Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-03
sTUBBY's LETTER
l. ~ ~. to
HIS SWEETHEART
Camp Wadsworth. s. C..
March g, 1918.

Mafcn -, 1919
Dear Phvliss:-Yure some girl to write
to a Teller like you did to me and yude
be in danger of yure yung life II | was
home tonite. Gee Phyllis If was home
tonite. Do you no I've ben munths in
the survis OF Unlike Sam and amt seen
Water ST. bet ono: in all that time. II
l could take YOU Into Folsoms or Wins
lows or Jonsons or Mardins for ice
GREEN and then to he COLONEL or Opera
House Ide be wll.n to karve abowt )
years of my eksis:unce and say nuthin
abowt 1t. If you new Phyllis how the
word home sownds to me tonite yude
never menshun il. again. When l look
out al the stars and think peepul up in
Maine can see the same stars and not
have to turn out thare lites at tattoo
and git in between ruff blankets with 2
luther fellers in the same tent which
calls each uther rotten names and gil
up at 5.45 A. NJ. and at s.45 when the u
S. begins to save daylite to beet the
Boshe and make yure bed and swepa
and eileen the street and eat yure meelS
out of a little TN pan which you has to
wash in bolin water when you go in and
ip pale which 100 luther fellers has
washed thares in when you come gu,
and then drill for ours after ours in the
hot sun. II / could just have this thing
over and come home Ide kiss everybody
in Augusta inkludin Hallowell and To-
gus and Pettingils corners and Joe
Il I,.;,
beck and count every box in the P. O.
and say hello Fred to the p. NJ. Ide
krawl up Winthrop hill on my hands
and nees. Ide take off my hat and say
God bless YOU State House you look or
full good to me and then Ide walk into
Edwards mill and say give me a Job
amt ever goin away again.
But say Phyliss it's just a dreme aInt
it. Maybe Ide never git no chanel to
do that again. And i don't wont to
Phyllss until ] git a Girman. 1 count
one Girman for every time / gift this
way or ! have to go on gaurd in the
ram. IL l ever git my chanel over
'hare line goin % say now you C. D.
oums hears where somethin comes of.
LOOK out for Stubby he has arrive and
he wants l6 nortches on his gun. He il
htin for Chtistchanity and the Demer-
ctd's under the star spangled banni,
ana hes In Murray to git home and
rae on the L. A. and w. Dig into yure
hoies and pull the hole in after YOU for
sure wants some bad to grease this
baynet with Boshe blud.
Remember Phyliss the mite YOU and T
stood in frunt of Beyer & Smalls offisa
and red the posters and how went in
and Unlisted. Remember what the pos.
ers said join the he'd hunt4rs and beet
the draft and why walls~hen you can
ride and drive one of our big motor
trucks and git behind a big gun and
PICK Eure own offisers and yure own
bunkie
Say Phyllis they aint a guy in nv
tent ever saw befour | Unlisted
never new they was such guys in tha
world as the offisers have Ed uincl
icy Is runnin lIedkwarters Co. and has
hee'h Ryan with him Lieuts. sou,h-
ard and Webstir is ruHnin Comnan,. l.,
Lieut. chadburn is runnin Company
ana Lieut.. Bean is runnin Major Teh-
oers adJertents bisiness. And line sti,I
WaIkln amt never drove a motor tr,,c,-
ana the biggest gun l ever seen is =
Springfield But l aint kickin at that