The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-10-11
FRoNHRAY STOKES.

8 rho following letter form Ray
ata. 10 his cousin, Miss Ruth Stokes
This pIace will be read with much
tsrpst by Springdale people. Ray
: member Of Co A Of Spring
IL but after reaching Camp Beau
soard was attached to another
II arriving in France far ahead
the company. He saw active ser
az in the trenches, and being wound
y was sent back to this country, ana
nov undergoing treatment IN an
astern hospital The letter follows:
i Dear Ruth You can't imagine
pw felt this morning after | re
$iyed YOUR letter. 1t Was the first
i have had since ! got across. well
4 fact its about the first IN three
Sonths So I'm almost tlckied to
BAH, Yes | would have been on my
bad home by now if it had not been
h the Spanish Fla" they have put
l. quarantine on us and here am
N I'm walking up and down the
Sard waiting for the time to come
4hen | shall be able to come home.
4 So you wanted to know Just how
Rd | was hurt? Well. We had
hst gone Over the top and rot
) a place, where We were digging
when an eight inch shell vas
ent over aud busted about 20 feet
Rom where We were, 1t killed our
Eapt., Top Sgt and wounded others
1though il did not hit any one but
De Top Sgt but the jar Of II was
Shat did the work. | was knocked
hi Of my head, so | was at the first
4id Station when | aWoke My arm
Has broken and my wrist strained
nd | had been gassed think that
1as enough. but afterwards | lay OH
m bed and wondered how it was.
bat was still living, and how |
TENT through the barages and ma
1hne gun fire with men by my side
Hing and | never got a scratch IN
j got it all at once. All of the
pen out Of our Co Of 250 were either
illed or wounded but 50. After
&c were IN about six days of actual
<dvanelng | went ten days, we run
b against some Of the famous gPrus
Ean Guards that you have no doubt
fad about.
I I'm glad you are proud of me be-
lg back, but wanted to stay over
here and would have if they had
pt sent me back ! like the excite
Dent OF the trenches and | also en-
py taking aim at Fritz and see him
brow up his hands and fall
80 some of the Sprlngdale people
e glad I'm back, certainly appre-
pate Il but I'm afraid | wont be able
I talk much at one time, as the
as affected my speech.
NO | nave never received any of
le letters or papers you sent me
khiie was in France, the last mail
g X was about the first of July.
nat IS night buy Liberty Bonds.
tip WIN the war because if we are
saten We would live in worse than
Iiehl the rest Of our days. But
netory ny '''is Oo'
,, You asked how many Germans |
lled, well good soldier never
sags about how many they xiii but
pnildentially will say at least
wv aoht tell any one how many
blocked off. '
KNOW Y that some Of our BOYS are
eng France by now, but YOU know
enc WE three months that / haven't
ee'yed letter, much could happen
Il T.. would never know it.
m feeling lots better now they
I've e, taken some slivers of bone out
In my arm and it does not hurt me
aen, the only thing that worries
c,a = mat my lungs have been af-
'e a,,; by gas and my chest hurts
qulte bit, but I'm getting fat
sIaa. and an am beginning to look some r.
4 81! 81 P PIKE a human.
ny ~ nos moss is not in the army
itb tn nate t to think Of he, or Dewey
'a I'm, having to go across because
onn means death to be caught
Iav vHe :. OF the Huns barages and il
es go they will have to o''e ga a