Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1919 — FREDDIE LANGE NOW IN TOURS, FRANCE [ARTICLE]

FREDDIE LANGE NOW IN TOURS, FRANCE

Tours, France, Feb. 6, 1919. Dear Cousin: — . I will answer you letter I received some time ago. It found me O. K. and in good health. lam now at the destination I wrote mother about and will be here for a short time. lam going to visit the town. I was there a short while last night but didn’t get to see much of it. Visited aY.M. C. A. there and it sure was a grand place and I sure ran across some good looking! girls—you know what Pa said. Well, I will say I sure will be a bachelor if*4,have to stay in France because I do not think I could ever think enough of one girl as there are far too many to take a claim on one. I had six different ones on my arm, one at a time. When I got tired talking to one I would catch and so did my buddy who went with me. , , . Say, cousin, we sure had a nne time coming down here. We rode in a Homes Forty and French Boxcar. We had a stove in it and say, you could not tell us from darkies. We were as black as the coal we were burning, ‘but were awfully tired as it was too cold to sleep on* the- floor of tb.6 c&r. I was talking to some fellows who were bringing prisoners here about going home. They all expect to be home by July if they do not get transferred to the army of occupation. .... Well, cousin, as my friend is anxious to go to town, I will have to ring off as I have been helping some fellows in this Y. M. C. A. get their arithmetic lessons. They are figuring just like we do at home. It will aid them much when we do get home. Your cousin, ~

FREDDIE G. LANGE.