Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-12-26

NON y slsr. ATWOOD
sss's AZ SIS Nov. is, 1918
Tour most welcome letter of June
y 20 csived yesterday and / was sure
~ hsars from you. It came with
q As other letters dated from June "a
\ October. They are the first that j
/ hive received since the 18th Of Aug,
! 81 you can zee one reason why you
have not heard from me before this
I and the other reason is that I have
lsot been with my company since the
both Of July, hut it was no fault Of
mir Tint I had to leave them. i left
tn company without knowing it. One
rs those shells Of Fritz's blew me up
A darn high that it took about three
days TO come down and when i landed
j found myself in the incest little
white bed and very nice girl there
With 2 red cross on her cap, stayed
there for six weeks and. three Of that
sas spent in the little white bed. Of
course il got awfully tiresome and
all Ct that but it did beat the beds
that I had while on the front. But
then 9 bed is a bed, wherever it is,
to soldier. Although they treated me
swell in the hospital, IL tried my best
80 get back with the boys and give
the Fritzies little more h., but L
4 had no luck. The old Doc wouldn't
3 let me, so I did the next thing, Just
Went where he sent me, and where do
yon think that was. well it was to a
farm and here I am right now, writ
ing this line to you. What mean, it's.
some place, that is if you like the
farm, but if you don't, all you have to
Do Il stay here anyway. as you are
still working for Uncle and when you
york for him, you do as he says and
let il 30 at that. One thing, don't
have much to do, not because / would
not do it, but you see have my own
work to do. Not outside, but office
work as ! am the top soak here and
Il have SO men to look after. But our
time is limited, as you know lie
Guerre Fini) the war is over and boy
We will soon be steaming towards our
Home Sweet Home, and that can't
come any too soon for your Uncle
Dud.
Well this farm that spoke about
i run by boys who have been woun-
,ded 20 I look for US to start home
first, but am not going to depend
much on that as would hate to be
disappointed but | think the first
ones over here ought to be the first
ones back, and that is the rumor that
i going around, but some Of these
said rumors don't amount to much.
On this said form we raise all kinds
.of vegetables; grain etc. and it all
goes to the soldiers. The grain is
made into flour and the flour to bread
and the bread, well we get it (the
Tanks I mean.) don't want you to
think we raise enough grain to make
flour for the whole A. E. f., but we
have turned out a good amount and
besides we planted about 215 900 on
ion and cabbage plants, the other day
And we are putting out about that
many more at the present time. Who
10 going to get that stuff is not going
70 worry me bit because we will ev-
acaate this place before it is ready to
cut q hope.)
Well, old Top, / guess we whipped
the old devils army. He will know
enough next time not to. start any
thing with these said Yanks because
they are fighters, the best there are,
and when they 60 over the top, there
z no coming back. We don't know
what it is to retreat. It's 90. to then,
and get them all; and they sure do it.
But who wouln't, look how the people
have backed US up at home. They even
went without to give it to us and we
sure all appreciate it. And what do
yQp know about that state Of ours,
The Capitol Of the World, the first
over her quota in the Third and
Fourth Liberty Loan. That state Of
Iowa stands before me at the present
lime, Just as ] have said, The Capitol
Of the World.
Well, / had the pleasure Of meeting
Earl Mason after left the hospital,
the first one have met since coming
to this said country, and it sure
done me good. have been on the
lookout for some more Of the Valley
boys but my luck has beensvery poor,
one never gets a; chance to look
around. You see we are allowed q
days every four months and haven't
had q Z day leave since / have been
over here, but you bet your sweet
life, I'll sure take one when I get
.ome, and I won't 90 alone either.
/ did see Paris. that is part of it,
but how did see it, just passing thru
il in an ambulance. Believe me, what
i did see Of her, / can Judge she is
come place and / am going to try and
give her the once over before 1 leave
this beautiful France (some parts Of
1T. They call it sunny France but