Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-18
What II Takes, We've Got 1t.

Somewhere in France, Sept 16.
My Dear Father:
will try to write you few lines
today, and let you know that / am
well. How is everything and every
one at home, these wet days? 1t
has been raining here for the past two
weeks and still raining, cold rain ut
that, and we are now so situated that
we cannot build fires, and of course
we are suffering with cold, wet feet.
To beat it all we are in tents, two
men to the tent. My Buddy" went
after straw, SO we have good place
TO sleep. One good thing, we do not
have any formation to stand, and
that makes it so much better.
1t looks like we are going to have
II cold fall here, and from what | can
learn the climate is cold and wet in
this part of France.
The French people here are en-
ceedlngly nice to us, more so than
in the southern part, in fact better
than any place have been, and that
is most all over France. September
18th the Americans made big drive,
as ] guess you have learned from the
papers. We do not get any war news,
except rs pertains to the sector we
are holding. have just been in Il
big advance, and believe me IL is
some excitement to follow the Huns,
they leave so many traps, but we
are OH to them. In this advance we
captured II great many prisoners, and
believe me, they were glad to be cap
turcd, rs one said to me, that he was
finished, he was just where he want
ed to be-"
Dad, | had to stop writing to move,
so will carry on. Just received
letters from you dated Aug. 10Th and
among other things | $; w some good
old U. S. A. tobacco, and it was so
nice, and you may be sure | was
more than glad to get it.
1T sure cost enough, but ! think
you can send it real often in this
manner. We cannot get permission
to get packages through the mails.
| will try again and see what can
| received II letter from sister dat
ed August 22nd | have been receiv-
ing the C. V. News. My box number
for papers is the same as for let
tiers, and you know what that is. We
are getting enough to eat and have
Il very good place to sleep. do not
know when we will go to the front
again. ! guess you can see from the
paper what us boys are doing to the
Huns, and that has happened to them
in the past is small matter COM
pared with what is going to happen
TO them in the future, for what it
takes to give them "Hello" we have
got it and if you follow the papers,
and | know you do, you can see what
we are doing, and when -'Ou hear of
the Allies making big drive, you
can bank on it that the u. S. A. boys
are playing IL large part in it.
We are now in II Y. NJ. G. A. hut.
Havn't seen one up to this time.
don't know why. see Fugatc White
most every day, and he is we'll. When
show him this tobacco he will go
wild know. Anything that my dear
people back in the good old U. S. A.
send me is always the best made.
thank you so much for the tobacco.
How is your business, have you much
work on hand, and what show for
getting it done after you get it?
hope everything is good along this
line for you.
The following Tazewcll boys are
cry, Robert Hartman, Jesse Vernon,
ny Hunt, and Charles Gillespie. If
you see any of these boys parents,
you can tell them the are we'll as
see them every day. Tell mother to
tell Mrs. Hampton that / mean to
write her the first chance get.
| will have to close for this time,
hoping that you are all well, and en-
ioying the best of health. Give my
best regards to everybody.
Love TO one and all.
BILL KISER.