The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, October 31, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE GLAYTON .... • - THOtB IS NO PAH* L2KB TUB WK mb p»jrest TO ROM pmPUB. m VOLUME XXI. CLAYTON. RABUN COUNTY. GEORGIA. THURSDAY OCTOBER 31. 1918. NUMBER 4& Towns County Goes Over The Top Hiawassee, Ga., Oct. 22nd, 1918. Mr! F. D. Singleton, • Clayton, Georgia, Dear Sin- Towns County went over the top in the Fourth Liberty Loan drive. I give you below list of all subscribers to the Fourth Loan in this county which I would be very glad for you to publish so that our people will know who bought bonds. J.M. Moss, V C. Benson D. J. Burrell W. H. Berrong Mrs. Lucy Berroug E. F. Nicholson W. O. Sparks Hamp Goss M. L. Woodring I. W. Berrong John Melton T. W. Gibson J. M. Rice D. W. Franks Dr. R. H. Twiggs J. H. Gibson Prof. L. B. Johnson Ed N. England G. C. Moore W. J. Burrell Mose Cochran J. B. Driskill Carl Hedden C. L. Burch Luther Hoop, r Bam Nichblson Jr.o. H. Hoot er A. L. Adams J. T. Arrowood J. L. Teague Ev il. Rogers P. K Mauldin Ludy Nicholson George F. Eller J. W. Foster W. W. Eller E. S. Berrong W. R. Eller George W. Hooper J. S. Owenby J. Miles Berrong J. W. Fanner _ Dr. J. D. Rice W. A. Jackson Jim Nicholson Mrs. Fata Gibson J. G. Twiggs T. A. Moore ' T. H. Wood Mrs. J. I. Sims Rev. Prank Loyd Cline Puett J. V. Twiggs F. M. Woodring W. H. Nicholson George E. Brown Miss Dora Woodring W. A. Stroud J. N. Kin fall Cl a ie Alston J. Presley 1. O. O. F. Lodge 221 William B. Eller Mrs. A. N. Eller J. E. Wheeler Mrs. Martha A. Wheeler D. A. Shook Mrs. Fannie Presley E. M. Nicholson Mrs. Vina Nicholson J. N. Brown Mrs. Eller Rogers Ross Loyd Mrs. Jno. M. Johnson W. 0. Burnes Prof. S. B. Tolor Miss Nan Lance Curtis A. Maxwell Mrs. Eva Maxwell W. E. Matherson W. A. JaCkson Mre.Sallie F. Carson Tre»3. M. L. Dyer Young L. G. Harris College J. W. Hood Miss Alice Dyer Judge Platt Miss Mary G. Cantrell E. W. Webb Miss Ruby Barton Mrs. W. H. Dean Mihs Edith Hopkins T. M. Lewis Mrr. Mattie C. Waldroup J. M. Hyatt Mrs. Maude Tanner W. C. Brown Dr. V. M. Waldroup G. P. Messer Prof. J. L., Hall Miss Thelma Keith W. M; Alexander J. C. Nichols Nathan T. Ingram Frazier Gilman Mrs. Bettie Loyd P. N. Ingram Miss Sarah Satterwhite J. B. Shook C' B. Rhodarmer Homer Alexader J. E. Barnard Nfiss Louise E. Stephens D. J. Nichols George Powell Homer R. Penland D. C. Nichols Dr. R. T.. Coleman Mrs. W. O. Spark** Miss Nora Bell Jenkins We appreciate the co-operaiion of the above n^med and thank each of you for doing your part Yours truly, W. 0. sparks, County chairman. Athens, Ga.. October 4, 1918. Editor, Clayton Tribune, Clayton, Ga. Dear Sin- On account of the “influenza epidemic*' Judge Newman will adjourn the regular November term of the United States Dis trict Court at Athens, untill af ter the first of January. Court will be opened on November 4th for the purpose! , of receiving pleas of guilty from those parties who have already agreed to plead parties who wish to and also any other : can be disposed of ing a crowd can be I to. Two Mountaineer .'Mountain Children \ Rabun’s Quota of Volunteers Bring^ Do Their Bit ' War Savings Stamps Along Their Guns By Nell Paris “I don’t know anything about democracy. That ain’t what I am going to fight for, and I ain’t never met the fellow they call Autocracy, but I’m going to make those Germans take back that threat to come to America and shoot up my little log cab in,” said Jerry Stillwell, who says he lives ten miles of Young Har ris, Georgia, at the foot of Double Knobs mountain, and that he and his companion, Hess Thomp son and Lew Walden, volunteer ed for military service after hear ing a speech made by one the re turned soldiers who has canvass ed the north Georgia mountains in theinterest of the recent Liber- erty Loan drive, and who, accord ing to the new recruit, explained to the mountain people how G many had made plans to inv the United States when European objectives had b reached. The three mountain citizens, dressed in homespun hunting suits, with their guns on their shoulders, told the following story as they waited Friday afternoon in the Terminal' station for a southbound trian to Caipp Wheel er.’:'*'" - Hear "Soldier Feller*' Our settlement has not been going very strong on Liberty Bonds and the war in general. We ‘lowed’ it didn’t concarn us much, but we heard a soldier who had been' over to see the Germans was coming to speak, so a good crowd was out, even if it was a good day for sqirrels. The house was full of men and dogs by the time the soldier fel ler got thar. “He started his speech off in a ripsnortin’sort of way, and said a lot about democracy, autocracy, Prussianism and Russianism and slowed up to ask how many thous and dollars worth of 'bonds we were going to buy. Well, he didn’t get but one answer and that was from Whiskey Jake's coon dog. ’Ketch Up,' which put up a haul that made every one laugh. Than made the soldier feller mad, and he pulled off his coat and began cussing us and calling us slack ers. We set up and begun to take interest, for the first time. Whisky Jake was the only fel ler in the house that got mad. He riz up anti told the soldier feller how he didn’t take cussing off nobody and how he had kill ed two men in one year back in ,93. Well, the i soldier feller he just pointed t«V a gold stripe on his arm and said ‘I am a bad feller, top: 1 killed six men in one day over in France.' Well, Whiskey Jake he jest melted down like a mow man on a hot furnace, and from that on , we listened. Down To Facta “The soldier feller got right down to facts and by the time he got to v'here Germany was com ing over to America to shoot up our little cabins, the crowd was so mad and so quiet that you could heer the A letter just received from the secretary of Miss Anne Morgan acknowledges an offering from the children of the Tallulah Falls Industrial school, its patrons and friends, for the establishment, of a chicken farm in northern France. Four hundred dollars will equip a farm and pay the salary of a disabled soldier to care for it a year. Ten cents will pay for an egg for the incu bator; 25 cents for a chicken. Miss Sara White has offered to duplicate the offerings of the children and has sent a check for $50 to Miss Morgan, vi:e president of the association far rehabilitating devasted Fran:e Miss Wite’s offer is open to the children of other schools.— The above clipping was sent us by a friend but did not state what paper it had been publisht d therefore we can’t give cred- the paper first publish!n “Stillman continued, pmnt- ing to Walden, must have swal lowed a chaw of tobacco for when he rose up he wue as pale as tleath. fife looked at the soldier feller and said: Young man. is this the truth? Did them Gern ahs sketch out a, trip to the moun- StSprofc hbtfck St^rfcia- to^plinter up our cabins? Then the soldier feller explain ed how the maps had actually been drawed and that everything wu z ready fer them to come if the Americans had not gone over and stopped ’em. • “We chipped in and bought $10,000 worth of bonds. Whis ky Jake took three thousand dollars worth, and we won’t ever think he ain’t willing to play fair with the government any more. I figure that hunt ing and trapping will be on a boom this winter, fer most of that $10,000 will come from hide?. ‘Me And Jake Got Mad" “I don't think Jake.got over swallowing that tobacco very quick, fer he still looked kinder white when he stood upin the laq- tern light that night after the speaking when we were smoking out a‘possum on the mountain side and said ‘Boys I am goirtg to Germany and help smoke out that infernal war machine.’ ‘ We jest up and said we would go, too, and then we held a little ceremony up thar on the mountain side and swore that we would stand by each other and the government while we were Smoking out that infernal ma chine.” When asked why they weje carrying their rifles with them, Walden, the progenitor of the re cruiting movement, answer ed “why. that.young cuss of'a sol dier ‘lowed that the government needed money to buy guns with, and we thought it must be sor ter scarce of guns, so we thought we would bring ours along so we would have one in case there wasn’t enough to go around.” —Sunday Atlanta Constitution. Up To Us The State Director for War Savings Campaign for Georgia has just written me that he ex pects this county to raise its quota of War Savings Stamps by the end of this year. The quota is $111,000.00 People, it’s up to us to raise this amount, or stand in a bad light with the government. What are we go ing to do about this matter? I had nothing to do with fixing this quota. It’s based upon $20.00 per capita. The Director also says that we are not buying stamps as fast as we could. I hope the people will rush this matter and thereby save us from occupying an em barrassing position with our gov ernment. RUSH! RUSH!! A. A. O’Kelly, hairman W’ S. S. Committee r Rabun Co. Rules for mailing Christmas Parcels to Soldiers and Sailors Only one package may be sent t> each man, enclosed in a standard carton furnished by the Red Cross. The estimated number of cartons needed by each Chapter for the ter ritory under its jurisdiction must be in the division Office by Oct 20 1918, on cards-seiU