Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-12-04
LETTERS FROM TWO
WAUSAU SOLDIER BOYS

Following are two interesting let
| ters from Arthur and Alvin Omholt,
sons of Mr.. and Mrs NJ A. Omholt,
who live in the town of Wausau, about
two miles from the city They are
now in the service of Uncle Sam.
| Arthur Omholt is with the Hospital
Corns at the Great Lakes Training
Station, Illinois, while Alvin Omholt
enlisted in the radio service, and is
at Cambridge, Mass, studying at
Harvard.
Arthur ON, .olt writes as follows to
his parents:
This is Sunday and nothing special
to do, so here goes for a letter.
Had church services here in the
barracks this morning and we had no
outside service today.
| am getting used to this life now
and things are surely going along
fine and | like it very much l am
all through with the Shots and vac
cinations now, and am glad for that
They don't hurt when you get them,
but they do make your arm sore later
on. | have had six "shots" and three
vaccinations. The vaccinations did
not work on me, which helped me
quite a little. They have examined
us seven times and have found alb
solutely nothing wrong with me-
surely am feeling fine and am getting
heavier It's a great life on account
of everything being done regularly.
You surely learn to be regular in your
habits and in your dress.
Got q fine letter from c. F. Ogden
the other day, and he surely COM
plimented me for doing as | did. /
don't consider l did any thing great,
as | am of the opinion that it is the
duty of every one to do his bit in
this great struggle, and | am not
ashamed to say that | am proud to
be a part of Uncle Sans great fight
ing machine, and | don't think any
one can call any of the Omholt family
"slackers," as every member of mill
tary age is now in Uncle Sans en-
ploy.
| went over to the 'Y yesterday to
buy some shoe polish and while there
| met Teddy Olson. 1t sure did seem
good to meet some one you know. Of
course, l know all the fellows around
here, but they are not like home
friends
| suppose you know that Alvin
(Omholt) is on his way to Harvard.
am glad he went, because he sure
would have been disappointed later
had he not gone. l don't know where
am going from here when l do
leave, but it will probably be to New
port, R. l., or Mares Island California
Am sure l can get a furlough and get
home for a short time before | do
leave this place"
Mr. and Mrs NJ A. Omholt have
received the following from their son,
Alvin, who was writing the letter en-
route to Cambridge, Mass, and the
heading says, Somewhere in New
York
I've been trying to write some
during my trip east, but we've been
moving most of the time, and l find
it a little hard to write then.
We are at place called Rotterdam |
Junction. 1t is here that our train
split up, so to speak. Part of it goes
down to New York, while our two |
special cars continue on east TO Bos- |
ton. This surely is some trip. We |
left Chicago yesterday Saturday |
about noon and expect to be in Cam |
bridge about two or three o'clock |
tomorrow morning (Monday.) We
have gone through or rather touched |
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New |
York Canada, Vermont and Massa- |
chuSettS, so you see we will have |
covered quite a lot of ground by the |
time we arrive at Cambridge. We |
have two pullmans and a diner for |
our bunch of men. We eat and sleep |
right here and have it o. X. Had my |
first ride in a ferry last night. They |
our cars across the |
Detroit river on the ferry. The |
we have crossed so far is
Just about the same as around Wau-
sau. In some places though it surely |
is rough, then again in Indiana it is
pretty nice and level. 1t is rough |
enough here in New York.
The most interesting thing | have
seen so far was the steel mills in
Gary and Hammond and some of the
other cities in Indiana, so entirely |
from any thing l have seen,
and very interesting to me.
We, have been through the follow
ing cities, that is, of considerable size: |
Detroit, Buffalo, Rochester. Syracuse
and Utica so far, and l took them all |
in as much as l could.
| am quite anxious to get to |
to see how things are there.
They say things are quite different |
there than we had at the Great Lakes. |
Will write and tell you more about |
things when l get there.
Am going to try and mail this letter |
some where along the line"
RIG THANKSGIVING FEED AT |