TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MALVERN TIMES JOURNAL SEPTEMBER 6, 1918 P. 1
Camp Mabry, Co. 17, Austin, Tex.
All the boys of Hot Spring county will come home in this manner.
The Kaiser chasers have been here three weeks, and the quarantine was raised today, and most of them will get a pass to town, where they will spread joy.
We are in school everyday and learning fast. Some of the cars have been on guard two or three nights, and they say screech owls are thicke in Texas that lightening bugs are in Arkansas. People who have experienced know, and those that live in the lonely hills in Arkansas may have not thought just what takes place in army life.
Such work as sweeping, washing, making beds is a daily job.
A contest between the companies of this camp was held yesterday, Arkansas boys being the champions in jumping and running.
We took examination today. I think everybody made good.
There is a company leaves here every week, and one comes every week, therefore we have about 3500 men all the time. Our camp is located near the railroad, and when a north bound train passes, the very scenes of old Ark. comes in sight.
We hope the editor will make room in the paper for our few items.
We are Hot Springs Co’s. youngest men,
Wm. H. Sullivan,
F. S. Day,
J. C. Bailey,
H. H. Matlock.
NOTES: Henry Horace Matlock was born on September 20, 1896 in Trousdale County Tennessee. He died on January 6, 1986. He is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in the US Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY KAREN PITTMAN
Camp Mabry, Co. 17, Austin, Tex.
All the boys of Hot Spring county will come home in this manner.
The Kaiser chasers have been here three weeks, and the quarantine was raised today, and most of them will get a pass to town, where they will spread joy.
We are in school everyday and learning fast. Some of the cars have been on guard two or three nights, and they say screech owls are thicke in Texas that lightening bugs are in Arkansas. People who have experienced know, and those that live in the lonely hills in Arkansas may have not thought just what takes place in army life.
Such work as sweeping, washing, making beds is a daily job.
A contest between the companies of this camp was held yesterday, Arkansas boys being the champions in jumping and running.
We took examination today. I think everybody made good.
There is a company leaves here every week, and one comes every week, therefore we have about 3500 men all the time. Our camp is located near the railroad, and when a north bound train passes, the very scenes of old Ark. comes in sight.
We hope the editor will make room in the paper for our few items.
We are Hot Springs Co’s. youngest men,
Wm. H. Sullivan,
F. S. Day,
J. C. Bailey,
H. H. Matlock.
NOTES: Henry Horace Matlock was born on September 20, 1896 in Trousdale County Tennessee. He died on January 6, 1986. He is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Hot Springs, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in the US Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY KAREN PITTMAN