River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-07-04
Robert WaSSOn
Writes From France
st. Nazaire, France,
U. S. A. P. o. 701,
Wednesday, June 5, 1918.

At last the impossible has hap
pened, l got another letter from you
yesterday. 1t was mailed April
29th. 1t is the fourth one that |
have got from you in the six
months. About how many have
you sent? | got the letter with your
picture in about two months ago
and this is the first one since then.
never did get the package or pack
ages of tobacco you sent me. 1t is
impossible to even get a package.
sent over now even though l do
send requisition signed by the c..
0. | do need some razor blades so
will tell you how to send them. The
blades are for a lem Junior"
They come seven in a package and
you can open the package and put
one or two in each letter and they
will get here about as fast as | need
them.
You asked about the papers and
if you could believe what they print
ed, and think that you can believe
most that you read, as it has to be
censored before printing. You peo-
pie over there know more about
what is going on over here than we
do, that is, with the exception of
what is going on in the certain To-
cality that we are in. We get lit.
tie American paper daily that is
printed in Paris, but it is impossible
for them to print very much and
that is all the news we get about
what is going on.
You asked for some kind of de-
scription of the country, and now
that they let us put our locality in a
letter | can see no harm in giving
you some kind of description of
this part of France, although am
not much at writing descriptions.
You know France is about 100 years
behind U. S. A., especially in this
part. They still wear their wooden
shoes good part of the year here
have not seen a frame house since
have been over here. The houses
are either rock, brick, cement or
stone. They have either large tile,
or cement floors and they all have a
fire place. Have not seen a stove
since have been here. The houses
are as rule one story and white
washed both inside and out. The
country is real pretty now. What
few trees l have seen are green. OF
course, you know it is a very old
country and they practice extensive
farming, not thing being wasted,
so there is very little woods. The
same roads have been here since
the time of Caeser, and outside of
being awfully crooked they are fine
roads. We have a bridge right
near US here that Napoleon built in
his great war. There are no men
within the service age left here.
One can see lots of old women
working on the section, and on the
roads and shoveling coal, even Jug
CLING freight and driving drays
around the depots. Well, that is
the best can do in the line of de-
scription and hope that it gets by
alrik ht.
No, my hair did not come out
that way. had the top of my head
clipped and shaved, then when it
grew out little had it all clipped
off. 1t has grown out now and
have quite promising crop. Am
| going TO have it cut the same way
next spring. Don't care what | look
like over here if it will do any good
to my hair. Yes, sure am good
and fat; weighed myself the other
day, I72 pounds.
Am not going TO use my applica-
ton blank for the Aviation service
until see if | get transferred into
the Tank corps. Was up to the
Base hospital at - yesterday
and saw bunch of fellows that are
back from the trenches, but saw no
one that knew. They won't talk
much about it but say that there is
sure some excitement up there.
Well, have got bunch of letters
to write for "Old Uncle so will
have to quit. Hope that we make
better connections with our letters
in the ff1ture.