Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-06-12
SOLDIER LETTERS



From Wallace Coutant
with teh colors.
April "a. 1918.
There IL considerable action on
this front the past few days. but wei
did not get into II at all. The only
thing We could do. was TO listen 10
the infantry and the artillery ham
mering away.
Am still on the roads patching and
trying TO keep them In shape for the
heavy trafic which goes over them
day and night It's hard work. but
! am getting used 10 II now.
This camp Is nearly ideal. for II
IL In the edge OF a woods about two
miles from a village which we can
see. II does not seem like we are
far from civilization. when you can
see buildings In a distance. There
Is a little creek a short distance from
the camp and the bunch all travel
down the road and wash In H.
When II stops raining and the sun
shines enough to dry up the front
yard we are going 10 begin praetic-
ing for a ball team and suppose We
will be playing ball on Sundays for
excitement.
Howard and have been separated
for the hrst time since we left Port
land and II sure seems lonesome for
me.
Twenty-six days Is the minimum
time elapsed for first class mail to
come from Oregon 10 this camp.
On Active Service With the
American Expeditionary
Forces.
Mothers Day, May i2. 1918,
Dear Mother;
Today Is Mothers Day and prob
lably every soldier In the A. f. r. Il
thinking OF his mother OF the one
nearest TO him. and the majority o.
1.-THE boys are writing to them.
i have your letter OF April mrs
and by now you should have heart
from me in regard to all letters an'
packages received. have not fail
ed to receive anything you have sen
and have all the letters you hav'
written. II must take trifle longe
for mail to go TO you than for mai
TO come TO me.
Your sacrifices at home are en-
abling the boys over here to hav
many things that they would no
have otherwise. As for our owi
camp we have cook who enjoy
pleasing the bows and we have what
ever can be bought at the village
near here. Then he fixes up salads
et~.. that help make life worth liv
ing.
left nv chum back at the othe
camp and have not acquired anothe
at this camp. and II feels prett
lonesome. Was over TO the othe
camp TO see him one night and an
going over TO ball game Sunday |
the weather Is suitable
There has been verv little doin
up on this front OF late but once |,
while we hear few big guns an,
see airplanes. Between guns an,
thunder and lightning we are rad
TO realize that there Is a war. Yol
folks get more details about affair
over here than we do and rrobabl.
think II much more rrewsome thai
II really appears to us over here. o
course we are not in the real cente
OF the fray. so II would not be a
bad as II we were In the trenches
Am still reading the book yo'
sent and II is fine. Several are read
ing II between times so II goes rath
er slow. THE book is Stewart Ed
ward Whites "Gold.") We have nj
abundance OF reading matter. bu
among the things that are conspic
Gus by their absence are stories AM
novels. One fellow gets a Detroi
News. another the Monitor and an
other the Seattle Star. also Frisc,
paper. So among us we have new
from all over the states about fiv,
on six weeks old.
had charge OF Michigan detail
the other day. one each from Ba,
City. Bad Axe. Calumet. Wyandott,
and Durand. They knew many o.