but he pointed out that alley owners did not want to interfere with the school studies of boys and that school certificates should not be issued to boys who cannot carry on the work and their studies as well.
Miss Hall favored the plan of employing boys on bowling alleys and saw no, harm in the practice.
Miss Wells was against the plan of employing boys on bowling alleys. She said some of them worked far into the small hours of the morning and many of them were without certificates.

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The Shore Line Times and County Chronicle
Volume XL – Number 19 Guilford, Conn., Thursday, February, 15, 1917 Price Four cents
WHAT IS THIS STATE DOING FOR THE WAR?
EVERYBODY WILLING THAT OTHER FELLOW FIGHT
An Impetus Has been Given to Farming and Gardening but Just There Knowledge of War Ends – Lots of Talk and Flaring Posters but Little Else.
(By Norton)
Hartford, May 31 --- It is a part of the writer’s work to read each day a copy of each of the daily papers of the state with two exceptions and also as they come along all the semi-weeklies and about 90 per cent of the weeklies and yet, with all these advantages which a benign providence has thrown in his way, he is not certain just what Connecticut has done toward furthering the cause of the nation in this war in which, through no fault of its own the country is now engaged. He can see what an impetus it has given to farming and gardening, can see what good work various country organizations have done along these lines but just there knowledge ends. Because of the multiplicity of state and federal boards, official and unofficial organizations, such a din is being made that sound thinking is out of the question. Colored posters shriek at the citizens of the state urging them to enlist in the Connecticut National Guard yet more persons are being discharged from that organization because they have one or more wives or because their teeth are defective than being mustered in. More posters urge the people to enlist in the regular army or navy and yet next week comes a draft which with no end of bookkeeping, is expected to select the quota for the state. Why volunteer if you must go in any event? And yet you, we, everybody is told that no man will be permitted to go if the government feels that he can be used to better advantage planting corn or making munitions no matter what his personal preferences may be. There is a council of defense meeting at a great rate and a half-dozen other councils of other sorts (all state-wise) doing things and telling the newspapers about it, and when nothing else is doing some one in urging us to subscribe to the Liberty Loan at 3 ½ percent. Washington is full of various commissions but not one of them has the wisdom to say that a continued fire alarm is hardly necessary in view of the fact that all of us are aware of the configuration, know just where it is and realize that it is by no means under control. The folks who are ringing the bell should quit it and help with the house and ladders.
Getting home to this state once more we are urged to economize in the matter of food and are urged in another breath to spend all the money possible in order not to injure business. We are told that we should subscribe to the 3 ½ percent, less as a matter of patriotism and at the same time we are treated to the spectacle of a judge of the superior court resigning because the Legislature declined to increase his salary, which is now only $7,500 a year while some of the newspapers of the state curse the Legislature for its parsimony instead of criticizing the judge for his attitude. Sacrifice, it appears, is not expected of the man who is getting a salary of $7,500, it being and should be, expected of persons in a lower strata of society. So, too, an appropriation has been made for the expenses of the conscription of next week yet we of this state, who are not judges of the higher courts are urged to give our services as an act of patriotism. Are all the members of the various state commissions and all their various clerks giving their services as an act of patriotism, we ask to know?
Looking at another phase of the situation it is as perplexing as all the others in that while the sentiment of the state is fully in accord with President Wilson’s attitude that war could no longer be avoided, nobody, streetwise seems especially anxious to fight. Out of an extensive acquaintance the writer can count on the fingers of one hand all the persons not of German birth or parentage who are opposed to the war, and still have one or two disengaged fingers, yet most of this acquaintances can see no necessity for actual sacrifice on their part. It may be very well to get into the war, they seem to reason, but why not let the other nations do the fighting while we furnish the materials which they shall purchase here at prevailing rates? This, it must strike man people, is the most discouraging feature of the situation, that men of intelligence should be quite willing that France, Belgium and England should suffer so long as we are not inconvenienced and can attend the movie shows as usual. In the West, where indifferences to the war was dominant up to three months ago, the response to the call for recruits has been far ahead of the record made here in New England where men were once willing if need be to fight for an idea. One wonders what that fine old fighter, John brown, would say to the attitude of his native state and the rest of New England. And yet, if a German raider should wreck New London or Newport we may still believe that the men of the two states would awaken, would forget the cheap shows and the payroll and be willing to risk their lives as their ancestors did. But nobody knows might accept that we are invited in a war because we could no longer keep out of it and pretend to be either civilized or Christian and that it will be expensive.

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HARTFORD COURANT FEBRUARY 10, 1917 PAGE 8

MAYORS DISCUSS MILITARY CENSUS WITH GOV.

CAST POLITICS TO ONE SIDE AND ENTER PROJECT WITH ENTHUSIASM

AID OF CHURCHES WILL BE ASKED

“CONNECTICUT STANDS READY TO DO ITS SHARE FOR THE COUNTRY" SAYS GOV.

Casting politics to one side and entering into the project with enthusiasm, Democratic and Republican mayors, representing 18 cities in Connecticut, discussed before Gov. Marcus H Holcomb yesterday afternoon in the state Capitol of the plans for the preparedness movement that was launched in the state Senate Tuesday when Gov. Holcomb made his plea for a complete military census of the state.

Before the meeting had closed, Gov. Holcomb received the promises of every city in the state of loyal support and cooperation in his move-the first of its kind ever instituted by any state in the country. Mayor George a Quigley of New Britain was the only executive not present, New Britain being represented by M Irving Chester.

No urging was necessary at the meeting. Each representative entered into the spirit of the project and when Gov. Holcomb, just before adduring the meeting, said that “Connecticut will be found where it always has been found-ready to do it share for the country," he was enthusiastically applauded.

Work starts immediately

In every city and town in the state the work will be started immediately. As the pioneer of the movement, the first to start active work in a gathering of the census, Hartford's method was explained to the mayors by Charles A Goodwin, to whom Gov. Holcomb gave credit yesterday for originating the scheme. Norman R Moray, of Hartford accident and indemnity Company, who is in charge of the indexing; Robert P Butler, chairman of the citizens committee, and Mayor Frank A Hagerty. It was explained to the mayors, however, that they need not follow Hartford's method-that they may employ any method they see fit so long as they secure a complete census and have the names of all males of 16 years of age and over, in the hands of the general committee on schedule time.

The churches will be asked to take part in the project, it being announced at the meeting that Gov. Holcomb would issue a proclamation to the various churches throughout the state, asking the ministers to speak of the importance of the project from the pulpit on Sunday, February 18.

Finished in three weeks

Within three weeks according to Charles A Goodwin, the complete tabulation of the males over 16 years of age in Connecticut will be ready for the governor. Within 10 days, the organization of the entire state will be perfected and the work of taking the census will be started. With the health of the insurance companies, factories and other business concerns throughout the state, it is expected that more than 200,000 cards, bearing the names, ages and occupations of every male in the state over 16 years of age will be at the disposal of the governor about March 1.

“For two years we have been dreading what may happen," said Gov. Holcomb in opening the session, “ and now it has been brought a little nearer to us. We are now preparing for what may be before us. We have heard a good deal about preparedness, but it has all been hot air and not practical. What we want is something practicable. I sincerely hope that there will be no war. I hope Connecticut will not be called on, but it is an active wisdom for Connecticut, one of the most important states in the country, to take an inventory. This state will be relied upon to furnish the munitions of the nation and would be attractive to the enemy. In case there is an enemy. It will have the honor of being the first in the country to find out its resources, and the enthusiasm all through the state is made evident by the gathering here today.

“Connecticut has risen above the question of Republicanism or democracy, or what church a man belongs to in this crisis," said the governor in closing, “ and we meet now on the common plane of patriotism. I pray to God that we won't have to go to war, but if we do, Connecticut will be found as it always has been found.-Ready to do its share to backup the president of the United States who is responsible for the present position of the country. Go home and go to work."

33,000 names gathered

Approximately 33,000 names have been gathered by the committee at work in Hartford," said Robert P Butler, “and before Monday, with the aid of the postmaster, the directory and the voting and tax lists, we expect to have 40,000 names ready for the starting of the canvassing. The newspapers will be used to advertise the project, requesting every male between 16 and 21 years of age to be sure and have his name on the list. The index system that is being employed and the cooperation of the manufacturers, will reduce canvassing to the minimum."

“Hartford is always in the lead in answer to a call for service,” said Mayor Frank Hagerty, "and Hartford will be ready for the cards when they arrive Monday."

“The publicity work will not be carried on only in the papers printed in the English language,“ said Aubrey L Maddock, “ but it will also be carried on in foreign language papers printed in this state. The idea of the publicity work is to get the men to receive the census taker in the friendly spirit and not in the spirit of hostility."

“The time has come when we must throw off our coats and go to work," said Rev. Dr. Irving H Berg. "There are forces in our own land with which we must reckon and there is no time to spare".

Mayors present

The following mayors were present at the meeting: Frank A Hagerty, Hartford; Daniel P Dunn, Willimantic; JJ McGarry, Putnam; Alan L Brown, Norwich; Edward W Keenan, Shelton; Carl A Harston, Norwalk; Samuel Campner, New Haven; John P Cameron, Rockville; Joseph Dutton, Bristol; Harold M Meech, Middletown; Martin Scully, Waterbury; John Meade, Ansonia; George P Sullivan, Derby; Joseph A Cook, Meriden; EE Rogers, New London; John J Treat, Stamford and Anthony Sunderland, Danbury.

Officials of the cooperative tool company of Meriden have placed its facilities at the disposal of Gov. Holcomb or of the national government, should the need arise. Gov. Holcomb has also received a communication from the Hartford Chamber of Commerce saying that the chamber will discuss at its next luncheon the question of taking the military census. The luncheon will be held next Tuesday.

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HARTFORD COURANT FEBRUARY 8, 1917

GOVERNOR CALLS ON SELECTMEN TO AID IN TAKING CENSUS

ASKS THEM TO SEND HIM FIRST INFORMATION BY NEXT MONDAY, AS PART OF HIS PLAN TO DETERMINE WHAT CONNECTICUT COULD DO IN CASE OF WAR

AIDS APPOINTED TO HELP ORGANIZE

ACTUAL CANVAS TO GET EVERY MAN IN STATE TO COMMIT HIMSELF ON HIS MILITARY FITNESS WILL BE STARTED NEXT WEEK-GOVERNOR SEES Mayor TOMORROW

To assist him in perfecting an efficient organization to ascertain Connecticut's military strength by canvassing every man in the state over 18 years old, Gov. Marcus H Holcomb has appointed Charles A Goodwin, Judge Walter H Clark, Bishop White and Samuel Ferguson of Hartford, Joseph W Alsop of Avon, Frank D Cheney of Manchester, compensation commissioner George B Chandler of Rocky Hill and Norman Moray and Dwight Holbrook of Hartford.

Some of them will lay aside their regular duties for several weeks in order to devote their entire attention to getting the desired information into the hands of the governor in as short a time as possible so that, if they war should come, Connecticut would find itself well-prepared.

Impetus was given in the governor's program yesterday by the mailing of letters to the selectmen of all the towns in the state, asking them to give freely of their time in taking charge of the taking of the military census and inventory of their respective towns. It was announced definitely yesterday that the mayors of the state would meet with the governor at the capitol tomorrow, as was anticipated in yesterday's Courant.

Handsome certificates to be used by the commissioners of the census takers appointed to every town by the governor will be prepared, and each official will be equipped with a special badge bearing the seal of Connecticut and the words ‘commissioner of military census’. It is hoped to have the actual work of canvassing started by the middle of next week, which would be very early considering the vast amount of organization work that must be done in every corner of the state before that can be done.

The Gov.'s committee, of which Charles Goodwin is the chief aid, had an important meeting yesterday afternoon and a German was taken until 430 this afternoon. Headquarters of the Census Bureau will be opened on the second floor of the Connecticut mutual building in space recently vacated by the Phoenix fire insurance company.

Following is a copy of the letter sent to the first selectmen by the governor yesterday:

Executive chambers, State Capitol
Hartford Connecticut February 7, 1917

Dear Sir,
Yesterday, the legislature, at my request, passed an act empowering me to cause to have taken a census, both of men and of resources of the state.

The act is as follows:

Section 1. That the governor is hereby to cause to be taken forthwith a census and inventory of resources of the state in men and materials, available for use in the event of war, and the information thereby accrued shall be placed at the service of both the state and the federal government.

Section 2. In the preparation of said census and inventory it shall be the duty of every public official in the state to furnish to the governor whatever information and assistance may be required.

Section 3. The comptroller is hereby directed, upon request of the governor, to draw his orders on the treasurer for all necessary expenses incurred in carrying into effect the provisions of this act.

Section 4. This act shall take effect from its passage.

I deem it of the utmost importance that full information should at once be gathered, whether this country actually becomes a party to the war or not. The present situation is one which calls for the utmost of serious thought and patriotic endeavor on the part of every citizen and especially of every official whether of the state or of the towns. I look to you, both as first selectmen of your town and as a citizen of Connecticut, to give to me unsparingly of your time and of your ability in the task I am about to assign to you.

The census is to be taken in each town, by agents who will bear a commission from me, as governor, to carry out the work.

I will appoint no man who will expect any reward other than the satisfaction of feeling that he has done his best, promptly and efficiently to serve his state in time of need.

A list of questions to be asked every male resident above 18 years of age, the answers to which should be at this crisis, be in the possession of the state, has been prepared and submitted to government officials for approval or correction.

It is expected that these blanks will be ready for distribution early in the coming week.

It will be the duty of each agent I shall appoint to thoroughly canvass the district assigned to him and cause to have the blanks filled in by each male resident above 18 years of age.

An office in the Connecticut mutual building number 36 Pearl St., Hartford, to be known as the Bureau of military census, has been opened. All matters pertaining to the census will be handled through the office and your reply to this letter should be addressed to it.

Under the authority vested in me by the act above mentioned, I call upon you to furnish, so that the information may be in the office not later than Monday, February 12, the names of men in your town who will undertake, under you as selectmen, the taking of the census.

These agents should be selected by you so that each may cover a district of your town with which he is familiar, and you should select them in such numbers that each may have approximately 50 residents to call upon.

Immediately upon receipt of these names, commissions covering their appointment, will be issued and you will be furnished with full printed instructions for each agent in the carrying on of the work. You will be required immediately upon receipt of same to call said agents together at some convenient site in your town, so that the commissions may be distributed, the instructions fully explained and the work entered upon forthwith.

To reiterate: your immediate duty is to select agents as outlined above and to have their names in the hands of the Bureau of military census, Connecticut mutual building, 36 Pearl St., Hartford, on or before Monday, February 12.

Signed Marcus H Holcomb, Gov.

Mayor Frank Hagerty called a special meeting of citizens yesterday, as the initial step towards obtaining a census of men and inventory of resources available in Hartford in case of war, if necessary. Hartford thus went on record as the first of Connecticut cities to act on the recommendations of the special message of the governor. Charles Goodwin outlined a plan of procedure.

The work of gathering the information will be conducted by subcommittees in the various wards of the city. A captain will be selected in each ward to have charge. Blanks will be supplied to the members of the committees on which the name and age of each man will be written.

“If this is not a success, it will not be the fault of the men who volunteer, “ Mr. Goodwin said. “The work will be done if it takes 1000 men. A model organization in the city will be a fine object lesson for other cities and towns in the state. It is the governor's idea. Connecticut will in turn serve as a fine example for other states in the union.

“Expert tabulators will be placed in offices at the Connecticut mutual life building, who will take returns. Persons to be seen by the canvassers will be asked what they can do if called on. If a man refuses to give the desired information, his general attitude will be noted. All questions are of course not yet clear. We should perfect our organization in 10 days.

Material resources

“After we have learned all about our man strength, the question of material resources will be in order. This work will be mostly up to the heads of our factories. I have not found anyone not interested in the scheme. The government does not want advice, it wants help. It is the intention of the state to give this help. It is worthwhile to know who is with us and who is against us.

Use of the personal tax list was suggested at the meeting.

A general committee to ascertain Hartford's capabilities was chosen. This consists of Mayor Frank Hagerty chairman; Capt. JH Kelso Davis, Capt. HH Saunders, Alderman. James H Dylan, Ernest Greer, Maj. Earl Church, Maj. Frank Macomber, United States district attorney Thomas Spellacy, Postmaster David Wilson, assessor Albert M Simons, Frank P Furlong, Charles A Goodwin, Maj. John L Purcell, chief of police Garrett J Farrell, Alderman Newton O Brainerd, Warren P Bristol and Street Commissioner John F Gaffey.

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The Bridgeport evening farmer
Bridgeport, Conn August 19, 1915 PRICE TWO CENTS
PAGE 7
WOMEN WHO POSE AS MEN

Every once in a few days one reads in the newspapers of some case of a woman who has disguised, herself in men's clothes, and has gone to work at some position commonly filled by a man. Probably there are many more cases of these disguises that are never discovered or at least never made public.
To many women with courage and physical strength, limitations still thrown about their sex seem not merely absurd but unjust. They feel perfectly competent to run street cars, build bridges, or dig ditches if need be. They see that nothing prevents their earning a man's pay at some strenuous occupation, except the accident of sex. For this they were in no wise responsible. The limitations of this sex accident can apparently be wholly eluded by the simple expendient of cutting their hair and donning a man’s suit, shoes and hat.
As far aa physical ability is concerned, most of them would “get by” in the disguise, were they not betrayed by something feminine in their appearance, or through some of the embarrassments of the situation. No doubt the conventional exclusion of women from certain employments seems so unfair that they feel conscience clear in disregarding the laws of the state and social customs.
It is of course a proceeding not to be encouraged. Men and women are not yet arrived at that sexless state
of perfection where they can herd together promiscuously. But some of the prejudices that hinder the advance of women, when known to be women, should so disappear that no woman would have the shadow of reason for posing as a man.
The men who object to the entrance of women into some new field are usually the inefficient and unsuccessful, who fear lest they could not stand feminine competition; The sense of fairness has long ago said that any work that a woman can do without injury to. herself should be open to her on even terms.

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State of Conn. Seal
Connecticut State Council of Defense
War Bulletin
No. 1
F
Suggestions and Requirements
For
Enemy Aliens
Contained in
The President’s Proclamation of War
April, 1917
Issued by the
Connecticut State Council of Defense
State Capitol
Hartford, Conn.

Stamped by the Conn. State Library – Date, April 1942
State of Connecticut seal
TO ENEMY ALIENS
The attention of subjects of countries now at war with the United States is called to the following suggestions and requirements contained in
THE PRESIDENT’S
PROCLAMATION OF WAR
April 6, 1917

War between the United States and Germany was proclaimed by the President of the United States, April 6, 1917. After referring to laws of the United States which empower him to restrain or remove enemy subjects, and to make regulations, the President, among other things, appeals to Americans to uphold the laws of this land of Freedom, calls attention to the fact that war has been thrust upon the Nation, and instructs and orders the subjects of the country with which the United States is at war as follows:
1. To preserve peace and obey the law.
2. To refrain from giving information, aid or comfort to the enemy of the United States.
3. To obey all Government requirements.
If enemy subjects comply with the Government’s instructions, the President assures them that they shall not be disturbed in their peaceful pursuits. (He specially enjoins citizens of the United States to treat all foreigners who conduct themselves in accordance with law, with kindness and friendliness.)
As part of the President’s Proclamation these regulations are added:
The subject of a country at war with the United States –
Shall not have in his possession firearms or parts of firearms, explosives, or material used to make explosives;
Shall not have in his possession or operate aircraft, wireless apparatus, forms of signaling devices or cipher codes, or have in his possession any book, paper, or document in cipher or in which there may be invisible writing.
Shall not be found within one-half of a mile of a fort, camp, arsenal, aircraft station, Government or naval vessel, navy yard, factory for manufacture of war munitions or products for use of army or navy (if in doubt an alien should consult his employer or the officials of the Government);
Shall not write, print or publish an attack or threat against the United States or the constituted authorities or their officials, or acts;
Shall not commit or aid in any hostile act against the United States or give information or aid to the enemy;
Shall not reside in any area from which he is excluded by order except by permit or under limitations prescribed by the President;
Shall not depart from the United States without permit form the President or under order of certain courts, judges or justices prescribed by law;
Shall not land in the United States except under prescribed restrictions at designated places.
The subjects of enemy nations may be required to register – and if found aiding the enemy or doing that which makes the authorities suspicious – will be subject to summary arrest or imprisonment.
The Connecticut State Council of Defense.

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Stamped on receipt by the Conn. State Library on May 14, 1998
State of Connecticut oval seal centered on the top of the page
The Connecticut Agricultural College Extension Service
H.J. Baker, Director
Published at the request of
The Connecticut Committee of Food Supply
The Connecticut Agricultural College and the United States Department of Agriculture Co-operating.
Cutting the Meat Bills With Milk
Emergency Food Series No. 2
These furnish the same amount of food measured by actual nourishment
1 qt milk at ………………. .15 cents
¾ lb round steak at……… .25 cents
8 eggs at …………….. .26 cents
Milk – A cheap Food
Therefore it would be economical to substitute milk sometimes for meet or eggs and reduce the cost without reducing the amount of food.
Milk is not the cheapest of all foods, but it is cheaper than meat or eggs. Combined with cereal or bread, it is cheaper than milk alone. Cereal alone is cheaper sill, but not so inviting. It is true economy to combine milk with cheaper foods and substitute it occasionally in place of more expensive foods.
Little Children & Big Children
All children until full grown should have a quart of milk a day. Adults would do well to drink a glass or two. If a child does not like to drink it, make it into custards, bread puddings, blancmanges – see that they get it somehow, for milk is milk, whether in a glass or in ice cream or soup.
[Blancmange (/bləˈmɒnʒ/ or /bləˈmɑːndʒ/, is a sweet dessert commonly made with milk or cream and sugar thickened with gelatin, cornstarch or Irish moss]]
For Hot Weather
Almost everyone enjoys milk in the summer. Ice-cold, with bread or crackers, milk is a good supper dish. Serve milk toast for breakfast in palce of the bacon. Substitute a glass of milk in place of a slice of meat once a day. Make a white sauce of 2 tablespoonsful butter, 2 tablespoonsful flour and 1 cup milk, and pour this over vegetables. Serve this instead of soup for lunch.
Milk a beverage and a food
Although it is liquid, it has much more nourishment than other beverages. It is in fact much richer than many solid foods. Do not look upon it merely as a drink to be added to a full meal. Serve it in place of other foods.
Don’t be a waster
If ½ cup of milk a day is wasted in the 20,000,000 [20 million] families of the United states, there will be a loss of two and half million quarts per day. If only one family in a hundred should waste a half cup of milk a day, there would still be a loss of a hundred thousand glasses a day. See that your house isn’t the one that wastes any milk, any day.
Every Drop Used
“Waste not, want not.” Sour milk has hundreds of possibilities. Make it into cottage cheese (another substitute for meat.) Old-fashioned sour milk molasses cakes are rich and nutritious. Sour cream makes delicious salad dressing.
Recipes Free
A bulletin giving recipes for use of both sweet and sour milk and cream will be sent free upon request.
State Committee of Food Supply, 36 Pearl St., Hartford, Conn.

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American Soldiers
Over There
Want Magazines
An appeal from the trenches in France to the firesides in America
A request for magazines and similar reading matter came to this country by cable last week from the American soldiers fighting in France, some of whom come from Connecticut homes. There are many thousands of Americans “over there” and it will take many thousands of magazines to keep them supplied with the kind of reading matter they were accustomed to before they left hoe, so many in fact that isolated shipments of magazines will not go ‘round. The United States government provided a way of getting plenty of magazines to the soldiers when it passed the law allowing them to be mailed for one cent apiece, but the American public has not yet taken full advantage of the plan.
The people of Connecticut are urged to do all in their power to meet this need of the soldiers promptly. Everyone who has magazines that he has finished reading should mail them as quickly as possible. Volunteer war workers can do a great amount of good by collecting magazines and stamps from their neighbors and friends and mailing them.
Care should be taken to follow the mailing instructions which are printed in small type on the covers of nearly all the best known magazines. Old magazines published before the special law was passed and therefore not bearing the special printed instructions cannot be sent in this way.
Connecticut state council of Defense.

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Military Service Record

This is the Military Service Record of Nicola Andreazzi
Born on October 18 , 1891
In Acerra, Pritania Ni Caserta County, Italy
Father’s Name : Gianvanni Andreazzi. Born in Italy
Mother’s Maiden Name: Gisseppa Andreazzi. Born in Italy
Are you white, colored, Indian, or Mongolian:White
Citizen: Yes
Voter: no
Church: Catholic
Married: Yes in Meriden, Conn. to (maiden name): Mary Egizzi
Children: None indicated, crossed out.
Occupation before entry to the service: Baker
Employer: 31 Fillmore Street, New Haven, Conn.
Residence before entry into service: 377 East Street, New Haven, Conn. in the County of
New Haven
Present home address: 18 Cain Street, New Haven, Conn. In the county of New Haven
Inducted into service or enlisted on: April 25 (1918) at City Hall, New Haven, Conn.
As a: Private in Infantry
(Note that the “word” inducted is crossed out)
Identification Number: none indicated
Assigned originally to: Company “B”, 304th Regiment, 26th Division
Trained or stationed before going to Europe: Camp Devens
Transferred to: F Company, 128th regiment, 32nd Division
Promoted: No – Private on April 25, 1918
Embarked from: Boston On the ship: (writes) “Do not remember”
And arrived in England – no date indicated
Trained or stationed abroad: France at only 10 days before I were send in line in the Argonne
War Record
First went into action on August 2, 1918 in Mecy, France
Participated in the following engagements: Ainse Marne; Meuse Argonne; part of Army Occupation
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services. (Give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): None
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: None indicated
Under medical care: None indicated.
Permanently disabled: None indicated
Arrived at: Not indicated
Discharged from service at Camp Upton on May 19, 1919 as a Private
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: None indicated.
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated,
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
(No answer)
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
Good.
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England or elsewhere? (No answer)
If you took part in fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?
I was not afraid to die for my country.
Photographs: one photograph in uniform, submitted
Additional data:
(a three-page letter submitted in Italian –with a portion written in English) –
Dear Sir: I can’t not writing in English but I will writing few line in Italian. Please have someone to transe to you. [The remainder of the letter is written in Italian. He also submitted a photograph of himself in uniform. Letter signed by Nicola Andreazzi

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Military Service Record

This is the Military Service Record of Harry Smith Campbell
Born on September 29, 1884 In Adrogue, FGS Buenos Aires Argentina, Rep. South America in the County of TCS
Father’s Name: Thomas Campbell Born in: Scotland
Mother’s Maiden Name: Anita Noble Born in: Argentina, South America
Are you white, colored, Indian, or Mongolian: White
Citizen: no
Voter: no
Church: Christian Scientist
Married: No
Fraternal Orders: none
Previous Military Experience: none
Occupation before entry to the service: Salesman in Latin America
Employer: Colt’s P.F.A. Mfg. Co.
Residence before entry into service: Hotels in Hartford, Conn.
Present Home Address: Colt’s Arms Co. Hartford, Conn.
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted on Aug. 22, 1917 in Niantic, Conn. As a: Private
in the: 101 Machine Gun Battalion, Section of the National Guard
Identification number: 108804
Assigned originally to Company B, 101 Machine Gun Regiment, 26th Division
Trained or stationed before going to Europe in Niantic, Conn. from Aug. 22, 1917 to Oct. 8, 1917.
Transferred to: No response -- Crossed out
Promoted from the rank of 1st class Private to the rank of Corporal on Sept. 21, 1918.
Embarked from: Montreal On the ship: Megantic On Oct. 1 , 1917
And arrived at (port): Liverpool On: [no date given]
Proceeded from: Liverpool To: Borden On: [no date given]
From: Borden To Southhampton On: [no date give
From: Southhampton To: Havre on: [no date given]
Trained or stationed abroad in France from Nov. 1, 1917 to Feb. 8, 1918.
First went into action on Feb. 11, 1918 In Chemin des Dames
Participated in the following engagements: Chemin des Dames, Toul Sector, Apremont Aisne Marne, Saint Mihiel, Troyon Sector, Meuse Argonne
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services: None indicated, section crossed out.
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: None indicated, section crossed out.
Under medical care: None indicated, section crossed out.
Permanently disabled: None indicated
Arrived in Boston On the ship: Agamemnon On April 9, 1919 From Brest, France
Discharged at Camp Devons on April 29, 1919 as a corporal
Return to civilian life: Traveling Salesman for Latin America
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated, section crossed out.
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular? Considered as a necessary evil.
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical? Gave me more poise and better judgement in dealing with other men and conditions. Considerable improvement physically.
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England? It has created in me a sense of resentment toward conditions, which necessitate people’s to resort to violence to settle disputes, which they had confidently left to their representatives to handle.
If you took part in the fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience? That it was a necessary evil. That there was neither honour nor glory in butchering someone you didn’t know and couldn’t hate. It was a case of the minus stitch which might have saved mine.
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war? It has given me a greater love for humanity and has even taught me to sympathize with my enemies. That might, without right, has neither known, glory or flag.
Photographs –None
Signed in Hartford, Conn. On April 3, 1919
Signature: Harry S. Campbell Rank: Corporal 101 Machine Gun Battalion.

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Military Service Record

This is the Military Service Record of John Francis Carini
Born on July 7, 1895 in Chester, Connecticut in Middlesex County in the United States
Fathers Name: Frank Carini Born in Italy
Mother’s Maiden Name: Domenica Carini Born in Italy
Are you white, colored, Indian, or Mongolian:White
Citizen: YES
Voter: Yes
Church: Roman Catholic
Married: No
Fraternal Orders: Pattaconk Council No. 46 O.U.A.M.
Previous Military Experience: none.
Occupation before entry to the service: Mechanic
Employer: None indicated
Residence before entry into service: Pleasant Street, Chester, Connecticut in Middlesex County
Present home address: Pleasant Street, Chester, Connecticut in Middlesex County
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted: on Sept. 19, 1917 at Deep River, Conn. as a Private
Assigned originally to: Company A, 301st Machine Gun Battalion Regiment, 76th Division
(Note that the word “inducted” is crossed out)
Identification Number: 1655272
Trained or stationed before going to Europe at Camp Devens in Ayer, Mass. Sept. 19, 1917 to July 7, 1918.
Transferred to: Company C, 120th Machine Gun Battalion Regiment, 32 Division on Aug. 28, 1918 to a location in France near Soisson.
Promoted to: None indicated
Embarked from: Boston, Mass On the ship : Cardiganshire and arrived at Tilbury Docks On July 22, 1918
Proceeded from: London To: Winchester, England On July 23, 1918
From: Winchester, England To: La Harvre, France On July 25, 1918
From : La Harvre To: Lunery, France On July 31, 1918
Trained or stationed abroad Selles Sur Cher, France from August 15, 1918 to Aug. 26, 1918
First went into action on Aug. 28, 1918 in Soisson, France
Participated in the following engagements: Aisne and Aisne Offensives, Meuse-Argonne offensives
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services: None indicated, section crossed out.
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: None indicated, section crossed out.
Under medical care: None indicated, section crossed out.
Permanently disabled: None indicated
Arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey On the ship: Von Steuben On May 13, 1919 from Brest, France
Discharged from service at Camp Upton, NY on: May 23, 1919 as a 1st class private.
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: mechanic
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated, section crossed out.
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
I felt that it was my duty as a U.S. citizen to help defend my country. I preferred being in the Machine Gun company to any other service.
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
Camp life in the U.S. made me healthier and stronger than I had ever been before. It made me think of world problems more seriously.
What were the effects upon yourself experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England?
The harder life in overseas duty made me lose flesh with more tendency to colds and partial sickness.
If you took part in fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience? The masses of dead and wounded after our fights in the Argonne and the cheapness of human life there impressed me most. .
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
I realize more than ever the cruelty of war.
Photographs: None included:
Additional data: none included or indicated
Signed in Chester, Conn. On Aug. 26, 1919
Signature: John Francis Carini Rank: 1st class private Branch: Machine Gun Battalion
The information contained was obtained in this record, unless indicated, was obtained from the following persons or sources: signed, John Francis Carini

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Military Service Record

This is the Military Service Record of Carroll Burton Case
Born on April 14, 1896 In Canton, Connecticut in Hartford County
Father’ Name: G. Burton Case Born in the USA
Mother’s Maiden Name: Ida G. Webster Born in the USA
Are you white, colored, Indian, or Mongolian: White
Citizen: Yes
Voter: No
Church: Protestant
Married: Single
Fraternal Orders: Alpha Tau Kappa at Trinity College
Previous Military Experience: None
Occupation before entry to the service: College student
Employer: None indicated
Residence before entry into service: 23 Harvard Street, Hartford, Conn. in Hartford County
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted on July 16, 1917 in Hartford, Conn. as a Private
In the Infantry Section of the National Guard of Connecticut
(Note that the words Inducted into service are crossed out, indicating that he enlisted.)
Identification number: 65795
Assigned originally to Company K , 1st Conn. Infantry Regiment, Division of the National Guard
Trained or stationed before going to Europe at Goodwin Corps. in Hartford, Conn. from July 16, 1917 – July 23, 1917; an at Camp Yale in New Haven, Conn. from July 23, 1917 – Sept. 15, 1917.
Transferred to Company K, 102nd Regiment, 26th Division on August 25, 1917.
Promoted from the rank of Private to the rank of Private,1st class on Sept. 25, 1917; from the rank of Private, 1st class to the rank of Corporal on Nov. 1, 1918; and from the rank of Corporal to the rank of Sergeant on April 19, 1919.
Embarked from: Montreal On the ship SS Canada On Sept. 16, 1917
And arrived at (port): Liverpool, England on Oct. 2, 1917
Proceeded from: Liverpool, Eng. To: Southhampton, Eng. on Oct. 2, 1917
From: Southhampton, Eng. To: Le Harve, France on Oct. 5, 1917
Trained or stationed abroad: in Certilleux (Vosges) training area, France from Oct. 7, 1917 to Feb. 6, 1918 – from Feb. 1918 until the signing of the Armistice
First went into action (on Feb. 8, 1918 In Chemin des Dames, France
Participated in the following engagements: Seicheprey, 2nd Battle of the Marne, Saint-Mihiel offensive, Marcheville, Meuse-Argonne offensive
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services. (Give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): None indicated
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: Gassed slightly in Seicheprey on April 20, 1918
Under medical care: Never admitted to any hospital
Permanently disabled: None indicated
Arrived in Boston On the ship: USS Agamemnon on April 8, 1919 From: Brest, France
Discharged at Camp Devens, Mass. On April 29, 1919 As a: Sergeant
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: None indicated
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated,
Survey questions: None answered
Additional information: (Comments below were submitted on a one-page hand-written letter)
I was continually at the front with my organization with the exception of a couple weeks after the 2nd Battle of the Marne during the month of August 1918, when we had a rest at Bissey-la-Cote, Cote d’Or in the Chatillion’s area. From the time of the signing of the armistice, when we were at the Verdun front, till our departure for America, we were stationed two months at Mandres, Hte Marne, and two months in the Le Mans Embarkation area at Saint-Biez-en-Belin, Sarthe. Was held about three days at Brest before embarking for USA.
Photograph –Enclosed (photograph in uniform following his discharge from service) signed Sgt. Carrol B. Case, Company K. 102 Infantry on May 1, 1919 – Taken after discharged from service.

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Military Service Record

This is the Military Service Record of Humbert Francis Cofrancesco
Born on: January 25, 1900
In New Haven, Connecticut in the United States of America
Father’s Name: Ralph Cofrancesceo Born in Italy
Mother’s Maiden Name: Elizabeth Ciarleglio Born in Italy
Are you white, colored, Indian, or Mongolian: White
Citizen: YES
Voter: No
Church: Roman Catholic
Married: No
Fraternal Orders: None
Previous Military Experience: None
Occupation before entry to the service: Student; graduate of Horace Day Grammar School (1914); New Haven High School (1918) about to enter Yale College
Employer: none indicated
Residence before entry into service: 2 Asylum St. ,New Haven, Conn. in the County of
New Haven
Present home address: 2 Asylum St., New Haven, Conn. in the county of New Haven
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted: on October 3, 1918 in New Haven, Connecticut as a Private.
In the: Field Artillery Section of the National Army
(Note that word “inducted” is underlined.)
Identification Number: (Army Serial) 490 5914
Assigned originally to Battery “B”, Students’ Army Training Corps, Yale University at New Haven, Connecticut
Trained or stationed before going to Europe: Did not go to Europe
Stationed at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. from September 26, 1918 to December 19th, 1918
Transferred to: Special duty in office of Quartermaster on Nov 13th, 1918 to S.A.T.C. (Student Army Training Corps.), Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Promoted: No
Embarked from: None indicated, crossed out
Proceeded from: None indicated and crossed out
Trained or stationed abroad: None indicated and crossed out.
War Record
First went into action None indicated and crossed out.
Participated in the following engagements: None indicated and crossed out.
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services. (None indicated and crossed out.
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: None indicated
Under medical care: None indicated.
Permanently disabled: None indicated
Discharged from service in New Haven, Connecticut on December 19th, 1918 as a Private
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: Student, Class of 1922 at Yale College
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated, crossed out.
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
See separate sheets annexed hereto.
[Answers are typed in a separate sheet]
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
See separate sheets annexed hereto.
[Answers are typed in a separate sheet]
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England or elsewhere? None indicated, crossed out.
If you took part in fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience? None indicated, crossed out.
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
See separate sheets annexed hereto.
Photographs: Two are submitted, signed and dated, Dec. 1917 and in uniform on Dec. 22,1918.

Signed in New haven, Connecticut On July 23, 1919

Signature: Humbert Francis Cofrancesco Rank: Private Branch: Field Artillery & Q.M.C.
The information contained was obtained in this record, unless indicated, was obtained from the following persons or sources: Honorable discharge; and Humbert Francis Cofrancesco

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Military Service Record

This is the Military Service Record of John Patrick Dwyer
Born on December 19, 1893 In Waterbury, Connecticut, USA In New Haven Country
Father’s Name of Father: William Born in England
Mother’s Maiden Name: MaryJane Parker Born in England
Are you white, colored, Indian, or Mongolian: White
Citizen: YES
Voter: YES
Church: Congregational
Married: Yes on Feb. 27, 1922 in Waterbury, Connecticut
To: Gladys Whitehouse Born: on Dec. 4, 1901 in England
Children: John Born on June 16, 1925 in Waterbury
Ruth Mary Born on Dec. 11, 1923 in Waterbury
Edward Born on Jan. 15, 1927 at Waterbury
Fraternal Orders: Veterans Foreign Wars, Yankee Division
Previous Military Experience: None
Occupation before entry to the service: Machinist
Employer: Manville’s Machine
Residence before entry into service: West Easton Ave., Waterbury, Connecticut in New Haven
County
Present home address: 36 Ives Street, Waterbury, Connecticut in New Haven County
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted On June 17, 1917 in Waterbury as a: Private
In the: Company “G” Infantry section of the National Guard.
(Note that the word inducted into service is crossed out, leaving only the word “enlisted”)
Identification Number: 65057
Assigned originally to Company “G”, 102nd Regiment, 26th Division.
Trained or stationed before going to Europe: New Haven
Went aboard transport USS Lenake in September. Ship broke down about two days out, returning to shore at Fort Totten. Stayed there about three weeks, then sailed on Adriatic from June 1917 to September 1917.

Transferred to: None indicated
Promoted from the rank of private to the rank of Corporal on July 1918; promoted from the rank of corporal to the rank Sergeant on October 1918.
Embarked from: Hoboken, New Jersey On the ships: Lenake and Adriatic
In September and October, respectively And arrived at (port): Liverpool, Eng.
In November 1917
Proceeded from: Liverpool, Eng. To: Le Havre, France In November 1917
From: Le Havre, France To: Rouvres La Chetive, France In November 1917
From: Rouvres La Chetive, France To: Front line In February 1918
Trained or stationed abroad: at Rouvres La Chetive, France
First went into action on Feb. 4, 1918 In Chambre des Dames
Participated in the following engagements: Toul Front, Chambre des dames, Chateau-Thierry, Saint-Mihiel, Argonne
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services. (Give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed):
Recommended for D.S.C. (Distinguished Service Cross at Toul for carrying wounded sergeant, Name Singer, from Front Line over the top of trenches, was all smashed in from shell fire and could not go that way.
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: Wound in left hand in Chateau Thierry, France July 21, 1918 Did not go to hospital until after the Armistice. Went to Hospital with the flu and also had hand operated on unsuccessfully.
Under medical care: at Hospital Base 77 in Autun from November 1918 to January 1918; Also operated on at Newport News and Fort Mc Henry, Baltimore, Md.
Permanently disabled (specify): left hand, palm of hand
Arrived: Newport News On July 1919 from Paris
At Camp Dix On November 17, 1919 Discharged as a: Sergeant
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: Fireman, City of Waterbury
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated,
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
I believe the US was justified or I would not have enlisted. Believe in this country being prepared for defense but also helping hereafter they should stay home and do it.
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
I think the training etc. done me good, but was more interested in getting across the pond than anything else.
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience, either in the army, or navy or in campy in France, England or elsewhere?
A hatred of war as now I consider it both silly and inhuman and not a civilized way of settling anything.
If you took part in the fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?
What a rotten thing war is the first time. I began to say that was when I saw three comrades about 18 years old blown to bits with a H.E. (high explosive) shell, then I began to wonder just what it was all about.
What effect has been the effect of all these experiences contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
I just wish I had the education to be able to explain myself in writing, but it’s no go so I want try it. Perhaps it’s for the best at that.
Signed at Waterbury, Conn. On 19th of December, 1921
Signature: John P. Dwyer Rank: Sergeant Branch: Infantry

Additional data: 2-page Handwritten letter attached to the War Record survey At the top of the letter, it reads: “In reference to Honor”
Also served in the 204th MP (Military Police) Company in Paris from January to July 1919. While in the 102nd, served as Sergeant Battalion Sniper. [A letter was attached to the form.] In reference to honor: In reference to the time I was recommended for the Distinguished Service Cross, Sergeant Singer of Ansonia was very dangerously wounded, and it was essential that he be moved from the front line to Beaumont, where they would better be able to take care of him. So Captain Gettings of the Medical Corp. (he is now living in New Haven) asked for volunteers to carry him over. It was impossible to carry him by way of the trenches as they were all caved in by shell fire. Another man, name Tournard and myself undertook to do the job. It was on the 21st of April about 11 a.m., a nice bright day and we had to carry him about ½ mile in plain sight of the Germans. We were about half way over when they started to fire from Mont Lec with one of their many 77. They would fire one in front of us as we heard it coming, we would drop Singer and throw ourselves on the ground. After it had broke, we would run to the wounded man and pick him up again. Then, they would fire one in back of us and we would do the same as we did before. They were trying to bracket us “the meanies” and they continued to keep that up all the way across. I believe we threw them off their aim by dropping as we did. Anyway, we got him over ok. That is almost over when Mr. Tournard got shell shock and was unable to continue, but we were close to the reserve lines by then and some engineers ran out and helped me carry the man in. They all carried Tournard in too. He went to the hospital avec (with) Singer. Tournard was from Company A. St. Thomson of the 2nd Battalion snipers recommended us for the medal but he did not have any luck or rather we didn’t. Wel ce le Guerre. PS. Singer died from his wounds about five years ago. (Letter Signed) John P. Dwyer, 36 Ives St. Waterbury, Ct.

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Military Service Record

This is the Military Service Record of Maurice B. Fischman
Born on: January 27, 1896
In New Haven, Connecticut USA
Father’s Name: Samuel S. Fischman Born in Russia
Mother’s Maiden Name: Anna A. Born in: Russia
Are you white, colored, Indian, or Mongolian: White
Citizen: YES
Voter: Yes
Church: Jewish
Married: Yes On: June 10, 1917 in New Haven, Conn.
To (maiden name): Esthur G. Silver Born: June 20, 1896 in Russia
Children: Arnold Ewing Born on Sept. 24, 1918 in New Haven, Conn.
Fraternal Orders: Independent Rambam Lodge and Yankee Division Veterans Association
Previous Military Experience: Connecticut National Guard for 3 ½ years
Occupation before entry to the service: Printer
Employer: New Haven Printing Co.
Residence before entry into service: Street: 457 Greenwich Ave. New Haven, Conn. In the
county of New Haven.
Present home address: 36 Button Street, New Haven, Conn. in the county of New Haven.
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted: on March 12, 1914 in New Haven, Conn.
As a: Private in Company D 102 Infantry (formerly 2nd Conn. Reg.) Division of the National Guard
(Note that the word “inducted” is crossed out)
Identification Number: 1869028
Assigned originally to: Company D 102 Infantry 26th Division
Trained or stationed before going to Europe: None indicated
Transferred to: None indicated
Promoted to: None indicated
Embarked from: Hoboken-Halifax On the ship: SS. Arcadia On Sept. 9
And arrived at (port): Liverpool, Eng. On: Sept. 24
Proceeded from: Liverpool, Eng. To: France On: Sept. 26
Trained or stationed abroad: Landaville in Neufchateau, France from Oct. 1917 to Dec. 1917.
First went into action on Feb. 2, 1918 in Trenches near Chamin de Dames:
Participated in the following engagements: H4 Sector, Toul Sector
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services: None indicated
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: ken prisoner in Seicheprey on April 20, 1918; Released after signing of the Armistice on Nov. 24, 1918
Under medical care: in the base hospital in Langue, France from January 1919 to March 1919.
Permanently disabled: None indicated
Arrived: Newport News, Va. On the ship: USS DeKalb on March 1919 from France
Discharged from service at Camp Upton on March 26, 1919 as a private
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: Printer
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
Well, I was already in the service so I didn’t worry none.
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
None indicated
What were the effects upon yourself experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England?
Same as with everybody else.
If you took part in fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?
That a man when going “over the top” is temporarily insane.
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
None indicated.
Photographs: None included.
Additional Data: None included
Signed in New Haven, Connecticut On October 6th, 1919
Signature: Maurice B. Fischman Rank: Private Branch: 102nd M.S. Infantry

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This is the Military Service Record of Alexander Joseph Flynn
Note: This survey was typed by the respondent
Born on July 4th, 1894 In New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, U.S.A.
Father’s Name: Alexander W. Flynn Born in US
Mother’s Maiden Name: Annie Conway Born in USA
Are you white, colored, Indian, Mongolian: white
Citizen: Yes
Voter: NO
Church: Roman Catholic
Married: no
Fraternal Orders: Knights of Columbus
Previous Military Experience: Enlisted National Guard – June 22, 1916
Occupation before entry to the service: Clerk
Employer: NY NH & H. R.R. Co. [New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company]
Residence before entry into service: 247 Orchard Street, New Haven in New Haven County
Present Home Address: 247 Orchard Street, New Haven, Connecticut
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted on: June 22, 1916 In New Haven, Conn.
As a: Private In the: Medical Corps Section of the National Guard
NOTE: the words, “Inducted into service or” were X’d out by the typewriter he used to complete this survey.
Identification number: 3837
Assigned originally: 102nd Field Hospital Company, 101st San. Train Regiment, 26th Division
Trained or stationed before going to Europe:
School/camp/station/ship From To
National Guard detachment, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.
June 18 1917
Aug. 25, 1917

Transferred to: None
Promoted- from the rank of private to the rank of Private 1st class in February 1917; from private 1st class to corporal on May 4, 1918; and from Corporal to sergeant on October 1918.
Embarked from: Pier 60, North River On the ship: Cedric, White Star Line On Oct. 3, 1917
And arrived at Liverpool, England. On Oct. 17, 1917
Proceeded from: Liverpool, England. To: Le Havre, France On: Oct. 22, 1917
From: Le Havre, France To: Bazoilles sur Meuse On: Oct. 29, 1917
From: Bazoilles sur Meuse, France to Soissons, France on Feb. 10, 2017

Trained or stationed abroad:
Country Place From To
France
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October 29, 1917
May 5th, 1919

First went into action on Feb. 10, 1918 In Soissons, France
Participated in the following engagements: Chemin des Dames Sector, Feb. 10 to March 21, 1918; Toul Sector April 1st, 1918 to June 28, 1918; Aisne Marne Offensive July 18th to 28th, 1918; Saint Mihiel offensive Sept. 26th to 28th, 1918; and Meuse-Argonne offensive Oct. 10, 1918 to Nov. 11th, 1918.
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services (give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): None

Killed in action, killed by accident died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: None
Under medical care: None
Permanently disabled (specify): none
Arrived: Boston, Mass. On the ship: Winifredian On April 18, 1919 From Brest, France
Discharged from service at: Camp Devens, Mass. On April 29, 1919 as a Sergeant M.C.
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: Clerk
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
Favorable, as a duty to my country.
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
Improved me both physically and mentally.
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England?
Rather unpleasant in the matter of personal comforts.
If you took part in the fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?
That Sherman was right.
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
That United States is a pretty good country to live in and my desire for the romance and glory of war is at an end.
Photographs: Sorry, but was never conceited enough to have onte take.
Additional data: none submitted
Signed in New Haven, Connecticut ON: August 10th, 1919
Signature: Alexander Joseph Flynn Rank: Sergeant Branch: Medical Corps.

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This is the Military Service Record of Charles Raymond Goddard
Note: This survey was typed by the respondent
Born on March 25, 1888 In Southwick, Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States
Father’s Name: Clarence W. Goddard Born in USA
Mother’s Maiden Name: Etta C. Fullerr Born in USA
Are you white, colored, Indian, Mongolian: white
Citizen: Yes
Voter: Yes
Church: Congregational
Married: Single
Children: none
Fraternal Orders: None
Previous Military Experience: None
Occupation before entry to the service: Attorney-At-Law
Employer: None indicated
Residence before entry into service: #97 Bushnell Street, Hartford in Hartford County
Present Home Address: #97 Bushnell Street, Hartford, Connecticut in Hartford County i
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted on: Sept. 19th, 1917 In Hartford, Conn.
As a: Private In the: Machine Gun Section of the National Army
Identification number: 2,387,594
Assigned originally: CompanyB, 303rd Machine Gun Battalion, 76 Division at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass.
Trained or stationed before going to Europe:
School/camp/station/ship From To
Camp Devens
Sept. 20th 1917
Feb. 6th, 1918

Camp Greene
Feb. 9th, 1918
April 6, 1918

Camp Merritt April 7th, 1918 April 15th, 1918

Transferred to:
Company Regiment Division Ship Date New location
G company
61st Infantry
5th Division
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Feb. 6th, 1918
Camp Greene

Postal Detachment 5th Division Dec. 2, 1918 Luxembourg

Promoted- no promotions
Embarked from: Hoboken, NJ On the ship: Czar On April 16, 1918
And arrived at Brest, France. On April 28th, 1918
Proceeded from: Camp Pontenezen. To: Bar-Sur-Aube On:: May 2, 1918
From: Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg To: Brest, France On: July 4th, 1919
Trained or stationed abroad:
Country Place From To
France
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April 28th, 1918
Dec. 2nd, 1918

Luxembourg and Germany
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Dec. 2nd, 1918
July 4th, 1919

France and Belgium
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July 5th, 1918
July 13th, 1919

First went into action on July 20th, 1918 In Gerardmer Sector, Vosges
Participated in the following engagements: Gerardmer Sector, Vosges, Anould Sector, Vosges, St. Die Sector, Vosges, Saint Mihiel Sector, and Meuse-Argonne offensive.
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services (give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): None awarded

Killed in action, killed by accident died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner:
Nature of casualty Place Date
Gassed
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
October, 1918

Under medical care:
Hospital Location From To
Base Hospital
Camp Devens
Jan. 17th, 1918
Jan. 31st, 1918

Evacuation Hospital Brueres, France Aug. 28th, 1918 Aug. 31st, 1918
Base Hospital Camp Upton July 30th, 1919 Aug. 6th, 1919

Permanently disabled (specify): Partial loss of eyesight
Arrived: Hoboken, NJ On the ship: Agamemnon On July 21st, 1919 From Brest
Discharged from service at: Camp Upton, NY On August 6th, 1919 as a Private
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: Attorney-At-Law
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
It seemed in the national emergency that it was the duty of one to go as much as another and that the draft was the fairest determination both of the order in which we went to camp and of those entitled to exemption from service.
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
The calisthenics, hikes and regular habits were essential for the endurance which followed.
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England?
Drill and marches were very strenuous; was near the point of exhaustion many times.
If you took part in the fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?
That an advance was most successful after a short barrage followed by waves of mopping up parties.
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
I I believe in a short period of compulsory military service, the same being both beneficial to the men and affording the government an opportunity to rosterize men capable of military service at short notice in a national crisis.
Photographs: None submitted.
Additional data: none submitted
Signed in Hartford, Connecticut ON: August 28th, A>D. 19191 in Charleston, Ill.
Signature: Charles Raymond Goddard Rank: Private Branch: Infantry

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This is the Military Service Record of Lawrence Thomas Hager
Born on March 20, 1893 In Danbury, Conn. In: Fairfield County
Father’s Name: Charles F. Hager Born in USA
Mother’s Maiden Name: Catherine Sharfenberg Born in USA
Are you white, colored, Indian, Mongolian: white
Citizen: Yes
Voter: No
Church: Baptist
Married: no
Fraternal Orders: BPG Elks, Actors Equity Association
Previous Military Experience: None
Occupation before entry to the service: Actor & Singer, Musical comedy and Vaudeville
Employer: None indicated
Residence before entry into service: 147 Triangle Street, Danbury, Conn.
Present Home Address: 147 Triangle Street, Danbury, Conn. in Fairfield County
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted on: March 29, 1918 In Danbury, Conn.
As a: Private In the: Depot Brigade Section of the National Army
Identification number: 1,685,716
Assigned originally: Company: None indicated Regiment: None indicated
Division: None indicated
Trained or stationed before going to Europe:
School/camp/station/ship From To
Camp Devens
March 30, 1918
April 18, 1918

Camp Upton
April 19, 1918
April 24, 1918

Transferred to:
Company Regiment Div Ship Date New location
Company A
320 Machine Gun Battalion
82nd
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April 20, 1918
Camp Upton

Promoted- none indicated
Embarked from: New York On the ship: S.S. Caronia On April 24, 1918
And arrived at Liverpool, Eng. On May 7, 1918
Proceeded from: Liverpool, Eng. To: Romsey, Eng. On:: May 8, 1918
From: Romsey, Eng. To: LeHarve, France On: May 16, 1918
Trained or stationed abroad:
Country Place From To
France
Sallenelles
May 20, 1918
June 16, 1918

France
Marou
June 18, 1918
July 13, 1918

France
Manonville
July 16, 1918
July 16, 1918

First went into action on July 16, 1918 In Toul Sector
Participated in the following engagements: Saint Mihiel drive, Baulny, Charpentry Fleville, Chehery and La Viergette in the Argonne Drive and Saint Juvin
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services (give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): None indicated

Killed in action, killed by accident died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner:
Nature of casualty Place Date
Shrapnel wounds (note spelled by respondent at Sharfinel) Had my forehead and part of chin blown off
Near Grand Pre Argonne
Oct. 15, 1918

Under medical care:
Hospital Location From To
Base # 46
Batailles-sur-Meuse
Oct. 16, 1918
Jan. 7, 1919

Permanently disabled (specify): 16%
Arrived: Newport News On the ship: USS Artemis On May 24, 1919 From Saint Mayaire
Discharged from service at: Camp Upton, NY On June 3, 1918 as a Private
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: Actor
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
I was rejected twice, the first time in Denver, Colo. and in Plattsburg, NY. I was anxious to get into the service.
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
Wasn’t in camps here long enough to find out.
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England?
After I got out of the hospital, I toured the leave areas and camps with a show known as the “Whiz Bangs.”
If you took part in the fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?
Wouldn’t want to take a million for my experience, or go through it again.
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
I have had lots of trouble with my head and my mind is bad. And I am very nervous.
Photographs: Photograph in uniform, dated March 15, 1919 taken in Nimes, France. Headshot taken before going into service.
Additional data: Will include some newspaper clippings with photographs – Additional documents included with his survey: 1) Letter from State librarian addressed to Mr. Lawrence Thomas Hager dated May 13, 1921; 2) copy of poster, “The Convalescent Entertainers, 10 Whiz Bangs Back from the Front”; 3) Newspaper article from the Bridgeport Herald, dated June 15, 1919, titled, The “Whiz Bangs” Are Home Again; 4) newspaper article, undated and newspaper not indicated, entitled, “Wears Dead Man’s Eyebrow – Surgeons Rebuilt Lawrence Hager’s Face and Head”; 5) Post Card identifying where the picture was taken while he was touring with the Whiz Bangs.
Signed Lawrence T. Hager ON: May 6, 1921 in Charleston, Ill.

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This is the Military Service Record of Raymond Joseph Queenin
Born on November 7, 1893
In Meriden CT USA
Father’s Name: John Patrick Queenin Born in Scotland
Mother’s Maiden Name: Mary Ellen Smith Born in USA (New Hampshire)
Are you white, colored, Indian, Mongolian: White
Citizen: yes
Voter: yes
Church: Catholic
Married: not yet
Fraternal Orders: Knights of Columbus, Ancient Order of Hibernians, YMTA & B Society
Previous Military Experience: Enlisted Company E 1st Conn. Infantry, Jan. 25th, 1915. Mexican Boarder Service, Nogales Ariz. June to October 1916
Occupation before entry to the service: Salesman (Domino Sugars)
Employer: The American Sugar Refining Co. of NY
Residence before entry into service: 125 Fairview St. , New Britain, Conn.
In Hartford County
Present home address: 125 Fairview St., New Britain, Conn.
In Hartford County
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted on: Jan 25 1915 in New (note that the rest of the town is not visible because the copy of file includes part of another document)
In Company E, 1st Connecticut Infantry As a: private
In the: Infantry Section of the National Guard
(Note that the words “Inducted into service or” are crossed out)
Identification number: 64601
Assigned originally to: Company: Company E, 102nd Infantry, 26th Division in New Britain, Conn.
Trained or stationed before going to Europe: at Yale Field in New Haven from July 18, 1917 to Sept. 21st, 1917; and Fort Totten in New York from Sept. 27th, 1917 to October 26, 1917
Transferred to: None indicated
Promoted - From the rank of private to the rank of corporal on Aug. 9, 1915; and from the rank of corporal to the rank of sergeant on April 6, 1917.
Embarked from: Hoboken, NJ on 9/22/17 On the ship : Lenake (wrecked three days out and returned. Left again on SS Adriatic on Oct 26th from New York
And arrived in Liverpool, Eng. On Nov 9th, 1917
Proceeded from: Liverpool To: Southampton From Nov 9 to Nov. 10, 1917
From: Southampton Eng. To: Le Havre France On: Nov 11, 1917
From: Le Havre To: Rouvres-la-Chétive pas Chatenois Vosges On Nov. 12 & 13 1917
Trained or stationed abroad: Rouvres-la-Chétive pas Chatenois Vosge, France from Nov. 13, 1917 to Feb. 4, 1918
First went into action on: Feb. 8, 1918 in: Chemin des Dames (Near Soissons)
Participated in the following engagements: Chemin des Dames from Feb 6, 1918 to Mar 20, 1918. Toul Sector from April 1 to June 30.
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services. (Give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): None (Except with Company Battalion Regiment or Division.
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: Gassed (mustard) Epieds near Chateau Theirry on July 23, 1918; Exhausted (back wrenched by shell explosion and being thrown into a trench by the explosion in Verdun on October 24, 1918 .
Under medical care:
Hospital Location From To
Evac #7
Near Chateau Thierry
July 23
July 24

Base Hosp #15
Chaumont
July 25
Aug. 20/18

Evac #6 Souilly Oct 24 Oct 26
Base Hosp #1 Vichy Oct 27 Dec 6 1918

Permanently disabled (specify): no
Arrived in: Hoboken NJ On the ship: Finland On Feb 14, 1919 From: St. Nazaire, France
Discharged at Camp Devins, Mass. On Feb 24, 1919 As a private 1st class
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: Salesman (same position for 3 months- resigned 6/18/19
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: Spent summer at the sea shore. Just returned (8/23/19) not working yet.
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
I was anxious to go. Wanted to see what war was like (and did). I would have been ashamed to have been drafted. I saw the need and didn’t believe in waiting for a “personal invitation.”
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
Effects were good physically, but very monstrous and depressing mentally and morally. It made me depend upon myself. I found that I could do the right thing when I had only myself to answer to.
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England or elsewhere?
I feel that my experience overseas broadened me physically, mentally and morally. It made me dependent on myself. I found that I could do the right thing when I had only myself to answer to.
If you took part in fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?
I was scared stiff, but I was afraid to show it. I saw so many killed that I lost all fear of death. My only fear was the thought of how the folks at home would receive notice of my death.
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
I am more inclined to be serious and less inclined to waste time (or anything). And I can’t go Bolshiviki, profiteers, Bevo or other cooties.
Photos: 3 Enclosed
Additional data:
This was my last war- absolutely. There were too many this time who stayed home and “made money while the boys fought.” The old saying slightly twisted.
Signed in New Britain, Connecticut On August 26, 1919
Signature: Raymond Joseph Queenin Rank: Pvt. 1st Cl. Branch: Co. E. 102nd Infantry
The information contained was obtained in this record, unless otherwise indicated, was obtained from the following persons or sources: Discharge papers and memory and diary.

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This is the Military Service Record of Cristobal Rodriguez-Hidalgo
Middle Name: Spanish custom adds mother’s maiden name to patronymic
Born on: December 12, 1887 In: Coamo State: Porto Rico Country: Click here to enter text.
Father’s Name: Regino Antonio Rodriguez Born in: Porto Rico
Mother’s Maiden Name: Santos Hidalgo Born in: Porto Rico
Are you white, colored, Indian, Mongolian: white
Citizen: yes
Voter: yes
Church: Christian- Methodist Episcopal
Married: No answer indicated
Fraternal Orders: None indicated
Previous Military Experience: None
Occupation before entry to the service: office secretary
Employer: Remington Arms Company, Bridgeport, Conn.
Residence before entry into service: 36 Poplar St., Bridgeport, Conn. in Fairfield County
Present home address: None indicated
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted on August 24, 1917 At: Fort Slocum, New Rochelle, NY
As a: first class private In the: Infantry (Fourth Recruit Company) Section of the Regular Army
Note: The words inducted into service or were crossed out. The letter “E” was capitalized for the word “Enlisted”
Identification number: None indicated
Assigned originally to Company C, 38 US Infantry Regiment – 38 Division
In Syracuse, New York
Trained or stationed before going to Europe:
School/camp/station/ship From To
Syracuse, New York
Sept 18, 1917
October 25, 1917

Camp Greene, Charlotte, NC
Oct. 25, 1917
March 11, 1918

Camp Merritt, New Jersey
March 13, 1918
March 20(?), 1918

Transferred to: Note: Handwritten places, dates, crossed out - None Indicated
Promoted- Served in Adjutant’s office November 1917 to January 16, 1918
Embarked from: Camp Merritt, N.J. On the ship: None indicated
On March 20(?), 1918 And arrived at (England) Brest, France On April 14, 1918
Proceeded from: Dept of Haute Marne To: Chateau-Thierry On: May 30, 1918
Trained or stationed abroad: None indicated
First went into action (date): May 30, 1918 At Chateau- Thierry (east)
Participated in the following engagements: Chateau- Thierry Bridge, Fossoy, June 2-3) Active service in this section for three weeks. A few days in rest camp. To Surmelin valley July 3. Bois-d'Aigremont July 14. Near Crezancy July 15. (In labor operations with 30’ Infantry preceding battle.)
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services. (Give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): None Indicated
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: Killed in action, Front line trench- high explosive shell- instantaneous death. No grave. Marne River. 38 Regiment designated by French “Rock of the Marne.” In Crezancy, France on July 15, 1918
Under medical care: None indicated
Permanently disabled (specify): None indicated
Arrived: None indicated On the ship: None indicated Date None indicated
Discharged place: None indicated Date: None indicated
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: None indicated
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular? Intense patriotism. Cause of liberty for country superior to personal aspirations.
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical? None indicated
If you took part in fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?
None indicated
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France, England or elsewhere? None indicated
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war? None indicated
Photographs: Two photographs are included

Additional data:
Cristobal Rodriguez Hidalgo was a martyr to duty. Was refused permit to visit fiancée, seriously injured by automobile, because other soldiers “went wild” and were about several day before embarking. He sacrificed personal desires for the farewell and marriage, by conforming to army disciplines.
Two letters are included with this war record survey: Both letters are from the state librarian and both are one-page typed letters dated July 25, 1923 and August 6, 1923 respectively. Both are addressed to Miss Marian Doyle, the fiancé of Cristobal R. Hidalgo was also included with this file. At the top of the letter, handwritten are the words: “Letter destroyed as requested.”
Signed at None indicated On None indicated

Signature: None Rank: None Branch: None
The information contained was obtained in this record, unless otherwise indicated, was obtained from the following persons or sources: Marian Doyle (fiancée of deceased) 1496 Fairfield Ave. Bridgeport, Conn

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This is the Military Service Record of Clarence McGregor Thompson
Born on August 18, 1881
In Saint Mary’s, Ohio in the USA
Father’s Name: Henry M. Thompson Born in the USA
Mother’s Maiden Name: Elizabeth R. McGregor: Born in the USA
Are you white, colored, Indian, or Mongolian: White
Citizen: YES
Voter: YES
Church: Baptist
Married: Yes on June 22, 1905 in Providence, RI
To: Martha P. Cristy Born on Jan. 28, 1882
Children: Ruth Estelle Thompson Born on: May 5, 1907 in Latonia, Tenn.
Cristy McGregor Thompson Born: Oct. 26, 1915 in Hartford, Conn.
Fraternal Orders: Masons
Previous Military Experience: Conn. National Guard 1913-
Occupation before entry to the service: secretary & agent, “The Connecticut Prison Association
Employer: The Connecticut Prison Association
Residence before entry into service: 42 Oak St., Hartford, Connecticut in Hartford County

Present home address: 12 Ravine Ave., Glen Cove, NY in Nassau County.

War Record

Inducted into service or enlisted on: Called out by the President’s Proclamation on March 26, 1918 in Hartford as a Captain
In the: Infantry Section of the National Guard (Connecticut)
Identification Number: None indicated
Assigned originally to: Company K , 1st Conn. lot, 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Division
in New Haven
Trained or stationed before going to Europe at Camp Yale from July 1917 to Sept. 15, 1917.
Transferred to: None Indicated
Promoted from the rank of Captain to the rank of Major on Aug. 2, 1918.
Embarked from: Montreal, Canada On the SS Canada On Sept. 16, 1917
And arrived in Liverpool, Eng.
Proceeded from: Liverpool, Eng. To: Southhampton
From: Southhampton To Le Harre, France On Oct. 2, 1917
Trained or stationed abroad in Certilleux, France from Oct. 6, 1917 to Feb. 2, 1918; in Langres, France from Oct. 1, 1918 to Dec. 31, 1918 and in Paris France from March 1, 1919 to May 22, 1919.
First went into action on March 1, 1918 in Chemin des Dames
Participated in the following engagements: Chemin des Dames (defensive), Toul Sector (defensive), Seichprey, Marne-Aisne (defensive and offensive), Saint Mihiel (offensive), Marcheville (offensive).
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services. (Give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): Croix de Guerre (Seichprey, April 21, 1918)
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: None indicated
Under medical care: None indicated.
Permanently disabled: None indicated
Arrived in Brooklyn, NY On the ship: USS Frederick on June 2, 1919 From Brest, France
Discharged as a: Major
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: Agent, Phoenix Mutual Life Ins. Co.
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated,
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
A pleasure and a duty for every citizen. The call? It had to be.
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
Believe it did me much good both mentally and physical.
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England or elsewhere? None indicated, crossed out.
If you took part in fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?
Too soon to state this definitely.
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
I did not expect a picnic and it was what I looked for. The glory of war is all on canvas, but I therefore do not XXXX to the conclusion that there are not worse evils which XXX war can overcome.
Photographs: Will try to send one when I can have them made.
Additional data:
(Cover letter on Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn. letterhead) Addressed to: George S. Goddard, state librarian, Hartford, Conn. My dear Mr. Goddard: Nearly a year ago I filled out the enclosed form and put it away because it seemed so futile to try to express one’s ideas of the great times we have been through. I cannot do better now so forward it in case it is not too late. Sincerely, Clarence Thompson

Signed at New York On Oct. 28, 1919

Signature: Clarence M. Thompson Rank: Majr Branch: Infantry
The information contained was obtained…
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This is the Military Service Record of Wilson Harry Whitehouse
Born on July 18, 1898 In Birmingham, Warwickshire County, England
Father’s name: William James Whitehouse. Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire County, England
Mother’s Maiden Name: Amy Kedward. Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire County: England
Are you white, colored, Indian, or Mongolian: White
Citizen: No
Voter: no
Church: Baptist
Married: No
Fraternal Orders: Improved Order of Red Men – Degree of Pocahontas, IOO Red Men, Orvenaco Tribe #44
Previous Military Experience: Connecticut National Guard 3 ½ years
Occupation before entry to the service: Die Tool Maker
Employer: R. Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Co. in Wallingford, Connecticut
Residence before entry into service: 189 S. Orchard Street, Wallingford, Conn. in New Haven County.
Present home address: 97 North Elm Street Wallingford, Conn., in New Haven County
War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted on: May 5, 1917 in New Haven, Conn.
As a: Private in 2nd Connecticut Infantry Division of the National Guard (Note that the word “inducted” is crossed out)
His Identification Number: 65769
Assigned originally to: Company “K”, 102 Regiment, 26th Division in New Haven.
Trained or stationed before going to Europe: at Camp Yale, New Haven, Conn. until Sept. 15, 1917
Transferred to: None indicated
Promoted from the rank of private to the rank of Private 1st class; and from the rank of Private 1st Class to rank of Corporal on Sept. 25, 1917
Embarked from: Montreal, Canada On the: H.M.J. Canada on: Sept. 16, 1917
And arrived at (port): Liverpool, Eng. on Oct. 2, 1917
Proceeded from: Liverpool, England. To: Southhampton, England. On Oct. 2, 1917
From: To: Southhampton, England. To: Havre, France on Oct.4, 1917
From: Havre, France To Certibeaux Villars, France on Oct.6, 1917
Trained or stationed abroad: in Neufchateau Vosges, France from October 1917 to February 1917
War Record
First went into action between March 1 and March 12, 1918 in Chamin de Dames Sector
Participated in the following engagements: Gas attack Chemin Des Dames on March 7, 1918; Seichprey on April 20, 1918; Chateau-Thierry from July 20, 1918 through July 28, 1918; Verdun from October, 23, 1918 through October, 25, 1918
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services: None indicated
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner:
Gassed in Chemin des Dames on April 29, 1918; Gassed and wounded in Verdun on October 25, 1918
Under medical care: At Base #66 Hospital in Neufchateau, Vosges, France From March 29, 1918 To March 1919; At Base #6 hospital in Bordeaux, France [no date indicated].
Permanently disabled: None indicated
Arrived: in Boston Mass. on the USS Agamemnon from Brest, France
Discharged from service at place at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass. on April 29, 1919 as a Corporal in Company “K”, 102nd U.S. Infantry, 26th Division
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: Driver, Clerk, Die tool maker
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process of re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental I furnishing the new occupations:
Not as yet. But found it almost impossible to work inside. Have been more or less sick since going inside.
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
When in the service was anxious to get out as soon as possible but after, due consideration in civilian life think that the service is a fine thing. The Infantry has too much to carry and too far to carry it.
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
They were of the best as far as mental and physical conditions was concerned. But they might have been more lenient with their passes.
What were the effects upon yourself experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England?
That there is a way to do anything no matter how hard it or far away it may seem.
If you took part in fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?
That Sherman was more than right, but then he didn’t have so much need and such large rats to contend with.
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
That it gives a person greater insight into big things. Develops a greater will power and self determination to succeed despite the cost.
Photographs: None included
Additional data: None indicated
Ssigned in Wallingford, Connecticut on June 7, 1920
Signature: Wilson Harry Whitehouse Rank: Corporal Branch: Company K , 102nd US Infantry, 26th Division
The information contained was obtained in this record, unless indicated, was obtained from the following persons or sources:
My personal diary + diary + discharge + memory.

