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The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-14
Christmas Boxes
For Our Soldiers

Christmas boxes for the soldiers
in France can only be sent through
the Red Cross. Standard sized boxes
with instructions for packing then,
can be secured by friends or rela-
tives at local Red Cross room, by
November LIST. These are to be re-
turned to work room to be mailed
not later than November 18th. Only
one box to a soldier will be allowed.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-14
LETTER FROM FRANCE
LIE Mans, France,
Sept. 4, 1918.


Dear Mother:-
No doubt you think am never
going to write you, but have Just
been waiting until / have a perma-
nent address. ! have never heard
from you since I left Camp Pike.
] am well and enjoying myself fine.
| am now located at lie Mans, France,
about 1875 miles from Paris. Am
working with the supply company
in the shoe department and like my
new work much better than ] did the
infantry. ! do not know how long
| will be here, but hope I will stay
here for some time.
Have you heard from John lately?
| intended to write him, but have lost
his address. Please let me know
what it is in your newt letter, and
if possibly can l will hunt him up.
! would like so much to see him. Yes,
/ forgot to tell you that l had a
letter from my best girl yesterday,
and of course / was pleased to hear
from her. You see, we boys are
always delighted to receive letters
from home and, our friends. We
have a Y. M. C. A. here at this camp
and get to hear a lot of fine music
and good lectures, talks, etc.
Well, it is quite amusing to hear
these French people talk and to see
the different ways they have to what
| have always been used to.
| haven't learned to speak much
French yet, but | want to learn to
speak few words any way.
There are lotof pretty girls over
here and some Of them are real good
looking, too. Tell Hubert and Floyd
if they will bring the car and come
cover" | will show them around.
Well, news is scarce just now, so
I will close for this time. Write me
all the news real soon, and if shay
here | will write you more often as
my address would be permanent.
With best wishes for you all.
Your son,
CLARENCE E. DEARSTONE.
Headquarters Co., S. 0. S.,
Classification Camp A. P. O. 762,
American E, F., France.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-14
New Pledge Cards
For MiIlers

We publish today instructions to
millers, also a copy of the new pledge
card to be used by them in the fu-
ture. These cards can be bought at
The Daily Sun Office in pads of 100
each at only 25c per hundred. When
sent by mail cash must accompany
all orders.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-14
SCHOOL TO OPEN.

Miss Sterling, principal of the
school at Cedar Creek, desires to an
nounce that the school at that place
will be opened tomorrow, Tuesday,
September 18th, as planned. All
pupils take notice and be on hands
at the usual hour.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-14

If you have followed business for
80 years and don't understand II,
would it-not be good sense to quit II
and 60 at something that you can
learn? This is true of even blowing.
| have been in the Sewing Machine
business for so years, have sold and
repaired almost all kinds. Surely |
ought to know a good machine, and
DO can, and will sell you Just is
good Sewing Machine as is made
for much less than you can buy such
machine for anywhere else. Why
not save money? You haven't 1t to
throw away l don't suppose. Why
pay peddlers $2O to $50 for bringing
machine to you, when you can save
that by coming after it, or having 1t
shipped to your nearest depot. This
is no joke; come and see and
be convinced. or send for illustrated
Price Lists. Shuttles and parts for
all machines.
All kinds Of Sewing Machines
Thoroughly Repaired. My shop is
now near Mohawk, Tenn. Any ma
chimes sent to me to repair should be
sent to Mohawk, prepaid. Any ma
chimes brought to me TO repair should
be brought to me, near Mohawk, on
Knoxville wagon roao.
My postoffce is Midway, Tenn, Rt.
l. JOHN M. MCKEE.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-14
YANKS.

0'Leary, from Chicago, and first
class fghtin' man,
Born in County Clare of Kerry,
where the fentle art began;
Sergeant Dennis P. O'Leary, from
somewhere on Archie Road,
Dodgin' shells and smellin' powder
while the battle ebbed and flowed.
And the captain says: "o'Leary,
from your fghtin' company
Pick a dozen tightin' Yankees and
come skirmishin' with me;
Pick a dozen fghtin' devils, and !
know it's you who can"
And O'Leary, he saluted like first
class fightin' man.
O'Leary's eye was piercin' and
O'Leary's voice was clear;
"Dimitri Georgoupoulus" And Di-
mitri answered "Herep
Then vladimir Slaminsky! Step
three PAGES to the front,
For we're wantin' you to join us in
a little Heinie hunt"
"Garibaldi Ravioli" Garibaldi was
to share;
And cole Axel Kettlesonp and
Thomas Scalp-th -Bearp
Who was Choctaw by inheritance,
bred in the blood and bones,
But set down in army records by the
name of Thomas Jones.
cyan Wrinkle Schuyler Stuyvesantp
van WInkle was qua
From the ancient tree of Stuyvesant
and had it in his blood;
"Don Miguel de Colombow Don
MiguePs next kin
Were across the Rio Grande when
Don Miguel went in.
"Ulysses Grant O'Sheridanw Ulys-
ses' sire, you see,
And patrick Michael Casey" Pat
Had been at Appomattox near the
famous apple tree;
rick Michael, you ca ntell,
Was a fightin' man by nature with
three fightin' names as well.
"Joe Wheeler Leew And Joseph had
a pair Of fghtin' eyes;
And his granddad was Johnny, as
perhaps you might surmise;
Then "Robert Bruce MacPhersonw
And the Yankee squad was done
With Isaac Able Cohenp once
lightweight champion.
Then O'Leary paced EN- forward and,
says he: "You Yanke, fall inp
And he marched 'em to the captain.
"Let the skirmish begin.
Says he: "The Yanks are comm,
and you beat 'em if you can!"
And saluted like a soldier and first
class fghtin' man!
James W. Foley in the Saturday
Evening Post.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-14

People generally are scared--and
it may be best that they are. The
man or woman with a bad cold now
goes to bed, where ordinarily they
would pay but little attention to it
and keep right along at work. This
is why most every community is re-
porting many cases of supposed in
fuenza. We daresay two-thirds of
the cases are nothing more than Sc
we're colds. We repeat that people
everywhere are scared-and perhaps
it is we'll that they are. Good way
to wipe it out quickly.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-14
A SOLDIER OF THE KAISER.

st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A soldier of the kaiser
Had stopped bit for breath;
The air was full of cannon balls
And other sudden death.
The Germans were not winning,
AS far as he could see;
And blowing quite a little bit,
He stepped behind tree.
He heard the roar and clatter
Of guns of many types;
And far away upon a hill
He saw the Stars and Stripes.
1t looked like time for moving,
The same as he had done;
And turning tail upon the foe,
He started on the run.
II don't know what has happened,
He said as he resumed.
"For all / know the fatherland
And all of us are doomed.
AS like as not Won Ludendorff
Has pulled some sort of bone:
But that is for the generals"
He muttered with<a groan,
"For me single question:"
He rambled as he ran;
"a little thing that we'll becomes
A simple fighting mhn.
They do not have to tell me
What caused our present fight;
But who in hell was it that said
The Yankees couldn't fight?"
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-14

PUMPKINS FOR SALE by the
wagon load. See Edgar Ellenburg.
172-3t
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29
CHRISTMAS PARCELS.

Atlanta, Ga, November 16, 1918.
In order to insure the receipt of
a Christmas parcel by every single
man in the American Expedition
ary Forces, the War Department
has extended the time of mailing
for overseas packages until Novem-
ber 80, and has authorized the
American Red Cross to have print
ed sufficient additional Christmas
labels exactly similar to those re-
ceived from abroad to issue to those
families who have not received the
labels which were distributed TO
the men abroad. In many cases
these labels have been lost in tran
sit and the new ruling provides
that the nearest relative of each
man in the American Expedition
ary Forces may obtain from the
Red Cross Chapter duplicate
label provided the original has
not arrived by November 81.
Applicants for these duplicate
labels should make a written state
ment to the effect that he or she is
the nearest living relative in the
United States of the man to whom
the package is to be sent, that he
or she has not received a label
from abroad, that should such a
label be received it would not be
used and that to the best of his or
her knowledge and belief only one
package will be sent to the propos-
ed recipient.
This extension of the time limit
and the issuing of duplicate labels
absolutely insures a Christmas
package to every man in the SER
vice in Europe. The Southern
division is now having these labels
printed and they will be distributed
to chapters with full instructions
by November 81.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29
A WORD TO SUBSCRIBERS

Through oversight, no doubt, a
few subscribers have failed to keep
their subscriptions paid up, and we
wish to call their attention to two
reasons why it is necessary that
this be done.
l. 1t takes money to run a news
paper.
2. The Government will not al
low subscribers carried who let
their subscription become delin-
quent.
We have had a ready response
from the greater part of these de-
linquents, but there are still few
who have not paid what is due.
We wish to state that we can not
afford to lose these accounts simp-
ly because we are forced to remove
them, and will be compelled TO
place the accounts in the hands of
collecting agency for settlement,
We would dislike very much to do
this, but after giving this notice
no one will have cause to censure
us for it.
Hoping that those who know
their subscriptions and other &C.
counts are due and past due will
Immediately come in and settle,
We are very truly,
The CHRONICLE.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29
ROBERTS LED TICKET.

Nashville, Tenn November %.
Official returns received by the
Governor and Secretary of State of
the November election show that
in 81 of the Sc counties Albert II.
Roberts, Democratic nominee for
Governor ledthe ticket with 92,53S
votes. Lindsey, Republican NOM
inee received 5l,944 votes making
Judge Roberts majority in the So
counties 1854.
John X. Shields for United
States Senator received in the 81
counties 9l,95l votes to 52,666
votes received by Fl. Clay Evans,
Republican nominee, a majority
for Shields of 39,3O5 votes. Har-
vey FL. Hannah, for Railroad Com
missioner, received in the 81 coun-
ties 87,0O0 votes against 52,926
votes received by Taylor, the Re-
publican nominee, majority for
Hannah of 1928.
One hundred aud fourteen thous-
and, six hundred and thirty-twe
votes were polled in the Senatorial
race; l44, ,482 votes in the contest
for Governor and 140, 1884 votes for
Railroad Commissioner.
The FIVE counties which have
not reported are Knox, Cooke and
Carroll, Republican, and Lawrence
and Henry, Democratic.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29
THE SLEEPLESS WHEELS

Thinking in millions (of men)
costs US no effort now. When the
administration gave notice that a
million men had crossed the At
lantic we experienced variety of
thrills. Then we got used to the
idea and the news of 100000
left US tranquil.
When we learned that a large
part of our contingent were nom
combatants certain oversensitive
people felt degree Of mortifica-
tion. The star-spangled feeling
was cooling off.
These oversensitive ones would
feel more chesty if they could see
the noncombatants at work. Less
than year ago there was an un-
reclaimed swamp near a French
port. Your Uncle Sam has drained
it covered it with a series of work
shops bigger than the Capitol at
Washington and out of it he throws
high caliber guns like sausages out
of Chicago. He stacked machine
guns on freight cars like an ele-
vator vomiting grain and away
they went to the front. And many
of his larger guns contain about
5000 parts.
In another he found workmen
quarrying by hand to prepare con-
crete roads to the trenches. He
installed mechanical excavators
and on the fourth day was loading
cars as fast as they could be haul
ed.
Up and down France he build
Pittsburgs and Betblehems from
which Pershing drew his supplies
in ceasless food. And in the
Krupp works at Essen where ex.
hausted serfs toiled vainly to keep
up the pace, they learned from him
what a real war is like.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29
AMERICAN CASUALTIES.

Washington, November 23-The
total casualties in the American
expeditionary forces up to the
signing of the armistice were
divided as follows:
Killed and died of wounds, &c.
l54; died of disease, 14,81l; died
from other causes, 2,204; wounded,
l79,625; prisoners, 2,163; missing,
1,16O.
The American forces in France,
General March said, had taken
44,000 German prisoners in round
numbers and 1,400 guns. General
March added that the casualties
among the American forces in ac-
tion in Russia were rot severe,
contrary to reports, and that en-
couraging accounts of the situa-
ton of the forces there had been
received.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29
DISTILLERY DETROYED.

