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Show , "" " ' l! " Lctlcrs From Bingham Soldiers . i i Th following fetter from "Some-1 wher In 'France" dated Mgust 4, was I received -thl3 week by Judge A. H. Dunlavy: ' "Dear Dad: Just a line or two to let you know that the huns have not got me yet, and for some time to come they will have to carry this "little oi war" without looking for me. We are stationed here in a quiet little hamlet, ham-let, whichflpparently ia about two thousand years old, and to my mind, some of the girla are of the same age so far as the ways of this wicked world are concerned. But we cannot complain. :,; Everyone treats us fine, and he American soldier sure has made some reputation as a gentleman with the French. Only in a very few cases have the rules been broken and the others know by the punishment meted outNwhtt, awaits them. If they do the sama people of the 'British Isles welcome ' you on your way to take your stand beside the armies of many nations now lighting in the old world the great battle for human freedom. The allies will gain new heart and spirit in your company. I wish that I could shake the.hasd pf each one of you and bid vou God speed on your mission. mis-sion. George, R. I., April, ISIS." The following letter Is from F. 0. Bevins, who was formerly a cook at Jim's Place, who is now located at the post hospital, Fort (Logan, Colorado, and was written to James Byers: "Hello, James, old boy, how are you and the Mrs. and iRuthT WVell- here it Is Monday a going and I'm still in the hospital. Have had two operations opera-tions and I am sitting up in a chair again. I have had a pretty long spell in bed. I think I will be able to cook "You have probably thought that I have intercepted a (Boche shell or that I ara tangled up with a lot of sea weed at the bottom Of the ocean. You are wrong. I have merely been traveling at the expense of the gov- eminent. The weather for the " past weeks has teen idpal. I don't believe we have had more than a day of disagreeable dis-agreeable weather in that time. You ought to see us go through anything in the way of reading matter. There isn't a piece left at the end of a week of a good, live magazine. We are not homesick. Neither are we discouraged or downhearted. Really Real-ly 1 do hot know of a time in ray life when 1 was more care free,, contented con-tented and happy than I am right here. A man up here soon learns to look at things in a different way. We never grumble any more If our own 'chow" iHn't as we think it ' The coffee serves three purposes. We drink it. use it for shaving, and . some men use it instead of Ink. Some coffee. cof-fee. I must close, with best wishes to everyone. Private Don L. Dunlavy, Mach Gun Co., 362 Inf., 'A. P. O. 776, A. E. F. via New York.' , He also enclosed a letter to his father fa-ther which he had received from King George of England and it is as follow?: fol-low?: 'Soldiers of the United States, the a whole month without sleep when I get out of here for I think I Jiave caught up with all the sleep I lost while I was in Bingham. And I want to tell you and the bunch there that there are lots worse places In the ''world tliun 'ingliam And there are places w'lere vou cannot get half as much to eat for your money as you con at Jim's "Place. Do you know where that s Jocattd? ."Well. Jim, to tell you the truth I don't know what to tell you about my trunk. 1 guess you had better keep it for awhile anyhow until I get I out of here, for the nurse tells me that I an entitled to a furlough And , if I can get a long enough one I will have to go around, by Salt Lake and slip up to Bingham and get my trunk and go from there home to see my mother. "And say, old hoy, If I do come to Bingham I will hae to t steak as big as a barn door and a whole lot of cabbage and a "barrel of good black coffee. Oh. yes, and tell Paul Hallowel! that I believe I could eat a doughnut right now. Tell him that I said, hello. Well, old hoy, I will say good bye. Give my "best regards re-gards to Mrs. Byers and Ruth andthe bunch. Your, old friend and cook, Frank Bevins. Address me Post Hospital, Hos-pital, Fort 'Logan, Colorado." |