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pany, 166th depot brigade. He was the first Dixie boy to give his life in the service of his country during the war. John Moroni Stone, brother of Mrs. J. W. Toone, of the Brooks Arcade, Salt Lake City, was killed in action in France, November 4, 1918. He was 28 years old, a member of Company 78, 6th regiment marine corps. He was gassed June 14, but recovered and rejoined his regiment. He enlisted in the marine corps in Salt Lake, in April, 1917, he leaves three sisters and five brothers. Lieut. George Chandler, son of the late Mary G. Chandler, of Bingham, died in Paris, France, about March 18, 1919 of pneumonia. He was born in Salt Lake City October, 1887, and was serving with the fourth balloon company when taken sick. His wife, Emma R. Chandler, is now serving as a nurse, at military hospital No. 1, in Neuilly, France. He is survived by his wife, his father, one brother and two sisters. Private Roy Douglas Peterson, over-seas patient at the General hos- pital, Fort Douglas, died of appendicitis, March 27, 1919. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Peterson, of Park City, Utah. He was 20 years of age. He was a member of the quartermaster's corps, having served sev- '

eral months in France, arriving at the hospital three weeks before his death. His body was taken to Park City for burial. Corporal Lavon R. Hickman, son of Professor J. E. Hickman, and the late Ellen Rogers Hickman, of Logan, Utah, died in France, November 22, 1918, of lobar pneumonia, and was buried in the French cemetery, "Glor- ieux," at Verdun, Meuse. He enlisted at Monticello, Utah, in February, 1918, and left for France the following May. He was a member of the 318th Engineer corps. He was born at Preston, Idaho, May 1, 1897. Curney F. Carlsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rengvald Carlsen, Union ward, Salt Lake county, died October 26, 1918, at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, of influenza. He entered our country's service October 4, 1918, from Rigby, Idaho, where four months previously he had married Emma Evans, of that city. He was 23 years old, the day he left for training. His body was brought home for burial, and he was laid to rest in the Murray cemetery. ' . 'I ' "*

Doctor George W. Goins died at Jefferson Fort, near St. Louis, Mo., March 14, 1919. He joined the army service November, 1918, and had been attached to the medical staff at that camp. At Tooele, he was associated the International with Doctor J. A Phipps, and was medical adviser for over-seas. His body Smelter there. His oldest son, Jay, is with the A. E. F. which place he came was taken for burial to Breckenridge, Missouri, from Mrs. S. N. Cook George Byron Cook, age 22 years, son of Mr. and Training Camp at Berkley, of Willard, died April 6, 1918, at the Aviation California, of acute bronchial pneumonia. He was the first boy trom Box Elder county to give his life for his country. He was a graduate of

the Box Elder High School and, at the time of his enlistment was a senior at the Utah Agricultural College, at Logan, being the business recognized leader . manager of the School paper, Student Life. He was a in all school activities.—Dwight B. Harding. .

August 9, 1918, in Corp. Dimon Leo Larsen, Chesterfield, Idaho, died France, of wounds received on the firing line, August 6, according to Larsen enlisted word received by his sister, Mrs. Belle Madsen. Corp wen to Fort January 10, 1918, left home in Sterling, Utah, January 27, for New^ York thence Greene! north Carolina, trained until May 9, eft for France. He was called to the front, July 21. On the 24th of July he three days and three nights wrote his sister, that he had been in battle Official news of young Larsen's death was received by his father, Joseph T arsen from the War Department, March 15, 1919. Charles W. Porter, born at Chiles L Porter, son of Mr. and Mrs.

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Porterville, Utah, 1888; died at Camp Dix, New Jersey, October 2, 1918, of influenza. He was married in June, 1918 to Miss Nellie Parker, of Lenark, Idaho, leaving two weeks later for Logan, Utah, where he trained until August, when he went to New Mexico, and from there to Camp Dix, New Jersey. While in the hospital he wrote to the Eastern States Mission and asked for some elders to come and administer to him, having faith that he would he healed, hut the president reached there two days after he passed away. Besides his young wife, he leaves his father, mother, two brothers, and five sisters. Mrs. Joseph Beck, Lanark, Idaho. Private Frank S. Fuller, Company A, Second engineers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Fuller, of Springville, Utah, was wounded fatally, June 6, 1918, while in a front line position in the Barbelon woods, near Vaux, France. He was taken to the field hospital at La Fort, France, June 7, 1918, where he died the same day, the shrapnel wound in his right side proving fatal. Tucker S. Witch, Captain of Engineers of the American Expeditionary Forces, in France, says of him: "He was a soldier of excellent character and habits, and won the admiration and respect of his comrades. He set a fine example of courage and reserve under the most trying conditions, to the men of this command, and we sincerely regret his loss." Corp. Kimbal Peterson, 23 years of age, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Peterson, Ephraim, Utah, died in France, according to word received by his parents from Washington. Particulars are lacking. Corp. Peterson enlisted in the Marine Corps, December 15, 1917, went over seas, landing in France, June 8, 1918. The last word received from him by his family, was written last July. For several months relatives have been making efforts to find him. He was a grandson of the late President Canute Peterson, of South Sanpete stake, for whom he was named. Also a nephew of President Anthon H. Lund, of Salt Lake City. His father, mother, two sisters and three brothers, living at Ephraim, one brother in Washington, D. C, and a brother and sister in Salt Lake City, survive him. Holmes Wright Kizer, headquarters company, 348th field artillery, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Kizer, Burmester, Utah, died on board the United States steamship America, at a dock at Hoboken, New Jersey, March 14, 1919, according to a telegram received by his parents at Burmester, Utah. Mr. Kizer left Grantsville last April for Camp Lewis, sailed for France in August with the 348th field artillery, was wounded by shrapnel, shortly before the armistice and thirteen nieces of shell were taken from his face and upper part of his body. On the way home, he contracted lobar-pneumonia and died just as he reached the United States. He was 23 years old, born at Kelsey, Texas, had lived in Burmester, Utah, two years when he entered the army. He is survived by his parents, one sister and three brothers. A military funeral was held at Grantsville. Lieut. James A. Parnell, son of M. Clayton and Virginia G. Parnell, died of influenza-pneumonia, in Mayne, Germany, on Sunday, January 5, 1919, after an illness of but ten days. Lieut. Parnell was at Fort Douglas with the 16th infantry until April 15, 1912, when he was honorably discharged. He accepted a position as electrical inspector of posts for the western division, which he held until October 1, 1917, when he was commissioned first lieutenant and assigned to the 310th field signal battalion which sailed for France, July 21, 1918. On April 19, 1912, Lieut. Parnell married Josefa G. Taylor of Salt Lake City. Besides Lieut. Parnell's wife, he is survived by his mother, father, two sisters and one brother. In one of Lieut. Parnell's last letters, he told of his trip through Germany which was made by motor, the battalion being equipped with four motor-cars, eighteen trucks, and two motorcycles, with side cars. Information sent to the Era by Mrs. James A. Parnell.

His Word of Honor By Elsie Chamberlain Carroll

Dan Schapper was one of the twenty men granted a Thanksgiving parole byWarden Oswold as a test for the new honor system being tried out in the Ridgeford prison. Dan was serving a five year sentence for attempting to appropriate funds from the Riverdale bank three years before. This fact had been blazoned to the world by eager newspapers. As usual, the newspapers had failed to make any note of the peculiar subtleness of the temptation which had caused the young man's downfall. It must take a deal of courage for a man to keep his mind sane and his spirit clear when compelled to forfeit five good years of his life in payment for the weakness of a half hour. This thought often came to Dan in a surge of overwhelming bitterness in those first days within the great wall. He recognized his wrong, but the punishment seemed so out of relation to the crime. And after all, was not the deepest punishment he could ever feel his own remorse when he had realized his crime? This punishment had been made all the keener by Mary's unfaltering love and confidence in his future. "I believe the prisons make more criminals than they cure," Dan had confided once in a letter to Mary. "But I'm trying hard not to let them make one of me." Perhaps more than anything else the sweet courage and trust in Mary's letters helped him in this resolve. She never preached or moralized. Principally, her letters told all the intimate details about the little farm they had bought together, and which now she ran alone with the assistance of her fifteen year old nephew, Ben, and about the wonderful growth and development of their baby boy whom he had never seen. (Danny was born three months after the father had been sentenced.) No, Mary did not preach, but there was always something about her letters which made Dan feel that life was worth while after all, and that the future was worth waiting for. And now as a reward for his efforts to keep his resolve, he was to have forty-eight precious hours at home with Mary and the baby. It was six o'clock on the evening before Thanksgiving when Dan got off the interurban train at the little station a quarter