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LeMars
Sentinel
February 28, 1919
HOME FROM SERVICE
But Willing To Go Back and Finish the Job If Necessary
Melvin C. Newell, a son of H. N. Newell, of Remsen, is now back
at his home in Spokane, Washington, after nearly a year's service
in France and Belgium with the Canadian army. In a letter written
February 19th to his uncle, A.C. Demaray, he says:
"I arrived home on February 14th and was glad to get back after
sixteen months service, eleven of which was spent in France and
Belgium. Old U.S.A. looks good enough for me. I saw some thing in
France and Belgium that I never want to see again and I did some
things in the line of actual warfare that I hope I will never
have to do again, unless the monster that wears the dirty gray
field uniform breaks loose again. Then I would be willing to go
back and give them a trimming that they could never forget
armistice or no armistice. We left Apergill, a small town in
north Wales, February 1st, and in fourteen days and one-half days
I was home. Spent seven days on the ship, a Cunard liner, with
3,200 enlisted men on board, all light wounded and gas cases. I
am not discharged but go to Westminster, British Columbia to get
mine."
MAKE
GOOD RECORD
Former Plymouth County Men Wore Gold Bars
The Oklahoma City, Oklahoman, in a recent issue pays tribute to
two former Plymouth county boys now located in Kildare, Oklahoma,
Lieut. Joe B. Nelson, who was born in LeMars, and Lieut. Andrew
K. Paulson, youngest son of Mr.
and Mrs. Christian Paulson, formerly of Carnes. The Oklahoman
says:
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little village of Kildare, up in Kay county. When the war
started all the available fighting strength of the little
town-five youngsters-trooped down to the station and out
into the big world. According to word received here
yesterday, the boys have established a national record for
three out of the five have returned home as lieutenants.
And there isn't a private in the bunch, for the other two
are in France, one a gunner and the other a corporal. The
lieutenants are Joe B. Nelson, D.E. Jones and Andrew K.
Paulson. The corporal is Ray Fagin and the gunner is Dan
Lillis." |
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transcribed and submitted to the Great War by Linda Ziemann
lin.ziemann@verizon.net
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