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FRIDAY, DECEMBK.lt <!, 1(118. !
Just what form the memorial to
Tazewcll soldiers shall be, is hem:,
considered and discussed. This paper,
in last issue, suggested a Memorial
Hall, dedicated to the honor ami
memory of the boys from the county.
Judge Graham favored a shaft or
monument of suitable size. Mr. Har
man in his Thanksgiving speech.
Buggested n building (<? be used as a
home for the soldiers when they be?
come old.
Either a shaft or monument or u
memorial hall seems to be practi?
cable. An old soldiers home, if ever
needed, would be needed only years
hence. There is nil extensive and
costly old soldiers home in Richmond
which will be empty or nearly so,
within a few years, and will no doubt
be still available as a soldiers home
if needed.
The most appropriate memorial
would be a Y. M. C. A. Hall. Such a
hall would be, in all respects, a benefit
"useful ns well as ornamental" foi
future generations. As the years go |
by and population increase the neei
of a meeting place fur the young
people of the town, will become more
and more necessary, particularly foi
the young men of the town, a build?
ing, in no sense a "Club Room," but
a meeting place for social, moral and
religious intercourse. Either this or'il
a plain, suitable and worthy monu?
ment of granite or other stone, prop?
erly inscribed, should be erected. Till
tost of such a building ns suggested
would be relative just as much or as
little as determined upon.
NEXT YEAR'S WHEAT CROP.
The Government guaranteed :
war measure, the price of Ibo 19PJ
wheat crop on li !i"-'.20 basis. The
Lever Act, under which wheat has
been handled will not be in tone
after a proclamation of pence has
been issued, but nevertheless, the
contract between the Govcrnmcni
and the American wheat growers
will stand. The act provides "that
all rights and liabilities, under this
act arising before its termination
shall continue and maybe enforced
in the same manner as if the act had
not been terminated." The govern?
ment guarantee holds good for the
1910 wheat crop.
SHOULD NOT CHANGE THE
HABIT.
For more than :?. year the people
of this county have been learning
valuable lessons and have formed
valuable habits, in economic living.
In order to furnish supplies to our
army of millions, and to the millions
of our Allies, the people en masse
responded cheerfully. The farmers
increased their crops, food, clothing,
coal and all, was conserved, and we
put it over Hie top, clean and clear.
And all this was done to our good
and nobody hurt hut all greatly
benefittcd. Now, we should not drop
back in*o old pre-war habits of ex?
travagant slipshod ways of living.
The farmers can continue to grow
bumper crops, and larger' than here?
tofore. Help will be available now,
and 1019 should see the greatest
crop of corn over grown in this
country. We must, continue to prac?
tice economy in oui expenditures for
food and clothing. The danger
is, now that the war is over, that
we will feel under no obligations to
continue our former habits of eco?
nomy. Wo can carry out the same
schedules next year in our home
and on our farms, and it is a re?
ligious duty to do so. We can still
have our old clothes cleaned and
brushed up, our cast off .vices
patched nnd made good as new. Wo
can still eat less wheat and more
corn, and improve in health as well
* as in purse, and we must do so if we
would profit by invaluable lesson.;
taught by tho great conflict through
which we have passed.
And, besides, although the war has
ceased, our war expenses will still
go on thru next year. Another Lib?
erty Loan will be on hands for next
spring, nnd we must flout it The War
Savings Campaign is still unfinished,
and food will be needed in thousands
and thousands of tons for tho people
overseas. So, wo are still in it. Lets
keep up the good habits we have
formed, and the rather improve upo.i
them.
Have yov bought th? W. S. S. you
promised to buy?
MR. HOOVER HAS A PROBLEM.
Despatches state that an nllieri
food buying pool has been formed
and that England has rushed ships
lo Australia for wheat, which was
bought at si.in, and t<> Argentine,
lief she gets wheat at $1.36. The
American guaranteed export price is
S'JS!)1.-:'. So, there you are. The
country awaits with intereit the
results of Mr. Hoovers visit to
Europe. Some plan will bo worked
out by him satisfactory to all par
ties, no doubt.
