The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-05-13
Observation-Disclosures
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Almistice Saved Them

Armistice Saved Them
Alma Packer, corporal in the BAT
machine gun battalion, son of l.
A. Packer, is at home in Shelley.
Packers company was B and he says
that if the armistice had been de-
layed two hours there wouldn't have
been any more Of B company. Dur
ing the last few hours of fighting this
company was under heavy she'll
fire and suffering losses fast.
Corporal Packer left the U. S. last
Fourth of July, and was soon in the
Argonne with the 91st division. For
thirtytwo days, one time, he was too
busy handing hot streams of lead to.
the Huns to even remove his cloth
ing. That's a whole month. In one
fight Company B lost 80 per cent of
it3 men.
Packer returns without scratch,
which goes to show that if the enemy
hasen't mans number they are
not going to get him. Packer will
not talk much about the war, even
to his father. The battles don't
seem so very long back to him yet.
Nod Mulville Returns
1t is Sergeant Mulville, @. M.
corps, from Camp Pike, we think. He
got home Saturday and on Sunday
went away to Boise to visit with
Jake. Nod is looking very fine in
one of Uncle Sans finest uniforms
these @. M.s!) and has grown tall
and broad. .ur
Smoker for May 10
All returned soldiers, sailors and
marines, who want to help organize
in this county, come Ito the get
acquainted smoker to be given in the
K of P. hall Blackfoot, Monday
evening, May 10. Stunts, smokes
and eats. Uniforms will be worn.
Arco Boys on Way Home
James Bruce, 112 engineers, 18th
division, and R. D. Searle, 1902 field
artillery, 26th division, came thru
Friday homeward bound to Arco.
Both men were with their divisions
on the front and saw plenty of fight
ing. .J..
Jay Black of the BAT machine gun
battalion, came in Friday on his way
home to Arco.
Carries Bit of German Steel
George A. Phillips, a former resi-
dent of Blackfoot, who joined the
colors twenty months ago, is back
seeing his friends. George spent
nine months in training, went to the
front and engaged in three periods of
fighting at St. Mihiel and the
Argonne, absorbed part of hot shell
hot I'LL frun n ~ 1,S
side, was fixed up in the hospital and
got back into the ranks before the
armistice was signed. He still car
ries the piece of shell, but it has
cooled off and he carries it in his
purse now instead of in quivering
flesh. He will visit his father in
Utah, and his adopted mother, Mrs.
Ann Stewart at Ogden and then re-
turn to Idaho to grow in with the
country.
Shell Shocked and Gassed
Lorenzo J. Hennefer, who is with
his parents at Rich, was only in
France five months, with the 308 in
fantry, 18th division but had time
to get gassed and shell shocked and
spend over two months in the hospi-
tai. He was sent across to America
the first of January and put in four
months in hospitals before his dis
charge, May 2. At Fl. Douglas, Utah
Hennefer was treated for total deaf
ness, had tonsils and adenOids re-
moved, ad hears as we'll as anyone.
Lorenzo remembers the Argonne
very we'll. In that bitter twenty-day
fight he said the worst feature was
lack of food, which was with diff
ficulty brought forward. Once he
had treat of two dOughnuts. He
left them on his mess kit to fetch
his canteen, twenty-five yards away,
and while he was gone a shell elm
mated the doughnuts and also the
mess kit. He decided the luck was
set against his eating just then.
According to Hennefer's way of
thinking the smokes did q lot Of good
when the boys were hungry, which
they couldn't help being when grub
was scarce, altho the excitement al
layed appetities to some extent. But
the nicotine seemed to furnislra sort
of nourishment, and he says they
would not have survived without the
smokes. They were three days at a
time without food or water.
Hennefer praises the Red Cross
and Salvation army loudly; and let's
down the Y. M. G. A. without even
faint praise.
When he received his shell shock