TRANSCRIBED FROM THE COURIER INDEX MARCH 22, 1918 P. 1
May I, through the columns of your paper, thank the young ladies of Mariana for the patriotic service rendered by them in sending magazines to the soldiers at Camp Sevier. The magazines were expressed to “Soldier Boys,” received at my office and distributed to the patients at the base hospital, where they will he read, re-read and the read again.
All of us should do what these ladies have done. Let us have a clean-up day and send all our magazines and books, if we can spare them, to our boys in camp who love to read them. Camp Sevier, every soldier boy, the Army Y.M.C.A., thank you for every deed of kindness. Let us do what we can in every way we can to help win the great world war.
Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!”
NOTES: This letter was written by Henry Fuller Holtzclaw who was the Camp Director of Education at Camp Sevier. He was born in Vineyard, Arkansas on June 16, 1893 and died in Lawrence, Kansas on June 2, 1986. He is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence. He departed Brooklyn, NY on May 11, 1918 onboard the Northumberland. He was listed as a Pvt. serving in Co E 117th Infantry NGUS.
TRANSCRIBED BY ADIN TYGARD
May I, through the columns of your paper, thank the young ladies of Mariana for the patriotic service rendered by them in sending magazines to the soldiers at Camp Sevier. The magazines were expressed to “Soldier Boys,” received at my office and distributed to the patients at the base hospital, where they will he read, re-read and the read again.
All of us should do what these ladies have done. Let us have a clean-up day and send all our magazines and books, if we can spare them, to our boys in camp who love to read them. Camp Sevier, every soldier boy, the Army Y.M.C.A., thank you for every deed of kindness. Let us do what we can in every way we can to help win the great world war.
Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!”
NOTES: This letter was written by Henry Fuller Holtzclaw who was the Camp Director of Education at Camp Sevier. He was born in Vineyard, Arkansas on June 16, 1893 and died in Lawrence, Kansas on June 2, 1986. He is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence. He departed Brooklyn, NY on May 11, 1918 onboard the Northumberland. He was listed as a Pvt. serving in Co E 117th Infantry NGUS.
TRANSCRIBED BY ADIN TYGARD