Show f 1 O OL Op L 1 M p DUDDY Edited by Corp Larry Ferns worth y Duchesne Boy Was as Hun Prisoner LEX IT H. CAS CASE of oC Duchesne county ALEx who was a Gorman German prisoner for tur several so weeks describes his experience cx- cx letter to his and capture in a father 1 was captured by the Germans on September 25 5 the the- third da day of oC the grand drive o that made them beg for tor peace he he- he says sas I was lost from my company on tho the first day of oC the o and ami was with L company compan 1 when I met a lieutenant and another fellow from our company compan Ve We c joined them mid and started to catch up with our company compan company com com- pan pany which they said was just a snort wa way ahead Well It seems we got Jot twisted tod In iii our directions and after aCter a a. couple of oC hours' hours walk wo we landed against ag a road that was packed with retreating Germans Wo We started to retiro retiro re- re tiro Uro and had a couple of ot machine guns to shoot hoot at us HO so o we wo dropped into ashell a ashell ashell shell hole to spend the remainder of oC the night The Tho next morning morning- we the woke In the midst ourselves tip 11 and nd found round of oC the whole Dutch arm army Yell Well took us back and tried to quiz lull us its but bul had very little luck lude work pulling pulling- wagon wag wag- then they the put us to boxes boxe We e and carrying on ons ony aro around nd didn't mind tho the work but the they didn't service Onedas One Ono put up ry good feed days day's grub was as follows A M. M Ono One Ono small bowl of oC parched barley coffee Noon Onu Noon Ono small bowl of oC potato peeling soup SOUl P Parched U.-Parched M Parched barley barJe coffeo an and 1 one-fourth one loaf of or black lat bread brea the bread breall was made mad oC or r o o. tree treo bark barl sawdust sawdust saw saw- a dust and ana potato o so did dIll not Clot hit ht the tho spot pot This was our menu for the scroll weeks week I 1 was captive BO so you can Imagine how glad I was waA to Jot cot back ALEX ALE if If H. CASE Describing Describing- a R. O German retreat he ho says saya The Tre Germans 1 killed ell more Americans Ameri Ameri- Americans cans b by walking them to death ath trying to keep Jeep up than thun h by any other othor means meana It was sure very vory Vor funny Cunny to see seo how excited ex excited excited ex- ex I cited they the became beame behind the lino line while retreating They rhe would try tn to tu I drive o three teams through h the same tamo space aco they would not lol ordinarily hard haxo tried to drive ono one The They would hit tho the j I horses over 01 the head hend trying to make malee them go gu forward they would lock and to beat each wheels cu lo tr try other othor home I never ne saw Haw anything BO so funny in m my life liCe Steam rollers wi were re crashing Into the rear of wagons the they were throwing o er everything away from Crom rifle bullets to 10 Inch IC shells machine guns bolts hugo wire cutters helmets wagons trucks threshing machine engines en- en I gines Ine rifles packs boots lined the road for Cor miles The only object tho the Dutch seemed to have ha was to beat each other home Moab illoah Boy r Writes ri tes Front From Dijon Dion FranceL France I Elmer ot of Moab Is with a regiment regiment regi regi- L LIa ment that has hap been picked to lo go gu to Germany Writing from Crom Dijon DUon tho the fifth lar largest cst city in France he tells his father Cather This elt city life lIfo only makes me more anxious to lo see sea again the good old U. U S1 S So A A. and you ou Now ow that I am to drive rl a motor car cat carI catI I ran pan enjoy the scenery a n. bunch of or infantry and toting a full tull pack I I j I I I I takes lakes all tho jo joy out of oC life Cc Tell all the Moab girls to bo be on the alert and anal I watch their step for Cor when I get got back balk the they are aro likely to have o a follow fellow to lu get rid of oC who Is going to be bo hard to shake ke because 1 am m not strong stroll for tor these French girls girl The rho Americans for tor me I always I 1 am like J the tho colored gentleman gentle gentle- man who said I 1 always alwn's did have a hankering to cross the oc ocean all anti and I 1 I ha have hae e still got St IL It People in ill Germany Nice Toward Yanks f j OtT would hard hardly know that we weY you Y arc aro In Germany German b by the lite wa way the they treat us us for the they seem leem to tobe tobe tobe be quito quite agreeable writes rites Jim Methe- Methe son from fre es Germany lo to his father at Beaver This elt city Is la about half haIr as largo as Salt Lake City an and I is mo modern In eYer every ery respect he lie hens says ays We e are arc staying at a German arm army training post and aro are billeted In a four story tOI brick barrack so wo we are not lIOl doing do doin doing do- do in ing so so ba badly if IU If a fellow know German he could get ct along better around hero here but all ull I want Is 18 to get back hack to tho the good old t. t p. p A. A and nd speak peal a tl regular lan Ian g Didn't Didn t Need Telling b To Fall Fan Into e YRON O. O COOLEY of oC the M MYRO o tit and amI la later ter of or the Stun division division divi divi- sion slon writes from France to his friends In Beaver county that he ho didn't need telling to full fall into a L when some monster r Whiz bans camo came his hlll wa way 1 I J never neter had to be bc told to Lo fall Into ashell ishell a i ashell shell hole of oC mud mull and amid water or a ditch trench or 01 even en behind a blade of or grass for protection with largo large shells bursting burst burst- mug ing around you ou throwing mud a avid and small rocks all over u hi ho h says ay aM You Yam get et out shake a little of oC tho the won worst t of or ofIl Il Ft off and go on At night if It It way was wai our luck luel to 10 get into a dugout to sleep if IC It H was out in a n field flold of or wet grass rass or 01 mull mud It was just the tho same same- for Cor It was as lie e down lown null cull your raincoat raincoat raincoat rain rain- coat collar over o your face faco to leec keep the tho rain raft out of or your o Jl face Cace and sloop as ns asgood I good as ns If It In 1 the nicest of or sheets or 01 I blankets in the A hotel walte wake wake-up up 11 t I tIn In th the tho morning and eat somo corned d I Bill and hardtack hardt and after that I stretch yourself and aunt you yon w were re ready read really I for fol tho whole German army I IX X c e Ie Mammoth Bo Bor Boy Escorts 1 Wilson Tilson Soli 9 EIB LIB ELBY GROESBECK of uC the 1 U U. S. S S. S W W Hallford has bias written hl his cou cousin I Ir Mrs r n J Jess e s Shepard that his hl ship was ono orlo or of that escorted d Pre President l- l I dent out omit to 10 sea on his trip to Europe A A No 1110 10 was tras made of or ti u us I and if It you u O a I atho Patho showing ho President WH Wilson VIlton on going across you ou will flue find me In n tho lh last boat hoat behind the tho transport ort on the tho right hand side aide Ide he Ire says VH I would like o to be In Mammoth to attend u. u danco and antI would surd sum f luo have hU o seine Rome time I I. I Iam am going to tu New Ze York city to attend tho the Astor Victory ball Tickets rickets are aro 10 but It Jl will not cost Clit 1 mo Inc an anything thing Thc They will dance danco tho thu dance danco I a new have o learned I 1 wish 3 you OU ott were here hert and I would teach tench you ou to 10 dance it he Ito adds s. s X ic Ml i Pleasant Boy t Describes Fi Fighting Oh tin y o 0 I IH ERE are arc excerpts front from a letter Jetter H HERE HEln which Alfred A Cherry Cherr of or the headquarters headquarters head head- quarters I sanitary detach detachment men I 11 Hath Hh field artillery art has written l to his father Cather and mol mother her at Mount Pleasant Was Just thinking tonight of my first trip I up to the front It was sus at Chateau Thierry The first da day sortie somo of ot the boys and myself took look a walkout walk walkout out into the fields s and the time things we saw not notor or very vory pleasing to the eye for Cor the initial trip in one place I suit saw the tho ba bare baro ro foot Coot of or a man man in It another a no skull and a l little farther on onU wo we saw san sawan sanan an merl 4 American an who had been blown to almost nothing In a n ditch were lying This was seven o or eight d dead ad Germans too loo much for me mo and I Immediately went wont back Lack to tu camp We le e then proceeded proceed proceed- ed to tho time front where whore the tho guns were wore shell fire first time under this was m my Ono One night we were wore shelled off ore thin tho road hauling ha ammunition and andt 1 I r o 1 bu hill t theres there's I het a a iv tv i-tv g. g hn h Death were no casuals In our r regiment worst position wo ire had alle Valley wits was the tho It was wu just back ack of uC th tho river JI river I 1 Iwas Iwas wa was not at the thc guns gun then and Idle Pote Leslie Peterson and 1 I used to go over or on bit the hill after supper anti and watch the shells lilt hit around the gunsOn gunsOn gunsOn guns On OnU August U M 4 t wo we received hurried orders to tu more move o to the Soissons front Cronl and anal assist the tho French in a drive c We c immediately mo moved moed ed d out nut and were on the time rood road twenty six i tours hours This I la Is said to tobe tobe experienced In inh be tho the hardest hike over ever got ot there all right and h Franco Ianco But we were rea ready leady y to give I c the Huns Hints all we had and alit wo Nul nure e did At this front we took tool several towns towns Juvigny la is one one and I fn us given ourselves the till name won on for or tho time J French conch bus Mes Terri Tern bios division lIl by tho Ar 1 Later we u were ordered 11 to 10 onne sector north of or Verdun As soon g ed at this front I wai wa as we wo U as us transferred to lo the Medical al 1 ell leal department and sent with tho the guns uns as a n first nl al aid aidman d This front was th the tho worst of or all nIl wo V man roan d helln I I nn n h f were pro more Ore casualties the weather was so CI very Inclement all the time and the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans put up a harder re resistance But the good old Yankee pluck flowed through the veins of oC er e every man and it wa was sus hei he that we showed showell the boche who wo tivo were Nameplate Made i B By Soldier Unique c LILT X was made malle hap happy this B BERT morning I lie I e received ell through the mall hall n n. name plate for Cor his office of office orfice or- or fice door made madu by It H II P. P one of or Uncle Sams Sam's s boys bOs stationed at Camp John Wise San Antonio Texas A short note nOl read y Dear Friend Bert Just Jut a line Hoe to let you know Im I'm still enjoying th the arm army life I saw In lu tho the paper that you OU now ha e an nn office in the tho bank building building build build- ing so l I thought I r tt would make maleo yon yet a name plate Hoping to bo IJO with ouT y next Christmas ChristmaN as B II I. I I Jl It P. P For Forsgren Balloon company The rhe name namu plate plat Is made of spruce or 01 oak oal The Tho outer rim mint of oC light color coor wood the time center strip of oC dar dark wood Ct with Ith Ith Betts Bert's name in inlaid aid with light colored pieces It Is a piece of art and I Is noh now no h hanging in O. O t C. C Jacobsen's window han CH City Journal Father Hears of SOll Sons Son's S Resting Place ILLIAM r F. F HARPER H. o of Smithfield WILLIAM whose son Karl Earl S S. Harper 6 d dI Infantry died October I. I I has received re- re r re received I cel word from Col Charles C O. O writing g- g from Franco telling him his that his big sons noil's body has hat been hurled burled where it is under the tho control and care caro of time the gra graves registration service lct a and III I that 1 every caro care and attention will be bestowed upon It ff Too foo Bus Busy lo to toV Worry V orry About l Influenza PETER JOHNSON SO of or Lo Logan an has received a n letter front from her hor son on 1 Vi I Alex who hay has been boon fighting In France In Iii which an Interesting de- de of ot his I experiences is given I de-I The Tile flu Is not bothering tilt the boj boys bos over there ho he says saYf because they have to move 1110 around too loo much and ami arc are kept I too healthy I noted that all nil public houses wore I closed at home ho hum says sas On On the contrary contrary con con- tho they thoy havo ha been heen opened up Ul heleon hero hele on al all four our sales Hides with hl high h explosives and air all raids raid uric and now used for fOI the purposes of oC billeting soldiers You said you OU otter often wondered what kind of or a u bed hell bedI I 1 liars have at nl night ht l Well ell ell It Is s hard to Nay ay as his I never no have havo tho time same ono one two In succession but bul usually I havethe have hac tho the host best of oC comfort There Thero aro are rumors of going back ovary ov- ov J ory ary day but as vet rot wo we are still enjoying enjoying enjoy enjoy- III ing our soldier life O over I here I 1 hope liopo h by spring I 1 will see oleo the good old ranch I again I hn have moved about quite considerable con cm- Franco France and productive pro pru- In sunn sunny Belgium but take mo me back to tho dear old town lown as 5 oil 3 on 1 call It It ou oil the lake shore v vI I lOr hope you IU havi l received more I letters letters let let- I I from and m of or late If 11 f nut not dont don't t i t J i blamo me bl blame mc Fritz 1117 as no is taking II all thud the blame this Ills season season r. r jl I tT REED HEED or of Nephi 0 ph I who was wounded In Flanders and tull I who was hollered believed dead h by hl his friends was recognized on the time streets yesterday ny by William hailer Balle I of or the state stale board of or equalization lloIs lieis lie llo Is at time the Icon Fort Dou Douglas las general hos hos- ho pital Mr 1 Bailey spread the ACO good news around among ii s other I friends LETTER n. n ti the e irr fir S t t since ince last July A has ha just been received cd b by Mr mud ami Mrs Irs P. P Ct B B. Wilson 11 on 11 Mead lead street front from their theil son sons Robert Hobert A A. A and Thomas 4 Wilson now no In n France Fiance Thc They rhey had hail fought ht on th tho lame Marne at St. St and anal andIn In tho time Ar Argonne They are aro now inGer- inGer field artillery artil artil- Thirteenth n.-an n. nany with the ler lery l Fourth artillery Fourth division dl American army rm of occupation |