The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-04-03

home who think us kids used to raise
the dickens on that particular nigh
ought to have been over here.
l suppose you have had a talk with
Oscar Atkins by this time. II you
have he has surely told you about the
famous drive on st. Mihiel. That was
the last place | saw him, so | guess
he didn't get up on the Argonne front
| also notice Axel Thompson is home
When you see him give him my best
regards and hoping he'll soon get Owe
the effects of the gas. Sorry to hear
about Ed. Cahill. He was n OF the
boys that left Bookings with the same
bunch | did and was assigned 10 an
infantry company in our regiment.
Well we received good news the
other day. The seth division is Off
ciallv scheduled to sail for home the
first part of June so we have not got
so very long to stay here unless they
should change orders again. The first
of June will not be so bad as time
goes very fast here and the weather
is getting nice so we do not mind
it as much as when We were hiking
or when the weather was old. II
orders are not changed we should be
home by the fourth of July.
Well Pm not learning to talk Ger
man very fast and | think I'll be more
of a Chinaman than a German because
all we live on now days is rice. For
supper they generally give US Stun
or in other words stew, | could not
start to mention all the stuff they pu,
into ii because I've only got three
sheets of paper, but the three main
ingredients are water, -four and meat
and sometimes we don't get u issue
of meat, but it doesn't matter as we
never run cut Of water. | have never
known them to make it twice alike
| suppose you have noticed at vari
ous times iii different newspapers tell
ing how the Y. NJ. C. A. would droI
chocolates and cigarettes from air
planes to the boys on the 'front.'. They
llJSl nave HlduS Il IllSlahC oIiN "ioP
ped them on the German side, as
have never talked with a Yank we,
that ever seen the mdo it. The only
thing | ever saw come from airplanes
was three aerial bombs which were
dropped close to our machine CUR
carts. but | don't think they come
from the Y. NJ. c. A. Still would just
as soon have one of them as some OF
the cigarettes they handle.
We talked our landlord into giving
us a table so it makes it a lot more
convenient to write. If we stay here
much longer we may be fortunate
to get a couple Of chairs. There is
four boys besides myself, all from
South Dakota, which is evidence
enough that | am with a good bunch
We surely cannot complain on oul
accommodations here as we have ;
good room with electric lights ant
running water and are all in the bes
of health, so to use the old army tern
we are setting pretty" Tomorrow
is Saturday and that's u weekly in
spection day. We have inspection II
the forenoon and then we are free il
the afternoon. We're having kind o
a snap now compared to what we useC
to have and our hardest job now II
getting up in the morning. We ge'
I'D at 900 in the morning and have
supper at 5 p. m. Then we arr
through for the day unless we harper
to get on guard.
Sunday, March 8, 1919.-Well, this
is Sunday and we are all taking life
easy today. We had u inspection
Yesterday forenoon and we were al
up and had our bath in the afternoon
We take a bath every Wednesday anC
Saturday up to a large German hos
! pital in this town. 1t is a good sizeC
hospital and is now being used fol
the 355th Infirmary. Well | guess thi;
letter is getting about long enough
for this time so I'll have to close, hop
ing this finds you all feeling as goot
as / do. Give my regards to all my
friends in Brookings and write soor
to your son, Pvt. c. NJ. Phillipson.
NJ. G. Co, 355th Inf.
American f. F. via New York
p. 81 have been receiving thu
Register regularly lately and it sure
is welcome, as reading material il
! very scarce owe here. G. =.