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H Albany
V«LXXXV, No. 24
ALBANY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOV. IS, 1918
THE WORLD WAR HAS CLOSED
T
E armistice has been signed
Death Of Wife And Husband Letter From Clifford Dunn
The sad news reached Anson Oct. 6th,
this week of the death of Mrs. I >ear Mother, and all.
The beast of Berlin and his Hayden Burns at her home in I am sure you all will be great-
is
THE OLD MAN
irns at her noma in ■ - auryou an www Kr*ai- Safl(j^st thoU(<ht that comeg to our mind is th&! of gnming
bloody cohorts have absconded, and the civilized world is free. l'"st ( :ty lust I hursday, and > -urpri-ei to ,ear trom me, i It's said of our brave soldier boys in Europe that they
Tile allies have given Germany thirty days to comply with the that her husband died the fol- but howtw r I havt n t forgottt n ,jo not d, e id to d e, but the thoughts of beingcripoled and maimed
armistice, and then when complied with, they will it down around lowing ilay. Heath in both in- vou. \ouall mi-r t u.u,s ith for life are only concern. A reasonable, sane and intelligent
the council table and pass sentence on their conquered fo" and stances was due to intluen/.a. tor not writing any .-so mer, Im m.tn< who has thought seriously on this life and his future staUl
you can count on it being a plenty, fhe terms of the armis!ice is Ur-y leave three little children, asnarmd to .-.ay it. but thi-. is^t ,hould not dread the pas^in?. But to think that some day thia
too long for publication in the average country weekly, and by the two ot them being critically ■' r I havt vr tttn -inn j jy ar)|j
mind of ours will become decrepit and feeble, and
time publication dav comes around, the news is stale. But any- sick. I b*tn in trarne. 1 ntver
how, the terms of it is that the German army shall be mov • 1 from Mr. and Mrs. Eiurns were for- was much of a writer any way.
all foreign territory back across the Rhine. The allies t- o -cupy mer r. sidenta of Anson, moving I hope you are all well, larn _ p
important stragetic points, railroads and rotting stuck, aeroplar '■VLU >umt ,,'VI> yea,s bne and dandy, ha. lguwonb longer panterh for the chase —the old man, the world has laid him
that we will have to sit down by the w.ysile, and lean upon our
crutch, and wuteh tne younger generation go by and outatrip us ia
the chase a sad thought ind" j. He's a h?s-bcen, his heart no
■obmarines, battleships and cruisers and ammunition to be tur.ied I bey were among our most lultime. Ihisi* a great tuun-
©v#r to the allies to be held pending a final settlement In its worthy young people, and their try, and I like it tine. I have
finality, the signing of the armistice was just simply a su< render, deaths will be known here with got worlds ot news to ft ! when I
Today Germany is in the midst of a great revolution, and what sad hearts from their many get back home.
Will be the outcome of it no one can tell. Sociali seems to b • in friends. Mr. Burns is the son of I hope you will have good crops
the saddle, the war lords are gone, and what kind of a govern- R. K. Burns, formerly residing this year. How are alt the kid.,
■teat they are going to have is an unknown quantity. Starvation here, but now living in S ackel- ge-.ti Mo her I want
ia staring Germany in the face, and the problem with the allies ford county, and Mrs. Burns is you ail to write me as often as
just at this moment is to relieve the starving population of Ger- the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. you can. and be iure to send me
many and Austria. We-believe that the German people will solve M. I'. Webb, who moved trom the Moran arid Albany News, I
the complex problems that confront them In fact the allies are bine
going to see to it that a stable government is established and Mat year
law and order reign in the Central empire. And furthermore, the
allies are going to see it that Germany pays an indemnity that
will stagger the world when the amount is named. And further-
more, these war lords are going to be brought, before a military
Court and tried as common criminals, and when we g-t through
with them autocracy will sure enough be dead, an l tne w ■ rI 1 will
to liawson county last am anxious to know what is going
on at home
Tell Bobbie hello for me, tell
her I sure would like to see her.
l>on't let Butter work too hard.
(From the Dallas Pitchfork) Tell tsla hello for me. and tell
The much-hearlded, long- her to write to me.
Anson Reporter.
Bring Bailey Back
on the shelf. He's living in the p.st and the younger generation
have no time to humor his whims, and grandma, and the grand-
children that play around his knc\ are the only audience that giva
heed to the deeds of valor that happened away back yonder in tha
de-id past. The race bor^e that we sports bet our money on is tha
;u claim of the hour: he wears the blue ribbon, sleeps in a warm
stall, is treated I ke a king, and is the favorite and pet of the sport-
ing world, and get • his picture in the pap?r, just so long as ha
crosses the tape ahead of the hounds. But when he takrs tha
spavin and the thumps, and his joints got atilf. goodbye old
"hoss" they turn him out in the woodland pasture to rustle or
starve le's a ha been. The word has been passed down the lina
over here in America that this is the young man's age, and in a
sense it is. When it comes t > selling cheese and crackers and
driving a hand bargain, it's the young man that the commercial
world wants. It's so in law, it's the young blood and the trickster
that swif 'S the big fees, but the men who sit on the bench and in-
terpret our laws and stabal ^e governments are men of matura
A CHANGED WORLD
be i 1 1 "double primary" in Mother you don t have any
party nominations was tried tor idea . ... g- "l • b* R' 1 ' thought and judgment sixty, seventy and eighty years old.
the first time in Texas in duly. helps a soldier over sea. I hey
The second primary was a are the best people on earth.
