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Show The .Spanish Fork' Press f : VOLUME XVIII SPANISH FORK, UTAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1919 TRANSPORT SIERRA BRINGS- WOUNDED SOLDIERS ISHF - SHERRY NUMBER 6 . WATER OVER THET0P13TIMES; NEVER RAD A S.RAiCH CIIED FOB BRAVERY Farmer! of Nepbl and Elberta are Ing to make arrangements with U. S. Reclamation Service to buy 1 the surplus water from the Straw-r- y Valley Reclamation Project, ountlng to approximately 20,000 A, H-i ' ;i v feet. tvrT ' V- S C' 4 of of representatives I meeting v-ifarmers of these districts with the ' ,7 .J tarnation Service officials and J. 1 rA ' iXJi i 4 ..4 Lytcl, manager of this project was The joint d In Provo, Tuesday. amittee of water companies in this trlct was Invited to attend the etlng and they did so. Jr. Lytel Informed the Nephl and lerta people that they would be wed to purchase all the water I hte project could spare after the mere now supplied had subscribed all they want. Farmers In this Irlct will be allowed until April to make subscriptions, after which One of the severely wounded American soldiers thnt were brought home on the tnt import Sierra Is shown being angements will probably be made to the steamer Fhlnnecock In New York hnrbor. jtransferred Elberta of and supply the people ?hl. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT FOR SISTER LETITIA LA NT 1 The following lottor has been reFollowing is a clipping from the ceived here by Mrs. Minnie Miller Deseret News, concerning Alex Jex from her son, Robert Miller: of Spanish Fork, which will be of InSomewhere In Germany, Dec. 17 terest to his many friends here: Thought I would drop you a few in 1914 and 1915, A. J. Jex of lines to let you know that I am still Spanish Fork, Utah, served as a mis- in good health and aa happy as ever sionary In the Northern States, and and I hope this letter will find you for several months waa secretary of folks the same. We are having a the mission. Soon after his return little disagreeable weather here at to Utah, the war call came and he present. It rains almost every day enlisted In the navy, being assigned and has beep for the past two weeks to Keyport, New Jersey. and It doesnt look much better to"On Oct. 4, 1918, the great fire, night. , which nearly destroyed the whole Well, mother, I have sure seen a plant of the T. A. Glllisple Loading lot of country In the past two weeks company, Morgan, N. J., broke out and I am at the present time In Gerearly in the evening. No soldiers many. ,Tbe name of the little town were near and a hurry call was sent la .Nerewled, Just across the Rhine to Keyport for volunteer guards. Jex Rlvr, which we crossed on the 13th was on of the first to respond. of this month. It is sure some river. "From 7:30 p. m. until after mid- They run all klnda of boats up and night these volunteers patrolled the down it. I have now been In France, streets adjacent to the great plant, Belgium, Luxemburg and Germany, seeing chimneys, walls and entire and I hope that the next place will rising in the air amid the flam, be the good old U. S. A. and I will be with shells bursting In every direction glad to return, for there la no place and the fragments falling all around like home. I have found that out. acme of which left their marks upon We sure had aomd reception In the the faithful Jacklea. In one part of first little town we came to In Belthe factory were stored about 100,000 gium. The little old town band met tons of T.N.T. and the violence of the ua about a mile out It w$s .sure explosion can best be understood some band. There wernt many memwhen it is explained that In South bers, but Gee the noise they could man and haft a large business in Paris Amboy, seven miles distant, every make! They fairly blew their horns He took me that evening to Paris. 1 window In the business part of town in two, they were so happy. It there had dinner with him and he sure waa shattered. ever was a country that war hurt. It treated me royally. As a result of the shock from the Is little Belgium. They havnt got While at the cemetery I dedicated explosions and the long exposure dur- any use for the Hun, but they think Howards grave and the beautiful ing the guard duty, 'many lads were the sun rises and sets on the Ameriyard, and I felt while there that he taken to the hospital, Jex among the cana. We find the German people was at rest in peace, and thought number, where be recovered after pleasant, but it doesn't pay to get confidential with them, for they are you would be pleased to know this six weeks. fact. "Glowing reports of the conduct of too much like a dog; when you turn - From the cemetery I went and had the navy personnel were, of course, your back, they might bite you. dinner at the castle, after which Mr. made to the secretary of the navy, I have been over the top thirteen Wulf took me to the photographers with the sequence that yesterday Mr. different times on, five different and we got a great many pictures bf Jex received, through bis command- fronts. I was at Chateau Thierry, the funeral. They say there were ing officer, full recognition of the Solsson, St. .Mlhlel, Champaign and the military services bravery displayed on the memorable Argonne, and we sure went through at 10,000 people which were vefry grand. Well, I occasion. something In every one of them. I UilnKed the good people' for what He is now' stationed at the Great am sure glad It Is over. ROBERT MILLER. they had done for us,' and Invited Likes Naval Training Station, and is them to visit us in America, and I connected with the; aviation mechanRobert Miller went to Camp Lewis was also asked to Invite you to visit ics school, 15th regiment. November 3rd. 1917. He was there Miss La Rue Beck, daughter of only fire days, when he was sent to them, and they said you should stay He landed In right with them while there. I told Morgan and Annie Rowe Beck of Camp Mills, N. Y them you would surely visit France. Spanish Fork arrived in Chicago Mon- France December 27th, 1917. , When I reached Paris, a soldier in day noon. She will be married to the station office saw my pass, and Alex. J. Jex, Tuesday, at 6 p. m., at DONT FEED BEET TOPS , TO YOUR HORSES asked me who ! was. On telling him the home of President and Mrs. G. E. he said he was in the car with How- - Ellsworth. A supper will be given in their honor. MIbs Beck is one of new im. ar an During the beet harvest season I am well and happy and anxious to Spanish Forks charming society girls a number of beet growers siloed return honie. It has just been a and has been a school teacher and a beet tops for winter feed. While month since the fighting ceased. The music teacher for a number of years the results of feeding them to cattle are all that could be desired, there time passes rapidly and I hope It in her home town. have been some losses in feeding the will until I return home. to horses, and those who still Phone Mabel, go and see her and ensilage TURNER CHILD DIES have ensilage In the alio should see to the babe often and let her read this I Iva Christine Turner, the two years It that the horses are not permitted letter. I know she is lonely. am so anxious to see her and my son. old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank to eat It, as trouble will most likely Turner died this morning at 1:30 of follow. Write aa often as you can. an obstruction of the bowels, after The matter was discussed at the Your loving son, an illness of only one day. The little American Association of Sugar Beet HIAL M. HALES. When Hlal returned to his quar- girl Is survived by her parents and Agriculturalists, held at Logan, Utah, ters the cable announcing the death two sisters. Funeral arrangements January 28th to 31st, and while there waa a difference of opinion, by men of his wife was there awaiting him. have not yet been made. who had known of Ita use for a long The department of auto tire re- time. It seems the part of good Judgment to use It only for cattle feed, FOR SALE OR RENT pairing of the Spanish Fork has been moved from the harness at least until we are better informed shop to the second storey in, the In the matter. There are those who Forty one and main building. The move was nec- have fed small amounts to horses of north nice level acres, land, lying D. & R. G. R. R. between Mapleton essary on account of the great In- with good results, but there are also and mouth of Spanish Fork canyon, crease In business (his department those who have lost horses by ita use and the proper thing to do is tj see suitable for beets, orchard or any has ha4. that the horses are kept away from farm purpose, Strawberry water, 2 It. NOTICE ft. per acre. Has been plowed once. All reports Indicate that it Is perFor particulars call on or write, I would like sewing at home, or fectly safe for all cud chewing aniL. A. CULBERTSON, Provo, Utah. go out by the day. Prices reasonable. mals, however it should be fed in Two rooms for rent, partly furnish- Address Mrs. Fannie Ellison at the reasonable amounts as It Is very rich and nutritious food. ed. Joshua Brockbank. (adv) residence of Geo. A. Hicks, City. 