Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-01
|sTUBBY's LETTER
HIS SWEETHEARTI
56th Pioneer Infantry.
Camp Wadsworth,
Saturday Night.

Camp WaQSWOrlH,
Saturday Night.
Dear Phyllis:
l nave ben in town at last. passed
my eksa nina shun and got my slrtin-
kate which meens l am able to entlr
otfisers tent rite and salute ana git
out rite and that autoes goes 10 mics
an our betwene hear and Spartans-
burg and the millitery perlice can say
git out of hear when we gifts mere
niger dwelin house and we must
ebay withou no commint and how TO
salute when line walkin post on gaurd
which is with the rifle at PRESENT arms
and that a generals car carryS su"-
wise flag with stars and we have 10
salute when we see the flag wether
they forgot to take it in or not When
the general got out Of the car. Inc
fErst time | ever saw generals nag
thot it ment the guy in the car he'd
2 SINS in the army.
Whit Adams thot SO to and he stood
/ day and just looked at it and the
car stopped and then the oftiser says
don't you no enuf to salute wnen you
see that flag and Whit says l d;dent
no | he'd to l got 2 bruthers in he
army myself and nobudy told me
nuthin about salutin the flag. Has
yure bruthers ever ben in the gaurd
house says the offiser. No say Whit
Well says the offiser yure family IS
eoin to have a new distinkshun what
is your name and compeny. But me
ofiiser who was in the car with this
offiser begins TO larf and then he says
line the General and that flag menes
| am in the car and don't let no second
lieut. ketch you not salutin ibekaws
second lieuts. is hell on disiplin. - Con-
gratchulahuns on yure 2 bruthers alidA
you in the survise if all famblys was
like yures KiZer Wilhelm wood soon.
be on elbow. l dident git that elbow
stuff but Whit says its place whcge
they put Napoleum. Whit says hes
SO friendly with the General now he
expekts to git commishun soon but
i CESS that's some Of his bunk. H..
| cot a letter. frum Niles Purkins1
which we used to CALI Shake today
which says If YOU don't pay yure poll
tax Of 81 / shall have to put it in TIE
hands of a collector. Put her there
Niles put Ter thare old kid. When |.
sees the kiser He say hello Bill oio
top can you lend me 81 to pay Mics
Purkins my poll tax. Maybe he can
collect it off some of the guys which
staid at home and is usin thare spalr
change to see movin pitchers frum the
frunt.
Spartansburg is some town growed
I'D frrlm q cuntry vilege. Thare per-
lice forse must have he'd a awful time
lernn how to be tratfick cops. We go
,hare by autoes which runs like a pa
rade the miles to town and back Tor
% cents per zoos of solgerS goes III
every mite and Sundays and Thurs
CAV and Saturday afternoons. Spar
tansburg is the furst Suthern town |
have seen which it not havin new ,
p. .. Somebuddy must have ben re-
miss. They all tell you how horsepi-
table the South is and how the South
US always reddy to take in the worm
derer Take it frum me Phyllis SCI
gers was never taken in hart rs
mulch befour They has l prise Tor
home consumshun and twice as mutch |
for wondered if he has on uney- /
form. But they Amt all that way some
of thems wurse Thare biword is soke'
the solger he may never come pacH.
| CESS ! told YOU we play basepall
Thursday and Saturday afternoons. /
We cannot be beet. The hedkWt.rterS
troupe played us today. They he'd new
er ben beeten befour. George Board I
man which use to play 3rd base Tor !
Hallowcll in the trolley legu comes TO
the bat in the 3rd with men on bases. !
Them guys will have to get the lhlif- 1
mashun department. to tell them
WHARF that ball is now.
You no Norman Murphy and Ar
thur Heath which Unlisted at Augusta
we'll they thot they was dismist frum |
class day at Charlotte and they iett
and the Lieut.. Col. Cort them ana they |
WAS BUSTED and sent to ID Battery
as privates But this regt. is just be-
ginin to find out Augusta class. B"th
Of the fellers is now serseants Heatn
AT Hedkwarters and Murphy IN 90. =.
Won cant keep skwirel on me
grownd.
Honin YOU are the same
STUBBY.