| Show BOYS OVER THERE write WITE OF LAST DA DAYS OF BATTLE wil WITH T H THE GER GERMANS i fians serget stanley A ballinger always writes in te restine letters and the news advocate ia Is glad to be able to t publish one written to the J M whitmore lilt more family stan stand has been right up to the front seeing thit his company got plenty of ammunition ammu niton to keep the huns interested as well s plenty 0 T food and i Llo lothing thing his ilis work in the supply department has been highly important during the big drive which prided the war lie writes am ex ficat oct 11 1018 1918 my deir mrs whitmore husband and other members embere tn of the trae greetings and best wishes my wife has told me in one of her eltera that ull all that it would take to start a letter my way from the whit more family would bo be in invitation its is strange that anything like that is necessary but folks you have the standing invitation and moreover I 1 beg that you alsept ac ept it at once I 1 have bad had two letters from june one mailed from st george and the other from camp lewis he ile seems to enjoy american lake soldiering i mid ind nd welcome the opportunity to do some of it in france if he can mike connections and leave it once he may reach here in time tinie to join the fuss but be e will have to hurry burry where is vern he ile his possibly been over here for some time I 1 would like to hive his address I 1 may have been in his neighborhood many times ably the same C amp I 1 have heard from several of the carbon county boys who have reached this side and found that we have been within walking distance of each otheral other at some time during our travels we passed ffirley me donald mcdonald a outfit on the road drove through the same village that arthur II was training in were on tha same front ard lard in the same drive that george stevenson took pirt in some weeks bick back b ick but not knowing their eions numbers nuin bera it wai was too late to look them up sherman was right in a a way but ho he was merely a school boy I 1 could tell about the same story as he did ea it would concern the he weather that we have been havig lately and would not look fulte so wel well on paper war is not hell war as fai as I 1 am concerned la Is a necessity and you tan lan make of it one of two things hell cr a privilege it 1 I wil admit that at times it is a hell of a prig privilege elege but another story it has been raining continuously in bunny france for over three weeks week yes five weeks I 1 have been wearing wear hip boots for or five fire weeks and have been in mud to the top of them all al the time nov no v perceive this is the way to make that liell or that privilege look it the mud and discomfort as did sherman bhe run on the other hand we know that these rains extended beyond our lines and that the hun dogs are ire attempting to retreat with their artillery and cant we cope with these dult unties advancing and are well clothed the dogs are Lon confronted fronted with ahm while retreating and I 1 dont expect that they have bid a square meal meat for two years their roada a are maddy mi day and full of our shell boles holes and it still rains khit is ionly one reason why we should consider it i i privilege to be one of ole men and a pleasure to endure the weather eather con editions there are heaps of things how ever besides mud and rain but whether it be artillery fire machine guns gas or cloties cooties co oties otles we should and do know that where we get one boehe boche souvenir in the form of a hugn hugi 6 inch high explosive shell we send him a hundred and anti the bame u with bullets gas etc now as far as hell is concerned the above is too much since leaving the states I 1 believe that I 1 lieve written letters let tere most of them thein to utah and knows what haa gone one on over here wibb the yanks generally back of the line lines we find and some very tery goo good looking eirl girle then there is some wine beer and things good to eat so one can 1 efad a a d enouch farther back for some enjoyment I 1 tin in going to conclude thia this this nomine morning before some ono one does for me we had a most strenuous bind kind of privilege last list night shortly after midnight we were visited bv bau beau coup alun souvenirs they sounded as though they might have been as large as a irrel birrel b but are not just now I 1 am enjoying perfect leidth and that is most all 21 that Is nele necessary sary please give my iny to all my friends and ind anstet it t once buier cly rely yours stan A ballinger nil lingef another letter from dr cloward to di dt goetzmann tells more amusing as well as thrilling experiences ces it follows oct 27 1918 dear goetzmann Goetz nunn another land mark we ire back out of the line again for another lit tie rest we need it for our divi division bion suffered ered hei heavily vily its a relief to be away from the constant thunder of those guns and the feeling that 1 now youre here and now you aint yet the same feeling and the alues tion is do we eo go fron here I 1 passed thru st bibiel pronounced sau me el in frenet Frenc ti the other diy daiy which iou ou have read so much about the same picture and the same story chateau thiery thie ry rhiems verdun st 1 have hive been them all and as is much as wv all want to get home hoine the fear and tle sentiment is that peace MU be jt k blared beaole the sacrifices that hive been made are fully recompensed and the wrongs done righted we will fart do honor to our dad d ad nd if german kanj Is left jett unpunished for the things she has committed what whit a contrast we are now in a little town on the hillside hill tide overlooking the river and valley of the beube u A picture that cannot be painted the fields are intensely intense li cultivated ine broad meadows for miles with a clear sparkling stream mean dating thru it here and there over the landscape one can fee a church steeple clustering around apparently for protection masses of masonry little french hamlets untouched by the ruthless hard of the him hun ex apt for the absence of men and the aid sid but determined look on n the faces of the women as they trudge home from tho the fields alone perhaps in lit tie groups wooden shoes and a spat dresses bare beaded headed for the roost most part one would not know that war was going on then I 1 recall the little town of esnes before the war tao tj e home of holo pasha none in all fiance borc ore beautiful but now literally there is not one stone I 1 U upon pon donthel dnn thel 1 I iha 11 he bea i I 1 I 1 ful home of the french benedict arnold la Is boin to the ground the fields arc are crossed 11 i i every direction by ion long winding trenches while in I 1 between scarcely a square y ird is left studded by i shell hoe hole A few dry stumps remnants of onetime beautiful and erodes groves stand soft mal v here ind there tide libe st of the dead hut but th til s is only one the terribleness terrible nesa la is beyond description one must see to be lieve heift will here I 1 am in a so called rest camp ono of those quaint little french towns where the manure pile is made tint and tho tile house built wound it I 1 jm am howey ti fairly located acro s the hall to the south la Is the stable and the bick wall of nv mv room makes the front wall of thi pi pig pen and chicken coop I 1 pass pas thru the kitchin to get to my room in the front of thi hoube is one of those well perfumed of fertilizer the pride of the family farally the pump in the corner of the kitchen with a astory h story dating back jean years n 1 wy very clean on the outside the water I 1 would say is about CO 50 50 0 i 1 e 50 fertilizer fert nier I 1 ate supper last night with the household and I 1 remembered well one passage of scripture vatch V jp atch and pray I 1 did both particularly watch as the family ant lanU Q boys over there continued from pug page 2 cat bat sat on one side of the table and the doe dot watched begrudgingly from the oth othar r side every bite that I 1 ate today ia 13 sunday how flow different terent dit from yesterday everybody dressed an in black the wooden shoes and mud bespattered dresses have been I 1 rep replaced laed by well groomed and neatly fitting rg garments except for the rugged slow glow on their checks ind their hands hardened by work you would think an exhibit were bing b ing nude made by some tai tail loung ming beut in of reports that france ii is a race rate of moral degenerates I 1 think in all the world one will nob not find a more admirable people in many joany respects happy slow thoi ouch determined WOO well 1 must slop stop night is coming on mingled Aling led with thi mooing of the LOWS coming from the pasture is the tile clatter of wooden bhones and g ay iy chatter of the peasants peaSi ints and this Is france alt atte four years of 0 war I 1 wonder how bovi much longer remember nie me kindly to all my friends I 1 am As eilf evir CLOWARD two of the well ell knon kron kno kro n greek bos who went from calbon county have been wounded the boys have bein doing their share and have enjoyed nir the u run chev have written to ind mike Sale and their lett letter erit are hery heru pub dished somewhere in fiance october 18 dear friend am feeling tine line at this time but month ago I 1 was hurt on my left hand by a cannon baliell I 1 have been in the fire line for 15 days still I 1 am in the I 1 believe that you read of the war news in the news papers but let me siy sly that the gumins are scared to death they are keeping running like rabbits if it I 1 hive not seen them with my own eyes I 1 could not bf evve how coward those people lie ate ire keepin running they thy do not like to see sw sword ord blade blades I 1 flop 11 hat very soon won will ill throw away their h air arms and lurrender fur render give my regarda regards to all my friends very truly vona tony catsadimas base fl lo spital 20 26 co C infant A E F france somewhere in prince rince october 20 1918 dear friend Sale this is to tell you am in toe the ho hop vital ilal I 1 have been when I 1 was fighting on the lire tire line with tho the company to whom I 1 belong I 1 annot give yoi a many war news but I 1 sec sef have set se n th tb it the kaizer kamer army s not w wb it ur sone people were believing the american army is 13 u peor we clean up all three these trenches and we e wen wert after them in open we gave a the liberty to dinv villages and cities my company Coin pany has as after the germans who were running like rabbits and believe we had u borne fan fn kut lut I 1 WES greatly dia appointed when at that time I 1 was hurt not for the pains pain but believe me it is some sport to chase chate ger mani I 1 think I 1 will be all right a e 0 while and will go right up to my company and I 1 hope I 1 will in company viry close to berlin I 1 have been told in the hospital tb it germans feel like to ask for peace but thit it will not be done until we lick them good give my regards to all my friends and write me soon ven truly jours JOHN co 1 40 div |
