Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1919 Page: 2 of 8
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taken away from the 36 division
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FROM LEWIS WOMACK
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life. and I'm Dear Mother and Father: —
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FRON ALLAN “EE
Somewhere in France.
lay
Brother:
jf you get to come ov
Well, that the war is over I can
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n’t take a million dollars for my trip
and the b.tt
D^jtur Dr
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multiple for Uncle Sam
ay, that of his boys.
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wishes to all the family.
SERT. LEWIS WOMACK
LISTENS EER
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worry about me at all
felt better in all y
looks funny to be in a town where
haven’t seen any boys from home in
hed
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Co
for
some time.
division now.
I've told you
We are back in the 36
I don't know whether
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a good billet vith
in it and have an
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good town , i
n W t- ha ’ .
• han ] have been doing or the past tvro
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artists will
their haun
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once more be at
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I have received letter from al
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Marville, France.
Nov. 26, 1918.
P
me
por abili- '
to write
a store and ask us to RE-CREA TE
songs of Stephen Collins Foster.
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We too soon, fer
bow long it will be
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Ameican Folk Music
crossed the Belgian border on our
how to appreciate a little real com-
is taking good care
will write you more
am hoping to hear
With love and best
TED voices of the world’s greatest
icm all tor you, lulling your senses with
Jences—the music of a master-human-
will upon your own heart-strings.
We are in a
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You can get the old that I’m afraid you have been wor-
I was । the Meuse river in the last drive we
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HELP H ARD & DILLEHAY
UNDER 5 and LICENSED EMBALMERS
t PE GIVEN NIGHT OR DAY
l: NH Ml. Ind.,day,9:Nght,58
rom home now
W ami moved to
VA gimm rider is a
res to get on the sick
changes of scenery, but I confess to 1
a feeling without affectation, when *
after we had entered the first nel-
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in MeMurray-Gettys
it
you except Terrell and can forzive
him it he is still making out his
HGWELL PROVENCE
/ Medical Detachment.
111th Engineers.
preciate it more than ever before and
I think I am through running around
for some days to come and I hope
to stay close at hand and live a
quiet farm life aud really enjoy life.
is Stephen Collins Foster; he wrote
e, “My Old Kentucky Home,”
, and others well loved, though
iwn.
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e a ear ago. the fact and
May you all enjoy 365 days of Content-
ment and prosperity during 1919.
Heartiest Greetings in the dawn of a
New Year, from the management
and empires of
will try .Manager Blythe has arranged lor
Aesions ' a special war picture to be shown at
Mt a an early .data. The pictures were ta-
EP kenom.AShi battle field Watsid
Vezinnes. Franc.',
Dec. 1. 1918.
The mi
vou have
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to the 1st. army corps. The 11th.
out that the Huns now tell you some of my experiences
^ubie. jpr we have i thought my time had come several
•excused from duty when while we are here so that we won't
' able to do duty, or any-1 ever have to come back over Lere
EV tries to evade his dut). • again, for when we once get home - ,
■■Kirkwood and one other boy will want to stay there, but at J
W the night about fifty feet from most, it will only be a few more *
Bierman dugout and next morning months and then I will be back at V
File they were looking around in tome once again I always did love
Re early daylight they saw a move- home and tried to appreciate home, 1 3
but I will know better how to «P- I 3
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along fine. I can walk i ley.
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lying about me But I really have-
!' Ss taking good care ol ryselr. Heaps
of, iove to each.
now on evacuated territory in an old
received a letter this morning. German hospital. I don’t know bow
these old plantation songs, that
own all your life, will be RE.
you in your own home if you own
shell-fire. the Marines with ranks re- V
duced to less than one third eTec- ! E
fives, crossed the Meuse at midnight "
IOM MjKEN M. w. Burfl,
we can leave. Even though the war
I is over, we want to finish this job
to tra next tim- and
to trav- । from you soon.
made. It is sure in a beautiful val-
are very good cooks and everything
tasted good, indeed. But nothing
was quite as good as mother used lo
make.
It is getting late. and my fire nas
just about gone out too, so i’ll tel
very, very comfortably here.
And I had some teal dinner last
night, too; consisting of chicken.
T his ma greatness lay in the simplicity of his
heart, his t ions, his music, his understanding
of human- re, of the world in which he lived,
loved, suf and died—just as do all his fellow
mortals, melodies are simple, unpretentious
as a wild -yet they have touched the very
heart of a ion. And we, and you know he
was the gr t composer of American folk.
good-bye with lot- of love to all.
Your son and soldier-boy,
SECT. EDWARD F. HORNBACK.
Co. B, 359 Infantry, Am. Ex F
out. They threw their guns down
times, but I got through. I would-
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3H4m
or not but we
ranch house fixed up, because :
hpins to run the ranch.
hVhile you are singing. Kep 11
hh. nus burning" and o1he1 ci
52,, ' foruet ’ • pur at L
n-ues and -aVe ,i 1w spai,
PsKnd keep on fattening the 'at
d calf, for your wandering son is
ming hom. soon We have fougnt
K good fighi and are ready to rest
now I never
E 3mewhere in France,
i Nov 28, 1918.
a half months. I surely know
nice town now It
er dear, it is again this
night that I try to
ines home. This is my
sgiving to miss being at
Lave much to be thank-
ve more to be thank-
■ han ever before in ny
■tgh i am many m les
Dearest Mother and Dad:
I haven’t written you in so long
way to what was once a mighty em- i e
pire. 5
I am getting to be an unemotional
sort of person due to cooties and j
signed; and we have been "hiking
back” ever since then. Have been
in this little village for a couple of
days and will probaldy be here for
you good-bye for this time Take
* good care of yourselves. and don’t
Tht Phonograph with a Soni”
Well, mother. I must close r •
this time for I must write some oth-
er letters before I go to bed, so I
n’t had a chance in the world to
write you. We were relieved on
the front the day the armistice was
fort. I have a nice big room with a
fire-place, two tables, big lounging
chairs, etc. And -most of all a
bed: Last night, for the first time
since I’ve been in France, I slept in
a real bed: So you see, I’m living
Nov 16. 1918. tie bunch of soldiers, too. We are
pug
FPT "W tle
r ' h e
J wall standing, mhh
Kre unee - -n fire seventy-
I have
certain- before w’can get home, for we nave
a great deal of wo k to do before
T was written on Sept. 21. I long we will be here, for you never
id sy glad to hear from you.
ge 1 an a hospital now.
k a V nded in action on Oct 8.
know that in the army. We crossed
and General Sherman was
prat in his expression gd
hisaudaalut thank 1
a. aA
and took a town. On the following ,
day the squareheads threw “sea' e
bags’’ at us until the very last mo- ; 2
ment and then all was silent and the 23
war was over. 2 '
Yesterday at about nine a. m. we E
n“
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n
W
Ey had -en wht re
Ea action
ggreatest privelege .n
Pave command, first of
r composed of the home
oys from Cieburne and
ess. There never were
more loyal fellows
hAa nan
On the F h of July, . 1826, near Pittsburg,
Pennsylvan i great American composer was born
-a fitting ncidence that the day giving him
birth shou e also the birthday of our great
American on.
prehensive knowledge of the sudden
finale than we who were so close up.
It was a little like trying to look
h which I don’t care to rabbit, lettuce, etc. These French
out. Upon investigation they found
the Germans had a machine sun
trained right on them. The boys
have about decided that one Texas
fellow is equal to a whole compay
of Germans, and you can start a cor-
gian town where the populace shoat-
ed "Vive la Marine”, as we passed
beneath an archway on which was fn
English “To the sons of true free-
dom,” and had reviewed a mass of
fifty big German guns parked by the
way-side we saw floating in the air
at the top of a big pine tree. Old Glo- •
' ry. made of red shirts and blue skirts
with sixty stars and fourteen stripes.
i but Old Glory, none the less.
Please give my best and entire
stock of regards to the Ero-Palladian
Literary society and when you eat
that Xmas turkey, have a heart.
With lots of love to everybody,
JOE ALLEN.
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since the I still with me. ,
t htink it This sure is "some" country; the I
to write sun rises and sets in the same place. ;
thanks to I hope I won’t be on the water as ,
iliar abil- long going back as we were going
pits with I over. We were fourteen days com-
re come ing over. We sailed from Philadel-
up a squirt gun through a key-tune.
Suffice to say that on the last night.
after we had fought and tramped and
camped for ten days in the mud and ,
joved ones.
Phis time a year ago I
ning in t! e camp. Since
have bad many exper.en-
1 poral and two men out any time and
■ they will come baci with fifteen to
thirty German prisoners- all of this
before breakfast.
The Germans’ criticism of us was
that we all went at it just like hunt
I will try to write you a few lines e ;
to let you know that this leaves me ; 1 !
well and fat. I received several let- I ।
ters from you all last week. I have I !
been getting a letter or so from you
all most every week. The news that
the war is over sounds good to me.
I was on the front when firing ceas- i
ed. And we sure were a proud lit-
Engineers won quite a "rep.” too.
and I’ll tell you about some of the
work they did when I see you. We
took part in all three of the big ' all-
American ” drives. We went up to
the front on the 12 of Sept and were
not relieved until the 11 of Novem-
ber. But I’ll tell you all about my
"war experiences” later.
I have me a real 'home" in this
village. And after "roughing it as
nd a helf. Ve
vns during that
Ma.Y ou
Edo
Er and my experiences
E part of it. I fe, I ju t i ke I have do r
EB my
E good while Walt r Johnson is in
Vs an officers training school So far
P as I know, all the boys from home
are still living. Sergeant Rhoten is
pidermis phia to Liverpool..
ept for Don't you ever worry about me.
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Collins, Dick & Smith, Marvin B. Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, January 3, 1919, newspaper, January 3, 1919; Decatur, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1582083/m1/2/?rotate=0: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .