Cleburne County AlArchives News.....Newspaper Abstracts for JULY 1918 July 1918 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net April 24, 2005, 8:42 pm The Cleburne News July 1918 NEWSPAPER ABSTRACTS FROM "THE CLEBURNE NEWS", Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama for JULY 1918 NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, July 4, 1918 CLEBURNE BOY ON FRONT LINES Dear Editor, I am mailing you a letter copied from one just received from my nephew, Jabe Currie, who is serving his country on the battle front in France. His friends and relatives would be glad to read it. This boy was born and reared in Cleburne county near Riddle's bridge and is a noble young man, being a volunteer and served on the Mexican border for about a year. Yours truly, F.P. Moore The letter follows: Dear Cousin, I will try to answer your letter I received a few days ago. I was more than glad to hear from you. I was in the front line when I received it and believe me, these germans will entertain the most of men and they are very entertaining too. But I will try to enjoy myself as much as possible, "try always to be happy" is my motto. Give my grandpa my best regards. I will try to do my bit but if I don't last that long that is all ok. I hope to get a few of them before they get me. I have already done as much as the average man has done and expect to be above average some time soon. Well, I guess I had better close as the shells are falling pretty close by and they make alot of noise too. Well, I will say goodbye, with love from your sincere cousin, Corp. Jabe Currie, American E.F., Co. I 167th Inf. ____ LOCAL News Mr. Criss Nichols and family of Birmingham were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B.T. Foster last week. __ Pvt. Walter Beason of Camp Gordon spent Sunday with relatives at Beason Mill. __ Mrs. V.A. Cook is very ill at her home with typhoid fever. __ Mrs. Mollie Burgess has returned home from West Point, N.Y. where she attended the wedding of her son, Lt. H.O. Burgess. __ The condition of Mr. S.L. Tolleson who is ill with typhoid fever is unchanged. __ J.H. Hamrick, Emil Newton and Lorren and J.G. Cheatwood will leave on the 9th of this month for Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi to go into military training. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, July 18, 1918 IN MEMORY OF CHARLIE AYRES Charlie Ayres was born November 13, 1896 and departed this life June 13, 1918. He had been to Sellers hospital nearly four weeks before he died where he underwent an operation. He was very low at the first but grew better and got where he could knock about the room and his friends thought he would soon be at home, but alas, he suddenly grew worse and it was necessary for another operation, after which his condition became more serious until the end came. Charlie was conscious until the last, only a few moments at a time, and he knew his friends as they visited him. He was not a member of any church but told his sister-in-law that he was "going home" which should be a great consolation to his bereaved relatives. He was an obedient son, a loving brother and is greatly missed by his loved ones and friends. Charlie said for all boys to quit drinking and go to sunday school which should be heeded by his friends. He leaves a father, mother, three sisters and three brothers, all living and attended the funeral except one brother who is in France. Two of his brothers and sisters were with him when the time came. Four Friends. ____ FOURTH OF JULY SINGING The Annual Sacred Harp Singing Convention which convenes at Heflin each year on the 4th of July, was opened at 10 o'clock by M.F. McWhorter, with prayer by Rev. G.B. Boman. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: M.F. McWhorter, Chairman W.M. Evans, Vice-Chairman Ludie McWhorter, Secretary J.W.L. Newton, W.C. McMahan and Millard Brooks, arranging committee ___ LOCAL News Leander Evans of Hugo, Oklahoma is here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Evans. __ NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, July 25, 1918 LOCAL News Pvt. W.L. Groover returned to Camp Wheeler on Tuesday after spending a five day furlough with his parents at Beason Mills. __ Miss Erna Powell of Ashland is the guest of her sister Mrs. C. C. Jenkins this week. __ Mr. Willie Harris, formerly of this place, but who has been with the Gulf States Steel Company at Gadsden for some time, had a narrow escape from death on Thursday of last week, when he was struck by a large crane used in handling heavy material about the plant. The operator who was handling the crane, in some manner, lost control of the machine which struck Mr. Harris below the knees and badly bruising him but fortunately no bones were broken. He was removed to the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Harris here in Heflin where he is resting as well as could be expected. His friends hope to see him out soon. ____ LETTER FROM OKLAHOMA Dear Cleburne People, It has been several months since we have been in your midst, and thought we would write and send our sentiments on this awful war. People, we simply state we must win this war and of course we will. Just think, our fathers, brothers, husbands and sweethearts have sacrificed their homes and some their lives for our freedom and we must do our bit at home and that with a willing heart. We are living mostly on corn bread, butter and milk but we are perfectly willing to do this to help win this terrible war. I, Dora Bell, haven't any brothers that were old enough to register but have some very dear cousins and friends in the Army, and I, Maud, have four brothers that registered and have one very dear brother with the A.E. F. in France and have two with the Aero Squadron now stationed at Camp Green, N.C. and have one brother that hasn't gone yet, he is in class 2. For pasttime on Sunday we go to preaching and sunday school and some times on Sunday afternoons we go to kodaking on the Wichita Mountains. We have lain our crocheting and tatting down and taken up knitting which we think is more important as there is a demand for sox, sweaters and helmets for our soldier boys. Our mother have knitted five sweaters, one helmet, three pair of wristlets and fifty pair of sox. We would have liked to have been in Heflin on the 4th. We often think of those good old sacred harp singings that we used toenjoy back there. They do not have sacred harp singings here. Dora Bell and Maud Shockley, Snyder, Oklahoma, Rt. 1 ___ 32 MEN LEAVE FOR TRAINING CAMP Thirty-two men left Heflin on Wednesday afternoon for Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia, to go to military training for overseas duty. Their names are as follows: Chas. E. Wheeler Lewis Byers Jesse Griffin Houston L. Haymon John R. Robertson Geo. A. Knott Ben F. Rowell Levi B. Teague Henry Ashley Emil J. Dahl Dave Pruitt Geo W. Smith Lewis Green Wm. L. Willingham A.P. Gaines Ellis Hall Sanford Rollins Clifton McCully Lewis Vaughan Solomon Dickeson A.F. Norton Wm. Brand John G. Cheatwood Robt. Moore Jas. Martin John J. Morgan Asa E. Ellis A.B. Hinds ? Davidson Cleveland Morrison Melvin A. Crews John R. 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