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Show Mrs. Egan Receives Letter from France Mrs. Laura Egan has received another ltter from France, from the French family to whom she has been sending a parcel of clothing cloth-ing each week. The letters are written in French, and translated or Mrs. Egan by R. L. Heyborne nd Dr. M. E. Bird. This one says: My Dear Friend, I received your very welcome letter of Dec. 18, .vhich gave me much pleasure, ?ven if it was a long time in coming. com-ing. But considering the great distance dis-tance we must not expect the impossible. im-possible. I received a lovely letter L'rom Lonnie's (Tex Mosely) wife announcing the birth of their son. it sure gave me great pleasure ind I share with you in their happiness. hap-piness. I am very happy to know that you are all in good health and that we too are all well. I thank you again and wish you to thank all your kind friends who nave been so kind as to give you such useful things to send us. They were truly precious to us, because at present in France all kinds of clothing are very precious. We still lack many things as a result of he terrible war. Bread, meat, sugar, su-gar, soap and many other necessary necess-ary foods, as well as shoes and jlothes. But we are managing uite well. My dear friend, you told in your letter about your beautiful country ts beautiful homes and farms and of the good things you enjoy. That s wonderful, magnificent. Here in .Vormandy we also have a beautiful beauti-ful and fertile country. Our farms ire not large, nor modern, but in normal times we raise many kinds of crops. We also had many beautiful beau-tiful cows that gave us milk and butter; we also raise all kinds of Tuit and most grains and vegetables. vege-tables. My read friend, my wife and our children and all my friends join me in wishing you and your fam-ly fam-ly the best of health and complete lappiness. Thanks for all your dndness, also your valuable re-nembrances re-nembrances to us. , Your devoted friend in France, L.ucien Lestang. Cpl. Blaine Theobald left Monday Mon-day afr visiting with his parents, Mr. and MrsFay Theobald of Hinckley Hin-ckley for the past two weeks. Blaine has had a delay enroute as he was being transferred from one camp to another, both of which are in Texas. The camp to which Blaine has been onw transferred is a replacement center and he does not expect to stay there for any length of time. Richard Christeusen writes to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willard R. Christensen of Oak City, that he was operated on about two weeks ago and that they took part of the bone out of his hip. He is at Let-terman Let-terman Hospital. He says that after af-ter so many shots of penicillin his arms look like pin cushions. Tomo Inabu, Japanese who attended at-tended the Delta high school some years ago, writes from Italy, where he is stationed with the occupation occupa-tion forces, mainly employed in guarding POW camps, that in furloughs fur-loughs granted him he has visited Switzerland where he cities were breath-taking in charm and beauty beau-ty of setting. Jluirch; Solothurn;he visited a watch factory; Lucerne, Bern, and that he went into the now empty "League of Nations" building. He says in his travels he finds the populace most cordial. |
