Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-10-18

swim in is ice cold, but it makes
you feel good when you get out,
believe me.
just got your letter of Aug
ust IA yesterday and haven't re-
ceived any packages yet. l can't
see what is wrong unless Fritz got
it one the way over.
was glad you wrote me about
the home affairs because like
To hear about them.
| have one good sweater now,
but anything like candy, tobacco,
cake and stuff is not so much
missed if it is lost and can use
tfem to good advantage.
Well, as do not know of any
thing more to write will close. Be
sure to write often and tell me all
the news. From your loving son,
WILLIAM BOULDEN.
The boys who are together are:
G. Ball, Il. Mason, f. Burke, J..
Darlington, G. McKeever, D.
Wolfe, ID. Douglass, Roscoe Moss,
VIM. Boulder.
September 81.
Dear Folks and Friends:
am going to write to you to-
night to let you know l feel quite
we'll and hope to remain so until
| arrive back in old Missouri VAL
Icy. am writing this in bed, and
to tell the truth it is very com
Portable, because it is very chilly
outside tonight went up to an
other camp last Sunday and
watched Il base ball game-Co. L
VS.. Co. L.. The score was I to 5
in favor of E company. You can't
realize the enthusiasm at one of
these games. You know used TO
belong to Co. E, and of course |
rooted for them, while Earl Mason,
Frank Burke, d. Douglass, Nc
Kecver, Wolfe and Darlington all
belong to l. company, so we had a
good time.
/ Sunday night we all went to the
movies at the Y. M. c.. A. and got
home at p. m. was on the tar
get range today and made pretty
good. had my picture taken and
will try and send you some later
if can and the censor will pass
them. ! have heard that McDer-
mott and Nordeen are about TWEEN
ty miles from our camp and am
going to try and locate them
Sunday.
Hazel wrote that she thought
the French We're SO romantic. If
she saw as many as have and
the conditions some of them live
in, she would think they might gel
rheumatic.
received large number OF
letters from some of my friends
in the Valley and certainly APP
preciated them, but you see
really do not have the time to
write to all, but you tell them
said God bless them and that
hope to see them all soon.
Whoever that cub reporter was
who said w. Il. b. or any other
Yankee soldier did not get enough
To eat, had better find out what
he is writing. sOf course we do
not get pie. cake, turkey and such
like, but we get plenty of muscle
building food. believe me.
You want to know how | liked
The army. Well to tell the truth,
| do not like it as we'll as | do the
civilian life, but you can bet am
going to stick ii out till the war
is over and make the best soldier
| possibly can.
You hear lots of stories about
the army, but you cannot believe
anything YOU hear about it. Just
to show you what did each day
| was at Ft. Bliss-drill for about
two hours, and eat and drill for
two hours in the afternoon and
eat; often go to town to show.
OF course it is different here, but
not great deal
Just got back from fruit
wagon; bought some white grapes,
apples, and a muskmelon. There
is lots of fruit here and 1 buy my
share of it, too, you can bet.
Well there is not much news
to write, SO will close for now.
Hoping this finds you all we'll and
that everything and everybody is
all right in old Missouri Valley, |
am, your son and brother,
i WIN. Il. BOULDEN.
Signal Section, Hdqrs. Co., 10th
Infantry, American Expeditionary