Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-11-29
CREsCO HOWARD COUNTY IOWA, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 49, 1918
With OR Soldier and Sailor Boys.

With Oar Soldier and Sailor Boys.
Will Matthews Of Battery E.. l2sr
F. A. writes from France to his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Matthews o
Bonair, as follows:
will try and answer your most vel
cor'e and long looked for letter 1 re
ceived yesterday l also got one from
Bsulah and one from Donna the sam,
time. You don't know bow it please.
me when ! got SO much mail after no,
getting any for SO long Your !ette,
was numbered seventeen 50 must no,
have got sixteen Of them. Well the one
was worth lot and, it found me in the
best of health and everything going on
well You spoke of Lloyd Woods. he
was over to see me last night and both
he and Bob are as well as myself. ]
told him the news you wrote or rather
let him read. my letters as he hasn't
got any mail from home yet and was
anxious to know how things were back
there. Lloyd is in Battery F, the next
one to B. and I. We are all in the
same battalion so we are quite close.
You asked if many of our old outfit
came over when we did. All the pri-
Yates came, but we were pretty we'll
scattered out over here; only US three
l guess had luck to be with each other.
You see we are on the front and hav-
ing god time at that. Lawrence
Butler came over too. but he is in a
Truck Co. l haven't seen any one
knew here yet but Chick Wheeler:
Beulah asked about the nice cows anc
horses over there. They have got
some fine cows and dandy horses but it
is about as hard to MAKE some of the
horses understand what you want Of
them as it is to make stick of wood
n we without moving it yourself. 4
guess I will have to close and get my
team in. ] turned them out this morn
ing to Craze.
IBID" Deane, who has been at
Hoboken, N. j.. with naval band for
8. me time, ia to have the high honor Of
q trip to France with President Wilson,
so he writes under date Of Nov. 18th TO
the Plain Dealer. His letter folIows:
Az I am asing to leave the U. 8. "a.
for . while. ! thpught It > good ids1 20
let you know % You won't have 70 ssod-
thssP. d. here any more. but I surs.
wish you could - It does me . lot Of
gsod to see what you people are doing
out there.
II am going to take the trip over to
France and guess al the other places
over there with our band o We were
picked to escort President Wilson and
his party on their trip. 1t will be
nice trip for al Of us and sure think
myself lucky to be in this band. We
are going over on the U. s. 8. George
Washington and expect to leave about
7th, and If nothing happens
to me on the trip III write you again
while we are over there. ~ I
II thank you again for the papers
you have sent, and when return will
have you print more bills for 'Deane's
Jazz Band -
Private Lloyd L. Deane, Co. E., 55th
with the American forces in
France, in letter to the Plain Dealer
writes in part as follows:
while was at Camp Custer re-
ceived the Plain Dealer you sent me,
and l thank you for them. France is .
great place, but about all they have
here is.wine. We have . little sport
but we have to make 1.-THE French are
dead ones. About all they say is ''oui,
0ui." guess Deane Bros. orchestra is
= thing Of the past, but hope some
lay we may start it again Believe me
would sure like to see Cresco again.
would rather live in Cresco than own