The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-11-08
w. l.. PRESTON,
FROM MARTIN BLOCK.

COucNllcIC Ill Z IGIlCe,
OF. 13, 1913.
Dear Mother:
Received your letter the other day
and sure was glad to get it.
1 also got letter from You n week
ago and had answered it but hadn't
got it mailed yet till got this one
so am going to try and write them
both in one, these letters are bein;
dated one Aug. % and the other Sept.
10, but got them both about tue
same time so that's the way We get
mail over here
1t seems so queer got a few let
ters from others above 8 weeks Hgo
but since then have been able to hes r
from no one but you. r. q
had one letter from Julia since 1
came here r''a,> <gar. m,s,, /, .
l. am sure glad that yau got that
package back 1t would h6NfMcsme in
pretty handy few dayssaGd,s Dit yes
terday L got two suits of AEdvy un-
derclothes and some good heavy socks.
thought this was fine country
but I have changed my mind about
that, 1 would rather live in the states
somewhere, one cant see anybody for
months at the time. The people live
just like you always told us they do
they live in settlements like the Min
onites do back home only all their
buildings are in one house, barn
granary, chicken house and everything
else they have is all in one building.
L haven't seen but one frame build.
ing here they are all stone concrete
or brick. ..t
Everything is about four hundred
years behind the u. s., they farm
mostly with oxen and have hardly any
machinery, of course they don't need
much, could take hoe and farm
as much as q man does here with q
team oxen.
II had been sick for about week.
am not entirely over it vet, but will
soon be, all right 1 think I will be
able to go back to work about Tues
day. ~f w. '-.a.ss', 49,. -, r.
II haven't seen anything of Albert
or don't expect to till we get back,
but I have his address now so will
write to him now I always thought
that he was in the NJ. g. in the Inf.
I think it's lot harder then we have
it here it seems that all the boys from
back home that l know got in the Inf,
but me as to the war I can't tell you
anything about that, we don't know
much about it here only what we hear
and good idea III the army is not
| to believe what one hears, we may
find out more about it when we ret
to the front if that time ever comes.
I think we will all be home before
much longer. RI. Vs.,
L. Z,
that reached here, am sure / didn't
send any to, you. sent one to Julia
and one to another party and haven't
heard from either Of them.
/ Well Mother as I have few other
letters to write today will close.
Write whether you hear from me
or not because I think there is a lot
of mail gets lost between here and
there <....,.. ...
y AS as ever. ..f.
A ,s MARTIN.
PAT MARTIN BLOCK. 1.,..~.
Co. G.. 339 NJ. G. Bn,. s., .,.
American E. F., -
A. Pc. 795 49,. r..
FROM CORPORAL RALPH MOORE.
October 3, 1918.
Dear Brother: ...--
Will write you a few lines today IN
answer to your letter OF Aug. s. I
received a bunch of letters today from
home. and some from Iowa. It is
pretty nice here today. but as It is
getting along toward fall, the nice
DAYS will be few and far between
| from now on has been raining
most of the time the past week and
awful cold nights besides, can't helm
| but think of the boys in the front
lines and feel for them as have been
there enough to know what they are
going through, but going through what
I've are and accomplishing what We