Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-08-16
Tell all my friends hello for me. |
will write again soon.
CORP. RAWLEY TOTEM.
To Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. Tctten, r. F.
ID. 2, Tazewell, Va.

To Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Tctten, r. F.
d. 2, Tazewell, Va.
C. b, 515th Engineers, A. E. F.,
June %, 1918.
Dear cousin and friends:
thought l would write you all
while l had the time. | am having a
very good time, altho work every
day, except Sunday and l have work
ed on Sunday once since | have been
here, but | do not like it v3ry wcr.
Under certain conditions enc has to,
altho we get the 4th of July as a ma
tional holiday that will kindly give n
little ease. If | were back in the
States for the 4th could have Il
much grander time, but | hope we
will be back by this Lime next year.
Now, going back to our trip across
the water, which occurred some time
ago. Everything was quiet and very
calm, not even a storm on the waters
while we were crossing. | got Il lit
tie sick once, but it didn't amount to
very much.
| suppose you all are working n
little these days. Say, have you ever
havn't heard from him yet. Write
Your cousin, ANDY.
From Andy Stump, to his cousin, Miss
Georgia Mae Repass, Grafton, Va.
No Country Better Than America.
The following letter has been re-
ceived here from DR.. JAS. II. Neal,
the former Shawvers Mills doctor,
who is now serving his country with
the American EXpedtionary Forces.
The letter was addressed TO Senator
j. p. Royal:
Somewhere in France, July Is.
My Dear Senator:
Your letter of June 81 received,
and OF course as it is the pleasure of
all Of us over here to get letters,
was glad to get this one.
From the information | get from
it, | believe you would be glad to
hear something of the things which
are, and are doing over here, so to
make it as short as | can, | will say
that the country is very beautiful, ev-
erybody lives in villages about a
mile apart, and all the roads are mac
adamized and run in almost every
direction, trees and grass line the
road sides and flowers are abundant
everywhere, but better than all of
this are the French people who live
i'll these villages. There is nothing
too good for them to do for the Amer
lean officers and soldiers while sta
toned OF passing through them.
All of this being true, / do not
mean to say or have you think this
country is better than America, for
it is not. America is the best of all.
and is really worth lighting for and
just as soon as every man, woman
and child in America put their whole
soul in the cause, the dough boys
will soon be coming home.
AS for myself l must say | hated
to leave my people and friends with
out physician, but now that | am
here, | will have to say | am glad
did leave them, and if any mothers
boy from America is so unfortunate
rs to get wounded or sick and comes
my way, this mother may rest assur-
ed that I'll take care of him,
AT present | am stationed in lit
tie village not far behind the lines.
| have number of motor ambulance
es here under my control. They can
run from fifty to sixty miles an hour,
and ii is not but very short time
after man is wounded until he is Or,
his way at the above rate to a place
of safety.
have nice room here and plenty
to eat. | see the boys in the trench
es frequently. They are all jolly ana
in the best of spirits, and are look
ing forward to coming home, but not
until the war is over.
With kindest regards, l am,
Very sincerely yours,
DIR. JAS. T. NEEL.