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Show letters From Bingham Soldiers i : ; Letter from Tom Wilson, somewhere some-where in France, to a friend in - Bingham: .' "Just imagine sleeping in a pup ' 4ent for several days, cold and miserable mis-erable nine-tenths of the time, and to make things worse raining every night and day, moving here and there, never being settled more than a day I ' ' " or two at a time. . But to cheer things up considerably our mail arrived today. to-day. There was an abundance of it on account of our not receiving any for over three weeks. The sun happened hap-pened to be shining and it looks like .brighter dajs are coming for us, but not for the (Boche. Things are sure hot for them around here. 'Coming back to personal matters, I will say that I never was more glad to receive a letter than yours today. IA man will go through anything over here without a complaint, but we must receive a cheerful letter once in awhile. Of course the more often the better. 1 believe I have received all your letters, because you always address them correctly no there is no chance for them to get lost. .' ' "Oh yes, I also received the Press- Bulletin today. Swallowed its con. tents like we do bread and Jam when we get it. "I guess you will be surprised , to hear that I have been In action for more than two months. I was at Chateau Cha-teau Thierry, St LMiliiel, etc. I wish you would kindly sign my registration card for me. 1 am afraid I was ab- sent September 30-31. I hope, that ru-Imor ru-Imor about Vern is false and that Shorty is alright by now. I have heard nothing except through your letters and what I read in the Press-Bulletin Press-Bulletin today. , "Here's wishing you good luck with vour new teacher, airs. Corroll, May she be loved and admired by you all as our former teacher, Mrs. King. We have been fighting along with fourth engineers all the time, but never have been able to see Uoche as yet. Have been trying to do bo for some time Bob Is still with me in the good old 13th, and as yet has come out without with-out a scratch. Jack Dean from Bingham, Bing-ham, has been along with me all the time. Yes, I know Golden Ivey, but I cannot say that France has agreed with me like it has with him, yet I have no cause to complain." |