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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1918)
I received your most welcome grot it, as I have soon lots of Base Hospital, Camp Bowie. letter a few days ago and was I country and met many people. ■ Aug. 5, 1818. sure glad to hear from you. I The Southern people amuse Dear Folks: — ho|>e you are all well. I am out me. They speak with a slow Mrs. Henry Smith received the 1 suppose you think I have and around ugain, but 1 urn pret drawl and are very sleepy look following letter from her son forgotten you, lu t nix on that ty weak. I was very sick for a ing. When they walk von William H. Smith, who is sta stuff. 1 am now a patient my while but 1 had good care, which would think they couldn't get tioned at Fort D. A. Russell self. They suspect me of hav I am Wyoming: ing the typhoid fever, but 1 accounts for my being out now. one lea before the other. Fort D. A. Russell don’t think so. altho I feel sort My lady friend was out to see getting that way myself. 1 feel Aug. 11, 1918. of queer. 1 have been in here me nearly every day, and, be tired all the time and I don’t Dear Folks:— about ten days and don’t know lieve me, that helped some, be rest good at nights. When you Well, I am t^he same old kid when I ’ll get out but I don’t cause I couldn’t get out, and it get up mornings you feel like was so darn hot. you had been on a big jag. doing the same old thinj* over think it will be long. 1 have been out and got some and over again every day, anc There were nineteen nurses One of the Butte. Mont, boys that is slinging hash in the din died a few days ago from ty that left here yesterday for ice water for one of the patients. I am working at the same old ing room. It is not a hard job, phoid. He came here in the France. One of them took care so I would just as soon do that same crowd with me. of me while 1 was sick. Gee. I piace, still tal.ing care of the as anything. ‘How is everything up there? did hate to see her go and want dining room and working in the Five of our bunch leave for Have you threshed yet, and how ed to go along, but God knows ward. I like it fine, only I am Camp Lewis tomorrow, but when they will send me away getting tired of being inside all is the grain. was unlucky and did not get to Do you like the way we are from here. I sure would hate to the time. I tried to get a job go. But I think I will get going to the Huns? It sure is put in next winter here, but the outside, but they said “ nothing chance about the middle of this grest. They have got it coming girl says she is not going to let doing.” I expect to go on night month. and I guess they are getting it me leave without taking her a- duty soon. I wont like that be There was another bunch now. long. What do you think about cause I can’t go out nights. came from Fort Lawton the oth It is so darn hot down here that? Tell Alva he can have Tell Goldie I said hello and er day in which there was Wal that I will be glad when I can her. She is a dandy girl, only a would like very well to see her, lace, Norwood Eskew, and Mr. get away from Texas. little bashful. She makes me but I will be home some day, Creek, so we have four repre Gee, but I eat lots of water think of Thelma C., but is not so which will be stain, if the good senting our dear old Stayton at melons. They raise some fine dark. etc. j work keeps up over there. I ex- Fort Russell, next to the largest ones here. We were out to Lake Worth pect it will be 6 months or more fort in the U. S. They are stil I believe I wrote that I wanted last night and had some time, after peace is declared before I in isolation, but they w ill get out that covered book I got from believe mo. The water is mud- will get away because we are soon. When they get out we Clyde and I have not got it yet. dy and dirty, but I shouldn’t the last to get away, as we haw will paint the town red, or at I heard that Clyde has gone to complain, for this is Texas and to take care of the sick and least that is what they say. training camp. I suppose we are lucky to have any w ater wounded. Cheyenne is some town. nearly all of the bovs have gone at all. The drinking water is I was ofi yesterday afternoon. I They have two street cars, or will be in a short time. • Has simply a fright. It smells like get two afternoons a week to go which run from the fort to town. Alva had to register yet, and do the swamp up there in the sum to town and out to the house. I mean the city. you think he wii have to go? I mer. I drink milk most of the Believe me, I do not stay around We have almost two hundred lope not. as tt sure will be hard time, but I will have to quit it if camp. May be you think I medical corps men here now and on him and yon. I get much fatter. j wouldn’t like to be up there and hardly have room for them I do not know what to write, I may get about a twenty day ITPt some good drinking water, There is a bunch of us sleeping as it is the same old thing every pass in Oct., if everything goes I believe I would drink until I ip one of the wards now, on day, so I think I had better quit. rig h t I don’t know if I nad | burst. ^ ou folks do mit realize some real beds, but we have . to Now, do not wait so long, as I better try and come home or how lucky you are when you work to keep it looking right- nave, because I want to hear have good water. Its over You can almost see yourself on i’rom you. I will write again in not. It will cost me between three-foui ths of life. $30 and $40 eaeh way. and that the floor the way they snine. I suppose you are tiefd of a few days to keep you posted The only way I can compare on how I am getting along, so is lots of money to me now. It reading my complaints, so I keeps me scratching to make it tiiink I will close with love to this fort with Fort Lawton is a good bye. I am your son and from one pay day till the next you all and hope to hear from house and a barn, so you can see another, yon real soon. I suppose Alva feels like a real there would be some difference, W. H. Myers. I am vour son and brother, soldier now. This is my fifth not saying anything against Fort W. H. Myers. Camp Bowie. Aug. 12, 1918. month and it seems like I have Lawton tho, because I thought Continued on page three Dear Sis and Folks:— been in a year, altho I do not re th at was a pretty nice place Letters From Our Soldier Boys when I was there. We sure have some thunder storms here. The other day the wind blew so hard that it broke three double windows out of the Hospital. If they lower the draft age limit to eighteen it will catch quite a bunch from around there, will it not? I would never wait to be drafted, just from what I heard the fellows say from a- round here. You ought to have heard what the bunch had to say when they heard they had to go to Camp Lewis We had ice cream and cake for dinner and after dinner we kids in the kitchen ate ice cream all afternoon. We are sure get ting lots to eat. I am getting as big as a mountain. Well this is just about the end of my capacity, only that I wish I was on the way to France. Give my regards to all of my friends, and to some whether they are my friends or not. Tell them I am feeling fine, and th a t I am going to help get the kaiser. Yours, William H. Smith Med. Corps, Post Hospital, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. The following is a letter re ceived from Frank Van Nuyg to bis mother. The boys enlisted in June in the Benson Polytecn- nic Training Detachment school a t Portland, Oreg. Frank stu died for an electrician, and Earl has taken up sheet metal work. The boys speak highly of the Benson school. Earl has been a student in the high school at Stayton for the past two years. Frank had a position with the S. P. Co. in the roadmaster’s office a t Albany. Portland, Oreg., Aug. 13, 1918. Dear Mother: — By the time this reaches you Earl w ill be on his way to Camp Johnson, Florida, that is .ju st a few miles from Jacksonville, and I will be in Camp Lewis. Will write you and send my new ad- -dress as soon as I can. Love, Frank. IW Children Cry for Fletcher's T h o K in d Y o u lla v o A lw a y s lio n g h t, a n d w h ich bus been l u lino f o r o v e r ¡fO j n i r t , h a * p o r n o t h o • if .iu ttiir o of Hint I ium h e r n u n u lo u t n l e r h U p e r» h o im l supervision id n c a I ih I n f a n c y . A l l o w n o o n e t o d e c e i v e y o n In III In. 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