The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-04
ENGLISH Tobacco Is
Vile Stuff Troopers
From Dakota Write
North Dakota Boys Abroad, in Letters Home, Reveal
Longing For American Makes, While Home Cook
ing Seems to Hold Co nsiderable Attention

! and I did not go out to drill, an
going to devote my entire time II
writing and washing up my clothes
We surely have some good times
here in our little home, but have mo-
been out q the camp limits since We
arrived, so you see / have been &
pretty good boy since left home.
This is surely some beautiful coun.
try, and the climate surely is a fine
one. When / return home / will be
so fat that you folks will have Il
come up to the train to carry mt
home as will be too fat to walk.
Mother, / surely did enjoy the triI
across the ocean, and / didn't get q
bit seasick. We had a good time
up on the deck every day watching
the ocean waves, and we couldn'
see anything but water, which wa!
something very new to me.
II surely do like 1t here, the onH
thing hate is that we can't get any
American tobacco or cigarets and
some of the boys are very near wild
but manage to get along with this
English tobacco, rather cigarets."
Tobacco and Toilet Water.
Smoking tobacco, toilet soap and
cigarets", writes Sergeant VIM
Fraley McCafferty, Co. H, 164th U
S. infantry, from England, to Chair
man c. J. Stickney Of the New Rock
ford Co. b permanent fund COM
mittee. The committee was organ
lied at New Rockford to keep the
soldiers supplied with things not
provided in the army, when New
Rockford had a company in the
defunct Second North Dakota. In
part Serg. McCofferty's letter, as pub
lished by The New Rockford State
center, follows:
THE members OF old Co. B who
are yet in the service are now mostly
at this American rest camp in Eng
land. Possibly is out Of those yet in
service are in other branches but
some 80 odd Of the old company are
now with Co. H.
1.-The men here are in real need of
smoking tobacco. Prince Albert
Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Stag, and
Velvet tobacco and Camel cigarets
are what the fellows crave for. These
tobaccos cannot be purchased in
England or France, with the eXcep-
ton of Bull Durham, which retails
here at shilling, "a cents in Ameri-
can money. and even this is hard to
get.
Now / have no desire to go over
any ones head in this matter, but
Captain Wheeler is with another
company in another regiment and l
am the highest in rank Of the old
Co. B men in this camp. l believe
that the men would more greatly ap-
preciate smoking tobacco and toilet
soap, and cigarets, than anything
else that you could do for them or
send them at the present time.
IF you gentlemen and the people
of New Rockford do not desire to
break in upon the principal Of the
old Co. B fund, feel sure that you
could take up a subscription Of $50
or 500 with which to purchase to-
bacco of the above mentioned brands
for the fellows who crave it so much,
This letter could be published and
I am sure campaign for a tobacco
fund would meet with a most gener-
Gus response. Every Co. b man to
whom / have preached the subject
feels the same way.
We are short on food rations, but
no doubt we shall get more when
this is taken out Of the hands of the
present British management and
looked after by Uncle Sam who
lAlOI6 Cl6hE1y uuuGESEdAl0S our HGGNSs
And a regular monthly tobacco
ration from the people Of New Rock
ford would be a great thing for the
boys from your district, who are over
here ready for their final step to
make the world safe for democracy.
Il would suggest that you good
people start the tobacco to us at
once, either in small insured parcel
post packages addressed to each Of
the men, or to Captain James D.
Gray or myself, to be distributed
among the company. Do you not
think it would be best to send to-
oacco, lat least the first time), to
every member OF Co. H? You can
secure the name and present COM
pany Of all the men from the old
iles Of The State Center. Even the
officers need tobacco here.
I'VE are all getting along nicely
but have had no mail since we left
Camp Merritt, N. J. Nor have we
had any Christmas presents yet,
though no doubt the gifts from the
good ladies of New Rockford and
from. our friends and relatives will
reach us in a few weeks now.
will you gentlemen kindly give
his matter your serious coHsidera-
ion at the earliest possible time?