The Springdale news., 1918-12-20
ROGER REED REPORTED
 WOUNDED.

WOO NDED.
 Mir. and Mrs. R. E. Reed. residing q short distance north of Springdale received a telegram Thursday after noon from the War Department an- nouncing that their son, Corp. Roger j. Reed was severely wounded in ac- tion November 9. MT and Mrs. Reed received two letters from their son the day the telegram reached them, one of the letters being dated November Il and the other November lJ. In one of these he spoke of be ias on the firing line and coming through without a scratch. This cs.sed his parents to think some mis- take had been made in the telegram and wire was sent to the War De- partment asking for confirmation. The reply gave the company and reg iment To which Roger is attached. So the only place and error could have been made vas on the other side l. may be possible that some other mem Der Of the company who was wound ed was mistaken for Roger. IL is hardly possible for him to have writ ten two letters, one the l1th and the other the 10th, had he been severely wounded on the 9th.
 Roger WAS with the first seleetives from Benton County He spent the winter training at Camp Jackson, S. C., and arrived in France in July.
 Following IS the letter written by Roger November l6, to his sister. Miss Willie:
 On Active Service with the Ameri- can Expeditionary Forces, Nov. Is. IS
 Dear Willie Well how is every body today7 We are all feeling pretty good over here now since the roaring of the eannons has ceased every thing has been quiet and peace able since eleven o'clock Monday Had you thought about II being the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh iconth that the firing ceased
 l have been having some exper. fences the last week that I never vii forget and I hope l will never have to go through any thing like it again
 We are having some real coo weather here now. think this morn ing was the coldest morning we hay, had. but it is not raining and that is something unusual for this coun. try.
 dreamed last night that I was al home and going quail hunting ana ] hope my dream will come true soor and l really think il will in the nex; few months.
 Well l just received letter from you and it had two of Doyle's picture in t. was sure glad to get them. get your letters often. that is about every week and every one ge, think may be there will be some Die tures in 1t, but have always been dis appointed until this evening.
 have only received two papers from you. did not see any thing in either one about R G's wedding but l saw where Ray Stokes had come back ta the U s. A.
 We'll Charles is luckier than have been If he has run on to an old Spring dale boy l have been all over France and have seen thousands of r. $. soldiers but have not seen one yet that l ever saw back in the states and l have kept my eyes open too l would sure like to run up on P. VI. some day it would be some pleasant surprize. Gladys sent me his ad dress and l wrote to him but l don't suppose he ever got II. Well You ought to see my lamp am using to. night II is box of shoe grease with n string in it for wick, we generally have candles but sometimes candles are hard to get and we make k grease lamp.
 Your loving brother.
 Roger J Reed
 lc Aol4o"itE iciteF was written November II by Roger to his mother:
 Nov. Il. l9ls-Dear Mother Well you have heard the good news. I have been on very active front for the last week and have been under some of the heaviest fire, 1 don't see how so many of Us come through a live, but did not get a scratch. The firing ceased this morning at eleven o'clock and the bells and whistles be- gin to ring and blow. know every body is feeling good back in the states as well as in France received txo springdale papers a few days ago, they were both Sept papers and were the first ones that l have got since have been in France. Going back home is ali l hear now, everyone is