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Show AFTER BRIEF PRAYER INFANTRY GOES OVERTOP So Writes Corporal John E. Holden in Message to Parents. Interesting letter full of optimism and the spirit that will make our soldiers sol-diers successful Inth great conflict havo been received from different sectors sec-tors of the hattlefront In France by Salt Lske friends. . Knvoy Mae Morton, daughter of Major and Mrs. P. Morton of th Salvation Sal-vation Army, has written a letter to her parents declaring that "ther isn't enough money in the world to buy my experiences over here, and If the Americans -at home knew what the boys over here have done In the last forty-eight hours, they would turn, old V. H. wipslde down." Knvoy Morton Is doing first aid work at the front. She is living in barrack and sharing the same hardships aa the soldiers. UTAH N IS CITED. Sergeant , Vernon ST I tiiymnn nf Murray has been cited for bravery under un-der fir, according to a letter received by his mother. Mra. Klisabeth Guytnon. Sergeant Cuymon -volunteered to go through a heavy machine gun fire to rail for reinforcements. He delivered his message and saved the town, of Hotiresches from being retaken by th Germans. ! He enlisted in April. 1917. and received ; his tratiing at Mere Island with the marines. II sailed for Franc last March. - Corporal John K. Holden of the Seventeenth Sev-enteenth field artillery, has been in the great American dt:ive. He was formerly for-merly with the One Hundred Forty-fifth Forty-fifth field artillery atj amp Kearny, hut left last Jun for France with a replacement draft. . "Today Is th first rest I've had In forty -eight hours," he writes to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. K. If. Holden, 734 Kast First South street. I am in a German dugout on German territory, away from whistling bullet above. Just a half hour ago, a tier man airplane air-plane brouaht down two of our observation obser-vation balloons. It was surely a daring trick. The Boches were brought down by our machine Runs. PRAYER BEFORE ATTACK. "Night before last we fired a barrage for twenty houra without stopping. Then, after a ahort prayer, th Infantry wont over the top. Talk about hU-atorms' hU-atorms' Kvery time I fired my gun I i dropped flat. Our Infantry captured Hurt prisoners and a hill they had mined," Koliert C. Kiser. formerly with the Oregon Short Line Railroad company, now a rrremhspr of the signal corps In France, was In France only twenty-six j days when he was put In action in the' big drive of July 17. He fought with the French and assisted In taking pris- ; oners and booty, according to a let-; ter received by Kdward Randolph. 142 Second Kast street. f |
