Letter from soldier published in the Jan 15, 1919 REPUBLICAN JOURNAL: Somewhere in France December 10, 1918 Dear Friend -- How are you getting along by this time? I am getting along good. I am in class B 1 now and expect to get started back to the U.S. before long, but a person can never tell when or where they are going in the army. Well, Marie, I expect you have butchered by this time and have plenty of good sausage to eat and plenty of cider to drink. Well, I am working in the kitchen now at nights and am getting plenty of good eats. I have not heard from anyone for about two months and I sure would like to hear how you are all getting along.  One of the boys in my ward got a letter the other day and his wife and brother both died, and sure made me wonder whether my friends were all living or not. Well it will soon be Christmas and New Years, do you remember yet where we went last New Years evening? I say those were the happy days. Well, I expect it is impossible for me to get back before New Years but hope I will be there by Easter. Well, Marie, I surely have got through lucky so far for all I have gone thro I will sure have some story to tell you when I get back to the states. I have not yet found any one over here yet that I knew since I left the states except Francis NOLL. We came across the ocean together but that was the last I saw of him since September 10. I would sure enjoy meeting him or any of my friends once. Well, I think this is all for this time, hoping these few lines will find you all well and happy. Tell me how my folks are all getting along. Yours truly, Simon WARREN Base Hospital No. 25, Ward 12 A.P.O. 785, American E.F. If you would like a photocopy of an article, please contact me. This and other Ohio newspaper transcriptions can be found on my website. Joyce Fullen Grove City OH http://www.fullenfamily.com/Newspapers/ohio__newspapers.htm