Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-24
LOCAL SOLDIER SAYS
 TOBACCO HARD TO GET
Don $. Reyburn, Somewhere In France," Writes Interesting
 Letter to His Parents Here.

! In writing to his mother. Mrs. w ] A. Reyburn, 633 Beech street. this city, Don IS. Reyburn, who is a mem
 per or the Twelfth Engineers (Rail- Way) with the United States expe-
 dltlonary force in France, says that
 the worst trouble the American sold
 lers are now having is in obtaining
 American tobacco. He states that there has been practically no sick . ness in his camp and that most of che men are gaining in weight, which goes to show that Uncle Sam knows 1 how to take care of his boys. MT. and Mrs. Reyburn have two 1 sons in the same regiment, the other
 being Paul D. Reyburn, who is now
 a master engineer. Both young men enlisted from this city.
 MT. Reyburn's interesting letter follows:
 Some where in France, October 18th. 1917. Dear Mother:-
 Have little spare time and will start a letter to you and will then finish it later. It is about 15 minutes until mess time and I am hungry as usual. Open air Army life and the food we get is sure agreeing with me. Am. really gaining in weight. I tip. ped the scales off yesterday at 150 pounds, nine pounds more than ever weighed in my life and gain of about 15 pounds since joining. Would like to weigh about 17O. Am is the best of health and up to date have not had one sick day. Only hope can go through the winter With that record. We have had practically no sickness in the camp and ali of the | boys are picking up in weight, so you can see there is some truth in the saying that Uncle Sam takes cate of his boys.
 We have been having a touch Of cold weather. The nights are real cool but days are nice as rule. Last week it rained almost every day ana We dad much everywhere.
 "I suppose you got my cablegran of week before last Should hay. added that your box to Paul was re- ceived, so you could have started an other one on the way. Paul left it with me to take care of and I sure went South with the contents. The cakes and candy just touched the spot. Candy is rather a scarce arti- cle is this country at present, although we get plenty of milk choco late and chocolate bars. Cakes arc plentiful here but not the kind you get in the States, they call them bis cults and they are really nothing more than crackers The worst trouble we have is getting American tobacco, it is as precious as gold. rie fellow that gets the package from home with Star, Horseshoe ,and P. A., is one more popular man.
 October 22nd.
 "T1is is the first opportunity have had to finish this letter. Was off on leave Saturday and had some jolly good time. Will%tell you all the things I saw someday. Sunday worked and in the afternoon l wit messed a No. 1, first class ball game. Both teams were from this regiment then one side made run and it was tied in the last half of the ninth. The game ran to eleven innings and was called on account of the dark ness. I yedd myself hoarse and have been talking way down in my th1oat all day. Yesterday was an ideal fall day and just right from good game Suppose Paul told you that he is now a Master Engineer. He likes the work very much and has quite an interest in it. After this siege in the Army don't thing you will ever have any more trouble getting him up in the morning. Just tell him you will put him on kitcaen duty if he misses breakfast call"
 Some of the boys have received
 sweaters from the States, so don't think you will have any trouble send ing mine over. Hope you can get a ! Jersey one in olive drab color, if not get the next best thing"
 I've have new form of amuse' ] ment in camp, in the way of a vic trola. A couple of us were over near by canteen the other day and saw one for sale, we told them to lay it away
 for us and We would get it right
 after payday. When we came back
 and told the boys about it, they in
 sisted we get it at once, so we gath