TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 17, 1918 P. 1
Bordeaux, France
September 7
I am getting along great; wouldn’t wish for better treatment over here, in fact, am getting much better treatment than I expected.
Haven’t received any mail for four or five days but hope to get some in a day or so.
Tomorrow is Sunday and I wish I was back there to eat Sunday dinner with your people and don’t think it will be so awful long; and when I do, you must have a big feed for I would sure appreciate some home cooking and feel now that I would never get tired of the meals at home.
It is cloudy now and I am expecting rain most any time, as I believe it is about time for the rainy season over here, from what I understand.
You should see some of the wagons that the French people use. They have only two wheels and the wheels are big and high and they hitch a horse to a pair of shalves and a dog goes under the cart and bites the horse when they want it to go.
I don’t believe I have seen a fence since I have been here: they are all stone walls–walls that must have taken years to build. There are practically no wooden structures over here at all – most everything is stone.
Like almost every soldier I am profiting a great amount by seeing things which I have never seen before. I have not played the piano any since I came over but am going to collect a bunch of French music and take it back with me. One can get it real cheap over here.
Would like to go to Paris before I go back to the U.S.
Must quit. Write me.
VEST
NOTES: Theodore Vest Phillips was writing to his sister Mrs. D. L. Wheat. He was born in Lowell, Arkansas on November 15, 1895 and died on January 1, 1946 in Pulaski County, Arkansas. He is buried in the Little Rock National Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Oklahoma PFC US Army 133rd Transportation Corps during World War 1. He enlisted on February 24, 1918 and was discharged on July 3, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Bordeaux, France
September 7
I am getting along great; wouldn’t wish for better treatment over here, in fact, am getting much better treatment than I expected.
Haven’t received any mail for four or five days but hope to get some in a day or so.
Tomorrow is Sunday and I wish I was back there to eat Sunday dinner with your people and don’t think it will be so awful long; and when I do, you must have a big feed for I would sure appreciate some home cooking and feel now that I would never get tired of the meals at home.
It is cloudy now and I am expecting rain most any time, as I believe it is about time for the rainy season over here, from what I understand.
You should see some of the wagons that the French people use. They have only two wheels and the wheels are big and high and they hitch a horse to a pair of shalves and a dog goes under the cart and bites the horse when they want it to go.
I don’t believe I have seen a fence since I have been here: they are all stone walls–walls that must have taken years to build. There are practically no wooden structures over here at all – most everything is stone.
Like almost every soldier I am profiting a great amount by seeing things which I have never seen before. I have not played the piano any since I came over but am going to collect a bunch of French music and take it back with me. One can get it real cheap over here.
Would like to go to Paris before I go back to the U.S.
Must quit. Write me.
VEST
NOTES: Theodore Vest Phillips was writing to his sister Mrs. D. L. Wheat. He was born in Lowell, Arkansas on November 15, 1895 and died on January 1, 1946 in Pulaski County, Arkansas. He is buried in the Little Rock National Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Oklahoma PFC US Army 133rd Transportation Corps during World War 1. He enlisted on February 24, 1918 and was discharged on July 3, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD