Show LETTERS FROM OUR HE SURE WENT TO camp fremont cal aug 9 1918 editor washington county news dear editor I 1 regret very much to tell you not to mall any further copies of our paper to this address I 1 am one among many who are all A ready to leave tor overseas we are told for siberia but do not know det binately I 1 have surely enjoyed your kindness towards me by sending your paper I 1 have enjoyed reading it and keeping in touch with the affairs at home I 1 trust that it wont ie long before I 1 can have the paper coming to me again because 4 gives me great pleasure to read it thanking you again for your kindl ness I 1 beg to remain your friend sheridan ballard f had co 12 infantry r camp fremont cal GLAD TO GET THE NES i camp eustas va aug 9 1918 j editor washington county news t dear mr walls I 1 am writing to 1 let you know I 1 have received your i nelcome paper here 0 K and am very glad to get the news from home once more this Is a fine place to soldier most of our officers have been in the front line trenches so we get quite a bit of the real dope on warfare it there Is any of the dixie boys in camp eustas I 1 wish they would call around and see me thanking you again for the paper your friend f seth G walker 6 ath trench motor bt bat B I 1 camp eustas va i IRE WED WELL everywhere camp mills N Y augi 14 1918 sear brother walls just a word to night to ask it you would please forward the news to the new address I 1 am sending I 1 have certainly been lost the last three weeks that I 1 have not received the paper and seems as though something was missing that always helped to pass away the time so fast would have liked to have written you a long letter and told you all about our trip and this camp but I 1 only have five minuets to get back to quarters want to say though that we had a very good trip and were treated well from coast to coast had a very good time in cleveland ohio we being let off there and bathed in lake erie am feeling exceptionally well and by the time you receive this short letter we will be nearing the coast ot france hoping that I 1 may get your good paper over there and thanking you tery much tor the great kindness I 1 r an As ever your friend edward C christian hads co F A I 1 A E F LIKE mare island cat aug 16 1918 dear editor just a few lines to thank you for tour kindness in sending me your agy little paper which I 1 am always very anxious to glance over and se what the people at home are dos in every paper I 1 can see some improvement made in dear old dixie II 11 has been nine months tomorrow since I 1 came here on the island and during that time I 1 have enjoyed myself very much I 1 havn t flone much soldiering since I 1 came we la tact I 1 barnt bad a chance I 1 are been pastry baking now tor five here I 1 was rated third cook st month but I 1 am getting so I 1 like cooking I 1 think I 1 would ther get out of the chow hall and a little soldering 11 it Is just about my working time again so will have to cut this ater short thanking you again for your par will close with best wishes to you and all friends I 1 remain as ever marcus canfield marine barracks mare law IT somewhere in france dear folks lou will be anxious to know what has become of me since I 1 last wrote we have been on the go night and day and are now resting a few hours at one ot the beautiful spots of braice in one ot the english resting camps tomorrow we will be on the move again one doean doesn t need to follow the map to see that we are gradually getting nearer the fuss in england I 1 was impressed with the absence ot men everywhere and the determined and successful way in which the women were doing their work in france so tar as we have got I 1 have been deeply impressed by their attitude and as we march through tha villages can not help but wish we had started earlier in the war and spared them some of the sorrow so evident everywhere we are traveling and working day and night and although alt houch sore and tired are enjoying it immensely the question uppermost in cur minds ot course Is where do we go iron here ot course we dont know but it the rumors afloat are true a good bit ot the trail Is in front ot us yet but we are certainly wasting no time in getting there it the rumor Is true we go into a country in which I 1 have never been and I 1 shall at least have the opportunity ot seeing new lands I 1 cant but think what the boys at home are missing give my love to all and keep the letters coming they may catch up with me yet tor xmas with best love your son leon A experience camp aug 18 im editor washington county news dar mr walls it gives me a great deal ot satisfaction to pen you a few lines as I 1 am very anxious to receive your paper I 1 am enjoying my work very well they sure do give us plenty to do but I 1 dont mind that this army life Is certainly a great experience tor a country lad like me I 1 am just beginning to find out that I 1 am alive and what real life Is I 1 went to church this morning and enjoyed it very much but it was nothing like our church at home I 1 am quite well and hope these few lines will find the people of washington county all enjoying health and happiness I 1 am forever with you tor freedom john H elliker co L ath infantry camp fremont cal ins ONLY ORRY atlanta ga aug 19 1918 editor washington county news dear