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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-07
SPECIAL NOTICES
ORDINANCE NO. so.

AN ORDINANCE, Providing for the
laying OF an additional levy. for The
fiscal year, nineteen hundred seven
teen, OF ten (10) cents on each One
Hundred ($100.00) Dollars assessed
valuation of the taxable property with
in the City OF FairmOnt, as provided in
Section 70 of the Charter OF said city,
passed by the Legislature OF the state
OF West Virginia on February 20, 1913,
over and above and In addition to the
maximum levy as provided by state
law.
Whereas, it appears to the Board Of
Affairs that the maximum levy Of thir'
ty.five cents as provided in Section 4,
Chapter . of the Acts Of the extraor'
binary session of the Legislature Of the
state of West Virginia Of 1908, will not
produce sum sufficient to meet the
estimated amount required for the en-.
suing fiscal year for general municipal
purposes, and
Whereas, it is provided in Section 73
of the Charter of the City Of FairmOnt,
passed by the Legislature of the state
OF West Virginia on February 20, 1913,
that an additional levy may be laid for
current purposes, Therefore
Be 1t Ordained by the Board Of AT
fairs of the City of Fairmont:
Section /. That there shall be laid
for the current fiscal year, nineteen
hundred and seventeen, for general
purposes, an additional levy of ten Q0)
cents on each One Hundred (S1OO00)
Dollars assessed valuation of the tax
able property within the city OF Fair
mont in accordance with the provisions
of Section 73 of the charter of said city
passed by the Legislature Of the state
of West Virginia on February 20, 1913;
which said additional levy shall be
over and above and In addition to the
maximum levy of thirty-five 1851 cents
on each One Hundred ($100.00) Dollars
assessed valuation OF the taxable prop
erty within said city as provided in
Section A Of Chapter of the Acts of
the extraordinary session OF the Legis-
lature Of the state OF West Virginia
of 1908.
Passed by the Board OF Affairs Au-
gust 6, 1917.
ANTHONY BOWEN,
SILT Mayor.
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FINANCE, OIL AND Gas

farm. On Lonney fork, Geary district,
the United Fuel Gas company has
made the location for test on the r,
X. Vineyard farm. On Elk river, I'm
ion district, Clay county, the same
company is starting test on the FeIiI
J. Baxter farm.
On Jakes run. Clay district, Monou,
gala county, ]. H. McDermott G Co.
are due in the Big Injun sand at q
test on the ]. H. statler farm. On
Haddox run, Clay district, Richie
county, the High Grade OIL company
has started to drill a test on the Thos.
Griffin farm.
In a number Of districts operators
are experiencing trouble on account
Of a scarcity Of water. Unless there
Is rain In the near future good deal
Of work will have to shut down.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

ALABAMA ALFALFA LAND-Demo.
polls Section. Come down right
away, crop, fine pasture grazing Z
and 3 head to acre and grass getting
ahead. Lime lands, the kind that
puts on the scales, Plenty for sale
$40 to 65 an acres or 4 automobiles,
but notify us ahead. Write for full
information and photographs. Read
it and then come down. Your r. r.
fare refunded both ways II you find
anything misrepresented. Ticket free.
Healthy country, elevated. 1874.
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New York

NEW YORK, Aug. 7.-"RenewaI Of
trading after the stock markets
double recess was characterized by
4 relatively broad inquiry for active
stocks. Pools also found 1t easy to
ADVANCE various specialitleS, tobacco,
oils and sugar being particularly re.
sponsive at extreme gains Of 2 to 6
Steel and associated shares also
moved to higher levels, though ex.
Oeriencing irregular impairment later
on profit.taking. The war group IN
general augmented last weeks gains
With coppers, motors and utilities.
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OLD SOLDIERS TO
MEET At FAIRVIEN
Citizens Of That Town Will
be Most Hospitable to
Them.

At the last reunion Of the Marion
County Ex.Union Soldiers Association
it was decided to hold the 1917 reun'
ion in the First ward Of the City Of
Fairmont, but owing to death of sew
eral members and the illness of a
number Of those residing in the First
ward of the city, it was decided at a
late meeting Of the officers of the as
sociation inadvisable to hold the meet
ing there. The citizens Of FairView,
through Mayor Eddy, extended most
pressing invitation to the Association
to hold the reunion there, which invi'
tation was accepted and the Officers
met with Mayor Eddy and a number
of the citizens who renewed the invi'
tation VT h the assurance that they
ould put forth every possible effort
to make the reunion a success, and
cause all who attend to spend sea.
son Of enjoyment and pleasure, going
further than is customary. The com
mittee informed the officers that it is
their intention to provide all soldiers
who attend with supper, lodging and
breakfast free Of charge. The COM
mittee rendered the Association the
use Of the elegant new NJ. E. church
in which to hold business meetings
and camp fire. The ladies of the W.,
C. T. U. and the Ladies Aid Society
will serve dinner each day in the din
ing room Of the church. 1t was de-
cided to hold the reunion on Friday
and Saturday September IA, Is.
The officers OF the Association are
10. A. Billingslea, Colonel; R. E. Harr,
Lieut.. Colonel; T. N. Swisher, Major
John F. Jamison, Chaplain; Eber D.
Morgan, Quartermaster; Charles F.
Watts, Adjutant.
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Realizing Frmout and vicinity American
display holidays limited
culCuy cost in spite of the the
coed in tho few All do is
Of cnnsecryey numbered and present them at
Vfgnisn c1cs 20 cash and the Ten
cents extra for mailing u not called foT-
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Those Dear Girls.

Edith-JOsephine sings a lot when
Mr.. Spooner is calling on her,
thanksgiving to test his love, l
suppose.-Boston Transcript.
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Grain and Produce

CHICAGO, Aug. 7.-soaking rain in
Kansas and In parts Of neighbortng
states together with a forecast OF
showers yesterday over the corn belt
as a whole, gave the price Of corn
decided setback. Quotations closed
nervous, 1c 10 $1.169s December, and
$1.131a to $113% May. Wheat finished
unsettled, 2hc down at $2.25 Septem
Der, oats of IN to NC, and provl
Sions up 10945c.
Articles. Open. Close
Wheat
September ........s2.2sA 82.26
Corn
December ......... 1.1s% 1.16h
May .....'......". 1.l4h 1.l3h
September ......." .5S& .5Sh
December ........ .b0& .68&
a a
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AUTOMOBILES, ACCESSORIES

FOR SALE-Three passenger stude.
baker car, 1916 model, cylinder,
new tires, in excellent condition. A
sacrifice at low price. For iniorrna.
ton call The West Virginian.
S.2.l2t-2s65
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FOR sALB-6.room house with bath.
Big lot. Apply 3S Jefferson street,
4-20.tf No 22S5
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SAVE THIS COUPON
AMERICAN FLAG COUPON
NUMBER 90

lee coupons conecutlvely numbered office
West v-gnan With cash get beautiful Flag Axe feet
viii ewed SFtvea guaranteed fast CooTs.
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FOR SALE

FOR sALE-store fixtures consisting
of 2 floor show cases, cash register
cake can rack, oy'ter container dis
plav case, ice box, etc. Inquire Nc
Douga's Central store, East Side.
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BITS OF
STATE NEWS

D. G. Ballengee's sawmill at Clay.
ton was eating up logs on Monday aft
ernoon, when the lacing Of the belt
broke. There was no laclng at hand,
says the West Virginia News, so a trip
was made to the woods near by and
some Of the inner bark secured from a
hickory tree with which the belt was
laced. The mill then resumed opera
tons.
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ECLA ssh He'd ADVERTISER
oNEoENT. WORD CASH WITH oNpET
HOUSES ron SALE

FOR sN4E-Four room ne2se with
bath. For information call or ad'
dress A. c. Kendall, Mining Machine
Office. 3-15-tf No 2027
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FOR SALE-Hot air furnace suitable
for sISroom house, A. E. Jackson
Plumber, s-4'4tLh'o
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Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH, Aug. ION the
Pittsburgh Stock Exchange, Cruci6le
Steel common was a feature OF the
advance, gaining 6h points. PINS
burgh.Jerome was the weakest issue,
dropping lac on a large scale. The
ateei shares were the leaders locally
as United States Steel followed the
advance in Crucible and gained q
points, also! $4,000 Of Pittsburgh Coal
common certificates were sold for an
, advance Of u.
Summary.
20 A. W. G Mach zee. SAN SAN
27O Do. preferred ......lO4 1O3
100 Cable Con. Min go. :06 ,OS
1l6 Caney River Gas zee. 49 49
80 Crucible Steel ....m 25h S5h
800 Diana Mines ...." "a ~
100 Fire proof ........"
so Do. preferred ...... 10 IL
20 Ind; Brewing ..:''' ,, III ~, e
420 La Belle Iron ......l18 ll5%
10 Lone Star as 5000" 81 81
N310 Mfrs. L. & n. ...." 65 64z
$500 Mt, Shasta ...... .4S IA
a040 Ohio FuGel Supply =. 81 60
Is Oklahoma Gas ......1Ol 1O1
1000 Pgh. ConsoL ...." 10 ~
1900 P.-J. Copper 5000" - 90
10 Pgh. Coal Gifts ...." 68h 68h
421 Pgh OIL & Gas .... '61A. 6%
400 Ross M. & M. .....s IA la
10 o. Nat Gas Corp s-. .nO ITO
rs o. 8. Glass ....E... % 20
100 q. 8. Steel ........l27M l2!A
SO West Airbrake .,.,..ll4A ia
$50 West Electric $50" 4SB 4Sh
sisa ..,...
$4,000 Pgh. Coal deb. IS. ssB Ss%
SNeV high record.
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HOUSES WANTED

WANTED-To rent furnished house
Of or 6 rooms. Apply ]. s. Lynch,
care Greater Fairmont Investment
Co., Bell phone 6l9. 7.S0'2x.
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According to the Keyser Mountain
Echo Piedmont had a distinguished
visitor for eight hours the other day.
Piedmont did moth know anything
about the honor that was being con-
terred upon her, at least II she did no
mention of 1t has been made, The dis
tnguished visitor was none other than
Emma Goldman, the noted anarchist,
who was being returned from state
prison at Jefferson City, NO., to New
York, on a writ OF error granted by
United States Supreme Court Justice
Brandes, allowing her to appeal for her
conviction for conspiracy with AleXan
der Berkman to obstruct CONSUMPTION.
Piedmont did not know Miss Goldman
was within her borders and perhaps
Miss Goldman did not know 1t was
Piedmont where she was being held up
for eight hours by coal train wreck,
but Piedmont Is on the map neverthe'
less by visit from Emma.
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HOUSES FOR RENT

FOR RENT - Very desirable houses
and flats close in South Side. In
quire +, P. Kelley, Bell phone 25G'R.
5.26.tf No. 1880
FOR RENT-August tenth, SIT Cas-
ton Ave, eight rooms. Apply Geo.
H. Brobst Watson Bldg.
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ROOMS TO RENT

FOR RENT-Furnished room. Apply
2l5 Mapel Ave. Bell phone 466.W,
1886. 2G39
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80, SALE-A tract OF land contain
ing 100 acres, lying and being sIiuat-
cd in Union district Marion county.
West Virginia, IN miles from the CO.
operatioD lines Of Fairmont, Three
dwelling houses with out buildings.
Some fruit and some Pittsburgh coal.
Charles A. GalIahue Fairmont, w, Va,
RI No, s. S.7.St267S
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WANTED

WANTED-To buy house about seven
rooms and bath. Address p. 0, Box
SEA. S'2'BtSG56
WANTED-TO buy a truck farm with
Improvements, from 80 to 90 acres.
Jesse Anderson, h. +. D. 4. Box 70,
Monongah, w. Va. S-7'6t26S2
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FOR RENT-Two furnished rooms
for light housekeeping. All con-
venienCes. No children. 4SS Ia Mon
roe street. S-4.St.2664
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FARMS FOR SALE

FARM FOR SALE-160 acres Harri.
son county, s miles west Of Clarks.
burg on north western turnpike and
B. & O, Two miles off street car stop,
will be on car line when extended to
Salem. 80 acres timber, 20 acres hill
meadow. No stock on place this sea-
son. Plenty Of grass; no buildings,
some fruit. Offered at the very low
price Of $3.50 per acre, small cash
payments. Balance easy payments,
timber will almost pay the bill. Farm
must be sold. Stout & alexander
Real Eestate Co., Inc, FOL Goff Bldg,
Clarksburg, W. Va Bell phone &5S,
Consol phone 1856. 7-2S.8t 1887
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FOR SALE-Keed baby carriage,
Bell phone T9-W. S'6.St 26S0'
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FOR A NEW FARM LIST, write ].
B. Price & Co., Cortland, Ohio, OF
Warren, Ohio. S-4-26t. 1878.
FINE 800 ACRE OHIO GRAIN AND
dairy farm, with fine buildings. !
will throw in all growing crops, horses
and machinery; worth S6,000.0O and
sell this farm for $4,000 per acre and
accept $4,000 down. balance can re-
man as long as desired at IL per
cent. We will give possession, Write
Franklin PEBBLES, S47 N. Pearl street,
Columbus, Ohio. 8.7.St2679.
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The steamer Ruth, which was sunk
some time ago, has been undergoing
repairs at the Point Pleasant docks,
and she will be back in the trade this
week. The work on the repairs is
about complete, and the steamer will
soon take her old place in the trade, on
her former schedule. She is due at
this point next Wednesday.
The Monroe Watchman says that T.
NJ. Atkins raised and threshed in his
walnut Hill" farm, near keenan,, Mon
roe county, from ten acres Of land, $50
bushels of wheat-an average Of 50
bushels to the acre.
A re7assessment of coal lands in
Ohio county increasing the present as
sessment approximately 100000,
was authorized by the Ohio county
Board of Equalization and Review.
The Ohio coal lands run from Glenn's
run to the county line down from
Brooke county, thence east to the Beth
any pike continuing in the easterward-
ly direction to Elm Grove where the
largest workings OF the Elm Grove
Coal company are located. The re-as'
sessment came following reports Of
sales of coal land acreage between SIS
and 500 per acre. The re.assessment
authorized will be a graduated scale
running between $40, $50, $40 per acre.
The greatest assessment will aggre.
gate $40 and $50 an acre.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-02-08

"disavowed" the sinking of the Lusitania,
and had adequately punished" the Captain
of the murderous German submarine
1t grleves me to say that we Democrats
lied. The Kaiser has never disavowed the
Lusitania MURDERS and the punishment of
the Captain takes the shape of military
decorations placed upon his gold-laced
breast by the Kaiser himself
Did we dig up the war-hatchet when the
German embassy at Washington became the
nest of dynamiters, bomb planters, and as
sassins?
We did not.
Captain Boy-ed, Won Pappen, Consul Bopp,
Count Bernstorff could do any insolent and
criminal thing they pleased, but they could
not ruffle golf-link tranquility.
Du Pont powder works might be Ger
manized to utter demolition, and the air
filled with the dismembered fragments of
laborers blown to pieces by German plotters
1t did not matter. We played golf with
rigid regularity, accompanied by DR.. Gray
son and the beautiful second wife.
Colossal crimes against America and
Americans devastated New Jersey, the ex-
plosions causing tremor throughout the
Continent; but we played golf, dined Berns-
torf, and saw nothing wrong.
Our Ambassador at Berlin, proudly graft
CONTINUED ON PAGE FoUR.)
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we Democrats and
CHE KEPT Us OUT OF WAR;

II is burning shame that the Kaiser
couldn't wait until we Democrats rein
augurated Professor Woodrow Wilson, whom
we reelected because she kept us out of war"
One more month would have put us over
But the precipitous Kaiser, with weird
disregard Of our most delicate Democratic
susceptibilities, has punched Wilson's nose,
as it were and now our Democratic fat is in
the fire.
Imagine my feelings!
What's the matter with everything any
way?
Is Christian civilization a myth?
Is the Caucasian played out?
Are things what they seem, or has the whole
modern system sprung a Tom-Lawson leak?
I myself cannot see that the Kaiser has
done anything unusual.
One more drop in the bucket needn't raise
such a row.
as the Jew said, when a thunder storm
shook his house while he was enjoying slice
Of ham, "Who ever heard Of such a ID
racket over one little piece of hog-meat?"
The Kaiser sunk our peaceable merchant
ship, the William Frye, and we did not lose
our equanimity.
On the contrary, our own dear Democratic
Josephine Daniels invited the German pi-
rates to take pink tea with him, at our Naval
review off Portsmouth, and we entertained
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the said pirates in most elegant F. F. v man
ner, to the immense edification of 'humanityo
(The strong point with us Democrats is
our solicitous, sleepless, and monopolistic re-
gard for "humanity.')
The Kaiser sunk our gasoline tank, in mid
ocean, and when the GWzfNght went down,
she carried with her two or three American
citizens-but did we fret about it?
Not very much.
Then the Kaiser sunk the passenger-boat,
the Lusitania, slaughtering Ebert Hubbard
and lis other pacific tourists who madly as
sumed that the Kaiser-who claims to be the
Junior partner of the Trinity-wouId not
deliberately murder non-combatants, travel
ling the universal ocean.
Did we lose our equipoise over the dastardly
assassination of 119 American fathers, moth
ers, and children on the Lusitania?
Not at all. We wrote some beautifully
academic 'notes" about it; and all Europe
read those notes, with derision which could
not be prudently expressed.
Then the elections came on, and we Demo
Gratis were most anxious to win. To do so.
we were willing to tell few lies, and one of
these campaign fables put out by cur
National Committee, was to the effect, that
Professor Wilson had forced the Kaiser to
his knees on the Lustania case. We Demo-
Gratis assured mankind that the Kaiser had
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ANOTHER ROMAN CATHOLIC SECRET SOCIETY, AND
MORE PROSTITUTE PROTESTANTS