In
st itescraft. it's the cheap John politician that gets in the limelight
and makes the multitude go wild; but those who mould the poliey
farce. In several counties in trie Have yo , all >« ug iny fourth st>lte shape the destiny of nations, and guides the ship of state
State no election wa- held at all. Liberty Loan Bonds? Help us
As to be expected, the men did all you can for we are going to
IE world's greatest tragedy is drawing to a close; soon the aQt vott> an(j m Bot to • e win this war
expected, the women didn't vote. Well mother, I doa tknow any
and more particularly will this be the case when we come to t ike ^out one third of the vot.. g thing else to write so I will clo.se
up our several tasks again. Many Americans will remain in Ku- strt.nk,th of Dallas county carae for this time hoping to hear
rope to take part in the rehabilitation: not a few wi 11 reside there out
and voted in the second pri- from you all soon.
permanently. Many Europeans will begin life anew here in Amer- marv All these fandangoes of Write me and tell me all the
over the treacherous shoals are men whom the world class as "the
old man," tea old to plav to the galleries. Yes, when the voung
rIE world's greatest tragedy is drawing to a close, soon tne . . . vv n,tll ;e win this war . , , • . ...
, not vou anu, as was noi ii> « bloods begin to prance around in the ring and turn up their nose
final curtail 11 is a changed world iri very many respects Well mnrher I don't know anv , ,, . . . . . , .
at the old man, the has-been, just hand him this package and tell
him to go away back and sit down and cut his wisdom teeth and
wrestle with the baby colic. Koch, the world's greatest general.
is seventy. F'ershing is past seventy. Admiral Lord Fisher of the
British Navy is seventy-six. Clemenceau, said to be the brains of
ica, the Land of Opportunity. I he Maine man and tne i alitornia KUVt>rnrilPnt that a.-e being c<M)k- news that has happened since I ^
man; the Michigan man and the lexas man will lind ti at they ^ and put into effect by the left home.
have exchanged places. New and lasting t riendsinps nave been j)l4n amirums now in the How is Mr. and Mrs. Alexan-
formed. The sacred marriage relation has been entered into by .,UlJll|e ar, striking at the very der and children getting along'.'
those who would never have known each other but for this great yiUls (jf ■rep,>,st,nfa,lve jf0V- Tell them to write to me. Say.
upheaval in the world. The changes are positively startling when erlir71e>nt • It will be a sad day tell papa to tell that Telephone
one stops to consider them. \ lewed from this angle, the gr .t m t^lS nat,(m when the last at Moran hello for me. I forgot
tragedy may be said to have at lea.st one good phase, it has wid- vestl),e ,,f that bulwark of free- his name. Answer scon.
ened the world's social activities. We saw the statement the other (jom set up Thomas Jefferson GUfford M. Dunn.
day from an English army officer that this war would be the end has ,wept away KS II Ith Trench Mortor Battery,
of caste system in army circles; whether this be true or not. cer- |fl(; rap,j|y destroyed,
tainly we shall have a higher appreciation of humanitv as a whoK
realizing with the poet thiit "a man's a man for a' that." Our
religious difference ; will not be so pronounced when this war is
over; we shall have somewhat of an answer to trie pra -r 'ti at
they may all be one." We here in Amen i vil hi. i .no e . i-
The old halt'-way house be-
tween moboeracy and autocracy
I representative) built by Jetfer-
>n .ood every storm and would
have we kthered the age>. but contest at the Home on Friday,
American Kx. Forces.
A Silver Medal Contest
IT*ere will t>e a silver medal
urope, is seventy-seven. Balfour is better than seventy. Weod-
row Wil- >n b2. and Loyd Gorge is the only kid m the bunch, and
he is fifty-six. In going over the top and clashing with the enemy
it t ike ■ youth, vigor and dating to unhorse the foe. but to ptaa
great battles and stragetic movements, sit in war councils and
courts of diplomacy, when the fate of empires hang in the balance,
it's the old man w ith mature judgment that's called to man the jot*.
