Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-03-28
getting i"le and will close for this
time. q. l.. LAWRENCE.

getting i"le and | will close for this
time. G. e. I.AWRENl,E
" Il. Stephenson, of this town,
VINO has half Of . squad" of his, Own
household IN the Amy, has recently
received the following ietter from ma
son, Corporal a. i. Stephenson, dat
cd Toul, France Feb. IS:
Dear Father:
haVnt heard from you since last
summer and am wondering what has
become OF you. | get II letter from
Dora twice IL week; also hear from
Matte and Bertha real often, and I
can't understand why | never ret
your letters. The first mail rccciv-
cd in nearly five months was Christ
mas day and since them have been
getting it regularly.
l am we'll now and really in better
health than when left home. Don't
know how long l will lave TO STAY
over here. but | hope not long, for
have seen enough of this country and
am anxious to get home to Dora.
just returned yesterday from Lon
oon, Eng, was or y furlough, went
to Paris, France, southampton, Eng,
and to London. Sure was II nice trim
had Il limo time sightseeing. Had
letter from Chan lie about two weeks
nso; lie was getting along fine. Suid
'he hoped no would get TO go home
soon.
How are the kids now? And how
IS Mamie getting on? havn't heard
from home for 50 long | don't know
now any of you are.
wen, | must get to work. viii
write again soon. Hope to get lonp
letter from you as am anxious to
hear from home.
Best wishes To all.
On Active Service With the Amer
ican ENpeditionary Forces, Feb. 70.
Dear Sister.
-FOUR letter wGs received Il few DAVIS
ago, and was glad to hear that ali
was well. This leaves me well ns
usual. suppose you all have been
worried about me, as | havn'L written
as OFTEN as | should have. But | can
write with much more satisfaction
now than before the armisticc wns
signed. You were wanting to know
what the fun WAS like. We'll, what
saw of ii was something had ncv-
cr seen and would not like to see
again. was in the fighting line for
az days. We were given our first
position Sept. %, at dead Mans"
near Verdun, and WAS in all the Ar
Eonne drive. But | was Il very lucky
hap and did not getL II scratch. /
VII drop the fun subject, as am on
iurionEh and trying to forget that
am sun III the a. 4. t. have seven
nhys ut tins place. besides travel
Tune which is about ~ days each
way and that lets mo out of the ar
my ~ days and 1t is great to get in
q me- hotel and good room, good
"e" once more after sleeping on tthc
holes. This is the most BEAUTIFUL
place that ever saw in NV life n
Is abouL $4,000 feet above zen level
in the Alps, near the Switzerland
border. ] have us good II time here
riding sleds down the hills MS we
used to have while we were poinr To-
school. | WAS on Mount Blame Tues
Gay, the second highest peak in The
world, and was on the Blossoms gluc-
cier today, the largest in Europe. Il
nm sending you view of this gln-
cicr. have been about all over
France, but this is the hest place vet
and if Robert is over here and miss
ees this trip. he is ont Of sight seeing.
How is Will getting along? Fine. /
hope. II looks like he would write mo
sometime. They have had it, on me
Tor the past eighteen months, but
expect to gett back by 1.-THE first of
June and thten | will have il on
THEM. | have heard that we would
snil for the good old U. S. A. about
the first Of April, but don't know how
true it is. ! have been in the army
since Sept. q. 1917, in France since
June ., 1918, and havn't heard IL word
from j. II. +.
| will close for this time, hoping
to hear from you real soon.
Your loving brother,
TlIOS. j. ELSWICK.
To his sister, Mrs. Ida l.. Moore,
North ilolston, Va.