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Show tvzf& TrtTU MWKSS ItMlPf rx t-- COLORS ni OVER THE TOP SEVEN TIMES ELIOT BARTON France, October 18, 1918. ditor of The Reflex, Kvwillee, Utah. Dear . I dont remember whether or not 1 wrote you a letter lately; and if ,1 have another wont do much harm, so HI scribble off a few lines. I am on gas guard all night, so 1 will have a little time to jot down a that may be interesting, al- though as you know, we are only allowed to say certain things. About the only thing that I can say is that I am feeling great and still kicking and on top. I never felt better in my life. , Those Huns and baby-kille- told us rs that Hindenburg line was impassable and we could not go thorugh it Ha! That It was a complete walk-awaone us. never stopped little old line other those lines, minute and as for they claimed were stronger, were easier than the Hindenburg. We went straight through them, but the Huns will beat us to Berlin yet I am afraid, but we will come in a close second. This regiment that I am with and also the one Earl Jarman is with have done something that no other regi ment of the U. S. Army has done for the timawe have been over here. . We have been over the top seven times and if necessary, will go over seven more but oh boy, its hot stuff when those little things go whistling by your ears. They seem so harmless, but oh how powerful when you happen to get in the way and try and stop one. Ive never tried to stop one yet and none of them have stopped me. Well, they have tried to stop me alright, but they glad they didnt connect and missed their mark. The most exciting thing of this war stuff is dodging Jerry's shells Whizz Bangs, as we call them. Just be walking along an area he is shelling and have one "come over your way that is the time a fellow can make a 10 or 20 foot dry land dive for some shell hole, and what a pleasant feeling it is to wait for the explosion and it never goes ' off. Its a "Dud, , a shell that isnt any good. You get up with a sigh of relief and walk on, always keeping your eye peeled for a deep shdll hole! But when one does go off! Oh, boy! I was walking from our dressing station just back of the front line to the ration dump for rations when five Jerry" aeroplanes came over to set our balloon, on fire, but they missed and it must have made one sore, because he saw me and turned his may. chine grun down at me. Well, been directing -- the work of Service troops, both white and black. I am now detached from the company anU am doing road repair work with a platoon of colored hoi's. They are very good workers and easy to get along with.' I will say that they are far above the average colored soldier. During my travels getting back to the company, 1 visited Pam. Tis some little village, resembling Washington, D. C in many respects. The, have both street and underground railways. It is very easy to find ones way about the town. 1 also passed over a great battlefield that you mentioned in your last letter. The Germans sure make a good job of destruction when they retreat. My traveling orders took me to the wrong place when I left the Engineers replacement camp at Angers. The outfit had left the place of ray destination three weeks previous. This left me in a peculiar predicament, but I soon got started again and reached the company in two days. Hie division from Camp Lewis got its first trial in the lines up here and went like a house on fire. The western boys sure showed the true fighting spirit. I havent seen any of the boys from this division that I know. I met Carter Lefe the other day. He looked to be in fine health. I only had about a half a minute to talk to him, lie was passing by in a truck. I havent seen anything of the 145th yet I knew Zig Layton and am very sorry to hear of his death. I think a few months more will be sufficient to work the nun over in the manner, you speak of instead of two years. Things look better each day. We are sure sending oveF some good peace proposals from this angle and plenty of them. It would do you good to get up in front of one of oui batteries and hear our shells whistle over oh their way to Germany. Our aeroplanes are doing great work these days. The air seems full of them. The much talked of American plan eds making good with a vengance. Well, Frank, it is getting late, so I will close for this time. LEE