Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-03-28

IL .iTS. y. ~. Farmer, North AaLe-
weii, Virginia.
~. l.. T., rep. i, 1919.
Dear father ana notnel:
l VIII try ana answer your most
KIND and mighty appreciated letter
Just rcseHeu. WORDS cannot cxpress
now giad | was to hear from YOU uil
again, and to hnow that YOU ALI are
SUI we'll. We get lost of ullninl now
and have lots of games. We play
foot ball and numbers OF other games
but that does not satisfy me as we'll
as coming home would, put just now
l do not see any chance OF comm,
nome Tor sometime. l II mStlll at An
gers anu do not know when | will
get 10 leave THIS God forsakcn town.
am tired ana worried out i'll this LIT :
Gle town. Most all of the houses are
covered with iiat rocks. There are a
few covered with tile and all of them
are built OF rocks some four or nve
hundred years Old. 1t would be some
scene for some III the states, but as
am IN France 1t does not interest
me.
signed the pay-rool for the FIRST
time today III live months. | viii get
u pay day III about Two weeks anu /
,hlnk can send home about 500,
winch you can use II you need IL.
From your loving SON,
JAMES i. WILSON.
Feb. II, 1919.
Dear father and mother:
This leaves me stiilwell. We sure
are having some beautiful weather
today seems like II summer day. Rcrs
Jones is with me now. lie has been
here for near Il week and is well and
gong on fine. He will start bnck SAT-
urday. | want to 20 to Dion with
him. That is the second city IN size
III France. don't know for sure that
| will get to 20. We'll, il is drill time.
will close, with love and best wish.
cs to ALL J. ~ w
70 MIR. and Mrs. w. II. Wilson In
dian, Va.
!
Mr.. w. K. Eppcrson, Of Pocnhon-
tns, mas recently received the two fol-
loving letters from his son, who is
at Newport News, where he recently
landed from France:
Newport News. March II.
Dear homcfolks;
VIII today drop you few lines
to let you know am all o. X. Hope
when tins reaches you all will be well
and in good shape. | arrived in the
U. D. on the 10Th of this months nj
Camp Lee In Il few days think. We
Ind II very nice time on our voyage
ana l Eol highty tired ot seeing nol
Inihg out water. would like TO b,
at nome now. guess things have
changed mightiiy since l lett hoElc. J
cNpecC 10 PC discouraged soon. | am
,m Uasu'in 20. NO. 100. ! would nave
t;,,aJ ~ iou Soo' NV an i"ni"i
nj o,,t ,a,,", 81 Ju1' "nPp-
Gu out To-Day TO wri'e you AS soon
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WEN Ne"oPlr NEWS March 10.
II WIN "rite you ngan 10 let you
mo" ! am wen ana geltihg on me.
Everything III quite oiiiereht mere TO
%hAt ~ WIS IN FRANCE, ana you bet
am huppy 10 nc IN inc oiu y. ,.
oicu iiioie. i am iucky 10 Eet Dack
" 'iiia eouhlly' anu WIN teil you oi
my e"pGrieieeS oVcrSc''S when get
nome. l only lost one ihEer on my
IelC nahu' ana consider that lucky.
WISH ~ was so couiu near from
you I'LL, puI IL IN OIL no use 10 write
Will you ne"r ir ~, me, ana give
you ui' "uuless. Ill write you Sooh
"R"'h' io"r son. D. H. ~
Under date OF FEBRUARY 20Ch, y.
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voetsrdow hnre ,v"ro threc Amnr;cnn
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