Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
BOYS OVER THERE
NEED MAGAZINES
Letters From Front Show the
Yankees Are Handling
Themselves Well

! .. o. S. calls from Benjamin Whit
man. well-known Bible class teacher
of Harrisburg, who is serving Some
where in England" on Y. NJ. C. A.
duty. to his friends in this city for
magazines and newspapers with
which to help brighten the life of
the boys. over there are contained
| in letter received recently here.
| Writing on this uppermost need OF
| the fellows in American training
camps in England, the "Hick-a-
Thrift Bible class teacher. says:
My, how one does like to learn of
home If you have any old maga-
zines and newspapers and get them
through, do so. l save all l can, have
also written for the Literary Digest,
! c. L. World and National Geographic
to send them on. The London maga-
zines are nothing compared to such
as McClures' Golfers or Review of
! Reviews. Now, with the hundreds l
have reading, it takes scratching.
| Wish we could get some New York
Worlds or Sunday papers as they do
! go so far" More fellows there than
you think" Whitman says in his let
ter, are trying to go back as clean
as they came" The squadrons at
his camp, he states, are made up OF
every human element from cow
boys" to preachers" Both classes
are in need of your prayers" ac-
cording to the Y. NJ. c. A. worker.
Praise For Y. NJ. g. A.
Writing to his mother under re-
cent date from France where he is
serving with Company A, American
Ammunition Training, A. L. F., Harry
/ r. Hiney, a Harrisburg boy whose
home in this city is 1886 Herr street.
! reports that he is in "the best OF
health" after having done "a bit OF
/ travelling" which finally brought MIN
up in France where he was lucky
enough to meet two Harrisburg peo-
pie" The duet, met, says Hiney'
were a chap named "Gumpher.
| former schoolmate and MISS
Watts" on Y. NJ. C. A. duty abroad
"At present" writes young Hiney.
I'VE are being further equipped and
them don't know what! Don
worry about me for l am perfectly
safe and it isn't as hard as you
think"
( What this soldier thinks of the
Y. NJ. c. A. and the Red Cross is dl-
7 vulged in the following lines: Moth-
/ er, if the Y. NJ. c. A or the Red cross
ask for subscriptions give al you
canv' The writer says that he mas
/ seen quite a few prisoners of war
since I've been on this side SONS
of them are about IA or 10 years ola
and some look so or 60
! France is full of good ROADS
roads everywhere one looks accord
/ ing to a missive received lately oS
! charles A. Wilhelm, of 1905 Green
street. this city from his frlenu anu
! fellow lodge member, Private a. D.
! Hartman, of Headquarters company
314th Field Artillery, n. Il. T. "hose
/ home is in Harrisburg. You see turn
likes and good ones although there's
! lots of hills" Hartman, VINO mao
/ done quite a deal of travelling atoot
and on horse before getting to ms
camp. reports water as mlshIS
| scarce oyerhere" his outfit pumping
one village dry so that other members
of his organization which tollo"eu
had to go thirsty on their arrlVal.
When he got to the camp, Hartman
tells of meeting "a few HarrIsDuls ,i. 3
bows who were about to leave theii
brigade. | surely was slao 10 sec
them" he writes.
! Rather Uneven
! ,yor-on w Flora, of Enola, at
+acbed to Company +, 60Sd Engineers
| A Z. F.. doing duty in France Writ
inc to his father, William w: flora'
tells the latter to publish the lacI
among his friends tnat far from oe
80 aeead he is very much alive and
well and still trying to do my DIT.
I5tora who is in a company OF nash
and sound finders, says that altnoue ~
he doesn't get much chance TO pop
the enemy, the latter do their oest
-. .sbooting us" but from what he
can hear, the member Oh eng 1neeIs
tbinks "some of them are rotten
shots" Flora promises to sit down
,y;th his dad for six months run
,,io.r and tell him all about his pres
a,,t mace when he's back home after
Recent recovery from a slight gas
attack was the reassurlnS message
received by the parents of Augustus
/ r. Stsiley, who enlisted in May, ~! G.,
in Company ID, of the 'old ElShln
and is now on the firing line IN
France. Mr.. and Mrs. j. l. Stdiiey'
mo live at Camp Hill, quote from
their sons letter to tne eilect 'na :
"tbe Huns are still on the go ana we
Iii keen them going until they give
~ -. we get them all" Everyone Is
80 ,ohirh snirits over here" says young
St,iiev in his letter home. The writer
is n,ith a machine gun unit and ar
rjved overseas for duty last May.
pavn,ond Brunner and Edward
Rrunner, brothers. sons OF Mrs' Julla
Rrnnner, of SO North Tenth street,
tbis city, are keeping the famlly
name on the list of militant patriots'
the former by serving with the Key
store division now lighting in France
and the latter by being attached TO
an United States Cavalry, stationed
~ columbus, Ohio. Both are Volun-
teers- the former, who is the eldest
of the two, enlisting when volunteers
Srare FIRST sought in the early days OF
An1erica's entry into the war and the
later doing the same thing just two
aays before recruiting stopped. MIS-
drummer gladly gave both her poys
10 Uncle Sam and was proud Oh the
chance to do IT. c.,..
After enjoying ten-day lurlousn
with his wife and son, Lieutenant A
u Mover, of Company T, 4th Training
Rariment. stationed at Camp Plke'
ARKANSAS, has returned to his post.
Tbe Mover home in this city is at Ala
Cumberland street.
lanes W. Thomas, son or Mr: ana
ure lanes Thomas, of Coal Dale
Tr,kens. Pa, has returned to Camp
Tunston. Kansas. after an eight-daV
furlough. He is in the attn lntahtrV'
Company L.
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