The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-12-26

er he returned to this field or remalnsd
at the Main field, / was to continue
the parts and equipment for expert
mental purposes. He was in an &C
cident the other day, however, and is
laid up in the hospital. Since the war
is over more than likely the expert
ments will be of no value if they do
prove to be successful, as it would
take too long to get them into
quantity production.
At present, am, as said before,
in the aerial gunnery. I had been
trying to get into the repair depart
ment for some time. These guns look
like Lewis machine guns but are
cameras. One of the fellows in the
shop has been put onto the field and
1 have been put in his place! It is
promotion for me but not for him.
The other day the officer in charge
of camera guns wanted the movie
camera which mounts on Lewis ma
chine gun put in shape, so the serg-
cant in charge brought it out into the
shop. I was there alone. He said
"here it is; fix it up" had never
seen the thing before but looked it
over and found two things broken and
two missing. Fixed them up but it
took some time as I had to make two
new parts; they had to be figured out
as this was the only one of these
guns we have and I hadn't seen it be-
fore. 1t was necessary to have some
welding done and I had to wait on
that as there are only two men allow
ed to use the welding outfit. But it
was finally finished and I made the
adjustments and it apparently works
fine, as there is no hesitation in the
action and the pictures turn out good.
The 10th Squadron won the cham
pionship of the outlying fields in base
ball this fall, and played for the
championship of the Sd A. I. c., but
lost out. They certainly got raw
deal from the Jumps" the first game
and refused to play the rest of the
series under the same Jumps" The
athletic officer said it was play or
forfeit, so they played rather than
forfeit.
A FLOW by the name of Gunder
from Paynesville, Mimi, is our pitch
err, and he and the catcher and short
and first baseman were really the
whole team. The funny part of it
is that Gunder was a catcher before he
came into the army, but he is crack
ing good pitcher now. He has been
promoted to chauffeur just lately.
Today our football team played the
Gath squadron for the football cham
pionship of the outlying fields, and
we won rs too. We will now play
the Main field for the championship
of the Center.
I have the sweater mother sent, and
one received from the Red Cross, both
in good shape; lots of socks; a good
helmet, a muffier and wristlets. We
get an issue of tobacco every ten days
which more than keep me supplied. l
have a good pipe. In fact there is
nothing I want while I am in France
that l can't get. Have four good
razors; bought two; one was given to
me and was issued a Gillet. So /
didn't send the Christmas slip home
because I really don't want it, and l
don't want you folks to feel bad about
it either, because I consider that the
space used for these 3x4x9's could bet
ter be used for something else.
You know that I'll be thinking of
you folks and Wishing I was there;
and I'll know you're thinking of me;
but I'll be home to collect better than
Christmas present before many
months. .
And last but not least, I hope you
folks are all as well as am,
With lots of love, yours, Hugh.
Carl Gingery was in the thick of the
fipht at Chateau Thiery. When he
wrote he was near famous old Metz.
His letter which follows is full of in
terest:
Colombey Les Bellies, France, Nov. "a.
Dear Father: Finally the censorship
rules have practically been lifted and
now you may know for sure where
your son is, the above being the
place. This is near the larger cities
of Nancy, Toul, Neufchateau and also
Vaucoleurs just across the line from
the historic city of Metz. Colombey
as we call it for short is not much OF
town for size, the houses are of the
customary stone so common in France.
In front of each house the owner
measures his wealth very conspicuous
ly by the size of his manure pile and
at times I often think that the smell
counts a long ways too. But now
that is mostly changed for the Ameri-
can soldiers have been here for about
a year and this past summer there
have been enough of them to do clean
ing up work around the village and
though it was a merry job the city
does look a lot better and one can
walk down the street at night without
feeling that all of his days rarions
.