Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 285, Decatur, Adams County, 5 December 1918 — Page 2

THE WINE PRESS The Juice from Grapes in France is Pressed Out » With the Feet. SAYS ATTOS YOST Boys Kissed Good Old U. S. Money When They Saw It—Newsy Letter. The folowing letter was received by Nova Yost, of Pleasant Mills, from her brother in France: Somewhere in France. Sept. 22. Dearest Sis and All: —Will drop yon

a few lines and see if yon will write to me. I have written mother a dozen letters, and have not received a letter. The boys here have been Retting letters that were sent twentyfirst of August, and 1 can't see why I don’t get some mail. Now when you write me be sure and put on enough stamps so it will get here, tor I sure would like to find out how you all are and how the crops are: also what you are all doing. Well, we gout our pay the other day, and sure was glad for it. The twentieth of September 1 was made corporal, and will get $39.60 a month now That will help out a little. We have moved again, near a town about half as large as Decatur. We sleep in a stone barn, and think it a very nice place. Well. 1 am not going to write very much tonight, as I don’t t’eel very good. I have a touch of the grip, but will be better in a few days. Will close for this time, and will say hello; also send my very best wishes to all. Your brother, ATTOS. Co. G. 153 Inf. 39th Div. A. B. F. A. I’. O. No. 904. via New York Attos Yost, son of Mrs. Sam Yo-r, writes to his sister, from France: Oct. 11. 1918 Dear Sister: I received your letter the other day and was sure glad to hear from you also glad to get the two fives. Dga’i need it now as I've been paid since 1 came over here but will keep it for safety. Tell Calvin I sure thank him for the money and if 1 met death over here mother can pay him back but hope she won’t need too. but we can never tell. Say. it sure seemed fine to see U. S. money. I showed it to the boys: they took it and fe.'t of it and then kissed it and said “Oh. boy, won't it be nice when we get back to the good states where they use this kind of money.” We get. ten • cents more on a dollar than we did in the states so don't let anyone tell you we don't get all of our money. We are working seven days cut of a. week but the work is not hard. I was over to see Roy Steele last night. He is just fine and expects to leave there soon. 1 am the only Indiana boy in Co. G. the other boys went to the front and are going through the Huns like a blue streak. Don't know when I will go but when I am tailed and get there T sure will do* my best. It is hard to tell what I would di if I could see some one I knew back home, not that I am lonesome but yon know how I mean. You don't kn >w how much good it did me to get yonr two letters so write often but if you are too busy, one a week will do. Must close as 1 want to write a few words to mother and the rest. With love. ATTOS. Dear Mother: I will write you a few words to tell you I am feeling fine. Was glad to get vonr letter and glad Mary ml Leia wrote to tne. Tell them to write often. You said you couldn't find me on the picture I sent you from* Camp Beauregard. I am there just as plain as the nose on a man's face.* I am standing off to myself with a pick in my hand acting as if I wanted to hit something. Will close for I want to write to the kids yet. From your son. Dear Leia:—How is my little sister? Hope you are as cheerful as the day I left for that's the only way tc be. To a happy State? from a happy, t roth er. I Dear Mary: -How are you? 1 am anxious to hoar from you so write and send me all vou know and more too.’ * i Dear Brother: —Well how is broih-, er and how are the lonely girls? Just wish I was there lo hei|; you enter-] tain them. I haven't I en with a girl since I left the U. S. 1 would like to be there to help you with the coin That would just suit me for the e cool mornings just seeju like corn cuttint' time. but. I'll no there to help < you next fall. Will dose. Yonr brother. Dear Oscar:—Am sending you e French postal- I have seen all theje

luihlinjf*. Some nf rhetii are twelve' hundred old Will tell you I more about them When 1 coma horn*. Good-bye and gootl luck to all. Another letter was also received tiy his folks dated Oct. 26. saying that he is well and has not as yet been called to the front. — 4 111 J 1 " r " Stop Itching Eczema I Never mind how often you have tried and failed, you can stop burning, itching eczema quickly by applying a little zemo furnished by any druggist for 35c. Extra large bottle, SI.OO. Healing begins the moment zemo is applied. In a short time usually every trace of eczema, tetter, pi npies, rash, blackheads and similar skin diseases will be removed. For clearing the skm and making it vigorously healthy, always use zemo. the penetrating, antiseptic liquid. It is not a greasy salve and it does not stain. When others fail it is the one dependable treat inent for skin troubles of all kinds. The E. W. Rose Co.. Cleveland, 0.

