The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-07-18
FROM A. L. HILBERT
u. S. General Hospital No. IA
Fort Oglethorpe, Ca, 6-19-18

". .. Generai uOSpiIdi No. Ia
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, 6-19-18
The Observer,
Tyrone, Okla.
My Dear Folks:-
It has been some time since any
thing appeared in these columns from
the cold man., guess it's about time
another line-o'-type or two were
Forthcoming. Editor Miller kindly
sends me copy of the religious
guide every week and in that way
keep track of your comings and 60
ings almost as if l were with you in
the flesh. By the way, think Ben
is giving you folks mighty good
paper and am glad to see Tyrone
business men coming through with
such a liberal amount of patronage
in the way of ads. The Observer
is carrying more paid advertising
right now than lots of southern pa
pers published in towns ten times as
big as Tyrone, which merely goes to
show which section of the country is
the most progressive. The boys get
newspapers published from all over
the U. S. and I get to look over a
good many, but I still have the first
one to see which shows up better than
the Observer for the size of the town
in which it was published.
Business is always suspended by
me on Monday when the "old home
paper" arrives, until read every
word of it carefully, ads and every
thing. It brings great hunks Of JOY
and satisfaction to me to read OF Ty-
rone's having rolled up those big
sums for the Liberty Bond sales, the
Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and other war
activities. The more those things are
over-subscribed by the people Of the
United States the shorter the war
will be, and when it is all over but
the shouting and the welcome home,
the people Of Tyrone will have the
satisfaction of knowing they contrib
uted more than their share towards
its successful termination.
Am still vailantly fighting Ia type
writer) for my country. Am receiv-
ing clerk on the night shift at the
main hospital and work from 7. p.
m. to z a. m. Don't take in very
many patients at night, consequently
my biggest job is keeping awake.
Tried working in the canteen for a
couple of weeks, but soon discovered
that that job was only meant for
MAN to fill, so promptly resigned. If
"variety is the spice of life" man
ought to be pretty we'll seasoned"
after a year in the army. They will
let you try your hand at anything
once, and if you don't make good
they will promptly stick you onto
something else, thus shifting you
around until you get hold of some
thing at which you can earn your
board and keep. This is a mighty
good place to soldier, but would be
a whole lot better if they would i'm
port a different climate. They use
about the poorest grade of climate
here they can find on the market.
Would give my old pair of shoes to
see another Oklahoma sand storm
like we have in Texas county. Saw
a little whirlwind the other day that
was blowing dirt around and tried
my durnedest to stand on my head
in it just for old times sake, but the
fool thing had to quit just before |
got located bottom up. This cam,
bammy weather" that Oscar Bush
loves so we'll doesn't look well to me
anymore, and if there's a windier
country on earth than Tyrone when
l get out of here Pm sure going to
move there. This Fort is located be-
tween two mountain ridges and the
way the sun boils down here at this
time of the year is a sin. Quite few
of the new men drop out of ranks
while drilling in the hot sun, but they
patch 'em up again and in few days
they are as good as new.
Guess you have all read by this
time how Uncle Sans boys are 60
ing through the Chermans in France?
Had an idea something like this would
take place if they were given half a