The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-08-30

luteutlOu, TOT Uncle SdmS country
lstill looks good enough for me, and
when the time comes 4 won't be able
to get there quick enough. .Oh,
yes, ON July 14th in passing through
another city where an American avn
alton camp is located we ran right
into a parade of American aviators
headed by an actual American band,
When our truck train pulled up the
band struck up tune, the first band
music have heard since leaving the
States. 1t made me feel just little
bit blue, but I'd have been satisfied
to stay blue all day if we could only
have stopped and listened to it /. =. .
The French joined the Americans in
celebrating the Fourth over here,
and the Americans did likewise with
the French in celebrating the Four
tenth, the French peoples big day.
The American flag was very much in
evidence everywhere. 1t does me
real good to hear from all the folks.
don't believe there is anything that
appreciate over here more than
getting letter from home. The only
difficulty is in answering all the let
tiers receive. Well, the American
troops are taking big hand in the
doings over here, and the reports
from the front for the last few days
are certainly cheerful and encour-
aging. . L have not as yet seen any
of the Paris boys, nor in fact, any
one that I knew, and / have seen
thousands of American soldiers, too.
No danger of my getting too
Frenchy. 1 don't care to adopt the
Frenchy habit at all, and am per-
fectly willing to stand by the good
old American ways. But, speaking
of wooden shoes and French kids I
wouldn't mind bringing one of the
latter back with me, but I'll be
darned if I can figure out how 1
could support it. / could support
the wooden shoes all right, but 1 am
afraid that the kid would be out of
luck. With love and best wishes
to all, / am,
"Affectionately,
"PRVTE. LEO ]. GROSCHE,
GO. D., 416th R. R. Tel. Bn. S. c.,
Amer Expedtry Force"
From Camp Mills, Long Island,
New York, where he is a member of
the Depot Brigade, Private John A.
Mcnamara, writes to his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. James Mcnamara, Sr, in
this city, as follows:
August %.
Dear Folks: How are you all
this fine day? 1 am in the very best
of health. l think we will be leav-
ing here in very short while, pos
sibly a week or so. l certainly will
hate to leave this place, as all the
people have been awfully nice to us
soldiers. Twenty of us went out to
call on Teddy Roosevelt yesterday af-
ternoon, and took lunch with him.
1t was out at his summer home at
Oyster Bay, about eighteen miles
back from Long Island. I'll tell you
Teddy is a brick, sure enough. Just
as soon as I told Mrs. Roosevelt what
State l was from she had to take me
out to see the horses. 1t looks like
she took a great liking to me as
we'll as to the other boys from Ken
lucky. After lunch she took ME out
to the stables and had the boys bring
out Teddy's saddle horses. After that
the boys went with us down to the
Bay, where we saw the men fishing
and dredging for oysters. 1t was GER
tainly some fine trip. When we got
ready to leave Mrs. Roosevelt gave
each one of us package of cigar
cites from Teddy's private stock and
with his compliments, wished us all
good luck in the world. She
said that she had two boys in the
service, on this side eager for a
chance to go over and do their bit
toward Kidding the world of the
Huns. She said that if she had an
other son, and he should turn out to
be a Stacker, he would have his neck
broken before morning. I think
Teddy is one of the finest men 1 have
ever met. Well, as it is getting
; late, l will have to close for this
! time. Hope to hear from you rea
soon. With my best regards to all
am,
yours Lovingly,
John A. MCNAMARA,