TRANSCRIBED FROM TH POCAHONTAS STAR HERALD SEPTEMBER 17, 1918 P. 3
Camp Pike, Ark.
Dear Editor:
If you will allow me space in your dear old paper I'll let the people of Randolph know how their last drafted boys landed.
We left Pocahontas, thinking we had seventy-five boys, but when we boarded the train we checked up seventy-seven. When we landed in Hoxie, we lined up and marched to a cafe, where Uncle Sam had dinner for us. In the afternoon, Lawrence county, with seventy-five; and Sharp county, with forty-two boys, joined us. We left at 5:58. There were several car loads added at Kenset and Newport, making in all about eight hundred boys. We landed at Camp Pike safely, marched to the Casual Company, and were divided into different companies. Our bunks looked rather tough, as the Barracks were full, but the boys all realized what we came for and went to bed good naturedly.
We marched out before the regulars the next morning and the word was: "You once had a home, but you had to leave it." The answer was: "Yes, but you only hate that you had to leave yours first."
Most of us passed the examination all right, received two shots and are feeling pretty well. We got our uniforms and now look like regulars. If this doesn't reach the waste basket, I'll write again.
Everett J. Looney,
Cas. Co, 18 162nd, D.B.
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TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
Camp Pike, Ark.
Dear Editor:
If you will allow me space in your dear old paper I'll let the people of Randolph know how their last drafted boys landed.
We left Pocahontas, thinking we had seventy-five boys, but when we boarded the train we checked up seventy-seven. When we landed in Hoxie, we lined up and marched to a cafe, where Uncle Sam had dinner for us. In the afternoon, Lawrence county, with seventy-five; and Sharp county, with forty-two boys, joined us. We left at 5:58. There were several car loads added at Kenset and Newport, making in all about eight hundred boys. We landed at Camp Pike safely, marched to the Casual Company, and were divided into different companies. Our bunks looked rather tough, as the Barracks were full, but the boys all realized what we came for and went to bed good naturedly.
We marched out before the regulars the next morning and the word was: "You once had a home, but you had to leave it." The answer was: "Yes, but you only hate that you had to leave yours first."
Most of us passed the examination all right, received two shots and are feeling pretty well. We got our uniforms and now look like regulars. If this doesn't reach the waste basket, I'll write again.
Everett J. Looney,
Cas. Co, 18 162nd, D.B.
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD