Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1918 — GET READY TO CELEBRATE [ARTICLE]

GET READY TO CELEBRATE

BETTER GET HOME BAND SHINED UP AND TUNED TO HIGHEST PITCH. ♦ — Rev. W. Garnett Winn, formerly pastor of the First Christian church of this city, but now doing Y. M. C. A. war work overseas, royally entertained a wounded Rensselaer soldier. The following is extracted from a letter written by Fred Hamilton in London on October 19: Just thd, odd few lines to let you know that I am surely enjoying one of the happiest weeks I have spent on this side of the pond with our very good friend, Bro. Winn. It is one of the greatest treats I have had to be able to spend a week away from the hospital, military life and all th 6 other minor phases of war life, which really has been a great bore to me since I received my wound last month, I was, to use a slangy phrase, “fed up” and, well, 1 just could not tolerate the hospital life any longer. Mr. Winn was surely a “good fellow” in asking me to enjoy the week wuth him. I am at present sitting in his htitie office, which is in one end of his Y. M. C. A. building. He is out with the boys preparing to open up the canteen. As for myself I have been eating like a starved lion and sleeping like Old Rip Van Winkle during the past few days, and lam feeling like a fighting cock, barring my jaw, which is still wired up and is rather tender. But why worry about such a lucky wound as I have, when thousands of other boys have not enjoyed the luck I have? So we snail forget that I have been wounded and, well, carry on, on in the same old smiling way, which at present is winning the war. Speaking of war, which I hate to talk about, we are surely handing it to the dirty Huns in great style and I really believe you had better get the old home band shined up and tuned to the highest pitch for the boys will be marching home soon with Old Bill and Young Willie’s scalps.