,Friday, June 21; 1918.
THE BEAVERTON TIMES
Page Three
Letters from The Boys Who HaveGone
to Make the World Safe for Democracy
This letter is written from the! fighting their way. I hope to
front by William Campbell, for- .see it all finished soon. We are
mer Beaverton boy, to his moth- camped in a pretty woods some
er, Mrs, .Flora Campbell, now of .thing like Hawkin's grove, only
870 East Ash Street, Portland: much larger, and I like it better
Somewhere in France, on the than being in one of the towns,
Front, May 12, 1918. Dearest they are so dirty ahd the food is
Mother: This is Mother's Day. a great deal better. We also
There is an order that every have a dry place to sleep. There
man in the service write to his was a Y. M. C. A. man here a
mother. This is my regular day jfew minutes ago and he gave us
to write anyway, but this letter i each an apple from, the Pacific
should reach you quicker than coast, and it sure did taste fine,
any other letter, as the Postal I think I told you I am with
Department, War Department, the Rainbow division, they are a
and Y. M. C. A. are all going to fine bunch of fellows. I am just
"work together to rush all moth-! getting acquainted with them
er's letters across "the Pond." land like them fine, they are
Well mother I suppose you are .nearly all from Indiana,
having fine weather over there,
We have a couple of days of sun
shine and then a lot of cold rain.
Tt is cold and rainy today. We
had an electric storm last night,
and it sounded funny to hear the
thunder above and the noise of
the guns below there sure was
some noise, ' ,
I am well and feeling fine,
though the work is pretty heavy
sometimes. I am glad you are
petting stronger and I do hope
I see by the Beaverton paper
you sent me, that they have a
service flag at the school, and
me of the stars in it is for me.
That is fine to beTemembered by
the people at home, and I would
ike to thank them for the re
membrance. If you see Mr. Cady
)r Mr. Davis tell them, I will try
to thank them all in person
when I get home. Was sure glad
to get the snap shots you sent,
and will send some when 1 can
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Edith is netting better by this !ffet some taken. You tell Earl
time. There is lots of excite- 'Fisher I want to hear from him.
ment here at times, especially .Remember me to friends. With
when the Germans start shoot
ing gas shells. I have not been
in any of it yet, and hope I will
never have to wear
mask. Some of the boys in the
Batteries -near us have been
killed by it (or "gassed" as we
sav). I wish you folks could
see this country, it is surely
"shot up" in places, and there
vre jrraves all around between
the barb wire entanglements.
One Frenchman's grave hap
pened to be in the way of a Ger
man shell, and it was all torn to
nipces
shells make, come in handy as
thev make dandy places to
wash in.
Every clear day the German
Aeroplanes come over early in
the morning, and our guns start
shooting at them, and some
times the empty shells fall close
to our camp..
There was a German aero
plane over our position yester
day and there was some excite
ment. There are several Bat
teries of anti-aircraft guns
around here and they all ?et to
shooting at the plane. You can
see every shell burst in the air
fll around it, and then a lot of
machine guns are firing at the
same time. When this German
plane came over our line yester
day, we all took cover for awhile.
as thev try to take pictures of
the different places to try and
locate our Batteries and if they
are sucessful we generally hear
from, them with shells. There
was an American officer kifled on
the road near here the other day,
and we got the range of the bat
terv that fired the shot, and our
batteries opened fire on it, and
thev say it was blown to pieces.
I think if they would let the
Americans run this war it
would be over sooner. The
French Seem slower, and we are
lots of love to you and the rest i
of the family, from your loving
son, WILLIAM CAMPBELL.
my . gas 'Battery F. 150 F. A.
American, E. F.( France.
WHIN THE WAR IS OVER,
LADDIE.
The following poem was sent
to Joseph Fitzpatrick by a friend
of his, cashier of the First Nat
ional Bank of Hydro, Okla., his
old home. Mr. Fitzpatrick ap
preciated the sentiment nf the
Some of the holes the j poem and thinks that any other
Irishman in this vicinity will be
glad to read it:
Whin the war is over, Laddie,
just take a tip from me,
There will be no German subma
rines a-drivin' through the sea ;
And the fatherland of Kaiser
Bill, the guy we're goin' to lick,
Will have a bran' new Kaiser,
and the same will be a Mick.
We'll change their song, "Die
Wacht am Rhein" into an
Irish reel;
And we'll make the Dutchmen
dance it, if 'tis so inclined we
feel ; ' .
In Berlin the whole police force
: will be Micks from County
i Clare,
Whin we put an "Irish Kaiser"
m the palace over there.
Sure in every German parkway,
you will find a sweet colleen;
And the fields of wavin' sauer
kraut will be an emerald green ;
No limburger or sausage whin
the German drinks his suds,
He'll get corned beef and cab
bage, and good old Irish spuds.
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on page 5.)
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