The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-09-04
THE SOLDIERS
WRITE SUCH GOOD !
LETTERS HOME
so SAY MANY O OUR READERS.
ANOTHER GOOD LOT OF LET
TIERS AGAIN THIS WEEK

i 6A are glad to publish
NXKZ&9GS another fine lot
from the boys who are in the national
service both in camps and canton
ments in this country and in the
trenches of bloody France.
Letter No. 1 is from Maurice Le-
Vac, son of Mrs. A. Dietz, west of
the city and is as follows:
Camp Eustis, Va, Aug. 80, 1918.
Editor Home News:
just few lines to ask you to be
kind enough to interest your many
readers to send magazines and other
reading matter to the address below.
Please insert this in your paper for a
boy from your town.
This is q new camp which when
completed will cover go square miles
acreage; it is located 10 miles from
Newport News, Va, 72 miles from
Richmond and 3 miles from a town
called Lee Hall. In reality it's vii
lage consisting of one hotel, one candy
stand, three Fords of the vintage of
1913 and six bony horses and still
they call it town.
l enlisted on the 1st day of June
at the recruiting station on Franklin
street in Saginaw. was sent to
Detroit, from there was sent to Co.
lumbus, o., and stayed there for one
week and from there was shipped to
Fort Adams, R. /. | left there on
July IL. 1918 for what thought was
Gods land according to songs and
poems and landed at Camp Eustis,
Va, on Mulberry Island July 15, 1918
at night and was greeted with thun-
der and lightning g-storm and we i'm
mediately christened it Camp Useless.
They are very good to US down
here. We are allowed to go to
walking Is miles to Yorktown.
We are now in the heart Of what
is known as the Sunny South. Sun
ny is right for most of the time it is
95 in the shade.
/ never see newspaper except the
home news which one of my bunkies
receives and it is certainly sight for
sore eyes.
Before l close my letter let me
| newport, X. L., and nunrper On tfie
southern burgs including Monroe,
Va, Ocean View Beach located on the
Chesapeake bay, Newport News, Va.
but not one of these places compares
with dear old Belding and I'm just
yearning to go "over there" finish
/ il all and return to the place / call
home.
A lad from Belding.
Private Maurice LeVac,
Supply Co., 50th Reg, G. A. c., Camp
Eustis, Va, No. 3359010.
P. S.-My buncie's address is the
same as mine, his name is Harold
Gregory. He has an uncle living In
Belding by the name of Fred Jackson.
-. NJ q :. frox, o,,ia Cfopa
to Mrs. A. M. Simmons, of this city.
Just imagine the unbounded joy and
delight of three Belding boys meeting
one another over in France unexpect-
edly. That is what Louie Stone,
Harmon Palmateer and Lynn Sim
mons of this city did one day in
France recently. Louie tells about it
in the following letter:
France, July Ia, 1918.
Mr.. Simmons: -
| will tonight take time to write
YOU a short letter to let you know
\ that today | came face to face with
Lynn and Harmon. | was never so
surprised in all my life, believe me it
was worth a-lot to see some one from
home. Lynn is looking fine. was
out to their fort and had dinner with
them today. He was telling me you
have an interest in the Belding paper.
Put in a line about our good luck in
seeing each other and that France is
a beautiful place but Belding, Mich,
is good enough for me-. have trav-
Lelled about 10000 miles since Eve
been in France. Tell the people TO
write to the boys from Belding for
tnat is all the pleasure we gete in re-
ceiving letters from home. 1t is
very hard for a person to be in a
country and can't understand what
the people say. Well / will close.
Prvt. Lewis b. Stone,
A. S. s. o. S., A. z. F., Chief Eng.
George Whitney. SON of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. A. Whitney, of 808 Brooklyn
Street, this city writes the following
letter to home folks here:
Camp Mills, L. l., Aug. Is, 1918.
Dear Folks at Home:
Well, / am located at Camp Mills,
Lcng Island now, folks.
We left Frisco week ago last
Friday at IL o'clock a. m. and all OF
our outfit except the baggage car got
there Thursday. was in the bag
gage car and stayed in the Brooklyn
yards all day Thursday getting into
camp about 2 o'clock next morning.
the trip. in every town of consider
. able size we were served with cake,
coffee, ice cream, lemonade, cigarettes
land cigars, sweet milk or some other
good junk. IN Detroit we, all went
to the Y. M. c. A. and took bath.
: 1t is some trip from coast to coast.
We took the S. 2. from Frisco to Og-
, den, Utah, Union Pacific to Chicago
, and Michigan Central to Dowagiac
; Mich, through Battle Creek and up
to Detroit into Canada and on to Ho-
! boken, N. j., and from there over
: to Camp Mills, L. /. would love to
/ step out here but we won't be here
, very long, not till after Saturday
: Troops are rushing out of here by the
thousands and Gen. Persning said he
would have US all in Heaven. He'll OF
/ Hoboken, N. j., for Christmas dinner
J ha, ha- 1
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