TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS NOVEMBER 1, 1918 P. 1
September 12
Dear Sister and Family:
Will try and drop you a few lines. I have landed safely overseas, and was sure glad to see land, for it was a wearisome trip. This is a fine place if it didn’t rain so much. It don’t rain hard, just a slow like rain, but plenty of it.
The French people have been taken to war and factory work, till all you can see is real old men women and they wear wooden shoes, and their wagons have two wheels. If they drive two horses they drive one in front of the other. I see some automobiles.
Well, I can’t write much for I haven’t any place to write. If you don’t hear from me very often don’t’ be uneasy, for I am in a safe place.
Address Cook Pace, Bat. A, 142nd F.A. American Expeditionary Forces.
NOTES: Cook Pace was writing to his Springdale, Arkansas sister Mrs. J. E. Loyd.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
September 12
Dear Sister and Family:
Will try and drop you a few lines. I have landed safely overseas, and was sure glad to see land, for it was a wearisome trip. This is a fine place if it didn’t rain so much. It don’t rain hard, just a slow like rain, but plenty of it.
The French people have been taken to war and factory work, till all you can see is real old men women and they wear wooden shoes, and their wagons have two wheels. If they drive two horses they drive one in front of the other. I see some automobiles.
Well, I can’t write much for I haven’t any place to write. If you don’t hear from me very often don’t’ be uneasy, for I am in a safe place.
Address Cook Pace, Bat. A, 142nd F.A. American Expeditionary Forces.
NOTES: Cook Pace was writing to his Springdale, Arkansas sister Mrs. J. E. Loyd.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON