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Show ? - THE PESSBULL1ETIN ' . VOLUME 48 BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1 9 1 8 - NUMBER 11 LETTERS FROM SOLDIER BOYS IN FRANCE Judge John C. Green has received a letter written the latter part of last month from his brother, Captain Eugene Green, who Is now battling , the linns In the air on the Western ' front in France. Captain Green has had some experience with the "fly- - ing Dutchmen," and for some time has been in the thick of the aerial conflicts, but the feature he de-- scribes in his last letter "was de-cidedly unpleasant to him as the Huns swooped down on his quarters when he was away and carried off his belongings. In reference to this he Bays: '1 came here (to Paris) this morn- - ing for some clothes and leave again tonight iWell, I was on the front, the Huns came over with a squadron of Gothas and bombed our billets. I waJ out at the time, fortunately, and when I returned every possession I had was bombed to extermination and I was left a pauper. My uniform, shoes, boots, flying clothes, bed roll, trunk, 'suit 'Case and everything in-cluding all the French paper money 1 had locked in my trunk. Sverj thioja fell to the Gothas and I was without clotliHS, money, flying equipment or anything. The French pilots in my squadron suffered the same and were unable to help me. Not be.ng at-tached to an American escadrille I had to come to 'Paris for mpney. War somet'mes cleans us out, and I will make some Hun pay for it on my next raid, believe me." i George E. Marshall Writes Corporal George (B. Marshall, a tingham boy, who enlisted when America entered the war, was wound-ed in France early last month and he has written a series of letters to his mother, Mrs. K. N. Lynn, who now resides in Idaho. The letters were published in an Idaho paper and the many friends of Corporal Marshal here will read what he says with much interest. The letters are as follows: June 6, I9D8 . Dear Mother: I suppose you will no doubt know some time before you get this letter Jhat have ; been r wounddVf'.I.,waa hit in the left arm by a piece of shell. It went in above my elbow and out below. I also think my arm is fractured Jut don't know. However, I Dm getting, an Xray photo taken tomorrow; It is not serious I don't think, anyway I feel fine. Even if the boche- - nad killed me I would have cashed in at an awful price, tor I saw any number of them "go west"' over the front sight of my rifle. , at was, you might say, the biggest thing I ever eaw, and the most ter-rible. Honest, I don't see how men can live through it. The artillery preparation for our advance is simJ ply terrible. I thought it would break my ear drums, that isthe boche shells, that were lighting close to us. Our artillery wss firing about .five to their one so yoa can imagine what Fritzie has to put up with. Well I can't say much more now as it is getting quite dark. June 9, 1918. Dear Mother: Well, at last I guess I am settled for a while. At least I hope I am. Am feeling and pretty good like the place fine. Well, mother, you should have seen the battle. It was groat. All fore-noon one day we watched them get ting Into line. Not exactly in line but they massed in a wood Just sector. We let them alone, tave for an artillery shelling occa-sionally. On the same day at noon the artillery gave them a terrible shelling, and at about 3 o'clock the word was passed to stand to, then in Just a short time they started to come wave after wave. When they got within easy range our machine guns opened fire and with every shot you could hear a terrible death moan, men were falling everywhere. They were piled two and three deep in Just a few minutes on a front of about 400 yards (as Tar as I could see) but still they came and our rifle fire began to take effect. Thf advance was very slow and thev were very numerous, so we had a good target. They continued to come over the ridge and die there for a half an hour or more, and then re-treated with tremendous casualties Our losses were very slight. The next day at noon our artillerv shell-ed 'the town that the marines took. One platoon advanced to the town at an early hour in the evening, but the Germans had place their mach- ine guns in the roofs of buildings When our company reached the vil-lag- e there were only a few men Wt in the other platoon, but with our as-sistance they soon routed them, but their fire was terrible. I got mine, and had to go back through an awful barrage of machine guns and Bhrap-nel- , but they never touched me on the return. The last I saw" of Guy-mo-n he was still unscratched, 1ut he went on into the town and I don't know how he came out June 10, 1918 Dear Mother: This is the third time I have written In the last week. I am feeling pretty good today The doctor took the splint off my arm to day and told me to try and work mv fingers and Joints as much as pos-sible. Then I had an y taken to-day. I hope though, It won't be nec-essary to break it over again There was one of the" lieutenant? of our company, who was cited for bravery th taking' of Tkrarcheses. And saJ,"Jie"is a prince of a fellow Kls father is a millionaire and a blr chem'cal man In Mass. Mr. Leonard himself is a book maker, , . iWell, I haven't much in ore to say except that I am gettlnr closer to th states all the t!me. that is t- - next move from here, but I guess I won't make it. Anyway I don't want to leave Vem ovr here and some of the other tfriends I have made. ' No date on the following, Dear Mother: Well, I found out how my y came out this morning. The doctor took the splints off my arm and said that If I had a fracture that the doctor who had operated on me did a fine Job and that the onlv thing that is wrong how is that right on the point of the elbow I have had a piece of the bone knocked off. and that I was in no danger unless it goes stiff from the lack of exercise. Well, I am getting to Hk'e thi pine fine, only I wish they would give me my clothes so 1 could leave the hos-pital. Gee, I am getting a fine rest and I sure needed it and so did any marine who is here, for we have sure worked since we came to this coun-try. Your loving son, CORP. GDO. E. MARSHALL. RETUniililSJIllLS AUOIEtlCE AT THE CLUS Private George Whitney Entertains Large Bingham Audience With Stories Of Trench Life, Raids And Battles On Western , Front Recounts In Vivid Manner The Work Of A Private-M-ost Interesting War Lecture Ever Heard In Bingham. George Whitney, a Bostonlan, .who spent over two years In France as a private, Jn the Canadian army," and who was in many raids and battles, including the sanguinary battle of VT Vlmy Ridge, where he was severely , ., wounded, was at the Commercial Club iMonday night and gave a won-derful and thrilling account of what he saw and experienced during the time he spent over there. Judge John C. Green acted as chair man, announced the purpose of the meeting and presented the entertain-ers. The meeting was opened with a solo by Miss Chiara with piano ac-- ' companiment by Miss Brownlee. The first speaker was IE. G. Sullivan of Highland Boy. Mr. Bullivan said he had attended the meeting not for the purpose of making a speech, but to listen to a man who had returned from the Bcene of action,. Me briefly , reviewed the work that has been done by Bingham. Highland Boy and Cop-perfle-in the way of war aid in the matter of buying liberty bonds, con-tributing to the Red Cross and bW scribing for War Savings Stamps. He also fepoke of the 'American soldiers who are now in France for the ex-press purpose of driving the Huns across the Rhine and, dictating peace on German soil. He repeated the elo--, quent speech of General Pershing at i the statue of Lafayette which was, ( , 'TLafayette, we arc with you." . , Mr. Whitney was then presented and he at once commenced telling of the war as he saw it He did not pour forth his discourse m an oratorical ; manner, but Just talked it off like some of your friends might to an as-v- i-embly friend, over some startling ; Iff experience he had met with lb. the ' t; forest with a 'mountain-- Hon ear tome $f other dangerous animal. He began by explaining how a ilrlve was effect-- , , ed and then talked "briefly of the Russian situation. He paid a tribute to the American' army over there and said that they were Ihe men who were inspiring new confidence in the tilled armies. After advising the people to write often and to write . cheerful letters to the boys at the front, and what to send and what not 7 to send them, he opened his talk of ' the real fighting. The new men are sent to the (first line at the front for their first experiences. They are . not put in easy places to begin with and gradually worked to the front be-cause he said It was much easier for them to start at. the. front and work back. When a raid Is to be pulled o" the men are notified to be ready In en minutes and they climb ladders to the top of the trench. A "creeping barage" is then started by the artil-lery from the rear. The soldiers fol-low fifty steps behind the barage un-- , til the enemy first line is reached. He related all the little details about ' getting-- in and out of the trenches, how all the movements were made at night, how the barbed wire entangle-ments were made and how an attack-ing force bad to cut lanes through its own wires preparatory to making an attack. Until recently he se!d that the front-lin- o trenches of the two ar-mies were only about sixty yards apart, but now the distance is about 250 yards. " He gave a fine description of the great, battle of Vlmy Ridge which opened on Eanter Monday lafc year, where after the loss of 70,000 the T' French and Canadians climbed to the top and captured the crest of the j r'dge. He said the last 200 yards they covered the dead Germans were lying so thick that the allies marched 4 over that distance without touching the ground. It was in this battle that . he was shot with a dum dum bullet, and was later entombed with seven-teen comrades and he was the only one taken out alive. j He told Incident after incident In the warfare over there which one does not find in the papers and mag--' t azines and his talk from start to fin-ish was full.of Into rest. He talked for about two hours and everyone pres-ent would have been glad to have listened to him twice that length of time. "! After his talk, a solo, "Send Me i Away With A Smile." was rendered by Misses Chiara and Brownlee, and the meeting was brought to a close by the singing of the 'Star 'Spangled Banner" by the audience. After the meeting Private Whitney was sr'ven a recent'on. Bpfore leaving the Club rooms Individuals there vol- - untarliy and without solicitation gave 1 Mr. Whitney $20. He left here for Salt Lake and from there will go to Washington. I' One of the mott delightful dances of the s'fl'uin was that given Wednes-day nfp-li- t by the Maccabros at Can-yon Hall It was the LIbrt.y Bond dance and was glen for the purpose of aiding to secure the funds with , whlrh to purchase $10(0 Liberty Bonds which is to bo presented to 'lie organization. The dance was well attended. nuGLUO UttB A BIG MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Local Public Spirited And Patriotic Body Sets Out To Secure Membership Of Two Hundred Club Is Doing Great Work-Furn- ished Gathering Place For War Workers, Advertises And Pays Expenses Of Such Meetings. ' , At a meeting of the board of gov-ernors of the-- iBingham Commercial Club last Tuesday night It was de-cided to launch a campaign to swell the membership of the Club to 200 at an early date. ,The board of gov-ernors feel that this movement will be a material benefit to the Club and in turn be a great1 menefit to the community and the country at large. There can be ho doubt but that the Commercial Club has been the greatest ifactor in this community in furthering every phase of ih$ war work. The dub has furnished the mcetir.g place for the publio gather-ings for the (Liberty Bond drives. The Red Cro.: campaigns, the War Hav-ings Stamps movement and all other meetings that had the welfare of the community and the country at heart. tBut has not only furnished the meetinug place for these gatherings, but it has shouldered the expense of advertising the same and furnishing entertainment to the ; assembled crowds. . - V ' - : 1 All this the Club has done without, complaining. If it was for the pub-lic good the clubCtook a hand and' pafd the expense. Without the work of this organization It is certain that Bingham would not have accomplish-ed so much In the great war work. Therefore, it rhould have every en-couragement and all who wish to as-sist the government and aid in the of the community should heartily with this organli- - Tlie larger th membership the- - bettof "prepared thfe club will be to; carry on its good work. It is an honor to belong to such an organization and the good people ok the town who. . an not already members should bend: in their applications at one. RALPH MURANO ( V,.' . : i r V ' r- - 7 W r wit L Ralph Murano, 19 year old. son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Murano, whoienlisted in the navy,' July 6,and . is now stationed at 'Los Angeles. ? He has decided to do his bit to help beat the Kaiser and that the J best place to do this was In the navy. I He is a young man with plenty of ; nerve and he will be ready to scrap I the Huns t the first opportunity. He lis all right and he is Just the kind ' of a fellow that will make good in the .navy. . .. - CHARLES ADDERLEY !r , . ) The above is the likeness o Charles Adderley son of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Addcloy of Eingham. Young Adder-le- y volunteered fcr service a short time ago and Joined the other men from Utah who went to Boulder Co-lorado for special training in mechan-ics. He was given a course in radio lnstead of mechanics and is now able to receive and send wireless mess-ages. He has been transferred to Fort Dodge, Iowa, for more advanced work In radW'ahdlili parents are'ot 1 he opinion tlat-whe- n Be haa - fin Ished his preparation in this branch he will probably be sent to France. He is the only son- - of Mr. Adderley, manager of the Bingham Mercantile and a member of the town board. Young Adderley was born In Bingham and was. educated in the Bingham schools" PERSHING'S CRUSADERS - Tnder ' th auspices of.' the Vbllia States government, the committee on Public Information of which George Creel is chairman, will offer at the Paramount Princess, Monday and 'Tuesday the first official United States war film entitled, "Pershing's ; Crusaders,", in eight reels. This fea-- : ture film has been photographed by the United States Signal Corps, Navy photographers and cameramen of the ' French General Staff. It shows how every man, woman and child is "help-ing Uncle Sam, with interesting scenes showing the . progress i being made in the ship building, aeroplane 'construction and gun and ammunition making at well as Interesting phases cf cantonment training. , illlGU'liS A RED CROSS CHAPTER i ', The IBingham chapter of the Red! Cross was organized at a meeting held at the Commercial JClub last Monday and a letter announcing the fact haa been sent to the various officers by the secretary, Mrs. John Con trat-to- . The letter reads as follows: "At a nreeting held" at the Com-mercial Club, July 22, over which' Dr. John Malick presided, a branch of the A. R. C. was organized which will : be known as the Einghr.m brunch, and ' the following officers were elected. 'Chairman, Miss Hazel Bourgard; vice chairman, IMise Stella Klopens-tine- ; treasurer, Mr. C. W. Buckholz; chairman finance committne, Mr. O ti. Kelly; Mr. Fred R. Turner, ilr. Ed Zwicky, Mr. Dom. Pezzopane. "The purpose of this branch is to eliminate the congestion at the Salt Lake Chapter, also to do away with much expense to the divers auxil-iaries." BINGHAM TRIES IVViLiSMT BALL; VERY SUCSESSFLL The Bingham ball team tried out twiMght ball List Sunday. iBingham played IMidvale in the first twilight game. There was a very good crowd to the first game and Mapager De-la-ne y is going to try and keep the game alive for the rest of the season. The games will start promptly at six o'clock in order to give the fans working In and around the mint a chance to seo the gamea. There has also been arrangements made where-by there will be autompbiles run to the game so there will" be no excuse for these who wish to see the games and dont want to walk. Bingham has added a few more new players their lineup and they ' expeci, to win the state semi pro title this year. Next Sunday they will play Magna Utr.h on the smelter boys grounds, at Magna. In former years these two "mn used to have some real base ball battle and the bos are glad to . play with them again. They will come to iBingham in the near future. The Wilson boys of Salt Lake are trying to form a state league to play ' Sunday ball on Bonneville Park and want to include iBingham in the league. So if Bingham gets the right kind of support they will no doubt be included.- - Wet have alwujg had' a ball team to reprefent Bingham, here-tofore, so lot's stand behind the "boys thh year and give them the encour-agement and support they deserve. JUDGE GREEII FOR COUNTY COM-MISSIONER During the past few months there has been considerable talk here over the fact that Bingham should have a county commissioner, and, a name of a sultabla candidate was mention-ed this week who is Judge John C. Green. It Is said that Judge Green would make a very strong candidate and that he would get the solid sup- -' port of this .entire camp were he nominated. Judge Green knows the needs of this camp it is said, as well as any man living here and that he would fill this important office, with credit to the entire county. It Is known that a number of peo-ple of the camp are prevailing on the Judge to become a candidate and should he decide to do so this end of the county would be assured of a good representatlva on the board of county commissioners. . . As we have stated before, if Bing-ham is to get a county commissioner this year the people must get behind their candidate and boost him. Judge Green is well qualified frr the place end would render valuable services on the board. , MORE WAR SAVKJG PLEDGES MADE i i The following is a number of pled-ges made to the warsavings drive In Bingham i Bingham L:very & Transfer J10U; Bingham State Bank $1,000, William Black $30, Harry Black $30, J. A. Buckles $30, Stevo Carr$3, Jim Chris topherson $35, Wm. Cloud $70, Ells-worth Condle $45, Clyde Countryman $200, Robert Coward $35, Clifton Da-vis $5, Roy Davis $30, Tom Delaney $35; Tom Lunstone, $15; Vivian Fin-nel- $10; Dan Fitzgerald $"0; D. b, Flynn $25; H. B. Gaines $5; I. M. Gauchat $350; George Hill $70; Leo A. Ivia $30; F. A. Johnson $105; Tom r' Kellow Jr., $30; John Loverldge $35; L. S. Madson $50; 1. B. Oddlt $30; O. I. Peterson $30; Arthur Pitts, 3C; Karl Randall, $85; W. A. Reeve, $100; Ed Shaw $35; Ia-- Stathnkos $30; C. F. Sullcnger $35; J. J Taylor $100; I A. Tomsll $30; Ben Waddell $C0; Mrs. A. J. White $10; W. H. Winn, $40; Christen WolL.$100; Frank Za-ro- s $30; P.O. McDonald $100; J. W. Goodwin $30; Mrs, James A. Hardy $25; Leonard Hyland $60. j HIM JOINS AM SQUAD 'A. IL Nehl, who was formerly with the S. J. Hays & Company, is now a member of the aviation! squadron at Berkley, California. Mr. Nehl tried to get placf d in thr. aviation section before he lerft Bingham early this year, but at the time was unsuccess-ful and his friends here will be glud to lfcra that ho is now located in the service he desired. He left here end went to Idaho and from there to Portland and from that place join-ed the bird men. In a letter to the editor of the Pre3s-Dullcti- n this week he says: , ' "Have been missing a few copies of the P. !B. lately and am enclosing a check to cover my subscription to the first- - of the year. Am bucking thej toughest game yet, down here. Class-- 1 es all day and part of the night. They ! tell us that flyers are considered su-permen, and it Is up to us to prove it or get out, ?nd believe me, a bunch do get out. They are certainly a fine looking lot of boys, everyone a per-fect specimen of manhood. Sermon is at Walport, Oregon, 2Cth Provincial Squadron, and stems to be getting along all right. Give my regards to all the boys, and if you come down here will show you a little speed." He now has the title of flying ca-det, and Is stationed at Squadron 61, Aviation Barracks, Berkeley, Cali-fornia. COURT NOTES j Spfro P. Klstopolous, chaiged with the theft of the Grecnwell diamonds plead iSTiilty and was sentenced to two months in the county jail. The case aga'nKt John Smith,, chargfd with having liquor In his possession, was continued until nexti Wednesday. George Hermanls, chp.rgod with adultery and who was out on bond did not appear for trial, and a bench j warrant was Issued for him. ! George Poppadlne, charged with va-grancy wao fined $25 and sentenced to ninety days in Jail if found in the community after this week. John Poppas, charged with vagran-cy was fined $25 and was ordered to' go to work Immediately. Harry Kubato, chnrgr-- with fast riding, .was found p"!!tv by n i"--r This was the second offense and he was fined $50. The case nealnst (Mrs, Sltnon Ma-'- i thurln, charred with having linuor in her possession, was continued until next week. The case against Nick Manakln, . charged with the unlawful sale of ' liquor was continued. Rook Assick of iLark. charged with disturbing the peace, was released under a $?.". bono. Thla was a mat-ter In which It seems a number of purlieu were Interested and It is tin- - dorstood tliat counter charges will be filed against a number of others. t DR. BRECKEII'S CAR RUNS AWAY A thrill of excitement was had in town Thursday night when the car of Dr. J. K. IW. Bracken, which waa Handing in front of tho Inglesby gar-age, without warning or excuse started off at full speed down the canyon. It kept in the middle of the , strict until it reached the school building when it took the sidewalk one', kept going until ft struck the fence around the yard at Metealf's Bottling Wnrks, It broke through the fence, but stopped soon thereafter. It suffered bent fenders' ml a dam- - ' VK'd radiator. The M,frlff frrce and the purify 'quad aro thinking about conduct (tiff-in investigation to ascertain whether r. Bri'eken has had hij car In Kvan-sto- n recently. NOTICE 4 The Citizens State Bank Is endeavoring to secure the nec- - eswnry data to have a service flag made for Bingham, giving the names of all the boys in Blaghain, Highland Boy, and Copperfield, who have been called to the colors in eny and all branches of the service of the service of the U. S. A and will greatly appreciate the kindness of anyone who can and will suppy any of this Information. If any member of your family has Joined, or any friend, kindly call at the Bank with the name. he received was the usual notification card mailed from an eastern city af--! ter the receipt of a cablegram an-nouncing the safe arrival in port of the ship on which the soldier Set-sai- A short while ago Don Dun-lav- y was located at Camp Lewis on the west coast and he sent a clipping to his fathpr from the camp paper of a wonderful trip a number of tho sol-diers, Including himself, had in the mountains where the snow nt places" was then wain deep. Judge. Iiunlavy hns two foiis in the servire. JUDGE IHJNLAVY'S SON ARRIVES OVERSEAS Judge A. If. Dunlavy this week re-ceived notice that his son Don, had safely arrived overs"as. The notice |