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JOHN CARROLL,
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WM. J. FUNKEY, JR.
Vice Chairman, East Chicago
LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS
From Milan Stiles.
France. Auf. 5. 1918.
Uy Dear Mr. Smslley;
Tour card received that you sent me
hi!o you were at Atlantic City and was
very glad to hear from you.
I Inn you hail some tin;,- there and I
wisii tnat 1 onum nave i.-en there an.
enjoyed some of ti:v f;ui too.
1 would like to km.w it' they did any
thing at the convention about opening a
club house over h re for the boys. I
know that every placa I have been all
the Klks I have run into have been very
enthusiastic about something of that
kind being started over here.
At the place 1 am now there are six
of us that are Klks and out of lfiO men
that Is a pretty lair perocnta ge. One of
the boys wa- a stat" committeeman from
his heme lodge at tSalohburg. 111.
Well. I have been over a lot of France
since I hit tho country and there are
some, wonderful places to see. You do
not pee frame houses; ail of them are
rtone, and If they were built a hundred
years ago the natives vvtll t e! I you that
it is a modern place. "Well, taking that
Morroecan laborers and taey are some
for an example, everything Is likv thai.
However, a person n' r.-r gets through
peeing things of interest, r.o matter whit
parts of Franco he goes to.
I have had the very good fortune in
have, spent about three weeks In Paris
and that was an education In Itself. I
think. I could write you a book on the
things I saw if I had the time. I am
saving most of this for the time when
I get home and then I will have some
thin? to talk about for a lng time.
At the present I am with a bunch rf
birds too. believe me. We have some
funny things happen and it Is a problem
n . times to keep mem all straight, go;
the work out of them, and kep them in
good humor. So far we have gotten
p.Iony very well with them. I am flcins
the. clerical work for the outfit and I
wish you could see the names of them
as they appear on th payroll. Their
name give their life history. For ex
ample this Is pn of their names: Mo-
named ben I.achene ben Madjouh. Some
monicker to carry around, don't you
think. Tf you nsk them v. h. n they were
horn they will tell you that it was the
year of the big rain or the year their
grandfatehr died. "Well, if you can fig
ure back from that you do more than
we can.
There la one thlnj that I would like
to tee over her that so far we have no
had enough to talk about, and that is
summer. They do not seem to have
summers here like we do in the States
I am wearing the same clothes I did n!'.
winter and do not find them uncomfort
able.
Well. Mr. Smalley. I will close for this
time. Give my regards to Bertha and
Bee. Hore this finds all of you in the
same health that I am for I feel fine
and dandy all the time.
As ever your friend,
MILAN.
Sergeant M. A. Stiles,
G. P. A. Labor Bureau.
A. L. Co. (QMC) No. 104.
A. E. F., France. A. P. O. No. 717.
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From Ben Tekip.
Somewhere in France. Aug
Received Spt 8th.
Dear Aunt:
My last long letter to you was on the
15th of July and I suppose you ere
wondering what all has happened that
I harly know where to start, let alone
tell all that has happened. When I
wrote to you last I was feeling pretty
happy at the prospect of being relieved
so I will start about there in my letfr
After finishing your letter I folded
it nicely end put it In my pocket of
co.irse and started out to another bat
talion to repair a few move tvpewrit
er?. 'While I was there the order came
to move and I piled right in with one
of the compani"? thinking- wa wr
going t- be relie-ed. Happy Is no
name for It. The truck wouldn't hold
me so I climbed on top of the machine,
put a cigaret In my mouth, stuck my
hat on the side of my head say! I
felt as though I owned the world. The
French people cheered us along: th
way and the V. M. C. A. pave ue some
chocolate! say cousin. I Telt as though
I won the last battle myself.
About midnight I got s;eepy end
three of us went to sleep on the can
vass roof of the tru-k. Sure fine sleep
Ins but toward morning- the machine
passed over a bump and wo were rud'ly
awakened by the truck caving in and of
course we caught hell fr -m the ser
geant, and to my great surprise we
were traveling toward the lines Instead
of away from them. Finally It dawned
upon us that possibly we might be go
ing into another battle instead of to a
rest camp, and we eure did go into
another battle.
We did a bunch of hiking that would
make en army rr.ule lame for life, and
took all honors from the camel f. r
going without water. As fir eats and
f.Wj the less said tho letter.
What we went through, you wouldn't
believe, nor me either, a year ago. but
we are so fioggoned proud of it that
we must bra a bit about it. Well,
anywav, as soon es I found out what
was going to happen, I couldn't resist
the temptation to go "over the top."
so T forgot all ab-ut repair in sr bn-.t
to Ht.mlfiuarters. Sh sure was one
Stand 1 tt' battl" and I'm still whole,
s . 1 will toll you as much as th censor
wi'l let me.
