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Show r b . J tTtn yz&s; iTrtf () yr: VK1TU STaTEJ NUMRER 13 I would hemp sent to imdienl a skeleton of a dead soldier torn letded up from his last resting "place by a when Christmas Cheer From Boys All Are Proud Of rr fH OOVUmNT KAYSVILLE, LAYTON AND FARMINGTON, UTAH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1918 pound jud here and there thooVbut suc-pti- ss finding them clo.se to Metz, aie now. On the 10th of November our boys went over lha top again in front of Met? their last bop ovtr bef, re the end. We lost a few men, m fact I think the shelling was heavier. 1 yasn't up there but I wa not far behind in a little ruined town, ami I could hear the shells going' and coming. Some dropped in the town. It seemed as though tha Germans had turned, every gun that was protettmg Metz loose on ua, or the boys, 4 should say. I was only about 25 miles or a trifle more from Metz when the firing quit. We could hardly realize that it had stopped. The night the armistice was signed lights of all kinds were shot up but there walno yelling and not much noise, because the boys could hardly realize the guns had stopped. The Germans came over to us and begged for food and wanted to shake hands, but they didnt shake hands with me, j We, are now In a town that was once held by the Germans, living very Comfortably in a house noi dugout nice beds, plenty to eat and a fire to keep us warm, so you see we don't gfci in shell. Our regiment went over the top at this hill. We advanced about fi'e miles through a marsh that i the French declared we 'could not ad- ance through, but we did it and took a great many prisoners. It was at this dressing station on La Mort Horn- LARKINS OFF states. We HOWARD left Camp Kearny on the gest Fourth of July I have ever seen. th benefit his family his insurance at me that old Jerry drove us to oui FOR THE RHINE night of July 31 over the SantFe We are still in Roiere en Haye, the very low rate he is now paying. v holes with his shells. We would be for Chicago and from there we went cleaning up the streets and waiting His return to civil life will bring dressing a wounded comrade when Somewhere in France, to Niagra, N Y. on the Grand Trunk, for orders to move, which I hope will new problems for you both to solve. Jerry would send over a whizz-banNovember 15, 1918. from there to Jersey City on the Le- be soon. I think we will soon be back The qualities he brings back will help that would light not far from Dear Mother: 1 fact, that the pieces of from in 'the U. ,S. A. . you now as your encouragement helped j 80 c0Re . Just a fejv lines to let you know I high Valley; we Jersey City to Long would shell sing over our heads and Island. When A week ago today Ballentyne and I him while he was away, and in your landed at Long Ispm well. Today is my birthday. 1 mud and small bits ot gravel, dirt, land w on the Long Island rail- went up to the front. It sure was hands and his rests the future of our didnt think 'about it until somebody road and got would iron fly in our faces or bounce went to Camp Mills, arriving some sight. As far as you could see country. mentioned it was November 15. 'Well off our steel hats as we lay in the about 7. We there was nothing but trenches and As his commanding officer I am I have been in the army more than a there in J7 p. m. August on backs or stomachs, our flat open, Camp Mills until the 12th barbed wire entanglements and shell proud of him. He has done his duty stayed year sind in France the biggest part of we whichever happened to fall. way August. , The afternoon of the 12th holes. We went up through Pont a well. I and his comrades will bid him of the time. I guess you are pleased time to look for cover dant hv we boarded the New York, New Hav- Mousson. While up there we went up . goodbye with deep regret, and wish Pn the way things turned out. But we when sheh to nor Plaf en and Hartford at 2:30 p. m. We the Joan of Arc hill. It is about 23 him every success after he- returns have a great deal to do before we ou to fall right ovtrcotnt'8 vfvP were all guessing where they were kilos from here. j home.- That spot in every mans heart come back. I have are. time where a Many you 1 have been .trying to get hold ot no other place can fill. I am still on the front and expect going to take us next. The next morn- an in there on laid and face flat my got officers helmet with the brass when we woke up we were in Sincerely yours, to be for sometime. It seems we are ing shell into rv an instant's time, gone H. R. UNDBERG, Canada, so we knew pretty well where trimmings, but have been unsucceses-u- p to keep going ahead. I understand we holes in nothing flat, regardless of enlisted of I date. to hold an Lieutenant Second of o'clock were Two to. that Infantry. got going the 145th Artillery has never been : who or what was in it, and plenty of te same day found us in Montreal, Cana mans, but they are too heavy to carI them tell can I on the front. guess times I've laid in garbage and on along bad. . SETH SAPPY RECOUNTS I da. When we got off of the train the ry, around. 1 remember' Now seen a something about the war. on I've otFrance. Dead little Man's, j ofet I think I have said enough for this HIS ADVENTURES IN FRANCE . We are in some big barracks to- Red Cross gave us some coffee and 1 was walking up the hill aha let me get hpme to tell abdut Hill buns. They sure went good. We only time, so I will close, wishing you the France, November 24, 1918. night. It is quite cold here. I guess had two sandwiches to do us two Merriest Christmas and the Happiest here came a shell. I dived for a shell it and fight this old war out at homo. Mr. Jed . now. Sessions, you have snow there by hole when, bang! close to me broke Then 111 tell you all from start to meals. At 3 o'clock we got on the New Year you have ever had. Write Kaysville, Utah. The hoys are sitting around a little ,i the shell. After I quit shaking 1 got finish. 'Victoria and started out for Eng- soon. Dear Sir: stove telling what they are going to bedtime and our candle almont shill a had in I Its fallen and noticed up FRANK JONES. land. We stayed in the bay at SidI'm still the same old Seth I al- hole on do when they get home. I am afraid so I will have to close is Several skeleton. a of low, running top Pa ways was and am well and feeling times I have gone into a shell hole for now. I sincerely hope this letter' I will get some of their conversation ney for five days until the convoy came. .August 31 found us in Liver- DISTINGUISHED PATIENT IN mixed in this letter. great, only weighing 182 pounds now alongside of a dead Jerry or a Yank, finds you all in the best of health, as I the enjoyed pool, England. trip very a little difference in weight since MISS MARY SWANS WARD One of our guns fired more .shots even that ;a ea8y to what , have it leaves me, felling better than ever consisted of much. meals Our live: 1 when I weighed 142. J . joined than any other of its kind. W also and done but j won't write about In all my life. wm November 24, 1918. to gether, for breakIn this letter we can tell of ourthe pitiful and 6ad a Merry Christ all have the record of rapid fire.8Q you and bacon boiled bavt you Wishing j thinjr and rice for'dinnefandTea. Dear Father?-and where we ere and were atlpeen Mr of the blood that h be(,n mas and a Happy Ney Year, I am bittles can see we are not such a bad bunqh. fast This is Dad's Christmas letter so ELIOT II. BARTON. I think I will get a chance to see I was a little seasick while we were on1 here goes. I know you are all re- the time the armistice was signed. Rpilt ror the'Vorst part of this war. Lawrence river. Whenever When we landed in France, May 30, j j wdj 8ava ... m I the River Rhine before many days, so the St home, until get is over. feel like feeding the fish 1 joicing because the would we for went and at Brest, LAWRENCE YOUNG WITH FIRST bm wa 0ur objective from maybe I will he able to tell whether would We are in the Meves hospital cengo on the top deck and lay on a week or so. We then went to the Meua rivt!ri mme 5 mn AMERICANS AT CHERBOURG We it is as pretty as that song I used to tway. which is nearly in the ceifler of my back and I would get along with- ter, between Amiens and Anas. We front a established about it. there af)d Fathers Christmas Letter. dressing sing then my liver and bacon. France. It is about twenty miles were with the British then. Our first I will write again soon and will out giving , Dear Father: from the city of Neves and five miles on the 4th of on was all time We to were our over the feet top get glad of some interest and write A. E. F. of soldier the As things every try from La Chartie, but we don't get with the Australian forces. We land once more. July Your loving son, his write father a is to supposed to visit them very often. I am rathci saw all the fire works we wanted and When we pulled into Liverpool the HOWARD LARKINS. glad that I haven't any of our Utah too much. We took the town of band was playing and haring a h I boys for patients. Miss Osborne had of a time. They unloaded us off the a lieutenant in her ward whose home Hamel, and if you think the AustralSomewhere in France, , ian isnt a fighter just get him mad. boat at 8 a. m. gnd marched us to the is in Provo. I am November 1, 1918. getting a souvenir They are station. We were met at the station of the war "which I am sure you wjll Dear Sister: pals, in fact the Australian there . at times. We stayed at this thing I went through while in the I received your welcome letter a by the Red Cross and 'given coffee enjoy. The captain whose company best The. Aus-- 1 to foot. head from man a 11 cakes and The States, bee a ue letters you have had At n pajn view of and cigarettes. few days ago, but have had a moving fired the first American gun in the mind in be will as tralian my always across we started went oclock over the England. war is a patient in our ward and he top again and in the past will explain that part. rtpimcnt day since then and I haven't had The next time we went crossed the river. We located in fighter. 9 at We at arrived p. Southampton . . is Writing bis story of the first battime to write. aj At you will remember I told you over the top was with the "Tommies datdf Hun there same drove From m. we the town the out little that of my trip to New York City, which they tle for me. The mails are so uncerYou said I never .wrote anything and 9th on of the town4 August We i (English) took This rest a to us the across river. was a very short one, as I only had got J0j jUg, camp. about what I am .doing. Well, I will tain that I am afraid to send it and on the Somme river here we pushed -' and hot2:30 was at next bed all times. the wa It Celled at from Saturday evening until Sunday morning I should hate to lose it. try and tell you what. I have been doth Germans back some four miles to docks the for bimseif. old afternoon lef' that Boy that BiIy evening and one couldnt see a great . .. ' Well, we still have lots of patients over ing. to how he was hard that very country We France. and sail on iron for the there, a jn deal of the place in such a short time, ship an havent the least idea when we will First I am with the battery tele- get advance over, but still, we did it. On Wdla fell Ilke 1 can aiHure you while I was there S. on wina m. 5 the the before docks S, at the left but p. papcr move or inhere we will be sent. We phone, always right by the big .guns. 10th they went over again and and Wfl Btood out In the the 8:30 Havre at Le at open dressing my eyes were wide open and nothing 'We put in our lines and then we George, arriving kept may be sent home or we may-bmore few a lack pushed "Jerry the We off one no next but woondedf got morning. got hurt. Our much escaped them. I returned to here as long as our troops are kept miles. Then we went to started to build our Ragouts, one for the Amiens,! over 2, next went the the morning, September top the next Camp Merritt Sunday evening and regiment in Germany. I should like to see the station and one for ourselves. The boat somewhere a for south. train caught to 2 miles marched wounded. and And the the next day came the expediting were 7 More oclock day some more of Europe before I come station dugout is a hole in the ground at Bifre le Due and restWe off at piled British went the top order. We were to have our packs all rest over and next camp. home. There isn't any news so I day thdy covered with hoards and then dirt on an American ed Then a we went few to a days. in a bunks When were the to long, will close, wishing you a Happy boys go over in rolled and everything ready to leave asisgned again. top of that You should see the fire- We the! town where little near Verdun, the bad house time that its not Aids. The at 1 a. m. on Tuesday, June 11 and, appear- Christmas. that short a William Allen dark bunk place we built in of bloddiest battles have war this been the since used ever was with went into of course, we all knew it meant a battalion that I wai MARY SWAN. wont have anything on me as an ance of being was a It fought pretty very country 3 the we left On battle with something like 1,000 men boat ride. I wrote and told you we started. September architect when I get back. no one but at time, it doubt, v,bb to marched m. 4 and ; and wben we ere jelieved to com were going to move, and inasmuch as SPEROS MELONAS HONORED - Our dugout we live in is built about rest camp at p. and marked few feet plowed up asevery we were oot tfjfy bad ething like 165 men I didnt say where to, 1 felt, sure the same way, just large enough foi a railroad depot, where BY COMMANDING OFFICER shell hole. I stood en a at the by side with a two. We made a stove of an old tin signed to Pullman cars ijey vereQ ad killed or wounded; you would know where we were headof trance one the John forts of the of that J huge an courtesy Through for 7 started we Bome gassed and some sick, but even ed for. bucket we found and it is quite nice. door entrance. At wondererdun. was to a the we are It protected permitted print a After marching around and getting which after wag capy to what we lost up in The paper stated that young Draper unknown destination, Melon-a- s ul concrete built of with received he letter from structure, Speros several times we finally ftSnd lost arrived we be British sector around Amiens and had been killed. Do you know any- day and a half of travel its out him of the toward guns big pointing telling officer, headcommanding fasu" our was the which we had about 750 AlherL 7 way to the station, where tha thing about it?. .J wish I could see in La Gurche, German lines. looked It with an as though Speros was waiting to take us to Ho-together discharge, train out 0f j 000 quarters of the 6th Depot division, excellent some of the boys. no shell walls its and recommendation. it could, pierce re?imen't We been relieved and States). 