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Show WILLIAM BELMP IS BACK FROM FRANCE William Belknap, former forroan of the Ogden Tacking & Provision com-r. com-r. relumed to Ogdu yesterday from France with a wonderful collection collec-tion of war trophies and pictures He sp nt 18 months of hard fighting with the American forces across the B and was in most o the jrreat battles bat-tles that our boys participated in. Most of the time that BelkDap was in France he was a dispatch carrier, equipped with a motorcycle and side era and made trips through the differ-entwar differ-entwar zones. While on one of these trips, with shells striking all around, he and a lieutenant at company. ns him were thrown from the machine by the explosion of a German shell. When Belknap aroused himself from the stupor that had been caused by his fall and the explosion, ho found the lieutenant leaning over him, ask- ling him If he was dead Belknap sustained a broken shoulder from the fall and was forced to remain In a hospital several months The trophies that the young soldier brought home have been placed In the window of the Independent Meat com-pany com-pany Manager S. S. Jensen of the packing plnnt stated that Belknap I would resume bis old position irnme- J diately. |