Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-02-07

after ten days. hike. It sure was
some trip. We are on the MoselIe
river, about fifteen miles from the
Rhine and about twenty miles west Of
Coblenz. l wish you could see some
of the country I have went through.
We are right in the mountains here.
You don't see the sun only about IN
hour each day; to be true about it. we
haven't seen The sun at all in the last
three weeks. 1t has been foggy and
raining most of the time. / got q fine
place here to stay There are three Of
US Sergeants together with q German
family. We sleep in the dining room
30 we are real comfortable. The Ger.
mans are real good to US and treat us
fine. The first night slept in Ger
many l had q real feather bed and
Lordy, I sure slept. I WAS wishing
morning wouldn't come for week for
I sure could have spent the time in
sleeping. 1t was the first and last bed
I had since left the States. There is
. train goes right by our window here
about every hour double track it
puts me in mind of being at home.
They raise lot of grapes here on
these mountains. How they ever pick
them ! don't know for the mountains
are nearly straight up and grapes clear
to the top. =" ...-
We didn't get any cards to send home
for Xmas boxes so l guess we are out
of luck of getting any thing from the
States for Xmas. Maybe will come
home after some yet. ha! hs! Its hard
to tell when we will come home; it may
De soon and it may not, The quickest
way is too darn slow for me. l and a
few of the other boys are going out
deer hunting tomorrow. They say
there are lots of them around here and
also wild boar, so we might have a
deer for supper tomorrow night.
In the second letter dated Dec, 22nd
he had arrived at Coblenz and writes:
I'VE have moved again since l last
wrots you; hiked two more days and
landad in CobIenz. We got here last
Thursday. Its pretty big city, about
60. 900. It sure is. . pretty place. It
lays right along the Rhine river, be-
tween the Rhine and the Aosslls. We
are here doing guard duty. am away
from the company now i'm different
part Of the town. have twelve pri-
|vatse ~ two cofporala With ma q,
fihk guard duty and hasjn9 = geoa
time. 5
In his third letter written Jan. lst
Sergeant Ferrie had been moved back
to France and was at Chatillon. and
writes of his trip and new occupation
As follows: rs.. ~. ,a,,-
We'll, l have moved again; am way
back in France. three day and two
night train ride from Coblenz. l am TAX
ing up school on the automatic rifles.
Don't know how long it will last, maybe
SIl1SC VI, AOux "SeASs 4uC4S O4O y
thousand or more Of 10 here 30 have
lots Of company. The school is called
the infantry weapon school, there are
different courses but happened to get
the automatic. .%.s 's
left CobIenz the day after Christ.
mas, got here last Saturday night and
have been laying around ever since.
School doesn't start until tomorrow.
This is the worst country l have struck
yet. I guess it rains here sll the time,
never stops and nothing but mud.
Hasn't showed any here yet, but was
quite q lot in Coblenz when we left
there.
.... - y -.ssr
There are so many interesting letters
given us from the country's soldier
boys that some of them get little old
before we can find time to place them
in tvne <or anare fn s1sss them One 0f