Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-02-27
Finds Plenty Of Food in Germany

FIHdS flenfy or FOOu IA germany
Mrs. B. F. Ames. La Vale, formely
of Baraboos has received the following
letter from her. son. Sgt. list CT. G.
t.. Arnes, 166th Aero Squadron, A. Z.
r., Al P. o. 927. Germany.
=, January Is, 1919,
Army Of Occupation,
Trier, Germany,
Dear Folks:
Received your letter of December
81. last night, and was surely glad TO
get it. / was in town this afternoon
and had our dinner there. The people
seem to have plenty to eat in the line
Df vegetables and meat but seem to
he short of flour and sugar. The
store windows look full of things and
you do not see the poverty here that
you see in France.
The children fn France all wear
wooden shoes, but here nearly every
child has fairly good leather shoes
.That shows that they are not short
of leather. OF course prices are high,
hut we got good dinner today for
60 cents, and we had all we wanted
TO eat. The people all look well fed
and are we'll dressed. Ii it was not
for the German signs q person would
moi know this town from some good
sized American town. The side
walks and streets are a little narrow
but the stores and people about all
look alike. OF course. the people all
talk German, but we find quite a few
that can speak English. We can not
&ratrinize with the people here foi
they are still considered our enemies
and | guess they are too, until peace
is signed.
had my picture taken the other
night so some of these days may SEND
yoh one, that is il they are good
There were three of us and we each
had our picture taken separately, and
then all together If that did not
break the camera it surely must be q
good one.
Trier is very old town and there
are lots Of very interesting things
here. There are two very old .cathe-
d,a}s here and there surely is some
beautiful paintings and statues IN
tlfoan. There is also aG anphitheatre
v 1ere. in the Old Roman days, the
gisdiators fought wild. animals and
eaca other. That is all in ruins now
rat one can see the plan OF it; some
a. the seats for the spectators.
You say in your letter that you car
zee a difference in my grammer etc
Well, no doubt there is a difference
blt one can not much wonder. at II
wann you stop to consider that | have
Spant four and One-half months III
Tagfand, and nearly the same IN
france. and aM now III Germany. 1t
i, a wonder when we get back il we
can make ourselves understood. But
W.. dsne it in England and France,
ana are now doing it in Germany so
guess we can manage to get along
some way in u. S. A. II they would
lust get me back there | would take
chance on getting by.
To-day; while We were in town we
met two American girls and they
said Hello Boys, and it so took us
b. surprise that we did not know
.sropgh to stop and talk to them. 1t
sure took us by surprise.
Well, it is getting about bed time
SC will ring off for this time.
Ne expect to get home some day
but. when is hard TO say but we hope
tis get word soon to get ready to go.
When we get that word we will still
have a lot OF work to do for we still
have all our machines yet and it will
take some time to turn them all in
and get ready to move; but | hope the
order will come soon.
Will close with love,
Your son,
SGT. list CT. CLAUDE l.. AMES
1876 Aero Squadron A. P. Q. 92i,