"After all, perhaps, the best and
surest disposition of the Kaiser is
to return him to his own people to
let them deal with him as they see
fit." Exchange. Wont do. Belgium
and Franco should have a whack at
him. He wrecked and ruined other
people 3 and countries besides bis
own just as easily and readily "dem
onslsnblc." The footprints of his
armies are clearly traceable in every
country in Europe an?l beyond.
Hill is saiil to be plotting to retain
his crown, licttci he concerned about
retaining the palace where the crown
11 .i-d lo be, says the Washington
Post. ,
Col. Roosevlt will go to Paris It.
be pi t sent during tho peace confer
encc.?Ex, Good manners, to say
nothing of good taste, should con?
strain the Colonel to stay at home.
Have you bought the W. S. S. you
promised to buy'.'
HARWICH. NOV.. 15118.
(Apologies to Kipling.)
?What are the whistles blowill' for'.'"
the little gunner cried.
"To line US Up, to line US up," the
jolly Tar replied.
"What 'makes you look so bright, SO
bright'.'" the little gunner cried.
"I'm levin* what I'm goin' to watch,"
the jolly Tar replied.
"For we've waited many years for tn
celebrate the day.
When Heinle and his snenkin, sub?
marines would come our way,
Well, they're comin', sonny, comin'
ami tncy don't look none too gay.
For we're takin' them to England
in the mornin'!"
"What's that, that's hovcrin' over
'cad?" the little gunner cried.
"W'y that's a Itritish uiryplanc," the
jolly Tar replied.
"What's that they're lluowin' over?
board'.'" the little gunner cried.
"Oh, that's a bloomin' paravane," the
jolly Tar replied.
"Though their guns are fore aud
aft and now the fight less fight is
done,
This ore's a ininin' field we're in,
an' though the war is won.
We don't take any chances when
we're dealing with the 'tin?
Itut we're taking them to England
in the mornin'!"
"What makes them look so black, so
black'.'" the little gunner cried.
"They're drcadln' what they've got to
fine," the jolly Tar replied.
"Why don't we cheer".' Why don't we
cheer?" the little gunner cried.
"Oh we me british gentlemen," the
jolly Tar replied.
"Though shootin' us in open bouts
was one of llchlic'S joys.
And some of us is itchin' for lo'urt
those yellow hoys.
Still, it ain't no time for bonstin
and it ain't to time for noise
Put we'll raise the roof off Eng?
land in the mornin'!"
? Viltln Sauvage Owens, in N. Y.
Tin ?
DOWNFALL OF A GREAT
NATION.
(Coalfield Progress.)
Never bet?re in history bus a
greal nnd enlightened nation like
Germany, having all, or in the pro?
cess of winning all by peaceful met?
hods, deliberately staked her future
mi the heartless methods of war that
shi' might the more speedily satiate
her lust for material and autocratic
dominion. Many have been puzzled to
know why the nation that gave such
a brilliant und lasting impulse to
Protestant principles, and therefore
spiritual freedom and power, should
th'is lose her leadership and so far
degrade herself in the eyes of the
world US to become a byword and a
hissing. The explanation is not fur
to seek. She followed the leadership
of "Rlood and Iron." Her great ones
Uni her astray. They exercised cor?
rupt dominion over her mind. The
Austrian Emperor ?fter tho over?
throw of Napoleon 1 at Waterloo in
a speech to the German professors
at Laybach defined the purpose of
their appointment with almost brutal
frankness: "1 do nut need savants but
sturdy subjects. It is your duty to
educate the young to he such. He
who serves me must learn what I
order; He who e.innot, or brings me
new ideas can go, or 1 will dismiss,
him." And the present Kaiser of
Germany has stated his vain-glorious
aim in the following vigorous words:
"From my childhood I have been
under the influence of five srcsi ?
Alexander, Julius Caesar, Theodric
11, Fredrick the Great and dreamed
a (beam of a world enmire; they
failed. I am dreaming u dream of a
German world empire, ami my mailed
fist shall succeed. The German peo?
ple have followed blind guides nnd
..'1 have tumbled into the ditch to?
gether.
FOCli'S DECISION.
(New York Times )
The German Armistice Commiss?
ioners complained that they found
Marshal Foch coal, stern, imphuv.bio.
He read tie terms, that seemed to
them ruthless, in u voice in which
there was no consideration for them
as representatives of the Imperial
Government and its still powerful
army. They expected a show of
courtesy, even if it were formal, but
the man who had Germany's destiny
in his hands wasted no time in pre?
liminaries and empty forms. He was
doing bis duty without npnring them
or himself. He was not even tempted
by a great ambition. A correspondent
of the British Wireless Sendee in
France now asserts that if hostilities
bird lasted ten days more Marshal
I ocli would have brought about the
Surrender of the entire German Armv
nnd won the greatest victory "of all
Says this correspondent:
The Marshal renounced that groat
? iit'iry deliberately and with his eyes
opon, because continuation of the
struggle would have eost n certain
number of French nnd British lived,
and he could not have it on his con?
science to sacrifice one life after it
was in his power to make peace on
terms of victory.
Honce the armistice requirements :
Were expressed in Wrms of decisive
victory. Marshal Foch knew that the'
?Mei .nans came to him with no illusion
r.buut their military condition. There ?
was nothing to negotiate. They might
have expected something less than ;
an inexorable ultimatum, l>ut th>
Marshal's words und manner signi-j
fied, "Sui render or he destroyed." i
At the time of the reception of the:
ISernian Commissioners there was a |
story current in Paris that the great
strategist had said a few days before:
"J have not yet fought my battle."
It was plausible. Some day he may
write the history of the campaign
and reveal his plans for sit iking the
lasl decisive blow. What we already
Know is that his snare had been laid
[and the net was being drawn closer
> every day. Rapidly he was narrow?
ing the only gap through which the
million and a half of Germans with
their cumbrous transportation could
?ape. Most of their trunk linos
were in bis hands or under the fire
.1? the guns of the allies.
The enemy could not break through
in the south or in the north. He was
in imminent danger of envelopment,
ami apparently only a part of his
uiiiy could have escaped capture or
lestruction. A man of Napoleonic
.list for glory would have found some
way to defer negotiations for an
armistice while he struck the blow
that would end nil. Ferdinand Foch
was never greater than in the hour
.vhen he decided that he would choose
Lite lesser victory and renown rather
than shed the blood of thousands
more of his soldiers.
MISS JESSE GRAHAM IN PARIS.
The following very interesting let
tor was received here recently from
Miss Je. a- Cruhnm, who is in Y. M.
('. A. work with the American Ex?
peditionary Forces in France:
Paris, Oct. 30. 1918.
My dear hulks:
I am all packed up and ready to
move on ami while 1 am waitii.g for
the rest of the girls to come in, I
shall try to tell you in "a very brief
way" what 1 have been doing these
past lew days. Paris is wonderful!
Really the beauty of it all, even al
this time, makes you wonder what
it. was before all the beautiful things
were moved or covered Up. We went
to Versailles one afternoon and to
the Karden of the Tuileries and ti
the tomb of Napoleon and some
other minor places, but we have bad
to see them as regular tourists, for
our time hl'.S been taken up with
business that we have had to snntc.t
the opportunity as we could. 1 oftc:>
think of Henry Preston when I go
lacing by these thing.':, but it is
belter to see them nt a run than not
at all. I hope some time to come back
lor several days real sight seeing
before 1 leave Prance for the States.
I am tired tonight for I have raced
around trying to frei my business all
attended to, to get off when the lime
comes without any hurry.
This afternoon Henry Haley, Jug
lay and Kenneth Patt y came'to sec
me. They are stationed just out of
Paris and, as I did not have any
worker's permit I could not e;o down
there. They never received the letter
I wrote them on Saturday. 1 happ?
ened to meet one of the boys of their
unit last night and sent them word
to come up this aftornoon, They were
here right on the dot und bow I did
enjoy them ! ! [They told me some
home news as they have had recent
Utter.;. I have had none yet and it
will be a week more now before any
can be forwarded. But I am not
fretting. The only thing 1 know is
that the "flu" is ragii g over there.
Bui, as 1 could not keep it off of you
folks if I were there, I'll try to keep
well and as busy as 1 can i:i order
not to think of you too much.
We have been very comfort;'hie
here this week and I am glad to have
bad who experience, but, I'll also be
glad to go to work. I am sent out
with two girls who nre very sweet
and congenial.
We are going to n coast town in
the English channol nnd while it i.i
not what I would have chosen, I am
well satisfied. If you could see m>
luggage, you would die! We are
allow t il to carry its much as we
please, but can check only Uli lbs.
So 1 icpackcd my trunks and one oJ
them goes to the American Bxpreas
Co. 1 divided the other things be?
tween my hand hag and my duffel
The latter looks like a sausage
balooti! I don't know how I'll carry
it, but I nm going '.o uy. We don't
change trains, which is one thing it
my favor.
People here think the war is over
and 1 hope to good nets it is for it
has about ruined everything and
everybody here.
England shows more signs of th.>.
war than Paris does, except the
nouruing You never saw so much
heavy black crepe! 1 am sitting her-:
all alone waiting for the girls tj
come in. 1 left them at lunch time
and told them may'be I would meet
'.hem near the Madeleine for dinner,
but it was too far, so I went to a
little place with a Y. M- C. A. man
and we got our little meal and pai I
our big price for it. I'll be a bcggai
if I stay in Paris leug! I never saw
;?. pi'tco where you pay out so much
money amid get so little in rc-turn.
I am careful rs >?(?;; know, but my
money is disappearing !ii e snow in
a hot. day. I guesj when we got to
work it won't be so bs'.d, at I
'.tope not. 1 think f.'om : ' I he r ...i
boys nre doing most ; 1' the !' ghting
now; at least thai h v.lu.t 1 gs her
from the papers we get 1 really
believe the war is almost over mil
how haippy every one will be! Wc
shall still have a big job on our
ha nils though, until our troops f.iv
out of France nnd bnciv (tome Wish
I' had gotten hero six month* earlier!
They certainly have needed wirket -,
but "they are pouring in now.
Do write me often and tell mil
every thing. I long for home news
nnd want to know the good and the
bad too: Give my love to everybody.
As ever, JESSIE M. GRAHAM.
From Mias Jessie M. Graham, with
A. E. F. American Y. M. C. A. 12
rue d' Aguesseau, Paris, France to
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Grnham.
FIND KAISER IS CULPABLE.
Premier Says Ablest British Jurists
Agree That He Can Be Indicted.
London, Nov. 29.?In a speech de?
li vercd at Ncwcustlo this evening
Premier Lloyd George, dealing with
t':e question of the responsibility for
the invasion of Belgium, said the
British Government has consulted
some of the greatest jurists of tlic
Kingdom and they had unanimously
ami definitely arrived r.t the conclu- ,
sion that in their judgment the former .
German Emperor was guilty of an
indictable offense for which he ought
to be held responsil)lc.
Reffering to the culpability of tho ?
authors of the war, Mr. Lloyd Georgii :
said the Government intended thnt
the investigation to be conducted I
should be a perfectly fair but a stern :
one, end thit it should go to its firuil |
reckoning. He added:
"We have got so to act that men in
the future who feel tempted to follow I
the example of the ruler-) who plunged
the world into war will know what is
waiting for them at the end."
The Prime Minister suid the vic?
tory of the Entente Allies had been 1
due to the ceaseless valor of their
men, and that it would he a lesson to
? body who, in the future, thought
that they, as the Prussian war lords
hoped "could overlook this little
island in their reckoning."
"We are now approaching the Peace
''(inference," the Premier continued.
"The price of victoy is not ven?
geance nor retribution. It is preven?
tion. First of all what about those
people whom we have received with- I
out question for years to our :>hores,
to whom we give equal rights with
our own sons and daughters, and who 1
abused that hospitality to betray thi
land, to plot against security, to spy
upon if, and to gain such information
as enabled the Prussian war lords
tu inflict damage and injury upon the
land thnt had received them as
guests? Never again!"
Mr. Lloyd George said the interests
of security and fair play demunded
that it should be made perfectly clear
thai the people who acted in this way
merited punishment for the damage
they had inflicted.
UNITED WAR WORK FUND AT |
NORTH TA/EWELL.
Jno; W. Campbell.S50.00 \
F. II. Forbes. 18.00
W. L. Raker. 15.00
Mrs. J. W. Wbitley. 5.00
J. W. Whit ley. 10.00
I C. 11. Pcery. 10.00
N. W. KJser. 5.00
W. Mundy, . 5.00
IK. D. R. Harman.20.00
H. F. Ireson.10.00
C. F. Kitts, . 5.00
G. A. Waldron. 2.00
I Thomas Shuler, . 55
W. W. Pcery, ..:.15.00
G. W. Reedy. 5.?U
Walter Reavers. 2.00
W. N. Mundy.20.00
C. P. Reavers.10.00
W. L. Britta. 5.00
A. P. Saysrs. lO.oo
Mrs. Lena McCall. 20.00
C. F. Yates. 1.00
II. F. Bennett. 2.00
Jno. C. Hopkins. 10.00
George Lester. 2.00
|W. J. Moore. 5.00
L. L. ickenson. ?.no
Evelyn Ireson. 1.00
\Y. L. Sunnier. 1.00
Robert Porter. 1.00
|Nye Rritts. 5.00
T. Turner, . 1.00
I. 1. H. Gillenwaters. 500
Rnilev Lester. 5.00
Dr. Jno. M. Crowe. 10.00
W. I. Vermillion. 5.00
E. P. Moore. 15.00
llluscue Yates. 1.00
Joe. S. McGuire. 7.00
|W. P. Moore, . 1.00
I Rev. C. R. Brown. 2.00
T. M. Witt. 1.00
lAllev Webb. 1.00
R. E. Ireson. 1.00
Ceo. Burrcjs. 1.00
|W. W. Rye. 60
Bam Paxton. 1.00
Walter Ilasl. 50
A. C. Smith. 50
s. c. Johnson, . 1.00
George Forbes. 1.0')
Earnest Horton. 2.00
C Henry Peery. 7.50
Stras Harman and Co. 10.00
11. G. Peery. 50.00
A. C. Davis. 1.00
P. P. Britts. 1.00
Wesley Fox. 1.00
Thompson. 5.00
R. II. Ireson. 5.00 1
Mrs. Henry Peery. 3 00
Mrs. Kate Pcery. 12.00
Miss Lyde McCall. LOU
I Mrs. Geo. Bourne. 60
.Miss Annie Crockett. l.Ou
Mrs. Wade Peery. 10.00
I Wade IL Pesrv. 15.00
Mrs. N. R. Hall.25.00
Miss Cora Britta. LOO
Mrs. R. K. Ireson. 1 00
Mrs. Weddle. 1.0?)
Miss Launah Ireson, . 1.00
Mrs. H. F. Ireson.1.00
M. If. Kiscr. 15.00
Mis. M. II. Kiscr. 6.00
Miss Baker. 2.001
Miss Mab.-. 2.00.
I Miss Lowe. 3.00. .
Mis. Matthews. 5.00
D. Peery. 25.00 j
J. D. Gillenwaters. 2.601
I Mrs. Cosby Whitley. 5.0;> I
Mis. David Peery. 2,00
''eel ctaoin etaoin etaoinetnoinctaoi
Mrs. Hurt. 6 00 j
Peel Harman. 5.001
.lessee Mundv Sr. 5 00;
Robert Yosl," . 2.00
Mrs. Jno. Mundy Sr. 2.00
Miss Flora May. 1.00
K. Lee, . 2 00
Mis. E. Lee, . 1 00 I
H. T. May, . 2 0)
T. J. Brown. 2 00 j
Tatc Harmnn and Wife. .. . 2 00'
W. II. May. 10 1,
Mrs T. 3. Brown. 60 j
Philip Reynolds. 2.00!
Miss Rosa M .y. i 0J
New'.: n Asberry. 50
Ceo. Desk 1*3. 63
J. F. l.t'. . 10.00
MiJ. F Uiv..10.00
?\iis.' Frnnvci Li is.10.01
W. A Scott i nd Co. 76 0)
Cleo Bvmott . LOO
Jno. B rn l . 10)
W. L. !? ?-.f.-. . I 01
Mrs. Sis". LOO
Mrs. Koistt-r. IX ?
Cash. 1.00 1
O. K. Nelson. 2.0)
TcUil.5705 05
VETERANS WILL MEET IN
LYNCHBURG DECEMBER 10.
Lynchburg, Nov. 30.?Ti.v annual
meeting of the grand camp of Con?
federate Veterans, which is to be i t
session here December 10-12. will be
presided over by General Boy.I
Smith. Mayor Jester will make In;
welcome address and John Lamb
will respond. The reunion will take
place vo!d of social features. the
?program having been arranged for
October, when the war was still on.
but it was postponed on account of
the influenza epidemic. The atten?
dance is expected to be small because
of the decreasing number of mem?
bers able to he present.
Ibive you bought the W. S S. you
promised to buy?
SOLDIERS'
LETTERS.
NOTICE TO PARENTS.
Wo propose milking a roster cf ev?
ery soldier and sailor in Tazewell
County, und will a3k the- parents of
the boys in the county arid elsewhere
to send to us at once, the names,
names of company and regiment, and
h-jme address of ever" soldier now
solving tho countrv from Tazewell
county. Mail the information to us
on a postul, and write plaintly. Do it
now!
Somewhere in France.
1 Oct. 22, 1?18.
i My dear sister:
I have been up in the village since
[supper. Bought me n French foun?
tain pen, some candles and a few
other little articles, so I wiil now sit
down on my hunk by my candle light
and try my pen out. I don't think ii
is much good.
I sure was glad to get yours and
father's letters, but was sorry to
hear that Raymond had been called
for examination. Suppose he mils'!
be in training camp by now. If he
has to go, I bone that be am get
in something besides the infantry.
Know it will be very hard to get
along at home without him, but,
"where there is a will, there is a
way."
I haven't seen John Birkelbach but
once since 1 came across. I would
like to meet up with him again. I
hud two letters from him and he has
not answered the last one that 1 wrote
him.
I was within a short distance of
where Grant I.owe and Bill Watkins
are the other clay, but didn't get to
see either of them. Wish 1 was with
them for they arc in a much bettet
branch of service, and it is just what
I always thought I would like best.
Yes, I only bought two f fty dollar
Liberty Bonds
1 wrote father a short letter yes?
terday. I write home just as often as
1 con for I know you all are mro
anxious to hear from me than I am
to hear from home, for I can rest
assured that you all are getting along
all right, while you cannot feel thai
way about me, yet, there is nothing
that makes me gladder than to get
a letter from home. I guess you are
having lots of frost there by now,
and are preparing for winter.
We arc having lots of rain over
here und it feels as if winter will
soon be here. I had a letter from
Bertha recently. She was in Roanoke.
Said she was coming to Cedar Bluff
on a visit. Guess she hea< been thert
and gone home before now. Did she
come up home while there? I am sore
she enjoyed being with her old friends
again. Wish I could have been there,
but of course ihere is no use to
mention it. As it is almost time to
retire, I must close, ope this will find
you all well and enjoying life.
Give my best regards to every one.
Love to all the family.
Your loving brother,
JAMES F. BROWN.
From James Fred Brown, to his sis?
ter, Miss Mary M. Brown, Indian, Va.
September, 1 1918.
Dear little Sis:
I will try to writ* you a few lines
to let you hear from me. 1 am all
o. k. and truly hope you arc enjoying
the very best 0? life. I am well
satisfied and having a nice time.
I would lorn to be with you all
today so we could go to preaching.
1 know we could have a fine time.
I hope it wont be long until we can
be together again. Tell mama and
papa I will write to them just as
soon as I can. You must write and
tell me all of the news and tell me
how many of the boys have regis?
tered around home.
I guess you are about ready to
cut corn by now. I haven't seen any
corn since I left home. I don't think
they raise any corn here.
You miiHt write and tell me how
the crops are at home. Give them all
my address and tell them to write
to me. I will close. Answer soon.
> ? Your brother-in-Law,
Private Vinto V. Christian.
Co. I. 164th Inft. A. E. P. France,
To Miss Rebeccn Beavers, Cedar
Bluff, Vn.
September, 17. 1918.
Dear Mother and Dad:
I have found time to write a few
lines. We have been so busy that we
hardly get any time to sleep, but
thanks to good luck I have gotten
quite a few hours of rest now nnd
am ready to go at any minute.
I have had some real exciting ex?
periences in this drive from St. Mi
hicl, and was over the- top with the
I infantry boys until I got so tit eel
ithat I could not go any farther, so
I decided to hunt my outfit, but In
I stead of finding it I get completely
I lost from it and have been with
[another outfit for a few day?. Every
thing moves around so fast it is
hard to keep up.
This leaves me well and in good
hepes and hope you and Dad will
continue to have your good health.
Lovingly your son,
JESS.
P. S. Have written on sopar.ite
p: j or my experiences ed1 the last
few d. ys While. I hope you get it
and it passes the censors, know you
>?:.! get this letter alright. I would
iii'e voiy much for you to have the
Stcry, i; is not written very good, bill
now yen will like to read it.
t'i'r.'.-- !? German stationery.)
LOST IN THE BATTLE FIELD.
It seems funny that an Artillery?
man shruld talk about going over
the lop, but I bad the chance nnd had
pood !;;;?'< and will take it again if
the opportunity eome-3.
I wns called out of my bunk about
8 o'clock at night to go with one of
c i r licutonnntfl as I thought on nn i
ern?nd, but it turned out to be dif?
ferent. The raiu was coming down
quite fast but we buttoned our rain
mats up and started to tho trenches,
Which wo reached nbout 11 P. M. nnd
? til .;>0 o'clock I started back to my
dugout for two more men, nnd iust
?3 I started (Fritz) started to shell
the read that I was to walk bock
over and the shells whistled pretty
f'.tst but I kept walking. I wns ex?
pect oijf i'or one to stop and shako
hands with me, but no such thing
happened, so I lnndod back at my
dugout.
Just at I wa3 fixing to start on
my return trip about 1 A. M. the
most awful roaring no'se I eve;'
icard commencod from our artillery,
f;nd of course some shells were
coming- in loo. We looked out of our
dugout and wondered if any on
could live out there in all of the
i oaring flashes and rain, but we only
Ihoughf once and started back to the
trenches! which we reached about 3
o'clock A. M. Then wo waited until
jusc about the break of day, then
over the top just behind the liana
My eyes weie wide with curiosity
i s to what we were going to see, and
guess you would think that we were
afraid, but we were not. You do noi
realize-' what danger you are in. Too
much" excitement to be afraid.
The first thing I saw was a lev.
liead Germans and next three priso
ners, one wan just a small kid, and
they were so frightened they shook,
like a leaf, so 1 passed on. Our lead?
ing officer kept hollering to scatter
out and in the course of an hour or
so, I realized I was lost. So I thought
I would just go on and maybe 1 will
catch up with my comrades, but no
such !uck. The only thing. 1 did catch
I up with war. Germans and machine
I gun bullets. One time another fel
; low and myself had to jump into r.
shell hole to dodge the bullets. They
j certainly did whiz, and on a little
liarther I ran into a wounded pnsu
I ner, begging for water, hut thing.-,
like this you can only pass by.
I traveled on with just one bunch
and then another until about I'J
o'clock noon. They stopped to rest
I und cat while the Barrage played ill
front of us. Then was when 1 realized
that I had not had anything to eat
since the last night supper, so 1
. decided not to ask the infantry for
any thing to eat, as they only-had
j ^m.iil rations with them and they
I bad to keep up, so instead of eating
j I took a nap. Some one woke me just
las the Barrage commenced to-plow
1 up the eoi'tli and go on its way, su
} followed on a little farther and
decided to return to my outfit. My
feet had become blistered all ovet
and it was painful to walk. About
<l o'clcck P. M. I located a sandwich,
then went hit > a dugout with about.
10 inches of water on the floor. My
boots kept my feet dry so I crawled
upon one of the hnn;;s and went to
sleep with my feet prciped upon i
board so as to keep out the water.
