The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-01-29

Chaplin has been experienced enough
of the hardships of war to find that
soldering in the environments over
here was paradise to what he went
through with. He says futher:
Dear Mother and Family: re-
ceived your letter Christmas day. 1t
is the FIRST mail have gotten since !
came over, l then wrote you a card
to send the next day, but when the
next day came we had orders to go
TO the boat, so / now have the card
in my pocket Am away out in the
ocean now, started the Goth. We are
about one third OF the way over, hav-
ing splendid weather and getting
along fine. But we will be longer
coming back than we were going
over We went over on the British
ship Aquitania in seven days. We are
now on the u S. s. Battleship Geor-
gia; will be about twelve days COM
ing and will land at Newport News,
| Va. We were all awfully sick the first
day out but everybody is we'll now
and wants to eat the whole boat up.
have gotten poor but / think I
will soon gain it back when get half
chance. l have had many hardships
which | will tell you about when l
get home. l will be on the water when
the old year goes out and the new
year comes in They say we are to
have a turkey dinner on New Years
day; it is reported that we are to
rave 1900 pounds turkey on board.
Didn't Get His Christmas Box.
never received the Christmas box
you sent me. Hardly expect it will
come back to the States to find me,
but | think | can afford to miss it
to get back to the u. S., altho /
would have been more than glad to
have gotten it while | was over there.
Don't know yet what Camp we will
be sent to when we get over, or how
long it will be before l get home, not
long l don't think. But do know
it will take me several days to clean
up before l am fit to come home. We
all had our hair clipped close before
we came over YOU can imagine about
how l look when l get there. Guess
all the other boys around have al
ready gotten home They will never
know the hardships of war.
Soldering in U. S. A. Paradise.
Soldering in the u S. A. was a par
adise compared with this over here
But am proud to have this much
start on my way back, and to be iptas
good condition as l am.
l will close for today as l am doing
some bad writing anyway. Will write
some more in a few days and mail
when l land
New Years Day.
Well Mother, we are still sailing
along with nice weather; it is warm
and the sun is shining pretty and you
can sit out on the deck in perfect
comfort.
We have just eaten dinner and we
sure had turkey and plenty of it too.
We get more and better to eat on
this boat than we have since we left
the States and we certainly appreci- /
ate it too for we had pretty hard |
living while we have been away.
have a good appetite now, and think
l will go to gaining in weight right
away.
We have few cases of sickness on
board but nothing like | would think |
there would be considering the cir
cumstances under which we have |
lived.
Will write more when get nearer
the shore.
Sunday Jan. 5th 1919.
Will write a few more lines this
Sabbath morning We have just had |
church services This sounds curious,
doesn't it? But we have a Chaplain,
a piano, song books and all that is
necessary for holding services. Had |
service last Sunday too, but l hope
we will not be on here another Sun
day.
We travel from 325 to 345 miles
every "a hours. We may get in by
Tuesday the 7th. We have passed !
the time off very we'll to take us SO
long. 1t is long, long way across,
5000 miles to where we are going.
may be quarntined for few days,
and we may not be discharged as
soon as we think so can't tell when
will get home, but ] think now we
will make il across all right.
Am sending you some pictures of |
this ship. Yop can look at them now
and l will tell you of them when get
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