The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-04-04
LETTERS FROM THE I
BOYS IN The CAMP

Mrs. Kathryn Lamm received the
following letter from her sor, Private
r. "A. Lamm.
Briey, March 5, 1919.-Dear Mother
Received quite a bunch of mail with
in the last, week and it has kept me
busy answering letters for the last
few days. Received yours of Febru-
Larry 2, Monday morning, together
with one from Lydia, Aunt Mary.
Rose, the kid, and several others.
Also rec Aived two papers the same
day and received four magazines
this morning and guess I'm consid-
cred lucky to get them o. X. The
I. gum was there too. / think the mail
is going through much better now
and ! am receiving some regularly
Hope you are too. We are having
awful weather here again, same as
when we arrived here. Very disagree
able. raining nearly every day. We
got some baseball material the other
day but If it doesn't stop raining we
won't ,be able TO have any enjoy
ment out of II. We are pretty well
fixed now Got some reading matter
too. Yes it's certainly too bad that
Al was disappointed. I've had several
letters from him. Haven't seen any
thing of my pass as yet Am going
to try and see him though when
leave. / don't know as l told YOU l
had very nice trip into Lorraine
and Luxembourg last week. We draw
rations at E$ch, headquarters Of the
Fifth division and which is not very
far from the city of Luxembourg. The
country is sure beautiful and the
most wonderful scenery all the way.
The trip was one of interest to me.
The towns are all more or less built
on hills which offers "a very nice
view CT the surroundings. Esch itself
is large city and has many differ
ent mineral factories and foundries.
1t seemed like / was getting back in
the L. S. by looking at the fair sized
buildings. wide and clean streets and
the people more up to date. / didn't
have Il very long stay there as We
had to have the meat for supper, but
managed to get to visit the X. c..
roolDs there. / tried to secure few
things for the outfit here but he was
all out of magazines and athletic
material, but he gave me a box of
cigarettes containing thousand
and beaucoup stationery which /
distributed among the bunch / pur-
chased some views of the surround
ing towns but l am afraid they will
disappear if l send them 50 I'm 60
ing to bring them myself, together
with my collection. | have quite a
few and my selection is getting
larger every day. Have views from
quite a few cities in Germany too,
including Coblenz, Third army head
quarters and 4 am going to hang on
10 them as / know where they are.
1t certainly will be too bad if we
can't get any icecfeam this summer
1t must of been very mild this
winter. You probably experienced the
same weather we did the last four
months. Gee, / just run up stairs to
get this afternoons mail and there
was one letter and that bunch of fun
ny papers from you. We will have
beaucoup 10 read now l guess. We
all slove TO read around here, es-
pecially with us laying around this
way. They changed the office hours
again and Pm on from 2 p. m. to
S>p m. We only keep open from s
| to g. Some of us are bound to leave
tootsweet l think. They have closed
Luxembourg office and several more
around here SO guess somebody is
going home. / don't think / will be
that lucky. Ha. Ha. Aunt Mary
wrote that they all had the flu and
that there still were some cases at
that time. They also had lots of rain
down there. She said Aunt Vickle
was expecting her boy home this
there were in service she claimed.
News is scarce as usual so | guess
I'll ring off for today. It's almost
! supper anyway and furthermore I'm
hungry as bear (as usuaD, so give
Imy best regards to Brokers, Hates
and Langs. With love and kisses to
all. From Ray.