The Springdale news., 1918-09-06
.oIIs TO GO OVER

IHxIous TO "Go o' h" .....
 ,ra4xtracts from letter Fay ', stafford. Co. C, lo6 h Trait Camp Wheeler the letter bearing da'e cme f0'"Ji Just received five
 in a bunch. which, with the al' af li onp received yesterday, vi ..t 0'1s naVs from home since rp The mail has been tied
 |. transfer at the receiving Aieb el is iust temporary place .oen en We have eomjany ren. We have a company 2;m bpsy for about a week
 transfer until t today nt !.lI five letters. Talk about "A I. Istters t, | consumed these
 Future mail should reach
 vI of = six Arkansas boys, of ss one, took in Macon Sun, yne camp about 3 o'clock and 'is~ al ' D. m. They have auto (,om camp to town, and l
 Dodge, which, of course .s feel like being at home lscon is a town of between F., 5O.000 people, about such q '1 Fort Smith. Street ears IN aiee park on one of the l.'ssets At this park Sunday Isss tbey had three bands play sesrts, two army bands and the r l spent most of the after ning back and forth between | f1rds, and finally late i'll the - decided that the Zl04th u band was the best ot the After hearing them play n Tell The army bands koat thirty pieces and practice < tine, and some after supper |hsye to learn the dfill.@as do ' in the service.
 1 wanted to know the duties of munition train They carry Sition to the men. We have a diyisiof. and a horse or mule n. ] am in the latter. All our Bs done at night, resting in the ne- that is, in actual service, T now of course You ask if it Hazardous. Records show that n hen nave been killed off am- pn trains since We got Tn the V could see the men in Infantry mping trenches with bayonets |&nd yelling like mad men; see n6hine gun men throwing hand - and drilling at double time F6nes, you would be more than t1aw on one of these wagons ', snd take your chances after 6n all the rest are asleep.
 2 Houston, a Fayetteville boy, " radio at the U. of A. at my M been transferred to the Aent battalion on account of and will be kept on thf5 side N4 duty, or something of that Nc is very much dissappoint- Mre would like to be going mt now. Every man in the h of the same mind. You Nrally want to get to doing V that counts. Now, would
 something grand ?} if, ls over and We come back
 folks would ask you where
 and what you did, and all
 reply was that you were at Aeeler, Ga. Let's be going hexe been having gas practice
 pun in the afternoon this
 IS, each man is given a
 ls shown how it works and
 fy the same. It is carried
 side and held by strap cross the right shoulder.
 pm three miles of the front
 lffled directly in front. with around the neck and the lhg on the breast. lt has zs ssrtments in one Is a= can
 ple r5 the size of a baking
 pgh which the first passes
 purified air. The can
 poer valve in the bottom .,s ns and closes as You breath
 T end of the can is attached
 Ier tube, which runs to the S. sh that fits tig ltly over the
 mask IS held steady by
 'en are fitted over the nose 4rd~e! speetaeles The breathing
 iough the mouth entirely slA seconds in which to nnt " .ss winch is easily done here
 know how it will be in Ia any of my equipment is, is It. tong duty over there. it
 De a,d 1nis article We will be
 masks when We get "l', ayer pe beve be vespeclally fitted to each
 ~" nave much drill with
 llae tonight, but waA A.a,,a
 .ts @lth a good floor and
 f;ad about four feet bipb a,Ir
 one ftOm Aiabama' ,ai ,gn' d%o be, m l',e From Tennessee. and HlAansas. Not o a,a ''.' " I donh+ much as smokes or ncS cHup' of m.. ii there is another CT Rfent a ara men Ter in the company
 every way. Gsse sOVe Vora. morals oral s 6thiosa are Very sociabie and and Issn lp.1g ale.iir for each other. ou, olu nice 'fferiy fer man, having been ke '1 on Tor T. fifteen years. '1i,. He
 like 7" the 'ne Mexican border
 wn rsF they hey might need 0e,uea soma
 'nere-rather go to Ere s'ee'sric ass eric lights in our
 My My tent is eSSa' ciose ta doe t.n men Y
 Ire. They have most s@a,a every
 Had fe,.slogs for.sn service every
 sday for 2 'aaies out from
 intsres,S;OoilIo ere. solos, piano duets s
 strong lecture by a