The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-09-11

job l will change with them for a
while just for the sake Of getting
back to the good old u. s. A. again.
suppose j. p. Darling Is over here
by now. / would like to see the fell
lows from home that have just come
over, it would sure seem good. Tell
Peel hello; tell Bernie and Ray to-
write often. 1t is late SO will say
good bye.
From your loving son,
Kenneth M. Oberlin,
Co. d, 10th Inf, A. E. F., A. P. 0.
Charley King, formerly baggage
man at the p. M. depot writes to his
mother, Mrs. Ed. King, as follows:
Somewhere, Aug. 16, 1918.
| dust few lines to let you know
received your letter of June 3 all o.
k. and the p. O.. money order which
sure was glad to get as only had 1
franc, 20 confines, that is 80 cents
in our money and it came just in time
for birthday present, which is to-
morrow. Gee, it don't seem possible
I'll be "a then, but according to
| Hoyle. it is true. Gee, ma, we are
having some exciting little air raids
here nights but nothing to what they
| have in some of the places.
But all the same their bombs drop
plenty close enough to US to suit me.
Gosh, when a big one drops you think
your bunk is going to rock over al
most, and they don't have to drop
them within half mile or so to make
it seem so.
Say, mother, you had all your hap
piness for nothing when you heard i
had seen Floyd Pierson, as / have
not seen a soul / know since l left
home and that is quite while. 1t
must have been Chas. King from Beld-
ing, but all the same l sure would like
to see some of the bunch for l do
get awful lonesome at times. But
when / do l go over to the canteen
on the road and get couple bottles
of beer and by the time get them
drank and kid the girl awhile ! feel
better then | come home and go to
bed, then about tiue for taps the
boche comes over and wakes me up
and>I listen to him for while and
go back to sleep. / hear them so
much it soon gets to be an old story
/ and we don't pay much attention to
them but when they kick the tail
gate out and drop their load we sit
up and take notice. Gee, that would
scare the devil as we don't know At
they are planning on US or not but /
have got by so far and hope I'll be
one of the lucky cnes. Gee, got a
letter from Austa today and she gave
me Clayton's address and if | had
known it week ago l might have
seen him for drove over to G. H. /.
and believe me it was some drive.
Next time go I'll see if can find
him. But may never go again.
Well mother, l will close for this
time and thanking you many times
for the money order. l remain your
loving son,
Prvt. Chas. Z. King,
Evac. Amb. Co., Prov. No. i, A. E. f.
I'll write to- Clarence Bailey to-
morrow and Clavten if / have time
Mrs. Mae Seely received letter
from her son, Lyle, who is stationed
at the u. s. Naval Air Station at
Dunkerque, France, which is as fol-
lows:
Somewhere in France, July Is, 1918
Dear Mother:
received letter from you yester-
day and one the day before and they
did me lot of good You said you
while so | am addressing this letter
there
Everything is the asme here and
am as contented as anyone could be
over here where you cannot see the
folks once in while. got letter
from Hazel Unger yesterday and
wrote to her in the afternoon. /
haven't had a Banner in over two
weeks and I'm in the dark as to just
what is going on at the old home town
just now. know that you have
sent them and they must have been
lost or sunk. There are q number
CT boys here from Michigan and some
of them live close to US. There is a
fellow from Vassar, three from Grand
Rapids, one from Benton Harbor.
four from Detroit, one from Ironwcod.
one from Ypsilanti and one from
Greenville. So you see I'm not
lonesome for boys from the good old
state.
This is the best station in France,
at least that is what everyone says
that has been at other camps and the
longer l stay here the better / like
it, and the. only thing that bothers
me is the thought of you back home.
rate furlough now, nine days, but
u
is too scarce. / would like to go to
London for a week and see what
Blighty is like as some of the rest
of the boys are going to do but l
guess I'll have to wait till another
four months goes by and save what
can in the meantime.
Say mother, you seem to have my
address mixed up, and the way you
are addressing my letters now, to
Paris, they don't get here nearly as
quickly as when they are addressed
directly. Please remember this the
next time you write for you know how
anxious we boys are to get our let
ters from home as soon as possible.
Now, mother. winter will soon be
here and for my sake take good care
Of yourself and don't try to be too
economical for you know that it can
be carried to where it is an expense.
Don't worry about me suffering for
there is no danger of that The |