The Citizen=times, 1919-02-20

" When I 'come'home I can tell you a lot about my trip oven here for I sure did want to come over here I know it' wasmy duty and I have tried to do my duty as all Americans do --1 got my box Xmas and that candy and gum was sure good 1 hope you all had a good time 'Xmas Tell all the folks hello for me I will dose for this time ' ' 1 Your son ' Pvt William M Tabor j Febuary 8 1919 ' Mr Roy Pitchford ' ' Dear Roy: ' When I first heard of your having created a newspaper mo monopoly - nopoly monopoly in Scottsville I intended to write you and extend my con congratulations - gratulations congratulations However I have never been so busy as during the last six months ' ' You may have learned that the first of last September' I was called to Washingtonby the Fed Federal - eral Federal Board for Vocational Educa Education - tion Education I was very much delighted at the opportunity to have a con constructive - structive constructive hand in the reeducation of men disabled in war My particular doty was that'of surveying ' private - commercial schools in the United States and selecting ptiacular institutions in which disabled men are now be being - ing being trained I completed 1 my survey on January 15 and re returned - turned returned to my former position as manager of the School Depart Department - ment Department of the Remington Type Typewriter - writer Typewriter Company My mother returned with me to New York but my sister remained in Wash Washington - ington Washington in as ecretairial capacit to the Construction Diyision of the War Department' She has been engaged in that position since Isst October and has recently been promoted While many war workers have been leaving Wash Washington - ington Washington since the armistice was signed she has been retained by the War Department indefinitely The porticular purpose of1 this letter is to atk yOu to change the address of our paper from ' 10&3 Park Road Washington to 822? 11 th St N W Waihington which is Jessie's present address I want to congratulate you on the space you have been giving during recent months to the re reproduction - production reproduction of letters from Alien County boys at the front I have read these letters with great in interest - terest interest and am indeed 'proud of the contribution my home cdun cdun-ty - ty cdun-ty has made in behalf of the new and enlarged freedom Cordially Yours Harry G' Spillaian Somewhere in France ' ' "'Jan l9 1919 Miss Myatle Rush My Dear sister:- How are you all? Fine I hope- This leaves me very well at present truss these few lines will find you all welL What are you all doing now? Would certainly like to be at home with you alL ' 1 I left Camp Merrit New Jer Jersey - sey Jersey Sept 1 went to England stayed there a short time - then crossed the English channel and came to France- - We' havnt had qnuch cold weather here it - snowed here some but it didn't last very long I received my Xmas bex all O ' K' Was certainlyglad to get it You spoke of the boys get getting - ting getting back home: 1 don't know when I will get home but I think I will get home by Spring I certainly will be glad when I get back to the U S A There areabout ten Allen county boys together Poter and I are still together i We 'ate still at work on the rail road We have moved about quite a bit since we

