Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1918-09-12
More Letters From the Junior.
AT home, France,
August II, 1918.

August IL, ~
no,,sst Dad.-Well, we sure nav.
De1 hsndine il to old Fritz the pas
neen and b .lieve me it is welcome ne i've,
VIZ ISo ~ tina. the English have al l nsn
10 NV Wise TO the fact that a little pep
gould ,'",,Id helm things out-they nave Eve We
wou, ,,uh nv he Roche for some gain. W. W.
tnao VI nrettv well excited, and wo sOa,t
are ;ns, d how far the drive will eoL%se. u INTO
care if they keep on going hetter the
Berlin. The news mas oeeh 80 before,
mast month than it has ever sresh hold
and all the men are taking Ian
and going right after the Ceii havs one
Gee by the paper today that We here now.
-n;l,ion and a half men over ~ n,;,hout
WelG YOU can't turn aroGn s,,sr;cans
WIZ WI over a big bunch OF Americans,
laa i cur familiar "hello" is heara On :.
e am side, and even the frehch u'' "
as much as we do now. ,. oo,ah-ot;on
aS W. w. are planning a little celeorauo.,
30 comnanv September Atm. Whel
lol , .i have been in foreign service SIN
. VIC and will be entitled to wear !le
MA service stripe on our sleeve. us1
go the nature of the party VIII DC we
have not decided but we all agIee aaas
we are least going to nave e .;aors and
and maybe some speeches and cigar; . anu
cigarettes. We are going 10 appoimse
eonmittee TO take charge OF the allaIi
and eypect to have a good time IN gehei d
on that day. co.,,dov NIGHT
Three other fellows and myself went 10
M - ,ha "Yn huts I'D in the camp ana
cave concert. and we sure had lot OF
smn | don't know how good the ailalI
wos hut they invited us to come oaCh
and Dive a return engagement, and II lle
amdience had half as good time as we
four fellows did they en]oyea III 'i,o
selves immensely One OF the iello.o
has a dandy bass voice ana ,alS .hr
sonrano which is hard to beat. Anoll,e1
iS reach at singing ragtlme ana also
gives a pianologue Interpreting i1 TIE
Eel movie. and that is a scream. iile
other man plays the piano oeautilu my
ond Introduces a song which ne mas
mr;,ten himself and which we Will nave
the whole camp singing before long.
did NOT have much to do. for am a new
member TO the company, ana since my
voice is not in such very good shape yel
was Glad to Law low. We are hgurlng
on getting up a quartette, ana II We W.
do that we will be regular ouliit' We
are figuring now on going TO camp
some fifty miles down the country 10
Give a concert, and hope we can maxi
f 90 We run under the management
If the "Y" and we have LieutehaHl
Sheldon who goes around with US: ne
saws that he is going to take part IN the
next concert himself, being a reader OF
no mean ability. Last night ! sang al
the opening of another new y nut ana
we had fine meeting. The music IS on
the I'D here, and hope it keeps going
right along. for we da have good time
and pet lots of pleasure out OF it.
GOT six letters from home yesterday,
most all of July %, and they. sure ola
look good to me. got Register, 100,
and maybe you think | didn't reao II
from top to bottom. The Registers, DO
not come through so very fast, but they
pet here finally. The first OF last week
eot one of the last of May. don't know
Where il had been, but it had spent some
time on the way, and | am glad that II
did not get lost altogether. The most
wonderful thing to me is how that pack
age of music ever got here at all, ior SO
manv packages get lost. | can tell you
| was some glad when saw that buncn
of music.
CAPTAIN Edwards is leaving on trip
TO see the other companies Of the bat
talon. He is acting battalion com
mander now, and it is necessary that
every once in while he 60 around and
inspect the other companies. | think
he could get majority out OF 1t, but ne
saws that he doesn't know what ne
would do if he had to give up his loo
children, and that he would rather De
the commanding officer Of this bunch
than be a major. | hope he does hold
ON to us, for we would miss him and
| don't know what the company would
do without him. He is just like faith
er to us all and some of the things that
the fellows ask him to do and some OF
the troubles that they carry to him are
enough to drive a weaker man to drink
but that just pleases Captain Ed
wards, and think if we were to leave
him out of the little intimate things OF
our lives he would feel lost. One man
went in to him the other day, carrying
his bed sack with him, and told the Cap
tain that he was going on leave, and
asked him if he could have his bedsack
washed for him while he was away
"Sure," said the Captain, and when the
fellow was gone he called me over and
told me to see that his bedSack got to
the laundry. Then and there we started
a new system. AS the bed sacks have
to be washed every couple of weeks, we
have opened an exchange in the Office,
and fellow can get clean one by
bringing up his old one and paying
franc for the washing. 1t works like
charm, and there is considerable I'M
provement in the color and cleanliness
of all bed sacks. Maybe you don't
know what a bed sack is-it is the bed
tick, and We fill them with straw and
the fuller the sack the better they sleep
Mine is stuffed until it won't hold an
other straw. Then another fellow who
had pen of pet rabbits out back some
where in the woods was named to 60 out
with a convoy to be gone several weeks.
This man, being more or less susceptible
to kidding, got considerably wrought up
WlCll tuS lSllO"o iOil 40 oNNh
as he left we were going to have rabbit
pie every meal. "How do you get that ?"
he yelled. "l'll 60 and ask the Captain
to take care of them" He did that very
thing, and Captain Edwards very oblig-
ingly assured him that the rabbits
should have his personal attention dur
ing his absence The man has been
gone now over two months, and after
he had been gone several weeks the
Captain decided to end the guardian
ship, we sold the rabbits to a farmer
and when the owner comes back he will
have quite nice bunch of francs CON-
ing to him. don't know how he will
take the selling of his pets, for he was
deeply attached to them and carried
them in a box from B, where he
had bought them. He will more than
likely have some appropriate remarks to
make when he finds out that his rabbits
are gone. Captain Edwards says that
it is just that sort of thing that makes