The Ordway new era., 1919-06-20
THE BOYS HERE AND THERE

home. The letter was dated In
France May 2S, and he says:
Tomorrow morning l am going to
start for home. oh joy. How happy
l am"
| Nick is a native of Greece and had
been in this country only few years
when war started. He does not call
Greece his home, but the good old
United States, Crowley county, Colo
rado. His letter in part follows:
81 have visited Paris and had n
good time for there is so much to
see. have been in Verdun, Rheims
and Chauteau-Thierry. In the city
of verdun 1 saw the underground
/ fortiflcations. There is an under
ground city with large hospitals.
supply depot, theaters, churches, Of
! fees and almost everything. The
| town of Verdun on ground has been
demolished.
| The battle portions of France are
covered with graves, shell holes.
| trenches, barbed-wire. guns, tanks
and other things. 1t is frightful
to go over "No-Man's" land now
There are the graves of many hun
dred thousand in the vicinity, and
some places the dead had not been
buried when i went over the ground.
! 81 lave been in the Crown Prince
tunnel, on Dead Mans hill, near the
Meuse river, and on this hill there
25 900 graves. / was in Death VAL
| ley and saw the place which is the
grave of the famous 137th Inf. Six
miles from Verdun is the Fort Du-
mcnt. They have some very large
crnnons there and they are kept
about fifty feet under the ground.
These are elevated to take a shot and
then are hid away again. I was in
Hindenburg's line and 1 realize now
how strong it was"
Billie Eagan is not dead, and his
many friends are mighty glad to
know it, He will be discharged and
home in a few days. and expects to
be in Ordway soon. Eagan was n
corporal and Corporal Eagan was re-
ported in one of the army publica-
tions as having died in New York
on his return from France. AS Billie
Eagan was not heard from for several
weeks 1t was at frat believed that
he was the one Since then letters
have been received by his folks and
friends here.
w. C. Walker, Edwin Smith, Earl
Barker and Garfield Dunning landed
in New York from France last Sun
day and will be in Ordway within a
very short time now. These four
boys have been together during the
| war.
John Hopkins, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
]. G. Hopkins. arrived home last
Thursday evening after almost two
! yaa In tho army carvico He Wa a
in France and over in some of tho
big and fearful engagements, and
following the signing of the armis-
tice was in the army of occupation.
John states that there is as much
difference between an European
country and our country as there is
between Ordway and Mexican town
in Pueblo.
In a letter to Harry Hast recently
Lieut.. G. l.. Richards, in France,
stated that he had had orders to pack
up preparatory to sailing for home.
He did not know when he would
leave but said that he would have to
be on board ship before he would
be fully convinced that he was to
come. for as he stated. eff some horse
got sick in France before I got on
tHe DOdL WOuiu De apt 10 ne kept
on duty awhile longer"
Charles johnson, son of e. P. John
son. is stationed at Camp Meigs,
Washington, ID. C. He is in motor
truck service and makes frequent
trips into Washington.
Mrs. w. T. Williams received a
Eie3sage a few days ago stating that
Ecr brother, Paul Mann, had been
wounded In Coblenz. Germany, where
he is on Guty in the army of occupa-
ton. The extent of his wounds were
%. stated. He had been in the er
gagemc-.ts On the battle front during
the war and went thru all of this
rrinjured.
Harley Cases address is now u. s.
S. Shoshone, care Postmaster. New
York City.
Delbert Lee. son of Mrs. d. p.
Hersperger. is now stationed at Cav
ite, p. /. His address is Marine Bar
racks, Cavite.
Clay Bruce arrived home from
France on Thursday evening of last
week and spent short time here.
His mother resides in Missouri and
he VIII make visi. there. Bruce
is one. of the overseas boys who saw
some hard fighting. He entered the
service from this county.
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