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IThe folio*igff£¥etter irf from Dwight Weeks, sou of Mr. and Mrs. Caswell Weeks,' who das been in France for more than a year. His parents had asked him to tell something of what he is doing over there, so he just enclosed a newspaper clipping, describing what another bad written hoaie to his best girl who wanted to know, and Dwight’s folks had to be contented with that. The clipping follows the letter aud.is headed, “In the very thick of it”:Somewhere in FranceAug. ,10, 1918 Dear Mother and All:Will drop you a line this afternoon as I have notbiug else to do. The weather is certainly fine over here and.1 hope you are having as good. Everything looks fine and a good time for threshing, How is the wheat crop over there?Well, 1 am in a quiet sectornow and everything is lonely, but if some ot the boys who are bitting the camps hard could bewhere we’ve been they would#surely wake up. You speak ot not bearing from me often. Don’t worry about that but write just the same because I can’t write just any time I wantto. I haven't answered severalletters which I should but tell everybody not to think I have forsaken them. 1 am always glad to hear from anyoue over there. Is Nathan still .in Indianapolis? If be is tell him be bad bet.er be helping “Dad” for he can do more good on the farm now than anywhere else. Tell the boys I’ve got a Bocbes kmte I might trade them if they’l talk right.When you get Stallard’s address send it to me and tell him to write, because be knows where I am and I don’t know where he is. Nill close ior this time.With love from your sou and brother,Sgt. Dwignt L. Weeks,18th Int. Co.. G.1st Division A. F. F.“In the Very Thick of It”
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Paoli republican
Paoli, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 11, 1918
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
USA 16 Oct 2018
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