' ' Nancy France Jan 16 1919 Dear motherland sistes: Just a few tinea to-night which -1 hope will find you all weH I am al alright - right alright have jus V been reading thd paper from home You can't imagine how much I do like to get hold of a paper from dear old Allen I ace where some 'of the bora that came to camp the m time I did are already at home 1 see lota of interesting letters bon other hoys that are in camp also some that are over here 1 notieewhere some of the boys had turkey f of Thanks Thanksgiving:' - giving:' Thanksgiving:' Weill did not have that good a dinner but 1 will tell you we did have plenty of hard tack and soup henna We were in a town that (he German's had just evacuated I certainly saw some great sights in the last days of the war but aorne end ones also -I did bate to see thoie forma -lying around who ' were so unfortunate as to have to give up their lives in the very last hours - We wei e under shell firs for about eight weeks I had to hike from Fritz's planes several times If we had not' he would haye dropped bomba onus We were stationed in the edge of a wood for awhile right close to the heavy guns whin I would lay down to sleep the guns would shake the ground Frits couldn't get the right range on us his heIlidropped over us out in the 'field This place I am telling you of was the old Hindenburg tine Believe me those Germans fixed up some there The had dugouts in "them with several rooms -They even 1 had electric lights' in the rooms It looked almost impossible that they equld have been driven out of such a place but the Yanks brought them out We moved cut from that place in a' short time several kilometers from the ' front Some of the boys said we f will get a nights -sleep now so e the second night after we had moved Frits begad ' shelling us ' He was getting dose to il khrap- nel rained down all around dirt was hitting the barracks I was in some went some way and some another I 'am ndl-roading now You know them U lots of salvaging to do since the war is over I just wish you coold see the car loads of empty shells that is be being - ing being gathered'up Toll everybody hello for me and I hope to he with them soon I certainly do' appreciate - your letters - - Youre with love ' ' p'- - Pv Boss Harston' Jan 10 1919 MrW B Tabor: -i Dear father:- How are you 'all? Fine I hope Iam getting along fine ' I guess you all are having some winter back there 'how It is hot very cold here I am attending to horses now Uke it much better than drill drilling - ing drilling I feed them three times a day T haven't gotten any mail fa? quite a while ' wish I could hear from you I guess some of the boys have returned from ramp by now 1 I heard Clayton Qatar Williams Miller ' Harman and Freely Moody were over hare but I haven't seen any of them I hope if they were in a battle they made it through alright It is hot so bad to be ovbrhen since the war is over and those shells have quit burst burst-I - I burst-I ig and you don't nave to sleep in those tranches ' Well pdpa I was in that Argonne drive for fourteen days and' Ar Ar-' - ' Ar-' ihur "Stark was -with me I ' haven'k seen him for 'two months

came over here We were in the trenches when the Armistice was signed The shells were certainly roaring around us We slept in the trenches four nights - We boys were certainly glad when the armistice was signed1 I have received a number of letters from home since I came over here I am always glad to hear from you all How is every body in old Allen? Tell Ira and Mary I will write them soon ' Dont you all worry about me Hope to be at home with you soon I will have a-lot' to tell you when I get home I have seen quite a little since I came to France yet I think Allen will still look good tome y With love and beat wishes' I will 'close ' V ! ' Your loving btethcr Leslie Rush' Beaufort Luxemburg: Jan B 1919 ' Comma Scott: " ' My dear cousin:- Will ' write ymf a few lines to let you know I am well and happy hope you are the some ' - I waa wounded September the 29th but am well and back with myorignal company We sure are having wet weather it' has rained for the last month and is still raining The sun 'hasn't shone for two months to amount to anything ' I should think this is a very unhealthy country Is Chip still in Camp Taylor or over hen? I will be home soon- I certainly would like to have been there for Xmas I know you had a swell time i 1 ' As it is getting late I will close as I want to pick a few - cooties for I have a plenty of them I can tell by the way they bitie Good night ' Your cousin ' i Garland Scott 1 ' ' ! ' Inor Fiance ' Nov 191918 Dear mother: ' I will answer your letter I re ceived last week Was sorry to hear Ros6 has been sick This leaves me well and feeling good and hope you are the same by now' ' ' ' ' Well mother at last the time has come when I can' write and tell ybu something about myself since I've been over here The first month I was on the go and saw a good deal of France and about' August 20 we were sta stationed - tioned stationed on the St Mihel front- Were there for guard duty till September 12 began adrive that lasted five days We staved on that froift 45 ' days' ! From there we went to the' Verdun front and began another drive Nov 1 and were 'still driving when orders esmd to stop firing The weather is pretty and warm1 and before it rained - nearly alt the time I am looking fprward to going home now I expect to Set home some time in January and then I can tell you all every little thing that I have experienced but you wil) think it's impossible ' 1 am proud to say I made the round without getting wounded "Dont worry apout me I'll soon be home: '' So hoping to see you soon Your son Earl Shield 'Andenne Belgium - y Jan 251919 Dear Wife and Son' - I am alone jn our mesa all the officers having gone to their 're 'respective - spective 'respective rooms To begin with lest J forget it I will say my

DOVEfe Health - s very good ' in 'this community - ' ! Mr Ira Meador and family visited his - parents Saturday nighL PvL Oscar EL Mitchel and wife visited JE Dyson's family SaL SaL-urday - urday SaL-urday night and Sunday - Messrs Porter Howell and War Warner - ner Warner Dyson attended" the Singing at Union Chapel Saturday night Rev Tonnie Stewart will preach at Dover next Saturday Saturday night and Sunday Mr Ernest Lvle and Mr Rav Brown left January 2 7 to attend School at Bowling Green ' ' Some of the boys of this com community - munity community have received their dis discharges - charges discharges and returned to civilian life : : 7 Misses Eva and Vera Meador spent Saturday night and Sun Sunday - day Sunday with Miss Lena Brown 1 School begun at Shady ' Grove last Monday morning under thf instruction of Prof PW Dodson-'' --'j'--' Mr Alfred Dalton is prepair prepairing - ing prepairing to build a new residence " " Peck's Uncle Ike MT AERIAL The flu is ceasing jn the Aerial community ' Dr J L Alxander who has been very busy working in it' u vetting'some rest now Mr Tone Borden happened to the misfortune of loosing hir pocket book the other day which contained $50 ' Miss Maxell Hanson gave ar ?ntertainment at her home Iasi Thursday night and every body seemed to enjoy themselves Pvt Clara Thomas and Corp Emmons Garrison have received honorable discharges from th U S 'service' V Mr Raymond Towe and Viff are going to leave the farm and move to Franklin' ' V HJOJWAY- 7 Mr Clay Harmon wlio has been Veal sick is out again Mr Jimmie Hannon is'reM sick ' ' Mr and Mrs Griand Watkins are all smiles - Its a girL Mr Bird Sherrel and daugh daughter - ter daughter of Alvaton spent Sunday here Mr Johnny Watkins is build building - ing building a new store at this place Mr John Ayers arrived home Saturday with a discharge Little Magarite Sherrell visited her grandparents last week - Y R Pruitt and son were in town Tuesbay Pftpa's Old Maid

cold which I have so many times mentioned perhaps to your mental disquietute is much better It is not completely cured but is not worrying me very much I think I shall soon be in fit con condition - dition condition to go on leave I am hav having - ing having so much work just now I fear that 1 shall have difficulty in arranging for it to be done while away Labour is being demobilized very rapidly now In a short time one hundred men-daily will be going home from this group My work comes having to examine these meni I hate to inspect them for scobies vermin and inaction Also if they are claiming a disability due to military 1 service 1 have to make a special examination and fill in an army form So you can understand how the demobiliza demobilization - tion demobilization is making more work for me1 Fov the present too I am having the sick parade which has been conducted at the officp of the D' D M S (Deputy Director Med Medical - ical Medical Service) I shall only have these extra duties untill the D D M S Canadian Corps arrives I have two motor ambulances at attached - tached attached to me and an extra med medical - ical medical orderly I have used both ambulances today At the pres present - ent present rato of demobilization it will not take more than two months for the C3' Labour ' Group to be demobilize ' J' I have made arrangements to take some ' private lessons in PYench I will have my first lesson next Monday A Belgian teacher by profession is giving the lessons He has been teach teaching - ing teaching for the last four years he tells me lie has a class but I am taking private lessons They will be largely eonversa-

