TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT FEBRUARY 1, 1918 P. 2
Camp Beauregard, La.,
Jan. 26, 1918.
Dear Sister:
I received you letter and was glad to hear from you. This leaves us all well at present. Tell Mrs. Kelley that Bill has been in the mumps camp for 14 days, but came back to the company today.
Glad to know you are all well. Has mother ever got so she can walk without crutches?
We have been having some bad weather here for the last week. It has been sleeting and snowing.
We sleep in tents and we left our door flaps open in the night it snowed, and when we got up in the morning and hit the floor we landed in about four inches of snow. One of the boys wouldn’t get up so we gave him a snow bath and he was not long in getting his clothes on. He got up the next morning also. I don’t guess the snow hurt any of us, as we all needed a foot bath. I don’t have any trouble keeping warm for I sleep under 10 blankets and we have iron cots and a good set of springs, so you see I am fixed pretty well. I also have a good pal. His name is Hoyt Smith and he is a dandy too. The company is divided into four platoons and Smith and myself are commanders of the second platoon, which has sixty men.
You need not worry about me taking French leave for I know too much about the army to do that.
Well, as that is about all, will close.
With love,
Frank Hubert
P.S. Am sending you a picture of Hoyt and myself. Hoyt is in the middle. Will have some made of myself and send you one. Tell father I got the tobacco O.K. and was sure glad to get it. I also got the papers. Tell mother that three pairs of socks will be enough and also hurry up that box you said you were going to send as I do not know when I will get to come home; tell Jona to send me cocoanut pies.
My address is Co. B, 153 Inf., 39th Division, Camp Beauregard, La.
NOTES: Frank Hubert was born in Newport, Arkansas on February 9, 1894 and died in Morenci, Arizona on June 2, 1965. He is buried in the Litchfield Cemetery in Jackson County, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Camp Beauregard, La.,
Jan. 26, 1918.
Dear Sister:
I received you letter and was glad to hear from you. This leaves us all well at present. Tell Mrs. Kelley that Bill has been in the mumps camp for 14 days, but came back to the company today.
Glad to know you are all well. Has mother ever got so she can walk without crutches?
We have been having some bad weather here for the last week. It has been sleeting and snowing.
We sleep in tents and we left our door flaps open in the night it snowed, and when we got up in the morning and hit the floor we landed in about four inches of snow. One of the boys wouldn’t get up so we gave him a snow bath and he was not long in getting his clothes on. He got up the next morning also. I don’t guess the snow hurt any of us, as we all needed a foot bath. I don’t have any trouble keeping warm for I sleep under 10 blankets and we have iron cots and a good set of springs, so you see I am fixed pretty well. I also have a good pal. His name is Hoyt Smith and he is a dandy too. The company is divided into four platoons and Smith and myself are commanders of the second platoon, which has sixty men.
You need not worry about me taking French leave for I know too much about the army to do that.
Well, as that is about all, will close.
With love,
Frank Hubert
P.S. Am sending you a picture of Hoyt and myself. Hoyt is in the middle. Will have some made of myself and send you one. Tell father I got the tobacco O.K. and was sure glad to get it. I also got the papers. Tell mother that three pairs of socks will be enough and also hurry up that box you said you were going to send as I do not know when I will get to come home; tell Jona to send me cocoanut pies.
My address is Co. B, 153 Inf., 39th Division, Camp Beauregard, La.
NOTES: Frank Hubert was born in Newport, Arkansas on February 9, 1894 and died in Morenci, Arizona on June 2, 1965. He is buried in the Litchfield Cemetery in Jackson County, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON