Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1918 — W. S. ROSE ON FIRING LINE IN FRANCE [ARTICLE]

W. S. ROSE ON FIRING LINE IN FRANCE

“Somewhere Over There,” April 2, 1918. —Dear Dad: Well we are back on the front again, and find it just about the same as before. It happens to be raining now, and every road in the country is about like the road east of Frog Lake _school during the spring thaw. It is surprising how the whole country can change in a few days. A week from now the sun will probably be shining warm as early June at home and dust following the trucks and motor cycles down the road. The packages sent me came while I was resting and you can't imagine how welcome they were. Candy, chocolate and smokes can't be bought here. There’s no more to these towns than there is to C. Randle’s siding and stock yards. But away from the villages this is a very pretty country, more rolling than at home, and with the most crooked roads you ever saw. The roads on the maps look like the tracks of a drunken fly.' ‘ _ • I’m hoping to get to see Vern Davisson and Sam Duvall soon. Howard Ames has seen Sam. Howard comes past here in a supply wagdn every day. He’s getting on fine. He told me just the other day that he had just got a box with some of mother’s fruit cake in it. My work is changed now, I’m in charge of the mail for the first battalion — mail and clothing. You remember what my work was at Camp Mills, don’t you. W. E. ROSE, Hq. Co. 150 F. A., A. E. F.