The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1918-05-24
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letter from his son Ed who is with 1st
F. A., Bat. B., stationed at Fort Sill,
Okla, and he is afraid they will not
| be moved 'across" this summer. Ed
is with the military police and his
brother Will has lately been promoted
to corporal Both the boys are sure
| good soldiers and eager to get to the
| front. They are attached to the officers
school of fire. Ed says the crops look
fine there and garden truck is ready to
eat, grass is knee high and the Their
mometer los deg. in the shade, but
they are at least so miles distant from
the shade. The boys are both in good
health and send regards to all Edger-
ton friends.
In writing to Will Bardeen, Charles
Bunker has this to say about the Edi-
son that the Edgerton platoon took
along when they left for Camp Douglas:
1--WE are just playing the old Edison
and / want to tell you this is the best
ad you ever got hold Of. Our old Edi-
son sure has seen some grief, more
probably than you can imagine. 1t has
been thrown around in freight cars and
handled like an old dry goods box and
! if you knew how they handled freight
on those transports you would wonder
that we had any machine left. l saw
it once after we landed, on a box car
among a bunch of boxes and the last
time I saw it before we. got to this
place was on a motor truck with a few
more articles Of war on top Of it, such
as army stoves, etc. After all this, it
is now standing few feet from me
playing the "Stars and Stripes For
ever" and two or three of the fellows
are dancing their soles thin on the bot
tom. TIL wager the machine is just as
good as it was the day we bought it,
and there are lots of pleasant moments
IN the old box yet.
In letter to his mother, Charles has
this to say:
''There won't be such a thing as Sun
days from now for us. We had big
sham battle yesterday and I sure was
all in last night. | crawled on my
stomach about two hours. Can you
beat that? This morning had about
80 men out to the rifle range with au-
tomato rifles (French). They are
something like machine gun on small
scale. | hadn't been there half an
hour when a fellow from battalion
headquarters came out on motor
cycle and got me. Told me to pack up
and be ready to leave in half an hour
for school Well, here | am quite a
way from the old company again. 1t
seems they send one sergeant from
each battalion to this school and | was
sent from this battalion. | don't know
exactly what the course is, but it is on
telescope sights.
George Lynts writes his parents and
says: ''We are having some exper-
fences that we didn't expect until we
landed in the front line. | wish they
would hurry us long, because ] want to
go where | can put in practice some OF
this hard work and training. There
are only about fifteen of the Edgerton
boys together now, and we have anoth-
err company we are getting into shape
for the battle front. Adolph Guinness
| is with us now and we were surely glad
to see him. The boys are all happy
and having good time. Norman
Clarke and myself just bought some
eggs and we had fried eggs on the side.
This good living has run up my weight
to LIS pounds. -
Mrs. Andrew Jensen is in receipt of
letter from her son Paul with Co. M,
128th Inf, now in France, saying that
all goes we'll with the Edgerton boys.
The home papers are received regular
ly and are great comfort to them ALL
Word received from Will Dickinson
since his arrival at Jefferson barracks
states that he drew as bunkmate son
of Register of Deeds F. P. Smiley and
met Evansville boys of his acquaint-
ance. He passed his physical examina-
ton, been uniformed, received the anti
typhoid Shot and left Tuesday for
Camp Hancock, G. A., for ordinance
training.
Lieut.. Harlin Geisse, nephew of
Rev. ]. E. Harlin, for the past month
instructor in flying at Chanute field,
ILL.,, has won another advancement,
having been chosen as representative
of the Wisconsin university to take a
course in aeronautical engineering and
will report at Cambridge university for