The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-21
WORD FROM BOYS
IN ACTIVE SERVICE
&c. LONDON AND WAGNER
LEE, OF ARDMORE, WRITE
FROM OVERSEAS.

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe M. London, 7Oi
Douglas boulevard, have received
the following letter from their son
Ewing c. London, Co. A, 1lltl
Field Signal Battalion, dated July
81 from French port: "Yes, you
can fly your active service flag, for
you sure have son in active serv-
ice now. We arrived here about. )
p. m, July 80, and got off the boat
this morning. Been very busy but
am now in the rest camp; how long
I'll be here, I've no idea, but have
learned not to worry about where |
am going or when, all Pm going to
worry about is keeping myself we'll
and to try to do as much work as
possible, as l am happier working
and do not notice the time as much.
France is much the same thing
as other parts of the world | have
visited. The people are showing the
effects of the war in. many ways.
You hardly see a pair OF leather
shoes, nearly every one has substi-
tuted cloth, rubber or wooden shoes,
but the most noticeable thing is the
lack of soap and water. The chill
dren are all dirty and ill-kept.
From what have seen, the crop
conditions here arc good, but you
see only women in the fields. An
other thing you see is the public
wash stream. The women all gath
er at a stream and most places they
have turned the stream of water so
it flows through the basement OF
the house. Here they wash the
clothes, hang them on bushes, then
all sit around and knit and gossip
while the wash dries. This country
has very little plumbing, all the
houses are built on straight lines,
and you seldom see an open door or
window except when they open one
in order to see something passing.
at is easy to see that this coun-
try is at war by everyone wearing
black. The old ladies have pecu-
liar headdress made of white strips
of linen, starched so it will stand
out from the head it gives no pro-
lection, Just an ornament.
wish | could tell you OF the mill
tary plans, but suffice to say that
the work being done is enough to
make them all initiate the United
States in many ways in the future,
Don't worry about me, as | am
we'll cared for and via more than
likely be home ere long, a stronger
nan in every way. And from the
way things are going over here it
ooks like the beginning OF the end
or Germany. Am glad I'm here
md will have part in this, the
biggest thing in the worlds history.
What do you think OF my adopt
ng one Of the Belgian or French
ids? Lots Of the fellows are doing
and | could handle one very easy
fter | get home"
From Wagner Archie Lee.
Mrs. T. s. Lee. 81 Sixth Avenue
outhwest, has also received letter
rom her son, Wagner Archie Lee,
l which he stated that he is well
nd in good spirits because "the Al !
es have the Germans headed for :
Germany at last hope they will ,
OF let them stop, nor show any +
uarter. | want to see their country
,rn up like they have torn this one. s
Il was talking to German that
ad been wounded and our boys had
rought him to the dressing station T
redress his wounds before they c
mt him back to the hospital. He t
lid that his whole company had not v
Id anything to eat for three days, +
the Allies had kept up such hot t
re on the railroads and wagon 5
,ads. His entire company gave
self up to the Americans. He said O
at the last time he was at home c
5 mother told him to give himself o
} to the first American soldier that i
, saw. The most of them are just {
ds, you might say; none OF them Y
e old enough to shave. He said, T
m the luckiest guy on earth to be t,
ptured and | guess he is right, r
r they surely have been getting all ST
at is coming to them in this last 4
i've. v
I've no doubt there will be
nch OF sad Germans, but wiser h;
len this war is over. | hope they II
ip all of us back to America via st
rlin Just to let them see how many or
the boys are over here. 1t would ot
Ike IIindenburg and the kaiser 81
I awful liars German prisoners in
,k funny as they march down the S,
id and see so many Americans;
" don't seem to understand how "
many of us got over here, think G
!ybe they will wake up soon and dc
d themselves in an awful hole, OF
c that they can't get out of as easy
they got in. and the sooner they CO
the better off they will be. But Sc
i must not expect this war to be de
er right now, Just because we Sc
We them on the run. for this game
like setting a hen! You fr,
II count your chickens before vi
v are hatched, and they both en-
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