TRANSCRIBED FROM POCAHONTAS STAR HERALD DECEMBER 7, 1917 P. 2
Camp Beauregard, La., Nov. 27
Dear Mr. Blankenship:
I would like for you to send me your paper every week, so that I can hear from the good people of Randolph county. I think of them often and sometimes wish I could be with them again.
I like army life very well---much better than I supposed I would before entering, although I had much rather be at home with my dear old mother. We have so many different things down here, we don’t know what we are going to do until we have done it.
I am in the first Arkansas National Guard now. We Randolph county boys are not all in the same company, neither are we in the same regiment, but are all close together. We have been quarantined for measles, mumps, smallpox and other diseases since we came here, but I think we will be free from quarantine soon, as there are no new cases developing.
I must close, so give my love and regards through your paper to my relatives and many dear friends in Randolph.
Yours very truly,
Earle Spence,
Co G 153rd Inf., U.S.N.G.
NOTES: Spence is writing to the editor of the paper, L. F. Blankinship.
TRANSCRIBED BY DEBRA POLSTON
Camp Beauregard, La., Nov. 27
Dear Mr. Blankenship:
I would like for you to send me your paper every week, so that I can hear from the good people of Randolph county. I think of them often and sometimes wish I could be with them again.
I like army life very well---much better than I supposed I would before entering, although I had much rather be at home with my dear old mother. We have so many different things down here, we don’t know what we are going to do until we have done it.
I am in the first Arkansas National Guard now. We Randolph county boys are not all in the same company, neither are we in the same regiment, but are all close together. We have been quarantined for measles, mumps, smallpox and other diseases since we came here, but I think we will be free from quarantine soon, as there are no new cases developing.
I must close, so give my love and regards through your paper to my relatives and many dear friends in Randolph.
Yours very truly,
Earle Spence,
Co G 153rd Inf., U.S.N.G.
NOTES: Spence is writing to the editor of the paper, L. F. Blankinship.
TRANSCRIBED BY DEBRA POLSTON