Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-08-29
Our Soldier Boys.

in camp is turned loose. Some OF the
boys that live near enough have gone
home, but quite a few of Us are spend
ing the time here in Seattle. ! had
quite q time Sunday afternoon and
evening. l went to Sunday School
and church in the morning. ] had
eaten dinner and was standing on
the sidewalk here in front OF the Sol
diers and Sailors Club when two
Buick cars drove up. Each one had
the back seats empty. Three OF us
fellows got into each al We had no
idea where We were going, but before
We stopped We were fifty miles out
in the mountains. There are fine
roads all through the country here.
They stopped and spread out one
grand lunch-everything one could
think of. We drovs back to Seattle
and arrived at 4 O'Clock. Then they
took us all to n OF their homes for
supper. The supper was iine-great
big biscuits, the lirst | had tasted
since | left home, and everything else
good. The festivities broke up about
II O'Clock, after which they drove
US back TO the camp. They made a
date with US to go out again in two
weeks to spend the day.
Private ID. NJ. Robertson has already
spent six weeks at the Jefferson Bar
racks hospital and does not know
when he will get to leave there, as
his heart still bothers him. He says
there are lots of drafted men brought
there all the time. ''Tiley brought a
bunch in the other day and one fellow
among them was as drunk az could
be. They put him in the hospita! and
he died the next day. The doctors
said his death was caused from iiqLcr.
So YOU see Old Man Booze is akin to
the Germans. 1t will get you if it
can. Another fellow was to go out
on a shipment to-day, but he dropped
dead before they got ready to start.
You sure see all kinds Of things around
here. | go down to the station quite
often and most always see some one
Oh the trains | know. 1T looks goou
to see a face from Home Sweet
Home. My Job this morning was to
help with the laundry and help the
nurse check up the patients charts.
! am all finished now and have
nothing to do but sit around. This
sitting around sure grows tiresome to
a fellow. / think / will get to come
home in a few weeks
Private Edwin Higgins writes from
Hospital Ward %, Macarthur, Texas:
II have been wanting to write, but
Uncle Sammie has kept us so busy
that / am behind with my letters.
Since arriving here ! have been under
quarantine until last Thursday. Clay
Bunyard and Frank Rosentreter are
here now, also Tony Lewis. ! saw
Frank last Friday and sure was glad
to shake his hand. He was the first
one ! had seen from home. Most OF
the company [ am with is composed OF
st. Louis and Kansas City boys, al
though some are from other parts of
Missouri. But they alllooka alike down
here. You could scarcely tell a CITY
J guy from a country boy a thousand
miles IN the sticks. You see yon cant
lay of on this job and they seldom tic
a can to a fellow, so / had to come
over to the hospital for a rest. This
is a new camp and a large one, hu
!, very dry and dusty and no shade
! trees. Tell all to write, as soldieI
boys enjoy letters from home.'
Private Louis r, Robinson, Co. X
l3sth Infantry, writes from Some
where in France Oh July 21st: "W'
, have Just returned from the trenches
! We had a few casualties. Wish
could describe the time we had. ON
. Of the boys that was with us in oar
: party was killed, He was a fine tel
low. Things were hot for awhile. Al
the boys did better than we though
l they would. 1t is fine to be bacl
where we can enjoy the cool air ant
not be bothered ducking shells, ga
, alarms and all the other agents o.
+ warfare"
u Albion ?. Crow, of the Forestr
Division, writes from France OIL
August 5th: 1--WE had a big cut G
! lumber last month. Cut 1900, 0o(
which is the largest eve cut by an
% company in France, either America
or Canadian. We had to hustle
take care of the lumber az it left tn
u mill. One Saturday at noon a tele
>" gram was received ordering som
tent poles for hospital tents. The
= were cut that afternoon. That nigt
v at midnight six trucks from a supp
depot came in and loaded them all
j. left Immediately. These trucks hat
from the supply depot to the from
., but these poles were so urgent.
~ needed they grabbed the first 81
~ trucks which came in and sent the
o out here to the mill. have no idt
when the war will end. ! am not
optimistic as some. You get tt
r news almo as quickly as we do"
Of Louis Miller writes from Cam
n Mills that the indications are that thu
we're to set sail the day after ]
:, wrote. He is Mechanic on II OF Il
In new big guns, and says he has lots
study over and keep him busy.
Cal Mercer who was operated
at Camp Dodge, is now out of t!
hospital and is in the Depot Brigad
=. Says he hopes soon to be perfect
we'll and able to make 9 good sold'
- for his country.
\. Ralph Ancell Davis, s0th Regimen
no Battery Z, z. A.. G., wrote on Ju
a. 10th, that he was we'll, and that Q
erything was very beautiful where
:. was In France, only not 80 billy IS
D. his home in Des Arc. Private Da,
enlisted as soon as var was declar'
~ and has been in the service for mo
,oo than a year.
NJ. Elmer Hart, II. @. Co, l3sth /
-, fantry, writes that he IL we'll and n