Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-08-22
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Mrs. w. f. Stanley today received
telegram from her SON. James
Crawford Carlson, and he said Made
my navy e and a $50 prize. Feeling
fine but no sign for furlough. This
is a better place than Norfolk treat
us fine here. Address me, Armed
Guard, detailed naval training sta
ton, Philadelphia, Pa
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Mrs. John Wesley Tabborn writes
to the Reflector from Junction City
My husband, John Wesley Tabobrn,
Is a member Of Company II. ! just
received a card from him saying that
he was wounded and was in a hos
pital sick. / do not know how bad
Iv he was injured but believe he is
getting along alright. He says Com
pany II was in the trenches eight
days and only lost one man. HIS
CAPTAIN. as YOU have probably heard,
was accidently shot in the foot.
Your Abilene paper surely gives
interesting news from the boys
"Over There
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A long article in Leslies maya
zine. tells of the life and work at
Camp Colt, Gettysburg, Pa. The ar
ticle is headed: "Give EN- He'll
Boys" and is written by Eula Nc
Clary. In part the article says; mo
story of the personnel of the Tank
Corps would be complete without the
acquaintance of the X. o. which In
the tongue of the military world is
West Point for commanding officer
If in the world there is man who
Ia a model tanker, surely Major
Eisenhower is that man."
The remainder Of the article is
quotation of Major Eisenhower's
idea of a model tanker. In sum-
ing it all up, he says: "Men, we eat
together, sleep together, and some
of us may die together, but we'll al
ways stick together"
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In a letter to Herbert Eicholtz, {
Private Joe Crum says: Somewhere
in France, July 21.-The only other
Abilene boy l have seen lately is
Robert Walters and he said his COM
pany is at the front. l saw Milton {
Jones, Stewart Laney and Elmer
Knowles the other day. We have z
a Y now, it just opened last night.
II surely helps, we can get choco- &
late bar once in a while and candy
certainly has been scarce over here.
There is a creek nearby and we
Jump in for a shor: swim every eve
ming. We are just outside a little {
town and we are allowed to drink
light wines once in a while. l saw
a farmer blowing with COW and
three horses the other day.
You have probably seen in pic 9
ture shows the little box cars that
the soldiers are transported in.
Well, that's the kind of luxury we It
ride in when we came here. The
cars in England are even smaller.
/ did not get seasick on the voyage {
but there we're many Of them that !
did. But I'll tell you all about it
when l come home.
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Sergeant Elmer e. Knowles, COM
monty known as Moody" writes a
mighty interesting letter to Herbert
Eicholtz under date of July 10.
somewhere in the Trenches-Here
/ am, over here in the trenches and
have been in them for some time.
Talk about excitement, there is sure
" more excitement here than there '
is in small town on election day
I'd like to have you here with me
when some of the big shells come
over. We call them "hellians. "
One doesn't know which way to duck =
when shell is coming. Anyway, :
we have the satisfaction of knowing =
that Fritz has to duck ten times to :.
our one. =
With all this excitement we have d
a lot of fun. One way we pass the "
time is playing with the trench rats. =
They are called rats but never did
see any like them In the U. S. A :
1 did see some that closely resem
bIed them and that was down in Ar =
kansas where they used them for =
pack mules. Really, l haven't seen =