Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-23 | Page 6 | "Tim's" Letters

"TIM'S" LETTERS. After some delay, aggravating but impossible to remedy. The Tribune special spe-cial correspondent in France, Mr. Floyd Timmerman, has joined the 145th field artillery, formerly the First Utah National Na-tional Guard, and is now in constant communication with this paper. The regiment, as will be discovered by reading read-ing Mr. Timmerman 's letters, is billeted in southern France, and is engaged in putting on the finishing touches to the long period of training required to make a good artilleryman. In a couple of weeks the 145th will be ready for duty at the front, and unless something extraordinary ex-traordinary occurs the Utah lads will be pumping shells into the German trenches in a very short time. Mr. Timmerman reports that the members of the 145th are in the best of health, the Spanish influenza not having reached their camp. This is very gratifying grati-fying news to the friends and relatives in all parts of the state, for the epidemic epi-demic has invaded the training camps in the United States and there have been many victims. There have been many promotions in the regimen since it reached the other side, and a number num-ber of officers and men have been detailed de-tailed for important service, all of which have been duly chronicled by The Tribune correspondent. Mr. Timmerman Tim-merman s first extended letter appeared yesterday morning, a second makes its appearance today and tomorrow the third of the series will be printed. We mention these things on account of the widespread interest taken in the boys of the old national guard who went to the Mexican border when trouble appeared ap-peared imminent and have since followed fol-lowed the flajf to France.