TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MALVERN TIMES JOURNAL NOVEMBER 21, 1918 P. 8
Oct. 3, Somewhere in France.
Dear Mother:
As I have just come out of the hospital, will write you a short letter. I have been sick, but am well now, and feel fine and dandy and hope all of you are well. I won’t tell you a story, so I will say, we are on the front, but what is that. Just a few big guns shoot now and then and we are not scared a bit. We have lot of fun, but you know we could have a lot more fun, if we were back at home. I think we will be back before long, from the way every thing looks now. We sure have a time trying to talk to these people. I don’t think I will ever learn to speak this language, but I have to learn to make a lot of signs, so I can get by very well. I guess, if we stay over here a year longer and then come home, you know I can’t talk plain, I will have to go to signs, altogether. Tell Bunt he ought to be with me, for we can buy all kinds of whiskey and wine. They have the funniest money over here I ever saw. I have just got so I can count it. I wonder how my mare and colt is by now. Better off than I am, I guess I bet I have some pretty pigs by this time. Tell Doudle to keep my clothes cleaned and pressed, for I am coming back to put them on before long. So tell everybody hello for me, so I will close, your oldest boy,
Wagoner Chester J. Scott,
Supply Co. 324 Inf. U. S. A., Po. 791.
NOTES: Chester James Scott was born on June 21, 1895 in Hot Spring County Arkansas and died on March 27, 1963 at Little Rock, Arkansas. He is buried in the Lone Hill Cemetery at Oak Grove, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY KAREN PITTMAN
Oct. 3, Somewhere in France.
Dear Mother:
As I have just come out of the hospital, will write you a short letter. I have been sick, but am well now, and feel fine and dandy and hope all of you are well. I won’t tell you a story, so I will say, we are on the front, but what is that. Just a few big guns shoot now and then and we are not scared a bit. We have lot of fun, but you know we could have a lot more fun, if we were back at home. I think we will be back before long, from the way every thing looks now. We sure have a time trying to talk to these people. I don’t think I will ever learn to speak this language, but I have to learn to make a lot of signs, so I can get by very well. I guess, if we stay over here a year longer and then come home, you know I can’t talk plain, I will have to go to signs, altogether. Tell Bunt he ought to be with me, for we can buy all kinds of whiskey and wine. They have the funniest money over here I ever saw. I have just got so I can count it. I wonder how my mare and colt is by now. Better off than I am, I guess I bet I have some pretty pigs by this time. Tell Doudle to keep my clothes cleaned and pressed, for I am coming back to put them on before long. So tell everybody hello for me, so I will close, your oldest boy,
Wagoner Chester J. Scott,
Supply Co. 324 Inf. U. S. A., Po. 791.
NOTES: Chester James Scott was born on June 21, 1895 in Hot Spring County Arkansas and died on March 27, 1963 at Little Rock, Arkansas. He is buried in the Lone Hill Cemetery at Oak Grove, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY KAREN PITTMAN