Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-02-20
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WORKED IN DEBORAH
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we got off and went up town.
They sure have swell depot there,
partly underground. We intend
ed to stop at Atlanta, Georgia, but
the road we were on did mt run in
to town; as near as we got to that
4 town was Atlanta Junction, four
miles from the main town, then we
stopped in a town in North Caro-
lima, | forgot the name of the place
anyway, the next stop was at Wash
ington ID. c. We got in there about
10 a. m. got off and took a short
hike but didn't get far enough up
town to see much of it. When we
got back on the train the Red Cross
passed us eats aid coffee so we ate
lunch before we started out again
and We got into Philadelphia that
night about eight o'clock. The
Red Cross met us again with
package for each man; the pack
age contained: one package of
cigaretts, one apple, one bar of can
dy one box Of matches, one post
card already stamped; pretty good
OF them wasn't it? Ii it was not
/ for the Red Cross and Y. NJ. c. "A.
the army would get pretty lonesome,
lieut. as it is l always feel happy,
cant help but feel that way
Well haven't got around to write
to Nick yet and have lost the adj
dress you seat me so please send it
again will you, as | will be on the
other side in the near future and if l
get anyways close to where he is |
will sure look him up, as | would
sure like to see him and | guess he
would like to see me also.
Well / am at the Y. NJ. C. A now.
They have a swell building here,
! it is the biggest one l have ever
seen. There is a game of basket
ball going on here Just now, but
would sooner write than watch it,
l never got interested in the game
so don't know anything about it.
Well how is old DEBORAH? Wish
could spend a day or two in the old
town again. Well what did Santa
bring you for Xmas? He was
pretty good to me, | got five boxes
CT eats and cigaretts. Well my part
ner is sitting behind me just now
trying to hurry me, but that is one
thing impossible don't you think so?
Well | just wrote letter home
tonight. We sure had good time
coming down here, we had sleepers
so when we got tired of looking out
of the window we went to bed.
There wasn't much sleeping done
during the night because they
would get to throwing stuff around
the car, water if they could not find
anything else. or course there
would be some one get mad once in
while and that made it all the
more fun. will never forget that
trip, wish l could take another one
like it, Maybe / can sometime
Well l guess / have written alb
out the news, only we have little
winter here, there is some snow and
pretty cold, but we have nothing to
do here only eat and sleep; pretty
nice isn't it? Don't you wish you
were a soldier? Say we sure did
have a snow storm in Camp Nc
Arthur the last night we were there,
it showed about a foot and was real
cold. l was on guard too, but we
didn't do much, only sleep in the |
guard house, / woke up the next |
morning with about foot of Snow !
on my bed that had blown in through |
the top of the tent. Well / guess | |
have written a fairly long letter
haven't l, SO guess l will close, hop
ing to hear from you soon, / remain
as ever your friend, Earl Harding.
Truck Co. B. 1O7 Supply Train,
A. e. f. via New York |