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iiiMinMiBBiMiiMWi)iiiiBiiMiiiwi'wi?'''iwiniirrn ? 83M ^ i&V ^SHOP ; EARLY . I Letters From Our ] Soldiers In France j --?I Letter from Lieut. Ralph Syfar. to his mother, Mrs. G. W. Syfan: American E. F., France. October 13, 1918. Dear Mamma, For the last month I have had no chance to write letters, but just at present we are having a little .rest after our hard fighting. Last night I had the best night's sleep I have ever had in my life, after traveling for a whole night and day with no sleep and no time to eat I found a little house or lean-to with a floor in it, in about ten minutes we had our bedding rolls down 'and were sound asleep. Soon after the last letter 1 wi?te you, I was ordered -to join Battery j A, the captain had been relieved j for other duties. The following ( morning at 4 o'clock I joined the } battery; a new officer in a battery < of big guns almost new to me. I ] worked all day checking up on the j laying of the guns and fixing up the ( maps. That night we were ordered j to take part in the first big Ameri- j can attack and I was the man to fig- j ure all the data for the guns?in y other words take the place of the t captain. At six o'clock I was given r our part of the plans of attack and j I went to work, and all night long the guns roared with yours truly the j "man behind the gun" and respohsible for every one of the hundreds j of tremendous shells that left our ^ guns. Quite thrilling but a terrible T responsibility when you know what j one of those shells will do to our own ( men 4f misdirected. Since that time, ( over a month aeo. and at present 11, hold "the job. During this time we ( have-been in four or five big battles and f think that I have made good. I Wonder if you would be inter- ( ested, in war souvenirs, such as Ger- ( man "helmets, pieces of German uni- , formji, airplanes, Iron Cross, etc. I see, lots of the boys sending such thingfc home, but as they don't interest me, I didn't think they would interest you. The only thing that interests me just now is that for the first ;ime there seems to be a possibility of the end of the war. I lave seen some hofrible sights in th i last few weeks and some that I shs II never forget. I have seen some' other sights simple but wonderful, such as an old Frenchman on a little wagon with all of his goods going back to his destroyed home from where we had just driven the Huns and as he passed us he would wave his hat and thank us. Will have to stop now. . With love, T v Ralph. R. J. Syfan, 2nd Lieutenant, Battery A, 123rd F. A. ?v Tell* of Lt. Oscar Stevenson American E. F. France, i Oct 4, 1918. T1o?f Pans IYoor letter received this after- ' noon, and as I have the chance, I will try to write you all a few lines. For the last week we have been through, and have seen what we came over here to go through and [to see. Our Division has been in action so we all have had plenty of work to do. Everything in the papers for the bast 3 or 4 days looks mighty good po us. I hope things will continue po look so. I expect old "Jerry" by phis time,* is beginning to see that he lis up against something from all I accounts in the papers. Our work is practically the same is I expected, although our com>anies are a little changed. Most all >f my work has been done in an adranced Dressing Station behind the! inea. We get the wounded from I he American posts further up, atesd to them, and send them back to casualty clearing stations, from which they are sent back to Base Hospitals, if necessary. I have seen things, in the way of wounds, etc.,/ that I never would have seen back at home. Most any kind of a wound that you can think of. Of course, in a thing like this, you know there are some serious ones as well as slight wounds. The work that I have been doing enables me to see some of both kinds. With each doctor, there are usually 2 or 3 fellows to wait on him, having the dressings, bandages, etc., ready to jive him when needed, that is what [ have been doing. Last Sunday ive all worked from early morning antil late that afternoon just as fast and as steady as we could. I am still anxious to study medi:ine if possible, and if c can get lome in time, I want to make an>ther trial at it. I think I see where t is a worthy, and a necessary profession, if a man is able to make a rood doctor. I suppose the next :hinc to it. for me. is to studv char nacy if I can't make the other. I had the pleasure of spending a jart of the night about three nights ?go, in one of Jerry's dug-outs. Just ;o give you an idea of some of them, >r of this one, I will try to describe t. Before you get close to it, you would think it nothing but a large ihell-hole. As qoon as wp came to t, we found a little door in one lide. From the door there is a set >? steps going almost straight down 'or about 20 or .0 feet, with 6U? or ;Wo landings along the way.' At ;he bottom, there are little rooms, rooms at the side for bunks. >ne seemed to be a two-story affair." ?or at one end of the hall-way, ;here was a little ropm below. I iidn't explore it for there were a )unch of our fellows sleeping there ;hat night and I stopped in the hall 'or the remainder of the time. The vails and overhead were all boarded lp to keep it from crumbling in. ["hat is the only one of his that I lave been in. I think they have un him out of some that are even >etter fixed up, so I hear. I expect you have a good idea of j low the country, where fighting has; aken place, appears; but expect; pou would have to see it to know iust what it really does look like. I ion't know whether I am allowed to talk about all of those things, though, and as it will keep, I will tell you when I get home. I am feeling extra good tonight. Have just had my first bath in little over two weeks. Don't think I was quite as fond of the water as a duck would have been, but all the same I have had the pleasure. It is bed time now so must stop. W V? on trAii wrifo fn M a ri on foil lior f i iivii j vu niivv vv iuui ivuy wit nvi that I will write her when I have the opportunity. With love for all the folks. Francis L. Mabry. * * October 14, 1918. Dear Mama: Just a few lines to let you know that I am on the globe, and am feeling fine. I haven't had the chance to write you lately. We have been real busy for the last three or four weeks. Our work has been in a Dressing Station most of the time. At present, we are running a camp hospital for the sick boys?those who are not able for duty and not sick enough to be evacuated to the hospitals farther back. We are lo cated in & French town which was recently occupied by the Germans Our hospital is in a building which has suffered some from somebody'* shells, but not enough to keep it from being a good place for a Dress* ing Station, and a hospital like we are now running. I don't know who fixed things up, but it looks as if some one else had used this place for the same purpose. There is a place to heat water, etc., to make things more comfortable. We even found a piano here when we first came. Smith and I went down to an old drug store, which was torn up, and 3 or 4 things to add to our dressing room. I would like to take a walk over the town if I get the opportunity, to see how things look. Well, I must stop, I haven't any more paper handy. When you don't hear from me regularly just know fUofrT Vovaw V*n /J 4-1* a uiat jl ao*cu b nau uic Liiautc. Suppose the papers over there arc full bf war news now. I have just bought a paper, and think I will read the news. Love for all, Francis L. Mabry. Somebody's Doll ? I Wonder if M By Brue U f WILL tell you wl j night this winte night when its c " m will be a rustling th I trench, where our b< a heavy ladened ? ifp his way along. In his hands wi] pots: in his pocket r| rettes. From one man t< MY/ passing a cup full 01 [J that tremble with tli comfort of a bit of ? (((wW ,, Men^WilK W Is! raa Isl him nn fVio nnr?lr* ftTI things will be a little because he has past A How much will trip, do you supp pittance that the Se W/ the cost of the choi rettes and all? Five dollars? ' flto I do not know. But whether it UJ twenty-flve, I'd like ^ my five or twenty-i That some night wh< /(j\ some, my money anj Secretary out along 1 Let's make up our Vw going to pay for a i A score of the night our nights (* .i_U. riw|| ?-luguus nucu ously the chocolate (M our money provide XRSSjv because our represe United War Work\Jffi Campaign ^5 October 16, 1918. Dear Papa: I wrote to Mamma just a day or two ago, but as I have a little card I would like to send to you all, I am going to write a short letter tonight. This little card is something like a permit for the mail to be used for a Christmas package, or something like that. Now, I don't want anybody to go to the trouble to fix up anything special, just what you can put in a package that size. Tell Mamma to stick me a slice of fruit cake in. I suppose you folks have been reading some good news in the papers lately. As for myself, I haven't seen but one weekly paper in several days. The things we hear sounds good to Us though. I am glad I belong to the Division that I do. I think most all of the fellows feel proud of the boys who have done the fighting, and I would like to say just here, that the infantry boys deserve all the honor that can ' be given them. Of course, everybody is doing his bit, and well I think, but to my mind they are the fellows. They are the fellows who make Fritz LETTERS PROM OUR BOYS-.3.. move back, and our boys here have had