The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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took our first and only prisoner.
Came running out of a little house
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But nobody
A CHILD GETS CROSS,
SICK AND FEVERISH
WHEN CONSTIPATED.
and white cow, a white calf
brindle heifer, from my place
Cow is branded
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Grove’s Tasteless chill Tonic
destroys the malarial germs which are transmitted'
to the blood by th' Malaria Mosquito. Price 60c.
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of goods, consisting of staple
Dry Goods and Gents Furn-
ishings. From 40 to 7 5 per
cent below the present market
All seasonable goods.
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All that is new in winter hats-Come in and see our
assortment. Handkerchiefs, Georgette collars and cuffs,
chine underwear.
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LETTER FROM TOM GEORGE.
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Look, Mother! If Tongue Is Coated
Clean Little Liver and
Bowels.
If your little one’s tongue is coated,
it is a sure sign the stomach, liver
and bowels need a gentle, thorough
dleansing at once, when your child
is cross, peevish, listless, pale, doesn’t
sleep, eat or act naturally; if breath
is bad, stomach sour, system full of
cold, throat sore, or if feverish, give
a teaspoonful of “California Syrup of
Figs,” and in a few hours all the clog- work day and night, too, over here. It
ged-up, constipated waste, sour bile
and undigested food will gently move
out of the bowels, and you have a well,
playful child again.
Sick children needn’t be coaxed to
take this harmless “fruit laxative.”
Millions of mothers keep it handy be-
cause they know its action on the
stomach, liver and bowels is prompt
and sure. They also know a little
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row.
Ask your druggist for a bottle of
“California Syrup of Figs,” which con-
tains directions for babies, children of
all ages and for grown-ups plainly on
the bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold
Get the genuine made by “Cal-
ifornia Fig Syrup Company.”
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company was wounded. Poor little
Tainer Taylor is in the hospital; he is
not seriously hurt; so is Leon Ry-
burg and Teddie Zubifer, but not a one
of them is hurt bad—just a little gas,
very light, from-what I can find out.
I will write their folks as soon as I
can. I am stealing this time now.
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A. E.F., France, October §, 1918. i
The following letter has been re-
ceived by Mrs. F. H. Jones from her
eon, Ralph, who is with the A. E. F.
in France:
I know you will be worried at not
getting any news from me for a cou-
ple of weeks or more, especially as
you no doubt saw in the papers that
our outfit is in the big fight now. I
thought of you every day, but there
was no time to write, or chance to
mail it if I had written, and this is my
first opportunity. I came through
safe enough, and you will no doubt
be pleased to know that I have been
shot at with practically every little
thing the Huns have got, and rather
enjoyed the experience. I
As near as I can remember, I wrote
you just after I rejoined the outfit and
We pulled into a little town where I i
thought we would rest for some time, I
We stayed there only two days,!
though, and then pulled out, this time ;
You ought to have Been.^ hands up an(J as luck woulcl
Old White trucks have R no,)ody shQt Mm for j M Mt
tops, an sea I kjm unm ,|le pOyS had got him.
He kindly gave us some information
about machine guns ahead; whnch I
extracted by means of my almost ex-
tinct high-school Dutch, and we sent
him bac kand went on. We came out
of the edge of the woods and found
ourselves in an old trench system,
across a small valley from a road
with a hedge along it, all lousy with
machine guns. They opened up
good style and we sat tight in
trenches and called back for a little
auxiliary arms and prepared to wait
until the other outfits pulled up to
us, for we got ahead in the woods.
The boys amused themselves by snip-
ing at Huns whom we could see in
village in a ravine to our
Among all our outfit the men
claimed to have seen about
Huns drop, and
about half that
came up on our left and our right got
stuck a couple of hundred yards be-
hind and showed signs of having to
stay there all day. So I thought we
would better draw back to their line,
and we did, but it was a messy job.
I came closer to getting myself plug-
ged than I ever hope to again. We
had to sit tight on that line the rest
of the day, and after dark our outfit
was pulled out of the secor and over
to the right. The next day we re-
I lieved an outfit on the front line. We
were right on the crest of a hill, and
could see open country several miles
ahead of us. Our artillery was away
behind us, having a terrible time pull-i
ing up through the mud and wreckage.
We had little dugout in the yellow
clay, about the sixe of bathtubs, and
Jerry commenced to shell us; and of
, all the artillery work I ever saw, we
certainly caught it. Luckily it did
not, get anybody in our platoon, except
one lad whom a piece of shell hit in
the cartridge belt. It exploded five
cartridges, none of which touched
him, and cracked a rib. I sent him
hack to the dressing station and from
there they sent him to the evacuation
hospital, but he ran away from there
the next day and came back to see
the rest of the fight. He reported
rather bashfully, expecting to get
called down.
Well, we lay im this pleasant situa-
tion two days, on the second of which
we drew the first eatsf we had had
since the fun started. Then we were
all pulled out and went back in the
woods, where we lay for a day whilefjve killed, but over half of the
INTEIESTING LETTER ’ernoon. In every clearing we passed
FROM RALPH JONES, bunches of prisoners guarded by a
few of our men, and all delighted to
■ be taken, from their actions. (I think
'they put on that stuff to improve their
welcome.) There were dugouts with
all sorts of material just abandoned.
German cigars and cigaretts and ra-
tions. In one place we found hot cof-
fee on a stove.
| The next day we rested on top of
a ridge, while the outfits on our left
and right worked up even with us, as
we had driven ahead of them. The
third day we pushed ahead again, this
time with our outfit up in front. Nat-
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The following interesting letter has .
been received by Mr. Ernest Bond
from Tony George, who is with the
A. E. F. in France:
France, October 18, 1918.
I am writing to you all in one. I
will address it to you and trust that
you will show it to the others. Kid,
I got both of your letters the same
day and sure was glad to hear from
you and that you were all right. We
have been over the top and stayed
under fire eleven days. They sure
did kill our boys. I can’t explain all
the details—I haven’t got time—but
while we were going over the top,
from the time we left our trench till
we got in the trenches with the square
heads the shells were bursting all
around me. Anyway I could look I
could see our boys falling. They
were shooting machine guns, artillery
and throwing hand grenades, shoot-
ing gas, and to make a long story
short, they used all they had on us, but
never did stop us. We went right in.
We killed as many as we lost and cap-
tured several hundred, also guns and
ammunition--we got over a hundred
machine guns, and drove them back
so far that we have never been able
to catch them since. So far I haven’t
got hurt; I have been hit several
times with shrapnel but it wasn’t hard
enough to hurt me. I got one bullet
hole through my steel hat. I had it
off, holding it in my hand scratching
piy head with the same hand—it was
about three inches over my old cot-
ton head—see, do you get me, Duke.
It is fine sport if ydu get through. It
is bar dto see your friends falling at
your feet but you haven’t got time
to stop and help them tille the battle
I is over. But we were lucky; we only
is no kid’s job either, take it from me.
I don’t know when I had my shoes off ,
last—I have forgot all I ever knew. ■
Son, you said if I wanted anything •
let you know. Well, son, you can't
help me, but I certainly appreciate it
just the same. We are not where we
can buy anything, so there is no use
to think of you sending anything.
Money is no good here, you can’t use
it at all, so all you can do for me is
to see daddy and tell him why I don’t
write and give him this letter and let |
the folks at the field know that the
boys are in the hospital. Send word
to Kid McIntosh and she will let Mrs.
Taylor and Mr. Ryburg know and
Teddy’s folks in El Campo—she knows
their address, and I don’t. But they
will be all right in a few days, I am
sure, and I will write them all a let-
ter as soon as possible. If you see
Mr. LeTulle tell him if he wants a
German ssalp I will try and send it
to him—there are plenty of them here.
Give Mr. Harty my wishes and tell
him that I said he an dyou need not
worry—you all will not be needed in
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the stragglers returned and everybody
in the regiment shook hands all
around and thanked his stars. We
expected rest, and we certainly need-
ed that and a good cleaning up, but
they called in the Chinois drivers and
shipped us across country away, and
we put in three nights of hell merch-
ing and then relieved an outfit on the
line there. So we are back up in the
i front again,—dirty, tired, cold and
somewhat disorganized, but still go-
ing strong.
eYsterday my oraer came through
and I am now a real first lieutenant;
also I am a battalion adjutant, which
uraily it felt rather funny to be up in;is a cause for much rejoicing by me.
this war. I may not get back' to tell
you all about it myself, but lots of
them will, and I still think I will—I
have’nt given it up yet and don’t in-
tend to—will stay right in there till it
is over. When the last shot is fired I
will be somewhere close to the man
who fires it—I hope it can be me.
Well, I am forced to close. With
love and best wishes to all, I remain
as ever, your old friand,
Tony George.
P. S.—0, Yes, Harley saw Buddie
oBnd the other day. He is all O. K-
I didn’t get to see him—I sure wish
I could have seen him. T. G.
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SURGEONS agree that in cases of
cuts, burns, bruises and wounds, the
FIRST TREATMENT is most impor-
tant. When an EFFICIENT antisep-
tic is applied promptly, there is no
- danger of infection and the wound be-
! gins to heal at once. For use on man
' or beast, BOROZONE is the IDEAL,
• ANTISEPTIC and HEALING AGENT.
! Buy it now and be ready for an
5 emergency. Sold by Matagorda Phar-
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our true ktrain. Old White trucks l
with furniture-van tops, and seats;
built along the sides so they would
hold eighteen men uncomfortably.
The drivers were all French-Indo-
Chinese, little brown fellows who
wore great big sheepskin coats and
talked among themselves with a col-
lection of gulps that sounded like
pouring vinegar out of a jug. They
knew a little French, however, and
their officers were Frenchmen. Their
trucks were old and rattly and they
drove lik ernnkdueETAOIN NU .....
drove like drunken sailors. The train
must have been miles in length,—we
had to walk nearly an hour to get to
our wagon. Well, we rode all night
in this outfit, and detrained the next
day in a woods a short way back of j
our line. There we made a pup-tent |
camp and waited several days. While
We were there I tried to write you,
but could not get the letter out. We
(I mean a few of our officers) slept
in a little dugout once occupied by
French officers; then by a couple of
Cooks for the French artillery in the
The cooks welcomed us very
, and used to bring us hot
Coffee in the morning before we got
lip,—-regular breakfast in bed stuff.
One Sunday afternoon we got our
attack orders, and then everybody got
Straightened up and ready to start.
About midnight they opened with our
artillery, and we had plenty of it
there. It played for several hours,1
in the course of which time we moved
Up front through the lines of guns to
take off positions. The noise from
the guns as we passed out in front of
them was some racket. Everything
before you would go into a white flash
as they fired, and it stunned you for a
couple of seconds. But we got up to
OUr departure trenches and waited for
OUr hour.
We were in support the first day,
and did not look for much fighting,
and there was none at all for the
company. All we had to do was bang
through the woods to our objective.
We had to run on a compass bearing,
and had no roads, of course. The
woods were terrible, an almost im-
passable jungle. They had been in
disputed ground for four years, and
had been shelled countless times.
Then they were filled with wire,
bands of it ten to fifteen yards across
and all rusted and broken down
where trees had fallen across it. We
worked through it all day and were
dog tired when we came to the edge
of it and our objective late in the
All the rest of the boys are O. K. Tell
Mrs. Bess that Harley is doing fine
so far. Tell Tudy that the kid she
has been writing to is still all O. K.
I saw him a few minutes a.go. Son, I
have lots of letters to write. As soon
as I can I will write daddy. I wanted
to write you and him both and didn't
have time. I knew yon would see him
or send this letter to him and he
would get as soon or sooner that way
than any other way. I will tell you
later all about the rush I am in now.
I sure wish I was there to help you
wor kor to help the kids pick cotton.
Most any old job will beat this. We
Complete assortment of jerseys and serge dresses in ail sizes
colors. Coats for misses and juniors in velour velvets and clotn, sizes
12 to 16. Kimonas and negligees in taffeta, satin and crepe de chine,
every size and color. Minerva yarns in all the desirable shades.
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front with nothing between me and' One Captain Turner had our battalion
Perlin but a couple of American [ on the hill where we caught the shell-
scouts and the German army. AVe’ing, and I had our company, as part
worked down a valley and up the of it was lost and I was the senior
next ridge, where a sniper on our left ■officer of the rest of it, and worked
popped at us out of a little shack. We gather harmoniously together. So he
dropped and shot up the shack until got his majority a couple of days ago,
we judged that the sniper was fairly (and got our battalion, and I drew the
'tired of his job, and then pushed on. |adjutant’s job.
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He | bombproof most of the time, and good
billets and mess, and a horse when
we are back of the lines, and beau-
coup work as usual. It passes for a
soft job sometimes, but you can put
all the wor kon it you want to.
Well I have written at some length, i
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I am sorry to have been so long de-;
layed in getting the letter out, but j
don’t be worried if it happens,
when there is a fight we drop every- ‘
thing and live nothing else until it is
over. Ralph.
Ralph W. Jones,
1st Lieut. Headquarters 1st Battalion,
146th Infantry Regiment,
Army Post Office 763,
American Expeditionary Forces,
France.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1918, newspaper, November 22, 1918; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1294521/m1/4/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.