The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-02-14

into? A Chandler & Price 5x12 JOB
press and Dexter folding machine.
They were on the dock, having been
recently unloaded from some boat.
They were assigned 10 the American
army at some place. 1t certainly made
me homesick.
All the boys are feeling fine and
are having good time. The Emmett
boys have been especially well. John
Gamage and Floy Clark have been
appointed mail orderlies.
Jan. 13.-It has been raining all
morning, so we are staying in our
barracks today Doc (Floy Clark
has just finished his weeks washing
and he has it strung all around the
room, drying. Another boy has start
ed in on his washing and after he gets
through it will be my turn. have an
awful big stack of dirty clothes and l
am certainly dreading the job. We
have only one bucket, and as it takes
three or four bucketfuls Of water for
washing it takes quite a while to do
the job, especially when we have to
heat each bucket of water on a mighty
poor heating stove.
We have received no mail up to
date, not even our Christmas packages
and we are anxious to hear from
home. Yesterday we got a rumor that
there were 16 sacks of mail at the
postoffice for US, so Floy took several
extra boys over with him when he
went after the mail. He brought back
five letters, one a personal letter and
four official letters. So now we re-
fuse to believe any more rumors and
the only way that we can be made to
believe that the mail has arrived is to
actually see it. We will all be happy |
boys when it does come; but l think 4
we are all as homesick for news from 1
home as we can be. | know that most I
of the boys are grouchy and | lay it 4
all to having no news from the states.
There hasn't been much happening /
in camp the past week. Almost every
night we take a stroll through the
village to break the monotony of the
camp. But as all of US are fiat broke
we can't buy anything, so we just
look at the store windows and pass
on to the next place.
One day last week Don Eagleson
and l borrowed 10 francs (s1.S0) and
we started out to have big time. The
first place we struck was little eof-
fee house, run by girl named Marie,
where we had coffee and crackers
That cost US two francs. We then
went to a grocery store, where We
bought some sweet chocolate and,
oingol two more francs went again.
We concluded to spend the rest of our ,
money for cigars, so after going into
every store in town we finally found /,
me place where they had small ,
supply. So we laid down five francs
md called for that amount in cigars. ,
The lady looked very much surprised
suppose that it was the first time i,
he had ever had that big an order :
md she counted US out 80 cigars, and :
hat surprised us. We started to store
hem away in our pockets, when she !
discovered that she had made mis- '
axe and so she took 20 of them
way from US. The next time we buy .
nything we are going to grab 1t and
un. :
We also had another funny expert :,
nee at the coffee house. While we
,ere there four soldiers came in and !.
rdered some sandwiches. The girl \
sked them if they wanted kat" :
which means "four") and we all had :.
hearty laugh when one of the boys :
poke up and said, "No, ham,"
One of our chief amusements here \
playing the Victrola. We still have
Iajor Clark's machine with US, and -
is the joy of our lives. We keep it >
Ding continually day and night. Of :;
,urse, the machine and records are =, -
cry much the worse for the war they =
ave been through. Most of the rec *
IDS have something the matter with
lem. Some are cracked, some have
zee broken out of them and others AT
ont track right; very few are In X
,od shape yet Coming over on the w
,at we broke, or rather cracked the co
inglass on the reproducer, so for a WI
hile the music was pretty bum. 1t fr
ade a squeaky, shrill, cracked sound X,
ry much like the earlier machines We
ade. But l remedied that when kr
und a piece of celluloid glass and
placed that in lieu of the isinglass.
the present time we are entirely
{ of needles, so we are using sew we
? needles instead. These are net pl,
-ge enough, so sometimes they play a
" the higher notes of the music w
d at other times only the lower tai
tes. But we have sent to a large tn,
V for some needles and when they Du
rive we will be in style again. sta
Floy Clark came in this afternoon scs
tn a lot of registered mail pack to
es, so we are in hopes that per- AM
os tomorrow the rest of the mai.
/ be here and that we will have our
2 looked for letters from home and
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