TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PRESCOTT DAILY NEWS APRIL 30, 1918 P. 2
Camp Gordon, Ga.
April 28, 1918.
Just a few words to the citizens of Nevada county. Why not buy just one or more, if possible, of the third Liberty Bonds? Don’t you think you are living in one of the best countries in the world? Don’t you think you have the best mother or sister or wife in the world? Don’t you want this country to win the war? Buy a bond; help pay for railroad expense of transporting powder and lead to whip the Huns. Do you want the Germans to cross over here, take their bayonets jab your little boy and nail him to a tree as they have done in Belgium? Do you want the Germans to treat your mother, wife or sister like brutes? They done this to the people in Belgium. Have you got a boy or a grandson in the army? Don’t you want to see him come back to this country? Don’t you think he could do his part better if he knew the people back at home were doing all they could in helping pay the expense of feeding and clothing your boys from Nevada county. Buy Bonds. For if evre German captures Paris, France, they can come over to America and try to whip this country. The Germans have maps of every training camp in this whole country and all the railroads. This war is just beginning: the worst is yet to come. Think it over and help us poor and needy soldiers to protect your homes and your freedom. Do you want to pay German tax? You might think for a moment that this country might get whipped, and that the bonds wouldn’t be any good. But what would your money be worth? What would your wealth amount to? Nothing. So buy a bond, and may God rfom above help us and you to win the war. God bless your, one and all.
Yours respectfully,
Calvin Lester Gipson.
NOTES: Gipson was born on October 11, 1885 in Prescott, Arkansas and died on August 13, 1933. He is buried in the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Herington, Kansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas soldier serving in the 64th Transportation. He departed New York on May 19, 1918 onboard the Louisville. He was serving as a Private in Co. D, 30th Ammunition Train, 82nd Division. He returned from Brest, France, departing on June 29, 1919 onboard the George Washington. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on July 7, 8, 1919. He was serving in the 64th Transportation Corps.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Camp Gordon, Ga.
April 28, 1918.
Just a few words to the citizens of Nevada county. Why not buy just one or more, if possible, of the third Liberty Bonds? Don’t you think you are living in one of the best countries in the world? Don’t you think you have the best mother or sister or wife in the world? Don’t you want this country to win the war? Buy a bond; help pay for railroad expense of transporting powder and lead to whip the Huns. Do you want the Germans to cross over here, take their bayonets jab your little boy and nail him to a tree as they have done in Belgium? Do you want the Germans to treat your mother, wife or sister like brutes? They done this to the people in Belgium. Have you got a boy or a grandson in the army? Don’t you want to see him come back to this country? Don’t you think he could do his part better if he knew the people back at home were doing all they could in helping pay the expense of feeding and clothing your boys from Nevada county. Buy Bonds. For if evre German captures Paris, France, they can come over to America and try to whip this country. The Germans have maps of every training camp in this whole country and all the railroads. This war is just beginning: the worst is yet to come. Think it over and help us poor and needy soldiers to protect your homes and your freedom. Do you want to pay German tax? You might think for a moment that this country might get whipped, and that the bonds wouldn’t be any good. But what would your money be worth? What would your wealth amount to? Nothing. So buy a bond, and may God rfom above help us and you to win the war. God bless your, one and all.
Yours respectfully,
Calvin Lester Gipson.
NOTES: Gipson was born on October 11, 1885 in Prescott, Arkansas and died on August 13, 1933. He is buried in the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Herington, Kansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas soldier serving in the 64th Transportation. He departed New York on May 19, 1918 onboard the Louisville. He was serving as a Private in Co. D, 30th Ammunition Train, 82nd Division. He returned from Brest, France, departing on June 29, 1919 onboard the George Washington. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on July 7, 8, 1919. He was serving in the 64th Transportation Corps.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS