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Show Letters From Bingham Soldiers The boys with the colors are still sending letters to the ; folks back home, telling what's going on at the battlefront and at the army camps, and among those in stock this week lai .onefrom K. S. Kim,' a native of Honolulu, of Korean parentage, but who resided in Bingham a number of years before joining 'Uncle Sam's big army. . He had not been in the bStv- i ;ice long before he went to Join the boys overseas.. He is something of a i literary artist, and if he devotes " a Jittle time on the subject he may wind up as a war correspondent. His letter Is dated-"France, Somewhere, July 16-aS," and addressed-to Wdlliam Askew As-kew reads as follows: "Bill, how's the boy, and the rest of the fellows?" Give them my hello. I've crossed the pond you see, and tho' Sherman said war was hell, I've found the shrieking of German shells pretty chilly all along my spinal column My hair has forgotten to lay down, and they are all growing stif fer than a porcupine's bristles, and I'm several inches shorter, So pity me. But France is a nice country," beautiful In scenery, scen-ery, quaint and .peaceful in appearance. appear-ance. Nevertheless I'm getting lonesome lone-some for a guy liere has to perles-vous perles-vous French to gft by. I wish I had eaten a Jew of them frog legs' a la French and learned to twist my tongue. .. , . '. . "Bingham is heaven compared to the conditions we have to contend, but this is a man's game amrl like it well, although the hikes, marches, once got my most refined goat This isn't going to last long, and if the Dutchmen spare me, I'm going no far from here that , my French friends would have to spend 100 bucks to snd me a post card. You see his country is not like ours, and being so near the firing lines one cannot find any thing to enjoy to enjoy himself. "The girls here are all pretty, but give me the (Louvre or old Frico for a good -time, and I'll tell the Dutchmen Dutch-men to go to (deleted by the censor) "I've drank so much 'champagne here that I'll have to learn : anew o drink whiskey straight. : "So . long, J'm : going to chew." Another letter is from R." I. -(Merrill, who is stationed at the training school at the (University of Arizona, Tucson, and he hs the following to say with the exception of that which has been blocked out by the censor: "AHave Been awful busy lately and don't have much time to write, we had so many little things to do when not class or drill. Last night my platoon all wanted to go to town, but we were called out. after clas for an extra drill in the manual of arms. After about ten minutes drill wo were asked if we' thought we could do it About 16 of us held up our hands and , were lined up by ourselves and put through the work. I made one mistake but got straightened out before an officer saw me. W& were tured loose in a few minutes and went to town, and the rest of the men had to stay and drill all evening. "Am getting along fine in the radio work. Some of us are taking about 18 words to the minute straight read ing, '-.20 words of code matter is a passing grade, but of course code Is j much harder than straight stuff. We expect to leave here about the first of September, but of course, we do no4 know where we are going, and will undoubtedly split up and go all directions. The Y. M. C, A. is giving a party up here for us tonight, biukIc. lunch, dancing etc, and they will fur-v nish the girls. JAnother outfit is giving giv-ing us a free dance Friday night down town. The principal language one hears spoken -here is Spanish anfl a good per cent of the population is Mexican. IBut there is a lot of Ameri-.can Ameri-.can and Castilllan Spanish girls running run-ning around here who will make ) things interesting for us when we get acquainted.' Thank you for the papers you sent me. I enjoyed them immensely." (The remainder of the letter ;ls about his 'sweetheart, and is therefore there-fore censored).' ; ( , The following is a letter from "Melton "Mel-ton Manoogian, who enlisted from Bingham several months ago and Is now with the 12th Field Artillery in France: v ' 1 - V ,'; - ' ' . "I was very glad to get your letter and also the paper you were so kind jlo send me. I Just received them : es-terday es-terday although they wore mailed on !May 28. We are in a good American camp with two large Y. M. C, A. buildings,, where they have band con-certs con-certs and moving pictures every night "We do considerable drilling, but I suppose you get as tired as us with all our war activities which must be done at home as well as here. We i ope to soon be able to do our lit at the front "I feel glad to know that I have many friends the lTpltd . , States,, although X have "hot lived there jna&j years, but I feci sure of returning some time in the near future to enjoy i the blessing of the best country in .the world. I - "I will gladly do you a favor ting you know if I should have the which Is a great favor to me, of let-miBfortune let-miBfortune of being hurt or injured badly. I thank you for the offer of any service I might need, but I have nothing no-thing just now to ask of you, except that I might remain your friend, as ever." - ;. ',:' |