Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1918 — PARENTS RECEIVED LETTER FROM PAUL DONNELLY [ARTICLE]

PARENTS RECEIVED LETTER FROM PAUL DONNELLY

September 26, 1918. Dead Daddy and Mamma:— I wrote you a few letters since I have been in the hospital, but I imagine you like to hear from me every once in a while. T am feeling fine aifd up and around now. I think I will be out of the hospital in about a week or so,,and be back with my outfit. How is everybody in old Rensselaer? Give them all my best regards as it is impossible for me to write to each one in particular. Things look very favorable for the boys to come back to the .States within a short time, that is in a year or so, but not for a year, I hardly think. We are going to have a nice Kttle entertainment here at the hospital this evening. I am going to have my picture taken and send it home but never get around to it, but I will in time, I think. How is Murse? Give him my best and tell him to hang around the sets patch close, because I think when I get home I’ll be as good a sticker as ihe. I have seen about my share of this old world. Maybe when I get back I’ll be ready to take my stand in one place. I have not heard from you since July, but I feel sure you have written to me. I suppose I 'have not received my mail on account of traveling around to so many different places. I have seen a big part of France, but it is not like the States, far from it. We are having nice weather here now, outside of an occasional rain. I suppose all of the boys are cleared out of the locality now, are they not? Has Lewis Trussell gone yet? Where is Gporge A. Donnelly. Well, we have a little spat over here on the front once in-a while but it will be over soon. I’ll close with love and regards to all. I am, as ever, PVT. PAUL C. DONNELLY. Hdqrs. Co. 62, Ammunition Train. C. A. C., American E. F.