0ur One can hear himself think (this was the 40th in theVersailles As will be remembered by readers showed marks andcara on its walls f hud and them after time a Rouen; indine (Continued on Rage 4) through passed quite here this morning. The big guns are of The Reflex, Speros Melonas was where the Jlun shells had hit, but detrained we Gurche La Orleans. At toall talking peace to the Germans and marched about a among thd first men sent from Davis glanced off. 3 day. We are getting so we can tell at midnight It was one cold, rainy night that j of county by the local board, and at the Si the size of a shell as it comes over half a mile to a little park. Some we who had been Iqft this little town and our the fellows unrolled their packs, but time young Melonas, by the sound. and marched to somewhere. We said that a short naturalized but time, so I ! ! I have heard mother say how she I was too tired to unroll mine, over- it was a privilege to be able to fight knew we were going to the front line with the on my ground disliked hearing the coyotes yelL Well, slept for the Stars and Stripes. The letter as this town was in the reserve line, if you could hear some of these things coat over me. I woke up in the morn- follows: so one thing we knew was we were 3 oclock, wet through, yell you would think a coyote yell ing about marching to the front, but what part N. C. Camp Greene, never saw it rain so hard in all my was sweet music. e knew not. We flopped in a place 1918. December 12, sat on a bench This is not a country that one would life. I went over and ti was once a town. There were Mr. John Melonas, to sleep again. In the ; care to live in. It is all torn to pieces and wentweoffhiked two walls standing. We were only Utah. Farmington, out of town, headed . in these parts. The climate is damp. morning told to make ourselves as comfortable Melonas: Dear Sir. It is something like Camp Lewis in for our billet at Grousouver. There MyIn a few as so we did, but it wasn't will possille, soldier rs days your we had a fine place to stay. respect. as we were wet to comfortable, very and honorable ceive his discharge On October 29 we left Grousouver Dont worry about me, as I am dothe skin no and to sleep. We place home. start for and on the night of ing fine. Tell everybody I will write for the front, were and coll, He is fine tired, so I hungry qualbringing lack many as soon as I can get where there is the 30th we arrived at old on curled an up he and has which of ities garbage pile and mind body and Stayed until the next day at some stationery. tried to but was sleep, impossisleep or in e, the developed military we went to acquired Give my love to all the folks and 3:30. From there ble the clothes wet for cold. The done service. got has everyarmy arriving at 3:30 the next mornanswer soon. The next day we pushed a narrow-gauge- d could do to make him strong, it to hiked we thing breakfast After ing. Your loving brother, railroad car up to the front reIt yet en Haye, which was about seven HOWARD. line. turns him ta you aJbeiter man, miles from BellviUe and and We stayed in a dugouton La Mort You have been an important memOn the frost. from kilos 15 about Dead Man's Ilill that fam Momme, t YEA BO. FRANK JONES ber of of encourage-menthat great army November 3 we saw our first enemy l hill ous where so many Frenchmen oil RIDE which SOME to and enthusiasm ; HAD helped airplanejway up in the sky. The guns lori their lives." It was all shell holes were firing on them and it surely was make him and us better soldiers. You November 23, 1918 now in a be can heepirg and marked with graves and crosses great help Dear liadf exciting. Two or three dsy3 after he is alive the good qualities bring- where brave men had lost their lives, two quite close to J utvt et f lines to Non-essentiayou knowr tpv Efect down ir xi ls u Lira frorHTEe we La a ing I'aclVillT W thir-hil- l "that Bisrasrk,- - a arajC IV itr-waI am well and fearing a good- time here. Every clear day in tunnel a had built he him as German, as good a ritizeri long I and hope these few lines will find they would come over. Thl3 town making which td transport troops, sOthej soldier. has a been tu the but bombarded city not was you the same. His fare and necessary expenses to could not be visible. They say this The censorship was taken off on Nancy, which is about 15 kilos from his home will be paiJ ty the Govern- tunnel was from 6 to 8 miles long and the 24th, so that we can write and tell here sure got it. full of dead French and German solA right or two before they quit ment. He will receive all pay due yon where we have been and what diers. I went in the tunnel a few him. He may, if he wi. i.es, wear his we have been doing. It is to be Dais fighting we couldnt sleep feu the uniform for three months from the yards tut I soon turned tnd came Christmas Letter, so, I will try and noise of the guns at the front and toe his discharge. The Govern- out. This famous Dead Mans IHll" of our history night before the armistice was s.gncd date of let you know a little tZ ment win allow him to keep up for w as nothing but one patch of plowed j e since we arrived or since we left the was the worst of sdL Iv was g - 1 - - - Kt - w-a- r th' I pig the-enem- I i I nj e J it . j ti J 1 Me-lon- as J J hary C3 ENI dug-out- s Attention Davis High ! ( lle Bell-vill- Ro-sie- re self-relia- nt, self-controll- one-ha- lf . f -- i fDU VOLUME, XIV - i - -- tit tyt s The high schools of Davis county will open Monday, January 6, 1919 Students will register January 2nd and 3rd will be ayoided.and a full years work given The grade schools of Davis county will also open on January, Gth ! Is 4 4 I i t |