Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1918-06-18
INTERESTING LETTERS FROM
BOUNDARY COUNTY SOLDIERS

Pvt. John H. johnson, 18th Co., 10th
Battalion, 166th Depot Brigade, writes
the following letter this week to his
many friends in this district
Camp Lewis, Wash, June Sth
Dear Friends:
| arrived in Camp Lewis OK. and
had a good time on the way. The
Red Cross ladies met us in Spokane
and gave us all treat such as gum,
apples, postcards, etc. We put our
names on the cards and they stamped
and mailed them for us. 1t is a nice
country between Spokane and Camp
Lewis. We are all learning very fast.
The major held a meeting last night
and said the men were doing wonders,
and that they were learning more now
in three weeks than they did in three
months last fall or winter. The Off
GERS are very good to us and when we
are in the field training for an hour or
two they let us march to camp and get
a drink and a cold wash. They feed
fine. The life of a soldier Is the only
life and it sure makes a man of one.
The longer | am here the better
like it. 1t is kind of hard for three
weeks for a fellow is homesick, no
difference who he is. l know l was.
A man is more or less sick from the
injections they shoot into ones right
arm every seven days for three weeks
and it goes pretty hard with some.
had to eat with my left hand for four
days. So you see mine was pretty
sore. l had an injection this morn
ing and will have another in days
end after that will be sent to some 9TH
er company or some other training
camp.
We always have some place to go
after working hours and there is al
ways something going on such as ball
games. boxing, singing and all kinds
of shows. So far, l have only seen
Shorty. the shoemaker. of all the
Bonners Ferry boys who are here
In a letter dated May 18th, LIST Lieut..
Lawrence Mccoy, of the Goth Engi-
neers. Forestry, in active service in
France, writes as follows to his old
friend, JOS Banning:
My Dear Friend Joe:
l received the candy and cigarettes
in excellent condition and wish to
thank you very much for your thought
fulness. These gifts and letters from
how going over here. We had con-
siderable difficulty at first in buying
either candy or cigarettes, but now the
Y. M. c. A. and U. S. Quartermaster
stores have fairly good stocks, the U
s. Quartermasters stores selling every
thing at cost, without taxes, which
makes prices even lower than in the
states. There is no candy made il
France at the present time, the sugar
being saved for less luxurious Twins
and there is a tobacco and cigarette
card for the rather poor quality bu
very cheap French tobacco. We alsC
have sugar and bread cards, the bread
card coming into effect only yesterday
l am sending you a small piece of m,
card. Ordinarily the soldiers do no
have bread cards but l am stationed
at present where have to get some o
my meals in a French settlement.
/ notice that the Liberty Loan ha
again been very successful which i
encouraging to us. l presume tina
the people in the states are rapidly APP
preciating the immensely of this wa
and yet / do not believe that you cal
ever realize the mass of material an
men concentrated here in this strug
gle and yet there are not enough
You might say every man, woman an
child, old or young, is modified b
the governments of the war nation
and every energy is directed to the III
innate end-a victorious war
Father writes that they now have
new planning mill in operation and
presume that life goes on about a
usual in Boomers Ferry. Time passe
quite rapidly here as / am very bus.
l am now getting to be quite vetera
with one service stripe already for 81
months foreign service. And fiy