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Show HE FOUND THE EXCITEMENT Hoosler, Seeking Battle Lines, Discovered Discov-ered Liberal Share of What World War Offered. Few bucks can equal the record oi Italph G. Patterson, Hoosler of strong Irish extraction, fev who went A. W. j 0. L. looking for 1 tho battle. Ho (&$ W found It. U4r 0 I'ntterson left V nls quiet home in JfeV Muncle, Intl., early f SL !. In search of ex- m "jf B c 1 1 o in e n t. He H j jflE found what he R j P In the cat- K tlo ranches of the (flRvHPI Northwest. II I s Bl "iaw" life In riding tho ranges was the most exciting career he had heard of until un-til he convoyed a carload of cattle to Chicago In April, 1017, nnd found out thnt .America had entered the war. So did Pnt. Going to Frnnce with Headqunrtcrs Troop of the First division shortly after Pershing, Private Patterson was stationed In the peaceful French village vil-lage of Gondrecourt for weary and drab months while the battlo wns go-lug go-lug on without him. Finally ho and two buddies hopped a French meat truck bound for the front. It tcok them ns far as Bar-le-Due, from which place they hiked In the direction of the firing. They found the front line (renches around Lunevllle, Introduced themselves to tho amazed pollus and declined to leave because they couldn't understand what the hcrlzon blues were so excited about. After ten days nn Amerlcun olllcer came to the front after them. They polished the com-pony's com-pony's pots mid pans for two weeks for their pains. Pntter.von finally found enough excitement. ex-citement. At Cantlgny he came through unscathed. At Solssons a machine ma-chine gun bullet got him through both ankles. At Selchepcey he Jumped Into In-to a shell nolo on top of n Gernan with a bayonet. High explosive which got him In the Argonne on October 4, 1018, left his right leg stiff, tore open his shoulder and broke his nose. |