Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1922-11-22

and wine in rude restaurant; were bull
lets and shells in the stone road. All
these villages along the Mouse are
about half rebuilt and with modern
buildings. Old stone is used with brick
and tile to encase doors and windows,
and the stone wall it then stuccoel. In
Verdun they saw blocks out Of great
er blocks of soft magnetism stone,
using cross cut saws.
August 1S-In Verdun, breakfast,
bread, bowl coffee, good frontage Is
cents; to station, train to St.Mene-
hould, Challerange ard Apremont in
the Argonne forest. villages all re-
building. In Apremont French boy,
learned English of our soldiers, took
me to shack where had good clean bed
and breakfast So cents.
August19-Last night Frenchman
came to my bed after was asleep and
told me he had lived in St.Paul and
gave me directions to reach place
where Lost Battalion" was cut up.
Saw him this morning driving truck
and too busy to go with me. Went 2
miles west of Apremont; shell in old
road all along. German cemetery in
woods. Went down steep hillside in
to valley; no, to the valley but not in
to the bottom. / could not see a rod
into that bottom. Were 6 kinds of
thorns and briars. The hillside was
terrible to get through but that level
bottom was almost impossible. Were
U. S. knapsacks on hillside. Was
rallied stairway down terribly steep
north hillside; telephone wires in the
bitches. East, half a mile in the open
were coils of insulated copper electric
| light wire. And a long belt full of
machine gun cartridges in an old road.
Not far away German village, and
cement houses in the woods, and a pile
of 8 inch iron shells. Had dinner in
the French widows wine hall and
train at to Rheims where got hotel
room, 10fr for very small room.
August 20-Sunday. Went over
town and to cathedral, and into rear
end now repaired and used for wor-
ship. Walls of main part not badly
injured Roof ruined City quite ex-
tensive one and badly shot up in all
parts. Much repairing and building
to be done yet. On to Scissors at
noon and room 10 fir day for two
days. Went past Red Lion Hotel nit
during war and great resort for of
icers who speak of honest charges of
proprietor.
August 21-Had to wait till two to
| get into Siciete Generate, Cooks bank
to get 240 FIR for $40 Getting tired of
French grub and want of English
speaking people and will haste to
England.
| August 22-Left scissors at 5:47
a. m. and went to Chateau Thierry.
Crossed river to Methodist settlement
house and was shown over hte estab-
lishment. They have a museum of
war relics; nursery for babies whose
mothers work; school for old and
young to learn English, gymnastics,
stenography. A lot of Americans came
in as | left. A Boston soldier, a chauf-
feur who stayed here and married a
French girl told me it was undenomi-
national or rather non-sectarian and
did good work. Common laborers he
said get about 20 fir or $160 a day
At went on to Paris to get picture
Mona Lisa" and had room near Est
Station, 60 cents.
August 23-Went to Louvre, heard
English spoken all over it; then to
Care du Nord and to Amians for the
night. Stayed at hotel kept by Ed.
wards of Australia who captured @
French wife. Cathedral lovely one
and very little damaged. On entering
saw tablet ain memory of the officers
and men of the Sixth Regiment United
States Engineers who gave their lives
in defense Of Amiens, March 1873
Same in French below We're two tab
lets of names French soldiers of Par
ish, names chisled in gray marble anc
grooves painted black. Had shat will
British chauffeur who drives for Chief
OF British cemeteries; said there are
lS50O British war cemeteries in France
and Belgium with 5000 caretakers
Only one soldier body brought to Eng.
land. officers and men buried togeth
er. One cemetery at Paschendael witt
5000 unknown men buried in it. Were
killed in No Mans Land and buried
long time after. Britain has 10000
men not accounted for.