The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-23

delivery service wagon for the varioue
firms and individuals operating the
South Bridge grocery store at differ
ent times. Mart was born with q
happy thought and smile on his face
and on q recent day he ground out
the following letter while wondering
what to do at the camp at Glenburnie,
Md. We expect to get fits for pub
fishing this letter but as we care but
little for trouble, We rather think it
will turn out all right. Mart's let
ter follows: -
Saunders Range. Md, Sept. 22.
My Dear Sister, Mother and Aunt
Annie: ~
like of which you have never seen
means it has some distinguishing mark
had. Well / will tell you what it is
to be. Lock at the date, Sept. 22.
Now this letter is distinguished by
that date. l will write only this
one letter to you on this date so pre-
serve it like year old egg which
you think is fresh or like some of
those peaches you put up six or
eight years ago, maybe by 6 or 8
years, will have consumed 'em al,
7 hope so.
Well, / went start out by telling
J u the news or there is none. Meth
e' will | give anyone any advice for
am exhausted after my efforts OF o
week or ten days ago.
But l will say this much, the peack
orchards here afouts are to suffer an
attack at $3.50 p. m. if Hubert feels
equal to the occasion. He is coming
up this p. m. and / know his capacity
for peaches cannot be equalled or
compared with in Maryland or any
where except in Belding and there
lives there one editor Ed. who can
eat circles around Hub like prcpel-
lor going around the crankshaft Of an
aeroplane engine. Some peach eater,
Ell, Sis?4
/ am wearing another mans boots,
sitting on another mans bunk, using
someone else's ink and the paper as
you see belongs to the Y. M. C. A.
All l have of my own is this battle
travel-scarred suit case and it looks
like it was just reclaimed from No
Mans Land But it makes a fairly
good writing desk. 1t also has past,
like Mary Pickford in the play,
Miss. / know it has past for
it has been my companion on every
, trip | took except one. l will write
you the history of it. First it was not
purchased in the ordinary manner.
cost and it has been worth So if not
more. Its initial journey was on the
rear of my motorcycle when Fred
Martin and l took our little trip
around the Horn. Although shaken
to the very bones on that occasion
| it happily survived. After resting
few months and recuperating from
the rough treatment it received it Of
fered its services to me as an aid to
my Grand Rapids campaign. II
served long and well and although it
received many wounds and went
through all kinds of experiences it
was never so quite all in as shortly
after Irwin Burt put his foot through
it. It's very aspect was changed. A
sorry look overspread its otherwise
cheerful face and left it's mark for
time without end. ! then gave it
a three months furlough and 1t rest
ed until at the time / enlisted l could
not bear to leave it behind 1t
wanted to play its part for u. s. and
is doing So If it were not such. an
old friend / would even now cast it
aside but when think that it endured
the three weeks of Camp Logan life
/ think it can withstand any that is
to come. 1t is not entirely broken
but is indeed sadly bent, although it
yet manages to hold all my personal
belongings. To look at it you'd say
it was ruffneck, villain and not
on the square. / know it is rounded
some, the bottom is such state that
it will conform to the. shape of what
ever it rests on. Its top is always
trying to meet the bottom and have
good long CHAT The ends are not
ends, they are hopeless. l have lost
the key and It is open day or night
like a dairy lunch. It has served
me well and am going to keep it just
hold together in IT,. It is made of
paper, cloth andya little shellac, with
, originally iron corners, but two of
these have lost the good fight and are
no more. But wounded severely as
it is it still continues to do its duty
like anything in Uncle Sans service
should. You can thank Fristoe &
Divine for selling it to me for SO
cents. One thing about it. it has
never yet failed to produce CHEEKY
pipeful Of old p. A. and for that alone
would / take it through the shell holes
Of No Mans Land to Berlin.
l will now turn my attention to
more worldly topics. Dinner for in
stance. I've heard about it, l can
smell it and soon l hope to eat it. We
are to have chicken dinner. Oh,
Boy, let 'em come.
You can now close my mornings
efforts by reading from Martin the
third page back first to fourth lines.
I Adieu until after chow,
Mart.
Gosh! That was some dinner. Oh
nothing more to (right) write. Chick
en- fine dinner. We are all well; it's
chilly wind blowing in tent.
Your loving son and brother,
Mart.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Richmond are in
receipt OF the following letter from