The next day I looked around
every where that 1 could think ol
lor my outfit. There was plenty of
artillery moving, but not my own. 1
also had the opportunity to ride one
of Fritz's horses back part of tin
way. A very goow animal. Then 1
went to walking again, but could
not find my own outfit, but located
some Boche hard-tack and preserves
which was good, then 1 went around
a little and saw some dead horse.'
and men stacked upon one nnothci
and a little farther on some Amer?
ican Artillery, so 1 layed down anil
i.lept a while then went down to th<
new outfit and reported to the cap?
tain. Until I can find my own outfit,
urn still with the new one, and um
geling plenty to eat. Do not know
which I '..ill stay with yet, but if i
remain with this one will write ad
dress.
Am camped on a small river an.:
had a nice cold bath in it, which
helped In rest me very much. Kxpecl
to be on the move tonight.
Will bring this little letter to a
close r.s my paper has begun to grow
low, and paper is very scarce some
times, anil my experiences are not
so many as a few days ago, but
would welcome the same experience
as I have related it in this story
as it make; you feel so proud, am'
at.other thing it ss something that an
artillery-man very seldom gels. I
would not tale money for my trip
Yours truly,
Corporal .IKSS. S. LEEDY.
Somewhere in France, Nov. 1$, 101S
Dear Mother:
I will write you a few lines thi*J
mortvng. 1 know you aie always
anxious to hear from me.
I haven't received any mail sin:".
I left amp Humphreys. I guess i:
will take some time for it to fina
mo. .
I am in ii different camp from the
cue I was when I wrote last. We
haven't done anything but sleep and
eat since I have been here,- so you
see I am getting along O. K. I think
we will be back by Xmas of New
Years.
1 guess it is getting cold over there
by now. Here the flowers arc l>
I loom and the grass as green as
mid summer.
How is papa getting along with
his work, and has he got any one
helping him?
Walt anil I were separated this
move I don't know wher he went.
Well, as 1 have told about ali there
is to say I will close. This leave? nie
well and hope it will find all it
home the same. With loves and best
wishes to all.
Your son, Eugene.
From Eugene L. McGinnis, To M,T3
A. M. McGinn-:;, Burke's Garden, Va.
WILHELM S ABDICATION.
! Bv the present documents, I re
! nounce forever my rights to the
1 crown of Prussia and the. rights to
jthe Gemnn imperial crown. I release
at the S?m': time nil the officials of
! the German empire and Pi ussia and
? also all officers, non-comanlssioned
officers end soldiers of .the Pruss'rU
: navy and army and of contingents
from condedernte states from the
j oath of fidelity they have taken to
mc.
"As their emperor, king and su
i nrer.-.c chief, I expect f to:n them,
until a new organisation of the Ger?
man on lire exists, that they will
aid those who effectively hold the
power in Germany to protect '.he Her?
man pe pie against the menacing
dangers of anarchy, famine and for
ogn domination.
"Male and executed and signed
by our c wn hand with the i nperir.l
teal at Aemrongen, November 23.
(Signed) "VI :..::?."
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The Federal migratory bird treaty
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time of the following birds:
Band-tailed pigeon; common ground
doves an I scaled doves; little brown,
sandhill, and whooping cranes; wood
ducks, a.vans; curfews, v/illet, i'|p
land plover, and all shore birds (ex?
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plovers, Wilsen snipe or jtwksnipe,
woodcock, and the grcitev and lessor
yellowlegs) bobolinks, catbirds, chi
cadees, cuckoos, flickers:, flycatchers,
grossbeal s, humming birds, kinglets,
rnart'iis, meadow larks, nighthawks
or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, ro?
bins, shrikes, swallows, swifts, tana
gors. titmice, thrushes, virocs, war?
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wendpeckers, and- wrens, and all
i thcr perching birds which feed en?
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on the -Ith day of November, lit 18.
ANNIE S. BLEVINS.Plaintiff,
against
THOMAS A. BLEVINS, Defendant.
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a divorce from the bonds of matri?
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And an affidavit having been made
and tiled that the defendant, Thomas
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ordered that he do appear here within
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it is further ordered that a copy here?
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before the 18th day of November,
1018, that being the next succeeding
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Cincinna tiMan Discovers Drug That
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NC-130
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Phone 6-B
NOTICE.
All persons having claims against
the estate of Henry S. Bowon, de
<cased, will present them to the un?
dersigned for pavmer.t.
T. C, BO WEN, .-.
Administrator of H, S. B?wen,. \)