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Poetic Thought from Bath Re cruit Fighting Over In France “It is very wet here today, more of a Scotch mist than any thing, but it obscures the sea from view. “There is a little Knoll just pear here and I zo Up there at night and watch the sun sinking right down into the sea and into the West. I like to watch it be cause I know it is going straight home to KBath.~ Can anything hate a more human interest than the above extract from a letter written home from “Some where in France” by Donald Fisher Wishart, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wishart. 69 Granite St.7 [It is pa thetic and his plaintive cry from that land of misery will touch the heart-strings of his many friends here. Many months have passed since Don left home to enlist Im a Tanadianm regiment for service in the great war and it remained for the ‘am to put him in a mood which dic ated the above lines. To see it stimking in the West, seemingly in the ocean, and with a knowledge that if it disappeared it was perhaps wending forth its rays on his native land and city it is no wonder the ad's heart was touched. The last letter received from him was received a few days ago and shen written he was doing orderly dury at No. 7 Canadian General Hos pital for a week or two and hoped to get his strength back swoon. While on duty he was surprise s ome day to meet a lad among the wounded, “sweeney” Hawthorne, a school mate at Dalmuir. From Hawthorne he learned they were perhaps the only two boys left out +f their class, others having joined the Roll of Honor. His Bath friends, some time 220, have him a postal card shower and of this he says: “I have read postal cards frot many people in Bath, so you might please thank them for me. I don't know the addresses of all these kind people, so please thank them for their kindness and for their pleasant birthday wishes. Miss Pal mer wrote nicely to me and her card was pretty. One from Miss Margaret Foote looks fine with the Stars and Stripes at the top. Among others were ecards from Miss Martha Foote. (Continued on Page Six)
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Sat, Sep 08, 1917
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