The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-16
News From Our
Boys in Service

Floyd Rogers left this morning to
report back to Paris Island, s. c., after
having spent ten-day furlough with
his parents.
On account of lack of space we
are forced this week to omit lengthy
and very interesting letter from Lieut..
Philip Pipkin, who is in France, which
was forwarded to US by Lieut.. Pip
kin's father, Merrill Pipkin, of Miami,
Okla. The letter will be printed in
this column next week, however.
Walter Blomeyer, one of our Farm
ington boys who is in the Navy at the
Great Lakes, came in the latter part
of last week for furlough with rel
ativc7 and friends.
Written While "On His Way"
l am sending you letter from my
brother, Charles, written while on his
voyage.-Ruth Mcfarland.
Dear Loved Ones:-Will drop you a
few lines today. We ARE somewhere
on the highseas. Think we will see
land in day or so. Have been Oh the
water eight days. / was sea-sick the
first five days. but am standing it fine
now. Will be o. X. when we get back
on land. We have had nice weather
all the time-rained a few times but
the sea has been almost as smooth
as the Mountain Lake. Well, / don't
know when you will get this, but l
hope it will 60 back to you as soon
as possible, and also hope it will find
you all well and enjoying life. One
thing do not do. That is to worry
about me, for we are going cover" to
fight for great cause, and ] believe
we will soon win the victory and come
back home. Uncle Sam sure is send
ing some boys over now. Say, have
you ever heard whether not Amos has
gone over? | never have heard what
branch of the service he is in.
Stewart and | are sitting upon the
top deck, writing; guess he is writ
ing to his wife. She stayed at Camp
Denver until we left, then started for
home, where she will stay until he
lie
1t looks like we will have to go for
shelter, as it is raining a little and
looks like it might rain pretty good
shower. ! don't know whether you
can read this, as | am writing sitting
on the floor and leaning against a |
swinging rope, and as you know, not
much of a writer anyway. Well, /
guess | will have to close, as don't |
know anything more to write that
would interest you. We have seen
few big fishes--if l had my fishing
hook and line | believe / would try
catching a mess for dinner. Good
bye; answer soon. Your loving Bud. |
Tell all hello, and give my best re-
CARDS. May God bless, help and be
with you all till we meet, is my
prayer.
CHAS. MCFARLAND,
Co. A, 602 Reg. Engineers, R. E. F.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. La Brot have. again
received several letters from their
son, Marcus E. La Brot, Sho is in
France. They were all mailed on
different dates but were all received
here the same date. Marcus said in
every letter that he was enjoying
good health Some extracts follow:
81 have received several letters from
you the last few days. Was glad as
ever to get them. We were on the
water eight days, landed here May
18th. Had very nice time crossing
over, but should think we would have |
had a much hotter time crossing hack |
to the dear old U. S. A.
eve are now in Germany some
where, but | don't know just where.
We are cutting a tunnel under hill.
saw German airplane come to the
ground from the results of battle.
have also seen a number of German
prisoners. Fritz has been pretty !
quiet the last few days, but it is about
time for him to cut down some more
trees. There isn't tree standing
with any branches on them. But
heir bullets can hardly pierce our
1ug-outs. This is July ID. France is
her national holiday; they
are sure having some time. II
1--WE sure had some time the 18th of
July. have talked with several of
The boys from home, among them
we're Will Freeman and Claud Bald
win. 1t makes fellow feel good to
get with the home boys. Will close
,or the present. With love to all. Il
Your loving son, @a@t,
PVT. MARCUS E. LA BROT,
20. C 10th Engineers, A. E. F., via
New York.