The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1919-01-17

with acOnvOy OF trucks. we TOOK
them to Dion. We were on tho road
eight days during which time We
saw the most beautiful part of
France. Such beautiful roads, scenic
hills. placid streams, and lovely vii
lagos clustering in green valleys, !
never saw anywhere.
We are on our way to Dillon again,
and the car Is so rough l will wait
until we stop, and take up my tray
! els FROM there and trace tnCm from
the first time was there to this
Itlme. We are now riding along tho
River Meuse about 30 miles, or We
cali It 32 kilometres IN France, north
of Verdun The other boys are sing
ing old songs so | must join them.
Good morning. sweetheart yon-
der how You are feeling today. We
lnrc still ON our way to Dillon. In fact
we have been three days travelling
about one hundred miles. You see a.
rs very different TO travelling by fast
American trains Most of the way We
have been riding over roads that
have been very recently recovered
from the Germans and of course there
IS not much system TO trains run
over these roadster when they left
this neck Of the woods they destroy
ed everything they had time TO- You
see railroad does not last long in
"No Mans Land" 4 had better get
back to my theme,
! forgot 10 tell you that on our way
TO Dion we passed through Movers
and stayed over night IN some bar
racks that had been used by Napol-
con That was where We had our
first pay day in France
We left our trucks al uiIon and
went by rail to Recey sur Ource about
thirty miles north. We spent about
two weeks there hauling provisions
to the different regiments OF our
division which were located in Wiz
lagos near by. II was here that I
first saw Arthur. This was the VIII .
lage ! described to you in % letter .
written about Aug. 10th or 18TH. J.
ci'oycd our stay there. our gas .
masks were issued TO us here.
Our next move took us TO Cballoy
a small village about ten kilos Cse,-
en- niles south west of Toul. We
thought we were getting very near
the front, but 1t was more than %
miles from there. We had a false ga
alarm there, however which caused
excitement. Toul Is quite
a large city Of two or three hun
'red thousand population
From there we went TO Manar-
'ourt. miles north of Toul. Most OF
our time here was spent at Ayron-
vile cone mile away) From here :
made my first tript to the front with
'ations, on the night of August 25th.
shall never forget it, | had two
rucks and we went within one mile
If the front line TO Nancy village
which was as desolate as any habi-
alton of owls and bats you ever
cad about No one. lived there and
{ had been shot to pieces by she'll
ire Although did not hear a sho;
felt rather unnecessary CHere
net Arthur AGAIN.. While hero !
aw my first air fight. saw few
observation balloons burned That
vas pretty exciting at the time
We moved to Dieulouard Septem-
,er 5th. We were then within six
niles OF the front Dieulouard IS juat
outh of Pont a Mousson near which
loan of Arc spent her childhood Z
IN a hill one mile north east stands
ruined old church and a monument
# her. | never had an opportunity
II going to see il. for the Boche
rouchod in the valley below and
would take pop at fellow IL he
tuck his head up too high. | start
a up there once, but vowed solemn
y that would never do it again
or the Boche sent a "barrage' OF
Ugh explosive shells over the hill
nd persuaded US to "allez tout de-
nit" go at once). We rested we'll
or few days. but one. day we heard
omething like this. tVoooooit-
lLOOM" 1t was followed by sever
! others. That night. about two
n. another one came over The gas
larm was set up-and. oh. what 4
ceiling, Just to know that all around
GU is poisonous gas, one breath of
which would kill you. and to hear