Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 16, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1918 — Page 3

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MAY COME TO FT. HARRISON A Washington dispatch says: “Returning home on the transport George Washington, which sailed t’rort France December 15, the war department announced today, are the 1.19th field artillery, batteries A. B. D and E and headquarters company of the 137th. field artillery, thirty-five officers of the 138th field artillery and a E number of casuals. Some Indiana troops are included in these batt, ri . Casuals are also returning on ;li steamers Saxonia. which gib ■! it

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cember 14: Moccasin, which sail’d December 15; and Heredia, Cartage, ISixacla and Bellatrix. December Id. ’■ There are about 4,000 officers and men on the seven ships. Senator New - i has been trying for some time to have 11 these two regiments mustered out at 1 Ft. Harrison and he has attempted ■ previously to get Gen. March, chief . of staff, to consent to that arrange- ( ment. General March took the mat- , ter under advisement but no additional word has been heard from him. Bo.rwwrM XV inru Ads Pa?

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MANY HARDSHIPS Attended the Life of a Soldier— Lifting Censorship Allows TELLING OF DETAILS Corporal 11. Stults Writes Home to His Father, James I). Stults. Probably the only letter of Its kinj, thus far, telling in detail of the hardships undergone by the boys at the , front, the days of inarching with lini|lted food, the long periods in the trenches without relief--was the one received by James D. Stluts, custodian of the court house, from his son, Corporal Charles H. Stults, as follows: Somewhere in France,

November 24, 1918 Dear Dad: This day is Sunday and we are .supposed to write a letter to our fathers, and it will not lie censored, so I will tell you where I have been and do not destroy the letter because 1 want you to keep it and let all the folks read it if they like. 1 know you will, and if Teresa comes down leave her road it. Now, I will start it when we got on the boat at New York, and we thought we had it hard in the states but there' was a place that we did not know how nice we had it. And every move we made it got a little worse. We got on a boat so crowded that you could, hardly find room to lay down to sleep, that is stretched out. We slept under tables, and in hammocks, fastened up to the railing. They ware so close together that they would not even swing, only all would move to gether with the whole boat; others slept in the stairways. When it came to eating they did' not feed us good. It was very poor food and was not cooked well. When we landed we were very hungry. We filled up on nuts and fruits, when we got off of the boat, that we bought ourselves from the no good English. They did their very best to rob us. ■ We landed in Liverpool, England, got on a train there and went to Winchester. I will not tell you any-j thing about the train ride but I will' when I come home. We reached Wln--1 Chester and stayed there for a couple ■ of weeks. A piece of bread and one • piece of bacon for breakfast and ju.it 1 about the same with the rest of the ’ meals. And dad believe me when I 3 left there I was hungry enough to eat f a whole pig myself. From Winchester 1 we went to South Hampton and got f on a boat; crossed the channel and ■ landed in Havre, France, a very nig ’ place. And that trip on the boat we ‘ could not lay down at night because • we hardly had room to stand. But ft only lasted ono night. We went from Havre to a little town named O. P. Air. and there we slept in stables, sheds and everything. Now maybe I do not spell the names of these places right but that is the nearest I can come to them. They are pronounced something like it. We stayed in 0. P. Air for a few weeks and we began to get feed betj ter there. When we left there we went to La Brest in trucks and we were loaded in them the same way as on the boat. We slept in fields at night and carried our grub with us. ' There were about 500 trucks in the string and when we got there we had about one inch of dust all over us. We did not know each other. We stayed at La Brest a couple of weeks and from there we started for t.ie i front. Now when we stayed in these ■places we drilled very hard every day. From La Brest we went to a place up in a forest about ten miles backof the lines, a place at La Locket. We stayed there and we could hear the big guns and them we began to think. Dad, the worst thing on earth is when they shell you and those big shells burst. I cannot tell you how terrible it is but when I come home I can tell you better. We left La. Locket and started for the trenches.; Wo got lost and went to the wrong place and marched all that, day and night and the next day without anything to eat. We came back from the place we started. Now dad, this is when it began to lie very very hard. Wo started to the trenches again and got there this, time. It was raining, just pouring down and we had mud and water up' to our knees and that is not a 11“.■ We got in them all o. k. and every- 1 thing waA nice' and quiet. But we could not change our clothes' because that was a thing of the past then. We got very cold but kept up the, best we could. The first battle, dad, I never can!

toll you tho fooling. You cannot hold | your knees still and no man on earth ever did in tho first liatth* if ho tells the truth. The same night, or 'be ’text morning it started. The big shells begun to light, the machine guns began, the rille grenades, trench mortars and everything. Dad, I will never forget. I guess no one else will. But dad. the infantry gets iho benefit of it ail. They put it right at . him and it is the hardest brunch of all the services. We stayed here in I the trenches 31 days without a relief, not even our shoos off once. But ■ ono shell saved my lite. It knocked me out of where I was, and when I got up and went back to my place it was riddled with machine gun bullets. ■ Now 1 got out of there without n scratch and never had one. 1 could tell you a lot. more but I am just giving you an outline and when I come i home 1 will tell you all. I We got out of the trenches and hiked for two nights and two days without even one rest or any sleep. We were going to a rest camp, but when we got there we drilled very hard again. This time we slept In j any old place but we were out of range of the big guns. We stayed |

there for a couple of weeks and then iwe started out fighting again. One meal a day and hike all day with a full field pack, and sleep in the fields and woods at. night. We kept going and pretty soon we began to hear the same noise. And dad, that feeling when you are going into it. 1 saw dead along the sides of the roads, fields and eve - y where. They were Germans. Some whole, some in small pieces, and some in halves; some partly buried and turned all kinds of colors. We kept going. We had a terrible hard time catching up with them because the Yanks were sure making their heels smoke. But we finally did. Then it was our turn to chase them awhile.' We never left them stop once. But I we did not have anything to eat for three days. We went so fast that our one meal a day never caught up with us. We slept at night in shell holes, ; and mud and water. We were relieved oft of the front ■ three days before the armistice was; signed. We were up by Verdun and Metz and in the next couple of days the boys took Sedan. We drove them within 15 or 20 miles from their territory. Then we came back. Hiked 'all the way and now I have a pass and you can see the town in the l>ook , I sent you. It is Chaniberry. When I ’

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i —-.- GIVEN BIG MNB f 1 I Mrs. Arcana Umphress Lan- | dis Awarded $2,125.83 H for Damages ( | 'll AGAINST TRACTION CO. § I F Marion, Bluffton & Eastern I Traction Line — JuryOut All Night. Mrs. Arcana Umphress Landis, of Huntington, was awarded $2,125.83 against the Marion, Bluffton & Eastern Traction company, for personal injuries sustained June G, 1915. when the automobile In which she and her husband. John Umphress, and four others were riding in Huntington county, was struck by a traction car The loss of an eye was one of the ; injuries sustained by Mrs. Umphress, who. since tho beginning of the suit, I has remarried. The case was venued here from Huntington county and has been on trial in the Adams circuit court since last Tuesday. The case went to the jury yesterday afternoon at 3:25. At five o’clock this morning they returned a sealed verdict, which was delivered into court at nine o’clock by the foreman. Marion Andrews. I left the company they still had 15 days to hike and then they would stop I will tell you all when I cone home. Corp. CHARLES 11. STULTS Company 1, 52nd Infantry, American Expeditionary F. I A CARD OF THANKS AND APPRECIATION.' Since I have recovered pass that was lost recently, through the add in I the Democrat of December 20th, I wish to express my sincere thanks ; and gratitude to the parties being so ■ kind to make it possible to save me trouble and also for the quick results effected by the Democrat paper. Yours very truly, D. W. BbGHMAN. Home made saner kraut at Fullenkamp’s. The finest on the market. 297t.3 mE’Lrtvei cn tc’LPiic’ir’n n=i r-n ™ i n= , i r

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