TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT SEPTEMBER 26, 1918 P. 1
Dear Ones at Home:
September, 1918.
Many days have passed since I have heard from you and same is true from me to you. I couldn’t help it however as I have been in foreign parts until now and only one chance to send mail and that time when the mail ship came I had only time to drop a card.
I have made one trip 5,309 miles without a single stop.
I think of you all much and especially on pretty moonlight nights as we sail over the big blue
ocean hundreds of miles from land. I haven’t been sick a day since I went to sea and have made good with my Quartermaster work.
I have heard since coming back to the States that the draft now takes all men from 18 to 45
which of course makes me think of Virgil and wonder if he is taking the business course to
prepare for a yeoman.
I have crossed the equator twice and have gone thru the Panama canal once and have seen
hundreds of other places of interest in the last two or three months. Think I will get a flag of all the different countries that I see.
You understand why I don’t go into detail now for one has to be careful what he writes as the
least little thing might be an aid to the enemy.
I guess school is going now—a thing that I can hardly imagine—and to think of it being apple
picking time! I can only think of the season as just summer time and no later as we haven’t seen anything growing.
Love to all.
ERIN
NOTES: This letter was written by Eran Austin (the newspaper has his name spelled incorrectly) Weaver to his father R. E. Weaver who lived north of Rogers, Arkansas. He was born on August 25, 1894 in Rogers, Arkansas and died in October 1966. He is buried in the Chapel Hill Memorial Garden Cemetery in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCLAY CLEVELAND
Dear Ones at Home:
September, 1918.
Many days have passed since I have heard from you and same is true from me to you. I couldn’t help it however as I have been in foreign parts until now and only one chance to send mail and that time when the mail ship came I had only time to drop a card.
I have made one trip 5,309 miles without a single stop.
I think of you all much and especially on pretty moonlight nights as we sail over the big blue
ocean hundreds of miles from land. I haven’t been sick a day since I went to sea and have made good with my Quartermaster work.
I have heard since coming back to the States that the draft now takes all men from 18 to 45
which of course makes me think of Virgil and wonder if he is taking the business course to
prepare for a yeoman.
I have crossed the equator twice and have gone thru the Panama canal once and have seen
hundreds of other places of interest in the last two or three months. Think I will get a flag of all the different countries that I see.
You understand why I don’t go into detail now for one has to be careful what he writes as the
least little thing might be an aid to the enemy.
I guess school is going now—a thing that I can hardly imagine—and to think of it being apple
picking time! I can only think of the season as just summer time and no later as we haven’t seen anything growing.
Love to all.
ERIN
NOTES: This letter was written by Eran Austin (the newspaper has his name spelled incorrectly) Weaver to his father R. E. Weaver who lived north of Rogers, Arkansas. He was born on August 25, 1894 in Rogers, Arkansas and died in October 1966. He is buried in the Chapel Hill Memorial Garden Cemetery in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCLAY CLEVELAND