The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1919-02-27

! Kinds Of them around here. Ever,
division has a different insignia. sucl
~ Statue Of Liberty for the New
York Division, and the New England
Or 26th Division, better known as thu
Yankee Division, has "Y-D" for Yam.
kee Division. The Major who Is ir
charge Of our detachment, is going u
| giyc each one Of US one of these in.
signas which he is having made for us
They say that they are fine ones too
made from silk material and the let.
ters, cross and circle worked on by
hand. We expect to get them tomor.
row. Now II Ethel or any of the
other girls feel like doing anything
like that and have the spare time, they
/, can make up one Of them for me, as
l think that | will be glad to have a
good one when get back home.
1 sent father another Stars and
Stripes this week which ! hope you
will receive all right, as it is pretty
good issue. You will see a great deal
about these shoulder insignas in there.
! also sent one Of last weeks issue to
Mr.. Campbell, as l thought that he
would like to see what they were. /
have not received any letters from you
since December 23rd and that one yas
dated December End. l can not under
stand what the matter is as most of
the other fellows have received let
ters dated as late as December 30th.
l am afraid that | said something in
my letters that led you to believe that
/ would be home so soon that you de-
eide not to write any more after the
first part Of December. However, !
hope that is not the case and that you
continue writing me until you hear
something definite from me, as l am
not yet positive when we will. leave
here. There are six batteries leaving
here tomorrow, which will leave only
about one-fourth as many men here to
pay off this month as there were last
month. We will surely pay off the
few that are here this month, but !
think just as soon as we get that work
finished up we will be moving out Of
here ,and / hope direct to some base
port. We now hear that when we do
20 that we will go to St Nazaire to
sail from.
Well, think that l will come to a
close for this time, as it is beginning
10 get dark, and myself with two
other fellows expect to 60 down to
the rail-head or the 9. M. warehouse
kitchen to supper, which is about a
mile and half from here. We will
have to be on our way soon. We ex-
pect to have a pretty good feed down
there as they usually feed fine for the
army. With much love to you all, and
as always saying hoping this finds you
all in the very best of health.
January 23, 1919.
Dear Folks:
| thought that l would drop you a
Jew lines to help and break up this
long evening, as | have nothing else
TO do. / have just had little lunch OF
some soup which / warmed up on our
stove here, and also made some toast
from some bread which got at the
mess hall. OF course we have no but
ter or anything for our bread. but still
It isn't SO bad without, as l have got
used to bread without butter now.
Last evening we bought some French
cheese TO eat with our toast and it
went pretty good. They are small,
round and are very creamy and nice.
We pay one and a half francs for one,
and nearly every Frenchwoman makes
hem.
It is pretty cold here just now, but
10 snow as yet. We are having our
oldest weather now that we have had
his winter, but that is nothing like
What you are Having now know. This
: the first day that we have worn over
cats outside all day, but l presume
is great deal because we are
lsed to the cold and outside weather.
l received a letter from Perry last !
light, enclosing a letter from Ethel
md also one from Elsie. I was surely
,ery glad Of them both as they were
lated December 18th and is the latest
lews which have heard from you. ] '
IN sure that you people must have $
vritten many letters dated later than t
hat, but il SO for some reason have 4
ever received them. Perry also wrote n
ne a few lines, telling me that he was (
ow at an evacuation camp and ] d
hink somewhere near seaport, as he v
aid that he hoped to be sailing in the {
cry near future. He also enclosed in n
is letter q late clipping from The !
Journal which his mother II
ent him. | think that it must have
cen about the week before Christ
IFS, from the reading Of the items. h