Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-12-06
o Franklin and Marshall field for

Ito Franklin and Marshall field for
the game. Got in free. All en-
listed men did. That's the field
whore all the Army Navy football
games used to be played. There
were all kinds of people out
there, about 100000. Lots of big
folks. We beat the Marines l6
tn o. Ben Neal. one of our SER
gcants, lives in Philadelphia. and
We stayed at his house, ten of us.
House looked like a young mill
tary camp. and believe me, his
folks treated us royalty. They
are pretty we'll off. Old man OWNS
big laundry. never ate three
such meals i'm my life as we got
there. For dinner that night we
had roast beef, fried oysters,
baked potatoes, sweet potatoes.
tomatoes, peas, celery and olives,
pumpkin and mince pie and
trimmings too numerous to men
tion. Ate for about two hours.
| One of the fellows ate so much
that he lost il all when he stepped
out of the house. felt like it.
We didn't get down town till
about 9, so Whit and | walked
around a bill and then went to the
Hotel Adelphi (anOther swell onc)
and watched the theatre crowd go
in TO dinner. listened 10 the mu-
sic. Then we We're sorry that We
had patrOniZed the Bellevue al
noon. Got TO bed about 4 a. m.
Slept till 9 i'm a regular bed. and
then we had breakfast sausage,
POTATOES, eggs, grape fruit. etc,
etc. Then Mr.. Neal took us over
and showed us through his laun-
dry. We had dinner at 3 p. NJ
oyster pie, roast chicken and
dressing. both kinds of potatoes,
corn. beans, peas, celery and
! olives. ice cream. cake, coffee and
other things foo numerous to
mention. And all this imc we
i Nero smoking cigars to beat the
band. Guess we got rid of about
two boxes. and then they filled
our pockets when we left. You
can imagine how much feed it
took for three meals for ten fell
lows. They certainly treated us
royally. Made us all feel kind of
homesick to leave. We came
back on the electric. Didn't do :.
much yesterday but sleep i'm be-
tween times. Had another ditch
digging detail today. Let me as
sure you that on these details
none of us injure ourselves any
from hard work. SO that brings
things up to date. Am down town
at The Y writing and this letter
don't look very legible to me- Am
writing il too fast, I guess.
OH. yes Those ladies (there
are three of lhcml i'm Reading
sent me a big box of chocolate
and candy the other day Am go
ing to write them tonight.
They are starting TO get fur
onghs here now Can get them
from 10 to 80 days, guess
| mostly 10 days. | can get one if
want it, suppose. don't think
I'D better come home till after the
holidays, some time i'm January or
February. That's all up to YOU,
though. a furlough won't he any
good without carfarr. We won't
get amy expenses i'm this branch.
Eli try to get a furlough amy time
you say. though.
About that Thanksgiving box.
: ! think I'll go to Washington. ID.
g.. With Whit then, if we can get
the week end off and | can save
, the carfare. Our team plays
; Georgetown U at Washington on
Thanksgiving and Whit wants az
many of us TO come down as pos
? sihlc: guarantees us all we can
l possibly eat, etc He don't live i'm
/ Washington. but in Occoanam,
Va, about 20 miles off. They
: have a couple of cars and ] know
{ they will show any Of us royal
d time. So if YOU can possibly turn
t the box of food into SSS instead,
g for carfare, it will be much better.
t think round trip to Washington
: is about $40. Whit is sitting
c alongside of me writing and he
g says TO put much emphasis on
/, this part of it, Same applies to
). Nmas box. 1t is unnecessary
Z, There is ntsthing l need here and
e the ready cash would be much
g more acceptable than if invested
e in box of any kind.
r Not much more TO write. The
: weather has been pretty decent
t here lately-Oh, yes! We don't
have to get up till 6 a. m. now.
o Fine! Can't think of much more.
1t Write. With love, HERMAN.