TRANSCRIBED FROM THE COURIER DEMOCRAT FEBRUARY 28, 1918 P. 4
Camp Beauregard, La.
Editor Courier Democrat:
Do you expect a fellow who has read your paper all his life to get along without it now just because he is down here in the army? I enclose 25c for a three months subscription. I think that will be as long as we are in the good old U.S.A.
If you can spare me space in your valuable paper, I wish to write a few lines to my friends and loved ones in old Pope county. I want them to know that I am always ready to answer the call of duty–especially the “mess call.” There is another call to which I am always ready to respond. That call, for which I am anxiously waiting even now is known in the army as “pay day.”
We are having some cold weather here now. (This letter was received early in February.–Editor.) I often hear the weather compared to a place whose temperature is supposed never to register very low. But even a cold wave has its advantages–the water pipes are all frozen, so that we don’t have to wash our clothes, take a bath, or even wash our hands and faces.
If any young lady in Pope county wishes to correspond with a soldier, here is my address
W. R. Rudder
Co. F. 153rd Inftry.
NOTES: William R. B. Rudder was born on October 6, 1886 in Solo, Arkansas and died on October 22, 1971 in Pope County. He is buried in the Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Private serving in the US Army during WWI. He enlisted in the military on September 1, 1917 and was discharged on April 1, 1919. He departed from Newport News, Virginia on August 6, 1918 onboard the Huron. He was serving as a Private in Co. F, 153rd Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Camp Beauregard, La.
Editor Courier Democrat:
Do you expect a fellow who has read your paper all his life to get along without it now just because he is down here in the army? I enclose 25c for a three months subscription. I think that will be as long as we are in the good old U.S.A.
If you can spare me space in your valuable paper, I wish to write a few lines to my friends and loved ones in old Pope county. I want them to know that I am always ready to answer the call of duty–especially the “mess call.” There is another call to which I am always ready to respond. That call, for which I am anxiously waiting even now is known in the army as “pay day.”
We are having some cold weather here now. (This letter was received early in February.–Editor.) I often hear the weather compared to a place whose temperature is supposed never to register very low. But even a cold wave has its advantages–the water pipes are all frozen, so that we don’t have to wash our clothes, take a bath, or even wash our hands and faces.
If any young lady in Pope county wishes to correspond with a soldier, here is my address
W. R. Rudder
Co. F. 153rd Inftry.
NOTES: William R. B. Rudder was born on October 6, 1886 in Solo, Arkansas and died on October 22, 1971 in Pope County. He is buried in the Mount Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Private serving in the US Army during WWI. He enlisted in the military on September 1, 1917 and was discharged on April 1, 1919. He departed from Newport News, Virginia on August 6, 1918 onboard the Huron. He was serving as a Private in Co. F, 153rd Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD