TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DEQUEEN BEE JUNE 7, 1918 P. 2
Camp Pike, Ark., May 28, 1918.
To Sevier County Friends:
There are now among us men who have put aside their civilian clothes and donned the khaki. These men have come from different parts of the country and we especially welcome them to the camp.
Things are changing here. New men are taking the places of the many who have gone and are going for over sea service.
I had the pleasure of meeting most all of the Sevier county boys on their arrival in the camp on last evening. I was especially glad to see them. Don’t think I have ever seen a more joller bunch of boys than they were. Not only the Sevier county boys, but the boys coming in from other counties, and perhaps other states. There was laughing, yelling, hooting everything, everybody seemed to be gay and happy. This is the spirit in which we will win this war.
At this writing the Depot Brigade is about the biggest mixup yet experienced so far as locating new men is concerned. They come in and they go out. They move to other barracks.
Everything commendable must be said in regard to the Red Cross and Liberty Loan work being done in Sevier county. Alfred Taylor, a boy from De Queen and in my company, gets the Bee every week. So through this paper I keep up with all the happenings over there.
Think I will be home on furlough in a few week.
Marvin Hobson,
Reg. Infirmary No. 3, Camp Pike, Ark.
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TRANSCRIBED BY WHITNEY MCLAUGHLIN