Chapter (jhairmdiC Obtol^sr 7th. Cartons Will be distributed to Chapt ers by November 1st No parcel may be mailed after Nov ember 15, 1918. The label issued to the man over seas by the Army authorities and for warded by him to some relative or friend and delivered unwrapped and un labeled to the local Red Cross to be weighed, inspected, wrapped, labeled and delivered to the Post Otfice. No package may weigh more than three pounds. No written message may bo inclosed. Certaip articles prohibited by the postal authorities must be omitted. (See list below) The sender must furnish the nec essary postage from place of mailing to Hoboken, N. J. Each parcel must bear tlfe label received from abroad with the name and address of the soldier and the in spection label of the American Red Cross. Inspected parcels must remain in the custody of the Red Cross untill deliv ered by its representatives to the Post Office. In the event of a Christmas Parcel Label being LOST, no duplicate can be issued. This rule can not be altered by anybody. “‘Times of Refreshing* * 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 * 9 For Hightower Recently the Lord literally op* enetl-ti'e windows of Heaven ami poured usout such a blessing at Hightower, as we have not had in many a day. Forty-five were added to the church, thirty by baptism and fifteen by letter, some of the letters were twenty-six years old, and one lady was baptised that was sixty-two. Many of the above were lead ing citizens. The pastor, who did most of the preaching, was assisted by Rev. J. C. Burrell, the people were ready and anx ious, and gave their most hearty co-operation; but we all give God the fcjory, for without Him we can do nothing. With Him all things are possible. The church has put in system atic finances and has preaching two Sundays in the month.- We have organized a B. Y. P. U. with three groups to start with. The B. Y. P. U. has thorough ly modern fixtures. Rev. R. J. Tyler, of Oklaho ma, who was with Rev. J. Fred Eden. Jr., in an enlistment and evengelistic campaign in the Hiawassee association was with us a week and very ably taught the B. Y. P. U. and Sunday School manuals, for which we arf very grateful. We have adopted the duplex envelope system On our first meeting in Nov., we are to ordain five of our mo3t worthy rtien as deacons, they are, Brothers John H. Corn, J. F. Burrell, I. W. Berreng, Samuel Deaton and Doll Denton. , J. W. Farmer, Pastor. Mr. A. J. Hamby of Clayton, came in the Tribune Office Sat urday and renewed his i Articles Not Mailable In Xmas Packages 1. All spirituous, vinous, malted fermented or other intoxicating li quors. 2. All kinds of poison and all articles and compositions containing poison. 3. Explosives of all kinds. 4. Inflammable materials, including friction matches. 5. Infernal machines and mechani cal, chemical or other devices of com positions which may ignite or explode. Note:—Under this classification would come cigarette lighters, etc. 6. Liquid or liquifiable articles, fra gile articles, and other admissable matter when not packed in accordance with the requirements of the Postal Laws and regulations. 7. All other astieles which may kill, or in any wise hurt, harm or injure another, or damage or deface or other wise injure the mails or other property. Felton Fincannon Dead Mr, Felton Fincannon died at his home at Demorest, Georgia, last Friday evening at six o’clock, after nine days’ sickness of influ enza which turned into pneumo nia. Mr. Fincannon was thirty- eight years old and was born and raised in this county and was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. James I FHncannon, formerly of this county, but now of Demorest. Mr. Fincannon was a member of the Baptist church, a Mason and an Odd Fellow, and was a Christian gentleman. He had been foreman of the trestle crew on the Tallulah Tails railroad for the past three years. He was taken ill here at Clayton and was hardly able to go home on the train. He leaves a wife and eight children, a father and mother, two sisters, Mrs. W. F. Marsen- gill of this place and Mrs. James' Dean of Clearmont, Georgia, and a host of relatives and friends. He was buried at Bethlehem Baptist church, near Clarkes ville, last Saturday afternoon. And now they tell us that Spanish influenza, despite its name, comes straight from the Orient. A name has not much significance. For instance, we have always known that German Kultur, despite its name, came direct from the devil. Franklin (N. CJ

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The Clayton tribune. (Clayton, Rabun County, Ga.) 18??-current, October 31, 1918, Image 1