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Athens Weekly Review
June 4, 1942
1918 Draftees Were Fed With Fried Chicken

Twenty-four years ago today -- May 25, 1918 -- one hundred and eight men entrained from Athens for training camp . . . to make the world safe for democracy . . . to get Kiaiser Bill . . . and avenge the rape of Belgium.

Today, these same men's sons are going to the training camps, but for a better reason, we all believe.

But said the Athens Review of May 25, 1918:

"At one o'clock all but six of the men had reported to the local board. The board was kept busy making out mobilization papers. . . and as each man was given his papers, he was released until 12 o'clock, at which time they were taken to the Deen Hotel for dinner. The large sample room was fitted up as a dining room in order to take care of the men at one time. A chicken dinner, with all its accompaniments was a treat, and the boys did full justice to it.

"During the day they were givin free access to the Dixie Theatre and Chautaugua through the courtesy of the management of those institutions.

"The special trains on which the boys leave will not arrive until late this evening. The men were divided into two squads with Charles Pinkerton as captain of one and John Cain as captain of the other."

The list of men as published by the Review nearly a quarter of a century ago follows:

Will Jack Richardson, Wichita Falls
William C. Couch, Chandler
Robert J. Cotton, Chandler
Alfred H. Meredith, Athens
George Van Zandt, LaRue
Willliam S. Beard, Athens R1
Arthur Rogers, Athens
Rufus E. Clayton, Athens
Hugh O. Jepson, Kemp, R5
J. M. Nowell, Chandler
Grover C. Joiner, Poynor
William H. Rounsavall, LaRue, R1
Emory McIrwin Belcher, Chandler, R2
Percy Leon Self, Trees, La., C/o Gulf Refining Co.
Joe Anthony, Eustace
Edgar R. Gates, Kemp r3
Rush Hanks, Athens
William L. Murphree, Chandler R2
Emery C. Ross Gould
Clarence R. Ballinger, Dallas
Gussie Derossette, Frankston
John A. Pinkard, Horatio Ark.
Jeff Lambright, Athens R5
Alex L. Clay, Malakoff
Charlie B. Pinkerton, Athens
Charlie E. Griggs, Palestine, (Gen. Delivery)
Charlie Nickell, Eustice R2
Willie C. Petty, Athens R4
William G. P. Coleman, Valiant, Okla.
James H. Colvin, Mabank
William H. Vermillion, Jiba, Tex.
John Ashmore, Malakoff, R1
Thomas Jefferson Pate, Athens R2
Lester B. Godwin, Kemp, R6
Ross S. Dorbandt, Athens
Max F. Herklotz, Malakoff
Davis Skiles, Malakoff
John Pyle, Kemp R5
Homer Burnham, Athens
William A. Yarbrough, LaRue
Jesse Trousdale, Kemp, R6
Frank L. Dossett, Poynor
Daniel F. Dean, LaRue
Thomas F. Weaver, Eustace
Charley O. Kemp, Athens
Lee Helton, Malakoff, R1
John S. Cain, Athens
Ira Allen Carroll, Brownsboro
Carl J. Howard, Athesn
Luther Drexler, Malakoff
Eugene H. Newbill, Athens R^
James R. Brewer, Chandler
Benjamin H. Snowden, Flint, Tex. R2
Roy Pond, Craft, Texas
Rufus S. Chitty, Mabank R@
Elmer A. Gartman, Chandler R3
Henry George Bell, Athens R1
Lester J. Arnold, Pauline
William Edwin King, Poynor
Thomas I. Pinkerton, Athens R2
Martin V. Neal, Kemp R^
R. A. Bryan, Malakoff, R2
William H. Chapman, Malakoff
Clarence Antle, Athens
George D. Beardsley, Millerton, Okla.
Jahue C. Griffith Eustace
Thomas E. Gilbert, Ringline Okla.
Burnie B. Forgev, Athens, R8
Kearby H. Fugate, Denton, Tex. 169 Hickory St.
Joe Byers, Kemp, R3
Samuel E. Burns, Mabank, R2
Tom W. Kirk, Athens, R2
Taylor Parkman, Eustace, R1
Bruce R. Forester, Ennis, Tex
Thomas M. Ball, Alto, Tex
Vasker S. Loden, Murchison
Wilson E. Gassett, Murchison
Archie E. Davis, Chandler
Robert Cason Kale, Athens R2
Vernon Moseley, eustace
Andy Hefner, Kemp, R6
George D. Jones, Athens
Harmon Price, Athens
George W. Kilebrew, Palestine, R4
Ed N. Dorbandt, Athens
Cary C. Williford, Frankston, R1
William F. Dodson, Malakoff
Adran D. Thornton, Kemp, R5
Thomas A. Graham, Eustace
Walter W. Mason, Kemp, R5
Chas. D. