TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT SEPTEMBER 17, 1918 P. 2
The climate here and the food I get certainly agree with me. I was at Vancouver cantonment two weeks, and have been here two weeks.
Here in Aberdeen we are quartered in nice barracks. We have mattresses to sleep on and are fed three meals each day, and believe me, they are meals, too. Everything you can mention good to eat, served on tables fitted with china and silverware, just like home. We have running hot and cold water, electric lights, and a drying room in the barracks. This is a cooler climate than at Vancouver, but gets pretty warm during the day. Yesterday was the hottest of the year – 93 in the shade.
We work 7 ½ hours at the mill, working three shifts. I am employed at a large sawmill. We cut spruce, fur, and hemlock for ship and airplane building.
There is a big shipyard just behind our barracks, and I saw a ship launched a few days ago. They complete one in about thirty days, and it is certainly interesting.
Write me often,
You friend,
J. Earl Lovvo,
3rd Det. 64th Spruce Squad,
Aberdeen, Wash.
NOTES: Lovvo was writing to his friend, Walter L. Fuller.
TRANSCRIBED BY: ISAAC WOLTER
The climate here and the food I get certainly agree with me. I was at Vancouver cantonment two weeks, and have been here two weeks.
Here in Aberdeen we are quartered in nice barracks. We have mattresses to sleep on and are fed three meals each day, and believe me, they are meals, too. Everything you can mention good to eat, served on tables fitted with china and silverware, just like home. We have running hot and cold water, electric lights, and a drying room in the barracks. This is a cooler climate than at Vancouver, but gets pretty warm during the day. Yesterday was the hottest of the year – 93 in the shade.
We work 7 ½ hours at the mill, working three shifts. I am employed at a large sawmill. We cut spruce, fur, and hemlock for ship and airplane building.
There is a big shipyard just behind our barracks, and I saw a ship launched a few days ago. They complete one in about thirty days, and it is certainly interesting.
Write me often,
You friend,
J. Earl Lovvo,
3rd Det. 64th Spruce Squad,
Aberdeen, Wash.
NOTES: Lovvo was writing to his friend, Walter L. Fuller.
TRANSCRIBED BY: ISAAC WOLTER