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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1919
Page
8
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A continuation from page one recounts soldiers preparing to depart from Holland and a desire to see the Statue of Liberty. Roy Miller attends school at Fort Mellenry Baltimore and writes of a comrade who was injured while serving, recalling a shell that destroyed the kitchen and a cook who was wounded.
A poem by Eli Hess sent to his sister Anna Hess at Millway. He recalls draft, camp life, inoculations, drill, and the hardships of training at Camp Lee Hours Co. It ends with the line I know beyond a doubt What Sherman said is true War in hell.
United in holy matrimony Mr David G Zug of Elizabethtown and Miss Mazie Carper of Kutz were wed by Rev N L Landis in Neffsville. The couple left for Chambersburg and Maryland. Zook and Graybill also wed in Lancaster with a reception planned at Millport. Jank M Heagy and Kate Boettner married at Lititz Reformed parsonage and will reside in Penryn. Read the Recorder for more.
A collection of social updates and personal comings and goings from families visiting in Stevens, Manheim, and Lancaster areas. The record includes Crosland family visits, military veterans, dinners, hospital convalescence, and a major fire at John Brubaker’s farm. It also recounts wartime experiences of soldiers, daily life in the AEF, billets, rationing, front line conditions, and demobilization details.
A reader cites a Paris Herald item on Congress moving to abolish war service chevrons for those left in camps and not joining the AEF. The letter argues the change is unfair, noting hardships endured by troops from camps to overseas, including long sea voyages and cramped transport with minimal rations.
Ed Wissler, writing from Nantes France, notes mild winters with pussy willows peeping and palm trees. He recalls leaving Lititz for Camp Meade nearly a year ago, mentions not meeting civilians or Stobert Furlow, describes train trip in French box cars, daily port inspections, and hope for orders to sail soon while feeling well.
A public sale of a choice lot of cows will be conducted in Mechanicsburg on April 4 by a party named Honck and Wolt. The listing provides limited details but confirms the auction action and participants.
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