“I am feeling quite well now and in
i little while I will be back with my
ompany but it looks as if things here
"ere about over. Austria has given
in and Germany cannot hold out alone
i have talked with a good many Ger
man prisoners and they bold the same
view. They want the war over.
"I hope that Aloysius (his brothe
low in camp) does not have to come
icross.
"Everything possible was done fov
my comfort by the Red Cross. We have
teen through some awful fighting but
i believe It will be the last.”
TRANSFERRED TO BOSTON
3eo. B. Champlin’* Office Now There—
Mother and Slater Will Make Their
■ Home With Him
George Champlin. who has been a
epresentative in the west for the
lickford-Wlley-Rweet Co. for the past
dx years, with his headquarters in
Tiicago and then in St. Ixiuis. is now
o be a representative in -the east,
vith headquarters on Essex street, in
3oston. Mr. Champlin will travel part
if the time, his territory covering
Northern New York, Eastern Canada
nd Nova Scotia, and part of the New
'ngland states.
E, WHEATON
DEAD, AGED 78
HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR
MANY MONTHS
Two Daughters Survive Him—Funeral
From Home Friday at 2 o’clock
—Leaves Two Daughters
Putnam lost one of Its oldest and
Lest known citizens this mornirg in
the death of Krastus Wheaton at his
home on School street. He was in his
Tfth year.
