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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. E VER Y DA Y Buy i WAR SAVINGS I §L STAMPS _ Jk r,(\ in a \\V\ in * \\ \\ 80TTLB \\b°TTLD \ .THRU A * . \\ THRU * \mLstraw - r ~pHE healthier, more active we are, ir r the greater our craving for sweets, jr "jj H .which supply us with bodily fuel. ijm.J vT.That is why our government is sending MrWi shipload after shipload of sweets to our boys C,Different people fake their sweets in dif- ferent ways;some in tea and cofiec. and some in PL P I !|srS-e4 gH Lnero-Loia Vf * \ (9)