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The Forsyth County News.
Published every Wednesday at Gumming, Ga.
By J. B. Patterson.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
Per Year 75c.
Six Months 40c.
Three Months 25c.
OFFICIAL ORGAN FORSYTH COUNTY.
... Entered at the Post Otfice at Cumming, Ga.,
August 10th, 1910, as mail matter of the second
class.
Advertising rates made known upon application.
Cumming, Ga., Nov. 22nd, 1918.
Somewhere in France.
Dear mother and family: Guess you will be get
ting anxious to hear from me by this time.. .It,
hasn’t been so I could write. Ilavne’t had the
chance. 1 have been on the Iron! for .'1 weeks,
and have been over the top in No Mans Land,
and haven’t got a scratch. Lucky, 1 guess. It has
been a little exciting at times but there is One
who has power to guard over you in times of
danger. 1 am in a hospital now. Got some gas—
that is all—not serious. 1 have had quite a lot
of experience for the last few weeks, but got
through it and kept my health all the while. 1
hear my division is out for a re l lor awhile prnb
ably. Time passes away last. I'lie year will
soon be gone and I hope the New ’> ear will bring
peace to all the world. It will be a great day
when I can cast m.v eye on the Staatue of Liber
ty. Time brings on changes and time passes a
way fast. One can only wait and do the best he
can and trust to Providence and Higher Power.
The boys are certainly doing something at
the front. I don’t see hov. the war can last long.
Guy in here with me and is aU.ight. I am not.
homesick, tho' would like to be t awe as well as
any one. I haven’ time to thin; of home vary
much, tho’ 1 don’t fovget. Don’t >rry about Hit
Ia mfaring allright, just got :or ■ ; ,ns is ail that
is wrong, and I am getting on v ry well, not se
rious. I haven’t got but the one letter. Keep on
writing, and probably 1 will get more later and
I will write when I can. With love to all,
Your son, Mather Smith.
Somewhere in France.
Home to all: I will try to answer your kind let
ter I received yesterday. Was glad to hear that
you all were well. 1 am feeling as god as ever. 1
guess you all are busy picking cotton these days
Papa, I wrote you last Sunday that 1 wasn’t get
ting the paper but 1 got two this last week. 1
sure was proud to get it. 1 want you to send it on
It makt's me think I am close to home. I got alet
ter from Kate yesterday. I was glad to hear
that Clarice was able to go back to work. They
sent me their pictures and I was certainly glad
to get them. Hello, Frank, what are you doing
these days? Are you and Waldo got tiling along
all right. Alice, 1 was glad to get a letter from
you. You sure did surprise me. 'i ou can write
fine. I want you to try it agaain and in place ot
writing one leaf write two or three. And For
rist, can’t you write me a little. l>et, 1 would like
to get a leaf from you. If you can have the child
ren’s pictures made and send me one. 1 have
been somewhat homesicl but 1 am getting over
it. I sure would be glad to see you all. 1 don t
think it is as long as it has been. I am counting
on getting back. I guess that Mr. Pool’s tolks
are getting along fine and everybody else. Well
I will close for this time. Tell everybody hello
for me and tell Louis and sinter hello. 1 would
like to get a hold of them. Jesse Hall.
Somewhere in France.
Dear sister: 1 will write you a few lines to let
you all hear from me. 1 am well at this time and
hope this will find you all the same. 1 received
your letter August 20 that was idled dune 1!*.
I would enjoy myself to be there and help eat
watermelons. So 1 will come home some Satur
day on a week end pass. Be sure to have a good
one too. I have been somewhere in France. So
just remember you have a brother in France. 1
haven’t much to write s > I will close for this
time. Write soon, Your brother,
B. E. Nuckolls.
Somewhere in France.
Dear mother: I "ill write you all a few lines
this afternoon. I am just line and dandy and I
hope this will find you all the same. 1 wonder
what you all are doimr over there now, and I
would feel better if 1 could hear troin you all. I
can’t hear from anyone over there. 1 wonder
if I am not going to hear from you all while J
am over here. Don’t look like ! am. It you all do
not hurry up and write 1 am cming home some
of these days for everything is just going fine,
and looking good over here to me. 1 would like
to tell you a whole lot but 1 can’t. 1 got for my
self a german watch the other day. 1 am going
to bring it home with me when I come and you
kno wl feel fine. Well, mother, 1 don t know any
news that I can write only I can sa\ that l am
n line health and feelhe fine, lother, 1 doe i
know whether you have' * any of my letters or
.■ot I haven’t any of yours and I know you have
wrote to me. I have been transferred to anoth
er Company as a soldier and it is a fine Compa
ny. Fine men in it. Guess you .• have 1 onru (
from Rufus. I haven’t heard any;Hng of hire i
will close tin ■my love to all W <,e soon,
Your boy, L iu L Bryant.
Somewhere in France.
Dear father and mother: 1 will try to write you
all a letter after so long a time, f do not have the
time to write much as it is a busy time with me
tho’ I am getting along very well at least I am
eating hearty. I think I will ike this country bet
ter than England. This is a fine looking country
T<>|| Robert and Homer to keep the old home
tires burning till I get back home again and
then I can tell them something that will interest
them. Tell all of my brothers and sisters to write
to me. 1 will close as I have to hurry. Your son,
Albert Roscoe Price.
