Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1919-01-29

and | say ia, and that does the bust
ness. / have to laugh at the boys
you will hear them trying to talk and
get French and English and German
all mixed up. The people seem to me
quite a little duller in catching On to
quick-witted and catch on quickly.
These people are not filled with the
happiness and laughter hat the
French are. At the home in Minden,
the 8 children sat there with no sign
of playing or laughing like French
children, but like old men and women.
am getting fat again and eating
like horse and sleep the minute hit
the feather beds and don't wake up
till daylight. The weather here is
nice only it drizzles all the time and
makes things muddy. The fields are
green and the willows are budding
like spring time. See roses that can
not quite open in bloom but yet have
big buds on and / think if they were
cut and brought in the houses would
open out in bloom. The people don't
seem a bit warlike and we are all get
ting along fine. | am well, real well,
an am going to try hard and keep so.
We don't have any time to waste these
short days, as it gets light about 1880
and dark between three and four in
the afternoon. Lots of these people
wear wooden shoes like they did in
France They look like our German
population, only more so. 1t does
seem funny to come into town and
take what homes and schools and
places we want to live in. 1t is like
this: If Viroqua was in this towns
place (they are about the same size)
there would be two or three billeting
officers with a half dozen men come
into the town some morning, go to
the mayor of E'iroqua and tell him
that there would arrive at three in the
afternoon the 10th sanitary train
consisting of 80 officers and about
1000 men, also the ammunition train
with about the same number of men,
about 1000 in all. The mayor then
would have to find billets for all The
officers are TO have good bed rooms
and the men comforte bic places in the
barns or houses. Then we must have
large building for q hospital and
several places for offices and more
places for officers messes. Here our
office is in a large cafe that because of
the shortage of booze is temporarily
out of business. We also use the
woman s klIGllEAE ana dA5itS anu IuDltc
and we had nice table cloth and so
guess she donated that. Of course she
will get her grub which viii be a God
send and we viii pay her for it if
she will accept. Major Randall and
also CRUDE both speak good German so
they get along famously. We could
not ask for better treatment. The
men even don't seem war like and to
resent our coming. I am glad that as
| far as have seen the boys have been
very -Gsntlemanly and they remark
that we are very good to them to what
the German soldiers were. Of course
our boys have more money than the
German soldier and always pay for
what they get and if a store has any
thing they want they buy them out
very quickly. Well l have rambied
on enough | guess. Think the divis
ion viii come back as q whole. /
would like to get a vacation for sew
eral days and 90 through parts of
France. We might be sent home by
the way of Antwerp in Belgium but
don't know anything and l don't think
anyone else does. Well give my love
10 everybody and let them see this
letter if YOU wish as ] just can't get
the time to write very much.
CHAS. E. BUFFERS.