The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-01-30
MANY LETTERS
RECEIVED FROM
OVERSEAS BOYS
Lawrence Erickson, Not Heard
from Since August, Writes
{ that He is Alive and Well
BATTERY E NOW in FRANCE
.Kennewick's Artillery Boys are Evi-
IDENTIFY Headed toward Home
Beinhart Back in Ranks
Many hearts were made glad in Ken

Many hearts were made glad in Ken
newick yesterday when the mai
brought hundreds of letters from over.
seas soldiers. The gladdest of the
glad were Mr.. and Mrs. Lars Erick.
son, who received letter from their
son Lawrence, from whom they had
received no word since August 26,
and whom the war department re-
ported wounded early in October.
The lad is back with his battery of
the 150th field artillery, which is now
"a part of the army of occupation in
Germany. He says he is well and
never felt better in his life, but his
parents are still in as much ignorance
as ever regarding the nature of his
wounds, for he makes no mention of
having been wounded. He says he has
received some pretty rough times and
has been mixed up in the fighting on
four different fronts. Within an hour
after the letter was received the local
Red Cross received wire fom Sena-
tor Poindexter saying that he had sue
sceeded in ascertaining the number of
the hospital to which Lawrence was
sent after being wounded and had
cabled there for information regarding
the missing boy.
4 In the same mail there came letter
from Engle Erickson, who is still with
Battery E, 146th Field Artillery. The
letter. which was written December 81
says the battery has arrived back in
France from Germany and he assumes
that they are on the first lap of their
Journey home. This is the first in
formation that has been received to
the effect that the 146th have been
cited for an early return. The regi-
ment was originally part of the 41st
division, but it was omitted from the
list of units of that division which had
been scheduled for the return home.
Albert Haas, who is mixing dough
somewhere in France, writes that the
prospects of getting home soon are
not so good, as bakers are rather
scarce article. He says he receives the
Courier-Reporter every Friday In
this respect he is just little bit ahead
of the local r. F. d. readers.
Earl Anderson writes that he is /
loafing around in the mud and hopes
to get started home within a month.
Evidently Earl hasn't fallen for any
of the French maidens, for he says:
''The 30th division has show which ]
plays every night and last night there :
We're three American women to help
entertain. 1t would have been a treat /
to us just to look at them, even if {
they hadn't played, for American wo- i
men in France were not at all plentiful. /
The boys almost turned the house over
when they came on the stage and
smiled. There seems to be great
difference between a French smile
arr an american smile. :,
Tom Swayze writes to the CONNER
clal club to find out what chances the \
soldier will have to get government
land around Kennewick. He says he
IS sure that such a live bunch of
boosters must have been busy during
the war and by this time must have
some sort of a land settlement worked e
out. He says while not fighting he d
mas been busy talking up the superior t
'ty OF the West, particularly the Yalzi- G
ma Valley, and that he has a bunch n
ot husky young Missourians who are 81
rarln'" to come to Kennewick as a
soon as they get back home. p
orln Beinhart, who apparently has
received rougher treatment at the d'
hands of the Germans than any other P
u the kennewick boys, is out of the M
hospital for the second time and back al
with his company. His letter to his
Iather follows: R
, Verdun, France, November 25 m
Dear Dad: ~. OF
read something in the "Stars and II
osrlpes" :, about each soldier writing a ia
!, ,.ristmas letter to his father on the
!, rtsh- You see ! am day late, but
.''at is only because there is no place ch
: mail this letter after it is written. he
: ou see / am still casual and am inst hi