NEWS: John Murray YOUNG Writes Home, 1918, Lewistown, Mifflin County, PA

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CHEERING NEWS FOR LEWISTOWN MOTHERS

Special to the Tribune.
  Lewistown, August 14. - The most cheering news received by Lewistown 
mothers since the beginning of the present big drive on the west front in 
France was contained in a letter to Mr. and Mrs. William Young, of Valley 
street, from their son, John Murray Young, who is now in a hospital in 
southern France, recovering from Hun kultur in the shape of mustard gas.
  Private Young says: "When I fell unconscious from gas late in the second 
day's fight, company M was practically intact, few of the boys had fallen and 
we were doing most excellent work."
  A company comprising 155 men and three officers was recruited from here as 
company M of the Twelfth regiment, N.G.P., and saw service on the border and 
are now known as company M, 112th U.S. infantry of the Iron Brigade.
  Private Young is 20 years old, saw service on the Mexican border and comes 
of fighting stock, eight of his uncles having fought in the Civil war and a 
younger brother, William Carl Young, 18 years old, has just arrived in France 
with the motor mechanics.  Young shows the metal of the command when he says: 
"Mother, they talk of sending me home from here, but there is nothing doing.  
It's back to the trenches for me.  I feel that I must account for more Huns 
before I retire permanently."

Altoona Tribune, Thursday morning, August 15, 1918, page 9