The daily progressive-miner., 1918-08-10
LONESOME BUT WOULD NOT QUIT IF ALLOWED
 FOL ETAO MN

There is a farm home over in the western end of Benton County that it would not be well for Kaiser Bill to visit. In the window of this home hangs a service flag with four stars, each star representing stalwart son voluntarily enlisted in the service of Uncle Sam. These boys are Allen, Roy, Harry and Fred Hubler Each son is filled with the same fire, fight an determination that caused their father when IA years old to give him. self to Uncle Sam in the lyast year of the Civil War to help make democ- racy safe" He still has the old gun and the long bayonet and claims he still knows how to use it.
 In August MT. and Mrs. M. L. Mub- i Ter expect to attend the G. A. R. en- campment in Portland. They are now helping John and Charley, two of their older boys raise wheat, pork and butter fat, so don't think they can stay away long, for Mother Hubler says, q just can't stand to have the boys batch when they have so much work to do.
 Three of the boys are now at the front in France, but they are not too lusy or too tired to remember their mother at home. Almost every mail brings a letter from one or more of : them.
 Recently in letter from Harry, who at the time was attending an auto truck drivers school in Paris, he gave some interesting experiences:
 The other day I visited a church that was struck by the German long range cannon. A little later friend and I saw fruit stand that had been literally blown to pieces. The owner an old woman, was killed by another shot Suddenly a shell struck about blockfrom us and knocked us flat. We lost our feet for a minute but not our heads. Say, do we went to at at the Boches?"
 Occasionally the letters indicate a little longing to be back home again, but recent one from Roy shows their real sentiments.
 q am lonesome, not really lonesome but you know what I mean. Would like to be back home, but not before the war is over.I wouldn't leave un- til tn ejob is completed even if they would let me. As to the dangers, don't think of them at all. We haven't been in it yet, but it isn't our fault. I am ready to take my chances any time. We have an even chance of get. ting back home, so why worry until you have to. Don't be afraid of me not facing the Germans, for all one has to do is to think of all the things they have done to the countries they have overrun and he has all the faith he needs.'
 i Amid all the seriousness of war the
 boys find many amusing things to
 write about as evidenced in the follow
 ing extract from letter from Fred
 q am going to write you few lines
 just to remind you that will love you although I am over here among
 the natives. They are fighters, and
 we must hand it to them, but neverthe less it is fun to go around and see the
 way they have of doing things. Say
 it would tickle you to death to see
 some of their costumes, and one car
 hear their wooden shoes pounding the
 pavement for blocks. One must hand
 1t to some of them for a good under
 standing, too. It isn't best to get {
 Frenchman sore they can handle their feet and if one of these tsteam
 boats ever dislodges you might al
 well give up for you would sure be