\)t |ilou fOL. XLI MO UNI AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA, LETTERS OF INTEREST FROM OUR SOLDIERS Latter from Wada I. lUldw I* Ma father. Mr. T. U. Hauher of Mouat Airy. Son.ewhare in Franca ; Deax Father: I received your latter dated Augu«t the 19, Friday. Wt ura klili at thia little village do in* practical!/ notJiiiii. Some of tha boy» Kava a job driving ctn, but tba majority of them ara not dome any thing. and ihe>- are to Cnonu. American girU here ta make t for ua. Tell Pearl >the can write all tha French letter* nha wr.nU to 1 have no trouble at all iu reading them, in fact I can read oruinary Fre.ioi al moet aa fanl a* I can ret.d Kngli-h. I would attempt to write her a letter in French ea »oir, but I know that I v>ould make a thounand mi no »«»r vpMUkWK imc ibiikuuk » «»'» not making much progrc . Somewhere in France My ilttr Mother: I renteivetl your letter ilauwl Sept. the 10th, this evening. I sure wa» triad to get it aa it ha* been three or ! four week* itii.ee I neard from you. 1 also received The .Mount Airy News r dated Au^utt 1st, this evi- i.ng. I alwixy* write to yon at lea»t once a week and sometimes oftencr. Ami I { send you the 'Start and Stripe*' when ' 1 am lucky unough to get one before , they are all .told. There is such a de mand for paper* that they go like hot cakes. Well it soem.i that we are destined to stay here at thia village until the end of the war. I believe that the .»r will be over in a few. month* anyhow in fact it was rumored ftnttrtrar* £%£ Jtete:; term* and that he was toin* for peace hut there are so many rumor* truvel ing abroad that one never know* what * to believe. Ye», Frank Warren is still with us. While we were on the trip from to we pa*sed thru the outskirts of Parw and we camp ed within eight miles of the city | that mtrbt. Frank was driving Cap tain Walker'* car *o they went to the city that night. I wander how near you could come to guessing where we are now. One of the "Y men here received a letter the other j •lay and it naid at the top of the \let-1 ter you are in . That is what 1 call good guessing. because the j writer did not mi** it over twelve j mile*. Oh, how my heart yearn* to be with the boy* up in the line* when I read of their brave deeds. If 1 had known > that the lOfith, would be stationed behind the lines like thi*. when I was 1 in the state* I think that I wouid have transferred into another branch of the service. But Why should we wor ry. taking it all in all we are well sit uated and cared for. occassionally we tret pretty home sick for the sight of an American girl. The French -"■Is are all right in their way, but j they cant come up to the American I girt in any respct. Letter from Luther Seal now in' France to his sister Miss Mary Seal of Mount Airy. Koute 3. Somewhere in England.! ' l.-t Dear Sister: 1 am ending you a few lines to let j vou know that ( am till living. On September 29 our Division went intoI action arid continued in action until October 16th at which time I wa<(u- j ed. 1 was lent to a honuital on the coast of France and on tiu> -l*t wa rut on a boat and »efit to England.1 am at a Red Cross hospital and am > •doing nicely. I will write you at mora , length when mv eyes are better. The trouble all settled in my eyes. Letter from Alfred Towe to bin Mother, Mra. Bell Towe, Mount Airy. Route 1 Somewhere in K ranee. Oct. 12. 1918. Dear Mother: 1 will drop you a few line* to let you all hear from me. this leaven me well. I have no newt to tell you all, only I got 1 Si letters the ninth of this month that you wrote in June and July. 1 have just got them, 1 don't «ee what u the reason you dont hear from me I have wrote you aa high a* si* lettern in one week. You know that I am a long way from hotae and 1 have not had time to write for the laxt three weeks a* 1 have been in a battle. You said you hoped that 1 wa* having a good time. If % you knew what 1 have Seen doing you would call that a h—I of a time. I have been loading up sheila hole* of water to keep from getting my head Mown off. You wanted to know if I saw any of the boy* from home. I do not. I have seen Henry Dean once since I left camp Let. 1 suppose that Lum Hawk* U wounded. Cleave Powell t* killed or lout rfoaa hi* com aanv. They can't And him no where Dushut Jones ta the only one from home that made the trip over. Well I will close, t will tell you more i.eu lima I writ*. Mop* you will (at tkU latter all O. K-, l^elter fruai VraUr KI|| la Ma ala tar, Mra. C. E. Uaraxa of Mount Airy. Soraawhara in France Oct. 20. Dear Sinter: I lmv« juxt received your latter and am delighted to Bet news fr-mi home. • • • • | am firing well r.nd ifet plenty to eat ami have a t'xnl place to nleep and liuvo plei ty of blanket*. Thia ii> • womicrful country. I am in a "mall town and the Krriuh (wople are very kind to u» American iHjya. I uin le.ruing a little Kreiich and I tell you it ..ure >• noma funny language to me. We boyi made gtw-l over nere aa you no doubt nee by the paper*. /Letter from Hen K. liraugha to hia Mother Mra. Clara liraughn of Mount llr> Oct. 13 WIS. Dear Mother: I will write you a hurt letter thin ttfuutiful Sunday morning. Thin leaves me well. I urn enjoying the bent of health I truly hope you all are well. Well I just came out of the Irene he* the other (lay. I wan »n the trenches when I got Roby tetter, we all ' ami out for a rent now it wai not (to bad in the trenches. None of our company got hurt. I saw Edd Herrell, Curtis George and Beritig guns and shell* are roaring all around us now. but I hope they won't happen to hit us. We have a good company and the be^t Lieuten:i:.t, his name is W. Mc-1 I.ee and I am sure proud of him. Claud and Will Marion are with moul the country now. Can tell you all when I get home. Kiss little bro thers J. and P. for me and give my best love to all. Tell Ernest Lawson hellow for me and that he may have to go to Camp but don't think he will have to romc over for I think we will be enough for the Hermans, they are getting tired 'of this war and you know we are go ing to make them still tirder before we quit them. Ultrr from HmJ. H. O'Neal now in training at Camp Hancock. Mr. J. K. Johnson, Editor Mt. lAry News. Deur Sir: 1 will writ* a few linex to your pa per, and let the people back in old Surry know how everthing is down in Georgia. We are having Mime lieautiful wea ther now. 1 am well and enjoy.ng the best of health. Now I want to aay a few word* in regard to the campaign that is on from November the 11th to 18. among the Y M. V. A.. the Y. W. C. A and the Srlvation Army to raiae $170000, MOO. 1 want to nay to you all that it in your patriotic duty to give every rent pop-ible. The Y. M. < . A. is div ing more for the boya in the camp and in France tl an ary one organiza tion in the world. Tnr.v are always ready and willing to nerve you in any way possible. T am Mire if you fa ther* and mothers could only see what they a-* doirg fir us bov*. vou wruld contribute to them a* far aa po.aible. Some will argue of course that the war will noon he over and th-tt they .lon't need that money. Of course the war will noon be over wituout a doubt. But now atop and rtgure a little, do you not know that it will take froai lii to eight months to get the hoys hack out of the cam pa even in the United State* and dur ing Una time they are going to need the service of the Y. M. C. A. wo rue than ever. They will not drill a* much as they do now and therefore t' ey will need somewhere to upend the leiaure time. Rut how about the boya over in France? It will take rom eighteen months to three years before they ran all get back. Are you going to neglect them now be cause the war will soon lie over? I hop* not. New If tWi M MX ladf hack in Harry or any wh*r« up th«r* that waau to writ* mm I will nn bo rl»d to hear from yon. Horo U ay addre** Pvt. RonJ. H. O'Hool. 7lnh <>»., 6 (irou|>, M. T. D. Camp Hancock, Ga. UlWr fr»« G. E. W«M to Mo father. Mr. C. C. Woldl ml Ml Airy. RomwImn In Franco, Oct. 20th. Doaroat Dad: I havon't hoard from yam lim th* laat t*mo I wrote you but n*v«rthel**» 1 will try Ui write you again, I am wall and getting along it 1 right. I al ways try to keep a lot tor on Um way all tho llmo mi that you won't b* un rmy about mm, mo if you fail U got thrm you raa't nay that I did.i't write oft«n, for I write to you or Mother on* at least three time* a week. Thin is on* of thooe rainy Orto Iter Sunilay'n and I mu«t «ay that I have kindly got the blues, but a man u*t Kimply can't help but feel a little flue on »uch days when l-e ha* noth ing to occupy ..i time. Sunday in the only day that I ilon't have a bunch of work to do. We go to church in the morning and in tlie after..oon I mint ulway* -pend that in writing letter* hi me and to my friendi. Now * • I have >fdcn said before, if I waa ju«t at home with you I could tell you no much more than I can write, hut *t»ce that can't lie I will tell you all I can. We (All the A. K. ?•. hoy*) were tickled to death with Wil'.on* replv U> Germany and I fully heliuvc that they will come to hi* term* sooner or later and if they pound* more than I did when I left the Stater. I would have a pic ture made am! send you one if 1 could but O'er* are no pi utogr; pi to be had r. France or at l«ast I have never •en anv place to have them made. But t t'-.ink I will be home before very iuog and we isa. mm each otkar is pe—on. T haven't received my Mwent Airy New* o. any of the pape-i for a Ions time and I wich they would CUM in on time for I like to see the new* from N. C., jvan if it is old. Walter ud he- had the Creen«boro p. per sent *o me but I have never gotten it so far. Well I gu««s I have told you r.bout all ti e new* that I know so I will •lose now and go to -upper. I^-ttrr from Jim Crttz to hia moth er, Mr*. M. E. C'riU. Motor Truck Co. A. E. K. France. Dear Mother: It look* like I never will hear from hume again and I suppose you think the same thing about me but if thing* kt-ep up like they are going now, we will all be coming home before long. There »ure wut none excitement to night when the papers came out tell ing about the Germans accepting the allien terms. Guess you all know more about what they art. lining though we hut I guatui what we hvar it nearer fact* than what you near. 1 certainly am lucky to be in the <|uarter» that 1 am, arid we have the very best to eat anC clothes to wear. It i* no wonder they come down on the people back home for M get the bert of everything. The worst thing is nut getting anv n>n~.l. I would give anything for a letter from you ami a Mount Airy or Greensboro paper. You want to *r.ve up on the new* though and tell it all to me when 1 come home. I certainly will have a lit of experience to relate. I think I will be able to sit around home a lit tle better when 1 get back, for I am retting more accustomed to staying m and not running around like 1 used I to. I have not had a pa** *ince I went to Camp Johnston at Jacksonville, but 1 don't feel any the worse from it, and there are a lot of other things you get uwd to in this army that will do us all good. You would hurt yourself laughing if you could hear some of the remark* that the boy* make about what the German* will have 'f> do and what they are going to do after they get home. Everyone ha* something dif ferent to say, but I think most of them will be satisfied with ju*t get ting back. People say thin i» a beautiful coun try, which it in, but the old Unitud State* and North Carolina is good enough for me. Ami the people, you get tired talking to any one when you can't understand each other. I almost , wore my hands out trying to make j signs no they can understand me I You ran buy a? much with a small bill I a* you can with a smaller one, for ' they don't believe in giving change. ' It would do you good t > « the truck ; farm* and garden*. Even now. the gardens are pretty and green and you | see cart* of fresh vegetables on every j corner. i Now mother, you want to take rare ' of yourself this winter and don't worry about me. for 1 never felt bet ter in my life and it looka like we will all be home in a short while and I will never regret giving up every thing to he in this great conflict. Give my love to all the folk* and tell them that it took me to settle things over here. Write to me of ten. I.ots of love to you and Nannie. WINSTON-SALEM MOB PLAYS HAVOC SUNDAY City mi Wi—«— S«Ui ha. Faax/ul IM.n..r. Witla GtmI Mob Amd Da.truct.on I of Property mmd Lmm of LHo U GtmL Th« folowing itom of tha unfortu nata affair ia taken from tha Winston nantmal, < la lad Nov am bar Id. Mr. and Mr>. J. K. Childraaa war* a>»aultad and robbad on tha Invamaaa Mill road firturday evening between ■•van and eight o'elock. An unknwwn otgro in rhargad with tha rruna, and an a ranult oi njuriaa Mr. Chiidraaa ia In a critical condition at tha City Hoapital. A flar nkooling him iha na gro roritinuad hi» aoaault on Mr*. rhil«Ira*», (acurinc from her about m money. They had *U»rtad to thair grocer to purrhane wnt good* whan tney wera intarreptad at the railroad bruin* ju*t off Liberty atraat naar Piedmont bark Tha M-raama of Mr*. Children* lirought aaaitanre and tha rtagro flat I. Offlcara ware nummoned anil a -earrh for tha criminal tx.-gan. While going along tlie railroad .Sheriff Klynt halted a r.egro for investigation, but (.-•for* tha oAcar* reached him h* : • j»ened fire. Shariff Flynt received a painful wound on hi* hai.d ami a rtexh wound on hin nark. The *each ron tinuad into tiw, night, but without ftucces*. -nr». * r»u«ir»* r ii»- k>>c" ® iMKrip* | tion of the negro and the ofllc.rs ex poet to yet locate him. The probable result of the wounds , received by Mr. ''hildresa coukl not be yiven hy medical attenred men jumped on J e unn'nt j board arid ai.ked Messrs. White and Church if they had pistol". The i. ■Id up men proceeded to search the two whiv« men and took a pistol fr >m Mr. White's pock-.t und then shot hun in the left side, inflicting a fat.-.l w< und. Despite the serious wound Mr. White ran nis car to I.ibcrty street, in front of Wallace's clothing stoi**, where he stopped and informed friends hat he hihl been st.oi. The ma'-.i was taken in chartfc and the wounded man was rushed to his home on Green street, where hi died at 3:S« this morning. He remained conscious un til a few m.iiuU-. before .he end came. T*.e attendinp physician r. irounced that death was caused by nterrial bleeding. Mr. White told the facts as related above regarding the hold-up and shooting. He stated that he did not know any of the n?groes who held up his car. One colored man, George Johnson, was killed. Several Woundrd Several members of the Home Guard and of the police fore* were wounded by pistol and shotgun Are during the melee. Mr. Archie Gray Trulove. member of the Home Guard, received a (hot in the foot while standing guard at the comer <4 Fourth ana Main rtraata, at the Wngfct ahaa •tar*. Mr. K. P. Rawlay, alao m—bar at the Cuarda. received a wound IB tha ana Mill oa r»ard nafairia Um mmUmI buiMtnc. Mr. Frank O'Brien, a '•uardxmaa, '•ff»rtxl a hadl* wrafuhad hack whan ha waa knocked down tha (tape of the municipal bulMiiif while a datach mant of tha guard* waa a laanng Um building of nwinUr< of tha crowd. KhuIi of Mlwrnt Ada. Tha lieplocabLe incident waa tha ra filt of iruliacraat acta of a crowd of probably 400 people. who rafuaad la i-tail to raaaon or tha pleading* of Mr*. ChiMraaa, who darHrad that aha could not identify tha rrnfra being h#lepot "treat, charged with carrying > concealed weapon. An automatic pi.tol waa taken from him and he wan locked up. later in the afternoon ha wax carried to Mr«. Children* by officer - to itaa if he could be the one who com - •inti«i the aaaault. She utaUai that he waa about the aiza of the negro, hut that it waa not he voice of he :•*• pro. and neither waa the pt*UA taken from him the on* with which her I huil.and