Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 19, DeMotte, Jasper County, 24 March 1944 — NEWS of our Service Men and Women [ARTICLE]

NEWS of our Service Men and Women

Dear Editor, It hasn’t been very long since I started receiving the POST and it certainly makes me feel closer to home when I read about, all the happenings in DeMotte. It is especially interesting to read about the other fellows around DeMotte who are in the service, where they are and a general idea of what they are doing. Those of you who have ever been in Boston will agree with me I’m sure that it is a very pecular but interesting city. The streets and sidewalks downtown are very narrow, so narrow that even some of the main streets are one-way streets. If it were not for the Navy I probably would never have had the occasion to see some of the old colonial and historical places in the East. I believe Boston even has DeMotte beaten in the weather this winter. It was very surprising to me that the weather is so nice, but I’m glad because I’m becoming more allergic to cold weather. We have just completed the first half of our course which was composed of disbursing afloat. I think we will finish the whole supply course by the last week in May, but a person cannot realize what study actually is until he gets into an officer's training school—and especially Harvard. Well, I better knock it off now and get busy. Yours sincerely, Chuck Moolenaar. * P.S. Send my congratulations to the basketball team for having such a good season. I hope the track team continues along the same line. “Dear Editor,” writes Cpl. Charles B. Calhoon in a V-mail letter dated March sth. “I thought I’d drop a few lines to let you know that I am OK and feeling fine, but have a little change of address now as it is I am somewhere in England and sure would like to hear from the folks back in DeMotte. By the way my brother Frank and Roy are over here somewhere but I don’t know where they are and I have one brother Ned that is still in the states. Keep the home fires burning. We will fight to win this w r ar. As ever—Cpl. Charles B. Calhoon. Dear Editor, I thought I had better inform you of my new address, as I do want to receive the paper. I sure am glad to receive it each time it comes. I sure wish I could be back in DeMotte, boy this place is no place for a human being. Well, as I can’t say much about this place I guess I had better close. Pvt. Blaine Harrington. Dear Editor, Just a bit of a note to say “thanks” most sincerely to you and to whosoever else was instrumental in my receiving the POST. It was a pleasant surprise and is a heartwarming experience to read the news of hometown folks, of my fellow townsmen in the service. Also ’tis time once more to inform you of a new address, perhaps the last for a while. It is now as signed below., Most sincerely yours, Kenneth R. Spurgeon, Ph.M2 c. Roy (Junior) Conrad, S l|c arrived home early Sunday morning, to visit his mother, Mrs. Eva Conrad. This is his first furlough since he entered the service last October.