Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-08-08
thirty men of the old company are

~ INA1Iy ILLeH OIL the ola are
left.
The letter which is dated Meusnes.
France. July 16, reads as follows:
You will note, Inc possibly you
have already heard, that we have
moved again. We are now back out
of the one Of advance, and that per-
! mits troops back Of that zone TO men
ton in their letters the name Of the
place where they are located. This
place here could not be found ever if
it were in the zone of advance be-
u it is SO small that they don't
put it on a map. While it is spelled
Meusnes. it is pronounced as nearly
i Mern as l can spell it to you.
Has Seen Old Company Men.
1--WE are three miles from a rail-
the other. Our post office is st.
Afghan; o can find that place; it is
IN the very south end Of Loir-et-Cher
department and on the railroad that
runs east from Tours.
AT st. Afghan there are a num-
Der Of our old company. Nose Ros-
enzweig. Chalmers and a lot of the
boys who were in the Second North
Dakota. I have seen all of them be-
I spent some time in st.
Afghan studying in our statistical sec
ton.
Three miles on the other side of
US is Selles sur Cher (sentence. delet-
ed by c%ensor). The two Lowe boys
are over there. They have been over
10 see us a couple of times.
Many Transfers Made.
We are the first troops to amount
to anything to locate here, are being
treated fine by the French people;
we are billeted around in the town.
and have been very fortunate in
getting a good location.
Since we moved we have lost
more Of our old company by trans
Ter. There are 10Y fewer than thirty
of the old Company M men left. The
Two officers are First Lieutenant Earl
hanson. in command, and Second
Lieutenant Mervin Hanson. Captain
Holm has been sent to Company No.
=. provisional battalion, fourth corps.
The sergeants are F. NJ. Locklin. Max
Raines, H. L. Edwards, Duncan Nc
Nlcol, Gerald Monley and Ora Sails
bury, First Sergeant r. o. Zollinger
n Sergeant Samuel swadburgh.
n corpora}s are myself, Axel
Knutson, Ager Newark, Elmer Falk-
ner. Frank Duggan. Roy Schuyler,
$500 ASAAS 4NSAoOHs Earl nelson,
James Fender, Charles Lippens. John
Hofstad. Sam Miner and Dan Oien. I
believe that is all. I have named
them from memory M I may have
forgotten someone. but I do not think
/! have. This is all that remains Of
old Company M.
Other Units There.
with us here are L. K. I and the
Machine companies, The Ma
chine Gun company Is eve worse off.
We are being used to handle men for
purposes which the censor probably
would not let me tell you, and Just
now we have a number from down in
Georgia and Alabama. They are
mighty n soldiers and good fellows
and they are. not afraid Of work;
they have a very cheerful disposition
and we enjoy having them here.
Clarence Hassell Is in command Of
the Machine Gun company, st. Pete
fredericksburg been taken for some
other outfit since we arrived here.
" were mighty sorry to hear Of
the deaths Of Dewey Fink and Rich
mond Hall (June 81, but so far the
two companies have been very lucky
in the matter of. casualties among
heard OF a death among the lot We
sent up from M
As for tho Future.
we note with interest who are
called g service from time to time
and try to figure out who Of the
young fellows are left. We can think
Of but Svery. few now.
@eWelE. this over here cannot
30 on ~ It has. forsmuch longer. we
haves Our54Own ideas&a8 to what win
probably happen before long. WI
nave no authority fof anything Ws