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Show Letters From Bingham Soldiers The following letter iat from Percy Pautsch, son of Chief of Police A. 3. Pautsch, first class private with . the American Expeditionary Forces in France, and was addressed to his mother: "It has been just one week since I wrote you and received two letters from you, today. (Deleted by Censor.) We all had a very good time ana a nice dinner and a holiday. The French people all celebrated witi" us. They had a holiday the 14th of July, so all of us Americans celeb, ated with them. "We had a little rain on the Fourth and i guess you had the same. The weather has been very much unssttled the last week and very cold at night. All the Doys from the camp where we were In the states, are over here now. Have not seen them yet, but hope to Boon. The division that Raymond Ray-mond Crom was with. They made a wonderful showing for themselves. "We have got the Huns on. the run ; n'-T and we are going to keep them on tfe rtn. , They are beaten right, now but you know how hard headed a Geriffn is. They have to bo shown before tvv are convinced of the fact, i The French peorle say that they are not getting enough to eat because the Americans ao taking tjo many prisoners. pris-oners. I have seen a number of them. Most of them are young fellows fel-lows from 16 to 20 years old. "I had some pictures tun and I, guess you will receive them before you do this letter, i I would like to i have, some pictures of you all. Fave some made and send them to me. I am in good health now and have taken tak-en on quite a little weight. Was on ; the scales yesterday and weighed )S7 pounds and still putting on more. ! "Well, mother dear, will close for this time, hoping you all feel aj well' as I do. Give my best to dad and Harry. Your son, PERCY." j The next letter Is from J. D. Dim-lsch, Dim-lsch, one of the ten Serbians ot. Phoenix who volunteered last March, j and left In a body for the battlefront j The letter was written to A, C. Cole , and is as follows: -: ' "I am writing you a few fine to let you know that I have arrived safely pverseas and-am well and hap-i py In. theSerblaa armyt They' treat ' us fine over here, and thert could not be found ten better Boldiers than our bunch.- We are always together. I am glad I am over here. Everything Is fine and good. - r j "When we 'left Bingham we went to Canada where we spent several weeks and were treated fine.' From there we went to France.. We stayed in France for some time and then came to Africa. Tell our friends in Bingham Bing-ham that we are all getting along! fine. v . "When you get this letter 'please write to me and give me all the news from Bingham and tell me what i going on there." . Another letter is from John Dean, son of VMr. and Mrs. J. T. Dean, who has ben in France for some time and is now on the firing line. His letter is dated, "Somewhere on the Front," and he gives a good account of what is going on in his sector: . "Am informing you that I am on the front and have seen action. We are in hearing distance of the guns. I have seen nearly everything that you, have heard and read about, and possibly a little more. You can probably prob-ably give .one guess where I am fighting fight-ing at. That is what sector we are in. Clarence Grant, Edgar Hocken and Charles Clays' regiments are all in or about the same sector, but have been unable to see them yet. I will try and look them up at the first opportunity. They have all been in the thick of the fight and am quit, sure they gave a good account ot themselves. "This war game Is very exciting business. We have to use our ga; masks considerably. To get a toucl. of gas Isn't very nice. We do most of our traveling by night, and afte? one goes to sleep from, 24 to, 3t hours at a stretch. It fatigues one sc much whn he doesn't get his proper rest. The way the Indians lived Ion? ago is the mode of living we aro doing do-ing now, digging dug outs, etc. "I have passed through several vil lages and cities and it is an awful sight to see. , Where once was beau tiful homes now nothing but ruins. The way the shells tore the building down is candalous. The damnable Hun will pay dear for it before It it over. Everything ypu have rea about it is true. The dirtier they can do things the better they like it. W will give them a dose of their owr. medicine soon. i "Car. you imagine me going fron- j three to five days without washing' ! Weil that is what we have, to do at times. I lost all of my toilet article' ! from my pack the first n!ght out am1 ! it makes it very inconvenient for on especially when he has to mooch it from the fellows. I was verv wcl supplied until I lost it. Things IU that are very hard to obtain "ove ihere. u can get along all right witlh I out it, but it made me sore to lose 't "I received your letter dated July 22. I think that is pretty good ma'i service, a little leas than a month tc get here. I Just had to pause for a i moment here on account of an a arc plane fight between an allied mach . ine and an old Boche. It sure is torn" excitement here. There are a good l many aeroplanes flying over us near ly all the time. It would seem good I to see a good' many of . our own aviators, avi-ators, and believe me, they have some first class motor in their ; planes. The more there p.re the better, bet-ter, for an enemy scout can do a lot of damage. , "As I have said before, you can say or tell for me that there was a num ber of the home town boys in the : fight atd they are living up to be tgood name of the community, and are ; more than doing their bifevi am verj grateful that I enlisted when J d!d. It was a hard time to go through--the strenuous days of drilling, but I am l much better prepared to meet the situation. Although It is a very hard ' life up here I am very glad to be in e good regiment like this. We have some very capable officers and trust a whole lot to them. I expect some great things from this company The majority of us are all volunteers anr TWO . .iLETTFIRIS FROM , . we are in it to do our very best, tr the man. I don't suppose that therr i are many young fellows left there fo they are nearly all in this secto" where I am. "I sure would like to have some of the fruit that Mae tells me about. I am afraid I am tio far away to hav any sent. I haven't had any fruit or candy for so long I have ' forgotten how it tastes or looks. It is ver hard to get anything of that kind here. This is one place where you cannot spend your money, and mv only habit is for candy and kniclr knacks, but the boys Beem to get their tobacco regularly. The Red Cross and the Knight. of Columbus , are doing good work. Everything ther , have they give gratis, but I have been ; unable to gtt anything from tl.em a-yet a-yet i "Give yny bent regards to all and tell them I am in the thick of it. and am getting used to the shells explod ing around me." |