Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-26
FromOver There
Letters OF interest from Americas
soldiers who are with the allied
force In France.
Every Even ne Will be glad tn receive
and print letters i, this character.

| ccivcd letter from their son Private
| Alfred Hoover. who has arrived safely
| overseas with the Eighty Seventh Divi-
sion. The young man went To Camp Dix
on May 25, and was later assigned n gun
ner in the 335th Machine Gun Battalion.
He writes that he Is well and had n fine
voyage.
Mrs. G. w Rutter of 1921 II street
has received word Of Sergeant Edward
W kopp's safe arrival overseas lie
was member of Company T., 5gth
Pioneer Infantry.
Mrs Mary H. kirkley, of sos Poplar
street. has received letter from her boys,
Corporal William kirkley and Oridley
Alonzo kirklcy, announcing their safe
arrival in France
Word has been received by Mr. and
| Mrs John Olson of 6I2 Orange street.
of the safe arrival OF their son, Alfred
Olson overseas lie is with the 5eth
| Uclaware) Pioneer Regiment and form
erly served on the Mexican border.
Corporal Walter Crawford is an
other Delaware boy who has arrived
safely overseas with tho 5nth Pioneer
| i'-tith'bts tli ~ u SUI w vi att WIS
| Marshall Crnwford. of 1912 West Sec
ond street lie enlisted in the Dalawarc
| Regiment juno -, 1916, and VAS with
the Delaware outfit ON the Mexican
border
Miss Grace Cunningham. Of 1912
West Second street, has received card
from Elmer Thompson Walls. of the
| 5th Pioneer Regiment, telling of his
safe arrival overseas
Mr. and Mrs Jacob / Hoover. of
Montchanin, have received word ~
tho safe arrival overseas af their grand
son. Private Jacob Hoover Kirby. ~
the 5nth Pioneer Regiment Private
Kirby enlisted Nav 10. 1917
Mrs i L Walls. tooi West sey-
pnth street, has received n lcttrf from
her son. Elmer I Walls. toling ~ his
safe arrival overseas lie saws he Is we'll
and wishes to l~ remembered to his
friends
Mr. and Mrs Warren Palmer ~
Edge Moor have received word nt the
safe arrival overseas nf " illlam Z Eutrrsa
lie is member uf the 5qth iDelawatel
Pioneer Infantry lin enlisted IN the
Delaware Regiment ON .lune II. talI
lie went 10 Milford. then tn the state
Rifle Range. then 80 amp Met lellan on
august 70, 1917. then was sent to alup
IpiN with The Delaware Regiment. ef
which he wa mad agonor Of the supply
80 npany of the hpth Delaware Regiment
Clarence 1ouhcy. formerly manager
of the Gillespie Hotel la now cook ~ the
Quarternaatpra Training CnrIs Al
lackqunyiIle. Fla lIr has written local
friends that ho IS getting along inc
Mrs G " Ruttot. Of lt2i II street.
las received word II Sergeant Edward
" kopps safe arrival overseas lie was
member 81 Company L hqHh Pioneer
Infantry
Wor,i has hccn received that 1naeph
Raltt,sh II the anth Pioneer iDrla-
ware Regiment. haa Arrived Eniely over
seas THIS Young man has twn brothers
"a the ecrylcc Is ! lIaltrtsh Is stationed
at Camp Inhnstone Jacksonville. Fla
and William Ilaitrtish Is at Camp l)iS
Mira George DUBOIS has received
letter from her husband Privnte George
Dubois Of the 5qth Delaware Pioneer
Regiment. telling ~ hle naie arrival N
France He states that they had an en-
loyahlo trip over. although some of the
bosS got scaslck
Former Deputy tity Judge AARON
Finger. who wrnt with contingent
of tlraftces from this city. has been
promoted 10 sergeant lie Is now on
headquarters duty and Is expected soon
To be assigned "a a training camp
we have got the kalsers goat. So
don't worry writes William y Schaf-
bauser. formerly of tins city, now with
the ambulance corps IN France to Mrs
Charles Wolhar of 173i Pennsylvania
avenue The writer has been IN France
for some months and SAYS he had some
remarkable experience III bringing back
the wounded from Chateau fhIerry and
also the Champagne front.
Schafhauser was at \ camp IN 6'eor-
gla with Mrs Wolhar's son. Charles
Wolhar He states that hc has lost track
of all the boys from Wilmington who
went over the same time that he did,
as they were all split mp ON the arrival
in France He was assigned to an ann
bulancc company from Oklahoma and
has been with that outfit ever since
lie explains in his letter some OF the
dangers in going to the front after the
wounded, but says the officers insist
on getting the wounded back as soon
as possible no difference how danger