TRANSCRIBED FROM THE CLAY COUNTY COURIER AUGUST 31, 1917, P. 2
Somewhere in France, Aug, 1917. Mr. Kirby Sec, Corning, Ark.
Friend Kirb: Hello, Bud, guess you will be surprised to get this letter. Hope you are fine and dandy. Guess my friends think that I have forgotten them. Really I am ashamed that I haven’t written some of the Corning boys sooner.
What has become of my old friend, Harve? He may be punching whiskers for the soldier boys by now.
Has ”Spud” ever landed yet? Tell me about all the boys. Guess there are not so many left since the draft bill swept through the little burgs.
Give them all my regards; I am still fine and dandy and have no complaint to offer. Eating three square meals a day and drinking plenty of good beer. The greatest trouble is a I can’t “sava” this French language. I can’t mingle much with these French girls, but believe me, I am learning a little at a time. If I stay here long enough, will learn the French language.
Well, Kirb, I would like to see you, old scout, and hope that I will some time in the near future. As I haven’t much to talk about through the mail, I will have lots to tell you all when I get back there. So with these few lines I will close, hoping got hear from you soon.
Luther Jackson
Rank Wagoner Supply Co, 18th Infantry, Amex Forces, Paris, France.
NOTES: Written by Luther Jackson of Corning.
TRANSCRIBED BY JORDAN HOLYFIELD
Somewhere in France, Aug, 1917. Mr. Kirby Sec, Corning, Ark.
Friend Kirb: Hello, Bud, guess you will be surprised to get this letter. Hope you are fine and dandy. Guess my friends think that I have forgotten them. Really I am ashamed that I haven’t written some of the Corning boys sooner.
What has become of my old friend, Harve? He may be punching whiskers for the soldier boys by now.
Has ”Spud” ever landed yet? Tell me about all the boys. Guess there are not so many left since the draft bill swept through the little burgs.
Give them all my regards; I am still fine and dandy and have no complaint to offer. Eating three square meals a day and drinking plenty of good beer. The greatest trouble is a I can’t “sava” this French language. I can’t mingle much with these French girls, but believe me, I am learning a little at a time. If I stay here long enough, will learn the French language.
Well, Kirb, I would like to see you, old scout, and hope that I will some time in the near future. As I haven’t much to talk about through the mail, I will have lots to tell you all when I get back there. So with these few lines I will close, hoping got hear from you soon.
Luther Jackson
Rank Wagoner Supply Co, 18th Infantry, Amex Forces, Paris, France.
NOTES: Written by Luther Jackson of Corning.
TRANSCRIBED BY JORDAN HOLYFIELD