Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-11-06
HOME GUARD TRAINING
OF GREAT VALUE
Alvin Nyland Writes Capt. Spaulding
in Appreciation of Training Received
in Warren Home Guard.

camp FOrfeSC, "a, OcI. 81, 1918.
Dear Captain:
Well, l am in the army now and like
it fine so far, except the weather. 1t
rains nearly every day here but it is
not very cold
We got here on Saturday afternoon
after tiresome trip; we were put in
our barracks and given mess kits, cots
and blankets.
I'd like to have some of the fellows
in the Home Guard here to let them
see what discipline and obedience
means. If the fellows don't do. it
snappy enough they are made to double
time around the company until they
are ready to drop. Some are put in the
kitchen for a week or more. Some are
put chopping wood all day and various
other ptnishments. I tell you here is
where you get the dickens if you're
not up to the scratch.
We had our physical examinations
on Monday and got our first shot in
the arm. Some of the fellows became
sick from it.
Yesterday we were all over and took
out insurance. There is where they
find out all about person and what he
has been doing
On Monday, the first time we have
done any drilling, the best ones were
picked out and put in the excellence
squad. All the fellows from Warren
that were in the Home Guard besides
Oliver Thorson and Annar Myhre are
in it. We are to be sent to Non-com-
missiOned officers school. That is what
the Home Guard did for us and I want
to thank you from the bottom of my
heart for the time you spent drilling
us. It sure makes it lot easier.
The Lieutenant stood looking at me
while I did two or three facings and
then said "Get down there in the pick
ed squad" All he saw Carl Knutson
do was to salute and he sent him there.
Our officers are very good and we
like them real we'll.
Well, will have to stop as we have
something to do. Now if your privates
and others don't behave, just double
time them around the ball park awhile.
They will mind and get their brains
working.
r. =, Respectfully,
Pvt. Alvin G. Nyland.
10th Prov. Rect. Co., Eng. Repl. Troops,
Camp Forrest, Ga.
Letter From Theodore Hilleboe, Son of
MIR. and Mrs. j. S. Hilleboe, of War.
rem.
Somewhere in France, Sept, 26, 1918
Dear Mother:
You most likely have been waiting
for a long time to hear from me. Have
had no opportunity to write for a long
time. We left the sector along the
Vesle river on the tenth and put in
about two weeks of travel, so had ne
place to mail letter. IT,. ~
| We are in the Argonne forest some
where-.a person never knows where
tho. The real activity started here
last night at between midnight ant
daybreak. I claim there was som,
noice when it did start You know tn
results long before you get this letter
Saw some Of the prisoners 60 past to
day. ~ ,'.. III. u .#ss s +
The front is quite far from here now
It wasn't at first, but had place t.
stay where we we're safe. At the pres
lent I'm sitting on our bed Of pin
Iboughs with a tablet on one knee as
desk. There is between u and 20 fee
Of rock above and just room enough
lfor % men to, stretch out in. We ar
in pretty valley, SO are protecte
\ from shell fire even outside. An al
raid won't face the dugouts we have.
We don't have great deal to d