The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-03-17
WITH THOSE IN
ARMY AND Navy
This column, containing news OF
Richmond and Wayne county sol
diers and sailors. will appear daily
in the Palladium. Contributions
will be welcomed.
Il am still among the living, am

81 am still among the living, am
well, and have seen good deal Of this
part of the world" writes Private Bert
Runkle, in a letter to Mrs. Gussie
Dye, of Easthaven Avenue.
Runkle wrote from Mogendorf Ger
many where his company has been
stationed. He says:
Il have been in Ireland, England,
France and Germany, and we certainly
have been through some beautiful as
well as devastated country. In some
of the towns where there had been
fighting there was not a wall left
standing. All you could see about Yer
dun were big shell holes, barbed wire
entanglements and trenches. Where
there had once been wonderful wods,
all that was left was snags of ruined
tres. All the fruit trees have been
killed by gas. In the Scissors drive
of the 18th of July we drove the Huns
through wheat fields where the wheat
was waist high. Some of it the Ger
mans had cut and shocked, and in
that case it was nicely ready for the
French to thresh. Men were lying
dead everywhere in those wheat fields,
but most of them were Germans.
ago. He was loking pretty good, and
said he had been getting his mail
through from his folks all right. /
was worried about Goldie in the Ar
gonne, because so many fellows from
our old company in the states, which
he is still in, were killed in that drive
I'VE are having it little better now
than we did at first. We can buy
oh 10 -, g.,
almost everything we want.
"My people are writing me wanting
to know when I'll be home, but that
is very indefinite. We may all have
long wait, but / am not worrying so
long as l know that everything is all
right at home"
Have received your letter of the
24th and was very glad to hear from
you. This leaves me o. X" says
Private Joseph F. Moss, of Co. A, III
Engineers.
This has been rainy day have
worked all morning. We walksd out
four miles this morning to work on the
roads. I guess that Sunday is no diff
ferent from any other day over here,
but it SENS pretty tough on us boys
just as we did when we were on the
front We begin to think that the peo-
pie in the states have forgotten us,
for it doesn't seem to look as if they
cared very much whether we ever
get home.
I'VE all get pretty badly disguised
over here. We have to buy our own
fuel, or go cold. Four of us bought
two La I~ &c
one dollar. The boys are getting
where they do not care whether they
do anything or not, and you cannot
blame them. Personally l do not see
anything enjoyable over here.
Mrs. and Mrs. Levi Myers Of the
Arlington pike have word from their
son, Harold Norris, who has been in
the Army of Occupation. He writes
that he got as far as the Rhine when
the muscles in his arm, which was
wounded last summer, gave way and
that now he is at Bordeaux waiting
transportation home. Norris said he
"had seen enough of Germany any
way.
Capt Stephen C. Markley, who has
pen StduOneO at COnldrIler, france,
has entirely recovered from a recent
attack of influenza, he writes.
Word has ben received by relatives
in Fountain City that Lieutenant Har-
ry NJ Clark has been advanced to the
rank of captain. Captain Clark is
now stationed at ST. Nazier, France.
with a motor transport corps He was
at the front number of times during
the war.