Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 12, 1918, Page 6

THURSDAY, SEPT. 12, 1918 en royte to Ames, Iowa, to resume | at their former home at Pella, Ja.} his. studies at his college. Mr. Mr. Hagens will then go on to New) ~ | im LIKE T0 BE BAGK WITH THE GANG FOR JUST | AFEW MINUTES, BUT THAT'S ALL, SAYS FIGHTER rgeani Walls War to Old Friends at the Standard wes actually as red as blood could make it. Iyguess the eels had many a good feed off ‘those sauerkrout eat- e HaHa! But maybe an eel on't like the taste of sauerkraut. Altho we are fighting under Gen- eral Foch,who is in supreme com-} mand of all the armies here, we have own General Pershing who is the t and best fighter of us all and t here on the job to see that very American fighter gets-a square! 1 and if he could have an inde- W. W. Slack, the new editor of the Press, has returned from a business Hageys will accompany his nephew | York City and Richmond, Va., to at-| visit in Cheyenne where he attended east’ the latter part of this week or|tend the stockholders’ meeting of the|the Democratic State~Central Com- the first of next and they will visit |Glenrock Ooil company. |mittee meeting. Writes of boys could have found protection by for a happy soldier's life in France falling back, but as the lieutenant) but nevertheless they are a mighty said, they did not have sense enough fine body of men as a ole and be afraid—or was it just plain when the time comes to work they pendent army of his own of say 5,-! Yankee grit? I think from what I/are just as clever as any that have 000,000 fighters he would make some have seen that it was just grit, that’s y of these European war lords green 1 AM HERE TO STAY all o have witnessed some of the liest fighting on the western front still call it a “jolly life” is the it in which Sergeant Oscar Walls, nerly of Casper, writes to his nds at the Standard refinery from n a shell shattered village near firing line. ergeant Walls was in the regular y before coming to Casper, then tt to Mexico with General Persh- s Expeditionary force. At the creak of the war with Germany geant Walls helped to organize apany L at Casper and left with t unit for the training camp, be- transferred later to the head- rters company of the 148th field ery, A. E. F. ‘ergeant Walls, as might be de- ed from his letter, has been thru baptism of fire, and his letter, ch is unusually interesting, fol- s in full: if 4 ts Aug. 8, 1918. wr Old Gang:: is I have just a few moments to self I will try to let you all know t I am still all O. K. I am ina e shell-torn village in France. ‘re are only those here, who wear unift The Germans held it > a short time ago until we drove m out. There are perhaps a hun- d houses here but each tile roof been torn practically away by apnel and but few of the houses e not had a shell thru their walls some place or other. We used to e a little First Aid Dressing Sta- 1 down the street but since the n got the habit of shelling the mn about twice a day, why, they ved away. dy before yesterday I saw several fights. One fellow caught on + while several hundred feet bove ground and sure made some it as he came down. \ good many of our boys are »ping in little shllow graves or ll holes. But nevertheless we are ving the Hun back. Our infantry Those few lads would have held that hill regardless of the odds or as in this case went down in action. The French and Italians are gai ing heart and are fighting like dev The Hun is very careful and ve clever and is not whipped as yet, but our American boys are just plain bull dogs with a hold that they won't ¢ let loose until they are completely licked. But few of our men have been taken prisoner. The American soldier fears the worse than death—not that he knows he might get thru it all easy enough, but it is considered a dishonor, and many a man has made his escape after actually being strong-armed and surprised; and many such have brought back information of a very valuable nature. My regiment has smashed several holes in the German lines and if the fates of war are good a little while longer we will give them some more of the same dope. With all the hardships this is a jolly life. Our men are all fine fel- lows, who, when the day’s work is over, join in little groups with songs and jokes, only we do not have the camp fires of olden times because |camp fires bring aerial bombs down on one’s head. The Red Cross is the soldiers’ ever ready friend, all the way from giving aid to those who are hurt to handing {out cigarettes to the powder-grimed soldier on returning from action. And boys they give—they do not sell to the American soldier. And even here, where men grow hard and cal- lous in a day, the Red Cross still tenders with cheerful words and kind greetings, and many times have I seen the Red Cross worker place a cigarette or piece of candy