William Lefers and s. L. Holt
deputy revenue officers from the
Nashville office, accompanied by
ex-Sheriff N. G.. Kirk, went out to
thetwenty-fourth district last Tues
day and raided an Illicit distillery.
John W. Hickman drove them ont
in his car.
The still was in operation and its
owner, Tom Edwards, was busily
engaged making booze. Mr.. Ed
wards was placed under arrest and
the plant destroyed.
The still was located about three
miles northeast of Westport near
the road leading to Holiday and
was about one-half mile from Mr.
Edwards home. The officers found
about seven hundred gallons OF
mash, about fifteen gallons of sing
Tings, two bushels of meal at the
still, and at his home they found
about fifteen bushels of meal and
nearly two gallons ofliquor.
Everything about the still was
destroyed, the shed being burned
and the mash poured out.
Edwards was brought to town
and carried before United States
Commissioner A. M. Lee Wednes.
day morning and bound over to the
April term of the Fedral Court
His bond was fixed $3.50
The officers brought to town the
worm, which was practically new
and said to be a very fine one and
it was turned over to Mr.. Kirk TO
keep through the night. During
the early part Of the night, while
out from under the vigilant eye of
the ex-Sheriff some one stole il
away and at this writing it has not
been located.-Ths Carroll County
Democrat.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29

The Pennsylvania farm bureaus,
working with a number of hog
raisers, have used feeding expert
ments conducted by the Pennsyl-
vania State College to demonstrate
that at least one-half of the grain
feed bill in raising hogs can be
saved by providing green feed
throughout the growing season.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29

Over six thousand county agent
workers were employed to help the
great land army of this country to
produce and conserve food during
ing the six months from January l
to July l, according to a recent re-
port made by the United States
Department of Agriculture.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29

Don't ask The Chronicle for
sample copies. In order to con-
serve print paper the Government
has practically put ban on sam
pie copies by charging extra post
age. Furthermore, the Govern
ment prohibits free copies except
those mailed to advertisers for
checking purposes.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29
Resent Inquisition.

A mother went into footwear
shop to buy pair OF shoes for her
little son, who accompanied her.
An assistant came briskly for
ward and, learning that shoes were
wanted for the boy, looked at his
Feet intently for moment.
"French kid?' be asked.
"'Tis none of your business
whether he be French or Irish" +"
flashed the mother. 81 want a pair
,,f shoes for 'im." The Pearson e
Weekly.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29

The man or woman, the boy or
girl, who reads and appreciates
good books is blessed beyond the
average. OF the things of this life
that make for unalloyed happiness,
first on the list is the love of a
good beck.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29

The Committee on Public Lands
of the Senate has unanimously re-
ported in favor of a bill appropria-
ting million dollars to make sur
veys of farms fcr returning SOL
diers.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29

Mail orders for cards of thanks
must be accompanied by 81 when
notice is not over ten lines. Add
10 cents for every six words over
ten lines. Caption aud signature
count three lines.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29

Farmers, don't sell your crop.
Buy live stock and feed your grain
Il you want to get more money out
,,f your labor than you can any
ether way. Don't let an ear OF
rorn or sprig of hay leave the farm
4,nless it goes out on four legs.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29
THANKSGIVING

After more then four years of
war, in which millions of the best
young men of the world have been
Slain and hundreds of thousands
'f families have been broken up,
1'tere is now in the breasts of all
americans and of the people of
those friendly nations with whom
Americans have felt proud to be
associated, the swelling sense of
kAp attitude to God. They all know
b,'ow that the end of the horror is
ar hand and that it is to come
through victory.
We give thanks to God this year
f>r his victory, no less than for our
victory. He has vindicated the
principles of right and justice in
our universe. We thank Him FOR
,,niteing the forces for righteous
; less upon earth and for giving
them leader before whose genius
,he greatest armed hosts ever
gathered together crumbled and
Fell away. We thank him for in
spring onr armies in the field
with the resolute courage that has
made them efficient instruments in
3 the hands of the leaders. We
thank Him for giving to the people
al home the full understanding that
has made them determined to en-
force a peace with victory. We
thank Him for arousing in the
hearts of all the great free peoples
OF the world spirit of brother
hood that is the guarantee of last
ing peace. For the righting OF
ancient wrongs and the unfolding
OF new hopes we give our most
: humble and hearty thanks this
year.
Yet day of such thanksgiving
Acan hardly be day of exurberant
er"joicing. 1t can hardly be such a
day as the Thanksgiving Days
that we used to know, when kith
orsnd kin gathered together and at
&tle table there was no empty chair
There are many empty chairs
this year and many to which nc
s,ldier will return. The shadow
OF the war lies across many hearths
However earnestly We give thanks
For the blessings that the victory
will confer, we can not forget that
there is today more pain and sor-
row in the world than there has
ever been before. It must be with
ssddened hearts that we give
thanks, even those Of us who
< through fortunes chance, have
| bsen most untouched by the war
Our Thanksgiving this year must
he less personal and more truly
eoiritual than it has been on pas
Thanksgiving Days-The Youths
Companion.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29

The war has trained the Germans
to be splendid athletes. At least
they are particularly good in run
ming
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29
A PROCLAMATION BY
GOVERNOR 7. c. RYE

ht du ouu anu we WoIfu lS dBdlu AT
peace. Soon there will be return
ing from battle front of glorious
achievement hosts of our men whom
welcoming hearts will greet as they
march with drums beating and
flags flying. In the fields of France,
in cross-marked graves, lie others.
Bravely they fought, nobly they
died, willingly they laid down their
lives for the sake of humanity.
These we will not forget.
But they are not all-they who
come marching home in the full
strength of manhood, and they who
sleep on European fields.
There are others also, whom we
can not forget, who do not sleep in
the fields of France, but yet, who
will not return marching-our dis
abled soldiers and sailors who must
continually pay the price of our
victory through each day of their
lives. Manned and broken and
blind they return to US, demanding
not charity nor pity, but one of the
many obligations we owe them,
help translated into effort to re-
build and renew what has been
broken on the wheel of war.
Since the war began, thousands
of men of the allied armies have
been blinded. Liberal provision
has been made for our own maim-
ed and blind, and it is necessary
that we re-educate and rehabilitate
the allied blind as we'll. Every
blind man is an individual problem,
and to set him again upon the road
to self-support and renewed ability
requires patience care and money.
There are already established in
Europe, hospitals, vocational train
ing schools and supply depots for
raw material. These agencies are
being used for our own men until
they are ready to be sent home.
Recognizing the economic and
social necessity of caring for these
men in this way, the Committee of
the Permanent Blind Relief War
Fund for Soldiers and Sailors of
the Allies is raising d fund to carry
on this work. This committee has
already contributed 800, 900 to the
Government Hospital at Baltimore
through the American Red Cross
and in giving our support to the
Permanent Blind Relief Fund, W e
are solving what has been charac-
terized as the cruelest and most
perplexipg problem growing out of
the war.
Therefore, in pursuance of the
plans of the State Committee Of
the Permanent Blind Relief Fund, g,
l, Tom G. Rye, Governor of Ten
nessee, do hereby proclaim Sunday,
December Is, Allied Blind Relief
Day, when the people of Tennessee
are asked to contribute to this fund.
This appeal should have hearty
response in every community.
Certainly we will not fail in our
obligation to the men who have
sacrificed the precious gift of eight
that the world might henceforth
have peace. Plunged into all ab-
solute and endless darkness, at the
very threshold of life, they grope
for the light that can only come
through the re-education that is
made possible by the institutions
that this fund maintains.
In witness whereof, | have here
unto subscribed my name on this
the 23d day of November, 1918,
and caused the great seal of the
State to be affixed hereto.
Tom G.. RYE.
Governor
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1918-11-29

alt is hard to make woman un-
9lerstand that the more she tries to
hide her age the more she shows IT,
milwaukee, Sentinel
New-York tribune., 1918-03-21
Wilson Wins
First Fight on
Overr11an Bill
Senate Committee Votes
to Report Measure,
IL to 7
By c. w. Gilbert

WASHINGTON, March 20.-Thc
Senate Judiciary Committee to-day re-
ported favorably the Overman bill
The vote in the committee was II
to Z. Three Republicans, Senator'S
Borah, Colt and Nelson, voted in favor
of the report. Two Democrats, Hoke
Smith and Reed, voted against it.
The bill, as it comes out of commit
tee, is not amended in any essential
particular, except so far as the power
given TO the President to create new
administrative agencies is stricken out.
This amendment was agreed to by the
Administration early in the discussion
over the bill. Evidently the power to
make that particular change is not es-
sential to the purpose, which the Presi-
dent has in mind.
One amendment adopted BY the COM
mittee provides that in case the
President should conclude that any bu-
reau should be abolished he should rc-
port his conclusions to Congress with
his recommendations This amend
ment was introduced by Senator Borah,
who believes that great gain will come
from abolishing bureaus and consoli-
dating their functions with those of
other bureaus.