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Well. we left Camp Logan Sunday afternoon at about four o’clock. We knew we were going for some time and also where we Wel'e going, but: couldn't toll. We left over the Southern Pacific us far as Beaumont Louisiana, where we arrived at five o'clock Monday a. m. From here we traveled over the cotton belt route. Louisiana is mostly woods and lots of saw mills' most: all of which worked day andnight. Also have ' lots of low andswampy land. About 110011 we pulled back into Texarkana, Texas. Here we were taken out for a hike. They wouldn't let us full out, but we sentkids after things to eat. From liercwe, only had a little ways before we came into Arkansas. About six p. in, we slopped sit Pine Bluffs, Ark., where the .people gave us bananas, candy, cookies, puts and eignrets; also took* some hike here,- left about eight thirty or nine o'clock.Arkansas is much like Louisiana, mostly pine timber, and lots of oil wells, which you cun see almost every where along the tracks. They also have pipe Lines running along thy right-ol'-’way. Where there is oil you can ..see train loads of pipes and four-mule teams- hauling them out to the ’oil'''we!Iwb ' IfAseehis tiy' me: as - if most of the people are poor down here as you see nothing but shncks, very few big housed, not even in the cities.Thursday morning about, five o’clock we crossed the Mississippi river into Memphis. Tenn. I-Iere we were transferred over to the Illinois Central, traveled along the liver for quite a ways, saw lots of liver boats and barges wharfed against the whaiffs. I can’t tell you how big Memphis is, but* . * ' A I 1 _____ ____
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Algona Courier
Algona, Iowa, US
Thu, Jun 20, 1918
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