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BETXTRNINO GRADUALLY. 



Many Back in the Harness. 



Daily The Review gets reports of 

 florists who have been in the training 

 camps in the United States or in the 

 service overseas returning to their 

 former places. The demobilization is 

 progressing slowly, but surely. Soon 

 those who left their positions or busi- 

 nesses to help the United States win 

 the war will be back in the trade and 

 conditions, as to help, again will be 

 normal. 



Edwin L. Matthewson Back. 



Edwin L. Matthewson, associated 

 with J. E. Matthewson, Sheboygan, 

 Wis., received his honorable discharge 

 from the army December 14 and reached 

 home just in time to help out with the 

 Christmas rush. 



Martin Amling Reaches Home. 



Martin Amling, youngest son of Wil- 

 liam H. Amling, whose death is reported 

 in this issue, was in the training camp 

 at Waco, Tex., where he had been sent 

 from Camp Grant, until a few days ago. 

 When the illness of his father became 

 critical, telegrams were dispatched to 

 Waco in the expectation of reaching him 

 there, as his family did not know of his 

 Jiaving been transferred. It so hap- 

 pened, however, that he was passing 

 through Chicago January 4, on his way 

 to Camp Grant for discharge, and the 

 messages were delivered to him there. 

 His release was granted at once to en- 

 able him to hasten to the bedside of his 

 father. 



Barton W. EUiott. 



It is with regret that we chronicle 

 the death November 4 of Barton W. 

 Elliott, Pittsburgh and Springdale, Pa., 

 who was reported in The Review several 



Lieut* Frank E* Grimes. 



weeks ago as having been seriously 

 wounded in action "somewhere in 

 France." Only the notice of his death 

 has been received from the war depart- 

 ment, but the family suppose that it 

 occurred in the hospital where he was 

 taken after being injured. Private 

 Elliott, who was between 19 and 20 

 years of age, was the youngest son of 

 Mr. and Mrs. J. Wilkinson Elliott, who 

 survive him, together with their three 

 sons and four daughters. Prior to going 

 to France last August, he had pre- 

 liminary training with Company C, 

 Fourth Separate Battalion of the Marine 

 Corps, at Paris Island, S. C, and Camp 

 Quantico, Va. Prior to enlisting last 

 spring, he was a student at the Law- 

 renceville Academy, Lawrenceville, N. 

 u. E. E. S. 



Private Lee Hull. 



Before entering the service Private 

 Lee Hull was grower for Greig's Green- 

 houses, at Anaconda, Mont. He went 

 to France early in April, 1918, and was 

 in the 32nd Division. A clipping from 

 a Paris newspaper concerning this di- 

 vision says: "During the war the 32nd 

 Division has fought on five points, 

 Alsace, the Vesle, Soissons, Argonne and 

 the Meuse, and has met twenty of Ger- 

 many's crack divisions, among them the 

 Prussian Guards. It never yielded a 

 yard of ground to the enemy's counter 

 attacks." 



Private Hull was wounded in August, 

 1918, and was in a hospital until after 

 the armistice was signed. In a recent 

 letter to his brother, William Hull, of 

 Bristol, Va., he says he has been dis- 

 charged from the hospital with thirty- 

 nine others selected to act as orderlies 

 for the peace conference. He adds, 

 "One has not seen France until he has 

 seen Paris." 



The G-rimes Boys. 



Persistency won for Malcolm A. 

 Grimes, of the Grimes Floral Co., Ticon- 

 deroga, N. Y., what many thousands of 

 young Americans longed for during the 

 war — a chance to get into the fighting in 

 France. Soon after the United States 

 entered the war, the young man, follow- 

 ing the lead of his older brother, Frank 

 E. Grimes, applied for enlistment. He 

 was rejected for physical causes, but 

 they were so slight that he treated with 

 a physician and again applied. He was 

 turned down a second time, but when 

 he applied a third time he was accepted. 

 He trained at Madison Barracks and 

 then graduated from the School of 

 Aerial Photography, at Rochester, N. Y. 

 Then he went to the flying field at Hemp- 

 stead, L. I., and was sent overseas. 

 When the war ended he was Corporal 

 Grimes, of the 20th Photographic Sec- 

 tion, U. S. Air Service, in France. Lieu- 

 tenant Frank E. Grimes was one of the 

 first to graduate from an officers' train- 

 ing school and received a commission as 

 second lieutenant. Both young soldiers 

 were associated with their father, F. H. 

 Grimes, before they enlisted and, un- 

 doubtedly, soon will get back into the 

 florists' business. 



Captain George E. Elrk. 



News has just reached Mr. and Mrs. 

 Edward Kirk, of Bar Harbor, Me., of 

 the death of their son. Captain George 

 E. Kirk, of pneumonia, in a base hos- 

 pital at the edge of the Argonne forest 

 in France. Captain Kirk had been ill 

 in the hospital, but letters received by 

 his parents stated that he had recovered. 

 On the declaration of the armistice, he 

 left the hospital against the urgent ad- 

 vice of his nurse, being naturally anx- 

 ious to march at the head of his company 

 into conquered Germany. The effort 

 proved too great and he went back to 

 the hospital in a delirious condition No- 

 vember 16 and died November 20, after 

 a brave fight for life. 



Captain Kirk entered the officers' 

 training camp at Fort Niagara and . 

 graduated as second lieutenant in the 

 autumn 'of 1917. He received further 

 training with a machine gun company 

 at Gettysburg, Pa. He visited his Bar 

 Harbor home early last winter and 

 shortly after sailed overseas. He took 

 an active and heroic part in the severe 

 fighting last summer and early fall in 

 the battles of Chateau Thierry, St. 

 Mihiel and other desperate encounters 

 and for gallantry was promoted first to 

 be a full lieutenant and later captain. 

 He was a member of the 4th Machine 

 Gun Battalion, Company A, of the regu- 

 lar army. In all the desperate battles 

 in which he was engaged he never re- 

 ceived a scratch and it seems particular- 

 ly sad that, when fighting had ceased, 

 pneumonia should claim him. He was 

 only 24 years of age. Captain Kirk was 

 educated at the Bar Harbor school and 

 later attended the University of Maine 

 at Orono, and the University of Susque- 

 hanna. He was a noted athlete and a 

 member of the football team at both 

 colleges. Edward Kirk, his father, was 



Malcolm A. Grimes. 



