Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1919-04-08
IS A SON OF
MRS. E. |. KEITH

Readers of the Herald will remem-
Der that a clipping was printed in
this paper last week from the Spokes-
man-Review in which it was related
that the d. S. G.. had been awarded to
Charles A. Mccarthy, of Bonners Fer
ry. The Herald was not able to find
anyone who knew Mr.. Mccarthy and
the general impression was that some
error had been made in mentioning
McCarthy's home town as Boomers
Ferry.
Mrs. E. L. Keith, who recently left
here with her husband for Kennewick
Wash, writes the Herald that Mr..
Mccarthy is her son. Her letter fol-
lows:
Editor the Herald:
am very glad to inform you that
Private Charles A. Mccarthy, Co b.,
End M. G. b., of Boomers Ferry, Ida,
whom the Spokesman Review gave
mention of last week as having been
awarded the Distinguished Service
Cross for extraordinary heroism in
action, is my son by former mar
riage. He enlisted in the u S. army
before the United States entered war
with Germany. He is % years old
and was one of the first to cross"
Following is the article referred to
which was published in the Spokes-
man Review and the Herald:
THE commander-in-chief, in the
name of the president, has awarded
the distinguished service cross to Pri-
vate Charles A. Mccarthy, Company B.,
Second Machine Gun Battalion, of Bon
ners Ferry, Idaho, for extraordinary
heroism in action near Fleville,
France, October 5, 1918. With the as
sistance of one other soldier, Private
Mccarthy entered wood where three
machine guns were holding up our
attack and, under unusually heavy ar
ltillery and machine gun fire, knocked
one of the guns out and rushed the
second single handed. With the as
sistance of the other soldier he then
succeeded in capturing about twenty
prisoners who where In or near the
machine gun nest"
Bonners Ferry is mighty glad to
claim Mccarthy as one of its citizens,
anyway.
Following is a letter which Mrs.
Keith recently received from her son:
I"Weidenhahn, Germany, January IS,
1919.
DtdI hOlneT.
Forgive me for not writing for so
long a time, but I haven't written to
anybody for a long, long time. 1
had a spell of the blues" and quit
writing
Il got through the war so far all O.
r.; was gassed pretty bad in the bat
tie of the Argonne but l am getting
along fine and dandy now. Have
been in Germany since December l.,
1918. Was in the grand duche de
Luxumberg for over two weeks.
we are having nice, warm weather,
a little bit rainy but no snow. It
showed all night on Christmas Eve
and we had nice, white Christmas
day. But it lasted only two or three
days.
Il was in Flaxweiller Luxumberg,
on Thanksgiving day and it sure was
gloomy day for me as I had an ulcer
ated tooth and had it pulled out on
that day.
Il sure have had the pleasure of see
ing some wonderful scenery on our
trip from France over here. We
marched all the way from Sedan. on
the Mouse river in France. the Mosel
river on the border of Luxumberg and
Germany, then down the Mosel until
it empties into the Rhine river at Cob
LEM, Germany. At Coblenz we
crossed the Rhine and marched to the
town where we are stationed at the
present time. We were in Coblenz a
day and night. We stopped two, or
three days and sometimes a week at
the different towns along the way.
Il am feeling pretty good and hope
this letter finds you just as good or
better. | thought some of getting
married while in France but changed
my mind and think I'll stay single.
We'll. Mother, I hope you will an
swer this letter soon as I am awfully
lonesome and don't get many letters
my own fault, / suppose"