L M Weaver IMONEER CITIZEN ' PASSES AWAY Mr H W Myers aged 85 years dial last Thursday at hit home on Main street of harden hardening - ing hardening of the arteries'-He speni his long and pious life' in thb county He was' a veteran of the Civil War was married threr times ahd his third wife survive him His first wives and fivr children 1 preceded him to' their immortal homes the lapt of hi sons Dr A W: Myers haviny died about two years ago ' He was a -consistent member of the Main Street 'Methodist church and seldom missed a ser service - vice service forfifty years : He was one of the 'oldest citizens of 'th county ' His remhins were laid to rest in the old city cemetery -Friday evening after funeral services by Revs Gilliam and Jones J - i A - GILEAD Farmers are very busy prepar preparing - ing preparing for a bountiful crop £': We are sorry to report so much sickness thiq week Those or the sick are: ' Mrs J B James Jameson - on Jameson Mrs J H Brunson Mrs Chas - Green Messrs W C Grubbs and Wm Woods t Miss ' Elizabeth Brunson of Gainesville is spending a few days with her brother J H Brunson ' 1 v Mr Chas Green spent Satur Saturday - day Saturday night and Sunday witii rela relatives - tives relatives at Finney -j ' ii Messrs Jl B: John Haines attended County Court at Glasgow Monday' ' Mr Harold Grubbs -of Scotts Scottsville - ville Scottsville was ' called to the bedside of his uncle Mr W C Grubbs who is very low with heart trouble' ' ' Mr Claud Watts- of Settle spent last week with Jno ' Lw Grubbs and family ' i Katrina ' s

AN INFANT DIES Little Richard Virginia Rowe the 4-mojiths-old baby of Mr and Mrs C Rowe died Thura- day evening at 1:45 of pneumon pneumonia - ia pneumonia Fometfmes in the April-kissed " spring-time the little fiower we 1 welcome 4s the snowdrops -droops ana die ' but its delicate face has inspired us to hope and : perfumed our Ijyes with thoughts of purity Thus over a happy home the shadow of a little grave has faUenand as mother has said it is wonderful how long a shadow a little grave can throw- ' This beautiful baby life was so precious so fraught with 1 blessing to her parents that -she seemed a flower of paradise per- ' ' mitted to bloom for a brief sea son by their 'side then recalled to its nature skies leaving the' earth rdad for them dark - and -- lonely indeed XVe' extend our feeble sympathy to the bereaved parents' ' Ml SIMS DEAD : V ' Mr B G bimf died at his' ' heune in this city lst Friday -' evening at 5:30 after a short ill ill-ness - ness ill-ness of pneumonia' Funeral services were ponducted from ' the ML Carmil church Saturday by Rev H H Jones after which his remains were laid to rest -in' that churchyard ' He was 29 years old and leaves " a wife and two small girls' " Mr: Sims had been an employee of Hobdy' A Read-of this city for ten years where he made 'a most efficient assislant lle wes an honest and energetic employee and -made 1 friends " of all wjltf wh'om became 'in contacL 'He s is a young man who ' will he SWft'4:iifidJiy hia y family- employers andthe 'community

' - OBITUARY - - ' H W Myers was born May 4 1834 died Feb 13 1919 He had been in feeble health for some time but never confined to his bed entirely He went to the dining room and ate his break breakfast - fast breakfast and died suddenly 'about 9:-' 30 that morning' MrMrenwas married first ' to Miss Mary Emetine Newman -in 1855 and to them were bom five children two boys and three V ' -' girls all of whom are dead After his first wife died he mar mar-ried - ried mar-ried Mrs Jane Stark whose maiden- name" was Myers and she died a few years later ' He was' married the third time to Mrs Lottie Williams 'who survives" hini : ' He professed religion shortly J ' after he was married to his first wife and joined the Methodist f 'r zhurchSouth in - which church - he Jived a consistent member un- till death He enlisted as a sol- ' iier in the Civil Warin 1863 and served until he was mustered out v in' 'January 1865 -After the Civil Warh4 lived on the farm' -' until he was elected jailor when he moved to town and has lived ' here ever since " v y Brother Myers whs a regular V ' Ufcndent upon all the church yY:t jer vices until q'fewidayff' ago when his health became so in- -f paired that he could not attend He loved the church and the' ' cause of Christianity : He was a ? good neighbor and strictly honest k ' in dealings with his fellowman We will miss him ' His first two wives and all of 7 y - ' ' his children preceded him to the -yfi'-? " grave and be leaves his last- -