The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-02-13
WILMOT

Miss Mary Reynolds has been visit
ing friends and relatives in Wilmot
during the past week.
Miss Edna Redlin spent Sunday at
Twin Lakes,
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pacey are re-
ioicing over the birth of a son.
DIR. Darby spent Thursday at his
office in this village.
The Union Free High School Basket
Ball team defeated the Hebron team
on Friday night, the score being AZ
to 10 in favor of Wilmot.
Miss Verna Hegeman and Mrs. Wal
ter Winn spent the weekend at the
home Of their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Holdorf enter
tanned Frank Mecklenberg and family
Of Hebron at dinner party on Sun
day.
Miss Margaret Clarey of Milwaukee
and Miss Mary DAILY Of Silver Lake
were weekend guests Of Mrs. James
. Carey
Mrs. MCLEAN has been Chicago
visitor during the past week.
Ben Nett and family visited at the
home Of Ben Lentz on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Carey attended
the funeral of Mrs Ed. Brahan at
Elgin, on Saturday. Mrs. Brahan was
formerly Elizabeth Turner of Spring
Grove.
Miss Hazel Beck and Mrs. Cans are
visiting friends in Chicago.
Miss Gertrude O'Connor of Honey
Creek - was entertained at the Hege-
man home on Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Mary Boulder was the guest
Of Mrs. Ray Button Of Randall for a
few days last week.
cred Beck and daughter Violet mo-
tored to Kenosha and Milwaukee on
Monday of last week.
Albert Shack of Kenosha was Will
mot visitor on Saturday.
Mrs. Roy Murdoch Of Bristol visited
at the home Of her parents during the
past week.
John Sutcliffe and Kirt Mimmar of
Kenosha and Elizabeth and Walter
Mutz of Trevor, were Sunday visitors
at the Beck home.
Guy Lotus and wife entertained Mr..
and Mrs. Mickle on Thursday even
ing.
Louis Anderson and wife of Crystal
Lake were Sunday guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Kruckman.
The High School basket ball team
will play the Richmond team at the
M. w. A. Hall on Friday night.
Walter Carey and Arthur Holdorf
motored to Burlington on Monday.
Gesnes, France.
Jan. 6, 1919.
II. +. High School Alumni
I wish to thank you all for the
Christmas present which arrived safe
~. I don't know what could be more
welcome to a soldier in France than
chocolate.
1t will make you smile when / tell
you that yesterday l walked eleven
lilometers to town where theA are
not any soldiers and tried all the
stores and then all the private dwell
lings and all the chocolate we received
were two small bars.
We were in action up near Verdun
just at the pivot of the line where it
swung from going north of Verdun
to due west toward Paris. The Ameri-
cans took over the sector on September
9TH.
On September 96th we started the
last great campaign of the war. The
Illinois dough boys and engineers were
in the lines supported by us. That
morning at 4:40 after seventy-two
hour barrage the boys went over the
top. BY $3.50 they had their ohjec-
tive. Next morning they advanced
again. That advance will never be
forgotten by any who took part in it,
it was across land corn by four
years of artillery wire across a line of
Notifications of which the Huns had
spent four years of hard labor. The
machine gunners were protected by
iron armor and four foot concrete
dugouts. Holes deep and big enough
to place house in were everywhere.
These We're partly filed with gassed
water. Wire entanglements were one
behind the other and through this all
the machine guns and the artillery roar,
ed. From then on they daily pushed
the Germans back through the woods
so thick that passage was next to i'm
possible Upon the Sth of November
the Argonne woods was cleared and the
Hun retreat became stampede. We
had been following up the dough boys
very closely and on September 2Sth
we had eighteen horses killed or die.
When meal time came we either hitched
up our belts or sometimes we got ahold
of corn beef and bread. Our last move
was from Brauband to Crepion. We
started at one in the morning to har-
ness up and at three we had all the