AMERICA'S FUTURE
found regard for < ur Declaration of Ind-pendence by rea>.of the the |M)htl U puik-tea artist- are Nov. 22nd, under the direction
efforts of other peoples to attain to its sublime h- its. VV. >ha
have need, of course, to plow and sow and reap i> here'
sustain life or. thi plan-'t. but we >hau know from t. y tu dav that
we have enter' I mtn a changed -.vt.rid V\ o T i Hera
George R<<i :u.;on is alway s sa\ ing son thi ■ >od lie s the
alcalde of democratic journali m in the >outb:and Yes, 'no
tions will be changed in many respect . but it ip' ■
some people seem to think. Human nature is tne -.mie t: . w .
ers in the sea. tile winds and human history travel in a circle, of
course our vision i- going to be enlarged we are going t< think
world terms, and many of our pessimistic ideas, tlir. .re . i-
and dogmas are going to be cast into the crap heap The shed-
ding of human bl -od is the price of ever -reat r. ■ r ...itiot It
seems like a brutal philosophy, but it's history. IV. • lv tr .
edy has made all the world akin, and democracy ..i to ru
the world, .lu t think of it, Georg •. not a crowned head in Eu
rope left, with any ruling power to speak of denn ■ acs in the
saddle. When e -a -h our normal attitude, and th< buttle
takiiu
it?
" id sills out (Pt' \jrs j tiilniore Smith.
|H1 Lt e itest commercial era in the history of the world await#
America Heretofore, at the c'ose of all wars, a commercial
stagnation has k>een the result but such will not be the condition#
in the tei mination of this great woHd war. It's true, this war has
cost America a coios. il sum. and many billions are to be spent yet,
and still our vast re ot'a-ei will have barely been touched when
Fight young people have been ^ (^aj ^ ^r, cloh .'d. It bas be >n estimated that the gross
M ' drilled in oratory. Rev. J. Gd- annua| income of the American people tips the beam at sixty bil-
i .re Smith rt;*ed the medal. -jhis war has made America tbe creditor nation, hence tha
Everybody muted. \o otfer- ^mt,ricari dollar is the king of finance instead of the English
ing reqa.red. pound. Furope is to be rebuilded, her hungry millions are to be
fed and clothe I. and keep it in mind that these United Scates ia
are healed, and the nutans of the world forget their
how we will gin v be the marvel of the world.
d.
■•re nce>
Canjy W >11 iiaugnt In
W. H. Stephens made a busi-
ness trip to Fort W< rth the past
week.
ladie-s and the In Miss Nine, s,
and a breath of Fates will one
day blow it down.
•Jo eph We >i"ii Bailey is need-
ed mii' a :rea! public sei vice and
needed b.eii . He is one of the
very few political architects who
understands the Jetfersonian
style of architecture.
Isn't there someway for Texas
to get Bailey bac , on the ob.'
Bailey sincerely loves his coun-
try and w II -erve again but he
will not lick the hands of little
men and he will n t re., e h
e imate of L'homas Je • i i
a statesman.
Walter Burrows sends the
News • i his mother. Mrs. I A.
Burrows, at Nacogdoches and
The Christmas boxes
the world's commissary. It's going to tax our mines, factories
t . ■■ boy s are at th- Red Gross farJM for the next several years to supply the demand, there-
It you havt .■ stickers. . will be no slump in prices, owing to the scarcity of foodl
clothing and building material.
point, th.
br ng them in at once, as pack-
a-•* cannot be mailed after the
2Uih of this month.
Mrs, W. F„ Williams.
< aairman.
I; R. r. Fender occupied
■ ■ pii r at the Baptist church
Surdav A gmidattendance was
out to W' ship, and both morn-
mg a: . rung services were a
great ;■ '• t ial uplift to all.
Ves. from a commercial stand-
! iture looms up bright on the future horizon, and thank
go dm >s grand old Shackelford county n going to come intu her
own. We have had good rains, and next year these fertile valleys
are going to g,v* up their fatness. Let's take courage. tXi*
brave soldier boys will be home in the near future. The cotton
spmd es and factory wheels are going to bu/.^ and instead of the
march and Tamp of vast armies, and the shedding at human
blood, we will heir the song of th- factory hands, and the tout oi
the engine of commerce will be heard around the world. Great is
America!
A. V. Huyler of New York J. L>. Nash was here from Saa
li.d • I. A. King has renewed t itv came in this week on hts Antonio this week looking after
The Carey well in Stephens
county, Sec. 0-. Boca o, wa.- W. .J. Dodson v sited Henry ins cousin. Hood Berry man, at |1!s ption to the News. annual visit to Texas. He is an his land interest in this county,
brought in this week, producing j Ford headquarters at L^allaa this Kemp. That's the idea folks, aiso •< • us it to his father. u|j time friend of W. I. Cook J. l>. says that Shackelford
200 barrels. Thia looks >od t . week, to witness the Ford Tract- spread the \.*w - about grand tiev. Ja< ' King at Mountain- md Eli Meyer. Will spend the county look# good to him -
of Albany's oil spec ilators. or demonstration. old Shackelford county. view, Arkansas. winter in Texas. of course he is homesick.
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McCarty, Richard H. The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1918, newspaper, November 15, 1918; Albany, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth393503/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.