The Robesonian., 1918-04-01
WITH AUNT BECKY
Increasing Acreage to Food Crops
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Song.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Old Fork (Maxton, R. y, March 26
"A heavy rain, accompanied by con-
siderable electric display, visited this
section on Saturday night of last
week, which left the earth saturated,
and retarded cotton planting and plow-
ing.
Many of our farmers are through |
planting corn, and are ready to put
in the staple crop. In consequence
of war conditions, and the vital i'm
portance of producing food and forage
our people are responding to the OBJ
vious needs, by increasing the grain
acreage and paying more attention to
| the raising of the smaller food crops.
Gardens, potatoes, chickens, etc, are
also receiving due attention, and if
the Eastertide spares the fruit, the
present prospect is bright for an
! In a late issue Of The Robesonian,
/ was susprised and pleased to note
that my simple little letters to your
paper had given some enjoyment to a
| Robson soldier boy stationed in Ken
tucky. God bless our brave soldier
| boys everywhere and the dear, anx-
ious hearts of the loved ones at home.
l know of nothing that could afford
me more genuine pleasure than an
opportunity to contribute, even in
small measure, to the pleasure of our
young heroes.
From my experience and recollec-
tion Of the Civil War, l conjure the
home folks and friends of our boys
to write to them often, and do not
be chary in the length of them. The
time thus spent can not be devoted
to more worthy cause, and every
little incident or occurrence from the
old home will be interesting, and
cheering to them. l learned this dur
ing the SOS, when our boys on the
plains of Virginia would plead for
letters and news from home. i have
now in my possession good batch Of
letters written by several of our con-
federate boys, from various military
divisions. Most of these were written
on the fly leaves Of books, scraps Of
coarse brown paper, or any fragment
available for the purpose, it being ut
terly impossible at that time to pro-
. cure decent writing material Even
the envelopes were made of the rough
est variety of brown paper, which de-
fled the use of pen and ink, and only
pencil mark was possible. But the
contents of these letters breathe only
the spirit Of bravery, cheerfulness
and loyalty which animated the hearts
of our Southern heroes from start to
finish. The same blood courses the
veins of our boys in khaki, and they
will make the same glorious record
across the seas.
A beautiful service flag, donated by
our pastor and wife, Dr. and Mrs. 0
tG. Heller, was publicly presented te
the Smyrna Sabbath school in that
church on Sunday a. M, the Oath inst
Upon the white center were showr
four blue stars, representing the fou1
splendid young men, members OF tha
Sabbath school from early life, wht
had recently gone out to serve theil
country, viz: Messrs. Archie Mc1n
tyre, w. H., H. A., and Dan Stewart
Messrs. Mcintyre and Dan Stewar
are at Camp Jackson, and the tw'
I
training for the quartermasters de
partment at Hampton Roads, Va.
Your correspondent Mr.. H. c. Eden
of Purvis recently suggested that tn
Il boys and girls might be pleased 70
II me to write some confederate "wa
il SONGS" None of them have as ye
II made any solicitations, but | have de
cided to give them one which my hus
Il band loved to sing, and from whom
learned both words and beautiful tun
II but could never equal his sweet, mele
dious voice in the singing Of it:
\ ..THE RED, WHITE, AND BLUE
H On the banks of the Potomac
There's an army so grand,
Il Whose object is to subjugate
Dixie's fair land,
Il They started to Richmond,
But little they knew,
How the Rebels would fight
Under the Red, White and Blue.
Ill CHORUS
II Hurrah! hurrah! We are a natic
II that's true,
Il And we1l all die fighting for the Re
II White and Blue.
We had little fight
II On the tenth of last June,
i Magruder at Bethel
4 Whipped out 'Picaqune."
We commenced in the morning,
And fought until two,
And glory waved over
The Red, White and Blue.
CHORUS
On the twenty frs tof last July
A trip down to Richmond
The Yanks thought