Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1918 — Page 3

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NOTICE TO PUBLIC As I have offered my service to the government to assist in the fight Hie epiUeu.il ui umui'liiu ... the east, and am subject to call any day, all those knowing themselves indebted to me will please call and settle promptly, as 1 have bills which must be met before leaving. 229t3 DR. W. E. SMITH.

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PLEASE CALL AND SETTLE i As I have been summoned to Boston hurriedly to aid the government in fighting the Spanish influenza epidemic, 1 will appreciate it if those owing me will call at my home, South Second street and settle their account with Mrs. Miller, as soon as possible? 23246 DR. J. M. MILLER.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1918

A CHARMED LIFE Seems to he the Portion of the Boys in Active Service Says DR. JONES’ LETTER Peasant Class Go On With Farming Under Muzzle of the Guns. Captain I). J). Jones, lately engaged in tho practice of medicine at Berne, writes to his motlher, Mrs. Mary Jones, of Wren, 0., front Erance: in France, A. C. No. 357, 315th San. Tr. Aug. 29th, 1918, A. E. F. My Dear Mother: Will drop you a few lines this p. m. before dark. We are having very nice weather here at present. Get’s ft little warm in the daytime, but the nights are very cool. Am sleeping better since coming to the mountains than 1 have since the early days at Fort Riley. It seems as if I can sleep twelve hours out of the twenty-four. A few hundred years of this kind of living for men I think according to the laws of evolution, we would devtl cpe. eyes similar to tho owl. Our daylight vision would become a thing of the past. You read much in the papers how things are done here. , Many of the newspaper articles rem*nd me of a story that 1 heard related a number of years ago at a medical society in Chicago. In one of the European universities, there was a prize offered for the best essay on the camel. To make the story right an Englishman, a German, and a Frenchman were contenders for the reward. Was also told to illustrate the different characteristics of the different countries. To procure material for their writing, each putsued the methods peculiar to their nationality. The Germrn goes to the library, digs up all the old musty books he can find, relating to the camel, and with a stein of beer on one hand io stimulate his thought apparatus, a large pipe and a gourd of the weed on the other, to sooth his troubled spirit, proceeds to write his desertation on the camel. The Frenchman, on a beautiful afternoon seeks out. his best girl and takes a stroll down to the zoo. sees the camel, [tats his hump, smells his Ireath and takes a short ride on his back, then proceeds, with his story. Tho Englishman goes at it in a different manner. He buys a ticket to Cairo, Egypt, joins a ca-avan of camels, where he traveled with the camel w <h <h-»<■;) mol ;iml «l»nt <> iiS the camel. In other words, at the end o’ the allotted period for the essay to be submitted, he had some first hand Information relating to the | camel. Many of your newspaper writers know as much about the war as the Hun would about the camel, many others like the Frenchman, have seen it only in the zoo, some very few correspondents, have seen it as the Englishman saw the camel, traveled with it, slept with it and ate with it It is a gi’eat life, as long as there as action, you do not hear any one complaining and wishing it was over. These complaints never come from active men. It comes only when they have been held in camp several days with nothing to do. The fighter sees as much facination about the battle as the gamble does a game of cards, or the baseball fan sees in a good game of ball. It does not seem possible that men, who a few months ago would turn pale at the sight of a bleeding finger, would now joke and laugh when in the midst of dead and dying, with shot, shell and poisonous gasses falling all around. Vet such is not an unusual occurrence. You have read and heard of curious freaks of a Kansas cyclone. Well, when it comes to freaks a cyclone has nothing whatever on a high explosive shell. A charmed life seems to be the portion of some. Things go here with the peasant class almost as war did not exist. Today I saw a man plowing right up under the muzzle of the big guns, getting ready to sew wheat. A shell falling in his field, unless it was close by would probably not disturb him in the least. The -shelling is unusually done at intervals. Should a number fall in the course of a half hour, he would unhitch his team and go home like we would in the states if, it should come up a rain. Tomorrow possibly a shell will not fall on his patch at all, some other battery will bo the object of their aims. So it has been going on for over four years, but they keep right on with tut one thought in mind and that they are going to win sooner or later.

My Dear Mother

It Is now threshing time. In this

ectlon every farmer, bonstsi his own I threshing outfit. Today has been -i , little rainy, so nearly every barn in this village has Its thre her going. Stilus have horse power, but many tre run by hand. It is run through a sort of a machine, not much unlike a cylinder of a cream m-parator. The ,-traw is raked out anti bound up again In bundles. The chaff and gtain Is run through a, fanning mill not much unlike the old windmill at home. It .eems like a crude way of getting bread for nearly seventy million peo-J lie, yet with enough threshing machines it can be done. j In this war game there is one little thing that is particularly galling I to all officers. That is in the pur- I chase of clothing and equipment. I We -.vero given a list of articles, that I wo MUST have, before we would lie I allowed to leave the states. Just al few days before embarking we had I to sign a certificate, that we had com- I piled with such an order, relative to I equipment. At tho prices we had to I pay, some spent several hundred dol- I lars on equipment. An officer was al- I lowed two hundred and fifty pounds I Ixirgage, when leaving tho U. S. A. I He could not very well get what he j was required to have within the limit I Now we had to abandon everything down to about fifty pounds. Mattress, blankets, underclothes, extra suits, overcoat, trunk locker, all gone by the Ixtard. All a dead loss. If some of those swivel chair artists, wore to spend a few hours with the camels, instead of following the Teutonic | style of getting inormation, it would,l save American officers thousands of dollars and a great deal of inconveniences. If this question was taken tip with the proper authorities it would mean much to those officers that are to follow. Well mother, I must close for this time hoping that you aro all well. Am feeling fine and able to go with the best, of them, in fact am usually the last man to bed and the-first one ip, of the officers of the organization. The lift to date would be much worse ; Tell the brothers and sisters that i’.ie letters to you will have to answer for' all of them as my time is pretty well, taken up and there is nothing that I, can write about that would Ire of | t’lnch interest to them, other than j we are on our way. No letters yet from you except, these you wrote about the time I left the states. DAILEY. Cc.pt. D. D. Jones, M. R. C„ Amb. Co. No. 357, 315th San. Tr., A. P. O. 770, American E. F.

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POSTPONED A telegram received this morning from the special representative who was to have been here tomorrow, says he has been called home on account of a death in his family and his visit to Decatur has been therefor postponed until one week later. He will be here on SATURDAY, OCTOBER IZTH We are very sorry for this unavoidable postponement. E. F. GASS . . STORE .OF.QUALITY

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