Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-02-13
MRS CREyELING WRITES

Boone. Ia, Feb. 5. 1919.
| Fl. ]. Hoogenakker,
Audubon. Iowa.
Dear Sir:-Again you are causing
us to miss a copy of the Audubon pa
Iper-or perhaps the responsibility is
with some one else, but we did not
receive our last weeks Republican
(January 800 and do not want to
miss an issue, so please send it,
While | am writing | will tell you
of our welfare and you may tell the
people in your paper If you care to
give my letter space.
We are usually well, which is very
we'll for MIR. Creveling and only toll
erably so for myself | suppose our
winter has been like yours-about no
winter at all, excepting one or two
short cold snaps, showing some this
evening. AS family we have had
but one case of FLU" and that not a
serious one. Our town had much of
it, with many deaths. / was up town
this afternoon and saw the most
boys in brown that have seen on
the streets at one time. They are
dropping in by ones or more. Many
have arrived. more are on the way
and many will not come. How sad
, to think of them Lying so silent by
night and by day, sleeping the years
of their manhood away" The two
boys in which we were most especial
ly interested are our granddaughter
Mildred's husband and Harry Leav-
ems. He arrived at Camp Mills
from lover There" January 3lst so
we hope to have him with us soon.
Harry Leavens, our grandson is in
France. or was when last heard from,
but so long since we or his people in
Dakota have heard from him, that We
hardly know what to think. but we
hope for the best. but it saddens the
anticipation of his homecoming
when we kntS that he will not find
his mother in the home. good
woman has gone--one who has al
ways been a loyal friend to me and
my last remembrance of her is of her
leaving our home at the close of
visit 10 us last summer and of her
looking into my face and saying, II
want you to come and see u.s. and
then she went out into the dark, as
she took the night train. She has
now gone to the city that hath no
need of the sun: for the glory of God
is the light thereof" and | hope to
sometime come and see" her.
There seems to be little of interest
TO write about as YOU already know
that the war is over. Well, there
seems to me to be quite bit of war
still on hand, but is more sort of in
dividual--or / might illustrate it by
telling about one of the men from the
Mountain White" section of the
south who had been faithful to the
"Feuds' so common in those neigh
borhoods and had done his share of
such fighting. but Uncle Sam called
him and he had to answer and when
he had been in the army awhile. said
he liked it first-rate, that il was the
first public war he had ever been in.
Well. We are glad the fighting now
going on is not so public" as we had
some time ago. We have had no
more cyclones and no terrible acct
dents on the interurban lately, so
there is little excitement. We get
along very well though. We hope for
peaceful, prosperous year for our
selves, especially for the war-torn
countries across the sea. They can
never seem so far away again as in
the past. We can never forget the
Crosses, row on row, in Flanders
| Fields" and they form sacred bond.
Hoping 10 soon hear from you all
through The Republican, l am your
! old neighbor.
RHODA L. CREVELING.