The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1918-09-20

Letter from Grant McFarlin, Head.
quarters Troop, 32nd, Division, at
the Western Fighting Line in
France. The letter was written
August 18th, and addressed to his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Nc
Farlin. In a letter to Paw Paw
friends, Grant enclosed piece from
the AerOplane wing i'm which Quen-
tin Roosevelt lost his life on July
14th, and adds that he has seen
the grave i'm which his body lies.
The opportunity again presents it
self for me to write, hence my letter.
am pretty we'll rested up by now,
and have just had my first bath in
forty-seven days, so naturally | am
feeling quite clipper.
The weather has been quite cool
here to-day and quite cloudy,
which keeps the enemy aeroplanes
from their usual trade of bombing.
This is their most devilish means of
warfare, as there is absolutely no
protection which is safe from their
huge bombs. They prowl around at
night when you are trying to sleep
and will wake you from a pleasant
dream with dozen or so of eight foot
bombs, and believe me, when one falls
it rocks the earth and blows a hole
large enough to put an ordinary house
in. Of course if you are unfortunate
enough to be in the direct path of one
of these, the curtain falls and the big
show is over. This is just one little
phase of Boche warfare. He also has
many other pleasant tricks such as
h,,n IF
at about 200 A. M. when you are
sleeping the sleep of the just and
you must wake and put on the mask
until the call clear" signal is given.
Sometimes twenty minutes, sometimes
two hours. A fine rest cure, is it
not, ha, ha!
On the whole, everything is going
fine. | have at last located Clare, he
is in a Red Cross hospital in Paris
and is doing fine. He is a cheerful
old scout and has the highest hopes
for speedy recovery, and of course
we all join in with our best wishes
also. The accounts have just come
out in our papers here as to what
this division did. The papers are very
difficult to get a hold of, because the
officers get a preference over us and
gobble them up before we get a
chance but, by hook or crook I'll try
to enclose an account in this letter.
| think we made friend "Heinie" turn
over in bed this time alright. | don't
think he has had very much sleep in
the past week or so at least. They
are driving him to beat HI on all
fronts now and believe me, we are
trying to keep him going till he's
back of the Rhine where he belongs.
And | guess we are going to make a
success of it too.
Oh, | forgot to tell you that Alger
Conkey of Hartford was killed in this
last drive and Sergeant Arthur De-
Vries of Grand Rapids. Arthur's
father is a prominent Grand Rapids
doctor.
am very sorry about Gerald Green
word, yo uknow he was one of my
best friends.
/ could name a lot of boys from my
company that have paid the supreme
price, but it would only be a bore to
YOU as you do not know them. Do
YOU remember the boy in Kalamazoo
who helped you to locate Brod and :?
Well, he was discharged in Waco and
sent home as he was under age. Be
lieve me, he was lucky.
Well folks, | have expended about
all the news / have and this thing
must be ended somewhere, and |
guess this is about as good place as
any other, so here goes.