editor I 1 received the washington county news of aug ath and was indeed glad to hear from home please accept my thanks and appreciation I 1 have been here over two months during which time I 1 have became acclimated cli mated and acquainted with the sunny south our camp composed of the unit is one of the best in the country of course every soldier will say that his camp Is the best but then I 1 have two good reasons to confirm my statement the first one is that our camp Is situated in the heart of a large forest always restful and pleasant to be in second we have one of the best bosses and military leaders that has ever been put at the bead ot a military post A good example of his ability and mastership Is these immense base shops that he built and is now operating ills name Is colonel edgar S a by nature as well as by name I 1 do not know where I 1 could have been sent and been better satisfied my work is a pleasure as well as a benefit to top it all off with we have the to work every day in these shops built tor us these shops were completed on the sixteenth of july 1918 the first of the kind to begin active operation in the entire united states these base shops that are being built through this country represents an enterprise that is the first to be undertaken by any nation in any war that has been fought sly only worry now is about going over there our line of work is the kind that is very necessary in this country such as keeping the trucks in repair tor the many infantry posts a this c tho these camps are where the men are trained before they go oven we sure have our bands tull taking care of their repair work and keeping them supplied with their motor vehicles of all kinds thanking you once more tor the much appreciated paper and wishing you success in bour office and happiness in your home I 1 remain respectfully yours geo A co A M M R S camp jessup ga THE OMY DIME BOY THERE san antonio texas aug 17 1918 dear editor while in salt lake city I 1 enjoyed very much reading the news each week and now that I 1 have been transferred I 1 would enjoy reading it very much more although texas Is filled with military camps it Is very hot and dry camp wise Is about four miles north of san antonio and located on a little white hill As all the barracks are full many of the boys are quartered in tents which reminds one more of a large camping party than of a training camp I 1 was the only boy from washington county that was transferred from the U of U to texas and I 1 am not sorry because I 1 don t wish any of the others any bad luck still when a fellow is in the army he has got to smile at whatever comes and say that he likes it on our trip the american red cross gave us several meals besides furnishing gum candy and tobacco to those who smoke at several stations free stamped portals were us and in general the society showed their respect tor us thanking you very much for sending the paper I 1 remain your friend mathew M bentley camp john wise recruit division san antonio texas iq LI eka THING camp premont cal sept I 1 1918 editor J R walls dear sir just a few lines to express my appreciation tor the great service you are doing the boys of washington county in this great world grapple lor freedom we all can play a part the ones who meet the enemy in deadly conflict are performing no more patriotic service than those who are as signed some productive labor at home or otherwise and who perform it honestly and well there being so many ways tn which one can serve at home such as buying liberty bonds thrift and war savings stamps donating to the red cross Y M 0 A act and along this line it there Is one aang that touches a warm spot in the heart of a boy from washington county more than another U Is the receiving of the news from our home county through your excellent paper we feel that this favor extended to U la a splendid example of patriotism I 1 get to see the other boys that came out with me quite often as we were all transferred from camp lewis to camp fremont here in california I 1 am enjoying myself quite well here we have first class food good beds plenty of exercise and are working in a great and good cause so why should I 1 not be contented wishing ou success I 1 remain yours pat J harvey hall co D infantry camp fremont cal WHAT LIBERTY ARE FOR Y M C A K of C and red cross aie all behind our BOS folks at home should support them sas one of our soldier BOS A E F france aug 27 1918 dear mr walls I 1 often think of my dixie friends and as I 1 look back from here I 1 feel that the few years I 1 spent in southern utah are the most pleasant I 1 have to think about probably a great many of the dixie boys are over here perhaps some of them are near here but it is as hard to communicate with friends in the army over here as it is to locate them and it Is fust about as difficult to do either as it Is to get mail to or from the states so a few of us who arc so unfortunate as to be isolated bilth a regiment of strangers stran gerc get i little lonely at times one thing I 1 am thankful tor Is that we are kept busy most of the time but during spare hours I 1 wonder how people are here and there at home and I 1 crave any kind of letter or paper bearing news about friends and things I 1 am interested la I 1 hae been in the service tour months today and have been on