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THE GRENADA SENTINEL
GRENADA, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1918.
VOL. LXVI
NO. 27
A REMINDER
OF YOUR WAR
C A VJWf*Q PI |«
I LLl/UL
Friday, December 13th, has been
designated as War Savings Fledge
Redemption day for Mississippi. On
that day all persons who (pledged
to buy War Savings Stamps will be
called to their school houses to make
report tq *the school trustees as to
the number of War Savings Stamps
they own, and to state what they in
tend doing in the matter of redeem
ing their pledgee, if the full amount
of their pledge has not been bought.,
Every school in the State is asked to
prepare a short program for the oc
casion and State Director of Schools,
Campbell, is now getting out litera
ture to be used by the schools in
providing this program. There will
also be a short talk by a local or
visiting speaker in each school house
•n the importance of keeping the \\ ar
Savings pledge. ...
In some instances the idea seems
to prevail that since the actual light
mg has ceased it is no longer neces
sary to keep War Savings pledges for
financing the* hvar. This idea, of
course, is wholly erroneous and any
course, is wnuu> «ru c u *
such propaganda serves to tie the
hands of. the government m securing
the funds for maintaining its over
seas force and meeting its outstand
ing war obligations.
The treasury department has al- ;
ready announced the fifth Liberty j
Loan and there is some indication !
that a sixth will be necessary to pro
vide funds for the army and navy'
during the demobilization period. The
uota of War Savings Stamps for the
State of Mississippi was approximate
ly $40,000,000.00 which amount was
/ n 'j . „ + i
State when they assembled in their
, . i
respective school houses on the 2th
day oi June.
It should be a matter ol priue to
every Mississippian that Mississippi
i& one of only two southern states to j
pledge her quota, and, since the army
has made good its pledge oversas, the j
people are earnestly urged to make j
good their pledges over here. !
The War Savings quota for the;
State was nearly twice as large as
the fourth Liberty Loan quota and
three times as large as any of the
other three loans, but judging from
the v.ay the people of the State have
responded in every other war drive
,t is to be expceced that the will
make good in the War Savings drive.
In addition to the office foree there
in
m
all
and
on
gate
in
sixty
ti-ue
ing
vices
he
Number 2 corn, which is about
what is raised in this section, is now
nuoted at. $1.50 per bushel in St. terv.
Of course, if corn is sold
to
to
in
in
to
his
six
are fourteen field representatives who
have been recently added to the
organization. These men are visit
ing the various counties and are in
structing the committees in a method
of procedure for collecting pledges
and redirecting their forces to the
work of getting in touch with every
pledger and bringing to his attention
his obligation to the government in
the matter of redeeming his War
Savings pledge.
Mississippi has about $25,000,000.
00 worth of stamps vet to be sold
and all r*ostofficei( la'id 'banks are
urged to lay in a supply in prepara
tion for the enormous demand that
will result from the Pledge Redemp
tion Campaign.
ii you subsenued tor War Savings
Stamp, and tiuve not paid your suu
aenpuon, can you say that you help
ed to carry on the war? Uur govern
ment accepted your pledge in the be
lief that it would be made good. On;
the government's faith in you were
hougnt munitions, food, and clothes
for the boys in France, in the can
tonments and in training camps. The
obligation you assumed in signing
this pledge is just as binding as a
note given to the bank, more binding
if obligation be measured by moral
standards. The war is over. Peace
is won. The government must return
to normal conditions.
Only one third of the money
needed by Uncle Sam will come from
taxes. The remainder must come
from government securities. The
War Savings Stamp is one of the
forms of IOtJ that the government is
sues to those lending money to it,
but the mere issuing of the security
does not put money
States Treasury. Don't let us de
ceive ourselves as to our patriotism,
or delude ourselves into supposing
that we did anything for our country
when we signed the W. S. S. .pledge
card. It takes cold, hard * cash to
run the government, and nothing but
the cold hard cash can make good
your W. S. S. pledge. That is as
useless to your
scrap of paper
In the name of good morals, in fail
dealing, in all business honesty make at
good vour pledge.
W. S. S. Redemption 'Campaign.
A
in the United
the
government as "a
until it is paid for.
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DOES IT NOT LOOK
LIKE FOOLISHNESS
TO SELL CORN?
Louis.
here now, the freight to St. Louis r—»■
now sold here must ere long be ship
p ed back from St. Louis at prices
far in advance of what is now the
must be accounted for. It is a well
known fact that Mississippi did not
raise this year corn enough to run
through the next season, it there
fore follows that the com that is
market price. Thus it figures that
com in Grenada county should now
be worth the St. Louis price, plus the
freight from there here, which
prompt the inquiry, Does it not look
like foolishness to sell com at pres
ent market prices?
On
be
to
in
another column of this issue,
to The Sentinel publishes the Menu of
oc- ^He Lafisco Hotel at Charleston for
Sunday. Those who are judges of a
grood meal know what the Menu
in means. The lafisco is a new hotel
and is handsome in all of its apart
or ments and The Sentinel feels sure
that guests will be more than pleased
ar with its entertainment.
r4N riiv ai i
but all
SUGAR YOU WANT
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for Government restrictions were re
of moved December 1, therefore the pub
llc 1S at liberty to get all the sweet
* • : th at line that it want*
the ening m that line that it wants.
nrrruRrD , n Tu
ulllmulk * 01 "
Grenada County Draft Board
al- ; W1 " close up shop and send all records
j Washington December 10th. Physi
! ca l examinations have already been
discontinued.
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TOTAL CASUALTIES 452,677.
I
GeneraI Per.h.ng Send. Official List
,0 Nov ' mb<!r 26 ' I
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Washington, Nov. 30.—General
Pershing reported the following offi
da] casualt £ g to Novemb er 26 :
Killed in action, 28,365; died of
to wounds. 12,101 ; died of disease, 16,
034 ;died other causes, 1,980; missing
to j n action, 14,290; wounded, 189,955,
divided as follows: Severely wound
j ed, 54,751; undetermined, 43,168;
j slightly, 92,036. Total. 452,677. ,
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A CORRECTION IN A NAME i
In the Sentinel of Nov. 15 appear-'
cd & n item relative to Miss Grace
Hallam. She was referrd to as be
ing now Mrs. Garden. This was an
error. She is cow Mrs. A. S. Orbits
and her home >t Detroit, Mich. "Grace
Garden is her nom de plume.
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l fcfcN SERVICE
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CHARLESTON hU I LL'S
MhNU POR SUNDAY
PASSES AWAY w
In the death of Mr. J. W. Mitchell,
which sad event occurred at his home Si
' , ,,, , , e i ',
in Grenada on Wednesday of las
week, the community looses one of
m best citizens. His death was a
shock to his family and a great sur
Prise to the community. He was to
all appearances an unusually hale
and vigorous man. His general
health had always been good. But
on this fatal morning, just as he had j ®
finished his breakfast and while an j he
automobile was sanding at the front I
gate to carry him to his day's work, |
!
in almost a moment. He was almost
sixty years of age, a member of the ^
Baptist church, a Mason and was
ti-ue m all the relations of life. He
could be counted upon for the nght
..... ., ,
He is survived by his wife and
several children, one of his sons be- Set
ing now in France. The funeral ser- do
vices were held Fridav morning with
he Masons officiating. i f
His pastor. Rev. J. W. Lee. per-'
formed the last sad rite? Vif ;*he f
church. Burial in Odd Fellows' cemc*
terv.
The Sentinel tender? the sincere.
to the her:'ft ,l,„
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BY RED CROSS
New Orleans, La., uec. o.—"Wnen
.Tommy comes inarciupg Pome again' 1
to Mississippi, the Rea cross canteen
workeis or me fetace wm oo oi.
to give him a Welcome home the
same as they bid him Godspeed on
his ourney to camp and overseas. For
the women of the canteens through
out Mississippi feel that only one
half of their work has been done and
in place of disbanding these faith
ful women will double ther energies
in the canteens at the railroad sta
tions and transfer points throughout
the State to see that the men who
have done their bit want for nothing
to add to his comfort and pleasure on
his return trip.
A total of 40,026 men have been
given service by the Red Cross can
teens of the State during the past
six months, in the eight canteens.
The 1st for each canteed is as fal
lows :
Brookhaven, Miss.,
Canton
Corinth
Jackson
Vicksburg
Grenada
Holly Springs
Pascagoula
at all times,
5500
5000
7409
3817
15000 .
2000
1000
300
TOTAL
40,026
A GOOD CITIZEN
the call came and his life went out
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Insists That One of the Bifffest Things With the Fanners of
This Section is the Renovatio n of the Soil.
"ONE WHO WORKS ON HIS FARM
TALKS FARMING
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WHAT CROPS TO RAISE AND HOW PROPdRTIONED
Tells What He Thinks Co-oper attre Plan Among Farmers For
Selling Cream Would be Worth to County—Not So Much
Farm Instruction'* Needed But Farmers Should Exercise
Common Sense and Use What They Should Already Know
—Farming is Business, He S ays
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GOOD READING
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Permit me, please, to make some
observations through the columns of
your paper about farming conditions
j n Mississippi and particularly in this
section and still more particularly in
, , ,
Grenada couhty We have heard a
P° at deal of talk **° ut wh *t needed
to be done on our farms during the
b .f en written on the subject. I guess
there are but few who would say that
aU this has not borne some good fruit .
But certainly it is true that while
there has been some farm progress,
the business f farming has not kept
pace the developments of other
ij nes Q f activities,
We have wasted energy enough in
our methods of farm business (and
it is time that we were not only
learning that farming is a business,
but putting into practice what we
learn) to make us see the necessity to
adopt a different order of proceedure.
I ' Ve are pu " m K and tugging at the
base of the mountain, as it were,
when a shorter and more convenient
road leads around the mountain,
We suffer our selves to make a moun
tain out of successful farming when
as a matter of fact it is the shortest
and easiest route for the farmer to
travel. It is the one nature intended
be should travel. We have been mak
big a pretense of late years of trying
to be progressive, but most of our el
forts in that direction remind me of
the man who undertook to lift him
sclf over the fence by his own booi
straps.
. i "tany of ns have thoughts we were
° owing scientific methods in the
J'f,Xo ™!'n/, U K.15?. S . 1°
whi P h the vaccine d did Ik* ••take"
Whether we are responsible for the
non-taking or whether it has been be
cause of those who have been doing
the administering of "scientific" farm
ing did not have good "points," and
were not throughly skilled in using
even wiiat they had, is a matter of
useless speculation in this article.
Perhaps I should say, hfftoever, that
we ought not to keep repeating an er
ror.,
;
Editor Sentinel:
Common sense, if we will jiust stop
and give it sway, will make us know
Uxat we cannot continue much longer
in the path, we are now following. Of
course big prices for cotton «nd cot
ton &eed and other things lhat the
farmer raises may keep things boom-!
ing for a few years longer, but while
raising this stuff for market, most of on
Us are impoverishing our lands and
thuS destroying the very bed rock of
farm prosperity. No farming people
ean have any permanent success who
do not make the care of their lands
the .first consideration in their farm in
business. What does it count if per
chance a farmer makes a crop where
by he is enabled to put $100. in the
bank if the lands which produce the
one thousand dollars are depleted 10
per cent by the crops. In ten years
on this basis the productive capacity as
of the farm will be gone.
Farm renovation needs to be made
the first thing with our farmers. Na
ture has wisely provided for the re
juvenation of our farm lands if we
its teachings. Our
lands can be kept young, they can be our
kept fresh, by a rotation of crops and
by the cultivation of those crops
*Hich leaves the soil better than when to
p1 ^ in St * • Every , i P iece we
Si com should be sown m soy beans. a
These beans are not only the very
best of fcrti i jzers but tl f are fi e „> for
stock feed. They beat the ordinary tice
peas all out of hollow. Then there is
lespedeza which can not be beat for K<>
hay and better still, it leaves the soil
greatly enriehened. Besides this, les
pedeza brings a ready price and with than
the seed it is a fine money crop. The
e o d *Io ne saved from a lespedeza what
he *o will pay for its planting and har- just
ves t ia g- It beats cotton even at 30 * a -
Dur people must give more at- ton
tentron to the care of our soil. I will fails
J^dTlvit* 1 TTninTf ^ ou r tk
county is so imSLvert^K
crop idea and by the lack of care fSr
the sod that it does not pay the actual that
cost of cultivation. a
We must look further ahead than gest
one year or even two years. Let us to
Set acquainted with what we need to put
and think less about what some
pody else is not doing for us, or is
e , ep '. n ? " s doing. There is a not
the ol . d we
arm 'Thp f SC T oppr p ss * n 8' the us
himself far mnrrffTT 1S depressi p£ ai ?