wa« *hot. The priaoner waa | eturned to the city jail to await trial I on the charge of carrying a concealed 1 ! weapon. r.i«|{K<-r4iro iwporu. The news of the investigation made I )>y the officers «u exaggerated at ttm«* pa* -cd and .1 crown l>egan to :'»»ht*r early 'in the afternoon about the municipal building. Threat - tarted thru the crowd agtinst the negro in *pite of th« statement* mailt by the more conr-ervative citi zen h who assembled. that there wax nothing against the prisoner except carrying a concealed weapon. Final ly member* of the rmwil pushed their ■vay into the building and demanded that the prisoner be delivered to them They were held until Mayor Gorreil. Alderman Hane* and La-at«r arrived and they urged the mob to be quiet and await the arrest of the negro who committed pie crime it had in mind and the action of the court*. It wan then suggested that Mr*. ' hildre- lie brought down to the sta tion to look at the prisoner again and "ay to the crowd if she could, that «he could not identify the prisoner as the j on# asa^uOmg- tifttt SaUuriap even- | Mr*. Childress on Scene. The Home Guard had been called out by this time and thev formed be tween the crow/1 and the prison «ec tion of the building. Mrs. Children - made her -tatemer' to the crowd and 1 urged that they disperse; that today any connection of the prisoner »ith the crime could be determined; that it could not be laat night. Forced From Building. Thm had a <|uietingveffert for a mo ment. but the crowd remained and more threat* suggested another dem onstration. At fti» time Col. J. C. Bes.scnt, commanding the Home Guard, ordered the building cleared | of all persons not connected with the I militia, city officials or other lawful i business. At the point of the bayonet 'he crowd was gradually forced from the building. It was then that the crowd became more desperate. The streets in front of the building and on all sides bank ing up on the court grass, were throned with people. A detachment I of the Home Guard was stationed at , entrance where probably five hundred | people, half of whoiw assumed a law Imm attitude, jcrred in their faces and threatened violence. Stray Shot Hit Mis* Levi. Stone were hurleo at the entrance in which the guards were stationed, and they were compelled to withdraw ! and tak up their guard behind the j heavy doors which closed the stair- . way. This continued for several min utes and the howls of the crowd were puncuated with the pistol shots. This was when a stray shot caused the dnith of Mian Levi. Many windows i were shot out and rock, were hurled : from all sidfcs of the building. j Fire Hour 1x4 At this point the city officials de termined that th« crowd must be retired and to avoid bloodshed it was decided to call out the fire com panics and play water in front of •he building. One company «h sta tioned at the city hall and another at the northwest corner of the square. The crowd rave back, all the while hurling stones at the men who man ned the noxile* and the members of 'he Home Guard who surrounded them. Scattered shooting occurred, one shot killing Mr. Young, assisting with one stream of water. With the crowd pushed hack from 'he building guards were stationed about it, and it was kept clear prac tically during the remainder of the I night, litis was about seven-thirty I o'clock. ' The lawless element scattered over the business district, breaking into several hardware stores and pawn shops, carrying away many pistols, runs, rifles and ammunition They also carried away numbers of knives and raiors from the store* entered. Efforts of proprietors and runnls to keept the crowd* from breaking into the storee were of no a»ail, except at the hardware store of Mr. F. M. Rob erts. who challenged the would-be ri oters and held them off at the point of a rifle. Bet lira la Sews re. Securing heavy arm* mm mem ber* of the mob returned to the ri I cinity of the municipal build big The rum w«ra mi tha hamla of man »r< from ahc«.t Aftaaa yaarv op. flrtuc than baiaaa gaearai. but ran tarad Ut wwi "HiiH iixj Prf'h NrwU •i.d InOmji Maui Dm it '"hurrh ■Uwt in lha tana at tha «u terfc. and in tkia Mrtfon bumlrada of •hot* flrad in igawltii. TiIm Fna BaiMiac Th» fart thai Um ituturtenra m not r-mlmd by aa organuari lynch mati, out by an utu-ontroilail rrowd of young a>«n, aaaaMngiy rmnng littla for anything aava um pr'ialaroM •k-ritinjt of arm* cnra thay »arur«d tham. 1> >u(luMd in th« fart mat th» '.flW-am w»'« at>la m taka th* pri» anar from »h« building to a pi ar. of ■ »f*ty wfcUr 'ha froaii outnada 'ha building -aamwl to ha mo»t threatas in*. About tan o'clork ih* yoyng rintar* had ikiivb) ra t of Fourth 'tract Ui f'hurrh ami < haatnut rf a<-m» ■li»tan<-a from tha hooting, -howi>ig that murh of lha rtrinir «m in tn» air. '"hiaf Th..ma< nrilr-ad hi* man to praraad to thr nrana ami rbaarm ail par»on» on the -U' *t». They want 'wit haavily :irr .<-.l ami g»th«*r»d in many weapons of varied <1*m-nptiona '>af'"-» »h« ar rival of 'he militia, which hail been ildre*» to the »fti er« earlier in the evening, and warned them that any ■ loience to the prisoner in 'he city jail would be vio lence to what appeared then to be an innocent man. Hi* remark* were fu tile. a . the crowd surged and contin ued its threats. Other prominent cit izctu.. including M«>sr.». P. H. Manes, * Sr.,W. M. Hendren. Dr. H. A. Brown, Rev. W L. Hutcheni. H. G. Oiathajn. Kred M. Parrish. W. L O'Brien, and memi*r> of the board of aJ derma." plead with the crowd, but it would not hear. Mayor Gorrell then determined to appeal to Gov. Bickett for assistance, feanng police department and home guard might not be able to handle Ute -ituauon. Greensboro and Mouat Airy were also asked to render any assistance possible. The local officer* and militia, with emm determination, stood against the rioter* until they scattered, and too much praise cannot be given the offi cers and member* of the home guard for their determined Aland in front of the building when ordered to scatter the crowd. There wu no excitement. The men stood at their post*. work ing only under instructions from their officers, who headed their men, keep ing them under strict discipline even after they were forced to open fire on the crowd to hold it in check. Arm) Troop* Arrive. At 4 15 this morning a 5p«c 1*1 train l>e«iriiig regular array troops from Camp Greene at Charlotte ar rived at the Children's Home station where the two companies, comprising J.">0 men and officer# and commanded by Major Wilcox, immediately i>egan their two mile march to the city, ar riving on the "double quick." By this time the city had resumed a peaceful attitude of themen were immediate ly stationed at the armory and court house. Squads were dispatched to Kast Winston to make sure that quiet prevailed and acting on instruction from their officers the men searched every man. white or colored, who sat on the street at that hour. These with guns or ammunition were escorted to police headquarters W"T,ere their pro perty was confiscated. Task Corps From Kaleigh. At 6 o'clock a special tram arrived at the union station with 26© men and officers of the tank corps at Raleigh, under command of Major Gill. These comprised Cos B and C and head quarter*, company and were accom pany by a baby tank«,*hich wits placed on the public square with ita wicked guns ready for action. The men were di*patclwd in squads to all parts of the city for patrol duty, sear ching citizens for concealed weapons and doing everything ui Iheir power to prevent a repetition of last night's trouble. Aldermen Meet. At It o'clock • special meeting ti the board of aldermen was called far a conference with the military of ficials regarding the situ&Uea. With a Gutting gun at the earner of Fourth and lfaii "tree's, the tank on the courthouse square and h» hundred soldier, ready for iastant action the city was waiter fall eeatrot of the suthoriUee a£er iayhreak ihia morning. ' v