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On June 6th there was a letter in the Yates County Chronicle from Lawrence Armstrong of Penn Yan who was serving in the American Ambulance Corps in France. He was working out of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris. “The work of a motor ambulance driver consists in running ambulance to the Gare la Chapelle (railroad station) where all the wounded coming into Paris are received, unloading the wounded, loading them into the ambulances and taking them to all the hospitals in and around Paris, of which there are several hundred.”

The southern end of Lake Keuka was active with Curtiss airplanes being tested. They flew over Penn Yan quite often. A company of the Home Guard from Hornell was sent there to guard the factory. An Elmira builder was given a contract to build 50 houses in Hammondsport to house the increase of workers at the Curtiss plant. The work force expanded to 1100.

Seven Yates County physicians volunteered for the Officers Reserve Corps subject to being called up to active duty.

The Home Defense Committee, in order to raise funds to carry on their work, designated May 5th as Button Day. School children in the county were sent out to sell for five cents red, white and blue buttons with the words “Home Defense League.”

Harry Morse, proprietor of the Sampson Theater, scheduled a major benefit for the Red Cross on July 2nd. The feature movie was “The Rainbow Princess” starring Nan Pennington. There was also a two-reel feature “Our Fighting Forces.” “Words to the Star Spangled Banner will be thrown on the screen and the audience will sing accompanied by the Penn Yan Band. - Penn Yan Democrat.” It raised $109 for the local Red Cross.

On June 29th, Penn Yan Academy’s Class of 1917 (23 members) held their senior banquet at Alley’s Inn on Brandy Bay.