this side more than two months I 1 am a long ways form a finished product but I 1 feel that when we get up here that some of the oldest men are as green as the greenest the parade ground helps to make a good soldier for dress parade but dress parade Is a small part of life in the trenches I 1 heard a great many objections to bringing untrained soldiers over but 1 don t feel as bad about it as I 1 did the fellows are learning taster I 1 here it seems that one can get the spirit of things better when the air la full of it life in the training camps at home Is too much of a picnic and about all one learns of war la inspection heavy packs and marches it all helps to discipline a fellow and that is very necessary but I 1 learned more the ten days I 1 spent at the front than I 1 could ever get at a camp at home things are a lot different over here than I 1 thought tor I 1 have had to change lot of my mistaken ideas the newspapers give one a very distorted idea of things I 1 expected to find death staring me in the face everywhere but I 1 saw very little I 1 saw none of the enem unless one might class trench rats as such I 1 am still enough to cover my head at night lest they chew my ears then a word about shell alre I 1 used to worry more about it than I 1 do now since I 1 have been under it I 1 was about 20 feet under it down in a dugout fritz sent over about big shells in about 30 minutes we could hear them whistling and bursting all around but when we came out we learned that the closest shell missed us by yards and even though there were man men oa duty who never took to shelter not a man was hurt thai was the keisers kaisers Kai sers hard luck folks at home worry about the boys over here uncle sam Is taking good care of them he is more concerned over their welfare than they are about themselves at biome that is where the liberty bonds go and where uncle stops the Y M C A K of C and the red cross take up the job that is what they want donations tor those are our friends and they are stretching every dollar they get for our welfare and comfort the soldiers enoy them god will bless them and ha least the home folks can do Is support them france Is not yet bled white but she has given freely the people make us welcome and the yanks get along with them but the cammies and commies tommies don t agree both like to talk and both recommend themselves highly then the ank very foolishly tells the englishman that we are here to fight his fight those difference are of little consequence since e are all pulling the same load best your friend pat elg anderson co G eners am ex rn TO DO camp beauregard la sept 26 1918 dear editor this Is the first opportunity I 1 have had of writing you and thanking you tor sending me the home paper I 1 have received the last two issues ot your paper and it Is needless to say that they were greatly appreciated there are three other dixie boys in this camp besides myself namely leland haten iraln harmon and enos sandburg they are all just as eager to read the home news as I 1 am it Is really amusing how we all scan the front page although we are in what some people call the sunny south we are by no means in the kind of sunny south that we are used to and that we have learned to love and appreciate since leaving utah we have seen nothing that can in the least compare with the scenic and civic beauty of our own fair state the people here in no way remind us of the people at home at present we are undergoing intensive training our captain Is making every effort to get our battalion ready tor oversea duty in as short a time as possible we dixie boys are all well and firm in our resolve to do our duty thanking you again for your paper I 1 remain sincerely your friend karl N snow camp beauregard la field signal TIUS GS PRETTY GOOD mrs R C mcmullan ln leeds utah dear mother just to tell you that I 1 have had a fine trip and am still on the ship cannot say much I 1 dlan t get sea sick I 1 think we are going to have things pretty good we have been getting the news of the war every day by wireless there la always loud cheering when it Is given out by the Y M C A man the allies are still gaining this letter must be in in a few minutes so will close hoping you are all well we have bad lots of magazines to read so haven t got lonesome I 1 shall write again as soon as opportunity permits love to all your afat son frank batt D F A 40 alt american eap exp forces MADE HIM FEEL AT HOME A E F france aug 16 1918 washington county news dear editor when the left the states I 1 was left in the hospital tor three months and when I 1 came over I 1 did not get with them again but saw the boys and they gave me the paper and said it was still coming it made me fell at home to read our home paper in france and I 1 do appreciate it very much and want to thank you tor your kindness tor sending the paper yours very respectfully enos E winder co FA american eap exp forces WAS TO GO OVER sept 6 fort omaha neb dear editor I 1 left salt lake last tuesday I 1 am stationed at fort omaha neb this Is a pretty location for an army camp the hills are not as old and rugged as our dear old mountains in utah omaha Is situated on the west side of the missouri river the fort Is just about five miles west of omaha a little to 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