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Conger Reynolds newspaper clippings, 1916-1919

1919-01-13 Des Moines Capital Clipping: ""To Get Back Home"" Page 2

MOINES CAPITAL - Page 9
Heroes Now Are Using Cash 
       Capital For Companies Co

COMFORT FUND
dged...........................$1,492.80
........................................100.00
  (3,789 francs)..............694.48
n draft (2,750 francs).....506.14
gn draft (1,000 francs)...185.35
ober 8, and probably reached their


ent apple dumplings and coffee,
We hope that under present advantageous conditions the sales commissary will again be of service to us. You may be sure we will make the best possible use of this mess fund, and that it will be fully appreciated by the men of the company. 
   "Since the signing of the armistice this company has seen some of the pleasant side of soldiering. We were at Briquenay when the news reached us; from there we marched to St. Georges and Murvaux. 
                MARCHED INTO BELGIUM.
   "On the 20th we left Murvaux and in four days of marching passed out of the desolate villages of France, into the edge of freed and happy Belgium, and stopped to rest in this rather nervously neutral Duchy of Luxembourg. The roads were good and the skies were fair, and altho we made twelve to fifteen miles a day with full packs, the men have memories from those four days which they will [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] most of

they lined up on both sides of the road and cheered and shook hands all over again. 
   "We find the people of Luxembourg more friendly than we expected. At first the people of this village looked a bit coldly upon us. They were evidently a bit nervous as to what kind of treatment they would receive. In the few days we have been here their attitude has become much more friendly and receptive. 
"However interesting our experiences over here, the pleasantest

BISHOP LEWIS TALKS ON CHINA
   America is the nation which can be of greatest benefit to the world in directing the solution of the great problem of the Orient and in heling the Chinese nation to take its rightful place in the world affairs; because America, more than any other nation, has demonstrated its ability to get the viewpoint of other nations which have been in just such need of assistance as is China. 
   This is the opinion of Bishop Wilson S. Lewis of Shanghai, China, head of the Methodist church in that country, who addressed a men's meeting last night at the First Methodist church. Bishop Lewis is touring the country to help awaken his church and the nation to tis duties in

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MOINES CAPITAL - Page 9 Heroes Now Are Using Cash Capital For Companies Co COMFORT FUND dged...........................$1,492.80 ........................................100.00 (3,789 francs)..............694.48 n draft (2,750 francs).....506.14 gn draft (1,000 francs)...185.35 ober 8, and probably reached their ent apple dumplings and coffee, We hope that under present advantageous conditions the sales commissary will again be of service to us. You may be sure we will make the best possible use of this mess fund, and that it will be fully appreciated by the men of the company. "Since the signing of the armistice this company has seen some of the pleasant side of soldiering. We were at Briquenay when the news reached us; from there we marched to St. Georges and Murvaux. MARCHED INTO BELGIUM. "On the 20th we left Murvaux and in four days of marching passed out of the desolate villages of France, into the edge of freed and happy Belgium, and stopped to rest in this rather nervously neutral Duchy of Luxembourg. The roads were good and the skies were fair, and altho we made twelve to fifteen miles a day with full packs, the men have memories from those four days which they will [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] most of they lined up on both sides of the road and cheered and shook hands all over again. "We find the people of Luxembourg more friendly than we expected. At first the people of this village looked a bit coldly upon us. They were evidently a bit nervous as to what kind of treatment they would receive. In the few days we have been here their attitude has become much more friendly and receptive. "However interesting our experiences over here, the pleasantest BISHOP LEWIS TALKS ON CHINA America is the nation which can be of greatest benefit to the world in directing the solution of the great problem of the Orient and in heling the Chinese nation to take its rightful place in the world affairs; because America, more than any other nation, has demonstrated its ability to get the viewpoint of other nations which have been in just such need of assistance as is China. This is the opinion of Bishop Wilson S. Lewis of Shanghai, China, head of the Methodist church in that country, who addressed a men's meeting last night at the First Methodist church. Bishop Lewis is touring the country to help awaken his church and the nation to tis duties in