Mexico weekly ledger., 1918-06-13

SOLDIERS
% THE SOLDIERS.

fUk The SULD1EkS.
Audrain county soldiers, when in
London, England. can find the Even
ing Ledger on file at the Reciprocal
News Bureau Office Is Queen Anne's
Gate, London, S. W. The paper is sent
regularly and it is placed there for
your convenience. DIFF
"Have seen lots Of German prison
ers and expect to see lots more, writes
George Rohlfing from France to his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. Rohlfing.
Of this city. He is somewhere in thGt
fair country with the 10th Engineers.
81 have seen many castles and old
e~hauteaux. wonderful churches, and
women carrying home loaves Of
bread as big as tables" he continues.
THE French pain" is sometimes
enormous and bakers never wrap
their products for customers.) Mr..
Rohlfing says that he likes this queer
country and that he feels fine. partly
as a result Of plain food with no
sweets" for he explains that there are
no pies or cakes 70 be bought there,
But although Uncle Sam takes care Of
them royalty. Mr.. Rohlfing sees a cry
ing need for smokes"
Explainingth that hewouldto hketo say
a lot Of things prevented by the censor
ship, he closes his interesting letter.
Douglass johnson, Of this city, who
has been attending the Naval Acad-
envy at Annapolis, viii be stationed on
the U. S. S. Arkansas" this summer,
He expects to be home on a twen-
ty-days leave some time during Au.
gust.
Sam Morris has received word from
his son, Herbert Morris, who recently
went to Camp Dodge, Ia, from hers
with a contingent of the Nationa
Army, stating ne has been made
corporal Corporal Morris has hat
several years military training at tn
Kemper Military School, Boonville.
The Rev. Elmer T. Clark, who wa.
a visitor in Mexico several month
ago, has been commissioned by the 81
Louis Republic as a correspondent t
write about the Missouri boys il
France. DR.. Clark is connected wit
the Y. NJ. c. A. work and will be per
mitted to rove about visiting ever
portion Of the belligerent countries
He is known as a journalist as well a
a prominent preacher.
He publishes the following articl
of his encounter with Gideon Powell {
this city, in Monday mornings Repul
lie:
!, "0n n occasion two weeks ago
was making a speech IN one of U nj
val stations on the coast, and at Il
, close / asked if there were any Mi
souri, boys there Instantly two sprar
to their feet in glad surprise. One WI
l Gideon Powell, a o of c. 7. Powell
= Mexico, Mo-, a fine lad from a prot
old Missouri county. ] told him Of ha
ing been in Mexico some months ae
and we talked together Of some m
tual acquaintance. The other fellt
n was Joseph Stamp, Jr., son Of Jose
"A Stamp, 1856 South Third street,
Louis. Both Of these boys were in Fl
spirits and much heavier than VII
they left America some months a
"A They have reason to be happy. TT
A are in a receiving base and their dt
is TO unload the ships and send ma
AZ rial out over the country to other c.
tiers. The ships come in here at
rate Of about one each week, and, al
A requires but about three or four di
ir 20 unload a ship, they have plenty
leisure. They r in an out-of-the-W
~ place, however, where there is moth
10 in the way Of amusement except
weekly concerts which are staged
e. their mess hall by the Y. NJ. C..
81 secretary. They fall into no temp
tons, at any rate.
"Their mess hall is the most yer
tile institution have seen. 1t '
ed once a stable, but it now has a c
nd crete floor and has been turned int
in dining room. The night ! was tn
a they draped it with flags and turnei
into a theater, and we put on a c
cert and a moving picture show. II
they took away the flags and mad
RS. boxing ring, in which an Ameri.
re, boy worsted a representative Of
10 British Navy, much to the dismay
IN the ladies with me, VINO were horrif
* when the English lad received a
ir- on the nose, which caused the blood
start, They feared the fellows wo
never be good friends againl
next morning there appeared an al
an in the old "ehow-room" and it wa
k church. The place was packed on al
ic- these occasions.
AT the conclusion Of my speech
announced that the two st. Louis
or lows would sing a song. They had
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