Show I 1 NEWS OF OUR BOYS NOW HOW IN THE SERVICE monday morning Sati poto eonda sends out her first large largo call of registered men IQ 40 being tile quota called they will all havo have to put in an appear inco in thia title city sunday evening at 4 to be officially mustered in lit monday morning tho the entire number will voll entrain iu iti thie this city at lo 10 and a crosti will oo 00 company them to tho depot where short exercises rill bo LK held hold you will want to see co this bunch of eo so bo on hand and chow show them that mauti ie Is back of tho the entire county in these trials saturday night of 0 last week a dance was given for mantee quota of 0 thia this crowd and three who left during to week eek glen beasey left St sunda ioda ivan durens and hind otto N wednesday all with tho the navy clarence tuttle win denison and davo dave I 1 arnsworth wll constitute cons quota of the crowd monday morning bound for camp lown lewis evan peterson writes 6 from france fr ince april 1918 mr boyden editor ilant 1 me mes nger diar bir am ain titling sitting here in our oar hut ard as 11 I 1 have hae mohing to do will try 0 to o make out a few tow linee lines to a 3 0 u and the 10 many friends at I 1 mantl manti being continued on page 6 boys in the service from first page the only soldier eo lilier from manti in france I 1 thought that a line from iho the war zone might blight be of interest to tho the readers of the messenger I 1 have now had two trips to the front aront lino trench and fondd plenty of excitement am starting to rot got what they call used to the job to hear licar those big guns that you all read about is real music to change the tile note botts all you do is stick your head up and you will hoar hear a machine gnu gun start a rain of steel jackets of course when they start mart if yon you think anything of our hend you will pull it back in a hurry for a steel slug montt ont wait for clear sailing it might not sound real to you but it IB is when a eix six inch shell come comes through the air you c can an hear it from the time it leaves the RUU guu till it lights and by that you can easily tell whether or not it ie Is goda go ng to neighborhood when stop in your a soldier li learna arns some of these things and dont wilt too long nearly as a to think there much danger dauger as you oil really think there is 19 bowl now I 1 know that the mothers and all those that have hano interest it in the tile bo boy a e at the front all wonder about the honiff the tile an and coals to keep warm and comfortable now bat ve va mil call hoine home I 1 cant eay say much about that but will say that we hao hane it re ml reil il comfortable during the cold old spell w wo had bad good fires and plenty good wood to keep them red hot and our meals are pretty good of course thero not like those that mother puts out but wo we are all getting gottlog fat from them eo icart I 1 cant see ft hero we ought to complain about them and clothes we get plenty of them and good warm ones almost too warm arm for some of the days das that we are having so you see we dont get so very cold about the only thing that we dont have much of is the real american sheets eveet sand and tobacco the only thing that is hard to get got hard or herise there much complaint among tho the bos boa well friends of oi manti I 1 dout dont know as there ia is anything nuy thing else that I 1 could add to this so will make this short hoping that it reaches you 0 X A letter from front any of you will be much appreciated aud and will sure be answered with best regards to all evan Puter too co 1 1147 U S infantry amer E F france via new now york |