The Lufkin News (Lufkin, Tex.), Vol. [8], No. 179, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1917 Page: 8 of 8
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A suit at $20 isn’t ri
but a suit like these
PINEY WOODS PARSON
ENLISTS BIG COMPANY
Rev. James Luther Anderson
Raised His Company in
Two Weeks’ Time.
While our old corn has been
almost ruined by the dry, hot
weather, yet the rain has come
in time to save our young corn,
which will now make an aver-
age yield. Cotton will continne
Where to Ruy 1
this is the PLACE
of a reporter that he must have
taken ’em all of draft age.
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And that’s gocd news to tell.
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Old Glory today as
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field. But what of that, just so
he would be giving his life for
those principles which should
be dear to every one's heart.
extremely hot. dry weather.
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“I am willing to fight on my
own dunghill," said he, “but I
am not willing to go over across
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ther thriving regiments in the state militia
' section came. Colonel Hoover and Gen-
eral Hulen sent for the Rev. Mr.
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spicy with the fragrance of the
wear the eagle yet where he
wears those two silver bars
now," they say of him up in
the Kirbyville section. :
Captain Anderson wa born
You bet we all are mighty glad.
Out here in Pumpkin H iI ,
The splendid ram which «eve
just had,
Exactly fills the bill.
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man. most of them knew also ’hat the people of
’■■Hows who’ll de- East Texas, the young fellows
which we
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Captain Anderson
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f hard There are about one hundred
and fifteen million people in
these United States of America,
and a vast majority of these
people are in favor of wiping
the kaiser from off the face of
A man’s best first line of defense against torrid
summer weather is a Kuppenheirmer Skeleton Lined
Suit with B. V, D. Silk Shirts, Cool Oxfords and a
Straw. That’s all—and they’re all here.
times out.
In the land in '
dwell —
A blessed fact, you
More than a hundred of them
were found physically unfit for
service, and were of course not
accepted, but the popularity of
the man, his ability to be a
leader. is shown in the great
। number who sought to go with
him.
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to the last. Few men, or worn- she had a face on her as long
en either, for that matter, ex-!
in one
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convene until #8
Present ind2EP)
Congress willz8
until late in o:h608
the war reve
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it is not too late to plant other
crops which will mature 1 eiore
frost, the Bishop doesn't see
Your purchase itself will be “cheaper than the price. Select a b
charges the value of the article and then GUARANTEES the artid
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pect him to come back to East p ines were debating whether to
Texas a mere captain. "He’ll live or to die on account of the
Kelina County, arrived yester-
day and will be the guest of
Company H. Fifth: Mrs A. Kelley for several'
infantry, will likely bejdays.
of a man
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Jim Singleton Clothier...
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mightygobdtme rter dAhtte. fighting should win the war, it
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। "Xo. they won't have any use
, I for the draft and conscription
I be awmill parsn of the in the parts where I have been
piney woods" has gone in warrecruiting." he bashfully ac-
Literally, Rev. -lames Luthenknowledged at the suggestion
Anderson. Baptist divine, still
is in the section where his loved
magnolias bloom, where the
velvety greens and browns of
the pines make the world love-
ly, where the air is balmy and
• After the rainfall this morning,
happy smiles played all over
her face because she knew that
her Georgia rattlesnakes would the ocean to fight the Germans,
make melons after all. She!™, . ,
... , .... . , They have never done me any
will have none tor the market,
as they will be too small; but
they will eat all right, and she
Im of the men in the would go with “the parson.”
"■ nny are school teachers— le was commissioned a captain
- from the back woods, the and has now completed the task
h '■’•*■ Klav"s ' •11 1 i"ik- of the ereek, the mills1 of recruiting his company. As
li ' -e Mu han IN aml ihe farms, all Hoiked in at : stated, it didn't take him long.
" i h " th ' " "'-i • a :h । alt n ithe parson they have Captain Anderson had two
I" " I "‘ll’ ' aail A ml. । I •own, liked and respected and ; years experience in the militia
, " "le1"" th m whom hey have faith to lead but has never seen active serv-
" . /'j 11 •" "I" Wuuht 'hem where the Germans arelice. He and his piney woods
.. 1 "al" .a i- thihest and the fighting is the I boys, though—those two-hand-
" lo"in’ amih hu an......st. !.....haps who are real scrap-
' ,a’l" a "wir, Onol famer traeledsixtv pers, the lads who loveadven-
hlaniement anid tht fumesof mile- to have his son enlist with tureand are “rearin’ to go”__
,h VKases with which "Parson Jim Anderson. Oth-why, they are the ones the
" Wa fiend makes hattlelers of the men Captain Ander- kaiser and his horde of blood.
uPNtheworld. 'son will lead to France traveled
Xo better insight into the miles to ioin his companv.
naract ' "t * aptain Anderson in the company there will be
coul. " lunished. probably,। iwo first lieutenants, two sec
recruit-1 ond lieutenants and double the
- . can’t keep him out, and the best
to grow, and if the boll weevils thing for him to do is to vol-
will hands off a good crop will
be gathered next fall. Peay
potatoes and goobers will take imperative duty to do.
on a new lease of life, and "5 the grit in your gizzard, boys,
to fight for your country. The
Bishop is not saying this be-
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It was up at Magnolia
Springs where the captain es-! learned 10 farm, but quit that
tablished his record. There he in his young manhood to be-
enlisted sixteen men, every man I come a pipe-liner. For two
.in the rommunity between 21; years he followed that occupa-
out "..... whert th" vam ana :1 yoars of age who was tion, saving enough money 10
the"b1 at the walett" physically fit and not exempt' better his education and study
vie mii "I" “l"thr ....... beauc of dependents. And for the ministry at the'Rusk
m Melds I.: almmlance and he y,: ,m that way every- Baptist Academy,
wherpirl ate t(;g-. Fi"where Eight in Beaumont he, Six years ago he became a
was besieged with applications! Baptist preacher, and quickly
< ommamum "alel‛- o1 men who wanted to go and I he won friends for himself and
w"bandee 1!hin " Fi tiuhi with him. From Houston • converts for his church, for the
and s"uthna ■ Iras h‛ lal‛ la- weh he reerived a tele- “I’iney woods parson” is a
est "p1) in urhr- anijeram from six men insisting kindly man, despite his giant-
probabl n i/" ..I nan. 1hisijthat he rosen,. places for them like physique. Until last week
parson w ho has turned warn.. 1 in his command. He got men he was pastor of the West
has the ambition to I,ad a from Por AfJnu. many from 1 range Baptist Church and
charge somewhere m | .......Orange, a w t rom s,ur | ake _ also preached in other churches
against th"lol‛"i" h anh- Xome, Silsbee and dozens from in Kirbyville and elsewhere,
enem) ot humamn. 1h ‛ir Kirl,yvill, Jasper l ufki, W hen the call ror additional
man war lord. War. like rh. ... . . ’ ■ ----
Nowton. and the
spreading of the go-pel w
month ag ha- 1 . .mu
the earth. And this reminds
the Bishop to say that when
Uncle Sam puts his finger on a
young man to go to war he will
have to go, and that s all there
is to it. Mammy and daddy
, I .u prove quite an
H the kaiser for whom they are society circlese
"tonass sinuzhuantnsi Fan-l "iral tts fMTm smliwanyacor.
inlo-naspmy-iirone. Com......."
«"uld be allow,..I W .railed to hilKvai length
. ompant w by
harm.” Personally they have
Don’t comb the country trying to find a house that sells “cheap” Dr
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year.
As sure as you are born.
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The mast is good this year, they
say.
And we will have our meat .
Then milk and butter every day
’• nd other grub to eat.
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1 • !;■ king a parcel of Ger- who would want to go to war,
The people of Pumpkin Hill harm to our country, for it
and others from surrounding would no longer be the land of
neighborhoods met Friday and the free and the home of the
cleaned off the Berry cemetery. brave. In fighting with the al-
At the noon hour a basket din- lies we are fighting for our
ner was plentifully in evidence, country, whether it be on our
and as we all ate good grub we own dunghill or across the big
talked about things in general, pond. The Bishop had just as
By working it once a year, we soon fight on French soil as to
are enabled to keep our city of fight on American soil, when
the dead in a dean condition. । his freedom from kaiserism is
• • • in jeopardy. If we are to keep
Mis. Turner and Miss Alta the blessed heritage our fore-
a
cause he knows he is too old to
why Pumpkin Hill can’t pull i be conscripted into the army,
through all hunky dory until! Even at his advanced age, if
personally every man in the another ( rop can be gathered. I need be he would shoulder his
company by his first name o « • ’ . musket in defense of his coun-
most of them he is an idol; to When Mrs. Bishop returheditry He knows that he would
all of them he is a friend and to the house from her water-have to face shot and shell, and
they know he will stick to them melon patch yesterday evening perhaps be slain on the battle-
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Uncle Ben Nerren of Lufkin,
has been visiting his daughters
and sons-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Billions fort
W. D. McCoy and Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Berry, Pumpkin Hill, this
week The Bishop was glad to
Upon our minds there is no tear, meet with Uncle Ben during his
About our youngest coin, course they talked
For a good crop twillmakethii Ebout the war, and of course
Uncle Ben is just as loyal to
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have arrived in:
domiciled at tembraci
former’s pareEp^'^-f any
W. R. Leach. forani
receiving the thes4 comi
of his many ingiEwha
return, he andtisltes
the recipients or distanc
some p resents :Sti. •; ■ 6, i
their well wis4V J 2
the city. Mrs.le6mhki
possess a magt6
with her grace J
9'
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Dr. R. P. O'Brien, are now fight for it“
' for it evento
all have thej
Patrick Hen
Give me LU
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Watford, G. E. & Binion, W. C. The Lufkin News (Lufkin, Tex.), Vol. [8], No. 179, Ed. 1 Friday, July 20, 1917, newspaper, July 20, 1917; Lufkin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1415369/m1/8/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .