The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-01-03
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The annual church meeting will be
held next Saturday afternoon at the
church. There will be reports given
and election of officers.
School began Monday after weeks
vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. Parry entertained
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Parsons, Mr..
and Mrs. Chester Steel and Pear
Parsons for dinner Sunday.
Garrett Budde returned from camp
Christmas dag
have been sick with influenza are
better.
Ben Garrett and Evard Budde and
Aaron and Harvey Michels spent
Saturday evening with George Loucks.
! Mrs: Jessie Lindsay is sick with
influenza.
Elmer Evenson and sister Vina at
tended the Community sing in Man
kato last week.
The following letter was received
by the people at home from Harry
Evenson in France: This is a gloomy
day, but not very cold. We have been
having fine weather the past week so
maybe we are due for a little rain.
In this letter can tell you about the
TIP from the states until now 1t
took US seventeen days to come across
and we got pretty tired before we
landed. We stopped two days at Sid
ney Islands and left some of the boys
who were sick. 1t was a pretty cold
trip all the way, for we went nearly
up to the north pole. We took the
northern route. We had a chance to
see through icebergs and one ship
shot at one but did not do much harm
to the iceberg. We arrived at Liver
pool October 2 and then took the
train out to Notify Ash camp. about
eight miles from Liverpool We stay
ed her five days Their started for
France. We got to Smith Hampton
in the evening and spent the night in
camp. The next morning bunch of
us boys we're picked out to load all
the baggage on the boat, only had an
hours work SO went around the town
end spent the rest of the day. We
left port i,l the evening and anchored
out in the river and stayed there for
one day. IT was a great trip over the
! English Channel. There were about
thrf h;ss&red horses on the boat. It
.sEassSss rouf ss.ist 1tol cross and some
Of the horxes got sick. There were
many times when / thought we would
not get across. but we made it just
the same! We spent one night in
Camp LeHavre and then left for st.
Andre in the morning. That was the
toughest ride Lever had in my life.
Il was iE those French box cars, forty
men to car and the cars are the
size Of a dray wagon like they use in
the states. We arrived in st. Ende
October II and STAYED there until
November Is, and then left for Mon
thru where we are now. Six OF the
boys are leaving from our company
today but don't know where they are
@oing, maybe home. Good luck to
them if they do. saw by the morn
ing paper that boat load of troops
had left for the States so that is a
pretty good sign that most of the
boys will be on their way back soon.
! have been well ever since i left. II
is little cold at night but we have
plenty of clothes to keep us warm. |
hope you will all have a Happy
Thanksgiving and a Merry Christmas
and Happy New Year We all hope
10 be on our way home by Christmas
but do not know. / would like to see
Paris before / go back | went to
church last Sunday but could not I'M
derstand French so did not go this
morning. Here is good luck to you
I'll and hone TO hear from you soon.
Your son, Harry.
SATURDAY. evening and snent the ripht
with Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Severance
then went TO his home at Swan Lake
Sunday. o..
Claude Bachelor wrote, the follow
ing interesting Letter to his peoDle.
received your letter of October 2,
and was glad to hear from you.
know you have the news that the war
is over. When we got the news hefe
We could still hear the big guns The
news came at night. the 10th of this
month and the firing did not stop
until the next day at II a. m. AS it
hanpened it was the 18th hour of the
18th day of the 18th month when the
war ended. That is an easy way 10
the. day. We have a pref
~ nice place to live in now and are
all settled to spend the winter in this
country If necessary. There is lots
OF work to do before we can leave.
think it will take four or five
months to finish up. can't see any
nance Of leaving here before that
time and maybe it will be longer than
that. We havG been working night
and day for the past week but now
we have dropped bacl; 70 the old
routine. Hope this reaches you be-
fore Christmas. Well that's all now
as there is not much to write except
we are all patiently waiting to get
back to the States. Love to all,
Claude. u
Herman Evars of Minnesota Lake
visited frierds in the city yesterday.
Miss Marion. Ross Of Owatonna
visited with friends in the city yes
terday.