The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1918-03-01
LIEUT.. HAY NJ { 5.
HAS SERVED IN
FRONT TRENCHES
Is Second Knox Co. Boy To
See First-Line
Duty
BIG QUININE DOSES
FAIL TO KILL COLD
Policing The Streets Is Keep
ing Them Clean; Picture
Of Country

Lieut.. Harry E. Haynes, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank p. Haynes of West
Vine street, has been in the front.
line trenches in France, according to
brief note received by his parents.
So far as is known Lieut.. Haynes
holds the honor of being the second
Knox county boy to get into active
duty against the Huns, Cecil p. Hall,
member of an engineering unit. being
the first.
In previous letter from Lieut..
Haynes, written Jan. 80, he says,
among other things
This has been II great day for
received ten letters. You cant
imagine my surprise and delight. If
would be different, but I think I'm
the busiest man on earth. | did not
go to school as expected. All the 9TH
er officers who have been here longer
did; so that makes me keep my eyes
and my ears open all the time. Well,
as the saying goes, Experience is the
/ best teacher | guess I'll be taught
in time. but | don't want piece OF
! shrapnel to catch me before | know
all that is to be known. Old Fritz
is pretty handy,too, with his artillery
get, the more l hate the 'Boche.' It's
a great life if you don't weaken.
keep taking quinine, trying to shake
my cold, but can't. Even cognac does
no good, Ha! ha!
81 have thousands of things I'd
like to write about, but don't dare.
An ambulance driver in Paris might
get away with it. but remember that
any information falling into German
hands might cost hundreds OF lives.
They have too good spy system.
Perhaps little later | can tell you
more than can just now. 1t is even
forbidden to tell what division ] be-
long to.
by the way, this is the regiment
that the woman came over with last
June dressed in soldiers clothes. Her
husband was Il corporal or sergeant
in ii Co. Some of the men told me of
it. Don't you remember reading her
stories in the Sunday papers?
"A brief description of the conn.
try. 1t is very rolling or hilly Beau.
hn n
mate that you can't enjoy the beauty
imagine that a tourist would rub
his hands in glee over the scenery
The farmers or peasants do not live
on their farms, but in small villages
from one to four kilometers apart
The houses and barns are combined
under one roof. You can step from
the kitchen into the stable. The
houses are all made of stone, plaster
ed with IA stucco or mortar. The
roofs are all red tile. The streets
and most of the people are very
dirty. Usually the soldiers, wher
they first arrive in Il town, have tt
: police the streets (pOlice-clean). The
/ inhabitants, mostly old people or chill
t dren, wear wooden-soled or woodeI
{ shoes called 'gabots' or something
like that. On Sundays, after the sol
e diers have spent part of their pay
e the people wear leather shoes AM
r some of the mademoiselles doll al
: up 1t is different in the cities, how
a ever, or even the larger towns. In
Dust speaking OF the small countr
towns
DO you ever get any news of tn
army from the papers? mean O
what the army here is doing. We OF
. ly know of ourselves. The papers W
get are all over a month old, w
don't get the Paris edition here ye
| got letter from Carl Taugher II
u is going to send some stogies Som
g boy! III write to him soon.
> "Oh, yes! The Red Cross, hea
d is doing wonders, but not just herr
- think the French Red Cross get
most of the money and | hear they'r
doing wonderful things. The swea
ers all seem to stay in the states fc
we haven't received any, but that
@ probably because we're lost. joil
y ed at Columbus In March or April.
mot many of the men will MARI
IS French girls, and II they do, they
II rush them to America. That's God
If country.
y Il think ] told you l'm not with Il
IL old lady any more. We surely laug
ed about your telling me TO give III