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I LAFAYETTEM.E. Church Xotes.Sunday school, 9.30 a. m. Preaching, 10.30 a. m.Epwortli League, 6.30 p. m. Evening service, 7.30 p. m.Prayer meeting Thursday evening, 7.30.Services at Saxon—Sunday school, 2.00; preaching, 3.00.• A LETTER FROM FRANCE.The following letter from Eddis Janes, who is serving his 'country in Prance, will be read with interest by his many friends in LaPayette and vicinity. It reached us thru the courtesy of his mother, Mrs. Fred Janes, who has our thanks for permitting us to give it to the old time friends and neighbors thru the columns of The News. The letter was written on the boat going 'to Prance and mailed after arrival there:Sunday, August 19, 1917. Dear Mother:—Will write tonight as 1 think that we will get there tomorrow afternoon and then there will not be much Chance to do any writing as we -will be very busy until after we leave the boat. I want to send this.back with some of the crew on this boat as -they say that you are not able to get anything by the censor at all.Left Philadelphia just two weeks ago today, but after we got a few miles .away something was broken! and they had to fix things up. The water was shallow in the river and the current turned the- boat into shallow. water and we were stuck. We finally got started again Monday morning and Tuesday morning we landed in New York. That is, waited out a ways in the harbor, was 8.30 that evening when the boat finally started- to move and turned to go out the bay. It was foggy all day and we could not see much of the city. Saw the Statue of Liberty.It was all lighted up in the evening.I was on guard Tuesday so that I saw land as long as there was any to see at all.- There are five boats with jUS. , There were two destroyers and. one cruiser with Us. I have been on guard every fourth day since then and so I am on guard today.There has been nothing exciting yet. Have not seen anything of. the much talked about submarines. There are several men on theMookout at all times for such things. There are eight large gups which are ready for action at all times. We have passed a few boats and met some on the way across. We were inet yesterday by six British destroyers to help es-dort us in.They have been pretty hard on us.We are crowded here and they have made us drill all the time that was possible. I guess we have scrubbed every place there is on the inside of this ship.- We have to go over the whole ship every Friday and have inspection by the commander every Saturday morning.I had a felon come lt;?n my finger the day that we left and it is almost well now. Had to have it lanced. We have been innoculated twice since we came on the boat. Once was last Sunday and it made me sick. I went to the hospital Monday morning and was there for. two days. It was the first one that had bothered me any at all.I made a mistake when I said that allotment started this month, as it was not supposed to be started until next month, so you will get the first $20 probably before you get this letter.We are wearing life preservers all the time now and have been for the last three days. We hope to be able to see land by tomorrow morning.We will all be glad to see land as it has been a tiresome trip. It has not been stormy and very few have been sick. It will probably be a long while before this letter reaches you. Don’t know how soon I will be able to write again as mail does not go very often.Hope you are all well and wish 1 could hear from you. I am feeling 20. Will write when I can.With love,EDDIS..—We landed yesterday as expected. There! was nothing to mar our trip across at all. The people here looked like they were glad to, see us. Have not had a chance to use my French yet, but hope to later.We drilled all morning by going on hike. We are still on the ship and don’t know how soon we will leavewhich I have a very good chance of getting into, because musicians are ; scarce.I’m glad I got in with the engineers because we have a better bunch of fellows, better barracks and we are getting our equipment quicker and are s treated better than the infantry men, 1 which includes foreign laborers, etc, ’ I heard of some of the Stark county 1 boys being assigned to machine gun squads and Roy Walker got in the 1 Quartermaster’s Department. iToday I had my physical examina- 1 tion, which was about the same as i at Toulon only my eyes tested better i probably on account of the rest.Everybody seems to be feeling fine i except for some fat guys who have ' been used to soft jobs and couldn’t lt;stand the morning exercises. The \ meals are very good, probably much c better than some get at home. Today ( at dinner we had fish or ham, potatoes, mixture of vegetables, soup, £ pudding, and hot chocolate. £The fellow who bunks next to me is from the University of Minnesota, J and a fine fellow; also two or three t boys in the company are from the ( University of Illinois. ,The camp is seven miles long an. { two and one-half miles wide in tho * widest place and from all reports is T the best in the north. I haven’t seen Des Moines, but most of the engineer boys ® are going down tomorrow night. I ‘ can’t go on account of my previous military training have been detailed for six hours guard duty for that evening vMost of the fellows like it so well b you couldn’t drive them home, and 0 don’t let any one try to tell you that Uncle Sam doesn’t treat the boys ^ well, because we engineers, at least a get the best of everything. cSHERMAN INGELS, eCompany A, 313th Engineers, Camr Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. tl_ tlt;James Ingels spent the day Sunday ^ in Toulon. j,Joshua Grant was a Peoria visitor Q Wednesday. .Ted Gibbs was a Galva caller Saturday evening.Mrs. Ted Gibbs and Mrs. Phil Kelly visited in Galva Friday. 11Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Gibson spent f£ Saturday evening in Galva.Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Plankael were Peoria visitors Wednesday. DDr. Hanna, of Peoria, was called to t£ see Mrs. Adolph Paul last week. 11Miss Marie Newman visited at her s home near Nekoma over Sunday. ^Mrs. Sarah Smith and daughter Mae r( visited relatives in Galva Thursday. al Mrs. A. N. Grant visited her daugh- P1 ter, Mrs. V. E. White, in Galva Wed- C1 nesday.Mr. and Mrs. Ed Paul and Miss Mar- n( garet Rae were Galva callers Satur- T 'day evening. alVictor White, of Galva, was a Sun- aI day guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. tl] A. H. White. loDr. and Mrs. Lupfer were recent al visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. P1 Dave Almgreen. ccH. Jackson and Mr. and Mrs. ^ Carl Almgreen were fair visitors in m Peoria Thursday. 0lMiss Barrett spent Saturday and a* Sunday at the home of her uncle, Mr. Beamer, near Toulon.Mrs. Hymen* DeWolf spent a few days last week at the home of her son Louis, southeast of town.The Primary and Intermediate rooms held a wienie roast in the Ingels timber Tuesday evening.Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Alldredge motored to Peoria Sunday morning, and ; took in the Implement Show.Mrs. G. K. Boggs left Tuesday evening for a visit with her .sister in Missouri and her son in Oklahoma.Miss Hilda Pragg spent the weekend at her home in Abingdon, returning to LaFayette Sunday evening.Miss Olive Hayes went to Peoria Saturday afternoon, returning with] , r. and Mrs. A. G. White in their car. Mrs. A. Pierce and little granddaughter, of Alta, arrived here Saturday for a visit with the latter’s sons.A nine and a half pound daughter came to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pierce Thursday, September !it.FBOar CAMP DODGE.September 21.Dear Folks—I arrived at camp about 3 o’clock a. m. in the same coach which we Stark county boys took at ,Toulon. We had the best coach of a train of twelve cars which assembled at Rock Island and also the best', bunch. of fellows. • Some on the other cars got drunk and so they all’had to stick on the train during the 5 or. 6 hours in Rock Island.They gave a good send off at different places and had good lunches served on the train. When we got to camp it was ..misting and chilly and some guys with the stiff collars would have given me a fortune for my flannel shirt. ,We were rushed to the registrars and ..assigned to . regiments. My 'construction experience at once passed me with' th'e engineers and being the only one out-of the cotmty, I was taken xto.^different, barracks and haven’t seen any Stark county boys since. •Dewey Lord,: otlt; Galva, made the engineers;' but he was assigned to the 2d'battallion; so we-were, parted after the first night. ;; Thenext day we were assigned' to. our companies and gi,en our, permanent equipment of two - good-blankets, mess kit, bunk Xcot yand 'mattress)',, etc.-I iot in Company A1-which is the' first company', of ithe,1st'hattallion and all fine •fellows land -wd! are', going to' make, ittheVcrack^company of the ^reghnent.Thij^dgiiSMt'pis'^dihifTp’fiaye'arfcand'• -j. ,Mrs. Ada Smalley and daughter , Jessie, of Galva, spent the day Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Sarah Smith.Mr. and Mrs. Donald Leitch spent the day Sunday with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Atherton, in Peoria.The Intermediate room are to have an honor roll. All pupils having £ per cent, or over, will have their names on the roll.Mr. and Mrs. David Almgreen are the proud parents of an eight pound daughter who came Monday, September 17, to gladden their home.Noah Dunfee left Saturday evening for Huntington, Virginia, where Mrs. Dunfee and little daughter have been visiting for the past two weeks.Lou Peterson, Gaar Ingels, Sam Jones, Harold Dickerson, V. H. Brown 1 and A. Nortman were visitors at the Implement Fair in Peoria Friday.Lost—Sunday afternoon, auto chime ■ whistle, between LaFayette and fair ground or on West Jersey road. Find- -er please phone at my expense.Roy States, LaFayette.William Janes left Sunday morning for Evanston where he will enter Northwestern University. Mrs. Janes accompanied him for a few days’ visit. ‘Miss Lucille Hull, who teaches the 1 third grade of the Toulon schools, • spent Sunday with Miss Kern at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Howell.Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Pierson left ' Monday morning • for Nora Springs, Iowa, where they will visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pier-son.Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Gelvin and i daughter Velma spent the day Sunday jn Peoria, returning with Mr. and •Mrs. j. H. White, who made the trip ! by auto.Mr. _and Mrs. Charles Gibbs and 1 daughter, Mary. Elizabeth, were over- Sunday guests of, Mrs. Gibbs’ par- : ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fahnstrom, near Victoria.
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Galva News
Galva, Illinois, US
Thu, Sep 27, 1917
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