MUIR. I took to Mother Earth and covered up the best I could. When he got fairly low he started shooting at me with his machine gun, but he missed that time, thank Heaven; My knees still have the sores on them where they knocked together, and it happened two weeks ago. When I got up I called him everything" to enough names and & put me in jail for years, but he never heard me, he was too far away. I could tell a few more and still a few more experiences similar, but my paper is running low, so will close for now and scribble off a few lines to the folks. Enclose find a German card th$y put on their men when they send them GerJto the hospital. We captured stunt man dressing station this last and thats how I got this. Received two Relfexes today and they certainly looked good to old Seth Sappy," so them. With now I am going best of luck and thanks for the papers. They sure help out. ELIOT S. BARTON. Rl LEE MUIR DOING ROAD WORK IN FRANCE to-re- ad -- ii imrrvD eOtKNMUrt MWiUEU 10 KAYSVILLE, LAYTON AND FARMINGTON, UTAH, THURSDAY, DEUEMHER 3. 191$ WITH THE 4 few lines Munwnwi w tm . VOLUME XIV I WS.S. 1 TaTE lrTT CrVlfcHNAaXT O The following letter waa received by Frank B. Muir from his brother, Lee, the man who superintended the work of laying the concrete roads jn Davis county: -- October 21, 1918. Dear Brother: "Your'Ietler of AAfgusm arrived the ether day. It found me sleeping out in a pup tent on the .ground while it . Since then 1 was raining like h have been housed in a very comfortable dagout with a captain and lieutenant of a Service bataliion. I made & stove cut of a gasoline can, bo things are very warm here now. I have been back to the company "three weeks." During this thus I have -- ee. Muhv and J M., Smith,. M u s i . ..! r ... selections were rendered by a quar- - j .MRS. Ei.LLN A. BARTON tette. They were, Need Thee Every F Hour and (act Thy Bread Lpon the 1 Waters. . tr. and Mrs. Joseph P, Payne' also sang a duet. The younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Knight, Iceland, who has also been ill with typhoid fever, is some better at DEATH AN I ELLA MIR IRENE SMiTII FI N ER A L OK i V;tMMT.AP ilk RE d .. 1 i j r A I last reports. JANE UlTH LAYTON Jane'dCuth, the three months obi daughter of Hubert II. and Dora Jane Hmyon I,ayton, died at the home of her grand pjyrentsJlrjindilrg,Or-so- n Layton on November 29, and was interred in the Draper cemetery SatBABY i urday, November 30 at 8:00 p. m. ' The funeral was held from the" home of the parents of the mother, Mr. and dr. Isaac Dunyon at! Draper. The Opening prayer was offered by Willard Snow and the speakers were President Soren Rasmussen of Draper stake, N. B. Ennis and Bishop Andrews. The closing prayer and dedication of the grave were given by John Iloberg. The musical numbers llyrum W, Olmstead of Syracuse died at the Dee hospital, Ogden, of the were choir Some y Sometime, where' and Shall We Meet Beyond I pneumonia following an attack of I fluenaa, Wednesday morning, Novem- River. 1918. The notice of the death of the 11,6 deceased was born at Riverdale, er of Baby Jane Ruth, was printed in The. Reflex two weeks ago. She wav Uuh April 24, 1890 and on December med to Maud Beazer born after he went overseas to fight17 n13 w8 . who with km tw for his country and he received the of Ha news of her birth but a short time ren Howard and Fern, survive. 1ho Burvved by hia mother before his death. The mother has been ' ill with influenza, but is re- - lin RN Olmstead, a sister, Mrs. Clyde Child, and brother, George, of Roy, , ported convalescing. Utah. 0n Nmnber 26. his sister, Mrs. I WALLACE G. TOTTER DIES 7: Ellanor Irene Smith, daughter of Mrs. Ellen A. Barton, wife of the Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Smith, who died late Bishop Teter Barton, passed away on Nevember 23, of pneumonia. . at the home of her daughters, Clara j and Beatrice 279 Hubbard avenue, able for a while, but it has been over- Salt Lake City, Thanksgiving day at 5:15 p. m. of rheumatism of the heart. come. I guess 1 will soon be able to send Her death occured just six years aftei you the cards that I have of France, that of her husband, whose death ocnow that the war is over. If I cant curred Thanksgiving day, November send them I will bring them with me. 28, 1912. She was bom at llirming It has been raining for a few days, ham, England, March 13, 1852. Two but yesterday and today have been years later she emigrated with he, fine, only a little frosty at night. Hut parents, the late Mark and Hannan little do we care for we pan stand any Beazer, arriving in Kaysville in 1854. kind of w Zither for victory and glory They made their home on Holmes are ours and I guess all the boysjvel creek, northeast Kaysville on what is near Wallace G. Totter, aged 34 years, like I do. I want to do something hut known as the Beazer farmT Khe. was S died at his home in Farmington lart f,ath Nov;mb" i ad, dont know v, hat it is," unless it is to the oldest of a family of erven. of also d 1 of lha of atah Friday pneumonia, following whom Mark Beazer of Canada, Albert see you alt again. same disease. The wife and t hiljren tack of influenza, With love and best 'wishes and many Bon7,er of Ijomizo, Idaho, William the deceased and other members of of He was the son of Perry and Pris- tlanks to each and every one at home II. Bearer and Mrs. Barah Green sur the family are now recovering from cilia Bourne Potter and was a highly for the loyal support we have received' ive. Two sisters, Clara and Maria of the disease. atl&iks citizen of Farmington, Kis while in France and hoping that all preceded her in death. $he spent her respected native town. He is survived by his The Funerals, can feel as well repaid for considera- early days among the many friends of wife and one three children The child; fune of the three members El tions, as I feel in this great hour of whom she was a favorite, receiving have been buried. wife Ills is the the Olmstead of family wire htdd victory and glory for the Allied na- the best education afforded in those of 1 ark ins and the late Dora, daughter Josephl from the undertaking parlors early days as well as a splendid practi- L. Robinson. tions, I retnain Mrs. Potter and her in Ogd n, Sunday, at 2:30 p, m., where cal education given her by her parents, Y'our loving son, which fitted her for usefulness jn her baby both have the influenza, but are the three caskets were ranged side by CHAS. A. ODD. home and in the community in after recovering. 5 The funeral services were held at From the undertaking parlors th life. RALPH COTTRELL EXPECTS . the I at armington funeral cemetery Sunday cortege proceeded to the Og She was married to Peter Barton, . TO COME HOME SOON IQ. oclock. Consoling remarks were! den where the remains of ALEXANDER ODD TELLS OF cemetery December 25, 1870, at Salt Lake and made selec musical the Camp appropriate fathertwerc Taylor, DAY FRANCE IN interred; then to Roy, PEACE City. They made their home in vart tion rendered. There was a profu- - j Wcber county, where the remains of November 25, 191 8 ous parts of Kaysville, finally settling sion of beautiful flowers. I Nantes, France, Dear Folks: the daughter, Mr. Mabel Singleton, on their farm south of town where f November 11,1918 I have I had supper and am at the were given sepulcher; and then to just they lived until 1910, when they movet Dear Parents and All: DAVlD LANE JONES Y. M. C. X. We have been on another to Salt Lake OF FUNERAL Ryraucse, Davis county, where all that City. She was an ardent I guess by the time you receive hike today and just got back about David service! for Funeral mortal of the son, Ilyrura W. church worker, serving as counseloi this the excitement will be pretty six oclock. We went to the same in J Mrs. Mr. Thomas of son and were laid to rest. Jones, Olmstead, the first Primary association or well over, but today here in Nantes place that we did before and had dindied who Jones of Sunday! This Layton, appalling death tragedyhaa in Kaysville. She was also is some great day and I guess it is ner on the banks of the Ohio River. ganized of Fort a mantle east at of gloom over the whole Douglas hospital morning connected with the Relief society for the same at home, for it will long be There were nearly two thousand ot the held were North Davis at and a portion of of Kaysville influenza, as teacher. She was ever remembered. Everything is decorated us and we made quite a showing, as many years 12:30 at oclock, ber where the decedents were Tuesday county, untiring in her labors, showing the with the flags of all the allied J well known and member of a man been has The we went through Louisville. All the loved and young universally the love and sympathy for and Old Glory is very promi- kids would come out on the street greatest corps! The the Students Training Army respected. surviving relatives smallest child to the most aged, being nent and makes one swell with pridt and yell and salute us as we went oved and time and has been stationed I have the heartfelt sympathy of all some for all knew who respected by to think of what it means and repre- by. Little kids about three years old at the University of Utah. He became Lvho knew them, her. ful the realize can one for soldiers. sents, can salute as good as lots of For the past ten years Mrs. Barton ill last week and steadily grew worse pleasure of representing the Stark It is because they see so many of us. was a continuous sufferer from rheu- until Sunday morning, when he died. to congregate on the and Stripes after thy have been away It sure seems nice to Bee Tittle child- matism, but was ever patient, cheerful jme Jones was born at Fairfield, gtrets cf thi8 c;ty, or in the business in different parts of the world. The ren and women folks once in a while. and Her suffering "ebruary 15, 1899, and is survived Hy j Hourm. or in any publigplace. uncomplaining. more I see of the world,, the more Fred,! At funerals, or other necessary open It Takes one! mind Off the dailyrou made her sweeter and holier. Because hi parents respect the flag. tine and makes him think of home. of this her friends were greatly in- aged 12 years. lair gatherings permitted by the board You must know that France is a The body' was taken from Layton 0f health, those in attendance shall It has been pretty cold here today creased In her new home. nation we like. It is not like our own and we had to sit around the camp Her last hours were spent in peace- to Kaysville cemefry where services Ltand kt kast four feet part Enter for it is so thickly settled and there fires with our overcoats on to eat din- ful were conducted by Bishop James E. jn g home, or public review of the sleep, during which she was surThe ward. are so many ancient customs that will ner. Those are the kind of things rounded Ellison of Layton Kaysville who Those dweaitej j prohibited, by her family. never change on account of lack of that make me appreicate the comforts survive her are: Oscar Barton, Albert quartette rendered two selections, I Visitors Irom outside cities will be and room to expand. I just sent you some of home more than anything else. Hour "feed Thee Every Syra-sucD. of Miller B. Barton, Mr. A. required to furnish doctor's health cer Whitesides of Heber J. Savior." The Ohio river is about a quarter pictures of this city, so you may havs dy D. J. "Mrs. tificate. Mrs. E. J. Howell, an idea of the conjestion of things of a mile wide and runs very slowly. Davis, Clara E. Barton and Beatrice Syracuse sang My Father Knows." All citizens of farmington city shall I here. There are lota of flat bottom boats Barton of Salt Lake City. Tyler Bar- The speakers were Principal Leo J. report every case or suspected case and Today I have walked about, going up and down It all the time. ton, a nephew, now in France with Muir of Davis High school, where the of influenza to the city marshal siaken hands until I am tired and dont graduated with the class of J mediately. They go up the river and push from the A. E. F., made his home with the ow of any better way of celebrating two' to three flat boats in front of text was The Gethsem-- 1 His 1917. The city council has ordered 'the Three since six years of agefamily with two or hour an to spend them. These boats are about thirty of Mrs. Eartons children died in in- ane, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Mr j marha) with two deputies to patrol ou in thought. Muirs talk included a tribute to our Lh city and see that the above regula-heroe- s. feet long and half as wide. They take fancy. The streets are bo crowded one can them up the river and load them with E. P. Ellison also spoke, his I t;ong and resolution are enforced, Laka The funeral cortege left Salt the and peothem dly get through sand and gravel from the river bed City by auto and arrived at Kaysville text being Eternal Life." The open- jt js urgently revested that every a and Ad- - J great with- - steam shovels and then they Rufus making was offered by in every way possi-sple are dancing prayer held ing services were cjtzen cemetery, where the and the closing and dedicatory brt0 the eiK that the disease will be feast day. They claim they will con- take the gravel down to Louisville, at 12 oclock, noon, Sunday, December I tinue the holiday for eight days. where it is unloaded with steam shovservices were conducted by prayer by James Criddle. stamped out. - Everybody drinks wine in this coun- els and used all ever the city for build- L The Olsen I Parents are requested to keep their Salt of Liberty ward. Bishop I children at home and off the streets, try and there is lots of it, but the ing purposes. Some of these boats Lake City. The opening prayer was DRASTIC ACTION TAKEN IN FARMINGTON j and frtm pUyic places during the saloons are not like those at home. carry cattle and freight on the main by James Criddle and the closing prayenter They are more like cafes. You deck and on the upper deck they er by E. P. Ellison, who also dedicated At a special meeting of the city conn-- 1 continuance of the quarantine, and sit down at a table for your carry passengers. the grave. The speakers were John cil of Farmington and the local board J The council intends that the regula-o- f We home. drinks and they are all. full today, from the health it was deemed necessary to J tions be enforced and have set a I R. Barnes, a lifelong friend, and Bishpackages got for this is a happy, happy day for' ah have a little party to ourselves every op Olsen. The musical numbers were. the following resolutions to cur-- J ally of 25 or imprisonment cot to of us. I know it is the same at hom once in a while when one of us get the exceed twenty-fiv- e and tail Rock of Ages," Oh, My Father" days, or both. ravages of the influenza. and now v look forward to the time a package from home. The other day Nearer subwas resolution The rendered fca. following My God to Thee" when we can all return to home and Charley Bishop got a package for The mitted by the board of health and was HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS male the quartette. Liberty by loved ones for that ia what will please another fellow and invited us all ovei floral offerings were many and very unanimously passed: SHOULD ENROLL NOW us most. I hope it wont be long. Foi to help eat the contents, and he aske beautiful. Be it resolved by the city council toStudents who expect to a wonder, the Y. M. C. A. is quiet and the owner to open it for him and the and board ed health that hereafter IE here come have few at day. Very fellow did, not noticing that it was quarantine for all afflicted with the school work this year shoulenroll the rule a A KNIGHT MILAN in peace. I can write for himself until he got it nearly open disease shall be as follows: Isolation once by correspondence. is all kinds We are all the time Address your registration letter to Mr. piano is going and there son of old and strict quarantine for all afflicted playing practical 15 Milan, the .year of four, L J4 Muir, Kaysville, Utah, ghirg the for ty- with SRd Mrs." Eait-M-jokes Knight, died-of to like would and kodak a I have Well, I am a little tired tonight, so phoid f ever at the home of the family teen days from onset, for exposed following information: J KUitii 'alis it but very some v send you pictures, I will dose to be with you soon. in Clearfield, Sunday afternoon at 4l members living in the same house, dress, age, year of Highechod ork, difficult to get films here. I have am as ever you son and brother, oclock! The deceased was violinist quarantine I five days from lad; ex- and the subjects you desire to take. not finished, are " some but they taken Lesson assignments vl.l Ibe r. ailed RALT1I COTTRELL. of much promise and a great favorite posure. foi awtue wait to have will so you The council also passed regulations to you at once with fili'Hctrarti-''rspi among his associates, both old ant them. We mast recover as ntrhsix ps.i-bi- e for the contrc-- of the disease as reCanned Goods by the case you eg. Bay the Spanish havent te I hope you cf the time that has Funeral services were held at the gard public gatherings and funerals, Fruits and vegetable. Oder tOc pex ra I here. call we it as cf us. Advise your fellaw rtudoi.ts Flu, Utah Fruit Juice Co. Phone Syracuse cemetery yesterday after- etc. sick- gallon. this correspondence work plan. myself and there is not much i d er- - S3. than more for L. not is were It permissible noon. 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