Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03

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hetti, celery pickles, toast, coffee,
also side dish of California grapes
cake and candy Did | eat it all?
Just guess! You wanted to know.
what ! do to keep busy. For one
thing | keep the nurses in hot wa
ter and when they are not near |
read. When l am not doing either
of these | am tearing my bed up
trying to find a comfortable posi-
ton. When the nurse comes in she
straightens it up real nice. but she
don't more than turn when it is in
the same shape. The nurses names
are Miss KUN might and Miss
Right [day.l She took me to the
operating room the other day, and
while we were waiting she looked
out the window and saw some blue
birds with red breasts. | tried to
see them but couldn't so didn't pay
any more attention to- them but she
kept talking about them. Then
when they gave me the ether | had
a great time laughing and yelling
/ about those blne birds with red
breasts.
Tuesday a. m. Would like to see
you and Sonny this morning. l
suppose John has registered. You
said Ben Twist had not been at the
front July 9th. Well I was wound
ed July 18th. Give his folks my adj
4 dress and tell them / would like to
hear from him. Am glad Lieute-
nant Carl got commission.
4 / suppose the threshing is done
by now How are the crops. Must
close. With Lots of Love,
i ARTHUR H. BALLOU
August 81, rs
!. Mr.. Will spoo,
3, Dear Friend:--How is everything
in Extra. II has been long time
since | have heard from there and
{ | haven't seen anybody yet that |
knew from civil-life. | was only in
! the army month until was on
+ my way over here. / have seen a
, lot OF the country as we have been
moved around a good deal. First
3 we landed up in the northern part
Gam not allowed to say where] and
: then we were sent down to the cen
ter Of France, where we stayed a
e month and now | am down south
/ about forty miles east of Bordeaux
V | think we wills stay here for the
e winter, hope so anyway. It's the
J. first and only time we have had 8
il decent place to stay. We always
/ have slept in tents and since we
O came over here we sleep on the
). ground, and when it rains it is yer,
). uncomfortable Of course, we hav,
$ some small tents. Each man car
d rles one-half tent, we call them doy
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e tents because they are so small
is We never have had any place t
d wash or take bath Without goin
1T to some other camp and we could
/ MT always go whenever we felt lik
TX it. But here we have all the con
| veniences we could ask for. w
r have nice barrack to sleep in, :
,e mess hall, Mushroom and BATH
It house, electric lights all over th
st camp and it is almost in the cente
OF a big town where we can hay
all kinds of good times. There is
!, big railroad shop here where W
6 work. Most Of the company starte
rk today and think | will start tomo
row. There are only two blacl
smiths in this company, the boy
70 are mostly 'boilermakers, machil
lists, timers and helpers of all kline
III We will work together with IL
ad French mechanics SO i think "
10 will learn the language pretty quio
an have been working hard on N
ke books the last few days, and, b
ne lleve me it is some awful stuff
ms get into fellows noodle. 1t is n
be IL; ,s.s, Ill, IL Il.....i: >