Show JUDGE HAYES RECEIVES TWO LETTERS FROM SON IN FRANCE judge henry N hayes has just received two letters from his son la verne who is with the army in france one dated from some jre re in france april and the other d ted april eth at nice italy the fourner former letter contained the following which wilf he be of interest to his frie friends whenever you send me anything please put a little candy in the box 1 l because that is about the only thing that cannot be purchased over hero here that one might wish to eat fresh candy here costs about ten tell francs per round which is about two dol lars american money and it is very rotten stuff at that 1 I receive the richfield reaper although I 1 get only about every other issue of it but I 1 am glad to get as many issues as I 1 do I 1 read everything in it advertisements and all next monday I 1 expect to go OIL the trip of my life As I 1 told before we are allowed san d days ayi leave of absence every four months and I 1 am taking my furlough lur lough next monday april I 1 am going down on the mediterranean sea I 1 will visit the famous city of nice marsailles monte carlo as well as many other beautiful citler along the coast and will drop you a card from each place and a nd tell you all about the different sights it will tale me about twelve days to make the lie trip tr ip 1 I am sorry that I 1 cannot be home 0 0 help you run the farm this next sun summer niner but sure do hope and ex hect to be home in tile the spring of 1 you sent me an account of thurman gates death I 1 knew about this long before you folks at home I 1 work in the sect section iop and every death is cabled to the states through this section so you see I 1 get this information real early the letter written from nice is as follows nice april 7 1918 dear father and mother As you see from the above I 1 am in nice nica one of the most beautiful cities that I 1 ever saw I 1 sure did have a wonderful vond erful trip from general headquarters to this place I 1 stopped off at lyons which is one of the greatest ammunition manufacturing fac turing cities in the world it if not the greatest from lyons I 1 went to Aur guon chichis chis Is made historical by tile the fact bilat the palace of the pope was located there when there were two popes from this I 1 went to marsailles which is s the largest seaport of france I 1 stayed in this place for a day and took a motor trip around the island of dee which is made famous by the escape of monte cristo in this place there is a beautiful Cat catholic hoIle da cathedral thedral located in a hill about one mile straight above tile the sea I 1 then took the train which carried me all day long along the green shores of tile the mediterranean sea and I 1 can truthfully say that this was one of the most beautiful sights that I 1 have ever witnessed tomorrow Tom ozrow morning I 1 am going to the renowned monte carlo the famous gambling place and I 1 will write and tell you about it I 1 am feeling fine and the rest is doing me good your loving son laverne |