Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-04

our lONl-E Son,
CORP. w. graf LOWE,
Base hospital Al Boys Are All Well.
The following letter from Fred w.
st. Clair to his father, Mr.. John c..
st. CLAIR. viii be Of interest to many
people i'll Tazcwcll
Base Hospital No. Al, A. L. f.,
August 81, 1913.
Dear Papa:
Have just gotten letter from
Name, saying that you had gotten Il
letter from us. The overseas mail
service must be taxed to death and
often guess delays are unavoidable.
Our letters reached you on schedule
time, however.
All the boys from home are well.
Some of them are working little
harder than they over did, but guess
it wont he any too hard on us. Haley
is working the drug department. Pat
ty is in charge of the laundry, while
Horne and myself are working in
( the quarter-mastcr department We
all like our work real well, espec-
tally Horne and myself, as we get
out nearly every day on trucks bring
ing in supplies.
AS you have seen from the papers
we are located near Paris. have
been in to the city so many times that
/ | feel most as familiar with it as
do with our own backyard. have
not been inside many of the interest
ing places, however, rs most of my
trips have been for supplies Such
places as the Eifrel tower, Place de
Concord, Arch de Triumph are IA
miliar marks on our down town route.
We have the Abbey of st. Dennis
just outside Of the city for our hos
pital. 1t is an immense building,
we'll suited for our purpose. think
it was built originally by Charlaman-
que, then rebuilt by Napoleon and
given to the daughters of the Legion
, of Honor for school, so you can see
that it liz 4 very historic spot.
We have handled several hundred
wounded men up to the present and
they are now coming in pretty stead
lily. We have had only one to die so
far. cant see for the life of me
Why more dent die the way some of
! them are torn up. Some of them are
hit in dozen places, and then come
In asking for cigarettes. You never
see one of them but what he is in fine
spirits. They all say they have the
Germans goat and predict the war
will soon be over. If the people ut
home could only see what the boys
over here are doing they would buy
liberty bonds faster than they could
be printed, and would never turn the
Red Cross down. You can have no
idea what they are doing for the men
over here with the Red Cross.
Name asked in her letter about
the nurses. We have one hundred,
and all l have had anything to do
with are mighty nice. / have met
one who is sister of boy roomed
with at schol and of course we got
to be friends at once.
am glad to hear that you are all
through with the meadow. am afraid
that you will find that your boys
have never been very much help to
you. When l get home you can mark
my place at the table and / promise
to be on time for every meal.
1t must have been n terrible storm
you had to Go so much damage. Horn
said that lightning must have been
the only thing that would have killed
George Asbury's mules as old age,
hard work and starvation had no ef-
feet on them.
We are glad to hear John Dykes
is getting on so we'll. Horn and /
have often wished we could have
brought him with us, as we feared he
would find things pretty hard.
Tell Evelyn we enjoyed her letter
and tell Bill he must write us again.
Give my love to the family.
i Your son, FRED.