Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-11-22


| racks, good water, a very good place
to take baths, very good Gates.
We are stationed between two little
villages and we are allowed to 60 on,
from 6 o'clock until $3.50 every ev.
ening, so you see we are not having il
so hard.
You said for me to number my
letters, so you would know whether
you got them all or not I have
written one every week since I'vc
been over here and will continue to
do SO, so you can tell by the dates
Send me Oscars address, as soon as
you hear from him. l am pretty sure
he is already over here. Is Naomi
teaching there this year? If so, give
her my best regards. Mamma, don't
read the Bible much, but / say may
pro-ers every night and am trying
to do little better though it is q
hard proposition, for most of the men
in the army are tough bunch. With
lots of love to all, from
ROY III. KEISTER.
Veterinary hospital No. 8, A. P. o.
TOP, A. L. f.
August 81, 1918.
Dear mama:
l might as we'll write line, rs
have time, think, before "chow."
just got your letter yesterday, that
is the one you didn't get to finish, be-
cause of lack of paper. Next time
you run out of paper, l would just
suggest that you use anything that
you happen to have, if it is not better
than wrapping paper. You said that
you had gotten another of my letters
and that l had not said whether
was we'll or not. was we'll and am
and have been ever since I have been
here, except one time and then it was
only little pain in my breast that
was gone in half day.
You need not worry about my well
fare, for if l get sick we have the
very best of doctors and surgeons
right in the company and promise to
write just how l am effected as soon
us possible. don't know though whe-
thcr it would go through the censor
OF mot. l don't know whether can
get this finished before mess or not,
for two or three fellows are starting
trough house," that is to say, they
are romping around and will hardly
let me write. / have been on night
duty for about week and am rather
sleepy just now, for it is so hot thru
the day that one can hardly sleep in
the tents and we have that same old
pest over here that we have at home, ,
the house fly. There goes "chow"
call; guess l shall have to quit and
finish later.
Later-Well, here l am again. We
had beef stew and fruit salad for sup
per and l still have time to write
about all / know l guess before 60
ing to work.
One of our lieutenants told me yes
terday that should probably be sec
ing some of my old friends in a few
days, as division from camp Lee is
coming here. l am pretty sure that
the Taylor boys and Wiley Neel and
probably a lot of others are with
them. l hope if they are 1 can see
them. Everything seems very quiet
here now, for the division that we
were doing service for has moved.
l got letter from "Rube" day or
two ago and from the way he wrote 1
don't know whether to write him again
to that place or not, and that Oscar
hasn't written me scratch yet. RUDE
sent me his address and l wrote him
once. Well, again you did not send
the kodak pictures. guess they do
not know how to manipulate my ko-I
dak. Wrote to RUDE to bring it over
for me. l don't know whether he got
my letter in time or not. / had a.
splendid trip on an ambulance Tues
day; went for a forty mile trip. It
does one good to go out and see the
beautiful country and so on. guess
| had better quit, for this time, as
it is about time to go to work. Oh,
yes, you bet 1 should love to be there
to help to pick those beans and to do
the other chores. Good night!
Love to all. D. C. KEISTER.
Filed Hospital No. 4, A. E. F.
Base Training School, A. E. F.,
Sept. 8, 1918.
Dearest Dad:
How goes the world with you? She
is going fine over here, but l think
that the best it could go would ratn-
er be back home on the old farm.
l guess you are wondering what
this base training school is, arn't you?
Well, it is school that we go to to
learn any trade q fellow is best fitted
for. / am going to carpenter school
but we havn't got started good yet.
So far I have gotten along fine. Do
not have to work every day very
hard and have fine bunch of off
GERS. l don't know how such luck
ever came to me to get into anything
like this.
Say, it seems like long time since
l heard from any body around home.
l have been over here about month
and havn't heard word from any
body, or seen anybody l knew. The