The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-05-02
news OF OUR SOLDIER
BOYS
Interesting Letters from Our
Boys at Home Camps
and Abroad.
From "The Boy"

March 25.-The great battle is on
this being the fourth day, and we ar
deeply interested. If you could see III
anxiously watching the clock until
p. m. and then lodging up town anC
buying all the papers we can find, yot
would know how anxiously we are
awaiting the outcome. We sincerely
hope that the Germans will receive ar
awful beating, so that we can come
home in a short time.
But to counteract our hopes of ar
early peace there is a rumor in camp
that an order has been issued by A.
E. F. headquarters that after five
years of service in France each soldier
will be given three months furlough
to the states. But, of course, we be-
lieve that no such order was ever put
out, but is simply one of those joke
rumors that someone starts. So we
are torn between hoping for an early
peace and spending over five years
here.
| have an awful name tackled onto
me now. One of the Catholic sisters
here at the hospital calls me LA Pc
tite Ceur" This sister is a very jolly
lady, a favorite of all the boys, and
has kind word for us whenever she
sees us. You know / am in charge of
the patients clothes and it keeps me
busy carrying their clothing and equip
ment from the wards to the store
room and back again when the patient
is discharged. So every time the
sister sees me I have a barrack bag
or pack on my back, bundle of
clothes in one hand and rife, bayo
net, ammunition belt, gas masks and
helmet in the other So the sister has
dubbed me 'The Little Jackass."
Sunday was big day for most of
the boys of the field hospital and for
the Emmett and Payette valley boys
in particular. About 9 o'clock in the
morning l had finished up my work
that had accumulated the preceding |
night and sitting around waiting for
the mornings work to start when who
should walk in but Otto Chambers,
Tommy Eggleston and Arnold Acker-
man of New Plymouth. Their regi-
ment is located in neighboring town
and their regimental baseball team
had come up here to play against the
team of this section, and among the
rooters was big bunch of Idaho boys
and Payette valley boys. This is the
first time we have seen them since we
left Camp Mills, so you can imagine
how pleased we were to see them.
All of US got someone to take our
places for the day and we certainly
had big time, showing our visitors
the town and visiting and talking over
our experiences. In the morning Ar
mold Alderman and | took in the
sights of the town, and as Arnold is
a Catholic he took me to the Catholic ,
place have always want ,
ed to see, but have been afraid to for :
fear l might be kicked out. The ca '
thedral is built against the high wall r
of the castle and is entirely surround =
ed by business houses, so all one can 7
see of it from the outside is the beau :
tiful arched door and the steeples,
with an immense clock and the beau =
tiful chimes in the dome. On the in
side the church room is about rs feet O
wide and over 300 feet long, with two q
rows of immense pillars extending "
the entire length of the room. The h
pillars are about 25 feet apart, are A
shaped like a four-leaf clover, are h
about 10 feet in diameter and extend h
rom the floor to the arched roof, a 81
distance of about 60 feet. At the end h
# the hall is the magnificent altar, n
90 beautiful to describe. n
In the afternoon we attended the lo
,all game, which was played on the D,
luge drill grounds. There were three tt
ull man-sized ball games played at
nee yesterday afternoon and room bs
or a dozen more. Each game had T.,
ig crowd of khaki-clad spectators and III
ooters sprinkled here and there with ki
'rench soldiers in their picturesque to
ress uniforms, and French civilians. ar
It the game we attended the Idaho A.
oys were disgracefully defeated by do
ne boys from this section. We left tn
the fourth inning with the score F,
D to 0. The boys left about Z o'clock it
vening for home, and we had one of nm
,e most pleasant days we have had
France. up
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April Yesterday was Easter and Sc,