Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-09-11
GILBERT CHRISTEN
OVER There
Madison Township Soldier Boy
Writes His Brothers From
Somewhere i'm France
LIKES TO GET
LETTERS FROM HOME

4 lEl lLRsJ ItONu nOlME
Says There is Nothing Like Getting
Mail From Dear Old iowa. Re-
ceived Twelve Letters In
l-n Two Days
Somewhere in France
s" Aug. 81, 1918
Dear Brother Earnest: ,-,..e.-4-
/ got your letter today and will
write you few lines. / just got
back from the front lines and
am o. X, and hope you all are the
same. / got your letter, two from
Clarissa, one from Gilbert Hovden,
o. G. Hoyden and Agnes O., so you
see / got six letters and / was glad
to get them too, let me tell you.
There is nothing like getting mail
from dear old Iowa. Don't know
when l will go up again, sometime ]
suppose; we don't know where we
go until we get there, but will write
you as often as / can and let You
know. All l saw up there was rats
and mosquitoes and / saw or 5
rats at one time.
Helmer g. and / sleep together all
the time. j hadn't seen H. E. for
week until today. How are all the
girls and boys in good old Iowa?
Greet all from me.
Tell ma not to worry, as long as
/ am O. X. How is Grace?
haven't seen Olaf F. or any from
DEBORAH yet, but suppose will see
them sometime before I get back.
Be good kid and some day hope
you will see me come home again.
Oh say Ernest was up town to
dance night before last. Something
new, isn't it? Ha. Ha. got the De-
corah paper today and was glad to
see it, let me tell you. Tell Clarissa
to send it every week if she can. ]
like to see the Iowa news you know
Well 1 haven't any more to write a
bout so will ring off for this time
1t is the same thing over and over
here. Greet all at home from me
and write when you find time.
Your dear brother,
GILBERT CHRISTEN
P. S.-We get beans all the time
and We got a song about it. / will
write it and and let you learn it, to
the melody of my Little Girl"
Dear army beans
4ou know love you,
For / eat you every day.
Dear army beans
] am thinkingof you.
When I'm hiking miles away.
Mosquitoes bite down in the wild
wood
When I'm thinking most of you.
Dear army beans
/ smell you cooking,
And I'm coming back to you.
Say you ought to see the buggies
the people ride in here. They are
made just like our road carts, with
two wheels, but they have two seats
on, and they use one horse on them,
1T makes us laugh every time we see
one. You ought to see one of them.
Dear brother Henry:
/ got your letter today SO will
write you a few lines and let you
know ] am alright and hope you all
at home ARE the same. 1t wasn't
much of Fourth for me this year,
but I hope it will be over, so / can
come home next year.
/ got seven letters night before
last and five today, SO you see get
mail alright. Nothing like getting
mail from good old Iowa. You
ought to see us run when they call
mail or pay day. Helmer G. and
Hans e. says should say hello to
you from them and all the rest. How
are all the girls and boys in Iowa?
Have you sold Daisy yet? II you
have suppose you have all kinds OF
money now. Had a letter from Nels
and one from Helma H. today. But
/ can't write to all today; / wrote
four letters last night, three today,
so you see I am busy when ] get SO
many letters. wrote letter to
Ernest, the kid, SO / haven't much
to write now so will ring off for this
time.
Your brother :.
GILBERT.