TRANSCRIBED FROM THE VAN BUREN COUNTY DEMOCRAT SEPTEMBER 27, 1918 P. 1
Our school is conducted on the lecture and work plan, i.e., we are lectured upon a subject and then given the material and put to actual work. For instance, we were lectured upon the subject of electricity and then given batteries, wire and other material and required to make a magnetic field and a primary coil.
We only have to drill after four o’clock and so far we haven’t been off the parade grounds. We have every convenience here that could be expected. Our camp ground is about one by three miles, but a part of it is used for air ships to light on. These airplanes are about as common here as buzzards are at home and really they sometimes make me think of buzzards. They fly at all heights, sometimes not higher than a man’s head. Their average weight is about 3,000 lbs.
We have all kinds of entertainment preaching, singing, games, etc. I am at the “Y” now and a man from Little Rock has just closed a very interesting sermon.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Ernest D. Reeves to his mother Mrs. James R. (Lillie) Robinson while he was attending military technical training at the University of Texas in Austin. He was born in Murillo, Arkansas on June 14, 1895 and died on October 25, 1933. He is buried in the Bradley Cemetery in Clinton, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Pvt. serving in Motor Transportation Corps. He served as a Private in Co. C Motor Transportation Repair Unit 316.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Our school is conducted on the lecture and work plan, i.e., we are lectured upon a subject and then given the material and put to actual work. For instance, we were lectured upon the subject of electricity and then given batteries, wire and other material and required to make a magnetic field and a primary coil.
We only have to drill after four o’clock and so far we haven’t been off the parade grounds. We have every convenience here that could be expected. Our camp ground is about one by three miles, but a part of it is used for air ships to light on. These airplanes are about as common here as buzzards are at home and really they sometimes make me think of buzzards. They fly at all heights, sometimes not higher than a man’s head. Their average weight is about 3,000 lbs.
We have all kinds of entertainment preaching, singing, games, etc. I am at the “Y” now and a man from Little Rock has just closed a very interesting sermon.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Ernest D. Reeves to his mother Mrs. James R. (Lillie) Robinson while he was attending military technical training at the University of Texas in Austin. He was born in Murillo, Arkansas on June 14, 1895 and died on October 25, 1933. He is buried in the Bradley Cemetery in Clinton, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Pvt. serving in Motor Transportation Corps. He served as a Private in Co. C Motor Transportation Repair Unit 316.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD