Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-02-23
Long Hikes Part of Training
Being Given to Fit Ameri-
can Soldiers for Work in
Trenches and March to
Berlin.
RASMUSSEN HAD
CASE. OF MUMPS.
lntresting Letters Have Been Re-
ceived From Numbers of Local
Young Men Who Are Now Near
the Firing Line.

Letters received from our boys in
France all report that all the fellows
| from Mountain Home are in fine
physical shape and getting fat. There
is the same feeling of optimism in all
the letters that have been received.
that speaks well for the morale of
the boys and the care they are re-
ceying
Mrs John s. Black has received a
number of letters from Enrol, the
following being some interesting ex-
tracts from them
Under date of January 6, some
where in France, We are having real
winter here, the snow is about six
inches deep and frozen hard. We
nave been transferred to the second
engineers nearly three weeks but
haven't been assigned to our com
panies yet Charlie Rasmussen.
Oliver, Joe Norman and the two Me-
Mahon boys are still with Eddie and
me, Charlie is in the hospital with
the mumps but is getting along fine,
Oliver has been little out of order
Dut the rest of us are feeling fine.
We have been drilling rather hard
and taking lots of hikes. Had a ten
mile hike the other morning In three
hours. We haven't had any mail
since we left U. s. A., and God only
KNOWS when we will II you send
anything be sure and send il In a
good box and be sure II is sweet stuff
candy is awfully scarce and money
and tobacco are out OF the question.
have seen tobacco sell at 81 a sack.
Under date of January 10. he
writes We have at last been trans
ferred into our new companies and
drew Co. G. There wasn't any of
the boys got into that company.
Charles and Oliver went to Co. r..
Eddie Hicks, Co b. Joe Norman. Co
ID, SO you see how we are split up.
but the best thing of II is we are
still in the same regiment. There
were several of the old II Co bows
transferred with us so I'm not alone
by quite lot. We haven't had any
mail so far but have hopes now that
we have been transferred to our reg
ular companies"
And in letter dated January 90.
ne says after mentioning that there
had been no mail yet, Henry Wayte
and Charley Rasmussen played the
kid game and got the mumps, and
when they got out of the hospital
they were fatter than pigs. | never
saw Charley as fat before"
Ben Bruce in letter home told
about the tobacco situation. The
boys are entirely out of tobacco and
couldn't get any, and IL there were
any cigarette stubs lying around to
send them on. He also said that
package OF tobacco that Ed Goddard
was reported to have sent them never
got there.
The following letter received by
Mrs. VIM. Galloway, from Hill,
dated January H.
We are safe in camp here, having
the finest weather in the world. II
is sure some warm here. All Of us
are running around in our shirt
sleeves il seems strang to hit such
warm place after being in such
cold climate France is a beautiful
country and we like It fine. There
is lots of timber around our camp
and it looks 80 much like the country
around Rocky Bar, only there Is not
near so many mountains and they
are not so large. We sure have
fine Y M, c. A. here, the finest
- ever seem"
The letter received from Burtt
Berry made no mention of the camp.
the grub the tobacco shortage, the
health or occupations of the boys, nor
the weather but was devoted to dis
cussion of the metaphysics of the
Rubyatt, and of woman's place In
industry. subjects more suited to the.
editorial than the news columns.
C. e. Corker Is building a wide
porch on the east and south sides