New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-07-03

boulevard in the middle of the street.
trees and enjoy glass of beer or wine
While watching the crowd. Like all
other French towns, Tours is old and
therefore contains many buildings in
terest1ng IN architecture and age.
I'VE got paid Wednesday so we can
indulge in a few luxuries that the army
does not supply. Once in while we
get a good old American style meal
SOC in our money. That is cheap when
The 7. M. G. A. is doing great work
over here. They have a hut in every
! camp where they maintain canteen and
provide free entertainments. Down town
here they run restaurant and have a
club room for us. It Is such things that
a fellow appreciates here altho we didn't
over in the States.
Now that I am settled I hope to get
some mail altho I believe houing won't
do any good as I have waited for month
and half now without any mail. sure
would like to know how everything is
getting along back home. This lack of
news is the only thing that has worried
me so far, for you canot imagine how it
| is to be suddenly cut off from ones
former life TO change over to new habits
entirely. So the best thing you can do
| is to write me all you can about little
things that happen that have taken
place since I left. Do not worry about
me as I am safe and sound and ha wing
a good time so far
A bright, cheerful letter received from
Armin Pfaender who has been in France
|for more than two months says that
! they are now allowed to tell where they
are located. Heaisaat Tours and says
the country thersabouts is the very
garden spot of France. He has visited
! the Tower of Charlemagne which is so
old that the stone steps are half worn
thru. He also tells of seeing one of the
beautiful cathedrals of France and has
| visited the places where stones mark
the old camping places of Caesar. All
of this he finds very interesting as it
brings back to him the things he studied
in High School, but he says there is one
sight that would inspire him more than
anything else and that is a glimpse of
the Goddess of Liberty. He has met
some cquaintances from the Twin Cities
sssiE.aA he has been over there but has as
yet not come across any of the New Ulm
people. He says he had received three
letters from home at the time he was
writing, June /. A bunch of half a
dozen letters were received from Armin
Sunday, dated later than the one above
but all still from Tours. He mentions
his pleasure at hearing about the High
School Service Flag which was dedicated
and which bears star for him. He says
he thinks the high school girls and boys
have the. right spirit. In a joking way
he mentions the French girls, speaks of
their red cheeks and says that the city
girls all dress in the very Frenchy styles
and he does not quite know what his
mother would think about some of the
styles.
i Describing some of the architecture
he says that the houses are mostly all
of stone and have high walls about
them with pretty flower gardens inside
and that the French are very fond of
j their flowers. He thought it odd that
the French shopkeepers at night pull
steel shutters over their doors and win
dows. He speaks of going in swimming
in river there and says it is cleaner
than the old Minnesota, but wishes he
were back here for a swim in a hot
summer night. The daylight lasts until
after nine o'clock at night but he says
the days are very short because all are
| so busy every minute.
Robert Bartl received a very in
teresting letter from Charles Jamie
who went. with the boys to Camp
Lewis. The letter is written from Camp
| Kearney at San Diego. He says that
they reached Camp Kearney Saturday
| June % after three days trip from
Camp Lewis. The boys from the east
end of town are all in one company
again. He expects to be member of
the band as his name and that of Joe
Shobert (Doc) have been taken to make
up the fifty men that are needed. Camp
Lewis was a fine camp but be did not
like the people there and cont1 asts them
with the people in Kearney who, he says
are the best he ever met. To quote
from the letter: RI hope we can stay
here for awhile because the pond is
right in front of our tents. If we
want to take swim we just undress and
jump in. We have no barracks down
here but sleep in tents and that is just
what we want. The weather during
the day time is like Minnesota but the
nights are nice and cool. At Camp
Lewis the nights we're very cold. The
trip from Camp Lewis here was fine.
When we came thru Oregon we travelled
about 100 miles along the Oregon River.
There is a place along the road where a
man could shoot deer. We saw lots of
them and talk about Jacks! When we