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To: Mrs. J.E. Reg
Sauk Centre, Minnesota.
From: L.W Kelly, 329th F.A
Camp Custer Michigan.
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Battery D. 329th F.A
Camp Custer, Michigan July 8th 1918
Dear _________,
We will need the crops and you will have plenty of rain for the kale. I wondered much what you did the 4th of July. Last year we sure had a great trip out to the lake and I often think of it. I still see the ground view over the quiet lake for Whites porch and I wonder if you didn't go out there to see it again.
Last week I sure had a time of it. To begin with I was one of 6 kitchen police. Our duties were to wash dishes (for 200000000000000000000), pots and _____, ice boxes, etc. wash off tables, scrub the floor every day, peel potatoes for 200000000000000000 and dish things out at meals. The first day went fine. The next morning I was sick but laboured through the day. The next day I was sick in quarters. On the 4th of July I went back into the kitchen and laboured all day being very weak. At night a guy told me they were choosing candidates for an officers training school and I went to see the major with a squeaking voice and didn't find him. The next day I found him, took an examination but was too late ÿ
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late for the school. However the major expressed some very friendly feelings and gave me more hopes than I have had for many days. He told me to see my captain and I did and they are giving me all sorts of _____ jobs which are great. One fellow told me that they were making me a corporal but I don't know whether it is true. In the meantime much talk floats about going across. No telling when we will start but perhaps very soon. We get new indications of preparations every day. You know how______, slow but sure are the _______ of the army. We shall perhaps stop at N.Y. two or three weeks but there is no sure ____ about anything. ____didn't wait three weeks whereas many do. I seem to have no fear at all about _____ for the U.S. surely guards carefully those shiploads of troops for they are worth a file surely as soldiers.
In the meantime the Kaiser doesn't seem to be doing very much but losing. If he doesn't do some big things during the next three months he can figure that all the hot stuff comes from this way henceforth. The U.S. troops seem to be doing great things.
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Has Effie arrived yet. I am ________ to write to her before long but am very ____ busy just at the present. It must seem rather strange with a lot of the young fellows gone but the Anderson girl wrote saying that there was always a mob at the dances still.
Wednesday morning. Great preparations for overseas are going on and it looks that we would be on the road within a week. Our ____ can tell in the army but some are going on and everyone makes preparations. The camp is quarantined. Everyone is feeling gay. You will find a suitcase and other articles coming home soon. Dispose of that in any way you please. Above all don't worry for all things will go well. Don't fret about letters or anything else.
Friday: It seems that I will never finish this letter. You had better stow the suitcase away in some safe place and use them only where you want them. The shoes are $6 1/2 shoes and I wore them only a few times. If polished they will be great for _____ or _____. The baseball is the best; I found it. Be sure to stow my muffler and ivory paper cutter safely somewhere for they are presents from my _____ girl. What is done with the rest of the stuff doesn't matter your poop didl io
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much. _____ that all this stuff is yours to do with as you please only I may want some of it when the war is over. Things are going fine this week. I am being made corporal and am doing some urgent jobs. What is more the major is my friend and I believe the way is open to climb _____. If I had understood the army I could have climbed from the beginning. The major told me that he would see that I got into an officers training school if I did well and I will do well if it takes a leg. If this happens I may be in the U.S. again and then will sure get home for awhile. Shall close here hoping to write again before leaving for Europe. We shall probably leave Tuesday. The camp is going all the time by trainloads night and day. Everybody seems to be happy and excited. We will drill in Europe a considerable time and shall probably stop at the coast a few weeks. Remember me to everyone.
Your loving Bro.,
_________
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Did you know: The word "inst" was a very commonly used abbreviation for the Latin "instante mense" meaning this month.
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