The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-09-12
Sgt. Don G. Fisher in Letter to
Mother Tells of Deeds of
Home Boys.
MAKETHE HUNS WORK
Joe Blackburn Took Prisoners
and Compelled Them to
Assist Wounded.

An interesting letter written by Sgt.
Don G. Fisher to his mother, Mrs.
q. G. Fisher, contains a lot of infor-
nation relative to Company e boys
and how they are making good in every
position they have been placed. Roby
LOyelace and Joe Blackburn, and a
number of others have been cited for
bravery and will be rewarded with
medals. The letter in part follows {:
Anglers, France, Aug. 9.-"Just a
few lines to let you know that 1 am
In good health and having a good time
altho l have quite a lot more work
than l have had to do for some time,
but l think it agrees with me.
II am no longer in Company e but
now First Sergeant of Company L, and
we handle all the men who are ON their
way back to the front from the hos
pitfalls, so that we do not keep the same
outfit very long but have some changes
every day and with each change there
is quite lot of office work.
"Bill Gregg was transferred to Com
pany l and made First Sergeant and
Claude Fray went to Company G and
was made First Sergeant or at least
will be shortly.
II made Capt Wheeler promise that
II we ever went to the front that /
could go with Company e, and after
he gave me his word felt pretty happy
as i would hate to go up with new
outfit or see the old company move
out and ea re ME behind.
"The captains name is c. II. Olberg
and he sure handles things fine and
dandy and / enjoy working with MIN
and a fellow takes more interest when
he knows the captain is behind him to
back him up and that gives him conf
dence.
Il received a nice long letter from
A. Il. Parker and ii was sure interest
ing and | hi lst get busy and write to
h.,I ana tell him how TIE bunch are
getting along over here and at the
same time tell him we are doiug our
best to make the u. S. safe for the
democrats to live in.
"The other day l was walking down
the street with one of the new men
who had just arrived from the states
and we met a French officer, who wore
several medals and after sizing mp the
OFFICER for a few seconds the boy said,
Wal | bet that ar fellow would 60
where bear wouldn't travel" the way
ne said 1t made me laugh and he could
not see what made me laugh Another
OF the fellows was just wee bit home
SICK after getting several letters from
tne folks at home and after reading
tnem through several times he made
the remark, Gee, but l would like to
see them" and l was sure he was
thinking Of his family or best girl and
l said, well, Lad, did some other
Fellow grab your best girl while you
were away" He said, mo, l just
got letter from dad and he was tell
ing about the seven new calves and 1
was kind of homesick to see them"
guess it made Grangeville sort of
Diue to hear about the two or three
Oh the fellows that were killed, but If
my time comes to die / can't think of
y nicer way to pass out of this life
tnan fighting under the dear old flag
that our people have died for in years
passed and we are no better than they
ana perhaps not so good. Should it be
my lot to die over here, 1 only hope
II VIII be on some battle field and that
! get chance to see who can shoot
'ne best, some dutchman or myself.
!, Grangeville can well be proud Of
.ne members Of Company e who are
WIN the Second Engineers, as they tell
ine that Cox, Moses and the rest of the
punch that were killed were fighting
Iihe tigers, that Joe Blackburn, Roby
,'oVelace and several of the others
nave been mentioned for bravery and
" nnl ne rewarded with medals for it.
nooy went back to the trenches while
uiiuer heavy shell fire and helped carry
pue the wounded and among those that
ne carried out was Guy Wallace,
ahother Grangeville boy. Joe Black
purn took four German prisoners and
matte them work all night carrying
msouhded Americans in from the battle
aieiu and great deal of the time was
unuer heavy fire but old Joe was there
WIN both feet just the same. All the
o,u bunch who have been in tight
taces have made good and it makes a
.enow feel good to think that at one
''',,e ne was from the same company.
m AS soon as / get caught up with
%s work / hope to be able to get a
s,'''ilce s TO go up with the troops to see
9ohie OF the actual fighting and when
=, ooine home could be able to tell you
iaoout some battle other than the blood
h sss battle of Anglers which we have
n tighting for so long.
T. nave seen several of the Company
:" noys' who have been wounded and