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Letterslt;an aero squadron. After ten days at Romorantin came the signing of the j armistice .and the consequent moving of men to other camps. .Co. D., 12th M. G. T. Bn. Amer. E. P., France Hyde wrote to Wittmer thinking that Joe is his brother but he is aiLiA / ■So I was sent here on Nov. 16th and cousin.(HAS.CLEMEXS WRITES FRANCE.FROMam now doing office work for the supJIssoudun (Indree) France.Dec. 3rd, 1918.Dear Uncle Henry:Now that some of the censorship restrictions have been removed. I shall try to tell you a few j of my experiences since leaving CampMerritt.We receive orders on Aug. 30th at Camp Merritt to move that night. At midnight with full packs on our backs we started for the Hudson river, a march of tour hours. The night wasply officer. I like the work pretty well altho* the camp is not as good as I others I have been in, especially St | Jean and Romo. We are located three I miles from Issoudun, a city of 5,000 j some pictures of which I have forwarded to mother today.Have had some wonderful and I might add some unpleasant experi-! ences in France, and have seen a great deal: guns, prisoners, troops of a half dozen different nations, wounded and cripples.Our thoughts now are when we will return to the good old U. S. I understand the Government intends sending the men home according to the I number of dependents and their value4OTHER SOLDIER LETTER*»*like ink and we climbed the Palisades j frQm comn)ercial standpoint, so it is anti ca*i’e down the roughest path on i hard tQ tel, when j shall get back butthe other side you ever looked at. ( j assure you I have all I want of this Reached the river about 4:30 p. m. and j countrywe all pitched our packs on the ; ^ has evidently become lostground and proceeded to snatch a ^ j have not received a line sincelittle sleep on the beacn. However, arrival of your and mother’s let-the ferry pulled in at dav-break and ; tefs Qf Sept mh Rut j am Jn hopegwe hoarded it prompt1}. j 0f hearing from one of you soon. IProceeded down the Hudson, cram* . trust my ]etters have been reachingmod in the boat like sardines in a can j and reached the Cunarcl line wharves ! in New York about 7:2*. Here we were given buns and coffee and at we boarded the English transport. Derbyshire. then lay in docks until 5 p. m.. August 31st, when we were taken down to the mouth of the harbor to remain until Sunday, Sept. 1st.At 3:30 p. m. that day we started across with thirteen other transports, all camouflaged, accompanied by one battleship, about ten destroyers and two hydroplanes. Then bemm a trip 1 shall never forget. For thirteen davs wo wandered around on the ocean, evading subs, and each day sot.-!!ied longer than the one proceeding it. Fired at two subs, but outside of this we wero not molested. The weather aftvT two days out was fierce —routih sea and awfully cold, this hefnir lt;luo tlt;■= the* fact that we took the Northern course.On Sept. KUh wo landed in Glasgow j after passing the coast of Ireland and L!oi!iir up tl:e riyde river. The passage ; ijp t]\e Clyde 1 enjoyed very much foryou for I have written at least two a♦week since my arrival in Europe to mother and yourself.With my best wishes to you all for a very Merry Xmas and trusting you are all enjoying the best of health, Iam. as always.Yours devotedly.Pvt. Charles A. Clemens. Camp Cheneviere A. P. O. 724 Intermediate Ordnance Depot No 5 American Ex. Forces, France.—*--—O ~ —ANOTHER SOLDIER WRITES.1it was the most beautiful country I ever saw. At Glasgow we were loaded on trains about 9 a. m. and traveled all dav and until 2:20 the following»morning when we arrived at Win-1 rhosN. r on this trip we passed thru i Seot-and an.d down the Entrlish citiesi(\\ JSf « * * * * i ‘ ? : T ■ ^. . *■ , „ t,, •Oyford and Plrnunchaiv*.. ,,vi,;, j s r; n : n i 1 e from\v*e*e u'arrhedV *■OCamp Custer, Mich., Dec. 18.Mr. Alfred Naviaux,Hello Dear Brother: How are you by this time and how are all the otherfolks?I am fine and dandy and hope you are all the same.Well, I got your letter and was veryglad to hear from you.I would have answered sooner but I thought I would wait a day or two ana 1 could tell you more about when I was coming home. But I cannot tell you a thing about it yet.You said you thought