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I9.Letters From the;r*Soldier Boys.ran aero squadron. After ten days at | Romorantin came the signing of the j armistice And the consequent movingCHAS.CLEMENS WRITES FRANCE.FROMof men to other camps.ICo. D., 12th M. G. T. Bn. Amer. E. P., France Hyde wrote to Wittmer thinking that Joe is his brother but he is aSo I was sent here on Nov. 16th and cousin.Issoudun (Indree) France.»inDec. 3rd, 1918.Dear Uncle Henry:Now that some of ae[the censorship restrictions have been removed. I shall try to tell you a few j of my experiences since leaving Camp Merritt.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, aadrir,12edil!am now doing office work for the sup- i ply 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 miles from Issoudun, a city of 5,000 some pictures of which I have forwarded to mother today.Have had some wonderful and I might add some unpleasant experi-i 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 send---o4S0THER SOLDIER LETTER.**if4' A ■' Vii-•/** . r- ■ *'•'■£££*£•':. “i ■ -i ing the men home according to the march of tour hours, 'The vas j number of dependents and their valuefrom a commercial standpoint, so it isilke ink and we climbed the Palisades an,] ca-re down the roughest path on i faard |o teJ] when j shaU get back butthe other side you e\er looked at. , j assure yOU j have all I want of this Reached the river about 4:30 p. m. and j cmmtry*‘I'll-!ilt;]reLietalit*V* «n*es.h vwwe all pitched our packs on the ground and proceeded to snatch a little sleep on the beach. However, the ferry pulled in at day-break and we hoarded it promptly.My mail has evidently become lost for I have not received a line since the arrival of your and mother’s letters of Sept. 30th. But I am in hopes of hearing from one of you soon. IProceeded down the Hudson, cram- . trust my letters have been reachingmod in the boat like sardines in a can and reached the Ounard line wharves ! in New York about 7:?A Here weiwere given buns and coffee and at we boarded the English transport. Derbyshire. then lay in docks until T, p. in.. August 31st, when we were taken down to the mouth of the harbor to remain until Sunday, Sept. 1stAt p. m. that day we startedacross with thirteen other transports, all camouflaged, accompanied by one battleship, about ten destroyers and two hydroplanes. Then began a trip I shall never forget. For thirteen♦davs we wandered around on the9oof'an, evading subs, and each day seemed longer than the one preceding it. Fired at two subs, but outside of this we were not molested. The weat her aft er lt;wo day s out was fterce ■rouuh sea and awfully cold, this befrtir due th** fact that we took the North.eru course.On Sept. KUh we landed in Glasgow ib- (after passing the coast of Ireland and ipi: | iroijiir u;» the riydc river. The passage :ht /up t])o riyde I enjoyed very much for We ! it was (he most beautiful country I uv ! ever saw. At Glasgow we were load-intorv*rot !: e ire vu at ■eni r v*'hoKityou 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.—*——ANOTHER SOMMER WRITES.—it•■‘d on trains about 9 a. m. and traveled all dav and until 2:^0 the .followins: »nv- ; jufirhinr wh.cn we arrived at Win-On this trip we passed thru* iroi i lt;■})lt;■lt;*' r iSomewhere in France. Xov. 28. Mrs. Emma Xaviaux,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 get them. Also, received the picture you sent me for which I thank you.We moved again last Tuesday. Montigny sur Aube is where we arenow.Alfred sure wrote a newsy letter. I i was glad to hear how everything was going on about the place.I thing they did well on the farm this year.Today is Thnngsgiving.Camp 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 and 1 could tell you more about when I was coining 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 m every day and going out for home.] wish I could go. I tell you all the c ys are getting tired of staying here.I sues? 1 will get out by spring. Ihcpe so. any way.Work just the same as it was before the war closed. We are working every day just the same as before.What are you doing now?T guess you got your work all done and are having a good time now. I wish I could be home with you. I tell you home will j look good to me when I can get back to stay.Are you having many pie suppersout there?We are having plenty of good eating here now. On Sunday we have j plenty of pie and cake, ice cream, and plenty of other good eating. We are going to have a big time on Christmas.They are going to have all kinds of good things to eat. But it will not be like home to me. 1 hope not.Well. Alfred, will you send meAre Youth;iOpen-Minded?'Wzm lt;. -sv*' •. - /;V'The average American is open-minded.1 ■ ■ ii1«!