Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-09-19

A letter from Pvt Harold v Had
ley. writing under date Of August
II. says / have been transferred
10 division headquarters as a clerk
nv hours are longer. but the work
isn't so hard and more along the line
az work ! am used to doing 4 friend
Of mine from Emporia and myself
have rented room together and are
sleeping in real bed for the first
time since / left home But the first
night | could hardly go to sleep and
thought would have to get out on
the floor and roll up in my blanket,
I haven't seen Joe Crum since we
left Camp Mills. You cannot send
me anything without an order from
me. Uncle sam gives us Bull Dur
ham" about every week, and then we
can buy smoking from the y N. e. A,
You can send me newspapers or clip
pings once IN while We have a
salvation Army hut located in this
town. run by two American ladies.
They make doughnuts quite often,
sell them three for dime, and they
are sure good eating
No. your letters to me are not CEN
sored Whoever told you they were
was mistaken am we'll and have
been all the time Tell all my friends
hello for me.
This friend of mine who am
rooming with is a sergeant in divi-
sion headquarters company.
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George Bistline. with Company D,
137th infantry, writes from France
TO his PARENTS.
Tuesday, Aug. 6.4-Well, am in
some ways glad to say am back
with the battalion again and close
tc the company, too, although !
think school was very fine indeed,
and | enjoyed it, too. The last eve
ming there we're four of us boys went
along out on one of these long mar
row hay racks to get load of bun
die rye; they raise mostly rye for
grain and all wheat is beardless.
We didn't get very big load.
though. My. but oxen seem so slow.
They are threshing here now, too,
hut their machine is about as large
as our tanning mill and turns by
hand, or else they use fail.
They took some of the boys up in
the aeroplanes the other evening, but
il would have been so late to wait
that l did not try to get a ride. !
came on into camp and slept while
then got ready to leave the next
morning, but the trucks did not come
until noon. so we just got here about
supper time.
Our mail is slightly irregular at
present. 1t has been quite a while
since / got letter.
| am sending a souvenir for you
that actually came from here. sup
pose you recognize birch bark l
took it off a tree / ran across while
I was over at school and I fixed it as
led me and you here may
behold the results of it all.
We have a splendid Y. M. c. A.
here-real American Y. NJ. men, and
we also ran across some negro troops
here from Alabama, | think; anyhow
it nearly made us glad to see them
over here with us, too. ] think the
Y. M. c. A. is trying to persuade
them to put on an entertainment for
us some evening.
We certainly enjoy having Y. M.
G. A. now, so we can have services
both morning and evening on sun
DAYS. 1t has been real rainy here
the last couple OF days, but | am feel
ing Just fine. | got the whole attic
IN the third story to myself and en-
10Y thigh and dry, but one of the
other boys rented beds in houses and
the one is below me. ! like army
life as it is, so I sleep on army beds.
Pa w -
Capt. c. II. Browne, first captain
Of Company H, has returned to the
United States and has been assigned
to Camp Dix, New Jersey, to train
new troops. In a letter to the Hia-
watha World Captain Browne says
MY regiment relieved the all-Kan-
sas regiment on this sector and the
most remarkable thing of all, my
company relieved the Horton com