TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT OCTOBER 28, 1918 P. 1
The trains are funny, little engines with scant machinery, no headlights showing and no bells.
The captain and I were out after supper and passed a half dozen children with an apple apiece. They all wanted to give us the apples. When we told them we didn’t want the apples the said ‘Aw take ‘em along and give ‘em to some other Yanks.’ We wanted some cigarettes, but the shops had closed. The children went and got a shopkeeper to sell us some cigarettes.
NOTES: This partial letter was written to Jewell Boyd Best to his father C. W. Best of Tar River, Oklahoma. They were former residents of Newport. Best was writing about his time in England. He was born on October 2, 1895 in Arkabutla, Mississippi and died on March 13, 1982. He is buried in the Sunset Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas. He departed New York, NY on August 24, 1918 onboard the Adriatic. He was serving as a 1st Lieut. in Co E 345th Infantry 87th Division.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
The trains are funny, little engines with scant machinery, no headlights showing and no bells.
The captain and I were out after supper and passed a half dozen children with an apple apiece. They all wanted to give us the apples. When we told them we didn’t want the apples the said ‘Aw take ‘em along and give ‘em to some other Yanks.’ We wanted some cigarettes, but the shops had closed. The children went and got a shopkeeper to sell us some cigarettes.
NOTES: This partial letter was written to Jewell Boyd Best to his father C. W. Best of Tar River, Oklahoma. They were former residents of Newport. Best was writing about his time in England. He was born on October 2, 1895 in Arkabutla, Mississippi and died on March 13, 1982. He is buried in the Sunset Memorial Park in San Antonio, Texas. He departed New York, NY on August 24, 1918 onboard the Adriatic. He was serving as a 1st Lieut. in Co E 345th Infantry 87th Division.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON