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WOODLAND DAILY DEMOCRAT, WOODLAND. CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBERa*Neal Chalmers OrdersString Beans lor Desert.re“Very cautiously we paid our bill,r- and very humbly we stole out. Nowid-! what do you think former City Attor-KNITTINQ FOCatherine mcamp to see t much impress*has been untitions about thmother enter*time to see hes nev Neal Chalmers has been doinger over there In France? In a recentLowell Vosburg Woundeder1 letter to Mrs. Chalmers he tells allBlitIn taintiDan Horgan Writes Whilesweater whirlfinished for tlMidstFightabout it.In France, Nov. 7, 1918Dear Wife: I should be able toI Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vosburgh arebadstartled cry o you doing?’' calmly answer hungry soldiefrom their painted,” wrote Dan Horganwrite you a real letter tonight, asI. I had the pleasure and the prlvitwo soldier sons In France. Elwood vemter 7 to his uncle, Father T. W.writes on November 3 that he is finelege of visiting the city of Borbut. very busy with his duties in theHorgan. At the time of writing theletter Dan Horgan had Just returneddeaux. I had a pass and wasquartermaster's supply department.Ixiwfll has been In a French ho.- to the battle from re.t behind theoff all day, so spent most of my , recover|ng from wounds received lines and was engaging In the bigtime In the city. Had a lovelytrip and looked the city over pretty well.in action. He was evidently making battle that marked the closing days famous recovery, as he expected toof the titanic struggle.thatFirst of all we went to the Y.return to his company the next day. ^ Amerlcans were 8endlng ton8 ofM. C. A.locatedHe has been over the top many times and has been at the front since land-steel crashing into the lines of thelarge old building in the centraling in France. Considerable anxiety enemy.Ipart of the city, overlookingonaccountDan Horgan is with HeadquartersIlarge oien square. The building Is well equipped, and the attendants are most courteous. Officers andhis parents as no previous word had company of the 13th artillery, knownbeen received for two months.as The Grizzlies. This division isImen alike flock to the V for choc-Irving Cunningham has been visit-returning Washington on a furlough of ten.olate and ice-cream, which I tin- I ^ ^ ^ Htatloned at Fort Miley,derstand are for sale at all times. I ^ ^ pnmr|Br0t and l8 attached toHenle ExpectedThey also conduct a canteen andrestaurant.the artillery.disappointedthe city. It Is next to Paris intheopportunit} Thanksgiving.He deeply appreciated to be at home forHome by Saturday Nextpopulation, but has no largeRudolph Henle, who has been InICampstores, as we know them. Thelittle shops have some beautifulthree months, is expected homethings in them. For instance, Isaw a most beautiful library table,Circassian walnut, hand-carved.evidently worth a large sum, while next door in another shop,tioned that for the first time since he thirty-day furlough December 7. He had been In i ranee his whole regi- one of ltle u,ree sons In service of n**nt was together. Mr and Mrs_ A_ L Henle. Mrs. Henleis rejoicing over the fact that Ru-Charles Ruppert writes from Italy dojp^ jg due to arrjve on her birth-lJust as pretentions from the outside. a French lady was sellingfish.buildingsRuppertthis city, that he is feeling fine but isday.homesick.ILke ours, seldom la-lug more than three or four stories high. Theotilv modern thing about theFrench is dress. The women certainly know how to dress, ana waror no war, they seem to insist up-John I.augenour writes from Camp Hancock, where he Is stationed withI. W. Roos. Davis Maoa machine gun company, that he willWrites Home From Belgiumgroupmlssscon chic clothing.permitted to come home for Chrlst-itA very funny thing happenedwhile we were eating dinner. IaIdidn’t Intend to tell a person, butWe walk-max.A letter received from L. VV. Roos of Iavls this week by his folks, dated November 1, states he was then inBelgium, In good health and spirits.’It’s too good to keep, ed Into what had been recom-Great Demonstration inHe says he likes the conditions In Bel-mended as the best restaurant Inthe city and began to Missel wltbFrance When Peace Cameglum, what he has seen, better thanFrance. That the Belgians are returning rapidly to their homes and! the menu. B was all In French.of course, so we went very slowlyare rejoicing because the Germanscausedhave been driven out.same enthusiasm in France as In the 1/juis is a member of the band ofand did famously, until we cameaccording to OscarInNovemberto dessert. T looked at the menu tha( »tj,e people nearly wentthe famous 91st Infantry. Until veryrecently the band members were re-kin a verv wise manner and randown to where the dessert shouldBut found that I couldwild with Joy over the report whichcame in last night. It looks like thaqulred to serve at the front with the medicalThe■appear.not decipher n single Item.waiter could not speak a word ofEnglish, so to get out of a dlffl-to oneml position. I pointedItem, I presumed to ho dessert,and calmly lit a cigarette andnear• •It i* nearly Thanksgiving, andcorps as first aid to the wounded, but will not In future be required to do so.He saysover the top with thehe wentaedical men,there Is no turkey In sight.’ He le and was under hot fire for eight da*anxious over his Christmas box. The an(| eightsstore windows in the French towns, ho mentions as beginning to showwaited.IIn tnv mind I pictured sometasty French dessert, all frothy and everything, Just ready to melt on your tongue. Pretty soon thasigns of life, for the first time since he hax been over there.That It was a wonderfulexierlence and that George Zane ha* ^’nothing on him” on going “over the top. That the band does a lot ofONE MILE OF BATTLE FRONTmarching and play as they march. Hedosewaiter arrived on the scene. Onj Barbed Wire Used Amounts to Hun. dreds of Tons—Millions of Sandhis trav was a large silver bowl.Bags Are Required.In the midst bf, but It was probably the battle of the Argonne.He speaks of going over the battle field and ofthe great destruction In evidence ofI kn*-w my judgment had beenFew who read of a “milt* of front” tion Also destruction of trees, roads,transports1Ig«*id, and I sat hack all ready tohave any idea of the enormous labor et0- That the Huns had a lot of the■renjoy myself. The waiter placed the bowl on the table and rernov-ted the cover. To my horror.chagrin and disgust. I found thecontents to he string beans Youwould have died had you beenpresent. We looked around to seeif anyone was watching us Verycautiously we paid our bill andvery humbly we stole out Thenext time I go to a French eat-ami material that go to its making.writes a trench correspondent. For a mile of front among the swamps of Flanders, for example, with its tir-tami second lines of trenches, its communications and breastworks, thecountry planted to turnip* and which■the boys enjoy eating, dubbing them 1 “California apples.” He says thatwhile the experience Is truly wonderful, he is fully satisfied If he 1*necessary barbed wire is 900 miles innot further called upon to pick up thelength—long enough to reach from lxmdon to Perth and back -andweighs 110 tons.1jtoor wounded boys amidshell and not in a positionback.Ing house, believe me, I am going to take my French book along.Well this will have to sufficeThe sandbags required for its protection number 6,250,000. So manyA PROCE8S OF RKA80NINQfor tonight. The news here Is thatAustria has given up, so It won’the long before I will be oomlng home.arc they that placed end to end they would stretch across Europe fromNorth ('ape in Norway to (’ape Mat-the southernmostAs ever,NEALapan, me souinermnusi point mGreece; and their weight is morethan a thousand tons.“Mister,” said the small boy, “dijJyou buy any Liberty tamds?“What business is that of vours?” Well, 1 guess if you don’t knowt*To fill these millions of sandbagsA I..- wwhat busiuess it is of mine, you don’t know what busiuess it is of yours and everybody else’s. So 1 may just as—JL*
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Woodland Daily Democrat
Woodland, California, US
Tue, Dec 03, 1918
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