He offered some excellent advice and much encouragement to the boys who were entering army life.

Editor Casper spoke of his experience as a soldier of the Civil War, and made a good, sound and effective speech that was well received by the soldiers as well as the audience.

Rev. McDougall made a strongly eloquent plea for the defeat of Germany -- "to her knees" -- which occasioned a strong applause from the assembly. The Reverend also spoke good cheer and encouragement to the recruits.

The Red Cross ladies served, refreshments and the people afterwards came forward and took each soldier by the hand and bade him farewell.

This pace was kept up throughout the month of May. when a crowd of citizens gathered at the Essig hall April 29th to bid farewell to another contingent of Morrill county soldiers was a matter of memory.

The first speech of the evening was made by Luther Murphy of Morrill, who is a traveling salesman but who devotes much of his time in speaking at patriotic meetings wherever he has the opportunity. Mr. Murphy is a whirlwind orator and rouses his hearers to the high pitch of enthusiasm maintained by himeslf. He told graphically of the atrocities committed by the Huns, and eulogized the men who were going over to stop the barbarians.

Professor Henri Deschamps, a Frenchman by birth and who has been doing psychological work in Bridgeport for some time, made a very touching address to the soldier boys and told of how France needed them in this hour of peril. The professor spoke feelingly of the French people's love for the American soldiers and closed with a beautiful peroration in farewell to the ones who were to leave for France.