Good Ol' Days

8 Years Ago

From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, January 12, 1900

TRIALS OF SOLDIERS

Colfax Boys in the Philippines with Packs Makes Their Bones Ache.

Frank Blachley of Company C, Thirty-fifth United States Volunteer Infantry, has written to a Colfax friend, detailing some of the joys of soldier lifein the Philippines. Under date of Cabiao, November 21, he says, in part:

“I am well and fattening like a pig here. Sooon after arrival at Manila we boarded a train and rode 35 miles to San Fernando, where we staid for two days. Then we commenced a dreary journey through the mud and slush to the firin...