Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1919 — VERN DAVISSON TO BE A RED CROSS DRIVER [ARTICLE]

VERN DAVISSON TO BE A RED CROSS DRIVER

Dear Father and Mother:— I mailed you today the spiked German helmet. It is all taken down and folded into a small package. I guess you Can put it together O. K. It is not in very good shape because of. service and I did not take much care of it. I might go to Salonike for six months if conditions are favorable, and it appears to me after I make an investigation if I go there I will be immediately discharged from the army and sign up for six months with the Red Cross doing truck driving and feeding the starving Roumanians, Graeciank, etc., down there who have nothing to eat. This way I will be sure of getting out after six—months, but by staying in the army it it hard to tell when I would get out. As ever, VERN.