Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-11-02
Flirts With Girl.


Flirts With Girl.
II was fun stopping ut the towns.
The people came down to see the troop
trains pass through. and they certainly
treated US royalty. They brought us
fruit and candy and cigarettes and all
sorts OF delicacies. The girls were
especially enthusiastic. They struck up
conversations with the soldiers ex
changed addresses and promised Il
write often.
talked with number of girls Oh
The wav east and managed to fool them
all. There is packet OF mail waiting
In France now for Private Leo Q. Car
ter. That Is the name chose. | 70
member particularly one little girl in a
small town In Ohio. She was about
twenty years old, dark, very pretty and
very sentimental on the subject Of
soldiers.
"Where do you come fromT she
called to me. as I was sitting In the
car window.
ARIZONA" replied.
"Where are you going"
Somewhere In Francew I answered
proudly and hopefully too.
She looked so shocked that I got out
and talked with her. We chatted for
quite awhile. She took my address
and said she would keep me posted on
things back home when | was in the
trenches. ! carried the thing through
TO the end. ! even kissed her at part.
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thrilled ut the romance Of the situation.
Being a Romeo Is easier than being a
soldier.
Just before we reached Chicago my
husband came to me and begged me
not to 60 on.
1T will be better for you to go home
with the folks" he said. "You can
study nursing and enter the Red Cross
as soon as you qualify"
"Yes," replied. II can spend months
in preparation, and when | finish they
will send me to the eastern front OF
put me on some hospital ship or keep
me on duty here In the U. s. A. Not
for me! | will be no nearer you than
was before. If go along there win
be chance of my being sent Cor duty
back Of your lines. At least ! viii re-
quest that position"
II command you to return" he said
In his severest military manner.
''I'll think 1t over. Corporal Carter"
promised and walked away. When
the train pulled out of Chicago I was
In the cook car peeling potatoes.
When we arrived In Hoboken the
men went straight from the train to
the transport. Here again my husband
demonstrated with me.
Husband Again Urges Her to Return
you've got away with It this far"
he said. Don't you think II Is time to
60 back?"
I'LL say goodby. and I'll go-if
can" was my answer.
When the time came I fell I'm line
again with the cooks and went aboard
the barge
The barge was tied alongside the
transport where the Eighteenth was
embarking. II was piled high with
supplies which were being loaded on to
the ship. These kept arriving all day
and far into the night Great truck
loads of them were emptied out on the
deck. This continued during the entire
three days we were anchored there.
worked like Trojan, and my hands
were well blistered but my heart was
happy.
There were no sleeping quarters on
the barge but there were plenty OF
mattresses The cooks were quarter
ed together. We slept on mattresses
thrown on the floor inside the barge
cabin. 1t was not uncomfortable. ]
used to wake up I'm the night, look out
at the dusky form OF the transport
swaying gently on the tide and pray !
would not be discovered until was
aboard and well out on to the ocean.
The boys around me snored peacefully
They had nothing to worry them but
the work Of unloading the supplies.
Every evening there was a crap game
In the cabin. II was what you would
call a fading game-noisy. with calls
for Little Joe" and the rest, The
players got most OF their fun out OF
toshing one another. One man usually
took all the money. The next night
some fellow-a winner IN another game
would take II away from him. and so
N went. Finally. the lucky survivor
had Il all
There were few, n any. shore leaves
after the men boarded the transport
The furtbest they went was out on the
pier, Across the river, they could see
the gay lights OF New York beckoning.
They had read often OF the Great white
Way. Few OF them had ever seen It
Here they were, within a few minutes
OF II, yet II might as well have been
thousand miles away
I'D like to take Just one slant" said
a rookie to me one evening, as we were
standing on deck, gazing across the