The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1919-05-03
INTERESTING LETTER FROM
ACROSS THE SEA.
SGT. II. r. EgloH Writes "chasty"
Lester of Local Interest.

The following interesting letter to
the publisher of the Echo was origi-
nally not written with the intention
that it would be published, but it is
SO .'chaty" and of so much local :
est that we take the liberty of pub
fishing it. Sgt. Eglof is the son of
Hen. F. II. Egloff, city tax assessor
and collector.
Bourges, France, March %, 1919.
Mr.. C. G. Moreau,
Bay St. Louis, Miss
My Dear Mr.. Moreau-
No doubt you will be surprised to
hear from me at this late day, but the
fact is | have been SO busy of late
1've really had no time to write very
much to anyone.
I am working here in the Postal
Express service, in fact have been
mere since January 18th last. We
have one of the largest general deliv-
Ter in the world here, handling lots
and lots of mail. / received letter
his week from Mr.. Emile Gex and
certainly was glad to hear from him,
as his letters always contain lots OF
news about the home town. Located
here is the Genital Records office,
where you can locate nearly anyone
in the A. E. F. Through this Office
Pvelocated lots of Bay boys who are
or have been overseas. located Sid
ney and Max Telhiard I wrote each
letter and received reply from
Sidney. He is in the Army of Oc-
cupation up in Germany. In his let
Ter he states that he had been in all
the big battles and came out without
a scratch. | did not hear from Max,
as / believe he was on his way home.
Sidney was indeed very glad to hear
from me as he said | was the first Of
the home boys he had heard from
since he came over The last | heard
of Hy. Tudury was that he had been
sent to hospital having been wound
ed in battle. Clement Bontemps was
killed in action with the Marines.
Sidney told me he saw him just be-
fore he was struck down.
Roy Brown is located in Germany
with the Army of Occupation. |
left him at Sales -Sur-Cher in Janu-
ary and a few days afterward he was
sent up.
Richard Johnston, from what I've
learned, is at or near Parls, IN the
Motor Transportation.
Handling lots of mail here | often
run across mail for some of the boys.
Today | found in budle of mail a
letter for John j. Green. did not
even know ne was in the service
It is very interesting to note how |
had to come here to meet boy
olayed ball with in Georgia IN 1919.
I met this boy, whose name is Bran
non, at Newman, Ga. lie and were
alaving on the Newanesa Club at the
lime, but. he left there month or SO
after we met and lost track Of him
until the other day | saw fellow
tossing a ball on theh parade grounds
md | looked at him for awhile and
5he more | looked the more thought
knew him, until finally / went up
ard made myself known to him, and,
,ure enough, it was Brannon Of Geor-
ria. He at once remembered me ana
was clad to renew old acquaintance.
( cannot say lust when ! will get back
nome: because we have some WORK
that will have to be cleaned up De-
fore we get away, and just now lcng
It will take us to finish this WORK l
cannot say. Anyway | hope 1t VIII
not be SO very long. Some time ago
/ received a very interesting letter
rom Mike Finn, the manager OF the
Chattanooga Club, offering me a
oerth with his club, providing | couid
ret back for the training season. l
still hope | may be able TO make 1t.
Mardi Gras was celebrated here just
ike it is down in New Orleans, but
not on as large scale, nor as eiaoor-
ate. Bourgcs is a very nice town
with q population of So or 75,ooo
.treet cars and theatres. A large ar
tillery camp for the French IS also To-
Gated here, just across the way from
our camp.
The very first chance | get | am
going to send you copy OF the
Stars and Stripes, weekly paper
published by and for the soldiers OF
The A. E. f. at Paris and the {. X. ..
published here by the Central Records
Office. Well I suppose | will close
for tonight, hoping to hear from you
in the near future. With kindest re-
CARDS to Mrs. Moreau and yourself,
I beg to remain, your friend,
SGT. H. F. EGLOFF,
Co. &C" P e. S. P.O. 902.,