New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-01-22

treated az we are now. The billet IL
am staying in is only 4 small house and
every night when we go TO bed they
bring US 4 feather bed to sleep on. I
told the lady one night that we. were
used to sleeping on hard places but she
refused to have us sleep on q hard place
Every where we go we are always vel
come to their houses but it seems as
s. they hate the French people.
SlI have seen some very nice scenes.
We recently marched through a city
in Germany called Trier and we saw
some. buildings that are 1900 years old.
They were occupied BY Kaiser Nero
while in Germany aa
he concludes his letter with regards
to his friends and wishes them a Happy
New Year.
Sgt. VIM. q. Nichols, who is with the
a. r. F. in France, wrote his parents on
December 18th that he was expecting to
leave there soon. He had already mail
ed some packages Of things he had. He
tells how greatly he enjoyed the box
of home made goodies that he received.
Two weeks previous to that time he
wrote, I'VE had a big Thanksgiving
dinner with turkey, pie and everything
else that goes with it. I bet they had
a good time at New Ulm when news
of the armistice reached them but I
don't think that they were any hap
pier than the French people were. I
happened to be in town that day and
every one met had a smile bigger than
i Jack johnson had, when he won the
/ fight from jeff In several letters he
encloses copy of the Plane News
which is an American paper published
for the interests Of those in the A..
E. F.
The following is letter from PRIV.
Theo. J. Weier, Battery A, Saith Field
Artillery, A. f.. f. AS it's very in
tercsting we give it in full.
It was written to his family who live
on Route g.
Mensdorf, Luxembourg,
December 9, 1913.
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Dear Folks: I received three Of
your letters which were mailed the Z,
8 and II of November It took them
just month to get here but l was in
deed very glad to hear from YOU
No doubt you have been looking for
letter from me for some time, but as
we have been travelling for two weeks
we haven't had a chance before this to
write since we left France. We were
transferred from the First Army into
the Third Army and therefore are now
attached to the Third Army which is the
Army Of Occupation in Germany. We
thought we were on our way home once,
but it turned out different. On the
22nd of November we had two day
pass and as had heard before that an
Infantry from Camp Dodge was located
in the same vicinity we were, set out
to find them. I found that bunch all
right but Henry WASH It with them, but
| saw several other boys from North
Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and
two from Brown county. We then
went on to look for the Infantry in
which Henry is but was out Of luck.
That evening when it grew dark we
were SO miles from our quarters, and
rather tired so we crawled into pile
Of straw to sleep. But we soon come
down off the pile and went on with our
hike in order to keep warm. Went quite
q ways from there. We stopped for "a
while at a place and learned that the
35lst Infantry was about 8 miles from
there in town by the name Of Fleurry
Gin France) but when we got there, late
in the night they weren't there either
so we. gave up and hit the hay again.
We must have gone about SO miles that
day. OF course we had a ride most
Of the way.
Next morning we went back and
started off in another direction, come
!up into the Argonne Forest where some
!. of the fercest battles were fought. We
! como to a very high hill which. was
one dugout divided into compartments
and rooms for men to sleep i'll and
streets and walls all the way thru. It
twas sure great. One compartment was
isfor German officers and / say they
sure had a swell place to live in. The
walls were all of marble or granite, de-
corated very pretty. They had electric
i lights and hot and cold running water;
sure was a fine place. The Germans held
the place for 4 years but when the