The Springdale news., 1919-01-17
FROM \ FORMER sPRINGDALE
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 Editor News Enclosed find draft far one dollar and fifty cents tsl.5o) for one years subscription to "sprlng- -s7e News" Our time expired Jan.
 1919. We certainly do enjoy read i7g n vour newsy little paper. It is inst like reading a letter from our many dear friends and neighbors Tn the Southland. We have particularly enioved reading the letters from Springdale boys who are dolng duty over seas. Some of the boys from this vicinity were in same divisions that Springdale boys were in, Black Hawk Division. l watched the Chi- eaeo papers closely. for the names of Springdale boys, who were listed in the casualties but fortunately saw none Several of our friends from Sterling were wounded or killed Tn action.
 Camp Grant, Rockford, H., is about seventy miles from here, so We have visited it twice. 1 always kept sharp look out for boys from Spring dale and Fayetteville, but saw none. Had I known the company or office or department to which they had been assigned could have found them, but to recognize any one in d camp of fort thousand soldiers, was an inn possibility. Last October my hus- band and I attended the American Bankers Association Convention in Chicago. and while there, the mem bers of the 4. B. A. were guests of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, north of Chicago on Lake Michigan. Such sights as we saw there on the parade grounds lm- agine fourteen thousand young men, dressed in sailor uniform, drilling at one time, aided by eight military eiaekeyl bands, and then how they sang. Over There, The Gangs All Here. Dixie, It's a Long Long Way to Tipperary, Columbia, The Gem of The Ocean, etc, as they passed our seats. never heard any music like that. It simply took Us off our feet. If you go to Chicago don't fail to visit the Naval Station for it is the largest and best equipped in the world. Hundreds of buildings have been erected and more are in the course of construction. Fort Sheri- dan, Camp Peary. etc. are close to the Naval Station. Of course you have to have permits to enter the grounds, and then only certain day of the week, but you will be more than repaid for your time and trouble. Several times saw boys names from North Arkansas, mentioned in The Springdale News. who were training to be sailors, so l made a desperate effort to find some of them, but of no avail thought the boys names would probably be listed on the reg ister. by the state from which they came, but such is not the case. In order to find any special one, you must know his rank, his special line of work, his divison. his department etc Some are in the blacksmith de- partment, some garage, some laun- dry. some clothes cleaning and repair ] ing, some foundry, some the cooking departments, some excavating for the great sewer systems, some post of flee. etc. You can imagine the num- Der of garages needed to house, and keep hundreds of automobiles and trucks in repair The Station car ries on manufacture and business just as any big city, but 1t is owned and controlled by the Government. Some of the buildings are fine large brick : affairs while others are temporary wooden structures.
 : Well, started to write you note but woman like, l just couldn't stor talking. Please send The Sprngdalt News to my mother, Mrs. Anzonnetta ; Murphy, 402 W 10th St. Sterling, III With hearty greetings and well wish es for success in 1919. I am,
 Yours truly,
 Mrs Fred P ErariobS