Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1918 — LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS [ARTICLE]

LETTERS FROM OUR SOLDIERS

tiund W. Leal bemoan Writes Front France. I)avi d Leatherman of Rensselaer received another letter Saturday Jirwair Ms son. Corp. Carroll W. LcaEikerman, who has now been in France- for -several weeks and has written home three times since his arrival there. His letter follows: Somewhere in France. April 28, 1918. B>eir Father: Skadar ere. *>:©© P- m. Supper (? «»« ia timp so I will write you 'cw tines. Have been mowing anMßß.it ev»*r since I wrote the last sjibc.. I rode in a box car for a day aad Mshc tast week. Arrived in tfrife Wasp- yesterday morning. This « the best place I have found in Framce. it is a cahtonment. IHave fair i; Barters and plenty of eats. Rads ts the main thing in the army, life can lay down and sleep anywhere if we get plenty to eat. I don't know what we are going here. We were sent here as dnecke«. clerks and truck drivers. Think that will be good work, and beisere f will like it. I under--r.iis.ti that none of us will stay and some will be sent to an-tMh-rv city. So l don't know which -fla.* I will be yet. but think it jrsil fee permanent for a while at lea.fr. There are about eighty-five *tf at*. I haven't drilled but about wee% since { have been in France. The weather has been very promising the Last few days, but it had to rain today. It rained pretty hard for a short time but didn't last tear.

I attended services at the Y. M. C a. this morning the first time I lav* had a chance to do so since I Mt She U S. There will be an T other - service tonight. You can t assagine hew much the Y. M. C. A. s aie appreciated by the soldiers. Moit of their spare time you will had trfeem at the “Y >T reading, writor playing games, and if there if anything going on, such as 'Hiovpictures or entertainment, the nam is crowded. It is practically the on.LT place of amusement that they have. The people back there tausjnot give too much praise to the wad secretaries of the Y. M. C- A. for the great work they doing among the A. E. F. from the base camps to the front line trenches. No matter where the troops go there is always a Y. M r. a worker following them and there is an old building rented or a teat erected for their welfare. Wdl. I have written about all Shat I can for this time except that I an* fine and dandy. So don't worry about me. As ever, Your loving son, CPL. C. W. LEA THERMAL*. :a, P. V. Til. A. E. F., France. p_ §_This address is indefinite; i wiffl write again in a few days.