New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-12-25
MORE LETTERS OF
OUR SOLDIER LADS

q iS" utiyS, ana IL IIldJ De the case, ne may
not be home for some time to come
There are some 1000 men at Camp Bliss
and not enough work to keep them all
busy: Ell Paso is big city and Camp
Bliss is a modern camp and he will no
longer have to sleep in a tent but in
barracks. All other Minnesota boys
have left and he is the only one left
behind and does not understand why
Uncle Sam should keep him when the
others have all been mustered out at
Camp Dodge or Smelling. Since the
Minnesota boys havel left he says it is very
Lonesome for him, and he longs to be
nearer to home. Camp Cody looks
like a desert now since everything is
torn down and all the boys left He
wishes all his friends a merry Xmas
and a Happy New Year and hopes that
he will soon be in Minnesota again.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hamann of
Springfield received a letter from their
son on November Is, saying that he was
sick in hospital in France No later
letter has reached them but it is not
thought that he was seriously i'll.
Robert A. Wendt of Springfield re-
ceived letter recently from his brother
Richard who is a cook in the u. S. A
Base Hospital No. 81. He has been in
France over six months and was one Of
L. f.,
County. He has not been at the front
but writes that he has been kept very
busy, singing hash.
He tells about the wonderful roads
they have in France and says that they
get plenty of exercise on them He
works twenty-four hours and then has
tWenty-fOur hours off and that gives
MIN a chance to see a lot of the country.
The following letter was received
from Waldemar Jahnke by his sister
Miss Martha of this city:
Camp Jackson, Nov. II, 10
Dear Folks:
Received both of your letters last
night and thought you would be pretty
busy celebrating as | hadn't heard from
any of you people last week. [ sup
pose you had just one big time from
start to finish Monday and | don't
blame you bit as everybody ought to
be happy now that it's all over l
didn't do any celebrating at all-cidn't
have any time The first regiment went
out on a hike Monday and Tuesday and
we had to pull the six inch guns and
ammunition wagons for them. We left
N the country about eight miles when
they put up their little dog tents and
field kitchens and had dinner out there.
We stayed till three o'clock in the after
noon and then went home. 1t was
after seven when we got back and had
70 wait till they got supper for us. We
went out again the next day but got
back earlier. We had an accident Tues
day as one of the drivers got started too
quick and ran into one of the guns and
smashed the truck up so that we had
10 go back and get another one. We
had a pretty good time out OF it as
we didn't do thing but fool around while
we We're out there Don't mind a holi-
day like that once in while and surely
has quite few of them this week as
! had charge Of the trucks that go
out on the instruction feldand that means
half hours work in the morning and
afternoon and the rest of the time
stood around and looked wise. To
morrow l have to drive again but
don't mind the change as it won't
last long now They had big time
in camp Monday night as all the bands
We're out and the fellows We're as noisy
as Indians Believe me, nobody likes
it any better than | do, although
am very much disappointed in one way.
! got the good news Tuesday that | was
one of the lucky ones who passed the
examination for officers training camp.
Believe me, feel petty good about that
l
read that all training camps were closed
so 7 am out Of luck Wen, m not
worrying about that as | want to get
home as soon as | can. Don't know
how soon we fellows viii be discharged,
but I'm planning strong on being home
!. for Xmas. They can't hold us very
long now that it's all over but still, we
expect to be here for a month yet.
l suppose we will be the~la ones to go
home as we have to take care of the
hauling around camp. | surely would
like to get home mighty soon as the
days seem twice as long now and a
fellow has lost all pep and energy
since this news came out.
We had quite rain last night and
it's raining now. It's been pretty cold