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The Ball and Chain Club \It must be the editor has a \ grudge against me, for this week I | found myself out beyond South j Colton and in the timber country, j Mildred and Tommy Drinkwatev i met me at the door and by per-I sistent persuasion I had them call | off the dogs and let me in.! Under subsequent eross-exami-i nation, I uncovered the pertinent | facts that Mildred and “Tod” both | come from Connecticut where they 1 were married on July 14, 1945, j after Tod came back from over-! seas. Oh yes! Tommy was over-! seas as a bombardier. In fact, I found he was in the 100th Bombardment. Group, which became quite popular as the “Bloody Hundredth.” Tommy wasn’t long with them, in fact only 14 days, before he met the fate of so many others of the same group. On his fifth mission he went down to spend the duration as a prisoner-of-war at Barth, Germany. He now keeps a Purple Heart and Air Medal to remember it all by, things I’m sure most of us would rather forget.It’s not the simplest thing in the world to get along on $90 a month and with Mildred expecting the “blessed event” about the middle of October the prospects are dim if not black. Tommy isn’t let down, in fact he only wishes he could have his son (or daughter) at the St. Lawrence game to see us slash that upstart school.Milly’s and Tommy’s home life might better be described as “farm life.” Just off route 55 they live and let live. Across the front flows Cold Brook, a spring Tommy assures me lives up to its name. The brook is not only scenic for it supplies them with their main and only supply of water — not a charming thought with winter coming so soon. “It isn’t so had carriyng water to the house, but when it freezes and a hole has to I be chopped in the ice with an'axe, —it becomes a nuisance.” “And * those frequent trips during the j night to nondescript spots aren’t I too comfortable,” were Tommy’s j remarks on the topic. 1It didn’t take me long to realize I that life was pleasant though ! “rugged” as Mildred put it. The : farm is fine for them both hut the 1 lack of a heating system will make \ it rather uncomfortable. The ’end : result is that if thev don’t find an I apartment soon, here in town, I thev’ll be forced to leave. It seems a shame that for the lack of hous-1 ing a man must be deprived of an . education but such are the facts as ! they face them. Perhaps someone reading this column may know of some lodgings that are available— you would be doing a sendee to contact them.
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Potsdam Clarkson Integrator
Potsdam, New York, US
Sat, Sep 28, 1946
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