The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-10-30
WITH THOSE IN
ARMY AND NAVY
This column. containing news oS
Richmond and Wayne county SOL
diers and sailors. viii appear daily
in the Palladium. Contributions
win be welcomed.

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NJ win be welcomed.
Alfred Lanning, who has been sta
toned at Great Lakes Training sta
ton since June, is one Of % men to
: Sc transferred to the United States
Naval Air Station at Halifax, Nova
Scotia. according to word received by
his parents.
Word has been received from Har-
old Podhaski. formerly of this city,
that he has been ordered to the Cen
trail Officers Training school at Camp
Gordon, Georgia.
Corp. Charles Clark wrote The Pal
ladium the following letter:
II am feeling fine, as you will see
by my address with the Aero Squad
ron bird class. We have so many avi-
ators flying over our heads all the
time that at night we dream we are
real birds and really flying about.
1.-The weather in France has been
splendid ever since landed. and that
was six months ago, and by the way
| this is the day that I put on my first
| gold chevron for six months foreign
: duty The time has passed very swift
| ly for us boys, as we are treated very
we'll by our superiors, and our eats
are splendid would bet that I have
more to eat than you back there. We
sleep in wooden barracks that are
! heated by stoves and we all have
plenty of good warm wooden blankets
! to crawl under and keep warm these
| frosty nights.
| I don't want you to think l would
rather be here than back in Richmond
| this morning, because would not in
deed, but we boys will not come back
until we have completed our job to
| the satisfaction of our employers, and
they are you. close with a wish
! that the war will come to an end with
| a victory-in-arms for us"
Russell Horne. of Whitewater. has
received word that his son, Harry
Horne, has arrived safely overseas.
Word has been received that How
ard Hunt Elliott has recently been
commissioned second lieutenant. He
is at present stationed at Camp Han
cock, but expects to 60 abroad soon.
| The following letter has been re-
ceived from Harrison e. Eisenhower,
who is with the American forces
abroad:
Last Saturday | went to the fun
eral of French soldier. 1t was very
interesting although I could not under
stand anything the priest said.
| Saturday evening one Of my pals
nd 7 IN 70 10
family and we certainly did have a
stand everything they said, of course.
but we played the old game of fiddle
de Winks. The French people GER
tainly give us hearty welcome, and
seem mighty glad to see us. They are
| getting very tired of the war, and
surely hope it can be ended in the
right way soon. 1t looks good. Re-
CARDS to all the friends and neighbors."
Raymond Daily. son of Mr. and Mrs
Walter Daily Of South Twelfth street
Is one of ten men chosen from 1900
in training at Indiana University to
enter an officers training camp. Dali
by has been ordered to Fortress Mon
roe, Va, with heavy coast artillery.
| Gerald Fitzgibbons has arrived safe
ly overseas with a base hospital unit.
His parents, who were former resid-
ents of Richmond now reside in Sioux
City, Iowa.
| Lieutenant Ralph Rogers has been
assigned as acting quartermaster in
the S. A. T. c. of Missouri-Wesleyan
College.
Eugene B. Bowman. who is in the U.
S. general army hospital in New York
City, was in Richmond few hours
yesterday. the guest of his aunt, Mrs
w. d. Wilson, 40 South Twelfth
| street. Bowman was on his way to
| ed to return to New York in a couple
of days.
! A letter of sympathy written by
| Neal Thomas. an Iowa boy, and ship
mate of Earl Mikesell, who recently
| died on the u. S. S. Wisconsin, of
pneumonia. has been received by
! Mikesell's mother of New Madison,
Ohio. The letter follows:
81 want to write you an expression
of my sympathy for your great loss in
| Earls death.
! Il received your letter Sunday after
noon, and about an hour later the
message came that Earl had passed
away. 1t certainly came as a shock
to me. as | had seen the doctor Sat
urday morning, and he had told me
I that Earl did not have pneumonia,
and that he was better than he had
been the evening before. Then Satur-
day forenoon he was moved to the
hospital ship. I endeavored to learn
how he was Sunday noon but the re-
port of the hospital ship had not been
sent out at that time.
His death will be a great loss to