TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BAXTER BULLETIN SEPTEMBER 27, 1918 P. 1
Dear Tom Shiras,
I seat myself to write you a letter to print in the Bulletin and let everyone see how I like army life. It is alright as far as I have been and I like it better ever day. I have just got back from guard duty. We are on guard duty 24 hours a day, that is some of us. It is a good job. There are 250 men in my company. This is a rocky old country I’m in now. Some of the boys grumble about Camp Pike but I wish I was back there so I could come home sometimes. It takes three frogs to live in this country, and two of them have to be doctors. I am going to try and see everbody at Christmas time. We have plenty to eat and a good place to sleep, but it is not like home where a man can sleep on a feather bed at father’s house. We fix our own beds and wash our own dishes. I did not wash dishes when I was at home but we are in the Army now. Say Tom, I guess I had better quit now and smoke up. I guess they had good crops in Old Baxter this year. We are having some good music at present. Say we have a dance here ever Thursday night. There are lots of Arkansas boys here but nobody from home. Tell them all that if anyone wishes to write to me my address is Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N. J. Third Guard company.
Everett Brixey.
Editors note, Baxter county girls don’t let Everett get lonesome.
NOTES: Brixey was writing from Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, NJ. He was born in Baxter County on October 13, 1896 and died in San Bernardino, California on January 22, 1947. He is buried in the Needles Riverview Cemetery in Needles, California.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Dear Tom Shiras,
I seat myself to write you a letter to print in the Bulletin and let everyone see how I like army life. It is alright as far as I have been and I like it better ever day. I have just got back from guard duty. We are on guard duty 24 hours a day, that is some of us. It is a good job. There are 250 men in my company. This is a rocky old country I’m in now. Some of the boys grumble about Camp Pike but I wish I was back there so I could come home sometimes. It takes three frogs to live in this country, and two of them have to be doctors. I am going to try and see everbody at Christmas time. We have plenty to eat and a good place to sleep, but it is not like home where a man can sleep on a feather bed at father’s house. We fix our own beds and wash our own dishes. I did not wash dishes when I was at home but we are in the Army now. Say Tom, I guess I had better quit now and smoke up. I guess they had good crops in Old Baxter this year. We are having some good music at present. Say we have a dance here ever Thursday night. There are lots of Arkansas boys here but nobody from home. Tell them all that if anyone wishes to write to me my address is Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, N. J. Third Guard company.
Everett Brixey.
Editors note, Baxter county girls don’t let Everett get lonesome.
NOTES: Brixey was writing from Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, NJ. He was born in Baxter County on October 13, 1896 and died in San Bernardino, California on January 22, 1947. He is buried in the Needles Riverview Cemetery in Needles, California.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD