The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-02-21
From "The Boy"

Jan. 21-Our mail arrived last week
or at least a small part of it. l re-
ceived one letter from home and l
was mighty glad to get it. This is the
first letter l have received from home
since November %. Also the last
Index was dated November 25, so you
see 1 am entirely out of the world so
far as letters from home are con-
cerned. The letter l received here
last week was dated December 18, and
| was in hopes that l would receive
some other letters during the next two
or three days after it came, but they
have failed to show up, so l will have
to wait until the next boat comes in.
| also received a Christmas card from
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Knox, which was
greatly appreciated. That long looked
for Christmas box has failed to put
in an appearance up to date, so my
Christmas is still being postponed in
definitely.
Don Eagleson, the son of the state
treasurer, who is in our headquarters
company, received his Christmas box
on the last mail and l had lots of en-
joyment sitting around and watching
him open his presents. 1t was just
as much pleasure as if l had received
a box myself and l enjoyed myself
immensely.
Floy Clark and I are pretty lone
some here now, for we are the only
Emmett boys left at this place. DR..
Darrah left this noon for some un-
known part and we will probably not
see him again until we return to the
good old u S. A. The other Emmett
boys left several days ago, but we
will be with them again in the course
of a short time, so we didn't have to
tell them goodbye. But we are still
with Major Clark, so we are satisfied,
although we miss the other boys a
whole lot.
We received our December pay the
other day, so we are all in funds
again. | received 130 francs in paper
money, some of it about as large as
this sheet of writing paper. One
of them was a 100-franc note and
when l got it broke / had so much
paper money that had to buy grip
to carry it around in. If you want
to know how much 130 francs is in
honest-to-goodness money, just divide
by 5.65 and the result will be in good
old U. S. dollars. The Emmett boys
in the company didn't get paid this
month, so they will be broke until
about the middle of next month, when
they probably will receive so much
that they can't pack it around.
We have explored the two little vii
lages close to our camp until at last
we have found place where we can
get pork chops and French fried po-
tatoes for three francs, and we GER ,
tainly keep the place busy every time
we get a chance. But we don't like
the potatoes and are always wishing
for a place where we can get real
American French fried spuds. We S
can also get eggs, but they cost about I
80 cents dozen, so we try to fight c
shy of them. We buy lots of choco- s
late here, but it is not milk chocolate; +
II is more like a sweet Bakers choc- a
olate. +
Sergeant Flintoff Ga member of the
company from Twin Falls, who often !.
visited in Emmett while the company
was, stationed at Boise) had quite an
experience here short time ago. For
quite while there were number of
French soldiers here at the barracks,
acting as caretakers. But one day n
hey received orders to leave early t