The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-10-02
SPLENDID LETTERS FROM
THOSE GRAND FELLOWS
OVER THERE

lures on medicine and we get one
hour exercise every day
Is Mr.. Ellis going to live up there
hin a tent? 1t will be nice think.
haven't been in a tent since i left
Camp Custer. have been feeling
well ever since / left home. 1t
don't seem as long as it is since
left home.
When is pa going to start cutting
over es asrs times q fa ss i ra Rs
air here is light. So you got letter
lfrom Harold. / would like to see
him. 1t is hard to find anybody over
here. The only fellow have found
over here is young Nichols Of Beld-
ling. Those fellows who have been
drafted last / don't think will ever
get across over here as we are push
/ ing the measley devils back so. fast
that some day soon you will hear
about big bust and everything will
be over. They are just about all
i'm.
Well / am long ways from the
front yet but wish was there and
u guess everybody in our Co. thinks
the same thing. Our boys can't get
there fast enough to get whack at
think will be home by Christmas
with pair of shoe strings out of the
kaiser's hide so you can look for a
present from me.
Did you get any of the letters that
/ wrote? / didn't have time to send
a telegram or write a letter so don't
worry about me if you don't hear
from me for long tine have been
writing quite often so you will get a
letter every now and then. If i
knew Clark Tuttle's address / would
write Well / can't think of any
more to write so l guess l will have
to ring off.
From your loving son,
Prvt. Rollin Donovan,
$40 Field Hospital, A. z. F., via N.
Y, American Postoffice 7S9.
Harmon Palmateer in a letter to
Mrs. John Russell. which is as fol-
lows, says that German prisoners do
not need much guarding or watching.
Somewhere in France, Sept. a.
Dear Friends:
Received your kind and most well
come letter few days ago and sure
was glad to hear from you folks
again. | wrote to you some time
it before this one. 1t sure does seem
TO take a letter a long while to go
from here home. / only get mail
about once a month over here where
| used to get as high as ten letters a
week in the states. So you see that
it makes lot of difference.
We are having fine weather over
here now. 1t hasn't rained since the
Lord knows when. We are practic-
ing trench digging now and it sure is
hard digging. We have moved from
our old post or camp where we went
when we landed and we sure had a
fine long march. But we are in a
nicer little place now than we were
before. Sim and / are still together,
both well, always happy and like the
army as well as ever. Wish frankie
was with us, we would sure show him
a fine time over here; all kinds of ma
damoselles, All they do is to chase
the cattle around through the fields,
and that's most generally where you
find all of the u. S. soldiers at night.
| haven't heard from my folks in
a long while although | write home
often. It's better for them ito get
mail from me than for me to hear
fran them, When they know
am keeping well why then they won't
worry. Well think this thing will
be over now before long at least. /
am hoping so. We are getting feed
as good over here as we did before in
| the States. Tell frankie / hope that
he has good time with his machine
as | did. Also tell him to write. Tell
all the Bedding folks to write.
l have seen great number of
German prisoners over here. Be-
lieve me they don't need to be guard
ed. They are willing to stay pris-
>oners.
have seen Levy Stone several
times. He is driving an ambulance
now. He was at Chateau Thierry
when they made that last drive but
he is still well and very fleshy. You
wouldn't know him. now.
Earle Is also somewhere over here.
received one letter from him but
haven't heard from him now in a long
while, so / don't know where he is
now. wish he was with Sim and /.
4 hope we get up to the front before
long so we can get this big task over
land get back home again.
Well, as news is scarce and it's bed
time besides, / will have to close for
this time. / remain as ever your
friend,
Harmon Palmateer,
End Bn. Trench Artillery, Battery D,
A. K. F., A. p. 0. TIA.
According to Claude Broadhead's
letters home the French people like
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