The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-05-02
From Roy Florance
Evacuation Hosital No. 10.

Lear Ddu anu MOCuer.
Received your welcome letter of
March 9Th, this noon. Intended
writing before. Had started a /
couple of times but as far as got
was the heading and then l was in
terrupted, but this is Sunday after
noon and it is quiet so | think Twill
be able to peck out few lines at
least. 1t certainly is beautiful
day, has been raining all morning,
this afternoon it turned to snow
and for the last half an hour it has
been showing quite hard and every I
thing is covered with new white !
ness. | received the Kendrick
paper which you sent in an envelope |
and also one roll of papers which
contained two Kendrick papers and
a couple of Digests. Was glad to
get. them. especially the Kendrick
papers, altho the news is old it is
interesting. q sent book the other
day, to Fern and frankie, of A. E.
F. cartoons. Hope you get it
O. K. for there are quite few in
terestlng cartoons in it,--also sent
some post cards albums and about
dozen postal card pictures. Did
you get them?)
About the only thing of interest
l have to- tell you is our trip up to
Coblenz. We got back this morn
ing about one o'clock. Altho our
stay was short and the weather not
the best, we certainly enjoyed the
trip. Our pass was for forty-eight
hours. We left Trler at eight forty
five arriving in Coblenz about noon.
The trip to Coblenz is by rail down
the Mosele River and we passed
thru some very beautiful country as
you will see by the Post Card AL
bum.
The first thing we did upon our
arrival was to look up an eating
joint We dined at the 7. M. c. A.
Cafe. Then we looked up the Bill
lifting Officer and arranged for our
! quarters. From then until bed
time we spent looking over the city.
We strolled down to the notorious
Rhine and across the pontoon bridge
and up to the Fortress which is on
the other side overlooking the city.
1t certainly is an interesting old
fort. We strolIed back mad went up
on the old Statue that stands out on
a peninsula overlooking the Rhine
and Mosee Rivers.
After visiting a few places of in
terest we diHed at the Y. M. G. A.
Hostess House and then to the Fest
Hall, there we enjoyed very fine
entertainment which was put on by
some Infantry outfit. While we
were there we met one of the fel-
lows from Camp Dodge who came
over with US, he was stationed at
Coblenz with Eacuation "a. We
talked over old times with him and
by that time it was time to hit the
hay.
The next morning we started or
our trip up the Rhine. The boat
left the pier at ten o'clock. The
weather was bad, it showed anC
rained the biggest part of the day
but nevertheless we enjoyed it
The map of the Rhine which an
sending you will give you much
better idea of the section of thu
country that we went thru than
will be able to tell or describe
All | can say is that it was grand
The weather compelled US to sta.
down below in the saloon. W.
would have gotten a much bette
view of the country If we coult
have remained up on the deck. W.
had Marine band along with u
and also some German musicians s.
we had lots of music on the way
We had dinner on the boat, the Y
M. C. A. also put out candy, cook
les and cigarettes. We got back t
Coblenz about four o'clock and upo
investigation found that our trai
left at six o'clock. Wevgot suppe
at the Red Cross Canteen an
then boarded our train.
There were three of us on thi
excursion and we had compart
ment in the car all to oufselve:
andout side of little scuffiing W
spent most of our time yn the re
turn sleeping. We arrived i
Tries about twelve-thlrty. W