Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-03

Miss Doris Brand. 426 Lake street,
has received the following letter from
France:
Saturday, August 81, 1918.
At the front.
Dear Friend Doris:
have received your kind and well
come letters some time ago, and was
some glad to hear from you. Stewart
and | are both well and hope this let
ter reaches you the same. | have
been very slow in answering your let
ter of late but we have been so busy
day and night getting the Germans
that we lost some sleep so l know you
will agree with me. Well, Doris,
will let you know what | can for their
is a lot | would like to tell you in
which | cannot mention at it would
rot pass by the censOrs, and, believe
me we are sure getting these Huns
and getting them right. Ha! Ha!
We were on the western front for
some time and it was pretty busy
there. | just wish that you could see
some of these towns over here. They
are pretty we'll shelled up. At the
time | received your last letter, which
was dated July Z, and received July
%, was staying few miles back OF
the lines in small French village
which was shelled by the Germans.
We liked this place all right for here
there was a large field hospital, lots
of American nurses and it made 1T
home-like. There was only one thing
we did not like in this village; at
night, just when we were trying to
get some sleep, the Germans buzzers
would come flying over us all night
long and drop bombs. They found
out where our hospital was and so
they dropped bombs close by where
our wounded soldiers were lying but
the best part of this was the bombs
did not go off that fell so close to the
tents. 1t looked like that God had
something to do with it. Well | was
up the next morning and some Of us
fellows went over to see If the bombs
had got the best of our poor wounded
soldiers but luckily there was nobody
hurt. While we were looking around
the nurses got to talking to US about
the Huns and believe me they are
brave nurses. They did not seem to
be frightened Or alarmed by the night
raiders. They have some name for
the Huns; our nurses calls them, the
Blind Snake, and the Germans calls
us the red devils. Ha! Ha! Oh, yes!
they are beginning to find out what
they are up against. MY line Of work
is bringing food and rations to our
boys at the front. 1t is sometimes
hard to get up to them with the sup
plies on account of the Germans she'll
ing the roads. Lots of times we
would have to stop our horses on the
road because the shells would come
singing over our heads and bust and
pretty soon you would see German
airplanes come flying along, dropping
bombs on the roads, holding us up for
hours at a time. You can imagine
what it is like, believe me war is
HI, but here's hoping that it will
soon end. | don't think that it will
end before next year, but we will GER
tainly do the best we can to get home
by Christmas. I am now writing this
letter in a small village back of the
lines at a different front from what
have mentioned. There are no Ger
man planes around here at night to
bother us when we try to sleep. AL
though there are many more planes
here than at the Western front but
our lines are so strong that the Ger
mans don't get chance to cross over.
Stewart has just got back from the
front. One of his horses got killed
by shell but he has another one now
was hit last week but it only famed
him. He is all right now. | wish you
could see the American guards bring
ing in German prisoners by the hun
dreds from the front. 1t sure looks
good to us boys. Ha! Ha! Oh. say!
if you should see or hear from your
brothers, Gerry and Moulton, give
them my regards and also tell them
they have my best wishes and good
luck. | hope that they will like it.
Well, Doris, l will close for this
time. Hope to hear from you soon,
but don't be as slow as l was answer
ing l remain your true friend
GEORGE GUTHRIE.