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Items of interest from our Soldiers who are serving at home and abroad.IMrs. Steve Patton, of Grantsburg received the following letter from her aon, Noval, who is in France:Dear Home Folks—I will now try and write a few more lines to let you know I’m still o. k. and hoping you are all the same, and as I haven't received any mail from home for about five weeks am anxious to hear from you.I suppose you are wading the snow back there now. Well we are not here as it doesn’t get cold enough to snow here, but rains every day. We have a good dry kitchen and our room is in the same building. We have moved j IS since I last wrote and we are about fifteen miles nearer our embarkation camp, and expect to sail soon for the U. S. I received a letter from Ernest a few days ago. He is near here, but said he didn’t know the name of the town where they were. I suppose iioy j is home by this time as 1 hear so many j g have been discharged over there. We j jS are expecting to be discharged soon as 'we get back to the Spates. 1 expect : ^to be back to go to work by spring, j What did you do Christmas? I jmtjrun around town. I received the box j wyou sent New Years Day and it was q(11;fine, the candy especially, for we can’t buy any good candy over here, but lots of De Vin or wine, as we call it. Weil J must close as it’s about time to eat supper. Don’t be uneasy about me j and don’t start anything in the mail for j we might be back by the time they arrived over here. Don't wurrv i’m' we are coming back.nlt;il:
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English Crawford County Democrat
English, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 27, 1919
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