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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
8
Sailors in a large unit describe daily routine and drills delaying 4 PM chores and hammock life. About 2,000 sailors on base with 170 in my company. rough wakeups and new recruits misplacing hammocks. Enlistment boosts health while the schedule demands hard study of codes and knots. Food praised. an aeroplane accident in a swamp injures two men but not fatally.
Ralph and Samuel Hoffman sent letters from abroad describing life overseas. Ralph in London writes of a cool climate, friendly locals, and awaiting news from Ed Wissler, while Samuel in La Rochelle, France notes daily labor, good meals, pie twice a week, local fishing, and references Mountville connections and hometown items in the Lititz Record.
A memorial service for Elam B Palm of Clay, who died serving in France on June 28, will be held at Emanuel's Lutheran church in Brickerville on Sunday at 10 oclock. Palm served as Sunday school superintendent for several years and was serving in the army at the time of his death. The family has been informed he received a decent burial and will be apprised of further details. Lieutenant Norman Hertzler sent a vivid letter home describing the voyage across the Atlantic and the welcoming scenes in Paris with crowds cheering and flags waving as a sign of gratitude.
Raymond Dillman writes from France on June 16 that he is well and happy. He helped a farmer with hay and harvest chores, sleeping in a barn in a feed trough filled with hay, calling it the best bed since leaving the States, after visiting a 900 year old church.
Editors record a reader notes the weekly publication of training station accounts detailing sailors daily routines tasks and pleasures aboard ships earning interest from the series and the men in training stations.
A reader requests more Navy life coverage in the Army and Navy Notes column. The piece extols the duties of a seaman from reveille at dawn to night watch, describing deck chores, washing, rigging, and cold watches, praising discipline and pride in service. It ends with recognition that such toil earns the sailor his seabound rewards.
Professor Albert J. Carney of the University of Louvain, now with the Belgian legation in Washington, reports dog meat as a luxury in Belgium and cats also slaughtered for food. He notes scarce coffee, rising prices on staples, substitutes for butter and tobacco, and German control over scarce resources including dogs and other animal products.
On holiday Pat walks New York streets and spots a man with a child pinned to his coat bearing a price. He jokes that the man is “reduced to 30 cents,” a playful Irish quip set on a street scene.
Last summons caused by pleuro-pneumonia. survivors include parents a sister and two brothers. Funeral Sunday, interment Swamp church cemetery. Benjamin D. Walters died Friday at Bamford lead mine quarry from cerebral hemorrhage, age 66. Surviving siblings: Mrs Phares Lupold Bamford, David Fruitville, Mrs William Fulmer Millway, Mrs Fanny Dyer Atglen, Jacob Sporting Hill, Amos East Petersburg. step-brother Henry Walters and step-sister Mary M Brubaker Lititz. Funeral Sunday. interment East Petersburg Lutheran.
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