The Belding banner-news. (Belding, Mich.) 1918-1973, 1918-07-17

s"8 @D@fNc ouCc III awhile. well,
now are you all feeling nowadays;
mas Austa got back to Bedding yet
l have not heard from anyone in SO
long l don't know if they are dead or
alive.
Well, is Ollie still working for the
Adams Express company? If he is
and you ever see HIM, tell him / said
hello and i will be back soon to help
them again. You know / don't ex-
pect this war to last over another
year or so, so you see I'll be back in
q short time. Well. Mother, no kid
ding, don't think it will last more
than six months more at least l hope
not as ! am ready to come any time
now. III say things are somewhat
different here than over there and
the world will tell you there is not one
but what will be glad to see the old
U. s. A. again. But there is a lot
TO do yet as the Huns are long ways
from being licked yet, but / think we
have got them on the wing from the
way the papers talk but / think the
papers here are just about as truthful
as in the u. s. but do think we know
whole lot more about the war than
you folks at home, anyway you'll
think SO when we get there and tell
what we know and what we have
seen; Wen make the people think
they didn't even know there was a
war, Well, suppose you are getting
tried OF war talk SO I'll change the
subject and talk about the weather.
1t has been raining here off and on
Tor the last three days but / don't
mind that as it is the first time have
seen any since the first day / got in
France and believe me it sure did
RAIN that day and we had to walk
about two miles in it. (Oh, it is a
great life If you don't weaken.) But
we wouldn't care if it rained every
day II the rain would end the war;
1T seems as if they fight the hardest
when it rains, any way the guns
sound worse.
Now and then they put nice little
barrage over to let us know they are
still lighting; they keep us awake
about two-thirds of the night and then
have heart and let US sleep the rest
OF the time until morning.
Well, Mother, the supply sergeant
wants to use the machine so I'll close
Tor this time, hoping to hear from you
soon, remain, your loving son,
Pvt. Chas. T.. King,
Evac. Amb. Co., Prov. No. Il. A. +. F. \
The following is a short, snappy let
ter from Archie Gray, Smyrna boy, /
son of Mrs. Mary Gray. Archie is !
well known around here and up until /
the time when he and Frank Hub
bard, a Cooks Corners boy. son of I
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey Hubbard, en-
listed last November, worked for John |
Morse. Archie's letter, while not
very long, was written to Mr.. and |
Mrs. b. j. Storey and tells a great |
Zeal in the few Ines, which are as
Somewhere in France. June %, 1918
Dear Friends:
l will take the pleasure of writing
you today as l am off from duty and
nave a fairly good place to write. L II
ant say much but to let you know |
I'm well and hope this will find you all
he same.
Well, / have been in the trenches
md seen the first of the blood shed
md it is hell; there are lots of rats
here and at night you would think
t was a lot of horses running around
ut in front of you. And they made
ne bring my rifle up lot of times
that some-you know what
vas coming but would take another
ook and see what it was. l can't
ell you much of the life of war now
ut hope l can in a short time.
can't think of much more / can
write, but you write as often as YOU
an. III
Hoping to hear from you soon, am
s ever, your friend, II
Archie Gray,
Co. d, 10th Inf, "A. E. F. France.
Mrs. Anna Moon is also in receipt
T letter from her son, Kenneth
loon, who was one of the first of the
,cal boys to enlist when this nation
1ent into the gerat world war. His
,tter follows: II
Camp Bulls, Lon Springs, Texas,
July a. 1918.
'earest Mother:
Well you should really give me a
out because | have
OF written before but we have been
| three places since last wrote and
ont know where we are going to
say.
/ am at Lon Springs, Texas. the
anne of the camp is Camp Bulls; it
situated among the mountains and
sure very beautiful and pictur-
sque place; the hills are full of
lCAnffp,poI IN Dooo Esxal Ill