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sitsitilJptroldormm STOUGH IN VOSGES MOUNTAINSDecatur Boy Say* He'* Been in Franco 78 Year*.Nine* •« I saw a great deal of France. Tell alt the follows hollo. on« don't bo surprised If X walk In on you ot a*y Hero.CHARLES S. 8TOUQILos-ad,in-on.if.n*n«O'*•Idl*Wih-noheEtore ! rn IV 11*uCharles s. Slough, writing to W. H. Coonradt from tho base hospital at Coutrexevliie, Yohgea, under data of Deo. 28. #a9:Well. It Is all over uow and I am permitted to tell you wtaero X am. W# aro In the Vo vires mountains at a summer resort called Coutrexevliie. Of course the large summer hotels hero make very good hospitals, and very naturally a summer hotel would l*o as cold as Ice in winter.When 1 came over hers seventjr-flve yearn ago It was winter end we hnlt;| n hell of a time to keep warm, but the summer brought fin© weather. nice cool nights and baseball days. It I* an Ideal place in tho snmmor. The drawing card here Is the mineral water, which they dish out to you In regular beer mugs. Lnch spring has a wonderful building around It and I he a mu semen la makes It a very nice pi.ieo to spend a few weeks and also a few hundred francs. Well. 1 am not here to drink the |[ 2 O. for every “ian reads '99.U Per cent II 2 O and AC per cent arsenic.' Well. I thought li kind to sfcnn that arsenic stuff. They put that In rat poison, but It would surprise you how well these •fcTogv like It ills©.*'! have been taking a lot of plc-tuiev oxer here, and movie* at that— ton know—for record work In Washington I took some to keep myself.I |OSt K SOONNow that I he fuss le over, we ex-reel io get home real soon, for we reel that the vets will be taken care r.f flist. | mean the |p|?, J91S-) men.I expert lo leave ihli country about !•'« hruary or March. X am very anxious to get homo and »co that son of mine. The hint word I got from home lie has a tooth. I believe that Charles S. II. |i photographed about is much as Httl, Jr. If ho Isn't now ho will Im as soon as his dad got* liotiie, ix.ituse | want 'beau coup* |dc-tur. s of him when I got hack. 1 Just nturtiKi from ijultw a trip through I imioM was fair days in i’aiis. Theio I •.oinc ilty. i could sit out on tho walk In fiont of those cafes and w.»t«h tho cxcr-ihanglJig m eno for months, r wild also In I.yon, and siKnt sex on daj* In Grenoble, a very beautiful little city la the Alps. I had nv fill of mountain climbing and a good re«t n* well. fin my way hoiii* I vls'ted Chateau Thleriy andDISCHARGED FROM AIR SERVICEMANTELSEHGT. HH.NKST QAHVKRSergeant Ernest M. Garver. son of Mrs. Mary A. Garver, roturned home Tuesday from Camp Grant. He was sent from I^ng island to Camp Grant where he remained about one week, receiving Ms honorable discharge at Cnmp Grant Monday morning. He has been with the 277 Aero Bquadron at Iasng Island. He Is a brother of f.leut. Roy Carver who w*s killed by an accidental fall In England.CYRUS PRESCOTTIS RECOVERINGIkfitsr soldier, (iassed and Wounded, An Ilona to Gel HomeBavcrat nights ago at a movie” two young women sat directly behind a young man in uniform. A war picture was being show n ami the young women tpolte of men they knew is the service. One wondered what Cyrus prc.nott was doing, She had not heard aro thing In regard to him for « long time, but knew he was member cf company H of j* certain rrglment and that ho lmd bicn gas*ed and wounded.The Hvhller In front of them turned around and nfter asking pardon for hutting in” on their conversation said ho was a member of the same company and had been over the top with Cyrus Trescott a number of time#, was with him when he was gassed and also when he was wounded Ife snld his name was Wiley and he also had been wounded and was on his way to his home In New Orleans. He said Cyrus was
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Decatur Daily Review
Decatur, Illinois, US
Tue, Jan 28, 1919
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