Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-03-27
STUBBY'S LETTER
HIS SWEETHEART
"C,anp Wadsworth.
Spartanburg, =. 4.

You say yule bet l nave seen Soiho
Southern girls l could like better
than You. l can proov ! nave not
We was in kwaranteeen all the time
we was 1T Camp Greene and you was
havein yure appendiks cut out ana
down here we have to pass an eks-
aminashun like a officer before we
can go % town. j don't no mutch
about them French buties but lie bet
bet you when I come back with all
them medules line goin to get that
yule be my old girl. Not spekln
partikler!y about you Phylliss Maine
girls has it all over any luther girls
on earth but spekin about eksamin-
ashun only the pets Of the furst sar-
CUNT ana Cap. has gone down town
yet with thare cards sayin they has
passed and is kwalified to be on the
streets If Spartanburg. It's lucky
none of the otfisers have to pass that
eksaminashun or thare Wouldent be
no salutil down thare eSpeshily seek
und lieuts. I have failed three times
OH mine and the Cap. is on my side
two. I no bekaws he says thare must
pers bekaws | cant ansir them and
that hele have to give me credit for
tryin harder than any man in the
regt. BY Cap. l mean Lieut. Kite
who is the actor Cap. of this Co.
You ask me what does a Pioneer
have to &c. He has to do everythin
in the army that has any danger in
- rph 20 ct
in some place over thare they send
the Pioneers to stop all they can of
them and save the Landscape as
mulch as posibel. The Government
made some mistake in its rate of 65
sents on per thowsund of life insur-
uns. They made it two by and they
formd the Pioneers to koreck the err
rer. If :, Pioneer is alive over thare
for 3 days they court marshal him
to; find out why, and if he STAINS it 4
days hede better shoot himself to save
the homer of his family. A pioneer
has just chanSes to march behind
the band to the straneS of Hale the
Konkwerin Hero after the war, one
Of which is to get transferd to sum
uther branch of the survis and the
luther is &C walk up a week after it
happens and say SO this is the red
cross.
l gese ! shall try to get transfer
to Hedkwarters Co. insted Of Co. +,
or mayby | can get back in the Sup
ply Co. | had ruther by a mayor be-
kaws they say a lieut.. has to no ev-
~. - l,,, hnc
to no everythin and do nuthin and a
mayor has to no nuthin and do nuth
in. But I amt got the pull necessary
to be a mayor. You never saw a ma
gor who had ben mayor very long
bekaws if they are any good they are
promoted to be lieut.. col. which is
more of the same. The only reason
thare is 50 many lieut.. coils. and ma
gors is bekaws there is 50 many
coils. If they wasent SO many Off
sers in the Am. army thare would be
more eftishency bekaWs they would
have to use more solgers selekted to
help run it. A cap. comes out in the
mornin and says squads right squads
left company halt now you take them
lieut.. and the lieut.. takes them while
the cap. goes back to finish the rest
which WAS disturbed by revilly 5.45
q. m. And the lieut.. says rest squads
right left mean right front into line
company halt all right sargent you
drill them and he goes back to see if
his dogrobber has blown his are pill
lar up too hard. And the top sargent
says right dress he'd and eyes to the
right share, whatinell do you think
this is a chanst to observ the scenery
did you learn how to be a solger on
a site seein wagin git back in the
middle YOU aint posin for "A photigra1.
E'runt. Iure at atenshun squads
right march. Corp. Iurllins git on
yure JOB do you think all a corp. has
to do is hold a pivot on squads left?
Them stripes amt tatued on yure
arm you know. right frunt into line
hold your posishun this amt no race
etc etc. etc. What the govermunt
wants to pay fansy prises for 50
many lofer offisers for is beyornd
me.
you no Lieut.. Southland which
use to he a lawer in Williamson.
Burley and Maklenes well hes COM
mandin Co. + which l want to get
back with. Hes strong on stunts
like jumpin and climin ropes to get
his men SO they can ketch Girmans.
Well he puts up bar in his STREETS
and says jump over. Hes regler
guy and his men would of jumped
over a tent if he says SO and SO they
did. Then he shows them how to
get over rite. He says hurdle 1t and
YOU land reddy to keep goin like
this. l never seen nobody hurdle that
way befour. He sticks his frunt toe
under the bar and next he lands red
DIV to keep goin like he says. He
goes ah.d about six yards ploWin up
the compeny strete with his face.
Then he has the bar taken down and
puts up Il by pole with rope which
we is to cline hand over hand. And
then a few days later he is back frum
the base horspitel after they try
to find out what is the matter with
him with exrays.
Hoping you are the same yure
CRATE admirer
Stubby