Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1918 — SAM DUVALL IS MARRIED [ARTICLE]

SAM DUVALL IS MARRIED

HIS TRENCH WIFE WILL VISIT RENSSELAER NEXT WINTER. France, August 13, 1918. The Evening. Republican: — Your article came as a most unexpected but pleasant surprise to me m one of mother’s letters. It is impossible to express in words how much satisfaction one derives from an article like that, especially when it comes from the home paper and ■some one with whom I was so intimately associated in the past. I could not acknowledge your kind words sooner, as we were busily engaged following up the French army in its glorious advance. Our work during the offensive was most exciting and encouraging to our section as well as to the French “poilus” who fought for the great cause. The crack division that We are now attached to, better known as the “Blue Devils,” made eleven attacks in a fortnight, in which space of time we pushed the Huns back nearly thirty miles. Today is my twenty-fourth birthday and I am now entering my second year in the war, and as is ever the case, changes have been wrought in my course of life. I think that it is right that I should tell you . that I am a married man and leading the .quiet and peaceful life. My wife is a French girl Who was a prisoner in Germany for nearly two years, being liberated when the French troops stormed and recaptured the city ahe was obliged to remain in during that .period. She is leaving for the States sometime during this coming winter, and expects to be in ißensselaer with my parents for at least one month before her return to France, so I hope that you and the other good people in Rensselaer will show her the kindness that all Americans get over

here. I have become so attached to the French people and the “ciel bleu” de France that I will have few regrets to utter if I never return to the good old U. S. A., although I have every intention of doing so, as I owe it to my parents and friends, to at least pay one visit to my before settling down in France when the war is over. I am in the best aft health once more, and I sincerely hope letter finds you and your family in the same good health. I must close my letter now and it is with only one regret, that is that I haven’t succeeded in taking the kaiser a prisoner instead of one of his damned squareheads. Very Resp. yours,

SAMUEL O. DUVALL.