It was going to b open warfare, so
after doing a bit of pusyfooting. get
ting up to Fritz's playground, we duck
ed down In a wheat field to wait for
daylight and the fun to commence. I
sat looking at my watch and at the
s?t minute BANG! and the battle was
on. I was In th first wave and saw
q-tlte & bit of it- M hen those Fritzies
saw us coming vp went a rocket of
five red stars, which was a signal f'-r
heir barrage I gues. oec.v.sse w ?
caught hll right there. mm i saw-
that barrage tearing "p the landscape
over across the wheatfield. they looked
as thick as hail stones and 1 said to
myself, "Goodbye Tek what kind or
flowers do you prefer?" Fit Lord,
child, when we got Into it there wts
all kinds of room to spare, anyway I
didn't crowd any of the big shells, not
a bit. While we were in the nvddle o.
th barrage I head someone yelling
and I looked around to see if It was
the commander giving orders. an 1
there was a damphol soldier singing at
the top of his voice, shooting Bis gun
as fast as he could load it and having
the time of his young life. Funniest
thing you ever saw. Anyway after we
got through the b-.t-r.Tge we felt n let
ef ier because it was easy snilin.sr from
there; nothing to bother us but a few
irtel thing? like marh;n guns. r;Ms.
grnnndes and Fritzie.
From there on I couldn't give an ac
curate description if I had to. of nil
that took place. I remember we circled
a machine gun and after w- captured
it with a bunch of prisoners. I went
tearing u? and grabbed their canteen?
awav frm them trying to fir.d a little
witor. but ail hey had was .1 dirty
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The Flavor Lasts
colored water that was supposed to be'
coffee, but I wouldn't irink it. So w
went on. I: was one machine gun n'-t
after ano'h-r with a few snipers and
torn? artili-'-y thrown in fir variety.
I p-uess ou have lead in t'.ie papers
what we captured and how far we
went. I cn't tell you what battle it
was and how far we went, but you can
figure it out that it w-s no back yard
skirmish but the bige.-st of the season.
I'll tell you one little incident in
which I thought of you. We captured
a small town and as we came up to
the stone wall the line split and circled,
r and a friend ? mine bappen-d to be
right rear a hol in the wall that was
made i.v a s'r.'il. so we sr..-:iked in.
thinking that we might tir.d so.no -,ri
hiding. Wh.ie we wore sr.eaK.nc along
doir.fr this sleuth ait we heard a noise
in nr. ft of tho dUgOUtS. The dugout
had a turn right near the er.trano
ar.d we couldn't see very far. We hol
lered. "Come out" in four languages
Fnglish, French. German and rrofane
but narry a sound came from "Mi-
Fritz. I suppose I should have sworn
bow brave I am and went down and
drneeed tl..-m out by the cars, h
t ,ii.,n't All we ."ii.I was c a .-n tap e
irren.ide in o ir tin derbies and tr
them in. While we were waiting f
them to go off, 1 thought or mat in'-e
pieee you sent lite
"I tossed a homo into the air.
It came to earth right over there;
And when that little bomb it fell
A do-on Fritt' s wont t illell)."
Those Fritzie? don't go to v.-U on ac
count of that turn, but the;- sure
h.tnged their m'.nd about staying In
the dug v. it. Tb.ev poured eu- s- 'a"
..i couldn't nmn' th'-m. AV lined
them against the wall and it was sure
a nice oMrh. eighteen men ar.d one
officer. After we took abort every
thing they had for souvenirs, except
their underwear, we sent them back.
I copped the officer's trench knife and
I am sure I wish I could send it home
It sure Is a dandv and all decorated up
with n silver tassel.
Ar.d what do yew think of this fo
now. After we cot back to this
ramp I f cind out that Ty Cobb and a
couple of the old Montana boys were
In the battle too. They are In the
sam division as I am in but not th
same regiment, and yesterday some
more of the boys came to this regi
ment and one of my best friends wa
assigned to my copy. Isn't that fine?
I'll enclose a piece of Fritz's monev
now and stop before the censor
at the lenrrtn
Receive your copy oi the circular we sent out
telling about the Wyoming-Thornton Oil Co? It's
worth reading and worth YOUR while.
Our shares are pretty well sold. The price ad
vances to $1.00 per share after Tuesday, Sept. 24.
Our stockholders consist of some of the best busi
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this time.
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the same va'u as a Fran- :r ,
Germany. I have some more left that j
T .,..T tr. snend soon. t
Yn-" "old veteran" cousin.
P. F.N.
Please note They can't 1"P a good
man down; I am now corporal.
P. A. Tekip.
Co. I. !th Infantry.
An-, ji.-an Fxp. Forres.
France.
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