Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-09-07
Letters From
Local Soldiers

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Just a few lines to let you know I
am enjoying the best Of health. l
hope you and the rest of h family
] are doing the same. / have received
| quite some news from Perth Amboy
| lately and have read quite a few Oh
the home papers.
1 read in n of those papers where
| they had Father Gross held for the
| grand Jury for being a pro-German.
| / think il is about time as he certain
| ly expressed his views very openly. His
| kind are very dangerous at the pres
| ent time. He is a very poor repre-
| sentative of God, especially IL he Is
a believer in the warfare n Ger
mans are carrying on. 1t will have
to be a mighty good Dutchman that
7 a have any liking for after the
war.
Just at present we are having 1t
| pretty easy, getting plenty to eat and
having fairly good weather. We have
beer taking some pretty long ike OF
late. We went on n yesterday and
walked about fifteen miles We were
pretty tired when we got a On
our way we met our band and they
led us back and they sure made us all
feel good. / believe We could keep
on walking all night as long as they
were leading.
L met ali the boys from home in
| the, last few days with the exception
of Bill. He is camped quite a LONG
ways from us. Tell Dad he would
laugh to see Mike Egan. He has
| grown a full mustache. All he needs
is a cane to make him a f~ull-fedged
English Tommy.
I was also speaking to Jay Mullen
and you can tell his mother he is GER
tainly looking great. Must have
gained about twenty pounds.
Mike Dwyer feels pretty bad about
The death OF his father. Pretty sad
news for him, especially when he is
so far from the United States. But
that is one of the unpleasantries of
! the war.
The papers here look very encourag-
ing and we all hope TO see an early.
finish. We are all living in hopes. any
how.
/ hope you all feel cheerful as there
Is nothing to worry about. / feel 1
am going back 70 cheer up and be
happy.
Well. I will draw to a close with
regards to all. Love to yourself,
John.
Sergeant Andrew Travis.
France, Aug. IL.
Editor of the Evening News.
Dear SIR
Having the day off and nothing else
to do 1 thought l would write you a
| letter and let my friends know I am
we'll and getting along fine. The
weather here is splendid at present.
Sergeant Liefgreen n l bunk to-
gether. We have a very nice board
ing house with running water. We
can lay in our tent and take a bath.
There is only one thing about our
boarding house. Sergeant Liefgreen
and myself are quite large men and
when we wake up in the mornings we
find the boarding hous on top Of us.
Private Fiegen received some
copies of the Evening News and I be-
| lieve that every man in the company
read them before we got through with
them. 1t makes M feel good to see
q paper from your home town. w
saw in the paper where there was a
big parade in Amboy for us boys v
! here. We are very glad that people
back home think of us and have not
forgotten us. That is one good thint
| about Amboy, there Is no one-hah
measure when something is to be done
and 1t is done good or not at all. /
wish you would give my regards 10
oil the boys on the Lehigh Valley.
They have engines owe here that puts
one in mind OF peanut roasters. We
see an American locomotive and 1T
sure Is good Tor sore eyes. They SUN
use the pin and link coupling over here
and nave very small cars.
1 think the fastest ride I ever had
was in England. i don't think the
Pennsy can come up to them for speed
as the cars are so light and are built
for speed.
Sergeant Liefgreen wishes you
would give regards to all his friends
and tell them he is well n getting
along fine. He says he will get the
kaiser's whiskers and present them to
the EVENING NEWS as a souvenir.
/ will close now. hoping you will
send us a copy of the News once in a
while. Wishing you and the NEWS
the best of luck, ] remain,
Sergeant Andrews Travis. Company ID.
311th Infantry, A. Il. f., via New York