*1id•Iiiiifc? lt;T' i s fAi ^cot:nnlt;l an.d down the Emrlish citiesabout two pounds of leaf tobacco. I j*havn't had any good tobacco for a j long time. I can’t get any leaf he^e. j What I 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 thistime. With best wishes to you all fora Merry Christmas and a Happy XewYear to you all. FromHERMAN* HANT,OH.Answer soon as you can f''r T amxAmerican 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 selling price 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 Company presents facts in the advertisements that appear in this paper. They are addressed to every open-minded person in the country.MS--• •*•*lt;..- •••pVSr. , ‘.X: ’:-•y x-v,:£, lt;■ JXx-* i\ JVv*if rT.% f• . Oy'orl and Hlrminchaiv-cr v:1 • i}: is CO :ni 1 ^ from. . Tr \v»*:*e marrh»’d a ■ on*’ four i\! *; • 1 i -1 \ ; ■ r* :v. ]» w 1: e r o w e d a y s.\:t«v s;*'!ndini: throe days at Win -.-■», r lt;] \.»r t 5 b v t h r* w a v w e vi - i t e dI guess there were lots of rabnjts g-lad to hear fronlt; you.killed there as usual.tt • *i -■ k \. lt;. v ~ \ mu \ ;me if there was mm-h win.e 1* t ' ' 1 I . . t «, v) : . , ■ ^ * i ^ , \ m r i '' ^ 1 •. ^ »eo jr *TU-XTFR SOLPIKIJ WRITES 110WK.iThe booklet of preceding chapters in this story of the packing industry, will be mailedon request toSwift Company Union Stock Yards - - Chicago, Illinoisin;(never drinkSwift* * tCompany1 earinot irna^ilias grown. IWtr r1Tn-r-’• ?. n in lt;* of nier and11. erJ■ ♦ -t-r Cathedral eornplcted in st:*N-.e out fo” soin ?-amn-• to h,:' mpton is-ui- ;nd we arrived there V. at 2 p. m.n londrd the transport whi**h u- across the rhanrKd with eto. and in tl'^ dead of Jiehi* out (we crossed^ u'x'-yz at Havre the next morn-aVmt o'clock.unh’^d^T^ •rom the ship the tirsights that greeted me worelarce do^k- and warehouses,’M'VV*?*‘\i :ue our little lov thinkimr about horn*- and v^v r« iT thr-re tljo same as if 1 were t’*o’.vn we are in is al-Hrist w. Wenow:.et to ^ ’ks in j* * *asToni. France. Nov. *J5. j Mrs. W. O. Davis,Dexter. Ind., V. S. A.Dear Folks:Your letter of Oct. ?».I :♦ iIreacn e(bed me a few days aeo and( irric-t •t»r-‘Visions.v it V.imuch ua.vs to do.We hnvn‘t b doinir j of anytliing for the fewDon’t know what we are coinswill now write a few lines m return. There isn’t mud: to write about tho’ i since the elosins: cuit of the war.u. s. A.The Frencl'. have been relenratins |in T*11 -il , as hard as they could hut we of the A. jUOiJ, I 1! dose with* love to vr? and!Io,.... ■u n it ibaby, from your husband,Pvt. Edward A. Navia-x. Co. A. €u.~th Eneineers. A.MF.oWe were then marched to, . . njirvp r(-i v lt;uim * ' *^Q J cnardecl bv French soldiers, and areheir 1 phinand Herman prisoners doinethe ■ t]l° 'Vfrk. men • :lT- lt;^amp about five mileswith ‘ awav ^nllrd a ‘‘re^t camp/’ but this j w*as a mistake, for you can imagine . ! iu'W much* rest twelve men and twelve Ger- * packs could sret in a little round tent Teat ’ a*u'n* ^ fp°t 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 HavreED. HYDE WRITFS HOMiE. F. are too anxious to get out^of this place and bark to our own work. I arc very crucle an' to be'very enthusiastic about celebrat- j Tiie' must be at IeasC ing. (I am still beinsr retained on duty \ behind time.here at the hospital.)»It mav interest you to know just j where we are. If yon will find on ! many narrow strips.old-fashioned.hundred years22nd Engrs.A. E. F.P. S. Tell Perry that if I could I\t I have seen j would bring him a donkey to ride.are cut up. in mediae.al style, into } The French have many little burros.There will be a I They make fine steeds for the boys—Most of the fields titheoranvPvt. Ed Hyde of IV.! City a son of late Allen Hyde, formerly or Rock Island, wrote Will Wittrn Thanksgiving day lt;Xov. 2Sth) from a hospital in France to which place he went a few days previous because he ! was sick and had a sore firfcer.north- f tneadow, a strip of potatoes, a strip of i that is, when they don’t run awayi 4. Vi ^ .. ^ 4- rv ^ AAf* A^/t ! ^ r K, t}rvoxir man the town of Nancy, in (v ^ turnips, another strip o-' potatoes, etc.eastern France, then, about twenty- K ‘ ^ ^Oxen are used extensively for draftMost of the wagons are jbeen somewhere innas sol. veryfive kilometers due west, the town ofon i Toul. vou will have us located. T have ' purposes- ------- -.......,the neighborhood ; one-horse affairs but are drawn byor Tool during most of my sojourn in j « *lt;«? '* ''h“okef ™1 _ i the side, therebv causing a side drartFiance. ! ’ ,On the Sunday before the armistice j a”d ^ about as harm asHe Avas with Joe Wittmer w icn he | was signed a German plane was shot j £°oc*-was wounded in the second battle of down near the hospital and I got to ^ ^as recen^ out walking in t eoTHE KAISER’S PROPERTY.Ition,! we were loaded into French box-cars I at 11 p. m. after a lone hike, and with Ger- 40 men and the ever present pack loaded in the car we started for Mehun. a large American camp.This camp. I might say in passing, is vest. ? what the French call “par bon,” or no 'man f rood, as far as the weather and soil were concerned. It rained continually there and the mud was like cement. It was here that Theo. Gerber and Ithe Marne last July. He met him on the battlefield going back to the first aid and talked to him.Isee it fall to earth. It seemed to fall just beyond the hill but when some of us started to it in quest of souve-He said: “When I first saw him I j nirs w*e found it like chasing a rain-in-nth s. Ger-hrstattle s the he afterleny-i andi aslooked at him quite a while before I' knew' him, but he knew me the first thing. He was wcunded in the arm but I couldn’t see how bad.If you havn’t heard from him, you needn't worry for that was back in July so he is well my now. I hope so, anyway.‘‘We sure had a hard battle in Julv,country with an Irish friend who speaks a little bad French. We came j up on a Frenchman w'ho was plowing very shallowly with four horses and an old trap of a plow with a woodenbow. I and some others walked aboutfour miles and turned back. Those .r # . to give the plowman a lecture on who went about a mile farther found j f , __ .the wrecked machine with the pilotamong the debus. Of course this iincident was a very small matter asmilitary affairs go but it happened toThe Holienzollern family filched from 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 head of the house having abdicated his claim upon the throne of the Germaamold board and the Irishman stopped empire. Since it was filched from thebe the only thing of the kind I have witnessed. A friend of mine justI 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 inquiredh aj dif-time j im-most keen-The nded, ad of elandt y ___. _ ,, . . ; A ^ , .. . .... how deep the American plowed forJoe and I were in the same division j recently returned from a visit to No). , .. , i . „ , | potatoes and his Instructor showedand believe me. it was some division, t \fawfR lAtnlT* tntd nt Riehts he!him by indicating on his walking stick«rabout 18 inches. The Frenchman’sb.eyes opened wide in astonishment and he said, O,--! how many horsesseparated.Was ordered to St. Jean de Monto an(* believe me, it was some division, 1 MaiTs Land;' He told of sights he on the Bay of Biscay on Sept. 2$th , to°* I saw there that are too horrible for tand after riding two days and nights \ have never seen or heard of hiLu . words. !on these French cars and doing “bunk I since that time. He may be back in j. It has been worth something to me fatigue” on the floor of one of the de- | company by now. | ti, knock around over here and seepots I arrived St. Jean.Here I spent eight hours a day studying the arming of aeroplanes, and doing guard duty a couple of times a week, at night—very pleasant job this last one. However, I enjoyed the school course which consisted of a practical course In three types of machine grins, different kinds ofi“I am in the hospital; it is a Red*Cross hospital, Base 82 and is sure some good place to be.We had a fine dinner here tpday and we get the best 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 an at the frontbombs and the manner in which they}six Umes and am still alive and rightwere attached to the plane, and synchronizing (timing the machine gnn to shoot between propellor blades).After 5 weeks at St. Jean I was sent as an assistant armorer to Romoran-tin, an aviation camp and attached tonow am full of chicken. We had a drink of wine for dinner; you know we are all happy tonight.something of the country and customs of th* French. 1 passed through Toul on a truck yesterday shortly after sunrise.. At that hour it reminds one of Dicken?’ description of Paris in his “Tale of Two Cities.” There is a massive churcu in this town that It took two hundred years to build. It *vas finished In the year 900. Will send yon some pictures of this locality as soon as I can get hold of some.I have been especially interested in the way the Ftesch farmers do things.As It is now bedtime I will tell you j They do have some food Ideas and by goodnight! (drudging their lives away, get. snr-Edward Hyde, Cook V ' prising results; but their methodsdo you use to plow in America? Ireland glanced at the “frogs” skinny” horses depreciatingly and replied, “O when we plow real deep we use two or three but we have horses.Then, without telling anymore lies the Emerald-Isler * went on his way rejoicing.Well, I believe this Is all that woald *interest you so will close. Ton may see me again In about three or four months from date.people to, begin with, it should now revert to the people, and be subjected to the debts the Germans ’owe to the allies for the damage wrought by the war. This property no more belongs to them than does the vast store of*goods £nd money stolen oy the Ger-;mans from the French and the Bel-„vi.gians during the German occupancy of those .countries. It Ib like any other, stolen property. It must be restoredj to the rightful owners.—Owensboro Inquirei^JHEBE’S ¥0UB CHUNCEI- ; • ✓Get a Honor $oll to Greet the Boys Home Coming, and keep the record o1his service, size 16x20 inches, painin Six Beautiful Colors. One or more. s ^ r . • *by maiil, post-paid, 25c cash; worth $1.00.ART MEMORIAL CO.,ADDISON, KT.As ever, Allen.A. E. Davisy . i ilt;* Hdqrs. 4t3t Bn.♦ ♦Brig. Gens. Devere and Johnson, the 84fif. Divislcta, wereramong 250 officers , and men fromwho -laqded fii -Ifew. York Sunday.Take
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