La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 1919 Page: 8 of 8
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SOME WAR STORIES
(Continued from page 1.)
drive. We were advancing. Before
us the earth was pulverized from
heavy shells. The enemy’s machine
guns were trained upon us. Here,
there, the boys—the boys we knew—
were dropping down. It’s awful to
see your pals die that way.
“The wounded? I am coming to
the wounded. Yes, they are worse
than th# dead. They don’t cry out.
No voice could be heard above the ar-
tillery roar. They just look at you.
And that look, with its agony, its
pleading!
“Sometimes they lie on the fields
for hours, for days. The thing they
want most is water. Bue we don’t
stop. Our orders are to march * on
Assistance for the wounded comes
from the rear, unless held back by
enemy barrage.
“We step over the fallen if we can,
for we feel. A soldier is never too
hard to feel. We hate to stumble
a suffering body.
“We advanced to a certain point
and all dropped to the ground—that
is, all but me. I looked around for
my lieutenant and couldn’t find him
I thought he had been killed and I
was next in command. I should have
sent a runner to receive orders for
me, but didn’t want to waste the time
or risk mistakes. So I went myself.
Just before I reached him I was hit
by a one-pounder. No, I didn’t stop
it It kept going. I thought I was
dead. As I fell I cried out to my
brother who was in the ranks. He
didn’t hear me, but he saw me fall.
“He didn't come to me. The orders,
again, were to advance. He had to
go on and leave me.
“What did I think, as 1 lay there
with the dead and dying? It’s strange
how clearly one’s mind works under
such (conditions. I was at no time
unconscious, but know that I’d soon
bleed to death if I didn’t bind my
wounds.
“My belt and most of my clothes
had been shot away. I had nothing
for bandages but my gas mask. I
tore it up and tied the stump of the
leg that had been shot off. The other
leg was shattered.
“Then I began crawling, on hands
and knees, to a dressing station. The
nearest was three-quarters of a mile
away. I made the distance in forty-
five minutes.
“That night some one who had seen
me crawling back told my brother I
was still alive, but we haven’t seen
each other since.”
Sergeant Freasier is a big, hand-
some youth of 24, and at the time
of his injury was a splendid physical
specimen weighing 200 pounds. He
has fine blue eyes and red-brown hair,
and a face that is earnest, sincere and
‘game.” He has no kick coming over
his misfortune, and laughingly refers
to his artificial leg as his “good” one,
because the other, with its missing
bones and torn flesh, must always
be worn in a brace.
He expects to take an executive
course in mechanical engineering at
Austin.
“I could have worked my way thru
before the war,” he says. “The only
reason it’s necessary for the govern-
ment to send me now is because I am
incapacitated.
It will not be easy to “reconstruct”
Private Theodore Moeller of Falls
county. He was wounded in the spine
and a partial paralysis resulted. He
has been lying in bed for six months.
He is a young chap of 23. with blue
eyes and fair hair.
“The Germans wore breast plates
before we got over, then they began
hollering ‘back’ plates, we made ’em
run so fast," he brags with Yankee
pep.
“It was on April 12th, about eleven
o’clock in the morning, when we got
word the Huns were coming. Thir-
teen of us men and a corporal were
detailed to carry hand grenades,
rifles and ammunition up the lines,
and to bring back the wounded on
stretchers.
“A little later, when we were hold-
ing a line, wating for relief, three of
us lit in a shell hole where we felt
temporarily dhfe. Our own artillery
was shooting at the Germans with
heavyvguns. One shot fell short and
hit our shell hole.
“It killed one of the boys. The
second lost his leg, and when he saw
it was shot off he picked it up and
said; ‘Oh boys, look what happened
to me.’ Then I felt blood running
down my neck and I said: ‘It got me
too. It hit my bean, but it didn’t
crack it.’ I started toward him, but
fell forward. I put my hand to my
back and felt a hole in it about the
size of a dollar. Ten minutes later
a stretcher bearer got me. I haven’t
walked since, but one thing I’m glad
of: I was hit by one of our own shells.
No Hun bullet got me.”
Corporal Sam Bliss of Houston, who
served three years on the border and
went over with the Rainbow Division
early in the war, was permanently
crippled on September 12th, at St.
Mihiel when shot by a machine gun
bullet in the leg. Two inches of the
bone had to be removed, making one
leg shorter than the other. He says:
“It was midnight, September 11,
when I went into the front line under
rain and shell fire. We spent the
next few hours fighting—cooties—
and trying to keep warm.
“At 5:30 we went over the top and
advanced two kilometers, taking the
German front line. Tanks had gone
before us, clearing out machine gun
nests. But they missed one ‘pill box.’
We saw a dead Boche hanging over
the machine gun, and thought he was
the gunner, so we advanced. But it
was only a camouflage. The gun
opened up on us. A bullet hit my leg
and threw it out from under me. I
jumped in a shell hole and remained
there, in mud and water, for three
hours.”
At the base hospital in France, Ser-
geant Bliss said the wounded men
were always cheerful.
“They’d brag about their native
states, and get into great wrangles.
Then they’d try to fight each other.
One chap had both arms shot off, and
shrapnel wounds in his legs. We’d
offer him candy, and when he’d open
his mouth for us to drop it in, we’d
eat it ourselves. They were always
joking. It wasn’t safe to feel sorry
for any one of the fellows, no matter
how mussed up they were.
“One boy, who came back on the
ship with me, was brought over in a
basket. Both arms were gone at the
shoulders, and both legs at the hips.
‘I can’t even commit suicide,’ he often
said. His mother came from San
Francisco to New York to meet him,
and when she saw him she dropped
dead.”
This is the way that some of the
soldiers paid for the war. You are
asked to pay only in money.
Invest in Victory Bonds!
OUR LIST OF IMMORTALS
The following subscribers have paid
for their subscription to The Journal
during the past week, ending Satur-
day, April 26th:
Mrs. Wm. Herms, Shiner.
C. A. Falke, Warda.
GeFhard Bunjes, Round Top, R2.
Lee Koenig, LaGrange.
C. V. Stierling, Port Lavaca.
Edmund Schulze, Round Top.
Wm. Herms* Rutersville.
Are You Hoarse? A Spring Medicine.
Hoarseness, as a rule, is duo to a
cold. Your throat is inflamed, your
voice is husky, coughing spoils are
violent in their nature and even the
breathing is difficult You do not
fool well and do not know what to
do. But why should you suffer?
Take
Several
Balsam for Lungs
and the relief will be prompt It is
a pleasant cough medicine in the
treatment of hoarseness, sore
throat colds, spasmodic croup, and
in bronchial coughs. Adults as
well as children can take it. It is
sold bv druggists everywhere. Pri-
ces : 25 and 50 cents.
In the spring the blood, as a rule, is
full of impurities that have accu-
mulated during the winter. The re-
sults of this condition appear local-
ly as pimples, sores and other skin
diseases. It often happens that your
face is full of them and it is then
when you wish to get rid of them.
Severa’s
Blood Purifier
should, therefore, be taken every
spring at this time, in fact, any time
during the year if your blood is im-
pure or if the symptoms indicate a
weakened condition of the life fluid.
It brings strength and purity to the
blood and keeps it healthy, as it
should be. Price $1.25 at druggists.
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They act promptly, pleasantly,
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Get a
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J. Meyenberg, Druggist.
Your
Druggist
IT CAME AND WENT
Baby Tank Attracted Very Large
Crowds Monday Afternoon
GROCERIES!
PURE AND FRESH
Standard brands only,
sold at a close margin.
Quality never ques*
tioned.
Feed Stuff
of all^kind. All orders
givenp rompt attention,
and appreciated.
H. G. GERDES
’PHONE NO. 86.
The Real
Standard
In buying drugs the really essential feature
is purity. It is impossible to get cheap drugs
and have them pure. Our motto has always
been "Purity and Accuracy,” thus protect-
ing you and following the doctor’s orders.
Our toilet articles are the best you can find;
we have some of the moderate priced and
some of the high priced grades on the mar-
ket, which are not very costly. Cosmetics—
all those dainty and delightful necessities
for milady. Make it your habit to trade at
Meven berg’s |
Drug Store |
True to the promise made to have
the “baby tank” visit our little city,
the iron-clad destroyer of machine
nests, “impregnable positions,” etc.,
reached LaGrange late Saturday af-
ternoon, was left on the siding until
Monday, and then, after being unload-
ed, on its own power came to the pub-
lic square, where it was viewed all
Monday afternoon by folks from town
and country, which, of course, includ-
ed the little chaps. To them it was
great sport to get on top of the tank
and ride about the square.
The tank came to LaGrange to help
boost the Victory Liberty Loan.
Locally, its coming could have little
effect, because the great majority of
our citizens had already handed in
their subscriptions, but it served, nev-
ertheless, to enthuse all with the idea
of “finiishing the job” and making the
drive a success. The public schools
were closed for the afternoon to en-
able the children to accompany their
parents to view the “visitor.” Late
Monday the tank was placed aboard
the car again and on Tuesday morning
was sent to Schulenburg.
Big Chief “Big Breast,” Indian
maids and Indian braves, May 9th.
Watch and wait for them.—Adv.
Gus Tiemann
Pays market prices
for all produce . . .
Eggs
Chickens
Butter
And in fact everything you
have to sell.
CASH PAID
LEMONS WHITEN AND
BEAUTIFY THE SKIN
Make this beauty lotion cheaply for
your face, neck, arms and hands.
LIFT CORNS OR
. CALLUSES OFF
Doesn’t hurt! Lift any com or
callus off with fingers
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At the cost of a small jar of ordinary
cold cream one can prepare a full quar-
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skin softener and complexion beautifler,
by squeezing the juice of two fresh lem-
ons into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white. Care should be taken
to strain the juice through a fine cloth
so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lo-
tion will keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon juice is used
to bleach and remove such blemishes as
freckles, sallowness and tan and is
the ideal skin softener, whitener and
beautifler.
Just try It! Get three ounces of
orchard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer and make up
a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant
lemon lotion and massage it daily into
the face, neck, arms and hands. It is-
marvelous to smoothen rough, red handa.
Don’t suffer 1 A" tiny bottle of
Freezone costs but a few cents at any
drug store. Apply a few drops on the
corns, calluses and “hard akin” on bot-
tom of feet, then lift them off.
When Freetone removes cornaffrom the
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La Grange Journal. (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 1, 1919, newspaper, May 1, 1919; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth997985/m1/8/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.