TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BRINKLEY ARGUS AUGUST 17, 1917 P. 2
Dear Friend:
As requested in the columns of a recent issue of your good paper. “The Argus” I am enclosing a few lines.
I am in the Enlisted Reserves and was called into active service June 19, 1917, as Sergeant in the Quartermaster Corps and reported for duty at Quartermaster Depot. El Paso, Texas, on the above date.
Altho my number was drawn in the great lotteyr held at Washington and I am included in the first 320 to be called from Little Rock, I am exempt from being drafted because I am in service.
I receive the ARGUS every week and enjoying reading immensely the news from my old home town. Altho I am in a city located in the center of a massive desert, in a country where it rains, where the sun pours down to to beat “sixty” and more than 1,000 miles from Brinkley, I love to read the news the ARGUS sends forth and see what my old friends are doing. I noticed in an issue of Friday, July 13,1918 that an old sweetheart of mine was visiting in that city and many other interesting articles too numerous to mention. With my fondest regard to yourself and wife and all those who remember me, I am
Friendly yours,
Sgt. Percy L. Scholem.
NOTES: Percy Leon Scholem was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on January 4, 1891 an died in Little Rock on May 21, 1960. He is buried in the Oakland and Fraternal Historic Cemetery Park in Little Rock. At the time he wrote this letter he was serving on the Mexican Border.
TRANSCRIBED BY ADIN TYGART
Dear Friend:
As requested in the columns of a recent issue of your good paper. “The Argus” I am enclosing a few lines.
I am in the Enlisted Reserves and was called into active service June 19, 1917, as Sergeant in the Quartermaster Corps and reported for duty at Quartermaster Depot. El Paso, Texas, on the above date.
Altho my number was drawn in the great lotteyr held at Washington and I am included in the first 320 to be called from Little Rock, I am exempt from being drafted because I am in service.
I receive the ARGUS every week and enjoying reading immensely the news from my old home town. Altho I am in a city located in the center of a massive desert, in a country where it rains, where the sun pours down to to beat “sixty” and more than 1,000 miles from Brinkley, I love to read the news the ARGUS sends forth and see what my old friends are doing. I noticed in an issue of Friday, July 13,1918 that an old sweetheart of mine was visiting in that city and many other interesting articles too numerous to mention. With my fondest regard to yourself and wife and all those who remember me, I am
Friendly yours,
Sgt. Percy L. Scholem.
NOTES: Percy Leon Scholem was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on January 4, 1891 an died in Little Rock on May 21, 1960. He is buried in the Oakland and Fraternal Historic Cemetery Park in Little Rock. At the time he wrote this letter he was serving on the Mexican Border.
TRANSCRIBED BY ADIN TYGART