Show ITH OUR BOIS SOW NOW IN 1 THE SERVICE ardray extract floru letter I 1 I 1 had bad n letter since I 1 ft the tile LT 8 fleres hoping ass are all og as well as we wo fellows fellos are ar arid that aou a r writing lots of t hen I 1 get hold of a d real rican newspaper and BOO see how ibous t a boys at the front are getting ablates C a every tiny I 1 lay the paper seo 4 and go in search of said bald etiolate elate we get a little once in a while but lie its bard to remember 11 ates and arid it ie is eure sure food when sado we 0 gut got it wo we get plenty of co and cigar cigarette etts but its as elyone says there ia is nothing live yi Standy 0 candy for a sammie would like to tuil you what I 1 am on but it is not per ilie but I 1 can ean tell you I 1 am w N the fighting fiRlit ing ie Is thickest a 3 sure auto got them dutchmen on tun un it keeps us pretty busy Fv ing them if wo we dout dont ruu run li fright right into berlin it wont be we mere asleep on the jol job wt la is what a soldier in france amia about JU m bough we are gaining ground day lt it is 18 not without lessee dwar war god led exacts his ilia toll viry battle america can i honor those brave men that led for bur her enough you I 1 em go into the fight with a determined look on their then 1 walking over a battle I 1 aa you see where death has ed that grim determined 1 4 9 0 a braceful prace ful thero there 8 ast fellow camo by our gons guns abo gadday day with veith 7 machine gun lin tin his knee As he lay jay on oil et ho lie laughingly ex fad 1 they can break our lout ut not our spirit arnold garbe extract from private letter vt somewhere in franco france eve vo not heard a word frota t bitica I 1 left tho the U S A I 1 he e it will bo some soma time he be ire e do get our mail lut I 1 have tel ed that and nod so have been a to stand it I 1 know that im bave alt all worried a great deal oi over er my long ao 10 silence but it be helped sonie things we e ore tire not riot allowed to do ma seem strange now but there ie is a reason and so all we can do tie is tr try and anti take title en everything or ID in tho the bast munner manner now and always look 1001 nt at our troubles lea froni front the bright side we had bad a splendid trip across tile oceon ocean aud and I 1 can tin I 1 enjoyed it thia this was pos possibly gibly due to th abo fact that I 1 waa was tim never er eick sick once on oil tile whole trip which was a great deal dent more than I 1 had expected aud arid talk about appetite well I 1 juat just get enough to eat cat ve arrived at our port all feel feeling log flue fine and dandy dand y but not for much as vo io were shipped from camp to camp until we e finally left for france wo are now stationed at a rest test camp and eo so far it has been just that and nothing elee else yesterday wo we all did some excellent bunk fatigue tho the camp is located in a 4 quiet little farm milage floge if some chero in france far away from tile noisy world and is just what ve no bilut from newspaper re ports one waa was to think of franco france aa ne a laud land of ruine but so fur far we havo limo been more than satisfied it in is all eo so entirely different from anything any thing we 0 o hab liao over ever seen slen that we e enjoy it ae As faras far as wo no hao traveled france seema to be a beautiful country and it if it were not fur for the women working in the place formerly occupied by ment meu one would hardly know that a war was going on Inthis in this camp WB ire are billeted with the french that ie is a certain number of men live at a french home and so far we e have been able to get got along fine our house happens to be an old bara barn that locals as though it had not been used for a century bat now it is fairly comfortable comfor tabo even though we many ao comoda tiona for instance straw forms oar our mattress a sawbuck and a board makes a good writing desk and a bos box becomes a chair the firmat evening adrian and I 1 decided to sleep outside and while we wore were making our bed the old lady lad with whom wo we aro are billeted came out and started talking but wo we could not riot understand her but about three in the morning it started to rain ald 1 believe mo me wo we bad to do a double quick into tho the barn with oar our bad bed continued on ith page news of the boys prom from first page dlug ding this waa was what the baily acly tried to tell us buto but wo listen or rather we anil and eho bile was much concerned over our health as a result of our first introduction tro to ft french rain but now we have pitch edour dog dog tent outside and with it thick layer of straw under ua ui wo we should worry about any kind of a sto storm r m you see wo we prefer sleeping outside aa as wo want all tao fresh air me a can possibly ret get wo we took a walk through the tile lower part of tho the town and find helped a farmer farmr unload hia his hay bay aud ou would hmo ahmo lingher at tho the load tho the wagons hire are two to whet led tiff affairs airs and ire are drawn by ony one horse in most cades cases at timis when tho tile load ie is extra heavy another horse I 1 added in frent of borso number ono one but thie this ier er often tho load moro than i L couple of dozen forkfuls and so we had an easy time after we rini fini abd wu wo had bad to sample tho the old farmers wino wine is another cry custom tho the people hire do not drink water ater at tit all as qs they think it in is used only for oJe cleansing ansing purposes aLs and so everyone has a largo large b birrel of wino ino and wt WL are allowed followed tho tile privilege of drin liag oar ehan shari but no more you see bee wine is treat 1 d I as a food in franco and so you must never worry orry about u 0 starving while over here it ia is a sour wine and ia is home bome made and nud as they arc are raised on it wo we find that it is never used as an intoxicant at another place and find old min came out with a broken ppe ripe in ili hta his hand liand and wanted some tobacco wo we filled up tip hie his pipe and aavo him hint at another iother handful and so wo we earned some more wine we find that everyone here is very polito and kind and that they always pay an with somo some other now about tho language it is very strange for is i a to bo be among who do not mider stand our larig language nago and so wo we must dodril theirs of course thie this is li bird ard its yet but so far by tho tile use ilse of a pocket dictionary and many any RIB tures with our hand we hao haio been ablo able to ii euro almost an anything Y thing we re wanted provided wo we could ply p ly fo for it and aa as I 1 had onu one hundred francs a sum equal to twenty dollars with in u when I 1 arrived I 1 have not suffered erml we can go in ili p a cafe and ardor our nelette ol brend bread and arid baiter wine and coffee very easily und it wont be very nery loag until no ae will beabou be ablo to talk and understand stand the language pro vided we can call einy stay bore for fur any length of time but every now flow and then a funny thing happens hap pene for instance the other night tho tile old oil lady come came out with a candle lantern in ili her hand an and eho sho handed it te ta us at thu tho same time hiking tak very iery fast we thought ele she meant to gaie us the lantern eo so we te c auld uld BOO see to m ike our beds and aL accordingly cordingly wo we hung it on the th wall but then she started to talk faster than ever oer and arid biseo bI tile we e we were ro nuzzled but wo finally disc that she wanted us to light tho the indle cindle c as silo r iiii lind no ito lit m itches toile wo we sum suro had a good I 1 bugh ovir our mistake un stale so 81 it goes gols but wo 0 will improve in ili time I 1 nm an feeling well and I 1 am ani per f atly happy as 0 every ery thing a bite mo file uno line wo we hivo issued bonte Anon cau tobacco and find so if wo we get ull all we cin cm c m eat and have hae a to steep and arid not work we fiel eel any other wa so pl aso dont morry clr mo uio an adv j more john stocker w alio ito his ims been it at camp levis le is so eo boerl erd erl er d weeks reports having ba ing passe I 1 through salt like ii ike east cast and will probably be shipped to europe soon rhoyd ottoson lias has been pro S to sergeant bor geant I 1 W A reid has sent a cud clid homo home that he lie lias has reached the other side in safety barnoy barnsworth irv iri in henry an ani I 1 hillird voorhees left twit laka tuesday fur for the tile of offic fieLis tre trait ilog camp at camp talor ta lor kentucky |