Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-11-29
! the train. Ran hsstwo towns and
up q Big hill

H0SS toAAH Will iCO, Willie &uO
!grcen lenses in it. Green means
lhack up; white means come
.ahead; red means stop everywhere
but in Germany, and they think
white means stop.
4 Seventh. Capacity of cars, sia
Ito eight tons, some maybe little
lmore.
I. Eighth. Tracks. very winding
land in fine condition..
/ Ninth. They have some of the
large engines painted like the
land, so as to make it hard for
tho German aviator to find them.
Well, dad, Will tell you more
about it when I come home. The
story the Frit2ie fold US about the
war couldn't last longer than Oc-
tober 18th did prove out very
good, did it? But l still believe
what he said. III tell you why.
Now take this country, with the
United States standing behind it
with not only millions, but bill
lions of dollars, and the prices
and scarcity of stuff would make
you see where Germany is nearly
to the end. Bread is 80 cents a
loaf; butter is 80 cents a pound;
eggs, 80 cents a dozen; gasoline
1928 gallon. Sugar you cannot
buy without an order from the
mayor of the town. went to
town few days ago to buy some
meat for the officers. l paid $500
for meat that they ate in one meal.
l also bought bar of soap that
cost me 20 cents. The bread you
pay 80 cents a loaf for isn't nice
white bread like you bake, moth
er. It's brown and l can't say
what it is made of. You couldn't
buy sack of white flour on a bet.
asked a lady if she would
make me pie and she said she
would, and she did. 1t cost me 40
cents. 1t was worth the money to
look at it. She had put a few
strips of dough across a few ap-
pies and piece of leather on the
bottom. You coufdn't cut it with a
knife. It sure was a tough one.
l called it jam pie. The crust
and strips were TANNED together.
From all reports we can hear,
they are doing some business I'D
at No Mans Land.
was talking to an old lady this
morning, and to me she made the
day rather blue; want to tell you
| how it was, and maybe this will
do. II peace were declared to-
morrow, there's q greater war still
yet; there's war for the dear old
mothers; it's a war for them to
forget. The kaiser and crown
prince Of Germany may bring
peace to the world with a cheer,
but they can never replace in a
mothers heart tie son she loved
so dear. There's = King who can
bring comfort; that's the King
overhead; peace will enter these
bleeding hearts when they are
cold and dead. Mother, showed
a poor old lady a. picture of you
and I, and in broken English she
said, my boy, good by;" and her
trembling hands she raised to her
snow white head; she had q son
three years ago, but now he is
somewhere dead. The kaiser is
owing these mothers debt that
some day he must pay, and the
sons of these poor old mothers
will be witnesses on that day. Not
only the sons of the Allies, but the
sons Of Germany as we'll; they'll
all be there to hear his sentence,
the lowest depths of hell" The
mothers of France are fighting,
and fighting the battle we'll, but
they have feelingin their hearts
beyond what words can tell.
Will close foi sathis time, with
lots of love and haping this viii
find you all well. ....I'll be home in
six months, but the kaiser will be
in hell. Your son, FRANCIS.