The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-03-20

fellows, the only reason that went
over there in the first place was that
I understood that they were going to
make few generals out of this school
and as soon as found out that they
were not knew that I could never
get what deserved and there was no
use working for it. You know your
self that I can handle the big job bet
ter than any of the Generals they have
here" And honestly, Joe, I believe
he could, at that, when l think of
some of the things that have been
done.
Well now, to tell you of some of the
thing | could not tell you about before.
You remember away last June wrote
and told you about trip took. Well,
now can tell you all about that.
got 24-hour pass and went up to
Nancy. We got the afternoon train up
and landed about supper time in Nan
cy. On the way up we ran into Y.
girl on the train and we had quite a
talk with her. She had had quite a
bit of experience over here and was at
that time on her way up to Baccarat.
She was a New York girl and the
first thing did was to get my foot in
it by knocking the East in general and
New York in particular. Well, those
brown eyes and my wonderful smile
got me out of that all right but pretty
soon the conservation switched to the
different branches of the service and
the first thing l did was to pick onto
the Marines and particularly Lieut..
Wilcox of the old 9Th Regiment.
noticed that she became rather quiet
when | started in and when I got
through with Lieut.. Wilcox she polite
ly informed me that she had three
brothers in the marine service and
about five cousins, I guess. Also she
asked me if I meant Earl Wilcox and
/ told her l did. That was the last
straw for her. She had been engaged
to him for over nine months and knew
that there was not better man in
the A. E. F. Well, my eyes and smile,
| guess, saved my life that time but it
did not square me and she was not
even agreeable again until we got
pretty near to Nancy. And it sure
hurt me, toe, because you know how l
am with the women. l do not care
much about taking them out and all
that but I do like to make an impress
sion with them and make them think
my opinion of things is the correct
one. Well, when we got to Nancy
she started up to the Hotel and got
there first. It was the Angleterre
that we were headed for and when we
got there she had finished registering.
When we came in she looked at US
and asked if we intended to stop
there. We told her we did and I'll be
dog-goned if she did not cancel her
room and go to another hotel just be-
cause she did not want to be in the
same house with man that would
knock the Marines. Now, you know
that my knocking was merely pride in
the doughboys, and not because I had
anything against the Marines. Esprit
des Corps, as they call it over here.
I finally explained that to her and
fixed it up 50 that she even agreed to
take supper with US. We put on quite
a party and all parted good friends.
Later on in the evening we met
Major Johns, our old Battalion COM
mander, who had just been assigned
to the Rainbow and was on his way to
Baccarat to report for duty. He took
us out and showed us a fine time that
night and would not let us spend a
nickel. I guess the party cost him
quite a heap because I know that we