Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-11-19
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September Is, 1918.
My Dear Parents--
1t has been some time since | have
written you, but you remember !
could never write an interesting let
ter unless in the proper mood. l
feel that way this evening, so will
do my best.
Your letter No, 5 reached me last
week, having been mailed August 10,
and on the way about a month En-
joyed it, of course, also the clippings,
which | shall look forward to from
now on. don't think it would be
very hard to read a few magazines,
tho. That was low one. You should
get it.
read of Lieut. Bidwell's accident
and death in a Paris paper before
your letter reached me. This war is
surely all that Sherman said it was
1t seems only short time ago when
robin" and chummed together in
Red Bluff. II must have been hard
for his family to take the news of
his mishap. Well, his case is just
one of thousands in this world, and
1t is consoling to his folks to know
he did II for the good old U. S.
Gee! love those two words and
the country they stand for more and
more every day. France may be ap-
preciated by the French and ducks,
but | hardly think there is one of us
who will fail to greet the order that
starts US home with thrill of Joy.
As | am writing this it is raining
after few days of sunshine, which
followed rain storm of five days
and nights France has her sunny
spots and periods of fine weather,
but ! do not think those facts apply
to this section. | think when | re-
turn ! will settle in the stormiest sec
ton of the west and stay there so
will feel perfectly at home.
We are fortunate in having a Y.
NJ. c. A. hut of our own now. Just
completed a few days ago and we all
enjoyed an evening of entertainment
given by five American girls, the
Heron Sisters, They certainly were
clever and gave a very pleasing pro-
gram. We would have been salts
fled, tho, to just have sat and looked
at them. American girls are a nov
city, '5fact.
The "Y man is planning num-
Der OF such affairs for our benefit,
and we ourselves are talking of min
strel shows, glee clubs, orchestras
and such things If our plans are
successful the gloom and hardships
OF the coming winter will be lessen
cd in way.
judging from information gotten
from the French people in this part,
we all expect very severe winter,
and OF course are preparing for it.
we had our preference of barracks
or tents for our winter quarters De-
cided that tents would be the best
so, dad, don't kick when YOU have
to- get up these winter mornings and
build that fire.
| AS | told you in my last letter
was working in a small town a few
miles from the main camp. Have been
removed to the camp again and am
working in the mill, two weeks
nights and two weeks days. When
on the night shift we take our gas
masks and tin derbies' to work
with us. Enemy planes fly over most
every day and night when the wealth
er permits. sometimes feel like
am really in this war when | see the
Boche planes overhead and the anti
aircraft guns shooting shrapnel at
them.
Last Sunday we were all startled
to see machine fly over camp at a
height of about 500 feet, and light
about half a mile away. 1t proved
to be an American who had shrap-
mel wound in his head from the Ger
man guns. He secured treatment
from our doctor and left the next