Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1918 — WOUNDED IN ACTION AT FRONT [ARTICLE]

WOUNDED IN ACTION AT FRONT

Dwight F. Damson, Former Jaaper County Boy Dies From Effects The following article relative to the death of Dwight F. Damson, a former Jasper county boy, is taken »from the Thursday, December 5, issue of the Little River Monitor, Little River, Kansas: “This part of Rice county was saddened about two'*w%fcitß wheh a cablegram announced that Dwight F. Lamson, son of Charles E. Lamson, had been wounded in France about the middle <of September, then shocked and grieved to hear last Thursday evening that he had died in a base hospital October 30. Dwight was born in Goodland, Indana, September 3, 1891, and was 27 years, one month and 27 days old at the time of his death. His father brought him to Rice county in 1897, Where he spent his summer vacation but lived with his aunt, Mrs. Ella Snodgrass, in Manhattan, during the school term and attended school there two years. He then made his permanent home with his father and here completed the common school in his home district and took three years training in the Little River high school. He was a member of the Methodist church, the Sunday school and the Epworth league in Lttle River, and for several mon,ths before he entered the army he was greatly interested in the different lines of church work. He often told his pastor that he wanted to do something to help someone, and last January he handed him $lO with which to send, ten Epworth Heralds to ten soldiers for a year. He also bought twelve little red chairs for the Beginners’ department of the Sunday school. He gave away a number of bibles and made other gifts to religious and charitable work. Dwight entrained for Camp Funston April 28, 1918, where he was inducted into the service of his country. On the 24th of May he left for Camp Mills, New York, from which place he embarked for France about the first of June. He was wounded in action in the right shoulder by a gunshot, and after he had undergone two operations he passed away at base hospital No. 28. The Methodist service flag in Little River contains one red cross and thir-ty-four stars, the majority ;of which are red, indicating service overseas. But in the center of this beautiful flag, that is more precious to the members and friends of the church than earthly wealth, is a golden star for- Dwight F. Lamson. This community has donated liberally to the Y. M. C. A., Red Cross and other war charities, and “gone oyer the top” with every loan, but Dwight has made the supreme sacrifice, beyond which there can be no greater. To his father, aunts and cousins, who were crushed by that last cablegram from France, we commend the words of Shelley engraved on the monument over the grave of Keats, in the cemetery at Rome:

“Peace, peace, not dead, he doth not sleep, t* He hath awakened from the dream of Ife; ■ . ’Tis we, who, lost in stormy visions, keep 4,-_ With phantoms an unprofitable strife.” J. E. Lamson, of this city, and C. E. Lamson are cousins.

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