The Dacoma Mascot (Dacoma, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1918 Page: 4 of 4
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THE DACOMA Masco
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LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIER BOYS IN FRANCE
AND AT TftE CAMPS
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Iwo Letters Received by Mrs. Zim-
From ftor Son jjlaudo
is
merman
Who is in France
Somewhere'lffFrance, July 24, 1918.
DfCflr Mother: I am stiff enjoying tne
t*4Cof bUlthf. Of course I got seasick
„n the ship: but'there is another line to
that, 1 vek not the only one.
I aure like it over here Mother. And
i^n't worry ajiout me, for you know
ihst I know hoW to take rare of myself:
* he Lord is my guide.'
Tell Charlis I will be back and help
him pound iron one of thsss days.
I waa in a blacksmith ahep- yeaterday
an4 they have tblnga flaed up fine.
People here troat us like wa might bo
or aomethlng of tbe soft and thay
%tU t«ko off their hata aa we pass thorn
.>'» the atroet.
dress, and I will drop him a few lines.
Well it is getting abdut ‘bed time so I
roust close. Y\ith b&t of luck to you
both. From, *’ 1 ■ Guss.
' ' .July 28, 1918.
I wrote a few daya ago' and fold you
how alee the French poopjo troaltod ua.
' Thfa ovonlng aa I waa starting hom*
with this paper I told * UdyT wao going
to write to my mother ab ahe aaked me
to rome in and write bo I am at her
bouse now. Hhe has a huabaftd and aon
at the front.
We ar£ haring ideal weather here now
1 am still getting fat ao I don’t siij>j>OB*
J ou: will know the when 1 get home. *'
> l like It here better than any place I
bar* been yet ab I think I will get plb&f
tine. Write and let mo khOw what' yoil
are doing, and ti»fl father to write aomo
-fW With lore," froip y&ur son)
Fvt. Claud’A ^ Zimmerman,
Battery D/lfl f*K‘. A. E. F
Old Friend Charley:' I drop you these
lines to let you know I am making it fine
as frog hair; but I am in a different divis
ion now. T am in something now that
tha sure aa h‘—1 can make the Germans
go sorhfc. •’I don’t suppose you know
what that fs, sol will tell you—it ia the
Machine Gun Battalion. I believe I will
Ukfc it bet*t4r than the infantry at that.
1 am going to start to the machine gun
school.' Old Hay iswtill in the infantry.
He is not far from here. In this you
don’t hare Co iug that rifle around with
you; but have a Colt's automatic 45
•trapped to your side. Oh, l3oy! Go
some I Guess! But of course you have
to know how to use it. we have to
do is to pull the little wa£6n the gun is
on, and God only, WnoVr* how much am
munition. But, believe me, they are
the thing to get the -! Germans
with. Answer soon. From,
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Letters From Ques Heady to Ed.
Winkler and C. L. LaUghman
Camp Fremont, Calif., Aui$, 23, 1918.
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Augustus Heady,
Co. A. 24th M. G. Bri.
h ■ Camp Freemont, Calif.
Extract From a Latter to Mia Mother
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From Kay Vance
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Attendance record Aug. 24th
Name
Mrs. J. E. Bothwell,
Mrs. Clarence Chappell
Mrs. E. A. Cross,
Mrs. C. Finnicum,
Mrs. Henderson
Mrs. A. Holder,
Mrs.*Hood t‘‘'
Mrs. Laughman
Mra. Ed. Morrison
Blanche Probus
Mrs. M. C.-Purdy,
Mrs. W. Purdy,
Ellen Sweeney
Mrs. Ed. Sweeney
Mrg, .Van Bibber
Mrs. Weaker
Mrs. J. W. Whitter
Mrs. J. W. Wise,
Mrs. Zimmerman
Arrived
1:30
1:00
1:00
2:30
1:10
1:00
The Kodak Seaspn is Now at Hand
See Our Line of EASTMAN KODAKS and SUPPLIES
WATTERMAN and EDISON FOUNTAIN PENS
We. Cordially Invite Yon To Hove A COLD DRINK At Onr
FOUNTAIN
Dacoma Drug Company
JIM HOWARD, Mgr.
“By Serving Yin Best We Help Ourselves Mist”
1:20
1:30
1:15
>ear Uncle and Aunt: I drop you
these lines to let you know I atn‘ fftliag
-In*. Have been transferred' again,
im In the machine gun batallion. Some
gun to help handle. 250 shots a (pinute.
Shooting son of a gun believe n^e. That
gun will ao go and get them Germaha.
t My there waa some we<l<fipff" ground
In a letter from Ray Vancf tb his
mother, written the 17th, he' says that
£hey have been stirring his company
around some, having moved them three
times in the last two days. He says
that they have everything’they want to
ibat; but that the climate is nothing like
Oklahoma anti that he nearly froze there
it night.' He had been vaccinated twice
And had two more vaccinations coming
to him and Would remain in quarrantine
Another week. Tn deicribing the maneu
vers at camp he says it’s a grand sjght:
'JJust think'of ten thousand new s^J'diers
in one launch,* and how long a line they
will make wken marching, which they do
to band music," He Bays there are two
other Vances In hla company,| /y}tho he
Liar written several letters ftyfiry day
since arriving at the cajnn/he h^s ,not
heard frqtn anyone yet andaska jUl his
friends to write to him. Hi* address ia:
Pvt. R^y Va,nce,
It would be very much ap^
predated if each one attend-
ing Red Cross would regis-
ter on arriving and depart-
ing.
The articles turned in this
week were four sweaters.
The chapter has beep agk
ed by headquarters to Exhib-
it a sample of each article
that has formerly been made
at the fair to be held here in
September. The work Sat-
urday afternoon consisted of
cutting and making the same
as our supply had all been
shipped to St. Louis.
{here. Good thing I left, ha. ha. Will ^ .
you pfease send n$a Uncle Bruea’s *d- Co. D. 18th. Inf., C^hJQ ^reemont, Calif
IVsenil Pick-Ups, by “Polly*
t.
Rouie Sens spent Sunday
with Orpha Hiatt.
| Jay Wert and wife spent
i Sunday at Mr. Markley’s
FARMERS GMW & LUMBER
JC0MPANV
ALWAYS IN THE MARKET FDR YOUR GRAIN
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We Are Prepared To Grind Your Feed
Corn, Chop and Ground Feed For
Sale
JUST RECEIVED. A CAR OP SALT
l*; 8j gcpTT, Manager
Missess Elizabeth and
Planch Poison and Opal Sel-
family Jars and Wil}ie Hiatt and
Dug Smart and
motored over from Waypoka, Burtis Poison autoed to Alva
Saturday. 'Sunday.
Helen Dickerson spent \ Th , t consl ’ ent of
Sunday with MUdwd Steto: ,ch£k>, Qr other
in Carmen. j substitute for booze It
was,
Verne Greer and Claud:Mo^ ti'h^usT£e
Dev ilblisswere DaOoma cal [)een con,0cted largely from
era Sunday. old boxing gloves, judging
Millard Parker returned fron1the stories that were
home from Kansas Sunday beinK circulated on the street
the next rrufl-njng,
morrmg.
Murtjn Rrown and wife
' Recent Births
Mrs. Joe?Hostyns* daugh-
ter of Geo. Brown, is th*
proud mother of a n&w girl.
The news was phoned imr*
mediately tp its papa at
Ceiling, -v
To Vessie Johnson and
wife, a boy.
John Tucker and wife, a
boy.
Guy Gregory and wife, a
boy.
Ralph Lord and wife, a boy
Ever^t Bruner and wife, a
girl,
Harry Withrow and wife,
a girl.
Waiter Kinnie and wjfe,
girl.
A card was received in
left for Denver, Colo, Bun- Dacoma announcing the
day e ening.
marriage of Miss Irene Day
to a Mr.Carl Nelson at Dallas
Texas., Qn August 18th, but
Elbert Ingle of Lambert
passed through Dacoma Sun- as ,a letter was received the
day enrout to Carmen,
The J oachim family held
a family reunion at the home epistle as a joke,
of P. H, Joachim Sunday,
following qay denying the
fact we are inclined to credit
the authorship of the first
Uncle Alex” says, “The
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Poison local aspirants fpr pugilistic
returned from Colorado Sun-1honors are now entitled to
very the ring titles of “Little
day. They report a
enjoyable trip.
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Chock” and “Big Chock’
Enid Milling Company
Handles
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FLOUR, FEBJI, and
COAL
PERFECTION and MAJORITY
AlwajS On Hand
EVTkY SACK GUARANTEED
M. C. PURDY, Manager
Deaths
Joe Strohl, uncle of Mrs,
S. H. Welsh, died in a Wlch
ita hospital Tuesday, Mrs,
Welsh and children attended
the funeral at Medicine
Lodge, Kans„ Wednesday,
Grandpa Paris, a former
old Sf ttlev of this community
died at his home in Ceiling,
Sunday, August 25th,at 1:30
p. m.
Grandma Gateley, of the
Walker neighborhood, died
at the home of her son, Sun-
day, August 25th, at 4:45 p.
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Tha Harvest la Over
Put we are Still Selling Groceries of
the Same High Qaality as Before and
at MONEY SAVING PRICES
M. P. FENNESSF.Y.
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FRANK HOWERTON
Undertaker and Ejnbalmer
Motor or Horso Drawn
Funeral Service,
phone 492
The large plate glass in the
front of the bank that was! m. Funeral services were
' Alva* • - • Okla.
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Mrs. Joe Linkfelter and
daughter Mildred who have
been visiting relatives he$e' broken sbme time iago by a held at the Walker church
left fo»» their home in Illinois faulty awning hunger is be-1 Monday and interment made!
Monday. - ! ing replaced this week. ! in the Walker cemetary. !
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THE DACOMA GARAGE
All Kinds of Auto Repairing
Complete Line of Ford Part! and Accessories at Ford Prices
Diamond and Ui S. Tires and Tubes
“What We$#y Wefdo, We Do Do, So We Do”
BELKNAP & ECKHARDT. Proprietors
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The Dacoma Mascot (Dacoma, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1918, newspaper, August 29, 1918; Dacoma, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc826573/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.