Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 26, 1918, Page 3

caTURDAY, OCT. 26, 1918 _ HELL f SCAR Byron West of NIFUSES LIBERAL QUOTA AND DESTRUCTION BUT LOCAL OFFIGER STILL SURVIVES Dumm in Blighty with Fair Share of Wounds Prematurely Received in, Great Battle Verdun Lieutenant Byron Dumm, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Dumm of North Pin the latest circum pefore he jcled in “ | with a machine-gun ! ine street and brother of Mrs. William J. Bailey, is Casper fighter to enter “blighty”’ and the peculiar nstances of the near tragedy which befel! him shortly was to go into action on the Verdun front are chron- a letter just received by Mrs. Bailey. Lieutenant Dumm PATTEN Hin fe | For County and Prosecut- | : of Me js connected i {plane came over and I saw hi vt : ri snlisted while attending | , am st unit, MviOhio and received his train-|'two observation balloons on firy. ing Attorney scho %, . . ;. ing at Camp Atay Lay cial Men eseaped in parachutes—all but ~ Tjeat. R. T. Kemp istaid ep with gent overseas aS couiitlount one—his nevér opened, ay it caught a severe attack of yellow jaundice gil be interesting oO jon fire. at his home on Park avenue. friends here R At 5:30 p. m. bulance f Bere eric: ed Cross, Pp. an ambulance from 3 i i <4 suaae Sept. 29, 1918, | another division got some of us and Sixteen more cases of the “Fin” | a : ze | 800K aa! to thie! first Hospital, '* Tha Sere reported. yesterday, and, there Dear Folk 64 ote a @| was two kilometers south of /vo-|8ré Still more to come, according to | cn ad this it is more z TS - sou f Avo. ’ — If you Bs rot heed to.do better |court, which is 12 kilometers west of the doctors, Today, however, there | than I can do, Verdun. Read all about it in the ‘ thot to be a slight let-up, and pos- as | proceed. +, os you ive pea} paves: \sibly the cases will decrease from esent, 5 _At the Lge writipg with my| Golly, I sure hate this. I did not "°W er eee B ably Sam ; my other is a Vetel@et to see a bit of the battle and gE. F.M ree left the weather. But I will come! it is one of the U. S. biggest yet. lb ripsahe ser th Bc ee aly Rie o , ; What I came for I missed. pattem Reckten ce ve hip ke pa - bn to tha Was laid out for 14 hours waitin, Fae he ee eee as at school when you last! ay Visit the Lusk fields bef i “Epa me and I have had ab-| for ambulance, then at 9 that night a ee otra ae de beta ely no Op) w from school September 15.) Went as far as Epinal and stayed two days trying to locate our divi- sion. Had a fine time—some city. | An air raid one night caused a lot of; hotel girls to cry—of course we had} Lots of fun all the sol to quiet them. 4 From there we went to Nancy, where a military police drafted us| into his service, and we stayed there} U four days by his command raiding “muff” joints, and it was an expe- rience 1 wouldn’t have missed for anything. | We then went out and after look: | ing around located the ~ division} camped in the woods, It was wet, raining awfully, and so close to the! front that we could hear the “beau- |} roup” guns. The first night we had! five gas alarms. One shell lit 100) yards from us that did no damage. But you cannot imagine how it feels; to be in the dark and wonder show | long you'll have to wear friend gas mask, We got ready; my, how I wish I could tell you about it, and the night of the 25-26 we moved up. at was awfully exciting—big guns “Were belching right by us as we tramped | with the mules and machine guns thru mud almost ankle deep. I met a friend of mine along the road—he | wished me “good luck.” “Nuf sed.’"! We got to where the roads were more impassable and mud deep. pains was waiting for the zero our, We’ pulled up along by a_ hill, where a lot of dugouts were—and | waited—and that is some word. At 11 o'clock a regular hell started | from our guns in the direction we just left. The shells crack wher they leave the guns, then again when they go over your head; you can hear | the whine from the time it leaves the gun until it lands in Germany. : The whole horizon around us. was a hell of flashes, After being in that place for a few moments—it was at 2 a. m—the Germans opened on us. Then our artillery got stronger. ‘Then something did break loose, We Just got over that road in time, for Jerry started shelling it and did so until noon next day... That is when! our hill felt good. The Captain -and we lieutenants went into a dugout, and T went out to get candles from a saddle-bag on one of the-horses. This Was 2:45 a, m., 26th Sept. . As I Went out the trench from the dugout 1 saw light, Heaven, Hell, and Ho- boken, all in one, for a German high explosive lit 10 feet in front of me, fot knocked Pack against the boned bounced on the other side, aa ot knocked off, and mud, horse- “i and human, and rocks, lit in ny face and over my clothes all at ome Still being on-my feet I ed, not gracefully, to the dug- out, and the 0 th men looked me oyer. id nk goodness I had big hob-| Nat shoes on—and big feet-—so I cod up when the shell lit, | “Dearlal Big bruise on right lex| rocks, 1 ci Probably from shell or btacy : Left leg,, same. New pants secu in them four inches long, Seratet oe leg slightly above knee. under noo, ht eye. Small scratch | for Atha my mustache ruined as inch os for awhile! One hole half’ rig oh diameter half inch deep in oes 24, one inch anterior to angle, niece at bother my eating. | Small let it bs rock in left eye. Doe Says | thru right for a couple of davs. Hole | or tay \ wrist caused either by shel! Course 9. Ck Size of fair-sized pea outlee between both bones. Ne trons a lodged 1% centimeters above went “ide of arm 8% inches Te bee: Monday. —Sei writing. After that ad °ctor gave me first aid and 1 proof ttl’ & mile to, French shell- i) dugout, where I sat by the fire. fy art of cold and nervous, | ‘Those ¢ sure fine. It was, . (kitchen), and hot Monto at TI there ah 18 a nine hours, shells prides des portunity to write, We! got to a base where I was x-rayed! and etherized and pieces taken out of arm: Woke at 3 a. m. féeling fine and hungry. We 14 officers were the happiest guys you ever saw. Nurse gave one major. castor oil. Next morning came in and asked him how ‘he was. He casually remarked, “Well, physically, I'm running a lit- tle behind. That was at Fleurry. In the af- ternoon got on a big hospital train and rode until 7 next night and we are here at Pougues-les-Eaux, near Nevers. American officers. Good eats, fine beds, pretty nurses, plenty to smake, good friends. Boy in same room who has machine gun bullet thru hand was at Camp Stanley with me in same platoon there. Doctor operates on eye tomorrow. Bandage will be on only one day. Very simple. Second dressing of arm! in | upper side of arm 2%. inches long % | inch deep and about inch wide—but | ee not as painful as fitbt. | Hole Miss Marie Mitchell, formerly sten- ographer for the Bell-Price company, | n. We want them all, and can fix up will leave tonight for Denver where she will spend some time on a busi- nss and pleasure trip. - + * Mrs. C. P_ Soule, proprietress of the Gem Waffle Kitchen, is visiting her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Riggle, in Seattle. She will re- turn about the first of November: * = 2 See Ben. “A Look Means 2 Lot.” Old hotel taken over for jt will heal and leave hardly any} scar. Got nice shave, dress up tomorrow. all happy, feel fine. Send mail te same address, Will be sent from central P. O. at my request. Good- night. O, yes, I got the letters from Mary ‘and two from you, also eight others. [F certainly spent a fine half day. Came right before the attack. Write often, I will also. BYRON DUMM. Lovingly, The Man for Auditor I. C, JEFFERIS IS QUALIFIED FOR ONE OF THE IMPOR- TANT STATE OFFICES | | For the past twelve years—1905 to 1919—the people of | Weston county have been regularly returning Mr. I. C. Jefferis | to Cheyenne to represent them in our state legislative halls, which proves his worth,and points to his being a man whose public record is strong and as being one worthy of being ad- vanced at this time. Mr. Jefferis is a gentleman of quiet demeanor, but who bears up strong under acquaintanceship, impressing you as to his many qualities and inspifting confidence as to his worth to serve 4 causé which represents the interests of others, and e great commonwealth. He has had a varied business career, but success has always been the result of his efforts. He is qualified in every way for the position he seeks and is the man entitled to succeed Robert B. Forsyth as state auditor. . Mr. Jefferis was born,in Chester county, Pa., 1863. He “CROSS COUNTRY ° “MAIL SERVICE NOW IN EFFECT End of War Will Furnish Men and Matérials for Great Ex- tension of Service, WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Cros |country operation of mail : na | motor trucks, tried out by the post- office department on an cexperi- mental but nevertheless \ during the last year, has been a great pstic cess. | assistant | found that one truck route between Philadelphia and Washington, cutting chiefly thru territory without direct | rail connection and costing $800 per month to operate, has in eight months developed a De- clares Director hig -sea James 5. Blakslee, fourch postmaster general. has revenue of $16,000) EO. E. LILLY FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR) ALLIED LEADERS Sem, (NDIFFERENT TO FIRE AT FRONT Admiration of Belgian Soldiers Aroused by Nonchalant At- titude of King and French Premier LONDON, Oct. 25—King Albert of | Belgium and Premier Clemenceau of France were apparently so indiffer: ent to shell fire to which they were exposed while the Premier was risit- ing the Belgian front recently as to arouse the admiration of the Belgian soldiers. One of them describes the incident thus: “The scene is laid among the ruins of a part of the Belgitn front daily shattered by shells, bornbé; or serial | torpedoes. In the street parallel to shows one ton of traffic each way | each 24 hours. atletic meet at Colombes, Saare, U. S. A., broke the world’s monthly. moved during the first month, no Seventy lines now operate over the country, all but one east of the Mississippi, and there are visions of a system which will furnish $360,- 000,000 annually in revenue for’road construction or other purposes. “Why, General Pershing has 9,000 Another route, into Wash- | | ington, where 28 parcels a day were trucks damaged or ruined over on| the other side,” said Mr. Blakeslee telling of the growth of the system. “T don’t care what condition they are in dput every one of them ‘to wort. What's even more important, he | got some boys over there shy a hand, or an arm, or a leg, and we can use them all too, in good work at good pay, that they can do. Congress gave us $360,000 to work with, and if we had the earnings of the lines themselves, we could expand almost ndefinitely. As it is, $9,000,000 will be requested by the division for next year, and I think it will be ap- oropriated. are doing. “Operating at night is the most »rofitable, and we have but two ma- nail service allowing almost, to be taken. zome rain, storm, or anything, and so | neer. the traffic develops. 320 2 ton, surplus revenues. luce the money to build them. There are some economies in distribution of oroduce that are simply: amazing. It gas added an entirely new factor to sranscontinental transportation, and ve shall just begin finding it. out! when more extensive operation goes nto effect years.”" al Just why Mr. Blakeslee see it that way can be understood from just one tommodity price list. now in Washington at 17 cents a quart. Milk is coming in on mail trucks direct to consumers for 10 cents a quart. Naturally the trucks are being weighed down with five- gallon cans as consumers learn of the possibility. The trucks tap milk-pro- lucing territory that is outside the asual hauling lines, and off the rail arteries. “‘Where’ll the roads come from to run 9,000 trucks” he ask: “Well, shere are 66,000 rural ma coutes being operated in the United States now. Sometimes TI think| averyone of them would make a truck tine. Food is being handled 10 tines on its wey to a consumer. We can tut that to five. “Watching these figures, since D: zember, when we started, has give me a new sort of inspiration. We thall be moving the mails and the nails will include a whole unexpect- ed variety of things in new modes be- fore the generation finishé. Air- planes for the thousand mile dis- ances, trains for the 500-mile, and srucks for the 250. That’s about the schedule.” | Viaybe Fie Explains That “Peace Retreat” ‘ PARIS, (By United Press iy 7 Oct. 1. (By Mail.) —If the | Germans ever see this story, they will probably begin moving their trenches back further from the American outposts. Recently at an Private | record for throwing the hand-gre- | rade. engaged in the mercantile business very early in life, staying the \¢ a eompeny, of Denver, with that occupation until the year 1902, when the call of the | from Riverton where He heaved the grenade just 289 feet and 2 inches. > R. R. Cosper. electrical engineer for Albert Sechrist Manufacturing returned today he closed the West came to him and he decided to move to Newcastle, Wyo.,| contract for the electric fixtures for where he is at present identified with the same large cattle |the new Teton Hotel The Kent- completed, will be one of the finest, Bissel Co. is one of the largest cattle companies doing business in the State, company of which he shortly became manager. in the state and has been incorporated since 1884, Mr. Jefferis has been identified with the banking business of Newcastle for a number of years, being at present vice-presi- ent of the Weston County Bank of Newcastle. He is also Security | Kimball. Ride, terested in the mercantile life of Newcastle, being treasurer of the Neweastle Drug Co. He was mayer of the eity for one term; member of the House of Representatives of Wyoming. from 1906 to 1912, member of the state senate from 1911 to1919 and was vice president of the senate in 1913. He will prove a valuable member of Mr. Carey's cabinet. —Advertisement. | which, when ve ne List your property with us. The Loan Company, Room 4. 1 tf | MISS ANDERSON Piano 127 N. Durbin Phone 971R People realize what we during the next two! Milk retails | and star/| | NALTER YOGKEL Engineer in Employ of Casper Di- vision, C. & N. W:, Succumbs Walter L. 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William Harris, Contractor, Telephome 271J selina iG | the church a little group of persons lare walking. lseems to be guiding a civilian and | some French officers. , General wandering leisurely up and down answering questions and giving explanations to his guests. dug-out we soldiers watch with cu- rio: A tall khaki figure It is a Belgian From our y. ‘Suddenly a whistle, an explosion, land a burst of smoke but thirty yards from the visitors. Not one of them will be taken on the Sunday morning took any notice. Another Northwestern train to Fremont, Ne-! quite near. It falls The Belgian General, the be | civilian and their suite have not turn- ed their heads, merely continue their walk as slowly as before. While the | fire continues, the visitors are getting nearer our dug-out and we stand at attention “The Belgian General is King Al M. Clemanceaz.” oe Liberty Bonds wanted. 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