The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-01-10

grow a lot of sugar beets. They pu
them in huge piles 200 feet long 8
feet wide and 8 feet high. Then tn
women carry sheaves of threshe'
straw and stand them up all rount
and pile them thick on top. They
then dig a big trench all roun'
throwing and packing the dirt up tn
sides. These farmers are doing wei.
out of the a Butter is 81 per pound
eggs eight cents each, milk Is cents
a quart. These are the chief things
we buy as we grow u WI vegeta-
bles and the rations supply the rest
We have quite a wonderful place
here. We are one of four such, al
on the railroad. We are eight miles
back. Tommy is wounded and the
regimental medical officer sees him
at Reg. aid post, dresses his wounds
and sends him to advanced dressing
station, from here to main station
(Field ANTI If necessary they re-
dress and ship him to us. We some
times get them n and one-half
hours after being wounded. We treat
him, if shot in abdomen we open it
and repair tears, etc., In bowel, liver,
bladder, chest, etc. If arm or leg
is destroyed we amputate and except
for very critical cases we put lin
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ing at our door and he is Whirled off
to the base and if good enough, to
hospital ship and over to Blighty,
England. Bad cases are held here
for a few days and then to base
where he stays up to six weeks, then
to England. You should see one OF
these hospital trains. One rich lady
gave a whole train. A wonderful en-
CINE, 16 coaches, SO beds in each
coach and 72 sitters. You could not
imagine anything more luxurious.
They have doctors, nurses, operating
room, dispensary, all kinds of COM
fort appliances.
You can imagine how many ambul-
ances it takes to carry all these cases.
1 mean motor cars, each carries four
Tiers and eight pitters. The roads are
good but there are 10000 motor car
riers in France and you'd think they
all passed this way every day. The
traffic is enormous and has to be con-
trolled by traffic control men, at eve
Try corner. Whole divisions pass in
and out of the line. Think of the
transport and as it gets right into
the danger zone the roads are SO
plowed up by shells that no rig can
go. Then they pile food, ammuni-
ton, etc. on pack mules and lead
these along narrow tracks. A shell
lands near one and he jumps off the
track. He is napoo They shoot it
right away as he goes to the neck in
mud. The whole place is churned up
and full of shell holes. One never
saw such mud. The place is thick
with dead mules. l nev thought
there were so many mules on earth.
Some days 100 of them pass here. |
was gonig to a town 10 miles from
here last Thursday. 1t was a fine
road, but we came to a corner where
troops and transports were passing
out and the traffic control man hur-
ried us back, said he could not get!I
through till night. 1t was then 10
a. m. People in Idaho nave no idea
what it means where millions of men
are moving. They soon wear out the
roads. We have thousands of men
al the time repairing roads. In some
the stones and brick of the
houses of the town are all on the !
'oads now, the town being flat as
Jamas prairie. ]
This is a very noisy place, we have :
5-inch guns ear here n lots OF
guns, besides the Hun shells .
town one mile from here every day .
nd he shells these roads, full of traf- !
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vice as much to him.
His planes show very little activity
uring the day but at night they get
usy. Come over and drop bombs. {
hese are very destructive. One
anded in a ploughed field $50 feet
ON our mess and it knocked every
ling off the wall. 1t made a very
ig hole. We measured it, 8 feet 9
lches deep and 81 feet in diameter.
lit in our cemetery and an :
her at one of our neighboring G.
S. and as luck would have it, land
| right on German prisoner line, kill
e IS and wounding "a. We did not
ind this a bit. We have a lot of
search lights. They pick up =
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