CEHBates_Jan-June1920_095b

FIRST METHODIST CHURCH [centered]
CLAUDE OREAR, Pastor [centered]
ROANOKE, - ALABAMA [centered]

"sorter" help. How goes it with your little French maiden
with gazelle eyes. Do those eyes still affect you
3 or 4 thousands miles away. I regret that
you are still feeling the effects of war. I am
persuaded though that your condition is far better
than if you had been left on no man's land.
You never would have been able to step off the car
with the Croix and the D.S.C. and salute the "pretty nut-
brown maidens with eyes so tender tender blue" or
words to that affect [effect].

How is the U of Cal.? Is it still high as to rank?
How does it stand as compared with Chi. my old alma
mater? [SMILEY FACE DRAWN] O for Quist to be here to talk about
you. I can't?, 'or perchance this May. Martin.

Well I am in the above city — slinging the gospills
in allopathic doses to all. I am telling how if their sins
should be as scarlet — that they may be made as white
as snow Selah! "The fallen" [drawn wing?] ! [SMILEY FACE DRAWN] I hear from
Chappie, [inserted] Storm Lake, IO, Quist _ Ironwood, Mich. Gausser - Grand Rapids, Mich -
and the fore flusher - Talbot have not heard from.

I am willing to stand with any man so long as
he stands with the right. My salary is 2500 next yr. at
$3000 or $3300, So I am going to live any way until I die.
I see you are homesick. Come to see me and stay a month
at my expense and I will let you talk in my brick
Church south de G. I am forever the same
"Chappie"