Hartland

A demonstration of potato spraying was given in Mr William Jas Pillman’s garden on Tuesday evening, July 2nd, by Mr A Richmond, a representative of the Food Production Department, who some time ago lectured on the subject in the school-room. Less than a dozen attended.
On Saturday June 29th, Mrs Mary Prouse, 48 The Terrace, had an official notice that her son, Pte James, Devon Regt, had been admitted to hospital at Rouen, suffering from trench fever, severe. No further news has come to hand. He had been previously twice wounded. One brother, William, was killed on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and another, Charles, in France.
A telegram received by his wife on Wednesday July 3rd, told of the serious illness of Bugler J E R Short in France.
Gazette article dated 13 July 1918.