From the News

Dated: May 7, 1915

Englehart
      Rev. Alex Grant has enlisted for service.  The Presbyterian Church will feel his loss very much as he has been a very satisfactory worker.  Mr. Grant is a soldier from away back and the lure to the front was too strong to resist.  He will have a post of great responsibility and he hopes to make his influence felt.  When the war is over he hopes to return to Englehart.
     We have had a letter from the trenches, just received dated April 11.  There is no clue to the writer’s whereabouts and the furthest post mark is “Toronto.”  He says we probably know more about the war than he does, and what he might not write we would most wish to hear.  He says “we have been resting after hard work in the trenches and are to go back at once, and when this reaches you we will have been through a great battle.  Each of us has his own particular work to do.  Mine will be to get over the barbed wire entanglements and lay a folding wire bridge on which the others are to cross.  The distance between our trenches and the Germans, vary, in some places it is not more than 50 yards.”