The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1919-11-27
LETTER FROM LIEUT.. PROSSER


The following letter received
by George Stableford will no
doubt be read with interest by
the many friends of Lieut.. Pros.
ser in Yale:-
Kelly Field, Tex, Oct. 10, 10
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Stableford,
Yale, Michigan.
Dear Friends suppose you
will be rather shocked and sur
prised to receive this letter as it
has been such long time since l
wrote you last. | am really asham-
ed of myself for not keeping in
touch with you better than / have
but l am a very poor correspon-
dent and it is hard for me to keep
up with all my friends.
| got thinking about yoh folks
the other night and what good
treatment | received in Yale and
resolved that the first spare mo-
ment that l had that l would write
you. 1t makes me feel glad that
the accident happened where it
did when | see some of the officers
who have had accidents and the
doctors have not done a good job
on them and the sears show up
very badly. The scar on my face
can hardly be seen now, thanks to
the doctor at Yale, Michigan.
| have been about quite a bit
since you last heard from me.
suppose you know that was sent
out to California? | had a dandy
time out there, being able to fly up
to my home twice and show off to
my own folks.
Last July bunch of officers, in
Guiding myself volunteered to
come to Kelly Field and get equip
ped and then go down to the bor-
der and in case there was any
trouble with Mexico we would be
the first squadron to go in to that
country. That is what they told
us when they asked us to come.
We got down here all right, and
here we stay. | have had two or
three chances to go to the border
with different squadrons but did
not like the job they were going
to give me so have decided to stay
here. have a fairly good job,
and have a ship of my own to fly
whenever want to. am group
communication officer. Having
charge of all kinds of communica-
tions, including wireless telephone
and telegraph. Have to make an
inspection of the camps along the
border once every month.
This town is rather dead as
there are not many soldiers here
There is camp Travis, Fort Sam
Huston, Brooks Field, Camp Nor.
moyle, Kelly Field and the Re-
mount Station that are within a
radius of about ten miles of San
Antonio. At one time l think there
were over one hundred thousand
soldiers around here.
How are everybody up at Yale
Are they all getting married anC
moving away? Would like to come
up and see you all again, but from
the looks of things it will be some
time before that can be done. l an
trying to get leave through sc
that l will be able to go home al
Xmas time, but l think that l live
too far away to make it.
/ ran into a lot of officers thai
| knew up at Selfridge, as most Of
them came down here. 1t was {
pleasure to see some of them / an
sure. Wish that my squadron haC
been transferred to Selfridge in
stead of here, then / am sure
would have been able to fly Il
| Yale.
Ny address here is Kelly Field
San Antonio, Tex. l sure would
be glad to hear from you if yol
care to write, which l hope yot
, will.
Remember me to everyone vi
there and tell them / will be only
too glad to hear from any of them
Most sincerely.