THOSE daily papers that tried so hard to
crown with success, in the Frank case,
the patriotic labors of the Haas Finance Com
mittee, the Burns Detective Agency, and the
battalion of lawyers of which Governor Sla-
ton was member are now giving free space
to most sweetly virtuous proclamation, I'M
der the headline, "CATHoLIC LAYMEN OF GEoR-
GIA TO THEIR NEIGHBoRs, IN GEORGIA."
The Athens Banner, Mr. Hugh .Rowe's pa
per, promptly gave space to this most sweetly
patriotic proclamation. [ hope some real
Protestants will take this editorial to Mr..
Hugh Rowe, and demand that he print it, and
thus give evidence Of his being as willing to
accommodate the Protestants as he was to
please the Catholics.
Of course, the Augusta, Macon, Savannah,
and Atlanta dailies will insert the popes
proclamation, just as they are continually
giving space to anything and everything in
favor of the foreign potentate who is in
sidiously assailing our system of laws and
government.
The exquisitely innocent and suavely con-
ciliatory Catholic Proclamation Is signed 6y
Fourth Degree Knights Of Columbus.
This is one of Romes many secret societies,
organized in the dark, for the purpose sup
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posedly of convincing sleepy-headed Protest
ants that Cardinal Gibbons told the exact
truth when he said that the Catholic church
had no secrets.
Gibbons is himself Jesuit, the most secret
and the most historically criminal of all the
Popes secret societies; and we must assume
that he joined this Jesuit order because there
are no secrets.
Secret orders without secrets, are peculiar
to the only church a0hoSe faced lars make for
treason, murder, corruption of morals, and
the determination of all Christians who are
not papal footkissers
One of the mountaineering names APP
pearing in the Catholic Laymen's address
''to their neighbors in Georgia" is that of A.
j. Long, of Macon.
All, yes, indeed! We remember that sweet
ly patriotic and suavely conciiatory brother.
He is the man who insulted the Episcopal
clergyman, the Rev. Augustus DAWSON,
when that politest of gentlemen-then repre-
senting The Jeffersonian Publishing Com
pany-e entered the store of the said Long, his
"neighbor," and courteously solicited business
for our Company.
In his published address to his 'neighbors
in Georgia." this lovable and love-seebing
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person, A. j. Long, declares that he and his
brother K. s of G, task our fellow citizens to
find out about u.s."
The Rev. A. DAWSON did so. He found
out about A. j. Long. He quickly discovered
IN A. j. Long bitter, intolerant, revengefuI
paplst, who had no use whatever for
Protestant.
A. J. Long now says that he and his brother
KS of c. ''reach out our hands as Georgian's
true men, for friendly, trusting, helpful re-
lationship among all her worthy sons"
How very, very soothing
How meek, and genial, and harmless we
are, to be sure
j. this the same A. j. Long who united
with the other Macon Catholic laymen, and
Threatened to boycott the Hotel Dempsey, If 1t
did not Immediately discharge Manager
Reed?
Catholic women had gone to Mr. Reed, and
demanded the use of the ballroom for
church function-possibly a euchre party, or
lottery STUNT or gim-crack fair, such as
the pope's crowd are constantly pulling off.
Mr.. Reed demurred, saying that he would
have to consult the President of the Dempsey
Hotel Company.
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-26
JUST COMMON SENSE.

gran we'll The
tilted the solution
Dor problem. than get
probably will will
ferti
andm Andth lis
We can supply you with acid and mixed goods
just you prefer. Come to
Anderson Phosphate ( Oil Company,
Anderson, S. c.
w. F. Farmer, Sec.
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Proud of OcOnee's Soldiers.

Camp Sewer, Greenville, S. c.,
Sept. II, l917.-R. T. Jaynes, Esq.
Walhalla. S. C.-Dear Mr.. Jayncs:
wish to thank you very much for
your kind invitation to be present at
the celebration to be held in honor
Of Oconee county's soldiers. I had
hoped to be with you on that occa-
sion, but my duties with q general
courtmartial, which convenes to-day,
prevents.
If you have an opportunity, please
express to the citizens of Oconee
county my deep appreciation of re-
ceiving so many Of her sons in my
company. All Of them are making
most excellent soldiers. and If those
who are now being called to the COL
ors will live up to the record made
by the Oconee boys in the Butler
Guards, your county will indeed be
proud Of the record of her sons.
/ Please assure the people of your
county that l consider 1t a great priv
ilege to command such men, and that
| pledge to them my utmost and con-
stant endeayor to care for every man
entrusted to ME.
With the sincerest best wishes, I
beg to remain,
Very truly yours,
w. d. Workman,
Cant First G e. Inf ~ n
Commanding Co. A.