The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-02-20
NEWS FROM BOYS
ON LAND AND SEA
FIVE BOOKINGS BOYS AT vARi.
Gus POINTS WRITE SOME
FINE LETTERS
ALL OF THEM ARE READY TOCOME HOME
cJur Boys Seem To Be Combining
Duty And Pleasure And Enjoying
Opportunity To See World

The following two letters received
from Mechanic Andrew Pultz, who is
with our own 147th F. A., tells of the
life our boys are living now in
France:
Ananty, France, Jan. 2, 1919.-Dear
Folks: Well, here we are back with
the battery again as u school days
are over. We left LIE Blanc the day
after Christmas and got here the day
before New Years. We had a good
time of it while there even though
we were at school most of the time.
We expected to be on the train during
Christmas but we were held up until
the day after. We had a good feed
there that day-steak, mashed spuds,
and best of all a big piece of choco-
late coated cake. In addition to that
up a feed including chicken, rabbit
and French fried spuds.
Got my mail when l got back; even
my 9x4X3 was here. Say, you don't
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other candy tasted. Dreyer and l got
enough Brookings papers on our bed
now TO keep us reading a rear. We
had been moving around so much that
our mail couldn't catch up with us.
| have something to write and then
a coOtie starts moving up my back
and | got to stop and go after him,
and then l have to start all owe again.
| was rid of them for awhile at lie
Blanc, after taking a bath every day
and changing clothes, but when we
came back we stopped at st. DiZier
at a casual camp and there | got a
brand new batch of all sizes and
cOlors. That reminds me it seems
like South Dakota has moved over.
At st. Dizier l saw Hilman Alrick.
He's there recovering from a wound
received in the Argonne. He is do
ing light work around there. Then
at the place where the battery was
last, some of the fellows saw Elmer
Kennard, Delbert Jerde and Otto Han
son is not far from here, but as yet
have not had a chance to see him.
Am going to try and send you a
couple of maps so you can see where
we have been. Voillecomte was where
we first hit this sector and we started
from there and marched six straight
nights up toward Montfancom. The
last place we were in position was
about a kilometer north of Romagne.
Well. I'm going to cut this kind Of
short as | want to write a line all
the way around from d. C. to S. d.
Love to all. Andrew.
January q, 1919.-Dear Sis: Have
but haven't taken time to answer so
better do so tonte suite. We're still
in this place and got lots of horses to
take care of also. There are forty fell
lows on leave so everybody is work
ing all the time now. They are build
ing stables on the aviation field near
here so it looks like we're going to be
here forever. The town is so small
that there isn't room for horses to be
billeted around town. There was
about a hundred aeroplanes in this
field, but they are taking them away
and turning them into a bigger field.
Hope they take a notion like that
about the artillery material. If | had
only been free to do as | pleased !
could have gone up in a plane today
to act as ballast, but I'm in the army
yet and was on detail besides.
We have a pretty bonnie" Y. M.
C. A. here now 1t is about a kilo-
meter from town, but it's worth the
walk to sit in a warm place and read
awhile now and then. We have a
Y. NJ. c. A. man who keeps us sup
piled with towels, soap, candles, etc.
Also a Y. NJ. c. A. lady who serves us
chocolate, doughnuts and cookies.
They have quite a few novels for us
also. One night there were two men
and women here and they put on a
little entertainment for us. 1t was
sure good. Last night we had a NOV
ing picture machine here and they
gave us a hair-breadth harry picture.
There are a few cases of pneumonia
in Gondrecourt so we had orders to
sleep separate and put a shelter half
between hunks. None of us got it
however. We're too wild | guess, any
way the movie, man asked the major
what kind of fellows we were. Oh,
he said, a wild bunch; give them a
wild picture.
There are men here helping US put
up the stables from the 313th Engi-
neers, but they are from C. e. F. com
panies. They are about 40 kilometers
from here.
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