The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-02-06

that morning cocoa at 5 cents (25
centimes) per cup, and all the but.
tered toast we could eat for 25 cen
times. We saw some interesting
places in Dion and spent the day look
ing over the city.
Is-Sur-til, which is a large rest camp
and distributing point for American
soldiers. Well we were sure glad to
get out of there the next morning as
that was another mud hole. We left
in box cars, but dropped off at a
small town and caught a passenger.
About one o'clock in the morning we
reached ChaumOnt, so you see along
with many others spent l spent Christ
mas eve in a box car. We were 60
ing to hang up our socks in the box
car but would have frozen our feet
if we had done so.
When the three of us who had taken
the passenger, reached Chaumont, we
got off and stayed at a Y. NJ. G. \.
over night and have spent Christmas
day ct the Y. NJ. G. A. Two things
have happened today to mark this
Christmas day for us who are here,
one is that at present it is snOwinS,
the first snow we have seen in
France; the other is that President
Wilson was here today and Of course
ii has beer a big day here. When
| left the company | told some of the
boys ! was going to Paris to see Pres
ident Wilson, but | did not expect 10
see him as | had no idea he would be
anywhere that | would happen to stop.
Paris is in the other direction from
our company, so l would not go there,
but nevertheless | can go back to the
company and say that I did set him.
The reason that he has been here is
that this place is headquarters for tins
A. z. F..
Well / guess | must close as this
is a very long letter. We leave for
our companies tomorrow morning
about 9:15, so | will mail this when
| get there. 1t sure is a job travel
ing here as we have to have all kinds
of papers and passes and get them
stamped every time we go into a
place and when we leave. Goodbye.
With much love, Otto.
Bonnet, France, Dec. 80, 1915
Dear Folks: AS you see by this let
ter, | waited until | got back to the
company before sending it, so | will
add a few lines.
When | arrived at the company, the
first thing | did was to get my mail.
I got two letters from YOU and one
from Hazel. But that was not all, |
received my Christmas box from home
also. That was sure a good one, every
thing in it was something which is
hard to get over here. When | sent
the coupon | forget to mention that
| did not need any clothes of any kind
and only wanted candy, so | was
afraid you would send something like
that, but the way it turned out the
box was sure great. | also received
a box from the company at the same
time so did not fare so badly at Christ
mas, considering the conditions.
Yesterday | took a walk to some
nearby towns and discovered some
of my old pals. l saw, Philo Mia,
Dexter Dewing, Fred Jerde, a man by
the name of Woodruff, who went to
college when | did, also one named
Scott, Mitchell and Roy Christensen,
Percy .Gullick's cousin, so you tell him
| saw him, also tell him hello. Some
of the other men who should have
been with these, were away to school.
The LIST battalion of the 147th Field
Artillery is at another town near
here, so If | get a chance to go there
l will see some more of the Brook
ings boys-Andrew Pultz, Jason Dry
er. Horace Aver, Lieut.. George Web
er. Bartlett, and a number of men
who went to college.
Well this is making rather a long
letter. so I will close. With love.
Otto.