The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-06-13

MAY IL lOlC
Dear Mother, Father and All:
Well as today is Sunday will
try and write to you again.
There isn't much l can say, but that
l am fat, well, and feeling fine. Not
much else will pass the censor but Will
try to make this letter interesting.
/ am sure feeling fine-out side of
sore heel which had the misfortune
to catch on the head Of nail 1t
made me lame for day or two, but
the good part Is l didn't nave TO
work any while it was sore. ! hurt
| it on Friday and have not done much
since, tho, l guess / will start in
again tomorrow.
am carpentering now, helping
build some barracks. We are at pres
ent putting on roofing and so you will
know how my hands are They are
so black l can hardly touch the paper.
1t sure can rain in this country. 1t
don't rain very hard. have seen lots
more water fall in less time but l
never saw it rain SO long without
clearing up.
Well Mother received notice that
you could not send US any parcel post
now 81 / guess you will have to keep
the sweater and helmet until l come
home and then / can wear them. /
am out of wheat straw papers but you
can't send them l guess and ! can't
get any here. The wheat straw Gig
arctic papers says made in France"
! but they don't know what they are
here.
Oh yes, the boys want to all donate
2 francs a piece and buy me good
violin. You see one franc Is 20 cents,
8 francs 81 and 100 of us pays, so you
see IL comes to about $50 and that
will sure buy good violin here for
/ think they are cheaper here than
in the U s. A.
Well Mother Dear, today is
Mothers Day." We are allowed to
write one letter to you and 1t will
go quicker than any other, SO / am
going to do the best I can
All the boys are writing now so this
Is not much noise.
1t sure looks funny that the ships
can't carry parcel post, but l suppose
1t is alright.
/ am sure glad that you received
those pictures for they will show you
how fat l am. l had my picture
taken since arriving here, with some
more of the squadron and sent them
to you, but your last letter showed
me that you DIDN'T know 1 was in
France, so yol surely hadn't received
them.
Well Mother Dear, / hope you have
bought some cattle by the time / come
back. I am plumb crazy to get into
a saddle again and hear cow bawl
once more. I'll bet that / don't never
sell another COW or horse as long as
/ live.
Has it been very wet this spring.. OIL
did it come an early spring.
The alfalfa Is almost knee high here
and growing good.
There isn't any fences here-only
stone walls, and l don't believe there
In ten miles of wire fence In this whole
country and it sure looks funny.
guess Dick and Marion will both
have to register the next time as ]
see they are going to register from
IS to 40 years.
Well it is almost dinner time so !
will finish this afterwards.
l just finished dinner so will try
and write some more.
This place Is sure some different
than Kelly Field. We are getting al
most as much to eat here as l did
at home, it is different of course. Not
much fruit, but all the meat and stuff
like that, that we want.
l was reading one your letters and
lyou said 1t would be proud day when
arrived HONEYWELL, you can't be
any prouder than will be to get to
be with my Father and Mother again.
You can make a better guess when
this war will end than / can. The
/ M &e, /,
the trains run about 10 miles an hour
when they run at all, so we don't get
the news much quicker than you.
Say you never said whether those
pictures looked like me or not. All
the boys said they were good pictures
Of me-
Say did / tell you that / was a
corporal now?-I know l did but I'm
telling you again.
/ received a letter from Coy Cole
from Grangeville, he was with me
when. / enlisted, but he wrote me from
Hampstead, New York.
There are three boys here from Ore
!: gon and when we get together we can
. talk of nothing but horses and cows
1t would sure make you laugh to
hear some Of the wishes some of us
: make.
We all agree on one thing and that
is to take pack outfit and go so far
into the mountains that we wont see
anyone.
Well l will do that when / get thru
with this job but at present am pref.
ty busy working for Uncle Sam and il
looks like good long job.
Well l guess this is all / have te
write this time so write as soon as YOU
can and tell me all the news, and tell
them all to write to me,
Your soldier boy,
: LAWRENCE Upton,
495 Aero Squadron
American II. f.