Pvt. Oliver Bilhorn 36722105  The Salvation Army

Co. 56 BKS. 2601 L.S.S; Holland, Michigan  

Camp McCoy, Wisconsin

INF B-1, S.U.

            Camp Wheeler G.A.

 

Feb. 23, 1943

 

Dear Ollie;

           

            I hope that this letter finds you in good health and that you are enjoying your Army life.

 

            Things are about the same here at home and in the neighborhood.

            I am very sorry to inform you that I have yet been able to get around to getting the copy ready for you. When it comes right down to the true facts I really don’t have a good excuse ether. I was off last Tuesday and good, I could have stayed home and took care of the magazine but instead I went out with a girl. I guess that this time you might have put your faith in the wrong guy.

 

            But I have made some progress. I wrote to the National Religious Press in Grand Rapids, twice. Once to find out if they were still in business, as printing publications has been cut down so much. Most High Schools in the city have had to give up their annuals, monthly’s, and some even their daily’s. And second, to get new synicate material and atc.

            I am inclosing one of their letters. I told them that we wish to resume publication on a quarterly base. This is all right with them. I also ask them if they still had our mailing list, but for some reason they failed to answer about that.

            I started a two week vacation yesterday. I spent yesterday doing a little spring cleaning as it was about 65 degrees in Chicago. I am now in Holland, Michigan arrive this afternoon and plan on being back in Chicago by next Tuesday. I will then start immediately to take steps to get the dummy up to you with any local news I might run across.

            I am taking my vacation now as I expect to leave before April for the Army.

            By the way my girlfriend’s family (father and mother) have a farm at Stanley, Wisconsin, which is about twenty miles from Camp McCook. If I can get a car with gasoline or money for a train ride I might go up there for the last weekend of my vacation and acourse drop over to the camp and see you. I doubt very much that I will be able to make it. I guess that I shouldn’t have mentioned it and that way if I did get there you would have been more surprised.

            Well that’s about all, there just isn’t any more.

 

                                                                        Yours truly,

                                                                                    Arthur J