The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-03-28
NEWS OF OUR SOLDIER
BOYS
Interesting Letters from Our
Boys at Home Camps
and Abroad.


no mail from nome. Inere mas Deen
lots of mail in the past few days, but
as luck would have it mine has been
sidetracked some place. Letters that
arrived yesterday and today bear date
of February 3, and as the last letter
had was dated January 2, you can
see that l ought to have nice bunch
some place l did receive an Index
Friday, dated January 10, but it has
been read and re-read so much by
myself and the rest of the boys that
there is nothing left of it now but
shreds.
Major Clark has left US, together
with several other officers, and has
gone to a place where he will receive
special training in the medical branch
of the service. This is a course that
every officer must take on arriving in
France. He will be gone about two
months and needless to say will be
missed by every member of the COM
pany, and especially by the Emmett
boys.
All of the Emmett boys are so well
that if they were any better it would
hurt them Kip Harrell came out of
the hospital the first of last week,
where he has been sick with scarlet
fever for about two weeks, and is
rapidly getting back his strength.
Slim Gaylord is the only boy that we
have any alarm over. He has a Bel
gian girl for sweetheart and while
Harvey Parks and Jesse Meyer have
been trying to take her away from
him for some time, they have finally
come to the conclusion that it can't
be done.
Thursday was fair day in this
community. A fair is held about ev-
cry six weeks, at which time the farm
ers bring in their products to sell and
exchange. 1t is very much like the
market days held every Sunday, al
though on a much larger scale. The
small square in front of the hospital
was packed with people all day and
from the looks of the people on the
streets, should say that all the other
squares in town were just as crowded
They had everything for sale, from
small vegetables up to milking goats.
1t was a great sight to US and the
crowd resembled a crowd in front of
Ringing Bros. circus 10 minutes be-
fore opening time.
The weather here is still as fine as
one could possibly wish for. The days |
are so bright and sunshiny that it is |
a pleasure to be out of doors, while |
the evenings are fairly coid--cold /
enough so that we go TO bed at and 4
sleep like log until $50, when the
derned old bugle insists that we must
get up.
Work at the hospital is still about
the same. We are all busy and the
wards are practically filled up every
night.
The band comes down and plays at
the hospital three times week. The
French people, as we'll as the soldiers,
fill the yard, listening to the fine mu-
sic, and we all enjoy it to the utmost.
March Sat last l have discovered
a brotherly bond between the French
and Americans, especially the West
-erners. 1t has been showing here the
past week, off and on, snow that
would remain on the ground not more
than two minutes. Of course, the pa
pers mentioned the fact that it had
showed in this section of the country,
and what do you think. They had the
nerve to put in the paper for us to
read "that it had not been known to I,
snow at this time of the year here !
since 1S70," or some other ancient :
date And here thought that was a /
habit exclusively belonging to the '
western part of America. {
We are busy as usual in the hos !
pital. New men have been added to !
the company until now it is almost ;
double what it was when we left Boise. .
The other day the company was divid- c
ed into two sections, half of the old Il
bunch going in one section and half c
in the other. John Gamage, Kip Har- o
rell and Harry Foster are in one sec l
ton and the rest of the Emmett boys c
are in the section in charge Of the
hospital here. We do not know wheth
er this split will be permanent or not t
and two companies will be formed. v
But it looks as if, in the end, the split /:
will be permanent and the section | a
am in will remain in charge of the :
hospital here, and the other company !.
will either be in charge of another
hospital a short distance from herr, .
Or sent on as field hospital unit. I,
But we men still cling to the hope "
hat the change is only temporary and fl
hat the company will be united again
n a short time.
Floy Clark is driving an ambulance
,ow. For the past week he was on r
K. P. duty in the hospital kitchen but :
vas then changed to ambulance driv- y
ng, a job that he likes much better. n
Zin Harrel is running 3 barber shop U