The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-12-20

l canteen and had banquet; or a
least it was banquet for me, for
was something that we never have i
camp-ham and eggs, salad and but
ter, coffee and hot mince pie. Whel
started back to the tent the snov
had changed to rain and the win,
} was blowing harder 1t was such
bad night that all the other boys a
headquarters had gone to town t.
spend the night in real bed, as mos
of the boys in the companies did. 81
was alone. | saw / wouldn't have
enough wood to last, so l went out
and brought in an armload. l haC
J just got in the tent, when it gave E
final groan, gave up the struggle anc
came down on me. l propped it up a
little, piled everything on the beds
pulled the prop out and left it, going
down to the Emmett boys tent to
spend the night. All of them except
Howard Gaylord had gone to Nv
York to spend the night, so l slept in
Harvey Parks's bed and used all the
covers from two other beds, so l had
good warm nights sleep. My clothes
were sopping wet, the water going
through raincoat, an overcoat and
to my underclothes, so I spent the
evening in drying them. We thought
many times in the night that the
tent was going over with US, but the
old boy stood up nobly and is still
holding the fort, although many,
many times it gave what we thought
was it's last groan. Sometime in the
night the wind blew the tin cone off
the top of the tent, carrying several
joints of stove pipe with it, but we
found them this morning and we are
safe and snug for another night. This
morning l went out and rescued my
belongings and have spent the day in
thawing them and drying them. So
thus ends my first hard experience of
the war But I guess that l will
have many worse than this before the
Kaiser finally cries enough and ad-
mits that Uncle Sam is a better man
than he.
Major Clark was in an auto acci-
dent several days ago. He and several
other officers were out riding around
and through Long Island. They were
in Buick Six and the chauffer was a
fast driver. At one place they turned
out for another car, when they were
going about 40 miles an hour and hit
a patch of sand. The car slid, hit
the guy wire on telephone pole. The
car was wrecked, all the men were
thrown out and while no one was
seriously injured, they were all bruis-
ed. They all consider that they got
out of the accident lucky.
We are going to leave one of these
DAYS, and we are all anxious to go
and get down to real business so we
can get home that much sooner. We
have had examination after examlna-
ton here and the were strict ones, too.
All the weaklings have been weeded
out and sent home, for it is mans
work from here on. But all the En-
NETT boys are true blue and have
showed the fighting qualities of their
dads. None of them have ever limited
at wanting to get out and all have
passd the stringent examinations sue
cessfully. And at every examination
we have been scared to death for fear
that something wrong would be
found that would bar them. But all
escaped. One poor boy in the Idaho
Field hospital had hernia and when
he was discharged he cried all night
because he couldn't go with US. he
has gone to New York and will have
an operation and will try and get into
the army again. In fact, all the boys
were mighty happy when they learned
that at last they were to get down
to real business. While all of US
would be tickled to death if peace
we're to be declared and we could come
home, there is not one who would ac-
cept an honorable discharge if he was
offered it today, but they all would
put up a big scrap if they tried to
send them home and the rest of US
on East. So we have absolutely no
regrets we are in the battle for Uncle
Sam to the end.
Everything is as good as could be
expected in the army. We have onl-
GERS who are interested in US and
ook after our welfare at every turn
IF the road, so mother needn't worry
out what we will receive the best
If care and treatment. am anxious
and glad that we will soon be in the
fray and 1 hope that when the big
est comes that we will all prove true
blue and show the stock from which
We came. Anyway, l would much
-ather have the good old American
lag wrapped around me andra plain
wooden cross above me Somewhere IN
France than live at home a hundred
years and have the word "Slacker"
written across my heart. But l am
lot figuring on even that. We are
ust going to pay little visit to
France to show the Kaiser that our
irst name is Fight and after the /,
celebration in Berlin we will come
lome and tell you what a grand time
We had.
From Fred Monroe
Harland Campbell received letter