!opp r Js?ngTm tha " anybody ™e
With the care nf tho e« i i -a, •
,l,„ , ?r r . 0 J and with jump.
the ralsl "<? of foed stuff naturally not
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will but follow
of
in
a
.
in
to
to
; comes the thought of stock. There is
money in milch cows. Five good
average milch cows, well kept and
propely cared for, will support the
ordinary family. The world must
have butter; it will have milk. Then
these cows are worth so much in pro
ducing fertilizing for the renovation
of the farm.
Now to realize properly on these
cows, there must be a market for the
milk and butter. The market is al
ready here if the farmer will get
ready to get it. Fully one third of Gre
nada is put to it to get milk and butter
almost all the time. As to getting
the milk and the butter to market, I
want to suggest vhat if we could get
enough farmers within a radius, say
ef 15 miles of Grenada, to keep three
or four cows for dairying purposes,
a motor milk truck could make the
rounds every day and bring the cream
from these thirty or forty farmers to
market. There would be some-body
here to buy. A cream separator
could be had at a nominal cost and if
need be, three or four farmers could
own a separator together. This is a
-ay of community of purpose and ef
fort,. The farmers seem slower than
a uy ocher Ciass to icarn this. Suppose
here were a haif dezen milk trucks'
running out from Grenada daily,
wnat a financial benediction such an
enterprise would be both to the town
and to the country. The farmer
>vou»a then have money the year
round. We would see better farm
houses, more silos and altogether a
more happy and contented people.
Grdpada, instead of being a town of
4,000 people, would soon have 8,000
souls enjoying its life. This is easily
done. It if no dream. And let me
tell you that something like this must
be done otherwise our population will
dwindle rather than increase. At no
distant day, it takes no great vision
to see that stock-raising will be the
main business through this section.
These hills echo^that now. The gul
leys proclaim it Then why wait for
the next generation or for some one
else to start what we ought to know
must come?
When we speak of stock-raising,
too many have balked because the
idea has become prevalent that none
but ''blooded stock" will do. That is a
mistake. By this I do not mean to
champion the cheap cow or hog, but I
do champion for our farmers a happy
medium between these two. The
fact is, that with the same feed, the
ordinary hog, for example, will take
on just as much fat as the registered
hog.
Then another matter along this
line. Wool is high and the scarcity of
sheep throughout the world brings
anew the lesson that there is money
in raising sheep. Our fathers in
these parts used to raise sheep,
Sheep are self-raising. About all
that is necessary it to kill the prowl
ing dogs and have pastures where the
sheep can be swapped from one to the
other every three or four months so
as to guarantee safety against the
stomach worm which is about the only
pest outside of the dog that hazards
sheep raising. Along with the sheep
comes the goat. They get their feed
where the grown is brown and bare.
The price of beef admonishes us that
our meat markets must and will
more of other meat substitutes,
We do.not need, so much, anybody
to show us. We need to utilize what
we aIr ^ ady 1 know - . 1 want to say
a ffam, land renovation, keeping what
nature gave us in soil is the sloiran
for us. it we do not beVn the prac"
tice of this, our citizenship will S
ually slip away from us. People will
K<> where there is the greatest produc
tivity of soil. Our lands are just as
good, yea better for stock-raising
than the rich delta. And when it is
considered what our lands cost us and
what we have in other things besides
just "land," we are ahead of the del
* a - The delta must single shot oh cot
ton and when that one shot fails, all
fails with them.
.f£ ow j. n conclusion, I believe I can
appea i, to Grenada to
rating. TSetrfcan "safely'"ay
that Grenada is ready to get behind
a proposition something hke l sue
gest for sending a milk truck out
to those farmers that will agree to
put so many cows into a pool <Tioint
arrangement to furnish cream J
I want our farmers to think i »»
not expecting hasty action Wta
we undertake in new ventures I want
us to think over well and then get in
ai ? d stay with what we start out to do.
™e trouble with too nufny of farm
• 1S zr a °. we aim to high at one
jump. But in ail of our plans let
not forget the care of our sotk
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the
a
of
* y
ly
the
is
to
and
ing
no
died
boys
strip
they
gun
tol
ed
shot
evade
now
use
S500
up
land I day.
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of
renovation.
I would not want to be understood
as decrying raising some cotton. Cot
ton is a necessity, but my idea would
be to make one third of the crop cot
ton, one third com and the other
third profitable hays. Let us h ear
from others.
A Man Who Works On His Farm.
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jloiij i oKivIal ABDICATION
William in Holland Hopes- German
People Will be Protected.
HohenzoUern 1 has^definiteiy reiJ^c
eu an future rights to the crowns of
nussia and Germany and has re
leased ail officials and officers from
their oath of fealty, according to the
text of a document signed by the
former emperor, quoted in a tele
gram received here from Berlin.
Berlin, Nov. 30.—The text of the
former German emperor's act of re
nunciation, issued by the new German
government, "in order to reply to cer
tain misunderstandings which have
fmfows- r h ' abd,catlon '
By the present document I renuounce
forever my rights to the crown of
Prussia and the rights to the German
imperial crown. I release at the
same time all the officials of the Ger
man empire and Prussia and also all
officers, non-commissioned officers and
soidiers of the Prussian navy and
army and of contingents from con
feuerate states from the oath of fidel
ity they have taken me.
As their eqriperor, king and supreme
nVvLni ^em until a new
^Xt\ht^n G aT?h n o S rx!
effectively hold the power in Germany
to protect the German peopl against
the menacing dangers of anarchy,
famine and foreign domination.
Made and executed and signed by
our own hand with the imperial seal
at Amerogen, November 28.
(Signed) WILLIAM.
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STABLER OF A. K. C.
TO BE HERE
IIo'v the American Red Cross in
camp .' as helped tho efficiency of the
ioiaier by keeping up the morale of
his iamily al iionie, is one o fthe
stories of the
_
Harry Snowden
Stabler, Associate Field Director of
the American Red Cross at Camp
McClellan, will tell the people of
Gienada on December 10th of his
work in co-operation with the various
Home Service 'sections throughout
the country.
The links that binds the soldier
to his family" is the way Mr. Stabler
speaks of the Home Service. The
Home Service is responsible for keep
ing families united, for keeping the
minds ol* the folks at home at
war.
• *
, , . ease,
as regards their soldier, and for keep
mg the mind of the soldier at
as regards his loved ones at home.
All of the tragedy and comedy that
So to make up the average day in
the life of a busy Associate Field
Directoir will be depicted i
Stabler's talk.
Mr. Stabler is touring the Gulf
States m interest of the Red Cross
Christmas Roll Call, which is to take
100 percent membership is the goal
of the Red Cross in this big drive
and m order to go over the top in
the coming campaign, the Red Cross
ia sending speakers throughout the
country to tell its prospective mem
bers its story—how it has helped win
the war on both sides of the ocean,
and what it is going to do to make
the victory complete.
ease
m Mr.
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THE THOMASES KILL DUBOSE
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Family Troubles Result in A Homicide
S;-A* Dub osej a f armer reai^ing. in
the Pea Ridge neighborhood ten miles
west of Grenada, was killed at the
yard gate of Johnathan Thom&, a
neighbor, Thursday afternoon
a out I o clock. As in most cases
where there is a homcide, the stories
of the interested parties differ wide
* y * Two of Dubose's daughters
married Thomases. I„ one of the
families the relations are said to have
become estranged, which resulted on
ly a few days ago in a separation. On
the day before the tragedy, it is
claimed that the Thomas
aggrieved wife forcibly took
baby away from her, and
ment alleges,
away and forcibly detained her. This
is said to - have been the immediate
cause of Dubose an.d his sons going
to the Thomas home. The Thomases
allege that Dubose opened fire first
and that their front porch shows the
evidences of his bullets, but his shoot
ing went wide of the mark as he hit
no one, but himself received several! y
bullets in his head and neck and
died instantly. The two Dubose
boys then sought refuge in a nearby
strip of woods and allege that neither ?
they nor their father was armed,
however, Dubose was lying on his
gun and had a Smith & Wesson nis- to
tol in his pocket when officers reach- ^
ed the scene. The Thomases used a ^ e
shot gun loaded wth buckshot.
The Thomases made not effort to j
evade the law and two#of them are j
now jn jail and a third is out on a J
at
of the
her
one state
carried the mother
■
S500 bond.
Their given names are
Jonathan. I a and Emmitt.
The j
committing trial will be held* Satur-1
I day.
