McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1919-08-01

an intense admiration for the Amer
ican doughboy, and cannot praise his
heroism and manhood enough. /
wanted to learn something Of her
history and her work, and at last
learned the following:
Ruby Kendrick was born at Rose
Creek, five miles northwest of Bethel
Springs. q didn't ask her when, but
it certainly couldn't have been long
ago. Her father, as stated. was
BUD Williams, and her mother was
Mary Cooksey by maiden name. Her
brother Joseph Williams is the owner
of one of the largest farms in West
Tennessee, and is ticularly noted
for the coon hounds he has raised on
his place, although he is said to be an
all-round farmer of marked success.
His plantation, embracing several
thousands of acres, lies little over
six miles west of Selmer, on the Bol-
ivar road. She was married to Wall
ter Fl. Kendrick, a real estate and in
surance agent, in New York City Elk
years ago; he died about three years
ago, and Mrs. Kendrick has made her
home here most Of the time since.
Mrs. Kendrick left home when a
young girl and went to Valdosta,
Georgia, where she took a two years
course at Halcyon Sanitarium. She
graduated there and went to Nash
vile as a trained nurse and did nurs-
ing; went as nurse for private par
ties to New Mexico, and it was at
Albuquerque, capital Of that state,
that she met her future husband.
When the war came on she offered
her services to the American Red
Cross Society and was put to work at
Camp Merritt and Burlington, vt.
Later she was at the Crehaut hospit-
al, 18th street and 9th avenue, in
this City, where wounded soldiers,
sometimes at the rate of 900 q day,
were brought in to be looked after.
Isis wonderful thing that these
delicate, frail-ooking women can
stand sights and sounds of suffering
in the hospital that would turn one
Of US husky men sick and pale in a
few minutes. Mrs, Kendriek did not
20 much into detail as to her exper-
fences there, but what she said was
extremely interesting. Among these
poor, manned heroes of the deadly
war, were young men with one or
both legs gone, eyes shot out, and
sore wounds to be dressed every day.
The nerve Of the doughboys. in en-
during the pain Of operations and
dressings was wonderful, but it was
-seen that some of the more severely
wounded ones complained less than
those who were not hurt so badly.
She has no prejudice against any race
but could not hslp noting that the
/ darkies put up an awful sight of
aoise sometimes over their plight;
it was the same way with the Jews,
| only the latter were inclined to com
| plain still more Of the nurses and Of
fancied wrongs. The Jew is very
I.sensitiye and emotional, and evei
| since the days Of Jeremiah he has
| been lamenting about something
j The darkies didn't make so much
trouble. but grunted lot. One
black soldier from Alabama who was
| slightly wounded took on a good
| deal. and mourned over the fact thai
| he didn't have any bedbug tea, which
| he was sure would cure him at once
Use agwine to send to my ole nam
my at Montgummery fer a bottle Of
bedbugs; all | needs is bedbug tea
! den l sho will git up right awayw
i She told about poor fellow, {
mere boy Of nineteen, who has beer
paralyzed from his hips down by be
ling struck in the back by a piece O
! shell, and another piece hit him il
the head. As he lay there he call
! ed for his mother, and was s,
anxious to hear from her. Finall
an aunt of his was found, who sal,
the mother had died little Will
before from influenza. When ia
news was broken to him, the bo,
turned his face to the wall. speech
less. He had nothing left to live fol
3 He has an uncle living in Nashville.
3 Important progress has been mad
: in hospital surgery, said Mrs. Ken
a lrick. The so-called Carol Daki
= treatment has worked wonders; ca
containing aseptic solution let's on