'W; K - k I M f Visits the Grave of Brother in France 01 jHRILLIIJG EXPERIENCE 5 1 .f iSovilly, - - France January 9, 1919. ar Mother, Father and all: It Is Thursday today and I have little time to answer your letter ago.' I was re glad to hear that you were all ill and have missed that awful Flu. I received a few days I t say we must be lucky. have been working every day ice the war stopped. We are clean I up all the Aviation Fields and It a lot more work for us than when S big drives were on. ir squadron has been In the zone advance ever since August 22nd 4 we have sure been doing some d work. - At the firet part of the ?' Meheil drive we had about five six hundred Liberty Planes In l field all the time and we were Irking on them in the day time and (king German ships at night. sending you a picture of one Ger-l-n ship and German that didnt do ' ry well, we found about two miles em camp the next morning. He ' nt the only one who Is out of luck. T; course our filers didnt all come I ck.but they were mighty hard toget i they certainly done their bit . yway folks It Isnt very nice to be in the air so high that you cant the ground and to run into a i t jk of Ouchman with two machine r 9s on each ship shooting a string ( lead at you when there Is no ( tnce to yell "Kamarad. At the beginning of the St. Miheil lve, I got a pass fr.u Ar C. O. t S iit the doughbus in iLj : s. I had heard that Frank was . ire, and 1 think he was, and 1 a ted to see him. While I was ire they went over the top" and officer came and told me to carry ae wire. I wasnt very well with that Yor but took chance. We had a Sergeant with iii? About every two rods there would a big shell go buzzing over our da. They were sniping us with the guns. I had my gas mask on four and hours. There e three out of ten of us who up In the morning; I didn't ( away for three days, and believe 1 1 was glad to get away when they I had had enough, the salvage crew, and our ships fell at the f st, we had to take a truck and I ,Kt it. More than once the Ger-- i Jis would get the range on us v ih their big guns and we would Ve the truck and let them shoot a gy. ' Our crew happened to be some of t first Americans to get Into Metz, s a very pretty place and not shot t all. 1 have been all over the l;nne Wood and where the flght-ha- s ac-tint- ed one-ha- lf did-fallo- w ) 1 i been going on .sjure rods of ground there Isnt two that Isnt shot are graves everywhere look, Just a cross and an iden atlon tag. ou said In your letter that the h was home. I would like to be them, but you tlont get what Vs i want In the army. .Whon the pr: oners began coming out of a iy, half starved and In rags, with tho r stories of the treatment they There- 1 Ger-ni- From the T. L. M. I. A. Board of Nebo Stake: WHEREAS, God In His infinite wisdom has taken away a faithful The following letter has been re- worker, while yet in the vigor ol life, and In the full performance ceived by Mr. and Mrs. George Hales of her duty, and from their son, Hlal Hales, in France. WHEREAS, we feel your deep sor Dear Parents This week has been most pleasantly spent. I received a taking away of one who was wise furlough and went to Paris. I was in counsel and ever ready to give a given a permit and a pass to visit word of advice and a helping hand Howards grave, ao went that evening to all who stood In need, and we, to Bonnleres, and while on the train the officers of the T. L. M. I. A. 1 met a Belgian soldier. He told me Stake Board share that loss in! all he cbuld about the accident and common with you, Therefore be It said that there were three soldiers RESOLVED, that we do hereby offer still in a Belgian hospital that were our condolence, wlthan expression in the wreck, from whom I could get of sympathy in this your hour of all the information I vJanted. JhN man tried to help me find a roqun at . grief. , RESOLVED, tbit in the taking away Bonnleres, but because of another tig of our sister, the Y. L. M. I. A. wreck which happened that day, we has lost an earnest worker.and a were unable to get lodgings, JJe then invited me to go with him to the hos- faithful Latter-day- ' Saint. , pital, which I did. The next morning There are scenes from lifes fair I was given the privilege of visiting morning, the hospital camp and seeing the way That come like the break of day. the were being taught to crippled On a beautiful landscape dawning, work and learn trades. When the mists have cleared away. I was then taken to see the American boys who were with Howard. The chain of love and friendship Death never has power to part; They were very badly injured, but One link is np in Heaven, doing nicely now. One of them had lost both his hands. He walked with The other around your heaH. us to the cemetery, also my Belgian There cornea frpm that beautiful re - Friend and his companion. At the gon station they showed me where the Sweet words that your spirit thrills wreck occurred, and said the train had We are parted, but not forever. Just passed through a long tunnel We are living and loving still. and was waiting on a siding for a fast train to pass. The switch was A prize fighter whose sole conver- turned and the fast train ran Into sational asset Is the terse phrase the troop train. The French gave "Lets Go; a chorus girl; a million- their services and the injured and aires son; a domineering old valet; killed were toon taken care of, there these and many others make up being 29 killed and 67 Injured, It the amusing cast of Charles Rays happened at midnight on July 23rd newest Paramount picture.The Fam- - -- nd most all were asleep. Howard lly Skeleton" which la to be shown 'was not .injured other than being at the Angelua Theatre on Tuesday,' crushed on the chest. He knew 11th. Sylvia Bremer plays ing of what happened, as he died the leading feminine role in support almost Instantly, of Mr. Ray, while clever Billy Elmer, Next we went to Freneuse, where la the fighter. Other players they were burled, and while In that In the cast are Andrew Arbuckle, Ujilage I met Mr. Wulf, the gentle-Ott- o Hoffman and aJck Dyer. Under jman who wrote you. He la one of the personal supervision of Thos. H.the French royal families and has a Ince himself, Victor L. Schertzinger beautiful castle. He took us home directed the entire production. with him and gave us all the Information he had. We then went to the cemetery. It had been getting for two on three is located in one of the most beautiful years, and the pitiable look on their j places In France, along the Seine faces that no man can ever describe, River. A corner of the cemetery Is if 1 had got what I wanted then, given to th Americans and the boys I would have been on my way to are burled there. The graves are j side by side, and in front a beauti- Berlin. There must be a bunch of soldiers ful cross and monument, built of coming home now. I dont know! solid oak. The fence posts are oak much about it, for I am close to Ger-- &nd the chains connecting the posts many and dont get to aee or hearre of Iron. In the lower right hand what la going on. We havnt heard corner Is a box made of oak, has a when we are going home, but I hope! glass door, and on the back Is a lla-- It wont be long, for theres no place gram of the yard and the graves, like home. Some of the fellows have This gives the number of each and been here eighteen months, and we the name of the person and his home are only wearing one service stripe address. The graves are well taken (six months overseas) so 'we may,r of apd are now covered with flowers and evergreens. have to wait our turn. Howards At the Well, dear folks, dont worry about grave la most beautiful 8 a wreath, on the top la a us fellows over here for the onV(ea kind of sickness we get is homesick-- , cross, and a hedge of evergreen all around the. grave, The graves are nesa and that cant be helped. Take good care of yourself and kept up by certain persons appointed to care fof them until after the war. write often, green from Howards grave. The man Your son and brother, who takes care of it lives In Paris In JOHN W. DAVIS, 6th Air rark(279 Aero Squadron) the winter ahd has his summer home here in Frenuese. He Is a very fine A E. F. Who was Killed in Railroad Accident ! , - , , - , ; ! noth-Februa- ex-pri- 1 i j . , ry ( Co-o- (41) one-ha- lf . Friends of Fred J. Linton here, and he baa many in Spanish Fork, will be sorry to learn of hla death, which occurred at Stockton, California on December 28th of following an attack of influenza. He Is survived by a widow and three children. Hla remains were shipped to Clinton, Mass., for burial. , Mr. Linton made many friends in Spanish Fork during the year In spent here as commercial agent and paymaster for the Oyer Company In the construction of the sugar factory. The family left here in January, 1917 for Manteca, California, where he held a similar position. For the past year he has been connected with the Holt Manufacturing Co., at Stock-toCalifornia, as expert accountant. pleuro-pneumoni- a, n, The Influenza has now almost disappeared from Spanish Fork, only two houses now being under ' p. ' ANGELUS PROGRAM d Jack Friday, February 7th In "Iluck and Tom" with 'two reel comedy, "Summer Girls. Mat-Ipat 3:80. Seven Saturday, February 8th reel Metro special "Legion of Death featuring Edith Storey. Special musPick-for- Following la & record of the meteorological observations taken by W. P. Shippee at the Power Plant for the week ending Wednesday. The Instrumental readings are from government standard Instruments exposed In the manner recommended by the Chief of the WeaMary ther Bureau. ee , ic. Monday, February 10th |