Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1918-10-16

salad, creamed potatoes, coffee with sugar and
cream. That's about what ] eat every day.
also real dairy butter and bakers bread.
Some chow. = hat? Although that IS not what
the average soldier is getting, but he does not
fare much For drinks we have cham
payne, vim rouge, vim blanc, ct biere. Well
au revoir,
THEY TAKLED INTERESTINGLY "oF
HOME"
IBy Corporal Orvey Jerman, Somewhere-in-
France, August 29.I
Dear Mother and All: The day after ! last
wrote you got order to move again TO
in the division there were great many WIS
consin boys, and whom do you suppose | should
see? The morning after we got there, j was
getting my truck loaded to go on a trip and |
saw one boy l was positive knew. So l ask
ed him the usual question. said. What state
are you FROM Jack. He said Wisconsin. So
il really vas Alfred FOrt1ey and he said i
had changed SO he didn't know me MY,
but he is fat, and looking good. Well ! talked
quite a while with him, and he said Perry Hall
was there too. After | went cut on my trip
he told Perry / was there, anu he came 20 lock
for me but l didn't get back till eleven O'Clock
that night so I found him the next day. He is
looking fine, too. Well when ! got back to
camp l found out there were two more looking
for me. They were Carol Kellogg OF Niroqua,
a grandson OF L. ID. Kellogg of ReadstOwn, and
a cousin of Nellie Kellogg-Fiteh. The other
one was Kenneth Buchanan. / didn't get 20
see them that day but the next day they came
down TO the Trucks ana iOGNO me. we uiuH {
get to talk long till | was called out on a
trip again, and didn't get in till nearly mid
night. The next day the drivers didn't have
to drive in the afternoon, so they could get
some sleep, so l went and found Kenneth and
Kellogg and went up on a hill and spen;
the whole afternoon, just talking about home.
/ think it was the most pleasant afternoon
I've spent since | enlisted. You can't under
stand how good it makes a fellow feel to find
boys from home. Greet Nellie for me and tell
her ! spent the afternoon with her cousin, also
tell Mr.. Kellogg. | hope we stay with this
division for some time. Oscar Fcdness is IN
it too, but / couldn't find him.
Day before yesterday we all got orders to
move again and sure went over some rough
country. Why the hills at home look like
ant hills compared with these mountains
There are mountains all sides of us. And
oh! how pretty they are havnt been to
front for a long time Its been SO long
ago that I've nearly forgotten how those pig
guns sound, and are way back of the
trenches now, too. I'm going TO try and find
Kenneth this afternoon and may go down
town take a walk up the mountain side.
NOT LIKE OLD WISCONSIN
IBy Clifford Fay Gibson, of Valley. with
Battery C. 1877 Field Artillery, Camp Shelbs
Mississippi, September 81
Things sure are on the go down here; every
one busy doing his bit for L ncie Sam. l got
transferred from the infantry TO the artillery
This is the three inch gun we have now and
we sure can them; $50 horses to take care
Of. In3f muCn Is ike uA@ EOOu Otu
Good old Wisconsin don't know THAT hot
weather is. Gee, ii sure hot down here
through the day and before morning II getA
cool got to get our blankets over us
We are only about forty miles from the gulf
the breeze and fog make it good sleeping
We had a good trip down dere- | left VirOqua
Tuesday a. m. August 9th, got in Sparta at
eleven and there we got on the car that came
all the way through did not have Ia
change any. At Milwaukee the Red Cross gave
us cake, oranges, post cards and paper. From
there we went TO Chicago, where We went "a
bed. We got up the next morning IN the
southern part of Illinois. We ate dinner in
St.Louis, Missouri. They marched us up town
several car loads of us. the Red Cross also gave
post cards, cake and candy Then wesrodt
that afternoon, crossed the Mississippi river
then through the longest tunnel l ever saw
We did not know we near one and had all
the windows up, the gas was awful, we mad 10
lay down on the floor. ! sure wished for
gas mask.
This is labor day and we don't have to drill
so Uncle is good to us after all. He also paid
us today. This is my first pay day; every one
Is happy. This is poor state. the soil is red
clay and hard a brick; an hour after hard
rain il is dusty. All they can grow here Il
cotton ard peanuts. No small grain nor corn;
wi at there is only gets about knee high. Don'i
see more than one or two cows TO a farm
sometimes a pig and a few chickens. | dOn'l
see how people live. ! would not trade ten
acres in Wisconsin for the state Of Mississippi
army camps and all; for the soil is SO pool
you can't raise an umbrella.
| sure like army life, lots of good eats and
exercise makes a man feel good. Wen, | vii
stop and If you print this l VIII write again
when | get over there.
ARMY CONDUCIVE TO PUT ON FLESH
IBy Clare Morris, Camp Meade, Md. Sep
TENDER POL
Dear Friend. Mrs Mcclellan: Received your
letter today and was sure glad TO heaar from
you. Your letter went to Georgia and had q
be transferred il got here a couple OF days
late. sure have a dandy home now since
I have got little farther north. i am COINS
TO be an instructor on machine guns now
got here asst Saturday and they have had nj
on guard duty twice and kitchen detail once
Today was not bad guard as l was cor
pOral of the guard and all ! had to do wa
take my bunch of men and place them on post
l was on two hours and of four. Pretty SOFT
George Schlicht did not come here with me
but he is usre a fine lad to be with. | got 4
letter from Freeman today and he says N
likes j time so far There was a French Of
icer here the other day and he said that j
the Yankees kept on while longer like they
have been there wouldn't be kaisers enough
left oteII the story. Since have been in th'
army ! have only gained twenty-six pounds
When l came l weighed 1854, now i tip tbs
scales ~ even $50. Pretty good for haJ
seed.
The weather is just fine here. About Iik,
Wisconsin in the fall. There is an airshiI
York every dsy that aies right over our camp
and we see him every day. We came through
Washington when we came here. The Rec
Cross girls met the train at all the big towns
and they sure used us fine. We had 7. NJ
c. A. man on the train all the way up hert
and he would come and sit down and crack
Jokes with Us to make us feel good.
have one Genoa lad with me and that Il
John Levi so a fellow don't feel quite alone
but one always makes friends if he tries and
you know ! won't have much trouble that way
Well il is about bed time 50 viii close with
best wishes to you all.
THE yoank soldier Who wrote the above letter
died az Camp Meade, Maryland, and funera
was conducted At Genoa on Wednesday last
Editor.I
NO THUNDER OR LIGHTNING IN WEST
TBy Private John W. DeLap TO his mother
Mrs VIM. Bentson, Jr.. Toledo, Oregon, Sep
tember 49,
Hello Mother: am o. X, working hard IN
Oregon in the spruce. Had good luck 90 lar
we don't get much wages but il beats COINS
TO France for S2I q month We get Sz-So
day for 10 hours. We expect to move sOoH
but don't know where: might 90 TO France
We dent hear any more news eat here, Don
even know the war is HeW = everybody a.
hnme2 ! like this state ane fer there y u
thunder or lightning here. You remember hos