Show eureka soldier boy writes from california mr C E hulsh huish eureka utah dear sir tomorrow Is newspaper day and all the boys are writing their home town papers so will write you a few lines I 1 get your paper every monday and sure enjoy reading it it seems a from home for I 1 know I 1 get all the happenings in eureka each week we are training hard every dav and are longing tor for the time we will be sent to joha the boys already in france our on regiment R I 1 m ent Is known as the calif oria ye gr and the only volunteer regiment F in the unit ed states today we are all proud of the tact fact that none of us were among the dratted drafted men and were not forced to serve our dear old uncle sam the Y M C A work for the sol diers is certainly great the only thing they charge us for is the stamps we have movies every night and lectures by some of the best orators of the land also all kinds of athletics and they have their own physical director twice a week they have from two to six vaudeville acts and music and entertainment of all kinds tor for us and at night when we come in from a hard days day s drill it is sure mighty good to know we have such a fine place to go my to all the boys in eureka and tell them army life isn t half bad since they have the Y M C A in all of uncle sam s camps it sure Is one of the greatest move ments tor for the benefit of the army and navy in the U S today they even have some french professors to teach us french and all without charge they follow us wherever we may go and always the same high class entertainments we are having now yours truly ROSCOE HARPER battery P F second california artil lery tanforan Lan toran foran park cal |