The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-11-11
WITH THOSE IN
ARMY and NAVY
This column. containing newo a.
Richmond and Wayne county sol.
diers and sailors, will appear daily
In the Palladium. Contributions
will be welcomed.

To-day was the greatest day since
| arrived overseas. / received my
first mail from the good old U. S. A"
writes Private Harry l.. Bertrand,
serving in the field artillery in France,
| in a letter to The Palladium.
"A soldier over here can never get
| too much fail from home for home
news goes pretty good over here and
all the boys surely do appreciate ill
the mail they receive.
II enjoyed the voyage very much,
except when the sea got very rough,
and l was somewhat seasick There
| was not morning or evening passed
| but what l was on deck to see the
sun rise and set and it sure was
beautiful scene.
I'VE passed the beautiful shores of
| Ireland and saw some beautiful
scenery and many of the big old-time
!, windmills and later sailed up the Riv-
err Clyde and finally landed at Glass
gov Scotland, the home of Harry
Lauder, the famous singer and COM
edian. which ended our trip. From
! Glasgow we had two days trip by
rail going through Scotland and Eng
| land and arrived at Winchester, Eng
! land, where we went in camp for
| few days rest. During our stay at
| Winchester we were out a day on
| sight seeing trip and saw some won
derful sights also went through the
Winchester Cathedral and college, the
two oldest and largest in the world,
built in the year 1910 From Win
chester we had nice little hike with
full packs of about sixty pounds on
|
Southampton where we crossed the
English channel and landed at Lee
/ Havre, France, where we went into
camp for a few days rest. | am now
, stationed in very pretty part of
France. Our eats are fine and plenty
of it, and we have very good sleeping
quarters. But most everything here
is most always scarce and high But
ter is $1.20 pound, eggs $1.1O doz-
en-, peach Is cents each, apples 10
cents each bananas so cents dozen,
matches 20 cents box, and toilet
and laundry soap so cents a bar.
Saw So American locomotives in
one stretch ringing their bells in true
American fashion. The bells are
music in the ears of Americans.
Passed Chinese camp here today
and saw about\2,O00 Chinese soldiers
going through squads right and left.
Saw Stanley Smith here today. He
is in the medical corps here in the
base hospital. We had mess with the
officers at the base and had some
honest to goodness American ice
cream and cake made by an Ameri-
can negro cook from Virginia. At q
; Red Cross canteen saw Mrs. Rabord
: serve 1900 cups of coffee in ten min
; utes.
To-day l saw Is big six-inch guns
that were captured from the Germans
by the Americans in the last drive.
They are still building barracks
and keeping things moving as always"
writes Domenik Smarrella from For
; tress Monroe, "by the way things look
/ don't think | will get across, but
surely hope | do. Last night Chris
F, tine Miller sang here and she surely
can sing. They told us at the Y. NJ.
c. A. that Madame Schuman-Heink
woduld be next. We can always have
good time at the Y. NJ. C. A. 1t was
given by Helen Gould"
They sure had great time in Chi
cago celebrating when they heard
peace had come" writes w. II. Vogel-
, song, stationed at the Great Lakes
Training Station. There wasn't much
! celebrating here for we have already
! had two wild rumors before this one.
1t certainly looks like it would be over
before long, though"
People over there should see us
,, boys now" writes Private Raymond
, Yundt, formerly of Greensboro, now
! serving with the American forces in
, France. I'VE are big and healthy and
! strong and in good spirits. They ask
nothing better than a hard job to per-
, form.
Il am having a pretty good time
now. l am riding motorcycle carry
. ing messages, dispatch riding we call
it. OF course we have pretty hard
work lodging shell holes without
lights. and sometimes peace note
as we call the big shells, drops pretty
; near us. But it is pretty good job
at that compared with some l know ;
Uncle Sam has provided good care
for us, with your help in buying Lip
erty bonds" says Ralph Wynn, writ
ing from the U. S. S. Iowa. Il hope
Richmond was up to it's standard in
the fourth drive.
THE squad of which | am member
took out in bonds alone S1,150. and
the ship has to it's credit $42.S50 in
bonds.
Mail is the only thing sailor
| needs to keep life in him. Sometimes
/ when he does not receive letter
when he thinks he should he gets
little peeved, that only lasts until he
| receives letter from mother, dad or
sweetheart, then he is the happiest
| man in the world so tell the folks at
home to write to that sailor lad often
and tell him the news, for even al
hough he does not answer right away
t will put life in him. and that is what
IL. L.