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American Lake July 13, 1917

Dear Ma:

Everything is O.K. now
there is about fifteen fellows
in the tent eating cherries.
Chas. has sent four boxes of
cherries up here already and they
sure have been swell. We are
going to write Chas a letter to-
day and send it to him. There
will be about fifty signatures
on it. I don't know where Chas
is but I am going to send-it
to Port and I guess it will be
forwarded to him. The big
event of the day is that we are
going to get paid to-day. I
guess I will go to a dance in
Tacoma to-night and to-
morrow. I guess I will go to
some park here. There are