Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-07-03
SOLDIER LETTERS
Wallace Coutant Writes Three
On Active Service With A.E,F,
May 26. 1918.

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Dear Folks;
Your letters OF April 2ist and 2Sth
arrived here May 2Sd and 25th res
pectiyely. You don't need to worry
about sending money, for have
saved a couple OF hundred francs out
of my paltry 80 month.
have beaucoup Francs now and
will no doubt have some as long as
We get paid regularly, which We have
been since they stared. | received
December, January and February pay
on March 2sth. and since then II
comes along about the 18th to the
goth.
The mess linee Is governed by the
time a fellow gets up and manage
to get up just In time to wash and
get on the end. The eats are so
much better now than they were two
months ago that It is not usually nee
essary to go back for seconds.
Am sorry that the folks at home
are having such terrible time get
ting help OF all kinds, but 1t won't
be long, hope. before the country
will be oyerhowing with men to do
every kind OF work that anyone
would want
We do not have agreat deal to do
with the French people and am only
learning few words and phrases.
but have not tried to construct SEN
tences.
The list OF fellows you sent Is fine
for can look some OF them up. To-
day was visiting at b company
(eleted) Engineers, and enquired
for w. X. Osborne. but he was on de-
ltached service somewhere else In
Franc
Today the teletel Engineers, Hight
railway, took US on a twenty-five
kilometer ride on their dlnkey, TO
hear band concert and see a ball
game. It was a dandy trip too. for
, IL took us over some beautiful coun-
try and thru some towns which ]
, had never seen before. Dana and !
. took walk over to the next town
: instead OF going to the ball game and
on the way back I met Herb Kentne
OF Medford who worked with Prob
ert and me at Wolfe Creek Hill. He
Is in an areo squadron and stationed
about thirty kilometers from here
He comes up here now and then.
Claude Smith is near here some
where, but | don't know where. II
Is the hardest thing in the world tC
get definite positions Of companies
Whenever you ask where a certain
company is, they don't know, bu
think II is at a certain place A mar
would run his iegs off IL he started
to hunt up a fellow, II he followed
directions. The only way TO find /;
- fellow Is to just run across him ac
r. cidently.
~ Elsie Janus has been in this sec
tor for a week or so and have had {
chance to see her few times. En-
/, tertainments come along pretty reg
4 ularly and all the boys sure do enjo!
anything along the vaudeville line
Lights out. Lots OF love TO all.
Wallace
IS Sunday June 2, 1918.
Dear Folks:
. Your letter Of May 7th came the
31st, so the time has been shortened
b by tn elimination of packages In tbs
~ mails. We have about everything
!? necessary for our comfort. The Y
d MICA. and the Salvation Army pro
=. vide the things like candy, nuts and
fruit. I am not In position to state
n what the Red Cross is doing over
here. The only benefits / have had
W are two pairs OF socks, wrlstets and
l. helmet. The Y.M.C.A. keeps ON hand
70 more Of the necessities OF soldiers
y and the Salvation Army the Injuries
= = Both are doing wonderful work. OF
e course the secretary makes the hut
and you will find different personals
{ ltieg and conditions We have beeu
}. fortunate wherever we have been in
! getting an accommodating and happy
secretary. There are come real grou-
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