Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1918 — LETTER FROM RED CROSS NURSE [ARTICLE]

LETTER FROM RED CROSS NURSE

Base Hospital, Camp Doniphan, Ft. Sill, Okla. Dear Father and All: We are all excited over the reports that we will all get orders very soon to leave this hot, sandy place. The heat is about to get the best of me. I can easily see why people in hot climates get lazy, such heat for so long surely saps the “pep” out of one. Glad you are getting some rains occasionally. We have not had rain here for a long The trees look green but when you feel of the leaves they are so dry they snap. Nothing grows here. I can’t see how cattle and things live. Say, take it from me there is no place like Indiana to live. Other states are nice to visit but not to stay. Our new cihief nurse is sure fine. She is the nigest we’ve had. Such a sensible wo*p. We have a nice ward captain. He is one of the 85th unit doctors. How are Fells and Bonners? Give them my regards. Now it is just a rumor that we will leave here the first of September, but it looks like We would leave Ft. Sill soon. Will write when we know sure. Our ward master and a friend of his play the violjn and mandolin here so much and they play “Indiana” especially for me. It sure does sound good. I should write more but lam so busy and it is so ho* I cannot write more now. With heaps of love. MINNIE ALTER.