I would get home by Christmas, but I think that you missed your guess. I am thinking that Ed will get home before I will.Yet. some of the boys from France are back here in this camp and are going home now. They are coming in every day and going out for home.1 wish I could go. I tell you all the (•vs are getting tired of staying here.I gues? I will get out by spring. Ihtpe so. any way.Work is just the same as it was before the war closed. We are working everv day just the same as before.What are you doing now? I guess you got your work all done and are having a good time now. I wish I could be home with you. 1 tell you home will i look good to me when I can get backto stay.Are you having many pic suppersout there?We are having plenty of good eating here now. On Sunday we have plenty of pie and cake, ice cream, and plenty of other good earing. We are going to have a bi?x time on Christmas.They are going to have all kinds of good things to eat. But it will not be like home to me. I hope not.Well. Alfred, will you send me about two pounds of leaf tobacco. I havn't had any srood tobacco for along time. I can't get any leaf hove. What T can get here is not good for anything and please send it as soon as you can for I will be glad to get j it. Two pounds will be enough for jthis time.Well. T guess I will close for this time. With best wishes to yon all for a Merry Christmas and a Happy XewYear to you all. FromHERMAN HAXLOH.Answer soon as you can for T am I guess there were lots of rabbits ?jafj hear frorii you.killed there as usual. A'f't-r.s-a ’ j ______ n_____me if thlt; re was mu'-h wir.c 1 Y THVTFR S01.TMKR WRITES H0M11.* t ' i I . » ^ , Yi \' 1 ♦ I4*Are Youiy. ■«..lt;-- ,-r *.•%+brmi-Open-Minded?j.. .'• i— -j:■•.5 4=.J. ■*Hi'}uThe average American is open-minded.olll'Aii 5.1l.M-1IkSomewhere in France. Xov. 28. Mrs. Kmma Naviaux,Ranger, Ind.Dear Wife:How are you all? I am well. Just received three letters from you last Monday and one from Alfred. Was sure glad to set them. Also, received flu* picture you sent me for which I thank you.We moved airain last Tuesday. Montignv sur Aube is where we arenow.Alfred sure wrote a newsy letter. Iwas glad to hear how everythin?: was going on about the place.I thing they did well on the farm this year.Today is Thanksgiving.? .'T iI *r »:-kA\/ \ilt;■\4dAmerican business is conducted by true Americans vision, open-minded men who believe in their country and strive meet their country’s needs. The men in the packing industry are no exception to the rule.The business of Swift Company has grown as the nation has progressed Its affairs have been conducted honorably, efficiently, and economically, reducing the margin between the cost of live stock and the sellingprice of dressed meat, until today the profit is only a fraction of a cent a pound—too small to have any noticeable effect on prices.The packing industry is a big, vital industry—one of the most important in the country, you understand it?Swift 8c Company presents facts in the advertisements that appear in this paper. They are addressed to every open-minded person in the country.einever drinkThe booklet of preceding chapters in this story of the packing industry, will be mailedon request toSwift Company Union Stock Yards - - Chicago, Illinoistoil!W !♦ “\,y 1: o re\v c* tlt; *'? t... s . .1 • *.. % * . ♦ ■ ^days.V:‘r«r s**'eidiui: tbrep days at Win-. v lt;v. 1; •»r e b v t h ^ w a v w e v i i t e d« *■\r ,v : r C:\i h od ra I corn pi e t ed i nst:iout for' South.amn-d.-'t;-::^o to ?oufh:'mpfon isoji- and we arrived there ITtV. at 2 p. m.V%- v.’.v, loadrd the transport whi**hfed u- ai'To^s the ChanrKd with »r- ‘Visions, eto. and in dead* ‘ tiiV*‘U :uoour little bovlt;*^ ■ I i i * Pi * X , +-■*.[ r t 1; lt;- r e1 cannot ima^ih.as grown. Iir« ho’,v i.et toks in )asr f’ *1i v^:\ much %cavs to do.t .ahout horn*- •uid v^u r«* tlse same as if 1 were tV we are in is abBr’s1 w. We :;v :•. We havn‘1 b-of anyihing for the pa-t few Don’t know what we are coinsToni. France, Nov. 25. P.4V j Mrs. W. O. Davis,Dexter. Ind., lr. S. A.Dear Fo^ks:Your letter of Oct. 3. jSwiftCompanyI/II !♦ iIreacn e(hod me a few days aeo anddointr I'•'•'ill now write ft few lines m return.u. s. A.♦- out (wo crossed^ Havre the next morn-There isn’t mud: to write about tho*i since the closing out of the war.iThe Freucli have been celebrating ji^ M 7... , . , , , I as hard as they could hut we of the A. jucil, I If Ciose with love to vr? andi . , . r\F. F. are too anxious to get out^ofsa *r ord** */iahout -ovon o’clock.T“o:r unh’‘lt;d‘?i-z •rom the ship the tir-o sights that greeted me wore au-v^roes largo do^k? and warehouses ! cuarded bv French soldiers, and % * i rnnose. and Oerrnan nrtsoners doinsr I tlie work. We woro then marched to 1 an old French camp about five milesbaby, from your husband,Pvt. Jvlward A. Xavia-x. Co. A. th Knsrineers. A.MF.■on (^ I a wav called a ‘‘re-t camp.” but thisI was a mistake, for you can imaginecv ! how inucli rest twelve men and twelve ^ tr_ i pack? could cot in a Httle round tent*lt! about in feet in diameter. We slept with our heads to the outside of tent and feet to the pole. Some comfort!After a couple of days at Le Havre wo were loaded into French box-cars I at 11 p. m. after a long hike, and withED. HYDE WRIT'-S If«3Hthis place and back to our own work. I arv very crude an to be very enthusiastic about celebrat- \ must be at ea. v.(I am still beinc retained on duty j behind time., . , , Most of the fields t;here at rne hospital.) Imav interest vou to know just jwill find on 1 *»an-v narrow strips*old-fashioned, hundred yearsi n g.22nd Engrs.A. E. F.P. S. Tell Perry that if I could Iit T have seen j would bring him a donkey to ride,are cut up. in mediae.al style, into ! The French have many little burros. It may vntcre,, yen, to «.« w« | slrlD8 Thcre wln be , | They make 6ue twdl for the boys-where w*e are. Itti.ePvt. Kd Hyde of To1.! City a 5on of late Allen Hyde, formerly o* Hockyouyour map the town of Xancv, in north- | eastern France, then, about twenty-five kilometers due west, the town of Island, wrote Will Wittmer on j Toul, you will have us located. T have ! pnrposes Thanksgiving day lt;;%ov. 2Sth) from a^ j meadow, a strip of potatoes, a strip of I that is, when they don t run awayturnips, another strip o-' potatoes, etc. Oxen are used extensively for draftMost of the wagons are jA. EL D.hospital in France to which place he went a few days previous because he ! was sick and had a sore firteer.. . one-horse affairs but are drawn by lt;been somewhere in the neighborhood , t* m , . . * | two. One of the horses is “hooked on! of Toul during most of my sojourn in |Fiance. I , t _and doing about as much harm asTHE KAISER’S PROPERTY,the side, thereby causing a side draftOn the Sunday before the armistice5-u7ti,He was with Joe Wittmer w \cn he was sismed a German plane was shotIwas wounded in the second battle of down near the hospital and I got to the Marne last July. He met him on see it fall to earth. It seemed to fall the battleHeld going back to the first just beyond the hill but when some aid and talked to him. of us started to it in quest of souve-!1-r-r- i 40 men and the ever present pack loaded in the car xve started for Mohun. a large American camp.This camp. T might say In passing, is »t. I what the French call par bon.” or no srood. as far as the weather and soil wore concerned. It rained continually there and the mud was like cement. It was here that Theo. Gerber and IHe said: “When I first saw him i j nirs we found it like chasing a rain-looked at him quite a while before I knew him, but he knew me the first thing. He was wcunded in the armgood.I was recently out walking in the country with an Irish friend wiio speaks a Httle bad French. We came j up on a Frenchman who was plowing very shallowly with four horses and an old trap of a plow with a woodenmstleleicery~3dasbut I couldn’t see how bad.If you havn’t heard from him, you needn't worry for that w*as back in July so he is well my now. I hope so, anyway.“We sure had a hard battle in Julv,bow. I and some others walked aboutfour miles and turned back. Those . _ .^ „ j to give the plowman a lecture on who went about a mile farther found j f . __ „the wrecked machine with the pilotamong the debiis. Of course this iThe Hohenzollern family filchedfrom the German people many millions. *in money and property during the many years of reign. This consists in money, bonds, estates and jewels. This property, it is understood, is now sought to be held by the Hohenzol-lerns as private individuals, the hea of the house having abdicated his claim upon the throne of the German1mold board and the Irishman stopped j empire. Since it was filched from thepeople to, begin with, it should now reincident was a very small matter as military affairs go but it happened to be the only thing of the kind I have witnessed- A friend of mine justaIf-ne31-Sttube*d.ofndseparated. J°e and I were in the same division j recently returned from a visit to “NoWas ordered to St. Jean de Monto believe me, it was some division,! Maa’s Land.” He told of sights heon the Bay of Biscay on Sept. 2Sth and after riding two days and nights ! #have never seen or heard of hltu* words.on these French cars and doing “bunk i since that time. He may be back in k It has been worth something to me* * - *too.saw there that are too horrible forfatigue” on the floor of one of the de- ; his company by now. pots I arrived St. Jean. j I in the hospital; it is a RedHere I spent eight hours a day studying the arming of aeroplanes, and doing guard duty a couple of times a week, at night—rery pleasant job this last one. However, I enjoyed the school course which consisted of a practical course In three types of machine guns, different kinds ofCross hospital, Base 82 and is sure some good place to be.We had a fine dinner here tyday and we get the beat of treatment and have some of the best nurses here that I ever saw in my life.Well, I can say that I have been lucky as I have been up at the frontbombs and the manner In which they | six Umes and a® still alive and rightwere attached to the plane, and synchronizing (timing the machine gun to lt;?hoot between propellor blades).After 5 weeks at St. Jean I was*sent as aii assistant armorer to Romorantin, an aviation camp and attached tonow am fall of chicken- We had a drink of wine for dinner; you know we are all happy tonight.0As It is now bedtime I will tell you good night!Edward Hyde, Cookknock around over here and see something of the country and customs of th* French. I passed through Toul on a truck yesterday shortly after sunrise. At that hoar it reminds one of Dickenr* description of Paris in his Tale of Two Cit!es.,, There is a massive churcu in this town that it took two hundred years to build. It ’ras finished In the year 900. Will send you some pictures of this locality as soon as I can get hold of some.I have been especially interested Inthe way the French farmers do things.•iThey do have some food ideas and by drudging their lives away, get . surprising results; but their methods! agriculture. The farmer explained.that he was breaking for potatoes, and j the Irishman shook his head and said: ‘Xo good for potatoes.” In America when we plow for potatoes we plow deep. The farmer politely inquired j how deep the American plowed for I potatoes and his instructor showed him by indicating on his walking stick! about 18 inches. The Frenchman's..* • eyes opened wide in astonishment and he said, O,--! how many horsesdo you use to plow in America? Ireland glanced at the “frogs skinny” horses depreciatingly and replied, **0 when we plow real deep we use two or three but we have horses.Then, without telling anymore lies the Emerald-l8ler * went on his way rejoicing.Well, I believe thiB Is all that would *interest you so will close. You may see me again In about three or four months from date.As ever,Allen.A. E. Davis. , nHdqrs. 4th Bn.1 :vert to the people, and be subjected to the debts the Germans owe to the al-r* * ’lies for the damage wrought by the war. This property no more belongs to them than does the vast store ot*goods #nd money stolen oy the Germans from the French and the Bel-i. rgians during the German occupancy ot those countries. It is like any other,/ , -V. .1stolen property. . It must be restored, to the rightful owners.—Owensboro! Inquire^J.............0 *HEBE’S ¥OUB CHMNCEI . ' ' 'Get a Honor jEtoll to Greet the Boys Home Coming, and keep the record o1his service, size 16x20 Inches, pain in Six Beautiful Colocs. One or moires : / , v! 'by mall, post-paid, 25c'cash; worth $1.00.ART MEMORIAL. CO.,ADDISON, KT.f ■ 4 tBrig. Gens. Devere and Johnson,% - \ -:/■ 1 -• 4 .A. M■Vf i Athe 849E Division, werer among250 officers. and men fromwho lauded ih l?ew York Sunday..; Take^ £ '■
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