Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-09-19

raise in salary, and am no longer a
rookie, but a full tiedged marine, and
ready for anything Uncle Sam wants
me to do"
Miss Celia Martin received word
last week that her nephew, Robert
Harvey Martin, 3l2th Engineers, s7th
Division, had arrived safely in France.
Everett Percy, Co. f., 10th In
fantry, Camp Dix, says he met jerry
Wick there a few days ago and they
certainly enjoyed talking over Old
lrouton days.
Private William Walker keathley
writes: II am still at Funston, and
like my job better every day. When
we went on. Il long hike we carried
SIS pounds, and it sure took the hump
out of our backs. While at the rifle
range we worked pretty hard. We're
out marching before daylight and
came in after dark. l had a letter
from Allie Henson today; he is a cook
and he says he likes the army fine.
We are assigned to another camp the
21st. We are going to the Philippine
Islands. Tell dad not to worry, for
III be home to use that new plow
next spring."
Mrs. VIM. Hurst, Arcadia, is in re-
ceipt of the following:
FRANCE, August Is, 1918.
Dear Mother--I will drop you a few
lines today to let You know that | am
0. T., and l hope this will find you all
the same.
What are you all doing? I am do
ing all / a to help win the war. |
was up in the front line trenches
yesterday. Our Lieutenant was GO
ing up and he let Jason Hughes and ]
90 along. 1t is quite exciting at times
up in the front lines, and it gets very
lively here every few nights. Jason
and / were On All outlook post yester-
! day with a machine gun man, and
was looking at his gun and guess hit
. knew l wanted to try it by the wa.
| was looking at it. So he told me
could shoot it If / wanted to; so
! stuck it over the trench and pulled
the trigger and it commenced barking
at the Germans trenches, and they
. answered Immediately with II o
y their machine guns, and you should
have seen old Jason and | getting ou'
. heads down when the the bullets be
gan to sing over us. And there wa
a very funny thing happened las
=, night. ! and he and another fellow
y we're working out aud the shells wert
flying over us, but they we're higl
and were going far past us befor
:, they exploded, and we weren't pay
. ing any attention to them, when al
at once we heard a noise, right at us
. like "a shell coming, and before yo1
could have snapped your finger W
all three were lying fiat on the groun'
waiting for 1t to explode, when W
heard someone say, ''there goes tina
dam air hose busted again!" But
" sure was funny to see us 60 down s.
"a quick.
y Well, do you hear from Ethel an
IL the girls often? 1t has been over tw
20 weeks since | have had q letter fror
" - her or the girls, and / am anxious t
10 hear from her. l have been lookinI
- for a letter for over a week.
/. Well, mamma, Jason and both en-
~ joyed reading the clippings out OF tn
r county paper and ] would like
y, have any that Ia Interesting. The
~ are like a letter from home. How
.. Harve? I wrote to him again Sun
~ day. I guess Dad is busy in the ha
now.
y Well I will close for this time, hop
~ ing to hear from you oil soon again
- sending you all my love and bel
wishes, I remain, as ever,
OSCAR HURST.
ood In the Doniphan Prospect. News
~ ~ last week appears the following. r.
.s ferring to q brother Of our fello
= 20 . townsman, Mr.. j. II. Keith: User
~ !. geant AL Keith was slightly hurt tn
a., morning M a shrapnel struck him
- the side, just brusing = large place."