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Letters from Our Beys iTO “CY” NOBLE.Kennelh ©..-'Fisher in. the Ta-coma Ledger.)-' ' -• When salty'Winds Worn off the Sound .Turning-' . crisp, obrought.' football ’round, lt;-■■■-■'He heard Gil Dobie’s frantic callAnd put up defenses like a wall Or.hit foes’ lines with most a tonOf fcurly strength for-Washington.» .rSo when greater alma mater called. Demanding that he foes be mauled, The nation needed uten like “Cy.” Instead or standing idlv by _ i , He hurled $umseH'a-t Hunnish hell And fell, a victim of shrapnel.The game goes on. He's oat or it;_ They had to kill to make him quit; Noonore at Denny will the cry “You’re done: nobly,” thrill our ‘’Cv;” j .'. •• ■Who nobly fought-hud-nobly died, And Tilled our every-heart with pride.But when in nation’s.halls and state. ^AVg write upon the'heroes! slate -.Tbe names of thos» who gave .their all . • . - *.To fulfill their country’b call;In letters deep we/shall carve.high The name of Noble, Heroic “Cy.”Soldier Loses Fingers.Carl Allred of this city, a soldier in the SGlst infantry, has-had the ends of four fingers on his right hand amputated and is at Base Hospital No. 37, Dartford, Kent, England, according to a letter received ■by his'brother. Clyde Allred. The ^soldier suffered from blood poisoning, which developed from a scratch on his hand, sustained when he waved from a car window while his regiment was going through Chicago. In his letter young Allred told ^ofhaving seen the king and. queen *of England, who waived at him when they passed the hospital.The soldier wrote as follows;U. S. Base Hospital No. 37. Ward R; Oct. 19, 191S, Hartford, Kent, England.“Dear Brother Clyde:—Received your most welcome letter a couple of days ago and have been pretiy busy, so didn't answer right away. Did I say I couldn't use my hand? Well. I guess that was right at the time. It is quite a bit better now, although I’m working right along in the laundry here. I ean!t close myfingers over half way up. The first three are off at the first joints, and the joints below them are so they won’t bend but just a trifle, and it is the same with the little finger. I will explain in a few words bow_ 1 got mv hand -hurt. I knocked a .little skin off the second knuckle of the little linger while passing through Chicago, by waving my hand out of the car window as we -went through, against a* hanging mailbag. well, the damage done to thefinger .was so slight 1 didn’t bother about having it drbssed. You-canjust bet it bothered me a day or two after we landed in Camp Merritt,'N. J, -••‘•Well, the doctor had the-poison checked a day or so before we took leave for Europe. 1 wasn’t on the boat but a couple, of days when it. broke out again. J spent the rest of the time coming over, nine days in all. ;n my bunk, and every day the doctor made an incision on the fing-j c-rs and the 'back of the hand.“Well, my boat landed in (deleted) and they took me to the hospital there. The consequences are that the doctor had to take the tips off the lingers. They were .taken off on the 22nd of July, and here'it isthree months and not well yet; Of course, they are healed, but are very tender-yet. and the cold effects the hand. I hope I can stay here this winter and ha%’© a good-warm job in' the laundry, where it is warm. 1 can’t seem to keep warm. Other fellows will keep wajyn yith only two blankets, and I sleep cold with three on, . Well. 1 guess I can stand it. as I'm not dead yet.' I’ve stood it sofar. ., __“Say. Clyde, what do .you think! I’ve seen the king and queen of England. Thev were. ouL last Thurs-*day and the king spoke to me. I was feaning out of one of the 'laundry windows when they passed aud the* king waved his' hand and said 'Hello!“I bet you are wondering if I’ve been to London. Well, I came through London when* I came here from Glasgow. Scotland, but never have been there on a visit yet. Last Saturday I had my pass and everything all ready, but when I came to go out I could not, as an order came in to let no one out who didn't have his identification tags 021. I had •lost mine some five weeks before, so couldr^t go. I’m having some more matfQ. so I'll be all right next time, which will be next Saturday, if I can. . Jt is only about 1C miles to Loudon from here. I’m 'going in with an Englishman, Mr. Scuart by name, who knows London, that is* most of. the places of interest. . ;“Well, 1 will have to close soon. 5 We have moving pictures here three or four iimes^. week, and on Sunday an entertainment, singing and comic. Oh. we are pretty-well off fo.r shows, anyway. We have a good sermon t every Sunday at 3 0:30 a, m., which I enjoy yery much.“[ will enclose a clipping from one of the papers here with my picture in it that was taken by a moving man. Will you please send Jt with tliis letter to Daisy, •“Well, r will say goodbye for this time. Tell Anna 1 wish I was there to ha vs some of her good cake and good cooking all round. Yum! Yum!1 would enjoy it now,“As every, vour loving brother,CARL ALLRED. UP. S. I got a nice letter from Dean not long ago.1' . »
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Centralia Daily Chronicle
Centralia, Washington, US
Thu, Nov 14, 1918
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