February 1916

Arkona, February 14, 1916

From Lieut W.A. Williams
Arkona, Ontario

To Miss Madeline Lucas
Arkona, Ontario

Dear Madeline,

Today. Valentine Day. May I have the pleasure of writing you this particular day and wish you every success in your new work. I hope you will like the place the work. I believe you are mum proof as I have not heard of you taking them yet. I only pray you never get them, it would please the people too well. I am so sorry this was such an incident as to bring your name in it.

Now I am getting along fine, but I am awful weak and somewhat thin. I am sure I got up too soon because I felt b better a few days ago than I do now. However I will soon be out again. Yesterday was a lonesome one for me and I was wishing after Church you would come in. Verne was down in afternoon, several boys were in for a short stay but all at the time. Do you know they also sent down a dandy bunch of flowers Saturday evening and I believe I never felt so bad in mu life as to think they would do such a kind act. Now I only wish I could return the compliment but I will always look after the boys best I can. My brother Alf is in today and has not place as yet. I wish he could come here, he has such a cold is not safe to go to cold home. 

Well I must say your letter was a nice one and I seem over joyed to think you care a little for a baby boy like me. I hope such things as have happened may never occur again. I am sure we both make statements that are rather hard to take up correctly. You spoke about coming to see me when sick, I only hope you  always will if was very sick. Lyda and yourself sure showed much kindness in enquiring how good Fullers were either. No one asked.

Do you know I was vexed at Fullers often because they were so might stiff. I am so glad you are at Browns. You will like them best and they are good to their clerks. I hope you stay single a little longer than Mrs Stoner or you will be talked about too. I was always wishing you would get in a store as it is a good education and a person learns people’s ways. You need no improvements but just to see the hard cases. I know you were lonesome and if we go away it will be worse, you will have something to take up your mind and company all the time. I never expected to see that cheque again but you are as stiff it would be awful to keep it. I gave that and every other one just as I promised I would do. I will put them away and that will be the same Four years ays tonight I first went home from H. Smiths with you and 2 yrs ago tonight from B. Arrington. Last year I was in London and I forget 3yrs ago where I was.

This is four pages of literature and I could write them by the dozens. I will try and get down Wednesday evening if you will be home and your people don’t object. Be sure and drop a line if there is anything wrong so I will stay at home. I hope to navigate that for by them. If it is not nice night I will not tackle. This will be reverse now. You have my job and I can only go when you are home. Please excuse these rambling remarks and scribbled lines and wishing you again success.

I will close.
Yours sincerely,

Will 

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Forest, Ont. Feb 16th, 1916

From: G. L. Price
Forest, Ont.

To: Lt. Williams
Arkona, Ont.

Lieut,

I received your letter today and was more than pleased to hear from you. We will all be glad to have you back with us again in a few days. Well you were asking for Moses and he is getting along fine and the rest of the boys that had the mumps, we’ll soon be on duty again.

Well about our meeting in Camlachie, I had such a bad cold that I was not able to attend it so Lt White had to go all alone. There were about fifty at the meeting and two recruits have signed up from Camlachie that is all that is signed up here since you left. Lieut Schroader is here now, and is going to Camlachie in the morning to recruit that is the order of the O.C. Col Bradley came here yesterday and left for Thedford on the afternoon train today and will stay with Lt Schowler until tomorrow afternoon. The O.C. was here when I received your letter and I told him that you were getting along fine and would be back inside of a week and he said he was glad to hear that you would soon be around again. He told me to go off duty until I was feeling alright again as the cold has settled in my head and I am that deaf that I can scarcely hear the tick of a watch. 

Well the way the O.C. arranged things here Schroader recruiting, White in charge, Sgt. ?ew instructor and he said things were to go on this way till you returned and you would have full charge here again and just changed things as you saw fit. Believe me you sure have a great stand in with Col. Bradley. He talked as though he would leave every thing to you and to do as you saw fit here. Capt. A.O. Smith I understand was at the Col. again last night for an appointment here and I heard that the best he could do for him would be to give him Sergeants for now. Dick Schroader is just here as sergeant and he is only receiving private’s pay. Well about your nurse, I am sorry to say that she has been very sick with the mumps too and is still confined to the house yet.

Well I think this about all I have to say now hoping to see you back here in a few days.

I remain yours Truly,

G.L. Price.

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Arkona, Febr. 23rd, 1916

Miss Madeline Lucas,
Arkona, Ontario

Dear Madeline,

Your not rec’d. Many thanks for same. You think I am cross at you and thinking of quitting you company. Madeline, never once in my life have I been angry at you, but I must say at different times have been worried. You know by now that no one in the world is so dear to me as you are. Surely any man with feeling would feel hurt so badly as to show worry. Now I never think of quitting your company but I feel so awful of late I don’t know what to do. One night last night was one of those never to be forgotten as I have had no rest not one minute and a few days like today will do me. I am just about heart broken to think I am not worthy of you. I hope such days as ours shall never occur again Your Father and Mother will be vexed awfully at my actions. How I can fulfil my duties and work under such difficulties is more than my brain can stand. I only trust the day will soon come when all will be well. Regards going to the concert I am not fit to be seen with you and I am sure neither yourself nor myself would enjoy one moment of the time. I will go to my rest and my earnest prayer tonight will be that you and I shall never part. This letter is not one thousand part of my feelings and I trust you will pardon me for being unable to go to the concert. Trusting that you will forgive me, as I forgive you.

I remain as ever, 


Yours sincerely, Will 

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