TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS MAY 31, 1918 P. 3
Dear Sister and family:
As I have arrived back in the good old U. S. A. and have a few moments to spare will write you a few lines. No doubt you will be surprised to learn that I am back.
Would have written to you sooner, but I thought I could give you a little surprise visit. But as I only had a seven-days leave I know that I could only be with each of you only a few hours as the most of that seven days would have been spent in traveling; and as I was pretty well worn out from travel I thought after I got to Jersey City that I had better take a little rest before I started on my other duties.
I have been sent back here as an instructor and since I arrived at this place I have sure been busy. We are just organizing a new school here, and at the very beginning I was appointed Adjutant. We are all working very hard to get the school going smoothly, and I think we are progressing very nicely.
I am sure glad to be back in the United States. Although France is a beautiful country and the French people are a wonderful people, I prefer good old America. Would like to tell you more but time is so precious these days, as we have to train and put a big army in the field. So will close for this time. Hope I will get to visit you in the near future.
I remain as ever, your brother,
A.Y. Weir.
NOTES: Lieut. Arthur Young Weir was born in Springdale, Arkansas on June 2, 1881 and died in 1960. He is buried in the Highland Cemetery in Junction City, Kansas. He was writing the letter from Ft. Sill, Okla. to his sister Mrs. Ollie Carter.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Dear Sister and family:
As I have arrived back in the good old U. S. A. and have a few moments to spare will write you a few lines. No doubt you will be surprised to learn that I am back.
Would have written to you sooner, but I thought I could give you a little surprise visit. But as I only had a seven-days leave I know that I could only be with each of you only a few hours as the most of that seven days would have been spent in traveling; and as I was pretty well worn out from travel I thought after I got to Jersey City that I had better take a little rest before I started on my other duties.
I have been sent back here as an instructor and since I arrived at this place I have sure been busy. We are just organizing a new school here, and at the very beginning I was appointed Adjutant. We are all working very hard to get the school going smoothly, and I think we are progressing very nicely.
I am sure glad to be back in the United States. Although France is a beautiful country and the French people are a wonderful people, I prefer good old America. Would like to tell you more but time is so precious these days, as we have to train and put a big army in the field. So will close for this time. Hope I will get to visit you in the near future.
I remain as ever, your brother,
A.Y. Weir.
NOTES: Lieut. Arthur Young Weir was born in Springdale, Arkansas on June 2, 1881 and died in 1960. He is buried in the Highland Cemetery in Junction City, Kansas. He was writing the letter from Ft. Sill, Okla. to his sister Mrs. Ollie Carter.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS