The Springdale news., 1919-01-03
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oo,not imagine no" ii''sii so'o you ea to get letters from home
 It asss ..n at that We can usually flnd
 but sse eth them as some times there
 fauit " .arv much news about what Is
 IS nov nos on @ at home however when he
 goins .on,es in there is but few fei- ,n.al nall Sbp sGps will rot leave the mess line
 ioWs sf # ttszs < a letter for him, He
 .s so ss bis= place in line and some lts,as lsasss misses tis dinner but he feels 'rall s,,Jf 5ail if t9 gets letter.
 @sll No,s you asi. me what 1 was doing
 ' W. ,g,taf lad been doing since l aaea aa keea in France, it would be
 l,a,S ls.,.b easier for me to tell you what
 ,''ga sara rot dsne. I thought l had .ia .an most every thing but as 1t
 '. .sis rsining saight and don't think .sa.e will be much business will try
 .au voa as much as l think will
 s. by fRe ceHzar. We sailed from
 samn s Merritt. NJ, Sept. 1st with
 tWslyR other transports making 13
 ip all. Iande3 ia Liverpool, Engla nd ., the l3.h of Sept. Thirteen
 ssams to hang to us pretty well so
 mess We Hill be here about 13 months.
 We then were taken to what tisey
 cap rest e4np, South Hampton,
 Fpeland. missed the train out of
 liverpool so arrived at the camp at s.s0 Sent i4th. Slipped away and
 went up town, returned as a:00 p. m. and found the rest of the company ready to pull 85.i So grabbed my pack
 started out t see England on feot, 50 I can't say much for that r.st camp. We finally landed at some dock where Re got on some kind of
 a boat. Ike l aad never seen before.
 The first oncs in laid down, the next ones in sat down on the first ores, and the last ones to come in got he best of the whole deal as they rot
 to stand on top of the second bur .h. however l was very fortunate beng
 one of tho first I found a table ;nd rolled in under t, so 1 had verg nice trip aftez all Well after *e were all on she started, they footed the whistle then We knew someth ng was going 0 aaaaen. she gave enc big jump. popped and creaked then done the Boil Weevil Wiegle a turn or two then started bucking off out through the channel and believe me 1t sure did rock, but we were all prat-
 ty well u5e to that kind of stuff by
 then so did not mind 1t much, u en
 after every thing had quieted down
 they decided to feed Us some fit Vas then ?. ri.l of course We aI1ays have plenty b eat but 1t Is no he best idea to be full when you set on the boat, as 1t is too much trou )le to have to eat another meal so som.
 They opened up some jelly and cheese Of course they opened 1t on the ta ole l was under, well 1 got half a can of Jelly and some bread but the che SC was stronger than I so they got away, so you see that l played in luck all the way across We landed the next morning at about FOO in France. the name of our landing place was Le harYe. We went to another rest camp about six miles of course as we walked pretty slow we got to see quite lot of what was going on. We stayed in that camp a day ana a nail then started out again. We landed at the railway station then ooafaed the box ears, the size Of the cars were printed on the inside. For elght horses or 90 men, We only had zo men in our ear, you see the ears are much smaller here than what Ne
 nave at home. We'll we rode around
 III 'nis ear for three days and two hignts finally we landed in Perioueux whefe our new home was to be. eieaf at the other end of France from where We had started.
 After arriving here we unharnessed and begun to make our s seiSes at home. We were feed at .ae VI. elslhes mess for two days by that n, ,,,iie we had our mess shack ready. !. The next day after our arrival here i've me weBhuDnatsheWwiawak"2 a @ ~ sefe turned loose for the day to ~ ~ any where we pleased for the day .s 1 oeiieVe me we took in the sights 9- 9- refiqueax which is q city of about as,OOo population, but as to it's. mo- ae'H appearance and up to date ap- ss. sssaiiee II Is about in line with o;.; t.'asaaie So you can judge how the s,'ies r here compare with our cities. Ts 'sehing in France is built of stone. mo ~ streets are so narrow that Il fat .a .a4n would have to turn side ways V set through some of them.
 .; .'o4 about what l have been doing ,sa Wen, The first two weeks I Si,s. aas wlth the 54th engineers, we dug ,a.ap ,,ssaes' hauled logs and lumber, built s. seaas, drove motor trucks. carried psss.., .shefs and in fact I made myself lot lou n general, of course there are .;as, .sss ?, ol things too numerous to men a,o-, oA 'aat done, then I came back to i.sas .a at the hospital. After we fin ttasu II as It we began to receive patients sne;., " were all assigned to our ss,ai ip work. I have been working m m .ae Dispensary since we opened fse.,,' ,'e hospital so you see l am per asa,t ,,s i, at home in here. however I I h. AnoW any work of any kind that