TRANSCRIBED FROM THE LOG CABIN DEMOCRAT DECEMBER 13, 1917 P. 2
Editor Log Cabin Democrat:
I wish to write to all of my friends and so I will have the letter printed in the Log Cabin Democrat so that all of my friends can read it. I am well and hope all of my friends are in good health. I left many friends in the Tucker vicinity, where I was mostly raised, and joined the navy in order to keep out of the draft. I sure miss the Sunday school on Sunday morning, for I was used to going to Sunday school at Tucker school house every Sunday, but we have preaching at 9 o’clock on Sunday morning, and through the week we have drilling, which I enjoy. On Saturday we have football and many other games which are interesting, but the best thing of all is when we fight sham battles. It looks then like Mr. Kaiser is compelled to give up. We have many thanks to return to the helpers of the Red Cross, for we sailors have all received a full supply, containing one sweater, one pair gloves, scarf and handy bag containing comb, pencil, thread, buttons, tooth brush, tooth powder, tlcum powder, needles, thimble, soap and shoe strings. And you readers of the Log Cabin Democrat know that we surely did appreciate them, for it certainly is cold up here and we sailors can’t get too many clothes on. It snowed three days here and we had to drill just the same, and you may know that we need warm clothes. We are in hopes we will get south before long, because it is too cold up here for a boy that was raised in the south and was sent north in the cold part of the year.
So I must close for this time expecting to hear from some of you readers and will be glad to hear from all of my friends from Tucker school house.
Very truly yours,
Henry Fred Nothwang.
Camp Decatur, Co. 53, Barracks 822, Great Lakes, Ill.
NOTES: Henry Frederick Nothwang was born on February 26, 1895 in Conway, Arkansas and died on May 3, 1978 in Conway. He is buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Conway. His headstone identifies him as serving in the US Navy during WWI. He enlisted on November 17, 1917 and was discharged on March 26, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Editor Log Cabin Democrat:
I wish to write to all of my friends and so I will have the letter printed in the Log Cabin Democrat so that all of my friends can read it. I am well and hope all of my friends are in good health. I left many friends in the Tucker vicinity, where I was mostly raised, and joined the navy in order to keep out of the draft. I sure miss the Sunday school on Sunday morning, for I was used to going to Sunday school at Tucker school house every Sunday, but we have preaching at 9 o’clock on Sunday morning, and through the week we have drilling, which I enjoy. On Saturday we have football and many other games which are interesting, but the best thing of all is when we fight sham battles. It looks then like Mr. Kaiser is compelled to give up. We have many thanks to return to the helpers of the Red Cross, for we sailors have all received a full supply, containing one sweater, one pair gloves, scarf and handy bag containing comb, pencil, thread, buttons, tooth brush, tooth powder, tlcum powder, needles, thimble, soap and shoe strings. And you readers of the Log Cabin Democrat know that we surely did appreciate them, for it certainly is cold up here and we sailors can’t get too many clothes on. It snowed three days here and we had to drill just the same, and you may know that we need warm clothes. We are in hopes we will get south before long, because it is too cold up here for a boy that was raised in the south and was sent north in the cold part of the year.
So I must close for this time expecting to hear from some of you readers and will be glad to hear from all of my friends from Tucker school house.
Very truly yours,
Henry Fred Nothwang.
Camp Decatur, Co. 53, Barracks 822, Great Lakes, Ill.
NOTES: Henry Frederick Nothwang was born on February 26, 1895 in Conway, Arkansas and died on May 3, 1978 in Conway. He is buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery in Conway. His headstone identifies him as serving in the US Navy during WWI. He enlisted on November 17, 1917 and was discharged on March 26, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS