TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MODERN NEWS JULY 5, 1918 P. 5
Camp McClelland, Anniston, Ala., June 22
Dear Modern News and readers:
I wish to write a few lines as I have just arrived at my new camp O. K. We have a nice time here, the large mountains with green grass gives a beautiful border around our camp. Dear Modern News and readers, I wish to extend you my best wishes, for the 79th is going after the kaiser. We will leave for France in a short time. I have now served three months as a soldier and the longer I serve the better I like it. We are very proud of our Y. M. C. A. men, for they furnish us writing paper, books, papers, magazines, and they give us Sunday School and preaching every Sunday. All I dislike is having to work in the kitchen occasionally, but after I get out I will make some girl a good wife, for I will know about the kitchen work. Well as duty comes first, I will close, but remember me when I am far across the deep blue sea fighting Germans.
Walter Costner,
Camp McClelland, Anniston, Ala., 79th Field Artilery, Bat. E.
NOTES: Jonas Walter Costner was born June 17, 1899 and died on September 9, 1980. He was living in Harrisburg, Arkansas when he enlisted on April 3, 1918. He was discharged on July 10, 1919. He departed for France from Hoboken, NJ on board the George Washington on August 18, 1918 as a Private in Batter E, 79th Field Artillery. He died on September 9, 1980 in Palm Beach, Florida.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Camp McClelland, Anniston, Ala., June 22
Dear Modern News and readers:
I wish to write a few lines as I have just arrived at my new camp O. K. We have a nice time here, the large mountains with green grass gives a beautiful border around our camp. Dear Modern News and readers, I wish to extend you my best wishes, for the 79th is going after the kaiser. We will leave for France in a short time. I have now served three months as a soldier and the longer I serve the better I like it. We are very proud of our Y. M. C. A. men, for they furnish us writing paper, books, papers, magazines, and they give us Sunday School and preaching every Sunday. All I dislike is having to work in the kitchen occasionally, but after I get out I will make some girl a good wife, for I will know about the kitchen work. Well as duty comes first, I will close, but remember me when I am far across the deep blue sea fighting Germans.
Walter Costner,
Camp McClelland, Anniston, Ala., 79th Field Artilery, Bat. E.
NOTES: Jonas Walter Costner was born June 17, 1899 and died on September 9, 1980. He was living in Harrisburg, Arkansas when he enlisted on April 3, 1918. He was discharged on July 10, 1919. He departed for France from Hoboken, NJ on board the George Washington on August 18, 1918 as a Private in Batter E, 79th Field Artillery. He died on September 9, 1980 in Palm Beach, Florida.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS