New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-01-29

watch the directors arm, and as soon
\ as I saw that he was going to raise my
color, ] would make dash for the middle
Of the floor, 50 there vas no chance Of
getting left. The dance started at 800
p. m. and quit at 11:15 p. m. Even
though it was short, we surely did enjoy
ourselves. might mention that this
{ was the first dance I attended since !
left Minneapolis. My feet would not
track in the first dance, on account of the
big army dhoes but it took me only a
minute before / was sailing away as
usual.
]! Sunday it rained so we went to church
in the morning. The following two
days it rained so we could do very little
sightseeing and simply hung around
the Casino and took in the movies.
| Wednesday, our time being up, we
departed with regret back to our camp.
! Your cousin, George.
Pvt. Chas. Wilfahrt wrote the follow
ing letter to his brother John Wilfahrt
of this city, December 18th:
I must drop you few lines as I am
so lonesome. hope that all of you are
in good health as / am at present When
my letter reaches you I suppose your
! business will be rather slow. but imagine
you had lots of work in the summer
because it was hard to get men to work
will be with you again next summer
J, if get back by that time. n
"We are drilling every day now and
also get strict orders again just like we
did in the camps. We are in a little
town now, we can't buy anything. Per
; haps you can imagine how it looks in a
country after four years Of war.
I'VE did lots of fighting and hiking
all over France. We are quite ways
from the front now and not far from
Paris. We have seen plenty Of France
now and all wish we could get out soon.
1t is nice and warm here. There. has
been no frost for long time
''This forenoon I went to church In
this place we sleep in barns. Last week
some Y. M. C. A. workers came thru
here so I got some paper to write again
This afternoon we are all going to take
a bath so we can get rid of the coolies. !,
II suppose many of the soldiers will
be in the states when you get this letter
and perhaps you have heard lots of
things Of how things 60 on at the front.
Just wait until l come home you folks
will hear things then. I certainly led
a hard and dangerous life Many of
the men went to hospitals. You know
it takes healthy man like I am. You
would last about five days and then you
would be gone l must thank God for
the luck / had
Sometimes, the soldiers got killed to
the right and left of me and was spared,
altho, i had a couple Of close shots. One
bullet went thru my water canteen and
thru my coat pocket. Once got a
little piece in my back when big shell
busted about two hundred yards away,
but didn't mind it very much. wish
you could see some of the aeroplanes.
! ! will tell you all about it when l get
home.
"My best regards to all of you From
CHARLES.
Gust Hass, Jr., who is with the 10th
Inf, Co. D., A., E. F., wrote letter to
relatives the 10Th Of December in which
he tells how they spent Christmas in
Germany. They had good dinner and
lots of candy and nuts and he adds that
they can always get a plentiful supply
of beer and wine. They are handing
German money and he says that he
don't know how home money looks
He adds that there are many OF the
American men in Germany but he has
never met any of the Brown County
boys.
sBugler Chas. f. Janni who is with
Co. F, 160th Inf, wrote an interesting
letter to his parents on, New YEARS.
day He is still in France and thinks
that they will remain there for some
time. They had previously received
orders to move but the order was re
called. Referring to some Of the local
boys, he writes, 81 got a letter from
Joe Schubert and from A. Lampl who
were on the front for quite while but
they pulled thru without scratch.
They had pretty hard fighting but you
know the Goosetown boys are rather
fluff. = got letter from Frank
Karl yesterday and he writes nothing
but fishing and hunting. When I get
back that is all we will do for while.
1t ism t cold here but we have rain
every day and talk about mud! I am
on guard today and it is about dinner
time 50 I have to go and blow mess.
call A bugler on guard hasn't much