between the lips of those who were wounded |and with cheerful, gentle treatment —brace the ones that were hurt for the ordeal of the ambulance ride to |the rear and the hospital. The Y. M. C. A. is also here to German prison ; on jump old timers ad in the work of th 3 reason why is simple, because they come here with the full intention of doing their best d'in many cases y have gone ‘ht on up for com- with envy because he is just as clever any of them and I honestly be- eve down in my heart that he could take a loyal army and lick these Germans ina short time. But the grand old General Foch is above re- 1 E use we need ity ach, only I would love to see Gen- don’t care which v t 1 Pershing take an American army when we go into ac into Berlin ahead of all the rest. | » National Army man is just as| Well boys, I must say good bye. ard a fighter as any. In the past I| Best luck and best wishes to you all: rather sore at some of them but | I uld like to come down to the old I take my hat of to them and | Receiving house this evening for just e them a kind /a little chat, but only for the evening word as they are entitled to it. I am yery happy and very The Germans are just as mean as ted to be with the A. E. F. in| ever and will do anything. When-/ France. ever they leave a town they loot and Good bye. From destroy everything in the line of TIP. household goods; break big expe es | sive mirrors, stick bayonets thru| Money to loan on everything. The pictures of the house onwers and in| Security Loan Co., Room 4 Kimball fact destroy everything, They snipe | Bldg. 9-11-tf off our Red Cross workers who are + * «© } non-combatant and their air ma- Patrick Sullivan returned yester- chines chase our ambulances with|day from Cheyenne where he has! machine guns. But all they can do/|been spending several days. He will only makes the Yankee boy that leave Friday for New York City on much madder. They devise all kinds business in connection’ with the of schemes, but so far we have hea Fourth Liberty Loan campaign. ed them off ere they did any dam- ~ oe age. One instance was where they isguised as French Red Cross work- ers with letters, and in the place of carrying wounded, they carried ma- chine guns and ammunition so _ar- ranged as to look like wounded cov-|tending to business matters for the ered with. blankets. Carter Oil company. | And everything leads us to believe 9 ae that they have and are carrying Henry Grimes has returned to Cas- | women with them, possibly captives. per from Rawlins where he is now lo- In one place we mad 1rprise cated. Mr. Grimes has been. identi- capture and found se French fied with various sheep interests in Mail us your Liberty Bonds, high- est prices paid. The Security Loan Co., Room 4, Kimball Bldg. 9-11-tf ** «* Scott Loveland is in Riverton at- women whom they had kept and as/the past. soon as the women could, they gate Ponies us information that possibly saved/j;-,7-¢ -Spig equity ‘p wooy ‘09 many a Yank’s life. The Kaiser is said to have made? the remark that on the sixth of this month that he was going to surprise the world’ and I can hardly figure js what it will be. But one thing sure, if he is not careful he is very apt to uvoy AyINIeg By, “pied seord 48a -ysry ‘spuog Ayzoqry ano sn [ley | ei Dr. F. H. Welty of Dubois, Wyo., | siting in Casper for a few days. Bin Bier 3 s Marguerite Bishop who has lines in America. HARRY, FREE I still have some very good lots for sale on the Installent Plan. _There is not one owner of a lot that I sold but what is satisfied. If you are in the market for a HOME, we can fill the order. If you are in need of FIRE INSURANCE we handle one of the best old Don’t fail to give us a trial, as we try to treat the public right. eet his surprise turned into defeat been one of the popular members of for himself. And maybe he has got . the Webel Commercial company’s to produce because we have called | force for some time has resigned to | the bet and are only waiting for him) accept a position in the ready-to- to show his hand. wear denartment of the Richards and I have very reason to believe Cunningham store. ‘that our mén can outfight the best, + * of the/Gerthan troops, because some| of the Crown Prince’s prize troops have been forced back by our men The Germans started this drive and supreme and many a Hun has bit| sell to those who have money to buy, dust. We put a new life into this but our government commissary sells * in the last few weeks and the cheaper than they. Our food is first ‘man is now being very much an- class and we have clothes enough for ved by those Americans who he at| our needs. It is only when the Hun time ignored. |shells our lines of communication \ captive German lieutenant was|that the men in the front line go ed how he liked the American/hungry. 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