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DOINGS OF OUB BOYS. 



On Sea and Land. 



Each day brings to the office of The 

 Review news of the return of members 

 of the trade who have been in the fight- 

 ing forces overseas, of soldiers and 

 sailors from camp and naval station 

 who are hurrying home, having received 

 their discharges from the several 

 branches of the service to which they 

 had been attached. As the processes 

 of demobilization proceed and the men 

 in increasing numbers resume their 

 places in the different departments of 

 the trade, The Review will note their 

 movements, which will be of interest 

 to friends in the trade. News of those 

 who have "gone west" and of those 

 sick in hospitals "over there" or in 

 the United States also will be noted 

 from time to time, as it is received. 



H. F. VUeland Wounded. 



H. P. Vlieland had been with the 

 River Falls Floral Co., at River Falls, 

 Wis., for five years when war was de- 

 clared. He immediately volunteered 

 for overseas service, was accepted and 

 has been in many engagements in 

 France. He was wounded in July, 1918, 

 and is now in the base hospital at Camp 

 Sherman, O. Judging from present 

 conditions, it may be some time before 

 he recovers sufficiently to be able to 

 go to work again, but meantime he 

 retains a keen interest in all that con- 

 cerns the trade and reads The Review 

 in order that he may be primed for 

 work when the time comes that he may 

 return to his chosen vocation. 



Lieutenant John F. Dowd. 



John F. Dowd, Clarence street, Rox- 

 bury, Mass., has returned from the 

 camp at Jacksonville, Fla., with his 

 commission of first lieutenant. He is the 



Vern L. Schluraff. 



son of Mrs. Andrew Dowd and is 27 

 years of age. Before enlisting he was 

 connected with the firm of Thomas F. 

 Galvin, Inc., Boston, Mass. 



Lieut. Washburn Released. 



Lieutenant E. B. Washburn, son of C. 

 L. Washburn, and member of the firm 

 of Bassett & Washburn, Chicago and 

 Pasadena, Cal., was released January 9 

 from military service and has returned 

 to resume business at Pasadena. Lieu- 

 tenant Washburn was stationed in the 

 Pacific northwest in the Aviation Con- 

 struction Department. 



The Peny Brothers. 



Two sons of Wilford Perry, grower 

 and seed dealer of Prove, Ut., are in the 

 service of Uncle Sam, Milton at the 

 navy yards at Bremerton, Wash., and 

 Darwin with the 69th Balloon Detach- 

 ment in France. According to letters 

 received by his father, Darwin is ex- 

 pected to arrive home February 4. He 

 left Newport News June 29 in a trans- 

 port bound for France. In one of many 

 interesting letters to the home folks, 

 written a month before the signing of 

 the armistice, Darwin informed them 

 that the war was over, but the kaiser 

 did not know it. He also stated that 

 he had recorded in his diary at that 

 time a guess at the date of the cessa- 

 tion of hostilities, which he missed by 

 just six days. 



Lieutenant Stanley Giles. 



Lieutenant Stanley Giles, of the Ord- 

 nance Division of the United States 

 Army, stationed in New Jersey, deliv- 

 ered an interesting address before the 

 January meeting of the Florists' Club of 

 Reading, Pa., on the subject of "Life 

 in an Army Camp." Lieutenant Giles 

 was in the trade when he enlisted and 

 was a former president of the club. 



Harry Taylor Returns. 



Uncle Sam has released Harry E. Tay- 

 lor, who has returned to his duties in 

 the branch store of J. Breitmeyer's Sons, 

 Detroit. Mr. Taylor is a pigeon fancier 

 and to him fell an unusual assignment 

 in the army: He was placed in the sig- 

 nal corps and his duties were connected 

 with the training and care of carrier 

 pigeons. He was sent to Del Rio, Tex., , 

 early in 1918. Before locating with the 

 Breitmeyers, at Detroit, Mr. Taylor was 

 in the trade in Buffalo and Washington. 

 He has been a Review correspondent for 

 a number of years and will resume writ- 

 ing the Detroit news-letter. 



Wounded Rhode Islander Gets Job. 



Oscar T. Boucher, who was appointed 

 tree warden at Woonsocket, R. I., Janu- 

 ary 6, is a member of the firm of Boucher 

 Bros., landscape gardeners and foresters. 

 He is at present lying wounded in a 

 base hospital at Gervais, France, from 

 injuries to his right hand, but expects 

 to recover and return to this country in 

 a few weeks. He is a member of Com- 

 pany C, ij04th Engineers, and has been 

 in France for several months. Until his 

 return his duties as tree warden will be 



performed by his brother, Joseph E. 

 Boucher. W. H. M. 



Waiting to Reenter Business. 



Vern L. Schluraff, whose return from 

 Camp Gordon was noted in The Review 

 for January 2, expects to again enter 

 the florists' business for himself when 

 conditions in the wholesale market be- 

 come more normal. Mr. Schluraff ope- 

 rated a retail store in Erie, Pa., before 

 the war and now is manager of the 

 West Pullman, 111., store of J. M. Coch- 

 rane. Mr. Schluraff writes that "The 

 Review came regularly to me while I 

 was at Camp Gordon; in fact, I only 

 missed one number." 



La Vere Brancht in France. 



La Vere Braueht, before the war em- 

 ployed at New Castle, Ind., and Des 

 Moines, la., is now in France with 

 Company B of the 313th Field Signal 

 Bureau. December 11, one month after 

 the fighting stopped, he was located 

 "south of St. Mihiel, France." Mr. 

 Braueht writes that since he has been 

 in France he has had no opportunity 

 to visit any of the growers there, but 

 hopes to get a furlough for this pur- 

 pose before he is sent home. He is 

 anxious to get some pointers, especially 

 on rose growing, from the Europeans 

 and when he returns hopes to be able 

 to take a course in commercial cut 

 flower growing. 



Cardwell, Va. — Mrs. Annie Smith is 

 starting in the business, growing out- 

 door stock only. 



Harry E. Taylor. 



