The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-01-14
soon. Sending lots of hugs and kiss
es to all | remain,
Votre avec beaucoupe aimer.
Sgt. ROY H. CLARK.

Mr.. and Mrs. E. W. FELTON,, who
have three sons, Henry, Guy and
: Byron, in their country's service, are
in receipt of the following letters from
them, two of the letters being to the
parents and two to the sisters. The
letters follow:
Dec. 8, 1918.
Dear Sis: VIII answer your letter
1 received this day. I have addressed
all of my mail to Moscow thinking
you were there l will again try
Moscow almost said Avon.
This "flu' is getting to be too old
a story for me. Los Angeles is still
open SO | have place to go on lib
erty to.
Got letter from Guy today. You
said Byron was trying to get out. Is
mother completely well yet? Well I
hope you are back at school now. You
have had some vacation believe me.
To get out | guess / would have to
have an affidavit sworn to before a
notary public by father that I intend
ed to return to school. Then / guess
| could get out in couple of months.
If | come back | guess l would have
to go to work pretty hard. In these
submarines we work a full eight hours
a day besides two or three night
watches of four hours every week.
We wear what are called in the navy
"dungarees." They are plain over
all suits. We have to wear the white
hat of course. Well I hope you do
not get the 'flu" The '3fIu" won't
get me if l know it.
| know Hazel is not lonely for
i, L Z
company for while. | would like
said father saw. Have BEEN detained
IN camp for a few days with an m
growing toe-nail (No I did not say
ingrowing disposition at all. 1T was
a toe-nail.) l am going to have it |
manicured soon. In other words cut
out. Well | am still your foolish
brother,
HENRY.
Dec A, 1918.
Dear Sister Freda: Well / guess
you will have to spend this Christmas
without me-. Don't worry though, |
may look foolish but l can take care
of myself. Spent liberty in Los
Angeles. Had fine trip from Puget
Sound. The old "sub" rolled to an
angle of 81 degrees; also we rolled
with it. Also my stomach turned in
side out and kept turning inside out
with great and laborious effort on my
part. / would eat a. couple of apples
and then ?x!xz!xzE? they would go /
into a bucket. All of the old sailors
and all of the new sailors were doing
it. In fact everybody was doing it
all of the time. On me it lasted for
about "a hours and during that time !
it gave me no rest. Even water would ]
act the same way. /
That was a real sea experience and :
liked it when 1 was not sick. Well {
have been to sea in a "Hell diver" :
which is more than many people can i
say. The sea certainly looks fine {
when the big swells ran about 20 or |
30 feet high and the old "sub" would
run her ~nose" into them and then
they would go "aft" over her old {
decks and splash against the bridge
and coming tower. Part of the time {
We could not even go on the bridge
and had to look out through the peri
scopes. | learned to steer the boat
also. Oh, | may learn little if / e
stay here.
Show this to all of the girls-it is +
FOUR brother,
HENRY. L
Dec. II, 1918.
Dear Mother: Your letter to hand
yesterday. sent you a picture of
he R. S. yesterday and hope you will
get it O. K.
Well the censorship is now off all t
nail SO l can tell you where / am all {
he time.
/ got to make one liberty in New n
York before we left. 1t is an, easy c
lace to find your way but don't like
t as well as Boston / got to see old ]
Broadway and then it was goodbye I
Broadway. We left there Thursday r
md arrived in York River at York b
own Friday. We took on seven hun
lred tons of coal Saturday and clean il
d up our seven million dollar home a
sunday. s
On Wednesday we transferred five
hundred and twenty-one of our crew