The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-08-03
FIGHTERS AMUSED
BY STEREOPTICONS

The following letters are self-ex-
planatory of good cause.-the enter
tainment of our fighting boys. w. E.
Moore, who sends the letters to The
Silver State, is well known in this
city and only recently removed to
Coalinga, California. Perhaps some
Winnemuccans can assist in the good
work and Mr.. Moore would undoubt..
edly be thankful for such assistance.
as would also the homesick fighters.
Coalinga, Cal. July 3, 1918.
Mrs. G. L. Harroun, Editor. Silver
State. Winnemucca. Dear Friend:-
My mother just forwarded me letter
addressed to Winnemucca from the
war works council of the Y. NJ. C. A
letter I'll admit l am proud to have
received. There are two reasons: one
is that IL gives me a chance to help
brighten few moments for the bows
| over there-a chance | never dreamed
OF having. but that certainly is well
coined. Maybe there will be a few
Westerners in the crowd to whom the
photos will bring the smell of sage
brush. The other reason, of course, is
that | am proud to have been the one
selected to perform the service of
taking or sending, rather, the wild and
woody west to the battle fields of Eu-
| rope. Who knows-maybe I'll be in
the audience some night over there
and they'll bring me memories of
home-The Sage Brush State.
As usual. and like lot of the rest
of humanity, I am conceited enough 10
think that because / receive a COM
munication that seems important to
me, it must naturally follow that the
public in general must be interested
to hear about it, and equally of course
Immediately bring it to the attention
of The Silver State.
So / am enclosing a copy of the
letter l received and of my answer to
same. I would send you the original
letter itself. but I'm a whole lot like
youngster with an especially priced
toy could almost take it to bed
with me so as to be sure it wouldn't
disappear into the thin air. / am ask
ing my mother to say nothing about
the letter till have a chance to write
| you. but I'll bet she is so proud of her
boy that she has told dozen people
about it already-which of course /:
a mothers way.
With best wishes to you and MI
Ayres. am. sincerely your friend,
VIM. E. MOORE.
The Letter
Adventure Magazine, The Ridgewa,
Publishing Company New York.
July %, 1918.
My Dear Mr.. Moore:-I am one OF
| the editors of the "Picturebook," a
stereopticon program being run by the
war works council of the Y. NJ. C. A.
for our soldiers in France. We gather
pictures wherever available, write our
story around them and the two are
sent to France. where they are dis
tributed to the small towns where two
or three hundred of our troops are
billeted and where the moving picture
not penetrate.
In my search l have come across a
dozen pictures of yours, scenes from
Rochester, Nevada. These / think
would be ideal-all men are more or
less interested in what a gold camp
looks like.
May l have your permission to use
them for this purpose? If you care
to do so / would appreciate having
you send me little information about
Rochester-population, size of mines.
any local incidents, etc. Also to make
these programs as personal as possible
we like to run the photographs of the
persons who supplies the photographs
and who wrote the story. IL you have
spare photograph of yourself l will
be glad to receive it.
Any other interesting views of the
west which you nave and may care
/ to donate for this work we will greatly
appreciate. Assuring you of my own
thanks and that Of the Y. NJ. -. A,
am very truly yours,
A. II. BIrTNER.
Assistant Eiitor
The Answer
Coalinga, Cal. July 81.
My Dear Mr.. Bittner:-Your favo"
of July 22 addressed to Winnemucca
has been forwarded to me here.
Concerning the use of my photos of
Rochester. l shall be glad and proud
to be able to do little towards bright
ening few moments for our boys in
France and l hereby give you per-
mission to use the views of Rochester
for the stereopticon or for publication
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