Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-07-11

F. E. Settergren has received a let
ter from Sergeant George Hattie, in
France, as follows:
Somewhere in France.
June 8, 1918.
Friend Frank:
I Received your welcome letter Of
May s and was glad to hear that ev-
erybody was we'll and working. | am
fine and dandy, and have been doing
my share of the work the last couple
of months, as there is no fooling over
here; it is all work and no play. We
have moved since last wrote to you
and we are up where the big noise is
now. They sure have been doing
some fighting the last few weeks.
They say that this is one of the big
some seem to think that it will be the
last. They won't make me bit sore
if it is, as I have had all CT this that
I care to have. You can't imagine, 70
matter how hard you try, the way
things are over here. | never thought
that this kind Of a thing could go on
so long, but there seems to be no stop
To it. If you have been reading the
,Hapers lately you will see that the
are doing their bit over
9hRre, but we haven't enough men over
here to Odo the work. You may be sur
pFised To- hear this, but we were in
the first i've hundred thousand and
sthegI hd7 en't landed as many more
since that: I Thought that there were
ae,great1 many rhore Americans over
here thai Wt4h9rea are, but from what
wedead1 III 'ttffffeep the papers they are send
ing theni over faster now than ever
before, If we had a couple of million
aHan ahere I dep1t t5bpeJlieVes attis would
last very Il9pg,lT + think that the allied
array has 3dIQPfnbeA yeFHy tgoed iweFk"since
+heEqhaYe Jh]yf7fR9nfrtatt i'll asItheEjsay9 that
,tha9Gefmplfalnliss (hfa had them beutnumbaredi
m0rea than three to ocRew and. that they
were all II trained n Ewhheyee Wea hadrto do
this dafteerr it was. sin rflullTblast Talk
about the French we'll, I lbelievel.that9
every able bodied mani in France in
a uniform, and you don't see anybody
around except a few ge1d1 folks and chill
edEepsa I, will try, and give you ahittieI
idea4 where, we are, but you will have
to. imagine a lot, ar we can't SAY very
/ uleh& we are cWyhfleerree8thley have air
battles every, day. and the ground
shakes when the big guns are fired so
you see we are not very far behind.
They have big tweibelhite gunabout
two, rods from wheredrsleep and when
that getsI torshooting, 1fd9 don't think
will do very much sleeping. G9They
start about 4 o'clock in the morning
and skeep it up good sRare Of the
day tandnbade 40P fhg night. Today is
pretty quiet So FAR: oFhfs% morning a
couple lof German aeroplanes- flew
around above us, but the antiaircraft
guns kept therr sso7 Mgh mat rJtnleg
couldn't do anythtigs Or tale any spics
lures. eWe. Were. the first AMERICAN
ttreops tdgqaE9Ain ghiASssctor of sthe
lltnenand ! sgdess rhat th4t are flying
koI geti a rs QsaBb S5ght tena asr ,WahaFe
/ heennhcky2s9 far,AfeT eonia ytrBoo S
It bY0uI spoke about .gpyb going2 inIthe
trenches. Well, l neXer expect get
shat far, as we are in the quartermas.
ItesEoarpk, and we are 9lFss sfat5olM
near ra railroad, and odra ttsfsksdtd6 che
5haasaag 'f ng .rts. TaIlr rO 11g,5Re ILL.,
licanefprm q 'g60d idea how far we are
hhehiDdu the line. But don't make it
Ictea San, as ieetsn't Taf greato 1isahce.
Yoa sask easifI tare H. bus Gls4llwa9 1d6-
Itiag ,sa6tlf iRgbaer thefe9dtWaH, tPnaHf
lhegata tell you that they are.S1f9 0f
thau6ae9t things that are over mere
n eeRpubih't know what i to 3 Dc gthhssHHtA