The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-03-07
LLOYD. SPETZ
MEM0RIALAT
=. AUDITORIUM. ! |: !!
Public Military Services to Be
Held in Honor Of the
Soldier Dead .
'PosTLETHwAlTE PREslDEs
Chaplain of the Bismarck Home
Guard Will Deliver Trib.
ute in Uniform ~.
'OSTLETHWAITE PRESIDEs

+" Almost as voice from the
grave came to Mrs. Anna Gradin
this morning the last letter from
her son, Private Lloyd S petz Of
Co. A, First North Dakota in.
fantry, now the ,,164th U. S. in:
fantry, whose death on the firing
line, shot down while repelling q.
Hun attack, was reported in The
Morning Tribune on Wednesday.
This letter, received by Mrs. Ora.
din only a few days ago, had been !
forwarded to the young soldiers;
sister, Miss Esther spetz, at the
University Of Minnesota, and Miss
spetz brought It back with her
when she hurled home yesterday,
to console her J 9riet stricken
mother; T.. ..t..,,.......' J..
Lloyd spetz's last letter is: a
typical message from a typical
boy. It is a letter from . brave,
clean manly boy, a by who vas
living in the clean, true American
boy way, and whose "Hang-Out"
was the Young Mems Christian
association. The letter was writ
ten on Y. N. C. A. stationary, un.
der date Of January -, aud i fo'.
lows: Z. ~ ;;..'
"DEAR MoTHER-* ttouyat !
would write you a,.ew lines to lot
you know, ! am well and hope
you are the same. am some.
where in France. That is all y
cah tell you. ! s'pose it isgeo'd in
North Dakota about this tir'e., It
is. not so very cold here now. l
think it is getting spring. 1,......
~ was going to write ! you a
letter a long time ago, but have !;
no had a chance. have not had
a. letter since Z. have been here;
50 write. often. ! s'poess il win
take i month or two; before you
(. get this letter. think. this viii
Be . nice country In the SumIdSr- .
time, but I wilt take the good old
Y. 8, a. for mine. w. ..',.,s M 5l%}.s ,%%;'
u wish you would send me
some Bull Durham smoking to
baeee, it, YOU will: Hope Esther
and.ths rest Of you are O. x. VIII.
write more naxt time. Write soon.
Toll then, all hello. X &.
..." "From LLOYD. !:
N. B.-Esther said she wa1 o.
inc to send me q sweater. ! have
not got IL yet. Il may be on the
road. >. .eeause It, takes a long time
20 get mail here. have been il
the trenches. Game out O. 4. Like
it fine"
. In forwarding this letter TO- her
daughter. Mrs. GradinA obeyins
some prophetic impulse, under-r
lined a notation: KEEP THIS
LETTER."
The sweater which Miss Esther
Spetx was to send her brother 10
now on the way to Francs, as are
a haIf.dozen or more letters, de-
Iayed on the way by the incompre..
hensibIe breakdown Of the United
States mail service. Like many IN
other American boy In the trench
es over there Lloyd, spetz Ion9ed
for letters which his loved. ones
had written him and which he
should have had. Now they. Will
arrive too late. ';!.4y y.
Private Spetz is believed TO be
; the first man lost by Co. "a from
any cause since it entrained from
Fort Lincoln last fall. So far as
known there have been no other,
casualties. Under the plan adopt
ed Of breaking UP American units,
it 10 probable that few, IL any 9th.
er Bismarck boys, participated in
the raid which cost Private Spetz
his life. ~. 70 ", ,,t.