The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-07-18
NEWS OF OUR SOLDIER
BOYS
Interesting Letters from Our
Boys at Home Camps
and Abroad.
From "The Boy"

June PA suppose you have given
up all hopes of ever hearing from your
wandering son again. 1t has been
over two weeks since / last wrote, so
l have had quite vacation from let
ter writing. A few days after writ
ing my last letter l had fine attafk
of that contagious type of the g up
that is so fashionable here at the pres
ent time and was sent to the hospital
where / remained for about four days.
But one morning l was turned bose
and was just figuring on writing nice
long letter home that evening, when
the doctors came in, hauled me over
to the laboratory, put me through the
examination mill and sent me back
to the hospital, this time saying that
/ was a carrier of contagious dis
ease. l was sent to the contagious
ward, where / again met an old friend,
the hypodermic needle and a COB of
anti-serum After remaining there
about two days, l, With several others,
were sent to ward tent, where we
were held in captivity for little over
g week, still under quarantine so tight
that we couldn't even write letter
for fear that some of the germs would
be sent outside of the ward on the
paper. So that is the reason you have
not heard from me the past two weeks.
l was a pretty sick boy when l had
the grip, and when l came out the
first time was feeling far from W.,
but after getting the shot of serum
/ began to improve right away and q,
the present time am feeling extra fine.
On the 18th of June our six months
service was up and we were given |
permission to sew on our service /
stripe. Harvey Parks bought me a
service stripe on one of his trips to
town, so l occupied two days of my
time sewing it on, and it certainly was
some job. The stripe is of gold braid
and it is almost impossible to push
needle through it, so l had dickens
of time getting j. sewed on. After
After working one whole day l got it
sewed on in fairly decent manner
only to discover that it was on crooked
so the next day | had the whole job
to do over again. At the present time
it slants about 10 degrees to the right,
but it is good enough to suit me, so
that way it will remain. But at the
end of the next six months 1 will have
to change it so as to make it line up
with the second stripe, and 1 am an
ticipating about two weeks work at I
that time.
While we were officially sick during
the past week, Major Clark couldn't
see it that way, and he said we were
having too good a time, so every odd
job he could find was turned over to
us, and we were made to earn our
daily bread. One day we unloaded the
are now in course of construction at
the hospital, the next day we moved
all the ward tents to make room for
the barracks, and if we hadn't got out
when we did we would have been Civ
en- job of constructing the barracks,
so you see we were nightly pleas i =
Sunday when we learned that our |
throat culture was negative AMI hat d
we were once again free people and .
allowed to roam at will, subject to
the laws and bylaws of the U. S.
army. This morning l came back TO i
my old job in the office and l hope
they will let me stay this time, for l u
have had enough of being in the sick y
ward of the hospital. y
This company has an addition to IL
is family in another Emmett boy.
Earl Graham. He came here a few
lays ago and l think by this time
,e has been transferred to this cont
,any and will remain with US. 1t is
umored that an X-ray outfit will be -
Installed here in the near future and
hat Earl will be given job in that - -
department.. He is locking fine and =
hink he was as glad TO join us as we
re to have him.
1t is the same old story in camp.
Work comes up faster than we can do
t, and all of US are busy all tie time
We are getting a bigger hospital all dc
he time and when the additions new lie:
5 barracks are completed we Will re
ave one of the largest camp hospitals yo
, this section of the country. The to
'eather is as good as we couli wish tic
Or and it is always pleasure to be ha
utdoors. Every evening the boys have sa
baseball game here and we have th
ome exciting games. Those who are Dc
nable to get in the baseball game to
ave lots of fun playing volley ball, Isl