TRANSCRIBED FROM ASHLEY COUNTY EAGLE JULY 11, 1918 P. 1
Editor Eagle:
As I am thinking of my dear old County and friends this lonesome Sunday evening, I will endeavor to send this message to you. I have been in Camp Pike about six weeks, and will soon be on my way to France, and then in the ditches I shall lay, trying to help win this war. And when the war is over I hope to return to you. There are lots of girls and boys in Camp on Sunday, but they’re not the ones I want to see: ours live too far away to come on Sunday. So, farewell, Crossett and Cooter friends. I ask the prayers of you all that I may return to yo some day.
Wade Jenkins,
Camp Pike, Ark.
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TRANSCRIBED BY DEBRA POLSTON
Editor Eagle:
As I am thinking of my dear old County and friends this lonesome Sunday evening, I will endeavor to send this message to you. I have been in Camp Pike about six weeks, and will soon be on my way to France, and then in the ditches I shall lay, trying to help win this war. And when the war is over I hope to return to you. There are lots of girls and boys in Camp on Sunday, but they’re not the ones I want to see: ours live too far away to come on Sunday. So, farewell, Crossett and Cooter friends. I ask the prayers of you all that I may return to yo some day.
Wade Jenkins,
Camp Pike, Ark.
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY DEBRA POLSTON