CLAD TO GET OFF George Liniger Enjoyed the Trip Across But the Sight of Land WAS PRETTY GOOD Pull Eatables by Hand Two Miles from Town to Camp—Writes Home. George Liniger tells of life at the front in the following letter to his mother. Mrs. Ben Liniger: France. Oct. 19. 191 1 ' Dear Mother and AU: Will now take the tme to write yet a little about our tlip over 1 sent yon a letter when we left New York. I guess you got it all right We surely had a fine trip over here hut I guess we were all glad to get off of the boat when we got here for it was nearly two weeks that we couldn’t see land or any thing. We had about two days and two nights of storm on our wav but none of us seemed to mind it very much. 1 never even got sea sick and was feeing fine all the way. We are in a little camp close to where we got off the boat but we wil only be here a day or two longer then we will go some where else, of course I don't know where, or corid not tell you if 1 did know. It has ra.n ed about every day since we haze been here, but never very hard. Toe weather is quite a bit cooler here th; n it was when we left New York. We got here about a week ago hut T never had a chance to write before. We are about two miles from town anti we have to pull all our eatables by band. We slept in the little shelter tents that we carry with us. until last night when we moved in some old barracks about a half mile from where we had been staying but I guess we will eave here tonight or tomorrow. I think after we get settled down on. •. we will have a better chance to write. 1 think we will go to some other training camp. Wo haven't done anything since we have been here. I haven't seen hardly any of France yet but there sure is a lot of difference between this place and old Indiana. About all the buildings you see are I * I built, of stone and they all look oil. They say the, barracks that we are staying in are over a hundred years old. They are Napolion's old army barracks. The people are all poor and it looks like they have went through some pretty tough times. We don't see hardly and men and' those we do see are crippled or wounded from being in war. It looks tough to see them. i We are not any ways near the front now and I guess the closer we get , the worse it will look. The fields you see here are not over about a half ’acre or an acre and all have got a -tone fence around them. It seems * odd to what they are at home. ■ Did you get that card about, arriving safe over here? We wrote them before we left New York and they | kept them there until we landed here [and then sent them. As far as the war is concerned. 1 don't know any more about it here than you do at home, but I guess they are going after the Germans good and strong . now. I think before a year from now we will all be hack. We arc not allowed to tell where we are at or very 'much of anything in regards to the army. All our mail is censored ami of course all of your mail will be too. | Well. I guess I will have to close for this time. Will write again us sooon as I get a chance, so if you 'only bra'' from me about once or twic ea month, don't worry about me for I am alright and feeling fine. Will close for this time with love to all My address is— Pvt. GEORGE LINIGER. 114 Am. Tn.. Ord. Dep*. American Ex. Forces. |

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WAI BACK HOME In Old Indiana Looks Good to HarLey VV. Ward, a Soldier Abroad, A GOOD LETTER r - I . I I Just Recovering from the ! Mumps — Peace Makes Them All Feel Good. t . B ’ Mrs. James Ward received the. fol--1 lowing letter from one of her sous, Harley W. Ward: Laßaule S. O. S„ B. 8. No. 1 i Camp Hospital. No. 91 , A. M. P. O. No. 701 Dear Mother and All: Will write you a few lines to let you know I am all O. K. except that lam just getting over the mumps. 1 have been in the hospital for 8 days now. just got up today for the first. Will go back to our own hospital in a few days. Well mother. I expect you people feel pretty good since, the war is over. You can't feel any better than we do though. Just to think that the war i nearly over and we may spend New Years at home. It maxes us feel s.) good we couldn't stay sick if they wanted us to. And if we don't get back by New Years we are most sure of getting back by March. So you see it won't be very long till 1 can be back in old Indiana again, and believe mo if I ever get back it will take 49 teams of horses to pull me out again. Although ! would not take all the money in the world for my experience It is going to be the making of me mother and not only me, but thousands of young men who were running astray when they were back home. 1 can see things so much plain er now than I could when I was home. 1 have seen things in this war that makes one shiver to think about. ! did not know* there were such people ever living, people who are ruined for life: young mon who it would bring shame upon to get married and have children. But mother, you can be pioud that you have sons that, are not that way. sons who can cone home aS pure and clean as when they left. Love and kisses to all. Your son. HARLEY W. WARD PRIMITIVE WAYS Are Those of the French Says Charley Wise— Strange Ways. GRAPES MAIN PRODUCT Women Do All the Work— Men Either Killed or in the Army. - Charles Wise, son of Mr. and Mi-. ‘-Louis Wise, who is a cook in the army, and recently went across seas, i writes from France to his relatives i 1 here: Somewhere in France November 4. 191 S Dear Sister: I have at last found time to write I you a few lines to let you know that I ' arrived safe’y here and am now eni joying the sights of Frame. I am feeling fine and Lope that this 1 letter finds you the same. The last I week or so. has been rainy and damp t but today the sun is shining bright t and it has warmed up considerably. i France is very much behind the s'times and it seems very strangs to us fellows to see these people doing - things about the farms the same as. Jour forefathers did a hundred years /.ago. The soil is very fertile and is ’.very productive and the farms alJ though only a few acres in size arc z.well kept up; Their roads are like but this can be attributed s ( to the lack of heavy trucks and autot mobiles. They travel entirely 1 v r horse and a two-wheeled wagon. | Grapes are the main product lure - as these people drink wine as we (Io ■] water. The women do all the work I here as the men hive either beeq . killed or else they are in the army. ■I We have seen hundreds of German ; prisoners since wi have been here am! i*they vary from eighteen to forty-five • years in age. ■ Turkey has quit and we got word ! today that Austria was ready to !: y down anus and I guess it won't be long before the Germans will be wanting the Americans to sutek arms aud submit terms to them. 1 sure world I enjoy seeing the kaiser uii iut u n le

hands of the Americans before he could have tlnm to lay down. Well sis. I guess I will have to close' for this time as it is getting late aud I will have to crawl in for a good night's snooze before the bugles wake me up early tomorrow morning. Be' sure and write me for you can't mid-, erst.md how anxious us fellows ate; to get letters from home and they are as much prized as pay-day in the army. Hoping this finds you all w. 11 and hoping to see you all before many more months I will close, with love, as ever Your brother, CHARLEY WISE Bakery Co. No. 303. American E. A. I’. O. No. 82S, via N. Y. packingrabbits for SHIPMENT TO MARKET. Washington, D. Dec. s—Larges—Large numbers of the rabbits received at city markets are being condemned by health authorities on account of spoilage through improper packing for shipment, according to reports to the, V. S. department of agriculture. The exact percentage of rabbits condemned as not known, but in one shipment recently received at Washington.; D. C„ consisting of eighty rabbits, packed in a box, al but five were con demned. On the day this shipment was received rabbits were selling for $1 each on the Washington market. I The unusually wark weather that has prevailed for several weeks, together! with improper packing for shipment, is held responsible for the loss of a great portion of this food. During warm weather, particurly if the trip] to market is long, rabbits cannot be! kept in suitable condition unless! packed in ice. say specialists of the U. S. department of agriculture. The shipper should be careful, if the rabbits are not packed in ice. not to pack them while they are wet. nor should the layers in the package be divided by paper or other packong. as such layers of packing prevent proper ventilation. No matter what method of packing is used, the intestines should: be drawn from rabbits as soon as they are killed. If this is done and the shippink containers are properly iced or ventilated, and the quickest available means of transportation is used, much of the waste now occurring can be prevented. o HERE i» • re~,euy taot wm euie i ao •calp troubles. Ecrenu. Barbers Itch. Itch. Cv> and Sores.* Why wsste time and money when B 0, Ointment is an ointment ot real merit? As; sour druggist, i> nst handk .-l send 50 cents to tb> 3. B. Ointment Cc„ 217 Monroe stracs Fbirwtwt. Indiana-

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HISTORIC PLACE Harry Parr’s Company is Quartered in an Old Monastery in France. BEAUTIFUL SCENES Buildings Over Five Hundred Years Old —Has a French Mustauche. Harry Parr, one of the Company A boys, who recently went across seas, writes to his mother, Mrs. John W. I*arr and family as follows: Somewhere in Frame November 2, 1918 Dear Mother and All: Will take advantage of the opportunity in dropping you a few lines to leave you know I am in good heal'h and sure feeling line. In tile past week we have beeu located in a very nice place also very historic and very pretty In appearance. We are quartered in an old Monastry and the surrounding coenItry certainly is wonderful. Now you i must remember the monastry' occu I pies quite a large spaco and the gardens and all the buildings are most beautiful to observe from a distance. We are told this place was considerled an old town before America was ] discovered and some of the buildings are over 500 years in age. But in appearance they seem to be very new and modern in all ways. We have been through several of the old buildings and believe me it sure is some sight to see the modern yet very old forms of architectiure standing. Well, 1 suppose you received the card saying we arrived safely over 'here, and 1 haven't had time to receive any mail from heme yet although I received a letter from Ida today so I answered righ’ away. Say. I never have received any pi - tures of you folks since my enli tnient and 1 sure would like to have some. Tell sister to take some, pictures of you and Fred with my camera and have them developed for 1 sure want one at liAast of each one‘of you. And that is what the camera is for, i'o use. Also 1 want a picture of Gej ne«e and Kenneth and Dolly for 1

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! — would give most anything to see those kids especially Genese. I expect she is quite large now, is she not. and as cute as ever . Well. Mother, you wouldn't know me now if you saw me for I am fleshy, . feeling fine and worst of all have ■ adopted the French stlye of growing • a mustache, ha. But I am not lonesome for several of the boys have i adopted the same dope and it all ■ goes in the game. Jint what is Fred doing now? Toil him to write once in a while at least. Well. I hardly know what to write so I will wait until I hear from

s you before writing any more. > ing to hear from you soon. 1 remain, t Your loving sou and brother. Corp. HARRY PARR ■ American E. FL Bat. A. 139th F. A. via New York. o I >pm<»crat W anw Ads Pa? HILOfcEN fi Should not be “dosed” for colds—apply the 'outelde’* treatment— T ~6odv<u'3.raJ : 1 NEW PRICES — ZCc, CCc, $1.23