Dear Steve: Somewhere in France, Aug.14, 1918

Your favour of July 22 reached me yesterday and I was glad to hear that you were getting on well, and seemed to have the situation well in hand from every standpoint, altho’ like everyone else you have your ups and downs.

Carman seems to have some hitch about getting his certificate showing how well the Dept. of Ed. Are looking after the returned soldier who finds his course and prospects dislocated after two years absence on active service. The next thing we know he will be unable to take that good position in Kent School, all because of some red tape and featherbed philosophers who run the educational matters of the province.

Husky wrote me an interesting letter received in last mail. He is home in Listowel for holidays trying to recuperate after last winter’s very serious illness. It was through him that Carman got appointed to Kent School.

We are having fine weather at present and we need it for our harvest - an entirely different matter, though, from Huron County’s harvest but time and space do not permit me to enlarge unduly on general topics.

Emo William is in Hosp., wounded and Tad Scott one of Toronto teachers who came over as an officer with Huron Battn. is napoo, I hear.

His home is at Brussels, Ont.

Pardon brevity,

Yours in F, L, & T., Cannon