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Vi's ITS CAMP JACKSON.3.cate.to.I'H-Mr. Charlie Tharpe Weht Downj to See the Hoys and Was Im-1 pressed With Things*—Owrj Duties. jTo the KMltor of Tim Tandmnrk: 1If you will allow mo a little space,!I would like to say a few words about j ic, our trip to Columbia, S. (\, to sec the1 | boys. We went via Charlotte. Heath; 0M‘j .Springs and Camden, S. (\, on to Co-; rs-ilumbia in our automobile; about a!| ten-hours run; made the trip without l’s* any trouble. We found a nice level t(1| i country, lots of cotton, but little corn.'! We went out to the camp Saturday j morning to find our boys and, believe (,s. |me, it was (lifbeult to find them on no-j count of the big parade to come off on ‘T-1 that day. Kiirhtoen thousand soldiers,: t i with their artillery, marched the . **: streets Saturday, luit the writer pass-! Up. | ed all this ambdid not. got to see the (• i air pianos that he has wanted to seeso badly. One machine fell within Us | about at) yards of the hotel where we | were stopping, one man was killed {ind another hurt.We found the hoys all O. K. and i r»- j most of them cheerful. And now to I those of us hack at home I want- to ;I aay we cannot do too much for those : if. | who are gone; in fact, we must, help j | them by buying bonds, W. S. S. .and!*; in every way possil.de. We cannot say : i. ■' we have done what, we can. We must: i give and give and then some, “until it j hurls”! We must loan to our govern- 1 menfc the last penny we can spare and \ If.: then get more and more, and keep on j lo'1 loaning until this, the greatest of all , u, ! struggles, has ended. Save our food,!*| in fact, save everything we can, and I •s-ido without lots of things we may j ! want, in order to help our boys. j ,H. i In coming home last Sunday (per-j | haps we should have waited until !I Monday) I certainly was glad to no- , j Lice what a great change had taken j ■ plane in the way of pleasure-riding; on .Sunday. We traveled about HU j• ; miles in below Hock Hill, S. C., andj y i ’j did not meet but one auto and this . ; one turned back just as we met him. s“ | I think he was getting our number.8. j We met few machines all day Sunday.; We saw a few at the churches. Com-fs-' ing through Statesville Sunday night.j about 9.30, we saw blit one machine t, I on the streets; something I supposej very unusual, but this shows evory-M* : body is thinking, and 1 feed that the ! time has come when we ought to j .. j. i think and to think very seriously, js ! Let’s iill resolve to do our best in ev-1 erything that will help to end this | ,‘liwar and to help our boys bear the i .! burden that rests upon them. Tho.se ; \\Munlt;u:Ml WIN*SIC-1•r.1 of us who are not called upon to go, p, ’ i if we do our duty fas I see it), have | w! i * 1 • 1 4 i t r t i J
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Statesville Landmark
Statesville, North Carolina, US
Fri, Oct 04, 1918
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