"If there is one thing that stands out preeminently in a soldier's daily schedule across the sea, as to helpfulness it is 'that letter' or little bit of news from home (America). If you good people who are carrying on the work of the 'Home Guards' could see the eager faces of the Yanks at mail time, as they congregate for mail distributions, I am sure you would agree that time spent in writing to 'Over There' boys, is at least appreciated to the fullest." J. H. S. September 22, 1918 "I appreciate having my name on the list at the War Service Station very much. I enjoy the Bulletin from the first to the last and hope I'll never miss one as long as the war lasts." H. A. October 6, 1918 "I was indeed surprised, a few days since, to receive a letter from you good people of my old home town reminding me that you still remember me and appreciate the effort that we boys are making to do our 'bit' for the just and righteous cause in which we are all enlisted. "Your promise to write us from time to time of the items of interest at home especially gratifying, for local news nowadays, possesses far more interest and diversion for us than does the doings and happenings of the remainder of the 'great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world'." C. T. T. July 10, 1918 "It makes one feel good to know that he is remembered back home, not only by his parents, but by his friends as well. You don't know, you can't know, just how much good you are doing and just how it makes us feel when stationed at a remote camp, where we know no one, to get a letter from friends at home, who are interested in us. It makes us feel as though nothing on earth could prevent us from winning this war--and _we shall win_." R. D. C. June 21, 1918 "We leave this port the tenth of December and proceed nine hundred miles off this coast and meet President Wilson and his party, who are coming over to the Peace Conference on the George Washington, convoyed by the super-dreadnaught, Pennsylvania, and six destroyers. "There are nine big dreadnaughts in our fleet lying here who will go out and convoy them to Brest, France." W. L. W. December 8, 1918 [Illustration: WAR SERVICE STATION, _Shawmut_] [Illustration: WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, _Shawmut_ G. C. WAGNON C. A. SINGLETERRY J. T. HOLLIS GEO. W. MURPHY MRS. JACK PLAUT, ASS'T SEC'Y J. R. EDWARDS MRS. MARY M. BUGG, SEC'Y] [Illustration: RED CROSS WORK ROOM, _Shawmut_] [Illustration: RECEPTION ROOM, WAR SERVICE STATION, _Shawmut_] Committees Y. M. C. A. DRIVE Subscription, $338.35 RED CROSS CHRISTMAS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE EDWARDS, J. R. MURPHY, G. W. WHITEHEAD, J. L. Subscription, $100.00 RED CROSS WAR FUND DRIVE BUGG, MRS. EDWARDS, J. R. WAGNON, MRS. WHITEHEAD, J. L. Subscription, $1,186.00 RED CROSS CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL BUGG, MRS. M. M. JONES, T. T. KEMP, MRS. F. S. Subscription, $150.00 UNITED WAR FUND DRIVE