Abilene weekly reflector., 1918-12-26

Dighton Whitehead returned iron
Milwaukee where he was member
Of the S. A. Il. C. in the milwaukee,
school OF Engineering.
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Lieut.. Roger Dawson has returned
from Boonvllle, Mo, where he mas
been attending military academy. ll'
win be at home during the holidays
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Mervin Il. Franks of Co. ID, It'll
Inf. who has been stationed at Camp
Lewis. Washington. for the past SIX
months. writes they have been trans
fered to TT Lawton, Wash, where
they will do guard duty at 1T. Law
ton and In the ship yards; he says
II is great there. They can look oLt
the door and look up the sound. lie
sends his regards to all his friends.
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Lieut.. Maurice Il. Steinhilber OF
DAYTON, Ohio, nephew of Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Rush is spending week
here on his return from TT. Sill,
where he received his commission.
Lieut. Steinhllber enlisted In aviation
last December at Cincinnati. receiv-
ing his call In June, was sent to
Camp Dix. Tex, where he remained
only short time and was sent to
Ft. sill He says flying is great and
that he enjoyed his work while In
training. He will resume his college
work at Columbus, Ohio.
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Earl Sidesinger writes from France
November IS to Otis NJ. Rexroat: !
am feeling fine; am in a hospital
now, think ! will be home In coupe
OF months. l hope so any way.
sure want to see good old Y. 5. A
1 do wish you could Of come with me
II sure have seen some wonderful
sights. also have seen things that
were awful. But war is war. ! sup
pose most OF the boys have left good
old Abilene. But most of them will!
be back In two or three months. Then
we will have some time. The boys
are all crazy to get back and when
they do get back, they will have
some time. If l get back all right
wouldn't have missed this trip for a
whole lot. l have been pretty lucky
more ways than one. Haven't seen
my brother yet; don't know just
where he is. Uncle Sam sure takes
good care of the boys over here.
Plenty OF everything and You sure
can have fun here. All the boys
have swecthearts, but me, hut have
the best sweetheart in the world
waiting for me to come home. Give
my best regards to all.
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Sergeant Curtis Brewer sent an Of
ficer's helmet from France to his
father, J. f. Brewer, and 1t is the
first of its kind to come TO Abilene.
The helmet is made of black leather
and has brass trimmings. The en-
blem on the front of 1t bears the in
scription in German, with God for
King and for Fatherland, and II has
the brass spike on top, such az Is al
ways worn by Hun officers. Sergt.
Brewer writes that he took II from
one of the prisoners captured in the
battle Of Argonne. 1t is probable It
is dress helmet and not one worn
in the trenches.
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Bruce Engle was mustered ont of
the S. A. r. C. at Northwestern Uni
versity Tuesday of this week and by
way of celebration went promptly
over into the city, Chicago, to hear
CALI Curci sing Rossina In "The Bar
Der Of Seville" He will continue his
studies in the University where his
sister, Miss Rowena, is in her senior
year and where Mrs Northcott IL.
pursuing post graduate studies and
directing the university book store.
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On November "a all the soldiers
In France were allowed to write un-
censored letters to their fathers.
Those letters are now coming In and
the Reflector is publishing many of
them. They are mighty good letters
from mighty good boys who still
have love for dad. And dad ap-
preciates them, for take 1t by and
large, dad gets only little OF the
sentiment in this world and he Is
thankful when any Of It comes his
way.
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