Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1918-06-28
With the Soldier and Sailor Boys.

Haswell Rucker, who is at Detention
Camp No. l at Puget Sound, WASH.
bears request for privacy, but as
some of it is so good as showing the
cheerful spirit of Uncle Sans men we
give the following extracts: =
You probably got a synopsis of my
trip from the post cards that l sent
thru. That is if you were as careful
as l used to be about those little things
1t was sure q grand trip but it was not
% grand ss the homeward one will be
providing am in Is good q state Of
preservation - am now. ~.r.. :.
I got thru the worst part ofssthe war
oil right-I guess. The vaccination 10
going to leave me SCARED up3 a:bit but
l guess Ill get over it all right The
j innoculation ibid spell that correctly
| wasn't so bad but they gave me some
salts that were bitter IS gall. Enough
for that. 49,. se,
l have been working in the mess hall
lately and some mess it is. 1t is not on
account of my former experience as
hasher that am working there but
just because it fell my lot. They lined
US up and took Is right off the end Of
the line. I did not know what was up
till it was all over or would have been
on the othor end of the line, but I am
living next the eats so am not stsrv-
ing to death by darn sight.
If these pages were not penned by q
censor could tell you lot of things
about big ships and camp affairs.
Words can't describe the haircut got
when l came to camp. They clipped it
close to my head and the top of my
head was as bare as w. G's lip. 1t
didn't improve my looks a bit either.
Don't think I'll need another haircut
till the war is over if it ends in any de-
cent season. They also gave US hat
about the size of a pancake and it
didn't protect anything but your hair
cut, (which wasn't much.) 1t sun
burnt my neck and my nose the first
day out. They gave me some white
salve to put on which gave some relief
but looked like white paint. Together
with the salve, the little white hat, q
white suit and short haircut I'll tell
the world III some bird. ~
This is the ideal climate out here. II
is rather warm in the day time and cool
at night but man +csn sure s'eep.
There are no mosquitoes or bugs of
any kind to get into your ears nor any
bees to bite you. Have seen it rain
only once and that was just little
shower. 1t is pretty dusty on the drill
grounds though.
MIR. and Mrs. Ed Gillette are in re-
ceipt of q letter written by their grand
son John, son of Art Gillette, who
has for q year or so been in training in
the east for submarine service. 1t will
be remembered that about two weeks
since. a U. S. submarine torpedoed and
sunk German submarine somewhere
off the Atlantic coast and John writes
that he vas in the submarine that did
the wori. 1t may be safely presumed
that as John bas been trained in tor
pedo work that he was instrumental in
firing the shot that destroyed one Of
the Kaiser's tin fish,. and if so it is fine
that boy from a Cresco family has in
some small degree avenged the capture
by Hun submarine of another
Cresco boy, Lieutenant Isaacs.
The Postville Herald has this to say
Of young man who recently was fol
Several months an employee of the
First National Bank: MRS. FREQ
Meiske. Of this city, received word
Wednesday morning that her brother,
Otto Rasmussen, of Calmsr, had on his
third attempt to enlist been accepted
ip the navy and was then on his way te
the naval training station 1t Pembertor
on Puget Sound. Otto gave up . splen
did position with the Weiser bank t
enter bis country's service just as al
opportunity for further promotion was
in store for him." Otto has been sent
to the Detention Camp at Puget Sounc
Wash, where he met Haswell Rucker
80 the latter writes. BIS
The Plain Dealer and the Cresct
Union Savings Bank are together send
ing the Plain Dealer each week to al
the soldier and sailor boys who havl
gone from this vicinity and whose ID
: dresses are obtainable. If you are on,
IL thus receiving the Plain Dealer
fnotify us of any change Of addres!
promptly.
Lee Hall has been transferred will
the entire battery to which he belong
ed from Fl. Worden, in Washington, Il