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Military Service Record

This is the Military Service Record of Samuel Benjamin Yaffo
Born on March 15, 1890 In Russia
Father’s Name: Tobias Yaffo Born in Russia
Mother’s Maiden Name: Sarah Born in Russia
Are you white, colored, Indian, or Mongolian: White
Citizen: YES
Voter: Yes
Church: None indicated
Married: No
Fraternal Orders: Modern Woodsmen of America
Previous Military Experience: six years in 1st Infantry Connecticut National Guard. Corp when discharged.
Occupation before entry to the service: Salesman
Employer: G. Fox & Co. and other
Residence before entry into service: 156 Lawrence St., Hartford, Conn. in Hartford County
Present home address: 156 Lawrence St., Hartford, Conn. in Hartford County

War Record
Inducted into service or enlisted: on Dec. 13, 1917 at Fort Slocum, NY As a: Private in the Ordnance Department of USA of the regular army (Note that the word “inducted” is crossed out)
Identification Number: 1869028
Assigned originally to: 24 Company, Ordnance Detachment Regiment at Camp Jackson in South Carolina
Trained or stationed before going to Europe: at Camp Jackson in South Carolina and Camp Hancock in Georgia from May 15 to 18
Transferred to: 19 Company, Ordnance Department

Promoted- from rank of Private to Corporal in August 1918; promoted from frank of Corporal to rank of Sergeant in November 1918
Embarked from: Hoboken, New Jersey On the ship: Cedric or Transport 510 On May 26, 1918 And arrived at (port): Liverpool On June 6, 1918
Proceeded from: Liverpool To: Southhampton On June 6, 1918
From: Le Havre To: Mehun, France On: June 12, 1918
Trained or stationed abroad: in Mehun, France from June 12, 1918 to July 15, 1918; Frankfurt to Hdg. Company D Ord. 90th Division before going into action on Saint Mihiel front, then stationed at Toul.
War Record
First went into action on Sept 3, 1918 in Saint Mihiel
Participated in the following engagements: in the entire Saint Mihiel offensive till it was captured. Then went to Meuse Argonne, and remained till Nov. 11, 1918 Armistice day, served in Army of occupation till June 32, 1919.
Cited, decorated or otherwise honored for distinguished services. (Give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): None indicated
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner: None indicated,
Under medical care: None indicated
Permanently disabled (specify): none indicated
Arrived in: New Port, Va. On the ship: USS Kamar On July 3, 1919
Discharged from service at Camp Upton, NY On: July 8, 1919 as a Sergeant.
Return to civilian life:
Occupation: Salesman
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process or re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupation: None indicated
Additional information:
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?
I have always favored and advocated military service for young men, and war ready when wanted. Did not wait to be drafted in this.
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What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself – mental and physical?
Best of effects.
What were the effects upon yourself experience, either in the army or navy or in camp in France or in England? Upon arrival to England, we were greeted by a respentative of King George, fine country. Did not get as good a treatment in France as expected.
If you took part in fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience? At first I could not get angry enough at the time to want to kill them. After I saw my pals fall in agony, from their shells, I did the rest.
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?
No bad effects at all; only I lost a brother in this conflict and can’t get over it. Didn’t even know where he rests.
Additional data: I have in my possession some German revolvers and rifle trophies, and would be glad to loan them for exhibition if wanted.
Signed at Hartford On Nov. 8, 1919
Signature: Samuel B. Yaffo Rank: Sergeant Branch: Ordnance Department United States Army
ATTACHMENTS: (Type-written letter from State Librarian and Director, dated November 25, 19 See attached: record with this survey.)
Two photographs included: one in a military uniform taken in March 1919of Samuel B. Yaffo and the other in a suit taken in 1915. A third photograph is included. Another letter with handwritten name: Max W. Yaffo, 156 Lawrence St. Then typed in large letters, “Died In Service.” Then the document is stamped E. H. Crocker.

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Knights of Columbus
War Activities
In France
August 1918

My Dear Mother,
I received your letter and also two letters from Agnes and was very glad to get them. The only trouble with them, they are too short. Tell Agnes that I got the cross from her and that I am wearing it. I received the book from the American Chain Co. and I was very much pleased with it. I want her to thank the A.C.C. for it. When you will, let me know how many letters you have received from me; this one is about the tenth letter I have written. I wrote to Frank three times but got no answer yet. When you write him, send him my address for I would like to hear from him. I also wrote to John at the London address but never heard from him. Well mother I have been in the trenches a few times and we were very lucky. We had very few casualties. We were in the same sector of trenches that Frank’s division was in. We took their place more than six weeks ago, but are now in a different sector now. The poor fellows that took our place over four hundred of them were gassed the first day in, so that was a bad start. The last time I came out of the trenches I met an East End follow named James Kerwin. He was a clerk at the Remington W.M.C Bridgeport. I was looking for Jack Barnwell but couldn’t find him. I haven’t seen him since I was in Southampton; he came over on the same boat as I did. We had a wonderful trip. We came over on the fastest boat afloat. It only took us a little over seven days after we left New York. We came over without any trouble, we didn’t even see one sub. We were convoyed through the danger zone by American destroyers and when we sighted them, you can bet we all felt much safer. Since I have been in France, I have done quite a lot of traveling from one end to the other all in nice side door Pullman’s. But we don’t mind that as long as we get there. The nearest I have been to Paris was one Sunday afternoon we traveled all around the outskirts in a box car about five miles from Paris proper. I could see most of the big buildings and the Eiffel Tower. We certainly got a great standoff where ever we passed through. The French people are sure glad to see us. This country sure is short of men, at home in the towns all you can see is old men, old women, and young children working in the fields. It is a fine sight to look over the fields and mountainside to see…(blacked out)… which has just been…. (blacked out)… you asked me about the money. I didn’t make any over. The government don’t handed it unless we have dependents. They have so much to handle with the allotments that some of the fellow’s wives and dependents haven’t got anything yet. Believe me, I can use all the money I can get. I have only got two pays since I left the states. I wrote asking for money in May but I guess you never got the letter. I understand Margaret was going to send me a couple of bucks but forgot more. But the crimps in it. telll her it is all right, but if she feels like that again, don’t let anything stop her. Money orders of cash it is safe either way. Ask Agnes where she got that sergeant stuff from. I haven’t been made one yet but expect the best you never can tell, one day a sergeant next day back to the ranks as a buck private. This is a family outfit. You never can tell. Out of my company four sergeants got commissioned as second LT’s and shall be sent to the officers’ training school. Tell the girls to write every day for it sure is fine to have lots of mail to read. I got only a few of the newspapers the last mail but may get more later. If any of the girls see Herbert, ask him to write me a long letter. Well Ma, it… (blacked out) … now. Give my love to (blacked out), Aunt Kittie, to the girls and lots of love for yourself. You will have to excuse the scribbling for I am in the front line trenches on observation and lots of shells are passing over my head and I have to keep ducking. This is a fine business. I hope you will be able to read this letter. Remember me to all my friends. Good bye and lots of love.
Bill XXX

P.S. Ma my Libery Bond was all paid for in July when you get, let me know.

Bill

Give my love to the Dual boys and tell them I will send them something the first change I get.

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Office of the Commandant
third Naval District
Navy yard, Brooklyn, New York
stamped July 12, 1917

From: the Commandant, third Naval District

To: Milton P Bradley Seeman
naval coast defense reserve, class for, USNRF
Bradford point, Bradford Connecticut
subject: orders to active duty.

One. The president having directed the mobilization of the United States Naval reserve force, you are hereby ordered into active service and will report July 16, 1917 to the commanding officer of the United States Naval rendezvous at the Yale boathouse, New Haven, Connecticut, for the issue of clothing and for instruction prior to being assigned to duty.

Two. You will be quartered and subsisted at government expense, and will be given an opportunity to send your civilian clothing to your home.

Three. Present these orders to the commanding officer at the Naval rendezvous.

For transportation is enclosed.

By direction of the Commandant,

Signed John Murphy

US NRF commanding

Lieut. Cmdr. section 1

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The Submarine Defense Association
141 Broadway
New York City

New York October 28, 1918

Mr. Milton P Bradley, Q M2CL,
Branford point,
Branford Connecticut

Dear Sir:

On behalf of the executive committee of the submarine Defense Association, I have the pleasure to transmit the Association's appreciation of your helpful services in connection with our experiments on the USS Gem.

Both Mr. Bates senior and myself which had our personal thanks. It has been a pleasure to meet such uniform goodwill on the part of the ship's personnel.

Kindly transmit the enclosed letter to the naval authorities to be placed in your personnel file.

Yours truly,

Lindell T Bates
Secretary