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would
cot
other
h ear
Farm.
uKtNADA COUNTY
BOY WHITES HOME
On Active Service with the Amer-»
ican Expiditknary Force, Ocfcooer
-4th, 1918
Mr. Jo'
. James,
r .da, Miss.,
A
r
*
* ^ a P a:
», Ul u> ana write you a few lines
| l ° t d °
of j . ' ® yoa tf et ting
re- ' UOllfe van y° ur woik. Wisn you
from i tOUlU see tnis country over here. All
the ; tne roau8 ar e stone or gravel, and
the i tfte houses are an built of stone. I
nave not seen a house built of ium
uer since 1 have been here.
tele
the Tfte people seem to be slow to de
re- velop new ideas as far as modern con
vemences are concerned For in
cer- stance, in the towns they do not have
have water in the houses; have to go out on
' the street corners to get water. But
'"uTc?,' 5 ""'J 1 . p ™t««r 'h™ *
of ' 8 >" th eStat«; all the land la fenced
?? 'n small plots (about one acre to
the P'°*' W1 th dirt and stone walls
Ger- ttnd there is shrubbery of some kind
all bhat covers the walls. There is still
and blackberries over here; some are ripe
and and others are still green,
con- I have not seen but two mules
fidel- since Ihave been over here; they use
horses of the pearchon type.
The women and children and real
new 0 ]d men a jj t he work as every
av h ailab ' c , fiKh . tint ; man is ■? r form
i Th ? ° V Tv herG SGem Iu be J? 0 J e
I 8#C ' abIe . than they are ." th e States
I To ^ ve . you some ldea of what
i the Americans are doing for the
by j Germans, there were 1800 Germans
seal on a hill and the Americans sur
rounded it and made a charge on
them and not one of them escaped.
The Americans took 101 prisoners.
I have wrote .Dottie and Belle
since I have been here; guess they
will get them OK. I am trying to
learn to speak French, hut it sure is
difficult, as words of the same moan
ing :-z English
in
the
of
:o much longer
_ i than English word:. For instance,
"ninetieth" in French is "quatse
virigt dixiene." I can't see much
sense in it.
Suppose it is pretty cold over
there by this time, isn't it? It never
gets very cold in this part of France.
Wish I could write you all I want too,
Wish I could write all I want to,
but it would not pass the censor.
Will have lots to tell you all when 1
get back home again. Write me soon
and tell me all the news, as I anv
anxious to hear from you all. Have
not heard since I left Georgia.
Hoping you will get along OK. with
your work.
Write me soon.
of
Camp
of
his
The
keep
the
ease,
keep
that
in
Gulf
take
goal
in
the
win
ease
Your son.
Mr.
HENRY.
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ANOTHER LETTER
Nov. 10th, 1918.
Mr. J. H. James,
Grenada, iss.,
Dear Papa:
A6 it is Sunday and I have a
chance to write, tnougnt I would
write you a few lines, now is grand
ffiS and Miss Cora? Is Howara still
staying with Alle and Horace
how are hey getting along?
^ ^ ae and Monroe?
How are yoti getting along with
yo . ur ' vvork * 'The way things are
going now the war will soon be over
probably before this reaches you. I
am getting along just fine, and learn
ing to speak French a little. It is a
pretty slow go, though.
France is not as large as the State
of Texas. There is 207,054 square
ffiiles of lfcn(} in France and here
is 7,000 miles of canal irij France,
which they use for transportation,
and the roads in 'France are said to
be the best in the world.
418,750 miles of stone
France; the people have market days
here. I was up town, yesterday and
the streets were literally lined with
people. The people that live in the
country all come to town on Satur
day and bring all kinds of vegetables
and all kinds of produce to sell. It
sure is a sight to see them and listen
to their "gab.
How is uncle Edd Clarance and
Suppose
you all are through gathering your
crops by'this time, are you not?
Have you got any hands for another
and
How
in
the
a
is
y ear? 1 h °P e *y° u can get hands OK.
Everything sure is high over here
cos ^ ^ en cents; pears cost eighteen
? en ^ s eac h; and all fruit is as high
P ro P or tion.
Do you sti11 work tne middle road
to Grenada? How is uncle Virgle
^ e tting along? ^Write me a long
^ e ttcc and tell me all the news. It
1b f en ak " ost two months since I
j STaITm. yesterday'' H 1
j left A. & M. the same time I did but
J vent to Florida and come over here
about three months
at
There are
roads in
99
families getting along?
labor. Sixteen
ten-penny
nails
■
ago,, I have not
found any one else from Mississippi.
'YiU p-o for this time.
Your son,
j
Write soon.
i
• HENRY ,
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