Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-11-08
TUFTS Truly,
JOHN +. DANIEL.

am as well as common and max
, ing the most of life any one can I'M
der the circumstances. What are
everybody doing back home now? l
suppose | will come back soon; hope
so anyway. l don't guess there are
many of the young men there now,
are there. Would love to see moth
er. Hope she is getting on well. You
hear lots of news from the boys
over here every day. When l come
back | can tell you more than you
can hear now. | would like TO- see
all Of you dear homefolks, but is not
possible now, of course. | will close
now. With lots of love, your loving
son, LUTHER HALL.
On Active Service with the Amerl-
can Expeditionary Forces, Sept. 81.
Dear mother and all:
Have not heard from you for sew
eral days, but suppose we move so
much that the mail cannot catch us.
Hope all are enjoying reasonable
health and that everything is NOV
ing on smoothly enough.
am getting on fine and have no
kick coming, but civil life is more
to my liking than military.
and of course you miss him SO much
now that the autumn work is on One
can hardly realize that chilly winds
have begun to blow ard that it is
most time to sow wheat and harvest
corn, but time gldes swiftly onward,
never stopping even for soldier or
an army.
Have not heard from my friend,
KitZ, but may hear soon.
If / could go home by getting home
sick, would soon be almost incura-
BILE, but as the remedy is next to
impossible to get will use the pre-
vention, will not get sick.
You mentioned the good grass sea-
son. Did father get cattle to con-
sumo the grass this season.
Have you received my allotment,
$500 for August, also for Septem-
Der?
How is Charles Young. The lat
est you wrote is he was at Camp
Lee in the hospital?
War news continues to look good,
but the end is not yet in sight, but
hostilities broke out as storm from
cloudless sky and the struggle may
end almost as suddenly as it began.
| suppose there would be more re-
JOlNblb Will CilE VI pCO-
pie for the struggle to end before
winter begins than would be over
most anything else that could take
place.
Write me all the news.
Love and best wishes.
Jesse Vernon to ]. w. Vernon, Ce-
dar Bluff, Va.
France, Oct. 8, 1918.
Dear Sister:
Will write you all few lines, ana
hope to find you we'll. Pm getting on
fine. Am in a nice base hospital now.
When l wrote you all before ! was
up pretty close to the front line, but
Pm away back now.
Pm not hurt much, just piece
of shrapnel hit me in the back; it's
getting sore, but il isn't serious, so
you need not worry.
saw boy the other day who came
over with Jessie Cregar, but don't
know here he is. | hope l will get
to see him sometime soon.
1 don't knox how its going to be
about getting my mail here, but you
said he had been getting his mail all
right, so guess I'll get it sometime
. Well, it's raining here this evening
Guess | have written all know
this time, so answer soon.
Your brother,
CLARENCE.
To Miss Carrie Turner, North Taze.
well, Va.
Camp Lee, October 25, 1918.
Hello folks:
Well, we are all getting ready tc
60 to France and the sooner the bet.
ter, for we are all waiting to go ant
show the Kaiser what the Virginia
boys can do. Don't guess that we will
leave before Saturday or Sunday
night. Don't you know we got oui
pictures today? I am going to sent
you all some of them tonight.
got the pictures you all sent me to
day. They sure do remind me D
the good times have had at hons
But | am willing to give up every
thing until the war is over and thei
/ can come hack home and enio,
being there and the greatest OF al
will be our free country to live in
You all know that free country i
greater than all pleasure. Papa,
am sending you the best razor il
Virginia. My friend Stinson gave i
to me- Send it to Trux and have i
honed, and keep and use it for th
sake of Stinson..
had letter from Margaret to
day. She has sent me cake. Cues