The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-05-08
: Letters From and About Soldiers

Armand patereau, the younger, vet
eran of the great war. is home after
four years of service. He bears three
scars from wounds and wears the
Crox de Guerre for heroism in silenc
ing Boche machine gun sent. Young
Patereau, whose father, a Mt. Hood
rancher, is homesteader and a natur-
allied American citizen, answered the
first call to arms, and within a month
after the hordes of the kaiser were
sweeping toward Paris, was at the
front. He served in machine gun
company.
The young man, was home on fur
Tough in April, 1917. On his return
he carried with him a silk American
flag. presented by Mayor Dumble. He
carried it throughout the remainder of
the war.
After Americas entry into tie war,
Mr.. Patereau made vain endeavor to
secure transfer to the American Ex.
peditionary forces.
Col. c. S. Chapman. just back from
France, where he was with regiment
of forestry troops engaged in get ing
out timber for the American ExI edi-
tionary Forces, has been here spending
the week on a Neal Creek ranch ov ned
by himself and T. H. Sherrard, super
visor of Oregon National forests.
When Col. Chapman first went TO
France he says the mills there, equip
ped with the slow going continental
machinery, were getting cut $50, 600
feet of lumber month. Before the
armistice was gned American ma
chinery had been shipped across and
the output had been increased to A..
600, 600 feet monthly.
To Father Kelley, fighting chaplain
and hero of the Argonne Forest, will
90 the honor of receiving the last box
of apples of the 1918 crop distributed
to passing soldiers by the Hood River
Red Cross. J. H. Fredricy, of the
| Canteen committee, presented Father
Kelley with the fruit Thursday as he
passed through en- route to Portland
from eastern Oregon, where he has
party of local men greeted Father kel
ley here. He accompanied his father
and O.-W. K. & N officials aboard a
private car attached to train No l.
Bud Ison, member of the 36lst In.
fantry, just mustered out at Camp
Lewis, arrived home last week
Among the numerous souvenirs he
brought home is quantity of French
Belgian and German money of a. .sorted
small denominations, The returned
soldier says he is going to get his fill
of ham and eggs as soon as poss BILE.
While eggs were scarce in Belgium,
where the regiment was last statiOne d
before being sent to port Of embarka-
tion, and sold for ST. so per dozen, Mr..
/ Ison declares that they had more at.
traction for the doughboy than vim
blanc or win rouge.
Corporal Jack Anderson. former
member of Troop A. Oregon Cavalry,
and veteran of the Mexican border
campaign of 1917, has sent to his
| friend, Walter Walters, German bay
onet, which he captured in a venture
over the top. The boche soldier used
the bayonet, one of the edges of which
is wickedly serrated, as trench knife
Corporal Anderson was little faster
than Heinie. and to his speed he says
he owes his life.
The sawtooth bayonet has been
placed on display by Mr. Walters.
I Mr.. and Mrs A. c. Lofts have Just
received letter from their son. Athur
c. Lofts, formerly member of sub
chaser crew. announcing that he was
spending a furlough in Paris. The
young man, who recently returned
from Christiana. Norway, where Amer
ican subchaseYs were exhibited to