The Future citizen. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1914-????, July 22, 1916, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE 6 THE FUTURE CITIZEN. From Our Newest Paroled Boy My dear Captain : I am writing you the first thing after I got home I got here all O. K. and I am doing alright and aim to keep on. My uncle says he will see about it. I am going to work and I am going to stick to it. You will not hear anything else from me but doing the right thing. I sure do appreciate all you have done for me, and also getting out and I aim to stay out. Tell all of their, hello for me and give the officers my best regards. Truly your fiiend, Ivey Hutto. From Our Old Time Chief Cook Dear Professor Lovvorn : It is with greatest of pleasure I take time to write to you. I was so glad to hear from you after so long a time. Please write to me as soon as you get this. I hope you all had a nice time the fourth of July and also Christ mas ; I sure did. I am working in the mill and doing well. I go to church and Sunday School every Sunday. 1 hope you all still have a good Sunday School. Tell all the boys I said write to me if there is any there that was there with me. I sure would be glad to heir from there. Tell them ail to hurry up and get out and then show the people they can be a mar. and stay out. Excuse haste and mistakes. Yours truly, Marion Andrews. From A Cordele Boy Dear Mr. Lovvorn : I will write you a lew lines to let you know I am well and doing well. 1 filled out all the report blanks you gave me and sent them in and I reckon it was alright. They never sent me any mote and I never heard any more about it. Tell all the boys I have been do ing fine in school and hope them the same. Tell them to write to me. My sister takes the Future Citizen and I like to read about the old G. S. R. I am glad to see so many of ihem going home and wish them the best of success, also all the officers and you and your family. I will close for this time. Yours truly, Abner Kiee. Another Note From The Texas Border Kind friend : I will answer your kind letter which l was surprised and glad to receive some time ago, I thought everybody there had done forgot me way out here on the Texas border. I wrote back once since I have been out here but never Heard from any of you till I got your letter and the paper. I would have answered right back but was waiting for the man to finish my pictures so I could send you one but they are not much good at last. Well, I went back from G. S. R. and stayed one year at my home in Dalton; but when the panic shut down so many jobs I decided to try a new country. 1 like out here first rate, when I first got here everybody was stran gers to me, but it didn’t make any difference, A stranger can get a job here just as quick as anybody else if he will work and if he is a bum he has to move on pretty quick. Say, do you ever hear from G— F—? I hear he is not doing well at all. I guess you know about it, L am mighty sorry, but not surprised. Well, I am glad so many of the boys are gone home and hope they do well. Seems like they all like to join the army. I wanted to join but they would not take me on on account of my lame leg : but I can outrun any soldier in the com pany. Say do you ever hear from Fred Webb and Philip Boothe and the little Reed boy? They all did so well at G. S. R. I would love to know how they held out after they went home. Write and tell me about all the boys that were mere with me, I would love to hear from- them. If any of them is there now I want them to write to me. Your friend and ex pupil LaFayktte McCrary. “Few friends in this wide world, Are faithful and true. And when you come to count them, Count me among the blue.” L. B. M. From Our Old Foreman, In Storm-Swept Pensacola Dear sir : I suppose you are beginning to to think something of me for not writing you yet like I promised. I wanted to wait until I had landed something to do before I wrote you. I got a job as delivery boy at the Western Union on the fourth, Mr. Gray furnished a bicycle and then I was ready to write—and did. I mailed the letter that night and think it got as far as the depot next morning—the 5th. It never got any farther for the storm prevented the trains from running so I have the letter before me as I write. The trains are running again and I am sure this letter will get to you. I am getting the Future Citizen regular and am glad to learn that Cecil is back in the printshop. I see that the boys are wanting to go to Mexico—They’re patriotic, those Georgia boys. We had a. preparedness parade here on the fourth. The paptrs say there were five thousand in it, but really there were not over three thousand. As it was quite the big gest parade I have ever seen. It was a good thing the storm waited one day longer so we could have the parade. I tried to get a job is the print ing offices here but could not some of them were even working the short hours as they did i.ot have enough work to keep them going over 6 hours a day, but I left my application in every one of them. To-morrow is my pay-day and I will draw about twelve dollars. I would not have made so much if the storm had not come. .We had to ride our wheels through the storm and the wind blew me down several times vhen I would-come to the corners. After the storm we had a rush and had to work day and night. I see in the papers where the storm hit the Atlantic coast. I wish you would write and let me know if you felt it there. Please tell the boys I am doing weil-I know they can not be doing very bad there, lam certainly glad f o hear what I can of them through the papers. Hoping the officers, you and your family and the boys arc well and doing fine. Yours ever Harry J, Wallrcb.