Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-09-26
From George Pierce
your loving brOther,
STEWART.


ly Of Baraboo, has received the fol-
lowing letter from France:
August is, 1918
Dear Sister and Brother:
received your letter today and was
very glad to hear that you were we'll.
SO you had speaker up there, did
you Well, he's about right when he
said a person has to turn his shirt in
side out to keep the coolies busy over
night That doesn't always work,
either. We most always hang our
shirts out on a tree and throw gren-
AIDES at them until we have killed
wounded and shell shocked all of
them. If there's anything over here
that we haven't had or experienced
don't know what it is. They have an
other little bug here; it's like the
American bigger" if that's spelled
right. The French call them scauvies.
They aren't very pleasant thing to
have. OF course there are lots of
things here that are worse than that
Big Berthas, gas, machine gun bull
let's, and so forth. But we don't ex-
pect to endure this very long, because
they can't last forever. | guess that
Old Man Bill is just little bit wor-
ried now, if the truth were known.
Don't you think SO?
Lieutenant RitZenthaler of our COM
pany left for the states a couple of
days ago as instructor. He struck it
lucky, didn't he? They send a serg-
cant or two back every month for a
six weeks course in an army corps
school, and then if he makes good
they send him home as an instructor.
They called for two from our COM
pany at the time, but none of them
had been to the corps school, so, OF
course, we were left out. But we are
sending one to school in couple Of
days, so that We'll be better prepared
the next time. Perhaps il the war
lasts long enough and / am lucky |
might get a chance to go some day.
| am platoon sergeant at the present
time. That isn't so bad, is it? !
think I'm doing fine. | am fourth
ranking sergeant in the company.
Now. of course, that doesn't count
very much. It's the ability of man
that counts now One man stands as
good a chance as another. | think
that's the way it should be, don't you?
Well, sister and brother, I'm making
a regular book of this, SO / guess had
better cut down bit. ] had few
clippings / was going to send you, but
lost all of them but one. Will send
that just the same. I'll try to send
YOU a few the next time. If you hap
pen to see Lieutenant Rick. in Bara'
boo. you can inquire about everything
and | know that he'll be glad to tell
YOU. You'll find him a fine fellow, so
don't be afraid to ask him anything
about the boys that you want to know,
even if you are not acquainted with
him. Well, sister, will close for TINS
time hoping this letter finds you as
we'll as it leaves me. Lovingly,
Your brother
SGT. GEORGE PIERCE.
Co. A, 12S Inf, N. G.
Am. e. F., France.
The clipping referred to reads as
follows:
Out-Shermaning Sherman
7 wonder what General Sherman would
say,
If he were fighting in France today?
IF hack in the sixties he said what he
did,
Just fancy today how his language
might skid!
The epigrammatic,
Somewhat erratlc,
Always emphatic
Old General would be at loss no
doubt;
After turning his phrases inside out,
Perhaps he could only stand up and
spout
His choice pepigram IN deaIehlhs
shout!
A thousand or so and cannon or t"o'
In the Generals day made quite an
ado;
Then, gas and grenades and the pima
ing barrage,
The subs and the Zeps and the camou-
fage,
Were not in the game; yet he called
it He'll
O, what would he call it today, pray
tell?
The philologistic,
Metaphoristic,
Ever linguistic,
Some blasphemistic
Old General would find all his dlctlon
amisS
To define such a depth in the devlfs
abyss;
Perhaps he could only stand up and
That He'll in his time was never IKE
this!