Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-05-09
MORE BEAR LAKE BOYS
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Tip" Toomer kissed and shook
hands with everybody IN sight when
he arrived homo Sunday. Tip" was
In Co. b. 361st infantry and tough,
In every battle the Wild West divls.
ion was In from the 81. Mihiel drive
to the terrific fight In the Argonns
Woods, and then In the Lys aud
Scheldt sectors in Belgium.
He went through tho entire night
Ing without a scratch. Every me
the bullets began flying too fast he'd
curl up under his tin helmet, and he
Gays he never knew before how close
a man could hug the ground.
Tip" says Montpelier never look
ed so good to him AZ when he stepped
OF the train Sunday and II 10 Mont
pelier and Bear Lake for him until
the sands Of the desert grow cold He
twiff get baels- -tnrstfe' hAruess~ INC roo
G Toomer's garage In the near fu.
ture.
VIM. .Sorensen of Ovid, and
Chauncy Wilks of st. Charles. also
arrived home Sunday. We did not get
TO talk with them. but understand
| that they participated in several OF
the big drives which put the Huns
| on the run. Like the other local BOYS,
they are "tickled to death" TO be at
home.
II. Sommers returned home Mon.
day. He was u member OF the IA.
nous 361st infantry also and saw all
the action that the regiment particI-
pated In on the western front. Som
Il nara aaUo hta vaftna Aa... ~
over-that he's seen more Of France
see again. and that Montpelier and
Bear Lake county will be his stamp
Ing ground from now on.
"Rud" was wounded In the leg by
shrapnel during the fighting In the
Argonne woods and wears n wound
stripe in addition to his other insig-
mia. He says it's a miracle that ey-
cry Bear Lake boy didn't get wound
cd at least once-there were bullets
enough.
Corporal Arnold Zumbrunnen came
home Tuesday with q smile a mile
wide on his face. Arnold served over
seas nine months with Co. A, 362nd
infantry in the Argonne-Meuse. 81.
Mihiel drives. and in the Lys and
Scheldt sectors In Flanders. and says
he was so tickled to see the Statue OF
Liberty he almost jumped overheard
and swan into land.
| The hardest scrap he was In waa
the battle OF Oesnes which his compa.
ny took on September 20. Two hun
dred and forty men went over the top
TO take the village. and ~ came
back. Only twelve OF the original
company returned TO the United
States with the Wild West division.
Arnold won the wrestling champion
ship of his company overseas and
had the opportunity OF joining the
athletic circuit of wrestlers and box
ers which is now touring army
camps In France and Germany, but
he was too anxious to get home.
|. Arnold returned TO the United
States on tho transport Ed Lucken-
back and was mustered out at Fort
Russell.
Seymour and Orlando KunE OF
Bern. returned last Sunday. Sey-
mour was In the 361st NJ. P.'s OF the
Wild West division, and Orlando was
a member OF Headquarters company
36znd infantry. and participated in
every big drive the famous wild
Westerners made In France and in
Belgium. Both Kunz boys wouldn't
take a million dollars to forget their
experiences, and neither would 20
through the same thing again for q
million dollars. And they were sure
| Glad IN ooe haak a. ulA