River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1918-08-08
DR.. GendrOn Writes
To c. R. Taggart
Camp Hancock, Ga.

lamp HANCOCK, VA
Well | am at my old job viz: eat.
ing times day, and swearing I'M
der nv breath at the Dagos, in the
last draft | had a ward full of them,
Lieutenant too mucha da pain here,
cougha ALA the time-God b S
them, don't, me too mucha sick too
devil, me too mucha sick toworka the
hospital, the Capitana he says, John
you feela not we'll, you go the hos
pital.'
Talk about driving mule-but
what's the use-New York east side
IS cents for the bananas, the fine
banana lady, apples, apples, Say
sometimes it is worth a vaudeville,
| and you pay no fee to hear it, or
:, smell it-but pass the Buck-and its
cinch they go to devila."
The weather is fine, not hard on
clothes down here, have not seen a
mosquito yet on the hill and flies we
have none, but we have lots of ne
groes-nice juicy smelly ones, black
all over except their eyes and teeth.
We are all rising fast in the army,
especially when the bugle calls in
morning for getting up exercises,
and as we s m b | e in front of
quarters to go through our fancy
Delsarte movements it is very in
teresting and educational sight.
Sorry you poor musclebound civil
ians can't join us but no use and if
we happen to miss same, you have
nice little letter to write on regula-
tion size paper to the Co.: explaining
or trying to explain that you ate too
much the evening before and it did
not agree with your insides-some
life Ell what!
Ihad the pleasure of being Com
pany Commander for awhile but
they relieved me, as they thought |
was getting hoarse Of course thru
all Of our heavy work. There is
sometimes a few incidents which
happen to relieve the monotony of
Camp or garrison life, for instance
we had a gentleman from N ew
York, he came here as a captain all
booted and spurred and asked the
Co. for Lieutenant's assistant and
wanted ''hawse" he vainly
looked for the assistant Lieutenant,
but we gave him the 'hawse', yes we
tied nice yellow pine 'hawse' at
his door over night, he was a quiet
"hawse', he never woke him up but
he was balky though for he would
not move. For the good Of the serv-
ice he only 'lawsted' weeks, and he
didn't ride out on his Hhawse" but
the Co. thought he knew too much
for this place so sent him to train
ing camp where | suppose t h e y
made him G. g. of the P. D., prob
ably you don't understand these
abreviations-C. G. Commanding
GENERALLY, P. D, Police Duty
which means picking cigarette stubs.
Well | am in hopes to be able to
soon go to Wisconsin. | have not
applied for the leave yet but will
soon do SO. Ihope you give me
nice ice cream soda when | go home,
of course don't offer me any beer as
it is unlaWful-and so is whiskey-I
have forgotten how the blooming
stuff tastes, if | remember we'll it is
not so bad, t h n k s
here is how--the first thing I do
when | go back to civil life is to try
and see if have a good memory.
| hope you are not any more bald
headed than you were and you
should not as you sell lots of hair
tonic, and you should use some.
] don't know whenI am to go to |
Berlin. but men are being ordered |
to embarkation posts right along,
And suppose some day my turn
will come. SO M. DIS. left last week. |
and they are now at sea, every day |