The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-03-14
OLIVE SPRINGS

Miss Ludie Land of Hiram, spent
Sunday night here with her cousin,
Miss Villa Knox.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. M. Findley had as
their guests Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs.
]. F. Taylor, of Atlanta.
Little Hugh York who has been
quite sick from bronchial pneumonia,
is greatly improved at this writing
Milfor Singing Choir attended the
singing her on Sundya afternoon and
we had about as good singing as you
commonly hear anywhere. These
visits are highly appreciated by Olive
Springs Class.
Miss Flora McInnis who has been at
Nolan's Sanitarium in Marietta for
the past three weeks following an
operation, was brought home on last
Wednesday and is doing nicely at this
time.
Mrs. T. ]. Brooks and children
spent Sunday near Smyrna with re-
latives
Mrs. L. E. Dawson, of this place,
will make her home with relatives in
Marietta. We regret giving up Mrs.
Dawson from this community as she
has made her hame here so long.
We have for the past week the fol-
lowing pupils in Olive Springs school
who made 100 in the following studies
Florine White, arithmetic, reading,
spelling, geography and english.
Marguerite Daniel, arithmetic, read
ing spelling and geography. Clara
Martin, arithmetic, spelling, english,
geography and reading. Dessa Wylle,
arithmetic, spelling, english, geogra-
ply and reading. Estelle Brewer,
arithmetic, spelling, english, geopra-
ply, and reading. Earl Daniel, arith-
meitc, spelling, english, geography,
reading. Venson Daniel, arithmetic,
spelling, english and reading. Will
liam Alexander, arithmetic, spelling,
geography, reading. Deward Walker,
arithmetic, geography, reading. Lula
Grow, arithmetic, spelling, english and
geography. Glen Brooke, arithmetic,
spelling, geography, reading. Charles
Jennings, spelling and reading. Riley
Reed, spelling. Mae Brooks, spelling.
Chester Reed, spelling and reading.
Readers of the Journal will be glad
to read a letter from Mr.. Joseph Kier-
nan just from France written to Mr..
and Mrs. J. H. Thomas at this place
from Debarkation Hospital No. 3.
Sixth Avenue and 18th Street New
York City. 1t will be remembered
that Mr.. Herman made several visits
to Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas before going
to France.
New York, March 2, 1919.
Dear Mr. Thomas:
Isuppose you thought had forgot
ten you by this time but such is not
the case. I intended to write you
long ago but there was so little l
could write about while the censor
was reading my mail that l hardly
ever wrote a letter to my own folks.
l just got back from France three
days ago. We we're eight days COM
ing across. 1HcES was oOIIlO o"ANA
storms, we went way down around
the Bermuda Islands to get out of
the rough seas.
Sometimes the boat would go up
so high and then down so far that
we thought it would forget to stop
and go on to the bottom. l got in
the way of German she'll on the
morning of Oct. 8. and have been in
the hospital ever since. 1t ripped
big hole in my right leg, but by good
luck it did not break any bones. 1t
was a bad wound alright but compar-
ed to some | saw l was very lucky.
Mr.. Colepaugh was killed just few
DAYS before the war ended, he was an
officer when he got killed. Mr.. Whit
aker had the good luck to come out
without scratch. I had letter from
him since the armistice was signed.
Aside from being very lonesome for
his girl he is all right. l hope you
were we'll satisfied with the job we
did while we were in France. The
Germans were all right when they
1yara winning but. when they COM