Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-09-26

had left Europe on 2sd of August. and
that the company lac left was now IN
the Lorraine sector, where SO many
of our American boys are congregat-
ed. He goes as a special instructor to
Camp Funston. lie has been ten
Years in the army, belonging to the
2sth Infantry. He had just been On
a visit to his home in Louisville, Ky.
Private James Elmer Calvert, Co.
{, 10Th Infantry, Camp Lewis. Wash
ington, writes: 81 think in another
week l will be out of quarantine. We
have all been getting ready for in
spection and you would laugh to see
US. / just brushed up my leggings and
shoes and scrubbed my rifle and oiled
il. | am getting trained ike all SOL
diers to know that my rifle is my best
friend, ard sure take good care Of it.
| like the new life pretty well, but ]
hope | will get lots Of letters. They
keep us pretty busy drilling, but just
before bed time and on Sundays we
have time to think of home ana
home folks, and then We wish
for letters. / received the REG
IsTER this week and I was rejoiced to
read a home paper. ! am three
thousand miles from home, but do not
expect to get any further. ! would
like to go across, but | suspect will
fall down on the over seas examina-
ton, and in that case will be kept here
to drill recruits
Sergeant jerry Wick appeared at
the picture show last Saturday night
and made a talk on some of his X
periences in France. 1t was a great
pleasure to all his old friends here to
see and hear him. He goes as an in
structor to Camp Funston.
Private Chas. b. Pruitt, 443 Engi-
neers Truck Co, +. NJ. T, S, writes
from France, on August i3: 1--WE
are now attached to a q. NJ. &. Motor
Supply Train here for duty. Our COM
pany is split among six OF their COM
panies. understand that it will not
be long until we get our own trucks.
These fellows are a mighty fine bunch,
but the sooner we can all get back to-
gether the better we will like it. SO
far ! have not run across any INT
know. / did run across a fellow from
Poplar Bluff who had played ball
against Walter and me while he was
upon the Heights. Was over to one
of the base hospitals last week and
had a chance to talk to some Of the
boys that had been at the front and
were wounded. They all say tina,
they will have Germany whipped by
the trenches feel that way about i
they will come, nearly doing it. TIT
French people say the United StateI
soldiers are crazy, because when they
get started they " know when to
stop. One can see by the way tht
Germans have been pushed back tina
it is nearly true. After talking tt
one who has been at the front you
' whole ambition is to get there your
self. Up in the Big Game, as we cal
it. But then some body has to sta.
back, for if they did not the boys Of
. the lines would be helpless.n
! Walter G. Pruitt, Battalion c., Nava
Training Camp, Puget Sound, Wash
. ington. writes a card this week. say
= ing that he is leaving the camp there
bur did not yet know where thei
= destination was to be.
. Private Julian Pratt, Battery Is, 2ot
y Field Artillery, last week had a tire
J days furlough and visited his peopl
!, three miles from Arcadia. Even whe
!, our boys can only stay a few hours 3
! home, they take the long trip to get
y peep at the home folks.
! Verna J. Yount, Co A, 13Sth lntan
u try, A. E. f., writes that he has q
II last recaivpd. the ~letters from HON
. and greatly enjoyed them. He is we
u and received no wounds.
I Lieut.. Marcus D. Yount, Veterinar
- Training Camp, Camp Lee, Va, write
d that he has been notified from Wash
J ington that he has been raised from
e Second Lieutenant to a First Lieutei
- ant, and also that he hopes to stal
10 home on October 18th for a lit
visit.
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