Letters To Editor: Lafourche Parish, La. Submitted by: Nancy Wright Source: Daily Comet, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La. Aug 2004 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** =================================================== The following letters appeared in the Lafourche Comet, May 2, 1918, page 4, cols.2 & 3 France, April 4, 1918 Mr. John B. Taylor, [Comet Editor], Thibodaux, La. Dear Sir: - I am feeling fine and very glad to be here. All the boys from Lafourche seem to be happy and they join me in sending best wishes to all friends. We are not going back until it is over, over here. There are many things I would like to tell you, but you know how it is. Please send me the Comet to the address below, because I want to get news from the dear old United States. With regards to all friends, I remain, Your friend, Robt. J. Pierce Co. L, 1st Army Hdqtrs, Regt. A.E. F. via N. Y. =================== New Orleans, LA, April 22, 1918 Mr. John B. Taylor, Thibodaux, La. Dear Sir - Will you kindly forward my Comet to New Orleans, La., 632 Peters Ave. There is quite a difference in New Orleans now from a few years back. Work is very plentiful and wages are very good. I an sorry to say that I am now a cripple, being laid up at the Presbyterian Hospital. I had the misfortune of stepping on a ship spike during the beginning of last week, which nearly went through my left foot. I am very fortunate, however, as my company bears all expenses at the hospital until I am well. I expect to return to my work in a few days. Yours truly, Leonce Riviere =================== It's been sometime since the young people of Thibodaux and vicinity had as enjoyable a dance as the one that took place last Friday night in the old Woodmen hall. The committee in charge - composed of Messrs Edward Naquin, H. L. Sims and G. P. Pugh - had much reason to be gratified over the result. =================== Mr. Victor E. Fremin, his wife and daughter, of Labadieville, were in Thibodaux last Saturday. Mr. Fremin had the Comet editor in mind when he started for Thibodaux, for he brought us some new Irish potatoes and a mess of fine snap beans. He has a 40 acre farm, but like other farmers, is having a tussle for want of laborers. He is compelled to do the most of his work himself, but this has not had a depressing effect upon him physically, for he displays a rosy complexion and a muscular build that any man should prize. We told him he need not worry so much about the shortage of labor, because we had seen it stated that the business men of Napoleonville had agreed to close their places on "wheatless days," Mondays and Wednesday, and give the farmers a helping hand. He was glad to hear this, he said, but he hoped that the Napoleonville merchants would not gain agricultural knowledge by doing as the fellow who had been sent into a cabbage patch to "clean it up." When the owner went to inspect the garden he found that the fellow had "cleaned it up" so well as to not leave a plant standing having acted the part of the "man with the hoe" just a little too well. ====================