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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17,T11F, DAILYELKTON EX-SOLDIER| us were probably five hundred yards' they belonged Our wire patrol, iiow* away. Both their position and ours ever, two nurning* later found sev-lay on rising ground with a low eral pieces of their equipment which!iGIVES VIVID ACCOUNTFIRST BATTLE SCENESIn laiit week’s issue of the American legion Weekly appeared a smrv that should prove of interest 10 every resident of this section and especially every ex-service man who reads it It is the story of the first German (Hid against American troops on the night of Nov. 2, 11» 17. and is also a recital of the facts surrounding the death id the first thiee Ameii-can soldiers killed iu the War The story is doubly interesting to people of this section, since the author of the story is B Frank Coffman, assistant cashier of the Bank of Klk ton. Mr. Coffman was corporal of the squad of which two of the men killed were attached. He went overseas with the first troops to land in Fiance in lit 17 as a private inthe First Division loiter on he wascommissioned a second lieutenantand while acting as regimental adjutant of the 3r.tith Infant) on the night of Nov 10, I Ji IH was badly wounded by shell fin lie wears a French Fonrragere, a regimental decoration awarded the 16th Infantry for bravery and heroism under i fire, lie is an active membei of thelocal Dost of The American Legion 1 The Daily News-Record is reprinting the story In part as It appeared in The American Legion Weekly.valley betweenI was assigned to day trench pa-fro!, and all assignments being com I pleted by midnight retired with the five remaining men of my squad to a traverse dugout a short distancein the rear of the front line trench, j Four of the men and myself crawl-! ed into the dugout to get a little' sleep while the fifth was left on I guard at the entrcnee.All was quiet except for an oeca sional lat-tat tat from some nervous machine gunmr further down the line, or an inqui Hive Very light from the enemy trenches across th«*| valley. Slt;» lured on l»y exhaustion anda sense of safety, we wrapped our blankets around u.- and prepared for a tew hours of restful slumber False hope.At three o’clock in the morningthe Germans turned loose on outback tothey dropped on the rushtheir trenches.In checking up our casualties we found we had lost eleven mlt; n a* prisoners, had seven badly wounded and three killed. Twenty-one men, or practically fifty per cent of our platoon were eliminated for furthe: duty by that irst raid.HOW TODARKENGRAY HAIRA Cincinnati Barber Tells How toMake a Remedy for Gray Hair.*1.«comparatively small position what j the French observers afterwards de (more than forty yearsA well known lesident of Cincm i, Ohio, who lias been a bather fori en11\ made(B Frank Coffman)IScuttered throughout the land today are a few men on whose tabletsof memory the night of November 2.1017 Is Indelibly inscribed. Those men are the First Division survivors of Company F, Second Battalion.Sixteenth Infantry for it was on the night of November 2d, a little over four yesrs ago, that Company F wrote the opening chapter in a history of glorious achievement of w hich the First Division is Jealously proud.It was on that night that Company) the eyt F took over Its first front line posi- through the head bytlon, received Its baptism of fire, bore the brunt of the first German raid against our lines and lost the first American troops killed and cap-) found next tured In the World War.clared to he the most Intense bombardment thev had ever witnessed— twSixteen bafteno* of ninety *i\ mm\arynm in M/,e from one poundersto d\ inch. threv* over in forty-fiveminute s according to French v\\ mates, seveial thou-and shells Theonly thing that prevented out platoon from being emirelv wiped out was the fart that our trenches were deep and tin ground soft and muddywith no loo*e stones.After the shelling had lasted three quarters of an hour the range was suddenly lifted in a halt circle box barrage m our rear to prevent our support* from coming up. and two hundred and forty* Bavarians, tin* widely adveitised cut throats of tin*tier in an Arni. hopped down on us The first raid on American troops was in full swing They had (raw ledup to our wiie under cover of their barrage aud the moment if lifted were right on top of us.Corporal (Iresharu was standing in a dugout entrance when a man in an American unifoim came running by and said tlt;3 him, “Who are you?’* to which Crehatn replied. “An American. don’t shoot ” The man replied,“You are the one I'm looking for.and immediately shot him throughPrivate Hay was also shota man In a dark uniform whom he thought was oneof his own comradesThe body of Private Knright wasmix(he following statementA n x one ran pr« pa r ** a simplet u re a t h one. at v er lit » dst, f hatwill darken g:a\ hair, and make 11 sot t and glossy To .1 h A pint ofwater add I ounce of ha mm. a-mall box of Barbu Compound and Aoil !|i e (»t g 1 V (’( i lie Tilt - ingredle 111 ■ can be bon.iht at utiv drug **ore at \er little co t Apply to the hair (woe a w*ek until the desired shade is obtained This will make a gta\ hail ed pin son look twenty years vounger li i- uo\ to u*e. do*** noteohu f lu* mo t del lea t e *-lt; a ip. is notand does not rubi*st irk\off• »or grea* Ad \DEATH OF AT T?FANTDavid Franklin infant son ot Mi and Mrs Heimau Atchison. living four miles south of Broadwa. died \ esterday afternoon of erysipelas at ter an Him ■ss of him* work The lt;hildwas bo*n November 26, ot last yearBesides its parents the infant ilt;survived by one little sister, Mabel Funeral services will l»e conducted from the home this afternoon at 1 30 o’clock by the Ret. H B. Alexander, pastor of the Methodist Church Interment will be at New Krection.morning on top of theDr. A S Hamack, Dayton, left yesterday lor Washington where he willentm a hospital for treatment.parapet. He had evidently been cap A»bout the three men killed. Cor-) tured and. refusing to accompany hi-poral Jumea Gresham and Privatee Thomas Knright and Merle D. Hay, a number of articles have been written. The writer, however, who wi corporal of the aquad to which Enright and 'Hay were attached believesthis story will lift the curtain on _the actual happenings of that uiein-j bayonet wound:orable night.Receiving ordeis to relieve the First Battalion the Second left Demange on October B 01h. W’e were hauled up to Valhey in trucka, from which point we hiked on foot to Bath I lemont, where on the evening of No-1captors put up a hard fight before he was killed, a.- the ground was torn up and trampled down for someTHE STA-KLENE STOREtdistance around his body. His throat had been cut from ear to ear, and his ohe*t ripped open. The medical officer a 1st) reported finding twelvein hia body.The Germans retired after a period of probably fifteen minutes carrying all their dead and wounded, and eleven of our men as prisoners In eluding Platoon Sergeant Edgar M, Halyburton and Corporal Mulhall. They cleaned the trench ofFRESH STRAWBERRIESNice large Berries Per Quart 75 cents.Iceberg and Florida LettucePer Head 12 V4 to30cFLORIDA GREEN BEANSBor II). 25 rent*.lbs.*2 % lbs. to theFRESH SPINACHPer lb 2 5 rentslt; lallon.?everyvember 1st we met the First Batta-' P»©ce of our equipment they could lion coming out of the lines. Noth-I lay their hands on, and left none of ing happened especially during their; their behind us evidence of the unit turn In the trenches the sector REFRESH CAULIFLOWERPer lh. 20 cents.TXiIng up to its French reputation of being perfectly quiet, although the fellows tried to kid us with a lot of cock-and-bull stories of the things that would happen to us Little did they dream how true their predictions would he.We remained all night in Bathle-inont ami prepared all day of the.2d for our entrance into the lines that night. Darkness came early, and by five o'clock we were r«*ady to start, each man loaded down with extra ammunition and equipment weighing probably a hundred poundsIt was pitch-dark and raining hard. With French guides to lead us we started In Over broken duck-boards jand shattered trenches half filled with water we stumbled along through the mud and darkness, finally reaching our position af ten o' clock It had taken us just five hoursto hike that one mile.The first platoon of Company P. consisting of forty-six men includingfour extra automatic riflemen iromthe fourth platoon was assigned to the company front position 'Ibis position was about one hundred yards wide The Grrman lines iu front ofFor Colds, Grip or Influenzaand as a Preventive, take Laxative BROMO QUININE Tablets The gen-llne hears the signature of FT W.Grove.Heads weigh about 2FRESH CELERYPet lb. 2 2 (cntslh30c.(Be sure you get BROMO ) Adv.Green Peppers. Cabbage, Sweet Potatoes.Log Cabin Table SyrupSmall size p« r can 25c. 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Daily News-Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Tue, Jan 17, 1922
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