Putnam patriot., 1918-08-09
Wagoner Adolph Jarvis

T am feeling fine and hope all the folks are Bill and are not in the battery at the present time. He is hneman where the Kid is and l am driving so drove up and saw him yesterday. but have not seen the Kid vet. Bill looked good today.
 T was out driving swell French car today. You can tell Arthur Gaa- dette t was some boat wish i had ny racer. but l Will have another some day
 @Thmes are real high here The thing Chat costs tne most is the grub Gee. f aHle was al home for real honest eao8ness American feed. But it is good NhatNe gel.
 @AIe fh5re Iaf of horses around home Te#e some aao# st9H hete. aH. a# Gate# wrote the ot6- CT uiaht a=# #ke- | where be k. He has bea4eha and takes care of tae sick horses il made He#-isk because l couldn't % vita h.m
 July 1o
 aTfe weather here is quite warm, so l am glad to say don't have to walk great deal I am driving French cars and some of them are some boats-But f only had mine.
 We had a big parade the Fourth
 saw tne Kid and Bill so we stay ed together that day, but as We had very little change we got along the best we could The Kid is tanned uI like an Indian and looking good Sc are we. Bill is the same guy sup pose they had d real time at home am in hopes of being there for th' next
 II wish had good fountain pen l borrowed this pencil II is no Rooe but we take what we can get and ar, thankful l was out driving through the country this week and saw som, of the prettest cattle and thought of Tom Ryan There iq and mic, stock in this country and he sur, would enjoy looking tAeu aser TheA work lot of them as they are shor Of horses
 In letter dated July ls Waponel Jarvis write#
 We had fnrly enjoyable trit aeross the briny deep. notW1tasta8a inF Che fact ;hat most of my time 9a- spent in gonc Co and from the mess hall 1 have read of the famous bread iiue ia New York, but doubt II 1t ceu4 compare with our mess line on board ship We made the trip across m remarkably good time due to the fact that we encountered neith- CT bad weather nor submarines Af ter arriving in France we were sent to a reet camp and after stay here of two weeks we started 06 tbe move again
 After a rather long and tedious train ride we arrived in a fairly good sized town l have been in few oth CT towns since This is decidedly different sort of country than the old U s. A lt is way behind the times except in one instance. and that Is this when a fellow wants a thirst quencher all he has te do Is dig down and see if he has the required mum Der of francs, and if he has he can throw out his chest and walk into the place like regular fellow without sneaking in the back door or look for some one. as one has to do in the states when he has on the uniform
 We continued all our formations l have had to write in nine days. as we have been quarantined, and were not allowed to write When we came to school here tClemeronD we were getting along nicely and having a good time. when one of our fellows was taken sick with scarlet fever.
 We continued oil our formations and went along with our work al .hough we were ostraeised from the rest of the fellows We had our final examination and finished our sehaol ing last night passed q as far as can find out, and ann in hopes of getting a real American car.