Abilene weekly reflector., 1918-12-26
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i, 354 Infantry writes to his family
from Bellefountaine Belgium: rms
being the eve before Thanksgiving
and as have paper and light will
take advantage of the opportunity and
write you few lines. trust you
have received the letter ! wrote you
November 9th stating that was wei.
did not get to write you any letters
since the 9th, but hope you have not
worried. / was falling to Paul White
hair a week ago. He is just fine ana
dandy, and this also leaves me In the
hest of health. Paul told me he wired
home several days ago and that he
wired home that, he and | were O. h
How are you and all the good peo-
pie In Abilene?
You will note from the above ad-
dress that we are now in Belgium.
This Is very nice country.very
picturesque and better soil. This Is
also a very nice little town. There
are a few Belgians here. They cannot
0c enough for us boys. Prices are
very high for products here, but
nothing is too good for the American
soldiers. We are now on our way to
Germany to watch on the Rhine as
the army Occupation. Do not know
how long 1t will take, but are In hopes
IL will not he longer than few weeks
presume you can know more about
MS by reading the papers, than we
know. l have almost give up hopes
of being home for Christmas, but such
would not be impossible. We are In
great hopes of an early peace now az
the armistice has been signed for 10
days.
James 10. williams who is with the
b22 Engineers in France writes to his
mother, Mrs. Annie Williams, Route
z, Abilene: Well mother 1t Is all over
at last, guess everybody at home
celebrated. Did they not?
As we can tell you where we are
win tell you; in little town that
has been shelled down called Ansua-
Vile in the extreme eastern part OF
Farnce, not very far from Metz, right
In the country where all the hard
fighting was done. All the towns
around here have been shelled.
When you write Elmer tell him II
will help him with his spring work,
for / don't think now we will be In
service a great long time, but have
done fine all the time, all the officers
are fine men. / saw Francis Gran
shaw he plays in the band. Howard
Moman is also in that regiment bn'
j never got to see him, can't see o.
hear anything of the Abilene boys.
Everything has been fine with us
the weather has been great; today
it's raining but not cold at all, in fact
] don't think it gets very cold here,
j hope not anyway, | cant stand cold
weather but these Texas boys will die
1t hurts them Everything is still
green.
/ would not give a dime for all
over here for my use, only scenery
lots to be seen especially shattered
towns, trenches, barbwire entangle
ments, shell holes, etc. All the build
ings are stone and concrete, mostly
tile roofs, but the roads are fine, all
concrete, but they had to have them
for the heavy traffic.
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The following letter is from Mill
ard Cook to w. H. Cook, written Nov,
oath, from st. Belien, France.
We are now located at st. Belien,
somewhere between ITO and 1901
miles from Paris. We have been In
q good many small towns but have
not had the pleasure of spending any
time in any Of the larger ones yet
] am feeling fine and able to eat 81
square meals a day. / will try and
Lel you SOmeLHlHS ~ ny tiAP o'Nt'
It sure was an exciting time when
we took the Hampstead Ferry from
Long Island to the Port Of Embarka
ton where we took the big transport
"Acduitania" We were on the water
seven days. There were something
like 10000 Of us on the boat so you
can imagine the time we had and
tell you we were mighty glad to seeI
1rst land which was at Liverpool,
England A few of the boys were
sick on the way over but | was fort
unate in that respect. We We're in
England about five days, we then