Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1918-06-27

A letter to Mrs, Tom Edmundson
from her son. Elmer swanger' Co. ~
18TH Inf, says he is feeling hne ana
Is living in a fine place.
George Packard, Wyoming, arriN-
ed here this morning and leit TOT
Funston. He should have been mere
Yesterday. but was unable to do So
so goes day late
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In Quartermaster's Department
Wilbur Nicolay and Robert Graves
left for Funston, where they will en-
Ter the quartermaster department
They were voluntarily indicted by
the local board.
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A telegram TO II. r. Little from
his son, Harland, says the latter has
been accepted for entrance to the
naval officers training camp.
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VIII Harris formerly OF Enter
prise who has been employed at
Chicago. was in town to 90 to Funs-
ton with Dickinson's quota.
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MIR. and Mrs. Al Porter received
letters from their son, Ray Porter
member of Co. II, saying he is having
a good time and getting to the front
close enough that he can hear the
big guns and see air raids The
boys spend their hours sightseeing
have seen home of the old houses
built in 1899. He says Co. was
in a track meet and came out first
in everything. Says all the boys are
well and having good time. Ray
has been promoted from corporal to
sergeant.
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A letter to Mrs. Ralph Lucier from
her husband Lieut.. Ralph Lucier,
says: have been assigned to Gen
eral Martins staff The other day
some Fritzies came and bombed 3
days of outgoing mail and 80 sacks
of incoming mail. ] received a let
ter just IS days old, showing some
Improvement on postal service here.
Co. II has received its first mail from
home. Capt. Mcqueen is again with
the company and all the boys were
glad for his return.
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Roy Farrell, of Chapman, writes
from France: Paris is not far dis
tant, and it is sometimes possible to
take trip into that wonderful city.
Military men receive a rate about
one-third that of civilians on the
railroads. The service to Paris IS
excellent. They nave trans OF about
fifteen cars, first, second and third
class. The first class cars are di-
vided into small compartments in
tended to accommodate eight people,
but on Sundays and holidays eigh-
teen or twenty sometimes crowd in.
The fares are not collected on the
train but when one arrives at des-
tination, he hands his ticket to the
guard as he passes thru the gate.
But Paris is not the Gay Paree'
she was before the war. People
still promenade down the Champs
Elysee and in the Tuilleries Garden
as we'll as many of the down town
boulevards, but the night life is lack
ing. The restaurants close at 8 p.
m. and then all is in darkness. OF
course the theatres are open, and
the opera, but that is all that re-
mains of the famous night life.
Wonder how you would like to
live under French customs? A girl
of good family over here cannot go
out with friend unless escorted by
one of her family, not even with her
fiancee.
] never nave become accustomed
to the French breakfast yet; coffee
and rolls-and you see happen to
live at a French hotel, too They
have even eliminated the butter and
jam, so / have a private larder of
my own. A very small can of jam
which costs about l s cents at home,
costs nearly six times as much here.
Then too, there is heavy tax on
everything. 1t is not enough to pay
STA or SIS for a pair of shoes, there
is always the ten per cent tax to be
added.
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In the Big Drive.
Lieut.. Geo. E. Wynn writes to the
Harrington Sun of the big drive;
France. May 16.-Just a few lines