TAZEWELL COUNTY, VA - NEWSPAPERS - Clinch Valley News, 6 Sep 1918
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"Clinch Valley News"
Tazewell, Tazewell, Co., VA
Friday, September 6, 1918

HELPING TO WIN WAR

Editor the News:
I noticed in your paper today that subscribers who are in arrears would
be dropped from your list on Sept. 15th. As I don’t want to do without
The Old Chinch Valley News I hasten to send you (a) check for $3.00 so
please boost me up a couple of years.

I certainly hope Old Tazewell will go over the top in the W. S. S.
drive. We are taking $250.00 worth. We also took $350.00 of the 3rd
Liberty Loan. And expect to take $1,000.00 of the next loan. In fact, we
are doing all we can to back up our Government in the present crisis. I
would consider it a disgrace to the people of Tazewell should she fall
down on anything that our Government asks for during our present war.

Very truly yours,
D. D. BAKER

[W. S. S was a War Savings Stamp program initiated to help our country
in WW I. Tazewell County, Virginia made itself and all of its citizens
proud in  both WW I and WW II for all the work it did as is chronicled
in the "Clinch Valley News" of those years.  Dudley Davis Baker, s/o
James William Baker & Fannie Ellis (Baker) Baker, was a man of honor, an
upstanding/outstanding and patriotic member of the Tazewell County
community. However, few people were able to donate as much money as D.D.  
Baker.  D.D. Baker was certainly an unsung hero of WW I. The "Clinch
Valley News," ran column after column of young men registering, from
Tazewell Co., VA., to take up arms to defend our country ].


Karen EAGLE Moman
arizonaeagle@qwest.net
July 6, 2002


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