Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-05-09
LETTER FROM
q OVER THERE"


1t is Sunday and as | have a little
time | viii write my l,ttels. we are
busy all the time over here. / ne' er
know when Sun4ay comes around
until someone tells me to i1splc
my company, or rather dotaC hHient,
as perhaps you know | am on De-
tachN d Service with so men and it
Is up TO me to 90 all tle work Of
a Captain and no ass stance. We are
still traI'Pg on sear,Lnahs and
Will be for some weeks yet. However
some Of our men have be- n at the
front for sometime and it will only
be matter Of tine until all OF us
are up there.
| have been to Far twice II IS
quite a city and well worth seeing.
You see none Of the weeds on main
street. Every thing is laid out to
conform % some Artists idea of
beauty. And | must admit it isl
! beautiful In fact the whole county
is beautiful due to the intensive GU
tiyatiCn. l have BEN under shCll |
fire QCng range) and have twice |
been bombed mot qu'tc su,h long
range) but so far none of rs have
. received any real scars S. / have
been in Paris whCn it was she'led by
the German long range gun. II do s
not seem to bother the Fr-nch an,
they go on about their bUsin IS IS
If nothing happened. 1t IS rather an
unusual sight to see ciyi ,loh S
over here-all French are IN uni
form and all our men (even Y. NJ. c.
A. ar uniform. l was in the churc
which wGs hit by a german shell
1t sure demolished the church.
saw the famous More Dame Cathed
raj; The Invalides whore sll the war
trophies are kept; The Tomb Of Ma
polian and his Charel and many
other places Of interest Nest CT
the famous statutes are covered with
sand bags so you cannot see them.
The Museum is closed d4ring the wal
The only bad feature is the language {
which ! cannot understand so | can
not read the inscriptions On the diff
ferent things of interest. A wood n ]
structure is rare, stone and bri a
being used on all buildings SINE of 5
which are very old S
For the present We are very well
housed and l consider myself fortu- '
nate. The only drawback is the wealth v
er which is very damp and rainy at Z
this time of year. l can now realize a
what the soldiers at the front must o
go thru at this timo of year. But Il
however men from the frcnt say i
they are generally very comfortable h
and most of them would rather stay b
there. Is
AS for war news, We know less o
than you and all we know is that =
the armies are fighting like he'll and I
that the Germans are losing lots cf T
men. 1t is a rather hot place on the
front now and l would prefer little
less action this way. But | think it
the beginning of the end. Many peo
pie think this is Germany's last drive [
but that has been said before. think
it will be several years before any
definite peace is obtained.
l received a letter from Gladys
yesterday Ga month old) and she say
had nice trip home. 1t was fine
that Vivian could go up wi her. o
1t is no joy ride to cross the conti- p
nent clone Neither is it joy ride e
to cruS the tlantic with submarines Il
all around YOU. was fortunate in W
not being seas.ck. felt sorry for W
the poor fellows who were as we b.
had to work regardless. was on b'
duty one night and as l turned II
corner of the deck one fellow let his W
lunch fly and just missed me by o'
hair. You had to laugh at them even te
tho it was no joke to them. But they U
soon got over it and laughed them a
selves. df
l have to censor all the mems mai al
and sure get sick and tired of read su
ing them. l would think they would
get writer's cramp sometimes. Which
reminds me that l have a bunch Of
it on my hands now to censor tn
Well, folks, you have my best in
wishes for your health and happiness ha
and here's horirg We may all be 50
reunited one of these days. he
Love to all nj
Lester Albert. ch