TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS OCTOBER 26, 1918 P. 3
Camp Funston, Kan., Oct.16, 1918.
Dear Sis:
I will write you a few lines to let you know I am feeling fairly well now, I have had a touch of the “flu”. A lot of our boys have died with it. There are 135 boxes ready to be shipped home today. It sure is sad.
I am enclosing my picture in my uniform taken while I was in the Kitchen Study. I am a second Lieut. of the Cooks and Baker’s School now, I was made Second Lieut. Oct. 1, and draw $66.00 per month. I am going to try to get to be First Lieut. in three months. Then I will draw $144.00 per month. We have plenty to eat, anything we want to cook.
We get pretty chilly these nights as all windows are left open.
I don’t know how soon we will get to go across, not until the “flu” scare is over. I would like to come home awhile but don’t think I can get a furlough.
Your brother,
Lewis.
NOTES: Lewis Harvey was writing to his sister Mrs. Jasper Henson.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
Camp Funston, Kan., Oct.16, 1918.
Dear Sis:
I will write you a few lines to let you know I am feeling fairly well now, I have had a touch of the “flu”. A lot of our boys have died with it. There are 135 boxes ready to be shipped home today. It sure is sad.
I am enclosing my picture in my uniform taken while I was in the Kitchen Study. I am a second Lieut. of the Cooks and Baker’s School now, I was made Second Lieut. Oct. 1, and draw $66.00 per month. I am going to try to get to be First Lieut. in three months. Then I will draw $144.00 per month. We have plenty to eat, anything we want to cook.
We get pretty chilly these nights as all windows are left open.
I don’t know how soon we will get to go across, not until the “flu” scare is over. I would like to come home awhile but don’t think I can get a furlough.
Your brother,
Lewis.
NOTES: Lewis Harvey was writing to his sister Mrs. Jasper Henson.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY