Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-07-07 | Page 41 | St. Louis Twins to Fight Together in France

ST ST. LOUIS TWINS TO I FIGHT TOGETHER TOGETHER I IN FRANCE Girls Find It Hard to Tell Which Fighter Is j Which f i By F Fred cd S. S Ferguson United Press Staff Correspondent WITH viru THE TIlE AMERICAN n FORCES FORES IN IX June 17 thy Oby mall mail When you go to war twice at the same un s- s I. I time in the tho annie sarno outfit maybe you youcan y QU ii can consider you really are doing your our your part to whip the Boche At least Valter Walter Val Wai- ter and Albert ilbert aro are inclined to feel teel that Wa way about it The only on It be done however is way a can to bo a boa a twin Walter alter an and Albert arc are twins twin Their father tather and mother livo at Lucas Luca avenue St St. Louis And if it Mr and Mrs Grierson think the they had bad a n. hard 1 time tolling Walter Waiter and Albert apart when thc they were little tittle they ought to see sec the serg sergeant ant and company commander commander com com- I mander tr trying it it After ACter you OU know know how to identify Identity the twins It Its It's easy Walter or is it Albert OJ has a moleon mole moleon on one ono foot toot But nut the sergeant cant can't cant I tell the twins to take off oft their overy every time lime he wants to pick one of ot them for tor some Iome particular Job The rhe re result re- re suit sult Is that thal Walter alter and Albert ar ore are fighting the war both to together ether and separately for themselves es and for each other and In addition are and are and also is is carrying carrying on a a. mail mall court court- ship DO THE GIRLS KNOW They are ore writing Glendine and amid Geraldine Ger- Ger 1 aldine Smalley who live in Sheldon Ill III and antI Geraldine arc are twins twin t Walter or Albert Is writing Clendine and Albert or Walter alter Is writing Ger- Ger ij Albert Albert anyhow of or II Walter or 01 one the twins first twins first told the story ston as ha ha sat in iii the window of 01 the United Press l on one warm evening in ia Wagons guns and camions were ero rollIng rollIns rolling roll- roll Ing Ins and rumbling b by Tho The twins l lare are with an engineering enc outfit and It it- it was too early yet for tor them to set out for their work of stringing wire and andr digging trenches and dugouts As As' sl Walter or Albert talked ed of Delmar the bridge the river and other things of oC homo home the he other one came up It ItZ was like seeing double Their tin Un hats bats were even en at the same angle 1 NOBODY KNOWS DIFFERENCE t You see its it's like this sal said Albert i When hen Walter that Walter that Identified Al Albert Al- Al bert when bert when Walter Is working and I Is f tired and Im I'm fresh I slip out and and relieve him and nobody knows tho the dlf- dlf f. f terence ference Then If I get et tired he comes Ii out and anti relieves mc me and so o long Ions as asono one ono of or us is where one or tho the other is supposed to be be well there you arc are No lo one In the company knows know's one one from rom t other On one occasion a n. ne neW In chare of or the detachment detach detach- sergeant was tas charge charle ment working on a dugout u detach f Albert Albrt and Walter were working from opposite opposite opposite r site sides Just as Walter Valter left the tho dugout with a wheelbarrow filled with dirt Albert left the oilier end of tho the runway and came down another path r with his empty The sergeant didn't know there were two of or them thE Every t time he looked up h he saw a Grierson off with wheel i loading and starting a II barrow barrot The rhe sergeant figured this man Grierson was doing twice a aa as much work as an any other man on the thel job and went vent tt to tho the lieutenant to tell ten him about it Then Theil ho lie learned there thero were two of them THEY WORKED IN BANKS Before enlisting in lit the arm army j er cr the worked In different banks In St. St Louis Loui It 11 so go happened that each was vas at the passbook window I in his respective bank hank Depositors with accounts in both bolh banks be began an to to- consider taking tho the pledge If lf they went from one bank lank directly to the tha other othel until they learned how hott things things' stood J l The sergeant and antI the company corn com mander have given gl it up They The as assign assi assign as- as si sign n Albert and Walter to work and so lon long as a Grierson on is there that is is' good enough h The twins are over here because they want to help win the war They are aro not yet vet 21 1 would would- not have hav b h been en n drafted but they affi are aro I doing the war double f f t-