The West Virginian. [volume], April 24, 1918, Page PAGE 2, Image 2

About The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974

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Po**lr?kA flnneo ffftirs ftnct/in
If!! Lad Tell of His Exper- j
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^ j;-: iences in the War.
^ MISER SOT"3NLY HON
? .. Bitter Feeling Against All,
'{.' Germans Ran Through
Corporal K. Derby aioke at the
??.; Grand Opera bouse last evening to a'
packed bouse. Corporal Holmes is a !
^ very young man nun a ciean boyish
face. By tray of preface be said: "I
want you people to relaize ail that
the Sammies and Tommies are going
through with across the ocean. I found
out. I went across to make goodjust
after I lost my mother. I went j
over on a horse boat aiyl I'd rather,
M spend six months in the ti% aches' than j
sir days again on a horse boat. When
I got there 1 supposed they wouid be
glad to see me. 1 went up to a rem
cruiting sergeant and said 1 wanted
to enlist and they told me to go on
I back to America! Loiter i am gei
through aud after passing a medical
examination which didn't amount to
much. I joined the Royal Fusiliers
though I didn't know what it was.
Seven weeks later I was in the front
line trenches."
It usually rains over there and the
trenches wind for three miles neaArras.
My first advice was, "Don't
look over the top, boy. or you'll get
a souvenier from Fritz!" A dugout
in France is not like the kind built
to practice on. It's just a mud hole
and mighty slippery at that "The
first night I sat on an incline and the
cooties, which every fellow gets when
* * J~ 1-ftevne ham
(oe ioaus in ridiiur. auu Atwy.? ?
straight through. I went to work. A
rat came out?more than one rat. Our
trench was named Herald Square.
They are all named over there."
Corporal Holmes told about going
to a German trench on a raid. He
made the scene very realistic He explained
that the men blacked their
faces so that a sudden light might not
make them stand out plainly to the
German view. The Germans got to
doing this also and some mistake;
were made. He explained the arrangement
of gas cylinders?connected wtih
rubber tubing to one main pipe and
the gas sent over to the German
a trench in a pale yellow light when
seen in daytime. It sinks into every
hole and opening
Especially close to the heart were
his words regarding a man's tesling
when first going over the top. He
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will act and (cars mutilation or severe
suffering more than he fears
death. In the darkness of no-man's
land. Jumping over shell holes, stumbling
over dead men no-one has had
time to bury, you can't help wondering
how you will act and hoping yon
won't disgrace yourself. But once
, you see a German you go -at him and
forget all about it- lie said when a
man got close to the German barbed
f' wire on raid duty, he got pretty close
to nature and laid mighty low!
Someone asked Corporal Holmes
how he felt when he first killed a
man. He replied: "I never killed a
* man. I put my bayonet through a
German but he isn't a man!" He
said: "I feel just as I do when I
pick the cooties off my shirt and kill
thorn- I am getting rid of vermin!"i
He told a thrilling story of a night I
Paid with a party he was with when
two of them leaned over a trench and
I saw a. number of Germans playing
cards. His comrade dropped a bomb
In the midst of them wtih the remark:
"Divide this between you." That game
was finished in another world. Corporal
Holmes said he became expert
at one hundred yard dashes from notnan'sland
to his own trench. When
a man got hack safely to his trench
not a word was spoken but a silent
shake of the hand told the tenseness
of feeling. He said a cigarette had
saved thousands of fellows from going
mad over there and thanked ail
who were will/as to believe, in agreement
with the doctors,' that tobacco
was the best thing possible for the
boys during the strain they were under.
Some people did not believe in
I cigarettes, said Corporal Holmes. "I
have spoken, to audiences who were
unsympathetic about it and I bave
refused to go on with my talk on that
* account. I tell you a fellow's got to
have it!"
Corporal Holmes speaks -very modestly
of his own part in trench -warfare.
He told a story of hospital leave
snd how the hospital lacked Red
Cross nurses and other luxuries, so
that he wanted to leave. H? thought
he would Just say?"Doctor?=1 can't
bear to think of the other fellows hack
there fighting. I think I'll Just go
" back to duty." He felt sure the doctor
would think him a good sort and send
hint to a better rest hospital. But all
the doctor said was: f'All right," and
Signed the necessary paper sending
him back to duty. He told of an in
Jured arm later which the doctors
wasted to remove bat which a nurse
.tared for him, and of three useless
fingers. He said, "I am trying on an
average of onee a month to get back
fnto service again but hare failed so
far!"
When asked what he knew of German
atrocity he told a story of personally
seeing a friend of his crucified
by the Germans. Theif swung
him on a cross and in the early morning
light, his orn men fired and Oiled
him fall of shot not knowing he had
?;. : heen captured the night before on
the other^add^og^n^man'tjand. He .
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U. S. ADMIRALS IN
These four naval commanders are
the men who are doing the sea fighting
for Uncle Sam in Europe?the
convoying, scouting, U-boat hunting
and patrolling, and who are ready to
engage Fritz's heavier vessels if they
show their noses. They are all rear
admirals, under Vice Admiral Sims,
the supreme commander. They are
Corporal Holmes -was particularlyintense
iu his criticism of the German
newspaper which New York allown on
every news stand. He asked how
mothers wonld bear the insult of their
son's names on the casualty list of a
German paper. He said whenever he
heard two men talking German he felt
they should be put out of the country.
He felt that we should fight the German
here as well as over there.
While he was not a.{ all backward
in picturing real scenes near the battlefield:
the scratching of a'match
on a dead man's head: the leaning
against the limb of another dcadma\,
with thousands of thttza thick as far
as eye could see: with the rain pouring
down very often, and the British
soldier smiling through it all?he admitted
,to the relief of many a Fair
mont moiner, mat umv aujm vuo w
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A BAD CASE OF '
BLUES VANISHED
When Nerv-Worth Does
Away With the 4
Cause.
Mrs. Barb's message to ailing folks
is forcible and important. And like
all the Nerv-Worth statements printed
in these columns and endorser's name
is signed to the paper. These signed
Local statements are having wonderful
influence upon Fairmont reader!. as
the tonic's sales at Crane's drug store
amply prove. Read this one:
Crane's Drug Store?I was extremely
nervous. All run down. No sleep,
no rest, tired in the morning, no ambition.
no appetite, very despondent
and blue.
I have taken Nerv-Worth for only
r want tn cav mv CCnftTft!
health is much improved.
I have a good appetite, sleep fine,
refreshed in the morning and feel like
a new being. Recommend Nerv-Worth
to anybody.
MRS. RALPH BARB.
Tour dollar back at Crane's Drug
store, Fairmont, if Xerv-Worth does
not benefit you.
Neighboring agents: H. f. Mathews
& Co.. Jiannington; W. P. Moran,
Farmington; F. J. Yost. Fairview;
Windsor Drug Co and the Honaker
Pharmacy, Mohongah; Johnson's Pharmacy,
Shinnston: Grant Graham,
Beiington; W". O. Davis, Philippi.
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stationed as follows: Rear Admiral
Niblack. in the south; Rear Admiral
Hugh Rodman, in command of battleships;
Rear Admiral Herbert O.
j Dunn, on special duty; Rear Admiral
! Henry B. Wilson, in France. Uncle
j Sam can't be too definite and specific
I about it but if you hare a hoy in naval'
j service over there, this will show you I
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| poral Holmes smiled as he said:
"Jnst because there is so much horror
I don't think it is all hell!"
He described a gassed German
trench with a lot of pink German
faces screwed Into a whine as they
begged for mercy, which didn't speak
particularly well for German bravery
In spite of the fact that thr^v are
pushing out a big pouch in the mid'
die of a line. Corporal Holmes said
that line wonld some day snap back
and as lot of Germans would go a long
way ia the opposite direction?which
brought forth much langhter. break-J
ing the tenseness.
He said: "There's one thing our
allies don't do. They don't use an
explosive bullet. I saw a friend of
mine literally torn to pieces by one.
We are not going to do that sort ofj
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belonged to the class do wn dtaaging
property, and the faces of pffidals
and slackers. She sat on aa
omnibus beside a discharged soldier
end did not see bis crosses of bravery
which were on the other side of her.
When she made np her mind regarding
hira she spoke it freely saying.
"Young man .aren't yon athgmed of
yourself to be in mult?" Back came
the reply: "Madam. If yon had as
big a piece of shrapnel in your tongue
as I hare in my "lung, you wouldn't
be able to talk so much
In ending his talk. Corporal Holmes
said we did not want the red, white
and black flag hanging in oar conntry.
And to prevent it we must do
all in our power, whether consisting .
U <~wnct?r trnrV bavins' Liberty* j
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bonds, or other ways o? aid. A large ]
audience stood and sans The Star
Spangled Banner.
Orders Entered "by j
Jude laymond Today
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These orders were entered today |
by Judge Haymond in Circuit court:
In the action of T. J. Ilalfcert and ]
Ruth Halbert vs. Jacob King and Eli j
Kins an injunction was granted restraining
the defendants from tres-1
passing over certain land belonging to :
the plaintiff along the waters of Dud- j
ley fork, a branch of Flat rau, in I
nington district.
In the cause of The First National j
Bank vs. Lawrence E. Sands and V'illiam
H. Sands, executors, an order was
entered dismissing the writ of error.
In the cause of George M. Price et
al. vs. William H. Billings'ej. et al..
an order was entered ore:ruling the
demurrer and giving time to answer.
An order was entered overruling
the demurrer in the cause of Charles
E. Hawker vs. Elbert L. Biilingslea.
F. M.- Meredith Buried
Today at Meadowdale
Funeral services over the body of
Francis Mririon Meredith aged 70.
whose death occurred early yesterday
morning at his home on "the East
Side, were held this afternoon at 2:30
o'clock from his late residence and
interment was made in the cemetery
at Meadowdale hy Undertaker Fred
Jenkins.
Fairmont Lodge No. 9 A. F. and A.
M- of which the deceased was an
honored member conducted ritualistic
services at the grave and attended
the services at the house in a body.
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"Hurrah for the United States," i
"Hurrah tor "Wilson"" -were the lusty;
yells that a band of miners last night j
made Sieve Ondorlff, an Austrian, on
loose following several alleged dis-!
loyal remarks he made at Dotus last
j night. The mob used the alien enemy j
| rather roughly. Deputy Sheriffs Glover!
| aud Adams went there for the express .
[ purpose of arresting Ondoritr. but he i
, would not emerge from the mine and
I later made an exit unknown to them,
j In the meantime the miners made the
Austrian declare his loyalty after j
I which he was permitted 10 go with j
that woo id n6ver ]
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j repeat the disloyal remarks, "j he Aus- j
J trian was so frightened that he_be*t i
| a hasty retreat and disappeared in the '
I -woods not even stopping to return his j
! safety lamp. From last reports he j
j was still making tracks.
I The superintendent of the mine had :
i overheard the miners plan to get
j OndorifT and sent to Fairmont for of-.
' ficers to give him adequate protec- ;
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