The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-29
Fame of Ardmore Old Guard
Reaches Western Front

saying: 1T don't seem like war; II
seems like vacation with expenses
paid and lot OF the boys from the
front come back and when they
are worn out with fighting, it makes
them mad il You wakcn them. In
the trenches they fight and fight
like Americans and il YOU take them
out for few days rest, they will
fight you, fight to go back in the
ditch, Thr Americans take it as
sport to shoot a German out Of a
tree and hear him fall like turkey
| buzzard."
Wilson Boy On Firing Line.
Corp. John l.. King, ID Company
5rd Supply Train. who had eighteen
months service on the Mexican bor-
der and is said to have been the sec
ond volunteer from Wilson, writes
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John King,
Wilson, telling them that he had
Just managed to secure eight hours
sleep, after long siege on the fir
ing line "As long as a soldier can
put in few minutes in sleep once
in a while he doesn't need bed" lie
wrote. "I am getting used to the
fighting but when we first went TO
the front, / ducked my head so
much that my neck got stiff. But
that's all over now. The one thar
gets YOU is the one that you don't
hear.
Corp Donley f. Mullins, in a let
ter to his mother, makes a comical
observation upon the effect OF heavy
shell fire. 1--WE were at certain
place the other day when they sent
over some of their big shells, My
shirt wouldn't hardly stay on; it
went up my back like a window
shade" He wrote that he had been
at the front ten days and was, back
for a rest. Corporal Mullins Spoke
OF the trenche rats and cootics and
related one instance in which he had
placed all he had to eat under his
head and a rat, almost as large as
a house cat, beat me to it.
Pvt. Kelly NJ. Shelton's most re-
cent letter to his mother, Mrs. j..
II. Shelton. 1Ol II street northwest,
was written in a cathedral which
was built in 1882 He spoke OF serV-
ices in the cathedral and OF fifteen
hand-painted decorations that illus
trate the life OF Christ, Private Shell
ton writes that he is well and enjoy
ing the service although he COM
ments: "Although it is not very
nice to sleep in a manger now and
then with 4 sheep or horse to keep
YOU company Private Shelton is
member OF / Company, 142nd In
fantry.
Earl W. Felker, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. W. r. Felker 6Ol North Wash
ington Street has been promoted
from second to first lieutenant. Lieu-
tenant Felker is stationed at Camp
Sewer. Greenvillc. n. c., and has
been transferred to the financial de-
partment in the quartermaSter
corps. Lieutenant Felker writes that
the older lieutenants are soon to be
sent to France.
En- Route to Russia.
c. w. Richards received the ioI-
lowing letter. written aboard ship,
in the Arctic Ocean by Lieut.. Harry
H. Mead, \ Company, 35th9 lntan-
try. who is en- route to Russia:
1--WE are within sixteen degrees OF
the pole. The thermometer has been
hanging around y and Is below for
several days. The nights are wonder
full: we gaze over the rim Of the
world, and the sun shining down
there in Oklahoma, guess, casts his
reflections even up here. The red
glow continues most OF the night,
and one can read on deck until ~
or \ o'clock.
I'VE are on our way to Russia,
where we expect to conduct Chau-
tauqua course of education for the
ct al, by the approved
Madame de Bayonet method. lhis
method differs somewhat from the