First Time Under Fire in Ypres Road to St Jean Capelle
A Boston dragoon guardsman recalls his first shelling in Ypres, driving a general’s car, and serving as a dispatch rider and armored car crewman. He notes fear, Belgian civilians’ peril, and the valor of fellow riders awarded in action along the Yser canal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colvin
Zitlebeke
Seventh Infantry Division
Zillebeke
England
General Bying
Ypres
Old Town
Boston
France
Ypres Salient
St. Jean Capelle
Army Service Corps
Royal Engineers
Royal Army Medical Corps
Fifth Army Corps
Menin Road
Yser Canal
Medaille Militaire
Primary Students Join Junior Red Cross Drive
Forty six first to third graders join the Junior Red Cross campaign. Illness keeps Arthur Fesser and Paul Haggard home briefly. The third grade to perform a Christmas program at the opera house. Fourth grade lists spellings. sixth grade letter to Santa from Phyllis Wolverton mentions Red Cross window artwork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Opera House
Phyllis Wolverton
School Notes District No 13 School No 2
Fifteen absences this week due to cold and illness. Coal scarce but enough for 3 or 4 weeks. No work yet on the new schoolhouse. Stoves and accessories arrived. Delayed publishers delayed new books. Scholars mourn Peter Schwab who died at age seven. Several other illnesses reported but hopes for quick recovery. Grades above 80 percent include Jack Hazel and Philip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Schwab
Christmas church services and school welcome note
The text lists church masses for Christmas including a 6 am Catholic mass and a 10 am high mass with Benediction, a Christmas Eve program, and feasts for St Stephen and St John the Apostle. It also notes a school welcoming visitors and urges joining the Red Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Stephen
Rosenthal
St. John the Apostle
Linton
J. G. Sailer
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ltue
William J. Robinson
Copyright
Little, Brows & Co
William 4
Robinson
City School
Arthur Fesser
Paul Haggard
Karoline Backhaus
Junior Red Cross Organization
Phyllis Coventry
Hazel Gillespie
Ethel Kloudt
Linton, N. D
Santa
Jack Hazel
Philip
Linton, NO. Dak
Granstine
Tony Hazel
Tusa Kraft
Katie Kraft
Adam Schwab
Pauline Kraft
The
Fred Kist
First State Bank
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