Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 55, Hammond, Lake County, 11 January 1919 — Page 10

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Letters from Soldiers

Written to the Home Folk3 From This Side and the Other Side of the Water.

Fom Sergt. Walter Barman. . Somewhere In France, Nov. "4, 19', s. Ir Elsie and Ryne: i I received your latter today which ; you wrote me on October 31, and s.ir was glad to hear that you are ail well, j Tl.at Spanish lnf.uenxa must ha some ! sickness. I hear of 50 many cases I where our soldiers in the ramps fiver j tho States died from It. Well, so far j wa are all lucky in not getting it. j uit etUl it isn't too late to get It. I i sare hope It doesn't get over here, j Has brother John and Jack H. come hoir.e yet? I hear the government Is sending; all ! 'he troops home, that is. from tho ! 'amps Jn the States. "Well. I wondsr j

ITALIAN HERO MAY BE MADE SENATOR

'.f it is so. We are all doing- very little I work: waiting for orders. 1 bet. you I all went wild when the Germans sign- j rA the armistice and automatical!;" i did away with the kaiser avid the j Town prince. 1 heard they '::';' j the crown prince; they rammed a la - , onet in h'.rn and then hot h'm. His J own guards are the ones that k.r.ed j h:m. And the kaiser had frona to llvi- j

Isnd from what our paper reads. Well

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a-m'.stice. and still went on f.Khtincr

they surely co'ild r.et ha v.) he:

injch longer. They were driven a "' ; rery day. T am her on the front I Ht teen almost three months and ; I know. You ought to see all the am- j munition nd large guns they leav j very time the boys go over the top. i 1 am tn a email town named "Eanthe- , villa." which Is the ruins, and this j placa was taTten e!x different time by- tha French and British and sf.ll ! he Germane had taken it back every ! Ira. Prut when the first army was j, rut tn the battlefields they took it and ! many miles beyond. O.ir doughboys j onIdiVt catch them. The Germans j were retreating faster than our planes eourd follow. We are on the Verdun i fre-nt. General Pereiiinjf wanted the j hardest feent to fight on. So the Ver- j dun front was what was given to him. j W could see in all these towns what s...od beds and aniali stoves the Ger- . nans left behind, and they also had rarrels of beer they ha 5 to leave h- ; hind In their retreat. Our boys d'dn't j r.ct a chance to drink any of it but we j tr some dandy beds and small stove, j We got our plae fixed up fine until j ve more again, as we move quite of- j ter, and of course we couldn't carry

o'".r beds and stores. The civilians are

-e.ng- brought to their homes

these home:? are ell tn ruins. One

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rn and one-h(ilf miles from Tonger, in Belgium. We atajed et the Private House Jut soma of us luclcy ones, and they sure made a fuss over us. Thla Is a lovely town, as big as Erie, Ta. When we got to the border we were escorted by rutch soldiers to our , quarters. We stopped at a cafe in rurr. Wo were given our choice of ; some old Knglish cigarettes or tohar- ; o, and oh! it whs good. An officer . tame this evening and gave us some ' nior and some tooth powder and these ! two cards. In two or three days we i go io Kotteidam and there we take j t'ue boat to dear old l:lighty. We will

gei netv clothes there. I guess we sure need them So or.f; for now. best regards to all. T'ATKirK WILLIAMS.

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From Corporal Spilewski. j To Mrs. Mary SpielewaUl. 1103 HomerIce avenue. ! Telothe. France. ; Pecember 2. 101?. t Dear Mother:

Having for the first time for some time a chance to write you, as I have been on the go all the time, and still

I didn't get very far. hut as far as I d:d ?rt I am willing to turn back. I'm feeling good and getting along fairly well. France sure is a funny place. 7 wouldn't want to atav to be j the liitig of It, not saying: anything asair.st the place, but It's just the I way I feel now after tho war is over; nothing interesting any more, so that's j why we ere ready to go hack t th-3 good old V. P. A.. Well, how is every- j thing around home I hope well, and . maybe better since this war Is ended, i I saw many Germans that is the I

! prisoners, and they sure didn't look j good to n.e. They are nothing like : some of those nu'ii from the old conn- j try that used to say how good and i '. we'l trained the Geiman arm;- wa.

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j stop th Americans. The French used j o think thi sar.ie. for ti.at'f r.'hat a I French officr said when tho AmeriI cans were Just coming into France, i They usd to sav that the Au.ei icans

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Gabrieie d Annunrio.

Word comes from Rome, Italy, that Gabrieie d'Anmjnzio. authorflier, may be rnaae a senator. D'Annunzio wns feir.ous in literature before the war broke out. Though a man of middle ape he took up the fyir.e came and bv his darinc

hu. hijrhts and his messages helped spur . i his people on to victory.

mayor who was the mayor of a little j 0 jjdn't fi crack at them before town by the name of Villars. He had t!iey QUi;. i kr.ow how, soon . srnall book, taking ho-;se numbers j fncle 5am wlli start us home hu; I that were tn fairly good shape, and he know that when he does I have a long elso ahowed us his office after th ' ways to travel, about thirty-five davs Germans had entered it. Th place J 0n water. Will probably go back by way was all shot to pieces and his barn of Russia. Japan and Ilor.olula.

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toed fighters, and it didn't take long I i to end it when they did get here, and ' ! T sio want to tell you about s n-e of i

( trie houses !.cy have here. Tiny j would seem to last forei er. T stayed j 'n one at the rifi ranice that was al-

m--st 300 years old. Tlie people a'J t ! -.vcftr wooden r.h' s; food is high. Tli I ! j French are very kind. They will give j I i 'i anvth.ng they had. Tl.ey will j t .... . . .

c ' '. e vr i ail the v. i!,e vou wart to i t rtr'rk. b t who wants to drink 't. it , 's like vinegar, s.i it will be better t o j save tho Fran t il we get back to the V. i -had a lard time to find out how n-.uoh money I did have when f got r.; f.rst pay- We'.j, h s w-'.l he e:! I : e-iiain j our sen, COnr. ?T.M.F,Y P!I "FWSKI. Ccmpanv K, 530th Tnfantrj. A. P. O 7fi;. A. K K. via X. V.

Announcing Out Greatest January

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Beginning Monday, the 13th, and Continuing Two Weeks, Ending Saturday, the 25th

was also in ruins. I was oft today and I took my horse and went out riding to a town by the name of Dun. A fairly good slxed place, but it was well shot u-?. I could see all the German large cannon and caterpillar guns arid ail kinds of war materials. Every gun and wagon spoke that Is taken away from Germanay is wc'l camoufagefi. The kaiser was sure great on camouSaglnff its fighting materials. The third army is kept buy bringing in this "war material and also running them back to Germany. T guss by r.iw Germany has turned over all her

sucroarmes ana tn peace terms ate supposed to be signed December 6. j 191?. 80 !t is hard telling when w j will head for home. I hope It isn't! long, for I've got something to say. 1 that will surprise you all. I have nev- J r mentioned It in any of rr.v letters i for I wasn't allowed to. I've seen service on two different fronts, the first j

ese at St. Mihiel. We were laying rail. I could see the German shells bursting" en the hill ahead of us. Our artillery was behind us. Our artillery kept cn shooting and advancing all the 1m. This hill is what the French held twenty minutes and lost 40.000 men, but "when 'tir army took hold they took U so easy, just like taking a. piece of candy from a kid. Of course I didn't get a chance to see any dead Oermans at this time, but w-hen we eta.rteJ for the other front I saw hundreds cf dead Huns, in fact, I had to pick iom of them :p and lay them to one side !n order to build a grade to !iy our trarks cn. Before we started 'his drire ou officer said. "If our boys go over the top tonight we will couple vp our narrow guaga onto the German narrow guage." Well, of course our boys went over the top, so thn we connected our line, onto the German line, and from then cn is what we learned about the battlefield. I've be-en on the old original No Man ? Iind. The one hill is whore the French were. The next hill is whre the Germans were. Between the two hills is where No Man's T-And lays. The hill where the Germans were is called the 'Taniuax" mil or Hill No. 304 and on this hill one "whole end was mined by th .German. This hill is sure blown up. They killed 3.500 French. The Germans had more wire entanglements between these two hills than any place I've ever seen yet on the front. Hut when our f.rst army started the drive they went through it and never did s'op. A battlefield is an awful sight to see. I have been very lucky in not getting killed, for shells were dropping nearly all the time. I could write for twelve solid months and yet not ell you the things I have seen and went through. Has Bill Meisel been any where near the front? I hardly think so: I have only seen him once since being over here. I suppose it will be a Joke when you read this newspaper, but I thought T would fill one and send it to you. I got your picture and thought it fine. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Tear. I remain your brother. SERGT. WALTER BARMAN. Jd Battalion. Co. D, 2Id Kng. A. E. F., France, via New Tork. 'This letter was eent to his sister. Mrs. Renold Meisel, 420 Hicvkory s;., Hammond.)

Wishing tvery on luck arid Imping v.e meet, soon, I am your true friend. PVT. JOHN K. SLWARD. 6:h Co. C A. I). Manilla Fay. r. I.

From Pat Williams. An East Chicago boy, missing since October 1, ISIS. Card received by Joe Callahan, 710. H4th street. Eirt i'h!rA?0i Inri. -Maastnicht, H -Hand. Nov. 2). int. De3r J o e : Here we ete in Holland, rut it is not tulip time yet. We walked here this a. m.. r'i h t-e-n Vioniti r. or ele-

Fxparision drug sale at Summers Pharmacy. Jan. l"th to i'ili. Adv.

Hammond Iron & Metal Company MARCUS EROS., Props. Wholesale Dealers la IRON, METALS, RUBBER AND SECOND HAND MACHINERY Offices: 340 Indiana Ave. Yards Sohl Street and Indiana Av HAMMOND : INDIANA. Office Phone 'Z7. Res. Ph?ne 1044-R,

14 Days of Value Giving

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jWIONDAY morning at 8:30 begins the greatest sale in the history of our establishment. The unusual importance of this Clearance Sale is founded on one big reason -OVERLOAD-PID STOCKS. The continued warm weather and the "Flu" has caused our great stocks of winter merchandise to linaer--now thev must be "cleared" in one big effort our January Clearance Sale. To do this in the time allotcd for this event we realize that inducements must be very extraordinary; must be needed merchandise at the greatest possible reductions. Xow that cold "weather is at hand we feel that these money saving reductions will be most welcome. We have distributed circulars throughout the Calumet Itcgion giving in detail the hundreds of items on sale. Whether or not you receive one of these circulars, come to our store Monday for first choice. We have planned this sale for many -weeks, and "when items are sold out. other bargains of ' eiial value will replace them. Watch for further advertising in this newspaper.

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From the Philippines.

Fort Mills. P. T.. Nov. ig, 1?1S. Editor Timss: Jupt a few lines to thank you for the promptness in which I am receiving Thd Times, every boat that comes in always has four or five papers for me. I am sure kept wel posted on the home news and where the boys are at, thanks to you. I know everybody is harpy back there now. that the. war is over. We Euro wtrn a happy bunch when we got the r.s here. Ot:r only regret was that

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