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Newark, Independence County, Arkansas, Thursday, September 26, 1918
Vol. 18, No. 26
CAPT. S. A. DRENNEN
WRITES FROM FRANCE
Newark Physician Says Ameri
can Soldiers Have World
Beaten for Nerve
Mr. and Mrs. M. Drennen of
this place have this week re
ceived the following’ two let
ters from their son, Capt. Sher
od A. Drennen of the Medical
Corps who is with the Ameri
can Army in France.
Somewhere in France,
August 27.
My Dear Parents.—Received
mother’s letter of June 25th
yesterday. There is very little
news at present to give from
the American front. Tho I am
thinking ere this reaches you
Fritz will have gotten another
grand beating. The English
and French are pounding him
very heavily at present. He
has lost many of his big guns
and the prisoners are coming
in by the thousands.
There is no mistake now as
to victory. It is only a question
of time. The only thing that I
am scared of is that he is going
to cry quit before we caw lay
waste his own country. Can
you picture a beautiful little
city situated beside a river
with hills on either side and
golden wheat fields in the val
ley? Such was once Chateau
Thierry and vicinity. Reverse
this picture and you have now
a pile of bricks and stone. The
wheat fields are pock marked
with shell holes and in and
around these are many mounds
with wooden crosses mark the
resting place of those silent
sleepers who gave their all f< r
democracy and freedom. One
of the hills overlooking that
little city has the appearance
of a newly ploughed field, on
ly the furrows were not made
: with plowshares. Here and
'there are gnarled and twisted
'bodies of once standing trees.
This hill, in the future, wlfen
this is finished should bear a
! monument to the memory of
| the brave Marines who on that
memorable day crossed its
slopes and to the beyond.
Must finish and get in read
iness for our next journey
which will be in a few hours.
Keeps me quite busy fighting
flies with one hand while I try
and write with the otWHf.' ^
Write me often with all
the news. Your loving son,
SHEROD.
Somewhere in France.
September 3
My Dear Parents.—A few
more days and I will have been
in the servire one year. Must
say many and varied are the
experienses gained in such a
seemingly short while. Have
swapped yarns with the Ca
nook from Manitoba and Que
bee, drank tea with the sons of
old England, wine with the
Poilui of France, shared the
same dug-out with the fine
lads of Austrialia and listened
to tales of South Africa and
New Zealand.
One becomes quite resource
ful from necessity. It is said
that necessity is the mother of
invention, which is quite true
over here. I often think cf an
expression by a friend who was
killed on Hill 60 at the battle
of Lens. He stated that France
was no place fo« weaklings.
The poor fellow was absolutely
correct, for there are times
when one has to do his own
thinking, do it quickly, rehing
wholly upon his own judgment
Will say without partiality,
that for resourcefulness, quick
thinking and good judgment
the American soldier stands in
a class by hmself.
We are just in from a week
of very strenuous work and
find ourselves first out on the
list. One of our trips was quite
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thrilling. We received our
lo*ad from off the field just be
hind the artillery. We could
scarcely make ourselves heard
at first for the noise. The
boys had just started over
when we arrived. I talked
with several officers who stat
ed that it was the finest bar
rage they had ever traveled
behind. The three inch pieces j
were being loaded on the re
coil, which is fast work. One
wounded German, or square
head,as we term them,asked to
be shown the new three inch
machine guns before he died.
Pretty soon we began to re
ceive the wounded Americans,
and for grit I ha,ve never seen
the like. Never a sound would
escape their lips while we tied
off arteries and dressed them.
The only thing they wanted
was cigarettes and something
to eat. Some of them had
been without food for forty
eight hours. They expressed
themselves as being very sorry
they couldn’t get just one-more
square head.
Received a bundle of Ark
ansas papers yesterday and be
lieve me they were warmly
welcomed. Am very sorry the
sender’s name as deleted, if
you know the party please
extend my gratitude. Write
me often for news from over
there is very scarce.
Your loving son,
CAPT. S. Aki DRENNEN,
A. E. F. Hospital .Train 63
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CLARA BRANNON DEAD
Clara Brannon, son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. J. Brannon of this
place, died in Philadelphia, Pa.
last Monday, following a short
illness of pneumonia.
Mr. Brannon enlisted in the
LT. S. Navy a few months ago
and was in the service aboard
a transport when stricken with
pneumonia.
He was a splendid young
young man and his untimely
death is deeply regretted by
all who knew him.
He is survived by his wife,
his parents and several broth
ers and sisters. He has two
brothers in the service, Marion
having arrived in France only
a few u’eeks ago. Williamson,
another brother, is in the navy.
The remains will be buried
at Batesville.
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Mrs. E. C. Edwards and lit
tle son, Clyde, of Poccate-lle,
Idaho, are here for a few days
visit with Mrs. J. I. Sturdivant.
ARKANSAS BOYS AT
CAMP MILLS, N. Y.
Enjoy Trip From Camp Shelby
and Are Eager to Go Ov
er the Top
Camp Mills, L. I. N. Y.
Editor Newark Journal.—If
you wil allow me space in your
good paper I will try to write
a few words.
It seems to me that the U. S.
A. is a great big old country. as
Uncle Sam has carried me
around a right smart of it, and
I have appreciated seeing the
cities that I have seen. They
drilled us through the streets
of Atlanta, Ga., on our trip and
the next exercise was Raleigh,
N. C., which is a beautiful
place. Philadelphia, Penn.,
was next. I dont think we did
very well marching there—we
were too busy gazing at the
skyscrapers. I am confident
that the white of my eyes was
sticking away out. YVe came
through Washington, D. C., in
the night and most of the boys
were asleep. But the Red
Cross woke them up and treat
ed everybody to cold di4nks,
cigaretts, and apples. If it
wasn’t for the Red Cross I
don’t know what a soldier
would do. They try to teach
us that our rifle is our best
friend, but I believe the Red
Cross is our best friend, for
they are always on hand ready
to help a soldier. So you good
people must stand by them. I
am well satisfied with my
change but don’t think I will
get to be here one more week.
We were checked up this af
ternoon for our wrapped leg
gins, hob nail shoes and hell
caps. When we get them we
are apt to be on the road soon.
It has been cloudy here all
day. Airplanes are flying
above the clouds all the time.
Borne of them go out of sight
right over the camp when it is
dear. They have some very
large ones here. When we got
off the train in New Jersey
and loaded on a steamer to
cross the Hudson river int.
New York about half of the
boys thought wye were France
bound. Some of them said that
they would liked to have had
time to write a letter home.
The “old” soldiers sure did
have some fun out of the*new
ones. The Arkansas boys sung
some songs to the N. Y. City
girls while we were at the
Brooklyn Bridge. It is some
bridge and it was lined with
girls—made the boys think of
! the girls at home.
W e have a little burg in a
halt mile of Camp of about ten
thousand population. They are
giving twenty four hour passes
to N. Y. city. J think I shall gc
up there Saturday if my neck
gets straightened up from rub
bering. It is s< me cooler here
than it was in Camp Shelby. I
don’t think all of the boys
have gotten here yet. i haven’t
seen any of the Newark boys
but I think part of them came
in today. We are really too
busy to write. Will just get
sit down and the whistle will
blow, that means fall out in a
run. Some kind of an inspec
tion about every fifteen min
utes. This old hikeing with a
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MRS. W'YNNE DEAD
Mrs. J. C. Wynne died at
the home of her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. W. Magness, last
|Sunday morning* about 1 o’
clock, following a prolonged
illness covering a period of
several months. She under
went an operation in a sanitar
ium in Texarkana several
weeks ago, from which she
never recovered and which lat
er developed into tuberculosis.
While her death was not un
expected, it was nevertheless
a great shock to her many
friends who sc greatly admir
ed her splendid Christian char
acter and her many lovable
traits that so m'uch endeared
her to all who were intimate
ly acquainted with her.
She is survived by her hus
band and her little babe, only
a few months old; her parents,
four sisters and one brother.
Funeral services were held
at the Methodist church Mon
day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock
Rev. E. A. Horn and Rev. .1. E.
Snell conducting the services.
The remains were buried at
Blue Springs cemetery.
ELECTION TO BE HELD
DECEMBER FOURTEEN
Proposed New Constitution
Will be Submitted to Vot
ers For Approval
Little Rock, Sept. 21.— The
t onstitutional Convention ad
journed at noon yesterday, af
ter having been in session, at
three different times, a total
of sixty days.
The convention decided to
submit the constitution at a
special election to be held Dec
14.
In the meantime, the instru
ment is to be enrolled and 250,
000 copies of it printed for dis
tribution among the people of
the state.
It was endorsed by all the
members present at the con
cluding session, 80 of them, ex
cept R. S. Warnock, of Colum
bia. who announced that he is
opposed to it, although he
signed the enrolled copy.
I he document will be depos
ited with the secretary of state,
where delegates who were not
present yesterday may sign it
at any time they are at the
state capitol.
It is the desire of the conven
tion that it be given the fullest
publicity, and a committee on
publicity was authorized, of
which President T. M. Mehaffy
will be chairman.
Jude J. H. Evans secured the*
adoptoh of an amendment in
the closing hours of the con
vention providing that the“law
making power may reduce the
maximum contract rate of in
terest to eight per cent per an
nual and the rate when no rate
of interest is agreed on to six
per cent per annum.”
An effort to make state im
provement and other bonds
subject to taxation by striking
out the exemption was defeat
ed by a vote of 49 to 28.
Begins With The Arrival of The StocK]
When material is received at the immense StudebaKer
lumber yards it is inspected piece by piece as it is being un
loaded from cars every piece must be up to specifications —no
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The StudebaKer lumber yards cover almost 80 acres and
every piece of woodstocKin
them is carefully inspected
before being piled for air
drying.
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Batesville, Arkansas