Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1918 — GOT 84 LETTERS FROM HOME [ARTICLE]

GOT 84 LETTERS FROM HOME

They AH Came at Once to a United States Soldier Now Serving In France. Dallas, Ore. —Mr. and Mrs. L N. Woods' received a letter from their son, Laird Woods, recently, and in it he stated that he had just received his first mall since arriving in France. The mall consisted of 84 letters and six packages. Young Woods together with several other Company L boys of this city, were left behind in a hospital in New York when the Oregon troops sailed for France, and he sailed on a later date but never caught up with' the regiment. He was finally assigned to a company In the old Montana National Guard and is serving with that regiment somewhere near the fighting front in France now.