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STONE COUNTY
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It’s been mighty chilly the past
few days and we are thankful
for a nice warm fire in the basement
wood burning stove. My
husband loves the warmth plus
watching the bright red flames
through the glass door of the
stove. I thought he was a little
over zealous when he started
gathering firewood in the summer
months. He checked with
a family about a block from us
that had several trees still down
and uncut from the ice storm
and they were grateful to him
for cutting up and hauling the
wood away. Another neighbor
two doors down told him he
was welcome to his wood, so he
brought it home and stacked it
up, also, with the help of Grandsons
Joel and Caleb. We ended
up with a nice wood pile, hopefully
enough for the winter, and
then he up and had his heart attack.
It was sort of the same way
with the flea market booth. We
gave notice that we would be
packed up and out by August 1-he
had the heart attack on August
22. It was almost as if we were
forewarned to get these things
taken care of. We are extremely
fortunate, though, because if we
should run out of wood, Son Earl
has acreage that provides plenty
and grandsons Joel and Caleb
are really good at helping cut and
stack what is needed. I don’t
know how much a cord of wood
costs nowadays, but I’ll bet it’s
pretty pricey.
Joel and Caleb came in on Saturday
and helped my husband
start cleaning up the yard. The
City had been here a few weeks
back and trimmed the trees that
were growing around the utility
lines, but we still had a lot
of trimming and pick up work
in the back yard. We also have
an abundant amount of leaves in
the front yard, but they didn’t get
that far.
I spent part of the day Friday
helping set up the Pathways
church bazaar and reported for
duty at 7:30 Saturday morning.
We had several booths set up and
served a turkey dinner from 11:00
to 1:00. Some of the ladies had
quilted a pretty big quilt, which
was raffled off, and they had a
silent auction for four decorated
Christmas trees. We closed and
packed everything that was left
over at 2:00. On Sunday morning
they announced that they sold
all of the baked goods, candy and
apple butter, served around 200
turkey dinners, made a little over
$600 on the quilt raffle and ended
up with $6,100 which will go
into the United Methodist Women’s
account and be spent on
by Margaret Dillabough
809 East Hill
Springfield, Mo. 65803
missions and other worthwhile
projects. I think that’s pretty
good for such a small church.
Tomorrow, November 11, is
Veterans Day. We have just come
through a somewhat tumultuous
election, and we all need to pray
for our president elect and for this
country. I certainly hope that a
lot of the bitterness and nastiness
of the campaigns will be forgotten
and that we can move on and
strive to make this a better country.
With Veteran’s Day coming
right after the election, we need
to reflect and consider the sacrifices
that so many have made
for this nation. A clip of one of
Ronald Reagan’s Veteran’s Day
speeches was played at church
yesterday and one statement that
he made was that those who gave
their lives for this country actually
gave up two lives--the one
they were living when they went
off to serve our country and the
one they would have had if they
had come back.
I had family members in both
the First and Second World
Wars--my grandfather and father.
I do not remember either
of them talking that much about
their war experiences and wish
now that I had been more inquisitive
and had asked more
questions. Of course I find that I
have that same wish about many
other things now that everyone is
gone.
Yesterday, I picked up a little
booklet that I had put back without
looking through it. I knew
it had pictures in it, but was surprised
at the rest of the contents.
First off, was a Registration Certificate
that says: “To Whom it
may concern, Greetings:
That in accordance with the
proclamation of the President of
the United States, and in compliance
with law, Ernest Hair,
Browns Spring, Mo, Precinct
(unreadable) County of Stone,
State of Mo, has submitted himself
to registration and has by me
been duly registered this 5th day
of June 1917. Signed by M. M.
Cobb, Registrar.” My Pa Hair
would have been 26 years old
when he registered on that summer
day. According to Wikipedia,
we did not enter the war
until April of 1917. Within two
months men were being registered
for the draft and within
three months after the registration
Pa received a pink post card
from the War Department postmarked
Sept 17 in Galena. This
card states: “By direction of the
Secretary of War, you are hereby
ordered to report to the office of
this Local Board at 8 a.m. on the
21 day of Sept, 1917 for military
duty and for transportation to
the Army mobilization camp at
Camp Funston, Kansas. From
the date herein specified for you
to report, you will be in the military
service of the United States
and subject to military law. Failure
to report or unpunctuality are
grave military offenses punishable
by court martial. Willful
failure to report with intention
to evade military service constitutes
desertion, which is a capital
offence in time of war. Present
yourself at the precise hour
specified in order that you may
not begin your military record in
the service of your country with
a delinquency. You will be held
under the orders of this board until
the hour of departure of your
train. During this period the Local
Board will furnish you food
and lodging. If you live within
one hour’s travel of the office of
the Local Board, you may obtain
permission to sleep and eat at
home, but only if you fill out and
forward to the office of the Local
Board at once the printed application
for this permission at the
end of this sheet. You will not
be permitted to take with you on
the train anything but hand baggage.
You do not need bedding
or changes of clothing except as
specified below. You may take
with you only the following articles:
Soap, shaving accessories,
comb and brush, toothbrush
and tooth powder, towels, underclothing
and socks; and if you
desire, changes of collars and
shirts, but you will have no use
for these after arrival at the mobilization
camp. Since you will
not be permitted to retain any
trunks after your arrival at the
railroad station, the articles listed
above should be brought in a
hand bundle. If you desire to do
so, you may return the civilian
clothes you are wearing when
you arrive at the mobilization
camp to your home by express
or otherwise, but if you desire
to make no such arrangement it
will be better to appear in civilian
clothes that you do not care
to keep. (Dated Sept 17, 1917
- Local Board for Stone County,
Mo. Signed by J. M. Flood and
Lewis L. Moore.”
My grandfather would have
still been living at home at that
time, and I have no idea where
he was working. He was a carpenter
by trade, in later years.
But, can you imagine how he
and the others who were drafted
must have felt when they read
the words on that card. Their
whole world was turned upside
down in just a matter of a few
months. I wonder if they were
excited, apprehensive or exactly
what went through their minds.
When I lived in Abilene, Kansas,
Pa came to visit one time and
wanted to tour Fort Riley, Kansas,
which was originally Camp
Funston. Of course, there was
absolutely nothing familiar to
him as that would have been in
the early 1960’s, over forty years
after he was there.
From Camp Funston he was
sent to New York City where
he boarded the U.S.S. Prinz
Friedrich Wilhelm. He was in
Compartment H1, Located on
H Deck Bunk No. (unreadable)
Washroom No. 1, Latrine No. 1.
Abandon Ship Mustering Station
No. 45. He was in the 342nd
Field Artillery with the rank of
Cpl. and there are leave papers
for Aix les Baines, France, the
Savoie Leave Area and a Coblenz
Leave Card for Holsthung,
Germany. There are pictures of
him in full uniform, holding his
rifle, and pictures of him by horse
drawn artillery. He apparently
wrote to Ma all the time he was
in the service, because there is
one post card addressed to Miss
Merry from Ernest. The little
green booklet that held all of
these papers is titled “The American
Soldiers’ Souvenir of Aixles-Bains”
and was published by
The American Y.M.C.A. It has
my grandfather’s name written
in the front with a date of Dec.
27, 1919. The opening page of
the booklet states that Aix-les-
Bains was the first place opened
as a leave area for American
soldiers in France. Although I
sometimes complain about all of
the “stuff” Ma kept, I must admit
there are some real treasures.
If Mother kept this much of
Daddy’s military stuff, it somehow
got lost in the shuffle. I
know he was in the Philippines,
but like so many other men who
served our country, he didn’t talk
about his military service all that
much. I can remember Mother
crying at night when Daddy was
gone, as I am sure many other
wives and children did. I guess
we all long for the day when,
“They will beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into
pruning hooks. Nation will not
take up sword against nation nor
will they train for war anymore.”
(Isaiah 2:4)
“Our values, our principles and
our determination to succeed as a
free and democratic people will
give us a torch to light the way.
And we will survive and become
the stronger--not only because of
a patriotism that stands for love
of country, but a patriotism that
stands for love of people.” Gerald
Ford.
Until next week, Vaya Con
Dios.
The Four S’s for Young Drivers
Seat belts: Everybody wears one.
Speed: Keep to the posted limits.
Sight: Eyes on the road, not on distractions in the car.
Sound: Deal with anything that makes a sound only when
off the road and stopped. No calls, text messages or changing
the CD’s while moving in traffic.