Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-02-07
NEWS FROM ACROSS THE SEA.

ing from bllJOn, france, under date
of Dec. 90, says To-day | met Archie
Glawe and we were as tickled as two
kids with a little red wagon. Tell his
follsi he is feeling fine and looking
fine. and it surely is good to see some
one from home. ! stayed with him as
long as possibly could He has been
over the top three times and has not
had a scratch. -. At the present
time l am sleeping in an aeropIane
hangar. It is a large framework COW
cred with canvas. Yesterday morning
| reached for my coat and it slipped
out of my hand and dropped into
puddle of water at the head of my
bed 1t is a great life if you don't
weaken. | left Jay Diedrich
at -ahawe. but have not heard from
him since. . Tell Dad to be
patient viii not be here forever,
and then Home, Sweet Home"
received letter from the
Wauwatosa bank wishing me a Happy
New Year and asking if they could do
anything for me, and it did me good.
have. Just received a 10 per
cent increase in my salary. ]. :.
We now have 1000 trucks to be over
hauled We do not speak of them in
numbers, but there are acres of them"
Stanley is also pleased to know that
Edna Ferguson has left for her work
"over there" and feels sure she will
make good He says he weighs ITO
pounds, as against 126 pounds when
he went over. He has raised mus
tache and says if his razor does not
slip he is going to wear it home
Eugene M. Perry has been in the
army school at Langres, France, from
which he received a certificate of COM
mission as second lieutenant on jan
uary LIST, He was given a seven-day
Ieavee of absence, which he spent in
one of the large leave areas on the
Spanish border.
Friends of Miss Edna Ferguson will
be glad to know that she had a most
enjoyable trip across, the ocean being
like glass and the weather so warm
that they were on deck most of the
time without hats and their coats
OPEN Officers and crew say they
never had such a trip. They landed at
Liverpool and spent four or Eve days
in visiting the various hospitals and
sightseeing. Sunday was spent in
London. The first morning Edna was
in Paris shes met Miss Lillian Webb,
who was assistant librarian at Mil
waukee Normal and an old classmate
and sorority chum, so the two girls
were very happy. Edna speaks of the
high cost Of living in Paris: Apples,
60 cents each; $1.25 for one pear,
which the girls bought for a COM
panion in honor of her birthday, and
S100 for an exceedingly tiny bundle of
wood that would make only little
flicker in the CRATE. At last writing
Edna was still with the girls with
whom she was trained in this country,
but had decided to goat once to the
field of action and they were at Bijon,
said to be next to Paris, so far as
streets, buildings and art are con-
cerned. While in Paris, they were on
the same street where the peace con-
ference is being held, and in sight OF
the building.
Kenneth La Barr, who formerly
worked at the Wauwatosa Dairy Co.,
wrote from Weis, Germany, under
date of Dec. %, 1918, telling some of
his experiences which we quote: 'The
eleventh day of the eleventh month OF
1918 is a day which | shall always re-
member CHATS Ken's 21st birthday
. and the eleventh hour was the biggest
hour for all of us, as it was hard Tor
any of us to believe that it was all
over after the living hell that we nad
gone through and were existing IN. we
had to wait until the guns were silent
to make sure of it. The SIND was IN
the lines on the 18th in the Meuse sec
tor and we were at town named
Vilosnes near Dun Sur Meuse. we
took over the front lines In the AT
gonne forest, north of Verdun, on oct
l and were in for twenty, the infantry
bucking the pick of the German DIT
visions and three or four divisions
were put in but we finally pierced
the famous Kriemhilde line, the last
organized line of the enemy on thal
front, which caused retreat to the
Meuse river, and we followed up IN
support, receiving our requirements
under shell fire. On the night OF the
Sth of November we took over the
front line again and We're pushing
Fritz hard when the armistice was
signed. He says he and
companion spent week in LuXen
burg before entering Germany ano
adds. I'VE had real home there IN
little town named Altries, on the
frontier. We spent Thanksgiving there
and the family we stayed with hxee
up a great feed, roast chicken WITH
all the trimmings l had feather
bed that / needed a ladder to clint
into. We entered Germany Dec. ane
crossed the Rhine at 10000 A NJ OF
Dec. IA, just below Coblenz.
The people here treat us fine but the!