The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-10-31
FROM sERGT. J. M. SLOAN
Somewhere in France,
Sept. Is, 1918.

My dear little wife,
received your most kind and well
come letter yesterday. Glad to hear
from you; it sure does seem good to
receive letter now-your letters are
so interesting. You write so much
news it makes he feel like | am at
home when | am reading your let
tiers. l don't suppose will hear from
you now so often, as we are moving
about all the time. We are in place
now that is hard to get mail; also to
send it out, and the letter which | re-
ceived from you yesterday was writ
ten August 6, so you can see how long
it takes to come.
We are in the transporting branch
now. 1t keeps on the jump every
minute, but as soon as we get settled
down we can receive mail all right.
like it over here fine; everything
is very odd-they're about SO years
behind times. They have very large
mansions; most of them are vacant;
some are in good condition; some are
not; they are so odd. You can hard
ly understand the people, but if we
are over here long enough think we
can understand them. Money is no
object. You can have pocket full
of money and not have but two or
three dollars of American money.
There's not much to go to see, but we
enjoy what we go to. This country is
pretty hilley; it puts me in mind of
the state or Oregon. At the Y. NJ. C.
I A. they have church every Sunday.
l go every chance l get. There are
moving picture shows at the Y. NJ. c.
A. | go sometimes. 1t don't get dark
here until 1890 o'clock; it is pretty
cool and rains lots.
| have met lots of the boys | used
to know at Seattle and Camp Johns
ton, Florida. We sit around and
talk of old times-that's about all a
fellow can do when they're not busy.
want to tell you of little ex-
perience | have had. | don't know
hardly how to write it, but l wish
could picture it out for you. will
tell it the best know how and give
you little sketch of one of my trips
to the front. Well, we left here one
morning with load of certain stuff
which was needed up at the front,
and we drove for few hours and 60
ing along the road all at once our
big guns started popping all around
US, but we did not know at the time
that it was our own guns-thought it
was the German shells bursting, but
we soon found out it was our own
guns, so we kept right on going for
ward. 1t was the first time / had
been under fire, so it made me pretty
nervous, but by the time we went a
few miles further they were firing
clear over our heads. l could not tell
how long the firing kept up, but done
more in six hours than was expected
in one week, so you can see we are
doing business over here. They cap
tured 10 thousand Huns in two days,
but they all say they are glad they
have been captured for they were get
ting nothing to eat. One of our boys
d could speak little German and one
! of the Huns told him he'd been in
this swindling four years; that they
were getting wise. They say the
Yanks are fighting crazy-we are too
that this war will not last much
longer. he way things are going on
it will not be long before it is over,
then I will come home to you, but not
till it is all over.
l will close, hoping to hear from
you soon. With love and best wishes
to you. Lovingly,
SERGT. J. M. SLOAN,
1926 Motor Supply Train 413, Mo-
tor Truck 433, via New York.