TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 31, 1918
My Dear Folks at Home in the Good Old U.S.A.:
I will write a few lines to let you know that I am well and getting along all right. It may be that you have cards and letters from me, if so be sure and answer them as I want to hear from you.
Have been in three or four companies since I left Camp Pike, but will be in the company that I am now in for quite a while as I think we will be here all winter at this camp. All in a permanent company for all kinds of work: am in an ordinance job in the quartermaster department. They took my name for a motorcycle driver but don't know whether I will get it or not. They have about all Indian motorcycles like the one I used to own.
It rains quite a lot here in the spring and fall seasons. I don't have to work on Sundays. There are several Y.M.C.A.'s here and they have services every Sunday.
The Allies are sure driving the Germans back; we get the news every day and guess you are reaading about it all. Haven't seen any one that I know yet altho there are boys here from all over Arkansas.
Will close now and hope to get a letter from you now any day.
ARTHUR.
NOTES: Arthur Walker Donely (Misspelled by the newspaper as Donnelly) was writing from France. He was born in Doland, S. Dakota on October 24, 1888 and died on April 11, 1946. He is buried in the Heard Cemetery in Bradford, Arkansas. He registered for the draft while living in Kansas. He departed New York, NY on August 24, 1918 onboard the Cedric. He was listed as a Pvt. serving in Camp Pike August Automatic Replacement Draft Co. No. 6 Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
My Dear Folks at Home in the Good Old U.S.A.:
I will write a few lines to let you know that I am well and getting along all right. It may be that you have cards and letters from me, if so be sure and answer them as I want to hear from you.
Have been in three or four companies since I left Camp Pike, but will be in the company that I am now in for quite a while as I think we will be here all winter at this camp. All in a permanent company for all kinds of work: am in an ordinance job in the quartermaster department. They took my name for a motorcycle driver but don't know whether I will get it or not. They have about all Indian motorcycles like the one I used to own.
It rains quite a lot here in the spring and fall seasons. I don't have to work on Sundays. There are several Y.M.C.A.'s here and they have services every Sunday.
The Allies are sure driving the Germans back; we get the news every day and guess you are reaading about it all. Haven't seen any one that I know yet altho there are boys here from all over Arkansas.
Will close now and hope to get a letter from you now any day.
ARTHUR.
NOTES: Arthur Walker Donely (Misspelled by the newspaper as Donnelly) was writing from France. He was born in Doland, S. Dakota on October 24, 1888 and died on April 11, 1946. He is buried in the Heard Cemetery in Bradford, Arkansas. He registered for the draft while living in Kansas. He departed New York, NY on August 24, 1918 onboard the Cedric. He was listed as a Pvt. serving in Camp Pike August Automatic Replacement Draft Co. No. 6 Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD