MISS tOUISS lA^’E 0P?:M3 G-IFT shop for GI JOS’ .'
' Let the boygs know through HFN that we now have a shopping
service for them if they want to take advantage, of it* it xforks
this way: ' :
If a, boy wants a gift sent to hi$ mother, sister, sweet-*
heart, ets, , or flov/ers to his girl, or a gift for a neX'f baby
or any kind or remembrance, tell him to wtite: Miss Louise Lane,
Chm. Home Front Hews Shopping Service, and the gift, will be pur
chased and delivered. It will be wrapped in an appropriate wra.p
ping and card ' will be enclosed. Ho sends a money order and
states if possible about what he v/ants to spend and maybe gives
some idea Of the type of person the gift is to go to. The shop
ping Service then goes shopping, -selects a gift, v/raps it, and
sees that it is delivered. If: there is any change due the giver
then it is returned to him by money order. ’
Herod’S a little poem that sets forth a few simple, but mighty
important truths. Ey Binsw^hger and Go, of Richmond and sent in
by our mutual friend Senator W. Q-. ( ‘‘CouBin Willie”) Cla^i^'*
You pay your taxes and I pay mine.
But a Boy gave his life on the firing ^line.
YOU grumble for mer^t and, that traveling* s slow -
Would you like to trade places with G-. Joe ?
Would you like to climb up in a cpcoanut tree
And wait for a Jap you couldn’t s«e?
" ”No cocGanut paIm.^ in my yard, you, gay,
«And if. there were, what- about pay ?»
Fifty bucks if you live to collect.-
Which you won*t if,the Jap .makes his bullet connect.
, »I*m hungry and tired and want a drink»
Well, look at that canteen. Did you ever think .
That a bullet went thru and your flask is dry ? y
And the sun get s’higher and hot in , the, sky.
Climb up in the apple tree by jour door
And prop yourself just an hour or more.
See whht' I moan ? But the- Boy took, his plane . , ,,
Over Fortress Europe with flak thick a£? rain, . ' ,
' You don»t ,have much sugar, but he’s -getting, lead ~ ^
■' ' .There’S; a'hole in his helmet - just pissed hiS; head, ^
You want some new shoes, you; could use^ tho.m> . too. "
. But the Boy lost his foot -• so he won’t need a shoe
So go buy your War Bond 'o Can* t • yoii buy tivo ’Dr, more ,
For that Boy who Just fell on a far. distant shore ? '
PINETOPS NEWS; 'Red Cross sewing room hf»,s recently . . beeh
Wi opened in: pinetops, Muoh .^.nterest is being
shov/n.'■ Lt, and Mrs. "-/, A. Umstead anno,tec;5 the birth, of ,a ■ son
Lt. w. 'E. Cobb, jr, is with the army air corp In' I celahd, CpXV'^
Sara Nash Dunn^ who ! has 'Just returned from ac>.ive overseas duty
i s •: spending a thirty day furlough with hi a mo v:i>;^r l^rs, W*L, Dunn
Mrs-, Jack Corbett and daughter h.r,ve, returned-from Alabama where
they visited pvt., Jack Corbett, The boys sponcling, brief leaves
with their parents, are: S/2C Archie Owens, , Sgt,. Slsler Webb,
Pfc, 'Ed Stanfield, Pfc, Hal Parker, Norfleet Sugg .USN,- and pfc,
Bill Harper, Bennett. Jenkins, Preston Ellis, Buck C* Crisp and
Jack Summerlin are on the wai-ting list to be called into; ser
vice. Mr, Bruce Steadma.n and Miss Norma Bates of Washington
Court House, Ohio ,were married'July I2th, in OhiQ, S/Sgt, Walt-
,er W, Philli|)s and Pfc,* H, Bruton C^^aft are in-the hospital
somewhere in Australia. , - ' '' *
”Your v/ife gave'birth to an: eight-poung baby girl this, morning
read the telegram to the new' father. Attached "to, this'message
was -a sticker reading: . »When’ you want a boy call,'Western union” .