The Brinkley argus., 1918-06-14
LITTER FROM fRAN(E
Ross Francis Writes Inter- esting Letter to the Folks at Home on The
 Francis Farm.
Sunday, May 2G, 1918 Kelly Field, No. 1, Line No. 108,

Sunday, May 26, 1918
 Kelly Field, No. 1, Line No. 108,
 Ret. Div, San Antonio, Texas.
 Dear Folks: I expect you are be- ginning to think that 1 am never go- ing to write but it is not because I have not wanted to, it is because l have not had time or when l did have little time it was inconveni- ent or l was too tired.
 l am in the Recruit Lines here and will be held probably fifteen days as a sort of quarantine. They give us plenty to do, TX. P.'', guard and fatigue. There are only few men in the line and only one now and then coming in, so it throws lots of work that has to be done, on our shoulders. They take from five to ten men a day to work in our kitchen besides about the same number to work in an emergency kitchen and the latter is run day and nght The first time l was put on TX. F." I had worked all day on fatigue and was sent to the emer- gency kitchen to work all night. That was Last Saturday night, so there was an extra amount to do to get ready for the big Sunday dinner. 1 peeled potatoes, cleaned squashes, secured pots and pans, cut meat aside from lots of other things. You can believe that put in most of my Sunday in bed. 1 have been on twice since then but in the day time, so it was not quite so bad. 1 was put on guard one night and the next day, two hours on and two hours off. That was not a bad job at all, but now 1 believe 1 have it pretty soft, for a while at least. Yes terday after dinner 1 was sent to the Personnel Office as an orderly. and will have the job until dismissed Yesterday was a big day here so l got the afternoon off the first thing.
 There was big flying exhibition for the Red Cross, said 10 be the "Greatest Flying Exhibition in the World" and 1 won't doubt but what it was. It began by starting off string of planes one at a time, fly ing zig gag across the field in single file. l counted them as they left the ground and if l made no mistake, there were one hundred and five of them. By the time the last ones left the ground the first ones were out of sight. They flew all around us for quite a while and then the parade began. It was lead by a dozen mounted military police fol- lowed by a band. Then came a lot of soldiers on foot, then eight or ten field artillery guns drawn by eight or ten fine horses, every one having a rider. and four men on ev- cry gun.
 After that came the aviation band followed by the cadet aviator. Af- ter them came two Scotch soldiers, one playing bag-pipe, then came the floats. The first was highly dec Orated with flowers, flags, etc, and on it were three girls, one dressed in a patriotic dress of bunting and the other two had on aviators- uni forms. Following them were sev- eral other floats, mostly decora- tions and girls. The last one had on it a dog house, soldier and Kelly the famous Red Cross dog, which was rallied off for twenty five cents a chance. He is called the S1,000.00 dog.
 A little later there were groups of airplanes flying over us very low and very close together Four or them flew over within fifteen to twenty feet of each other, then there would be groups Of fifteen to