Somewhere in France.
Dear homefolks: Will write you all a few lines
to let you know 1 am all o k and hope this will
find you all the same. 1 am having a good time
now hut would like to be there next Sunday to
go to campmeeting, but don’t guess 1 will be
there, hut tell all of the folks hello for me. This
sure is a pretty country over here. As to the
war, I don’t think there will be any war long. I
think all of those buns will be killed. I like over
here better than I did at Camp Gordon. We do
not have near as hard a time, but all the Forsyth
hoys are seperated. There is not any of them to
get her except Alfred and myself. I have not
seen Carl Holbrook since we left Camp Gordon
and don I know where he is. Say, we can not get
any candy over here, t will close for this time
hopig to hear from you all soon, and wish you all
a good time next Sunday. As ever,
Abner C. Tallant
Mj dear Will and Stella: Your letter of some
fe wdays ago arrived today and found me as fat
as a match and as well as can be. Along with
every other soldier I have a uniform and a cold.
They both go together. It is night time but that
doesnt make any difference over here, we sleep
when we have a chance and work all the rest of
the time. Was delighted to get your letter and to
hear you are getting along so well. Of course, 1
hear from the' folks at home all along and from
Ihc Missus and little Harry. Outside ot that I
do not have much correspondence from states.
Mama writes that prices are clear out of sight
and that every one is sacrificing to see that this
dirty devil over here is going to get what is com
ing to him. As to experiences I have had a mill-
ion that words or letters will never record. Out
side of the ocean or the sky or something like
that there has never been anything as big. To
day 1 saw over a hundred airplanes in one dock
hitting it up towards some german place to let
them have several tons of bombs. The day has
not been very far off when I would have walk
ed some miles to see one plane and it on the
ground. While 1 write this there is a long line of
German prisoners being put in a barbed wire
pen a few yards from where I am sitting. I’ve
seen towns larger than Gainesville absolutely
shot to pieces. The towns over here are allstone
or brick and when a high explosive shell hits it
it is just like that much dynamite in a rock pile
Lots and lots of dead ones anywhere that there
b'as been doings and lots of our boys among 'em
More of them skinned up than anything. The
news looks good now and we have them on the
run. He is licked now but how much longer the
affair is going to last I can’t say. 1 do not have
any idea that 1 will be home before this time
next year. We have worlds of men and you have
no idea how much material that has got to be
gotten ba ck when it is all over and lots of men
will have to stay here to see it done. Pesonally,
1 have a ne ck full, and while 1 want to stay til
the last man is hung, they can hurry up the
hanging when they get ready. As to myself,
there is nothing much to say. 1 am Adjutant
of the Army Artillery of the Ist Army and get
ting along all right. Work pretty hard ami at
it all of the time. Have had boogers on me and
have had the itch. Have not been sick except a
light tinge of the grippe and weigh around 170
pounds. Have plenty to eat and a fairly com-
Lmable place to sleep. It is a wierd and strange
suit of country compared with the l S. and the
thi.kest madd est mud in the wor* i /\t certan
seasons it rains every day and is a cold damp
climate. Reference to the papers will show you
about where 1 am. There are not many sides
of this mess that 1 have not seen and have enoug
now to start me talking and not let up for a him
died years. Am strictly up the pole and would
l )C afraid to take a little tech of mountain dew
for fear 1 would take somebody’s arm off. I do
not remember what 1 wrote in the letter to gian
pa and had no idea it would be published. Do
not let this get into the papers. It is bad enough
ns it is. My love to you both and my very best
regards to all 1 know in the ‘l4th’ district. Sin
cerelv. Harry Stovall.
Harry, is a grand-son of Esq. G. \\. Stovall and
A. C. Bell of this county.
Somewhere in Franc.’.
Dear 1 take pleasure in writing a
lew lines to u t you all know that I am well, i
am \ ruing you all to send me a Xmas package,
i on all s a mi ni ■ anything you wish to send.
Yovr son. Ik M. Tallant.
\ t ,v that Ulc war is over probably they will
hold tiic <•!.'”d Opera in Atlanta next season,
aid we c." go down and hear the dagoes sing.
Tlie i>ig War Work Campaign drive ended
Wedne. in,,. 't, and lots of people helped.
Go Xo
W. H. HAMMOND’S
You can find almost anything you want in the way
of Winter Goods, such as Bed Blankets, Heavy Outings,
Ladies Sweaters, Caps etc. We also have
A Large Line Of
Mens and Boys Hats and Caps at very low prices.
We carry a full line of Hardware, such as Turn Plows,
Points and Bolts of all kinds.
Also a full line of Feedstuff, such as Cotton Seed Meal,
Beet Pulp, Peanut Meal-in fact most anything you need in
the way of Feed, and our price is always the lowest.
A Big Line of Shoes
Just coming in of newest shapes. If you have not al
ready bought we believe it will pay you to look through our
stock befort buying your winter goods.
We buy most anything you bring us such as Pecis, Beans, Chickens,
Eggs and Batter, and pay you what you want for it. Most of the
time you get more for your staff than you expect to yet.
W. H. Hammond.
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