New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-06-05
SOLDIER BOYS LONG
:. TO E.0LD HOMES
LETTERS FROM TRENCH ANH
CAMP PICTURE HUNGER
FOR HOME SIGHTS -.

APPRECIATE -HOMEwPAPER ANn
HOME EATS, AS NEVER
DID BEFORE
A few lines from Ben Wiltschsck tn
the Review contains information ms
friends will be interested in. He saxzs,
Camp Meade, Maryland,
May Is, 1918.
When I last wrote to you was asszs
before | went to Boston on special sd,tsw
with the Fore River Ship Bldg Ooszz.
That was about Thanksgiving. On w
LIST I reported back to the PhilaaetpM,a
Navy Yard.
My five months stay in Bostpns px,
one OF the most Interesting perieds i'm
my life. One could build wall around
that city and the whole place would be
most wonderful museum. r.
All literary men of any standing thaf
America ever had seem to have been
born in Boston. Every cobblestone IN
the streets has history of its own- -.
l am now in the officers Training
School at Camp Meade, the place I've.
been wanting to be these last twelve
months. This surely Is work. :IEsE
like good days farm work and goaa
days College work all in one. But: Il
am enjoying every minute of it. Is IL
fine training, both mental and physical.
We will get through here on Sep
TENDER; until then I should like to have
my Review sent to me here:
expect to see little old New Uhsa
again in September.
Sincerely yours,
BENZ. E. WILTSCHECK.
346th Infantry Regiment,
! ~ 87th Division, National Army
: 2 May 26, 1919,
Dear Editor 81
Often did I intend to write>a few ywursH
and with it thank the New Ulm Pub.
co. for sending us boys the Review whIch
we have never failed to receive each
week since we left eight months agr.
Each week ron Friday the package af
Review papers is sure to arrive and vsx
go thru its pages with eyes as hungry
as our stomach's are after a lonx
days march, and in this way once each
week we are back in New Ulm- ..
It is very warm here at times and thesn
last few days it has been from 80 tn 1oe
degrees, but many times this is quickly
changed by heavy rains which come very
suddenly. Our last rain few days aga
was so heavy that within 80 rnin,Hsz
our barracks was in the middle of water
one foot deep, but almost cas- quick as
it comes it disappears, as the g1urmSfz
are well drained so as to carry off any
ordinary rain. We are glad to SEE these
rains come for it always does one good
thing and that is settle the dust (Which
IS the greatest discomfort we ,haya fD
contend with. But now all streets and
parade grounds are being oiled which WIZ
do away with the dust.
We don't know the number of soldiers
here nor could very correct number
be given, as they are daily going out ana
new drafted men coming in.
We have good entertainments every
evening given by the Y. M. C. g., al
which there is one to every regiment.
These entertainments are usually sndh
as moving pictures or stunts by sokleH
who were professionals in their cIvT
life, and many times people of Littk
Rock. come out to entertain the bow
with such as singing, music, reading, arN
short plays.
Again thanking you for the Review,
and hoping that we may enjoy readm.
it for sometime to come, and with beSt
regards to all friends, am,
# Very truly,
WALTER j. GAREE.
P. S. Am enclosing a clipping ouE
OF the Arkansas Gazette, which de-
scribes the 346th band Of which Corp.
Armjn Mack and myself are members,
thinking it may be of interest to, om
musical friends at New Ulm.
:. No band in the Eighty-seventh div
ision has stronger bunch Of supp01irzs
in its own organization than the 24HEh
Infantry band, and it also has many
admirers in Little Rock and sthDugh-
out the camp, officers say Band Issr
Blair Yon has had IS years experaa,a
IN the army and has beens aasolo srausuE4
ist in army bands from the Atlanta
coast TO the Philippines and; HonohIl
and from the Great Lakes to the CUR
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