The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1918-10-17
NEWS OF OUR SOLDIER
BOYS
Interesting Letters from Our
Boys at Home Camps
and Abroad.
From "The Boy"


presented in the mail this week, so |
received quite family history all in
one shot. But darn the luck, every
letter had in it nothing but fishing
and hunting, Florence and Mother
telling about Dad bringing home the
fish, Dad making the story about four
times as big as the rest made 1t, and
Albert was all hunting, and the great
sport he was to have when the hunting
season opened. We have concluded
that the 18th of September was the
opening day for ducks, and Major
Clark and | and the other hunters IN
the office spent the whole day IN
thinking of the fun we were missing,
and longing to be there to take part
in it The partridge season opened
here yesterday, so we couldn't forget
that the season was opened, for every
moment we got it off our minds,
some Frenchman would shoot in the
vicinity of the hospital and it would
all come back to US. | saw one nice
bag of partridges and they certainly
made me homesick.
Last evening the office force (eight)
had party. We finished our work,
or rather we neglected our work, at
six D. M, went over to the city where
we had previously ordered swell ban
quet, the first that we have had since
hitting France. We had two roast
hens, (big ones), dressing, French
tomatoes, (fresh ones), and grapes
for dessert. That was the size of the
banquet, and while it probaly doesn't
sound very big to you, it was great
treat to US, and we enjoyed it very,
very much. 1t cost US SO apiece, but
it was WORTH double that to US. We
had passes to be out very very late,
so we didn't get home until little
after 10 o. clock, and already | feel
the effects of staying out so late, and
will probaly go to bed at sundown for
the next week.
Work is still on the increase, and go
ing by leaps and bounds. The first of
the week we opened a convalescent |
hospital few miles from here, with
$50 beds, and it took just one day
to fill the hospital to the ceiling. To-
night we have men sleeping on beds,
under beds, and those that can't find
bed to sleep on or under are filling
up the aisles. About every day we
build new barracks, containg 35 beds
and it is no sooner up than it is fill
ed and we are hollering for more
One of the boys was just in to tell
me that he is going to attend Frog
tFrench) wedding tomorrow. An
American soldier is to be married to
a French girl, and he and several
other boys from here are invited to
attend. They are going to the we'd
ding in a hotel hack, two decked
affair An accordion player and a
violin player are among the invited
guests and will furnish music for the
occasion, and play Here Comes the
Bride" In the morning they will be
married in the town hall, and after a
fine dinner will proceed to the church
where they will be married again. In
the evening another dinner will follow,
and as by that time it is expected that
All the Americans will be drunk on |
Bocue champagne, the rest of the cere-
monies probably will be indefinitely
and they viii live in peace
and harmony the rest of their days
We get the daily paper from Paris c
-egularly, about three days late, so we $
ire keeping fairly we'll up with the I
,ir advance the Americans are max
ng, although we have to depend on
.umore and reports to be anywhere up U
o date.
Outside of the above everything is
airly quiet and we are still living v
ay. But it's the war, as the French <
sv. But its the war, as the French a
aen say every time they raise the u
rice of wine, which has gone up half
franc a day for the past seven days.
% you see | keep fair track of the
rice of wine, although | neglect my {;
ther studies 8
From Pennsylvania Soldier 81
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