The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-07-04
FORMERLOCAL
BOY IS NOW
VETERAN
Son of Martin V. Taylor One
of First Americans in
France.

Among the first of Perishing's regi-
ments to arrive in France was the
Second Engineers, and in Company B,
First Battalion, was Corporal Jay B.
Taylor, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Martin V.
Taylor, for many years residents of
this community. Corporal Taylor
graduated from the Santa Ana high
school in 1913, and letter to his home
paper, the Santa Ana, Cal. Register,
reads as follows:
Dear Home Paper Il just can't
help dropping you a few lines as |
have just received a bundle of Regis
ters that mother sent me.
II have read them all. was inter-
ested in the patriotic editions, as
many of the articles were, also as to
the whereabouts of my old friends
and classmates of the Santa Ana high
school and Orange county.
ut certainly did me II lot of good to
learn about all the boys that
graduated with in 13, as | had lost
account of most of them since | left
Orange county, but have often
thought of them and of the good old
days spent in the S. A. II. s., which
were glorious days.
! shortly after the United States de-
clared war, | felt the call of my coun-
| try and joined the colors, enlist1ng
In the engineer department and was
sent to fill up the Second regiment,
which had just come out or Mexico
and was stationed at Ell Paso, Texas.
'The regiment was re0rganiZed ana
soon filled up with volunteers ana
there we went through period OF III
tense training, then to an eastern
port. where we bid goodbye TO Broad
way and said hello to France, being
among the first units to arrive here
"Since then we have been busy
very busy, as all of us are over here
doing the work that's set out for us
each oncoming unit taking over III
mart and making it easier all the time
for those to come. Before we tVeter-
ans. SO TO speak. realized l., young
America in khaki. had come TO us
steadily increasing the pressure, al
ready great on the kaiser, until now
with the increasing rapidity OF oul
forces. II will certainly c1rse nm e
give way.
And during all these busy and eX
citing times my thought nave oi'eH
wandered back to those good olu uas
spent in Orange county ana nave
thought of the hcEs as they WeIs
tnen and knew they had the true stun
i'm them that the country now iiee''S %
and would respond to the call. Altei
reading about them. | am doublN as
sured of it, as l noticed that tlos'
who are not already over here are II
ceiying their training preparatory u
! coming. lin h.
Il win say that all of them VIII M p'
welcomed. as all of us were p4 oui
allies. 1t certainly puts ne" cooths, .hs,
,nto us and doublS assures us INA Ia
we will win. to see that America a,. am.
. every individual is behind us heai
, and soul, but we will show our appre ~,
, citation of what they are dolils loi "'
! bv doing our level best over mere.
I'm regard to news, nothing lhuo, na
le., be said, only that we nave "e
come quite accustomed to TINS eou,, i,,
ty and it's ways, are quite conten,eu ,'.
taking things as they come we al ;,
used TO sudden explosions nav a. -
most become webfooted on account y
, - much rain and mud and are seeeln'
fed well, and lots of clothes nty ~ n
and lastly but not least, pienss ,5
. GOOD old American smoking ,9'ae ii
which Is all any soldier couiu VIZ VIZ
sor we Ind trouble at first get'i"