Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-01-09

iun can do most anything, from patch
IA up busted matrimonies 10 putin
lce Ia the family refrig. Cnrl Wall
burger was busted up when he heara
be was p-goin' 10 lose the little house
he an his frau had most paid for
cause they couldn't dig up the interest.
| The Red Cross Man wrote to somebody
an one day Carl was a-smilin' all over
his Dutch phis, cause he'd got letter
sayin' he could pay the interest when
he'd cracked Kaiser Bills strong box
Carts United States II he is Dutch. He
wuzn't aroun' when they picl ed HE
name. Motors don't go dead when he's
given them the once over"
"There's that Red Cross on that UNI
brella."
"Bet y'ur neck. The NJ. Ps wuz get
tin their kulfus dried up. standin' out
In the sun keepin' the trucks from
a-gettin' jammed TT the crossln's. The
Red Cross Man got umbrellas an put
em on those platforms, an now the
II. Ps amt afraid o. loosin' their think
boxes an are all scrappin' for shady
crossin' job. He's always doin' some
thin for the boys. Last winter, when
we most froze stiff, he got fifteen thou
sand blankets, an sweaters, an muf.
hers an gloves, an sox, to keep US
warm. They say he worked four days
an nights fore he got US warm and
feelin' timber. Last Xmas he give US
dandy boxes of stuff, candy an the
makin's, an q lot of stuff. Made Us
| feel like ole Santa hadn't passed us
up but had come a-slidin' down our
tent pole"
Helped Him Out Then.
"Where'd you learn to know him?"
"Iim and me got real chummy last
spring when wuz in the hospital aft
err that propeller blade mussed me UP
some. He'd come aroun' to see me
most every day. Always had some
! thin to say that made me fee better.
Why, the nurse'd get SO she'd bring
me that damned hospital cocktail when
he wuz there, cause she knowed I'd
take it without cussin'."
"a cocktail an you cussin'? Quit
your kiddin'i"
"There you go again, shown what
you don't know. Mike, my boy, hos
pital cocktail is just plain straight
castor oil, without any water as a
chaser. Take it from me an stay
away from them docs at the hos
pital or you'll get one O. them cock
tails. The nurse tole me they most
run out of the burned stuff one day,
an the next batch had got tied up with
red tape an couldn't get in. She said
the patients wnz all a-gettin' sick
cause they get well to keep from get
tin item cocktails, but the Red Cross
Man went out an bought hogshead
or two and the patients began to get
we'll again, SOS they could do without
their toddy. She tole me mustn't hold
1t agin the Red Cross Man tho, cause
the docs tole him to get 1t, an that
he gave right smart nicer things to the
hospital than them burned cocktails
1t makes me cuss to think about 'em.
Well, I wuz a-tellin' you how me anu
him got chummy. He saw couldn't
write, account my bum wing, an he
| asked me If didn't want him to write
my letters. had him write to moth
er an. after we'd got acquainted. !
asked him to write to Nellie, my best
| girl back home. reckon he thought /
wuz some mush on her all right, but
he never said nothin'; just put 1t down
like l toie him. He looked funny
aroun' the eyes sometimes. but I
reckon he wuz happy cause we wuz
writin' to my Nellie. When the docs
let's me go, / wun't good for nothin'
an wanted to go home till got strong,
but didn't have the coin for the fare
all the way up to Indiana. But darn
my cats, that Red Cross Man got me a
leave an then loaned me the cash to
! 60.
Paying Back Loan.
"He didn't charge me no interest
neither. I got 1t most all paid back
now, but he amt pushin' me Zone for
1t. Nell says she's a-goin' to kiss the
Red Cross Man first chance she gets
Well, reckon he's the only bird about
this post she's got my o. X. to kiss II
she's got the nerve. The Red Cross
Man says he can stand it, If she can
That's his quarters over there with the
red roof and the sign out I'm front. He's