him moving some too, lately. Most of our work, lately, has been in a Dressing Station, where the wounded pass through from the front to hospitals farther back. I think I have seen some of several different kinds of wounds?things I never would have seen anywhere else. I have received several of the home papers lately. Those sent by you, by first class mail, and also those mailed from the office. I expect you may as well stop sending I them by first class, as I will get the others all right, I think. I also received the State and the clippings f you sent me. Since starting this letter, we got in an ambulance load of patients to work with. They were all Tommies, and from our Battery. It seems that their gun exploded. j Have you heard yet, that Lieut. ' Cf rtTrnnoA? wo a lfillorl? TTp VOV,ai KJ bC T ?? W.U . was killed in action a few days ago. Some of the boys from his company told me in the Dressing Station a few days ago. What do you folks do on Sunday nftemnnrtu rtnw. that VOU Can't SO ; joy riding? I expect it saves a large amount of gasoline. Well, thing I have about run out of something to say so will have to stop. Tell Mamma when she writes are Will Do It? J Tttey'll Be Yours ^ ' e Barton hat will happen some (U r in France. Some old and dark. There trough the front line > v >ys stand guard. And Secretary will make r [1 be great steaming chocolate and ciga> another he will go, ? hot coffee to hands IU te cold; bringing the jK jweet and a smoke, m cheerily, slapping MESm id when he has gone easier in that trench sed that way. | it cost to make that /lk\ ose? Counting the II icretary is paid, and | colate.and the ciga- w rwenty-five dollars? * o is five dollars or I ! to think that it is O 5ve?wouldn't you? en it's cold and lonet your* might send a that front line trench. minds that we are score of those trips. Vrt? 9 this winter-gfcall be the boys greet joy- (yft and cigarettes that || |j| d; and are happier ILJI ntative has passed. ?For the Boys in the Service Marion and Julia to give them my love, and tell them that I will write to them some day. With love for you all. Francis L. Mabry. I found Robt Cheatham's address in the paper. I wanted to drop him a line but could not until I saw his address in The Press and Banner. F. L. M. 100 WOMEN NEEDED ! BY SALVATION ARMY I | Commander Evangeline Booth Says War Relief Work Must Be Extended. ' Commander Evangeline Booth, leader of the Salvation Army in the United States, has been suddenly called upon to furnish 800 additional war work women for France. The request *- "-*-1-.^ a vannrt In erf repolvMl US guuiaiucu in m t^v* by her from CoL William A. Barker of the Salvationist forces, whom she sent to France over a year ago to establish hutment and general war relief work with the American troops. "We will do all we can to fill this demand," said Gommander Booth wheu discussing the approaching United i War Work Campaign, "and the need . Itself should impress the American public til the more' with the absolute necessity for sustaining and enlarging the' war relief Work of the seven organisations, besides the nobis Red , Cross, now merged for a drive tot funds. Bach Is a vital cog In a vast j machine for human relief, and each Is lndlspenslble, serving Its particular ; ettmenUHn its own yiruj. "The Salvation Army was born la | hardship, reared In privation and trained to every phase of human mis1 ery and how to cops with It Perhaps that accounts In some degree for the . success our work has attained and for i which we are thankful. TTB un U1 Ul? tvuuiuu invyia, U1> , we toll on a practical bails. We learn* J I ed the lesson of bow to do It Is tM| Boer war, when we stood at the , of Britain's troops and weathered It, ! out to the end. We have been tried, by Are, and the mothers and fathers ; of America, as in other countries, trust ! the Balvatlon Army to do the thing they would like to do for their men If 1 they but had the chance. !i _ "With 1,210 trained workers at the [ ; front, operating from 420 huts and ' dugouts, the Salvation Army la doing, has done and will continue to do Its best for the cause of humanity and ; Liberty." j $W5?| TORMTBttSSDUffS f i issraDnrrn L .1 UNITED STATES I j jOOVEttKMENT Not Only The >i - nir?i?? i mi ii ? ?ii But at the present price GRANITE is the CHEAP] construction of WALLS, F NEYS and UNDERPINNI or on the Farm. We can furinsh promptly class of work drilled and brc two men can handle. Carload Shifn WRITE FOB OGLESBY Gf ELBERTON, TELEPHONES WAN1 X u . = J r- . To buy Liberty Bonds Thrift Stamps on the ] piano, self player pian able credit on balancc rneht. Fourteen diffen and five makes of plaj * Reference the Bank o: est and Strongest Bj Coun JOHN A. 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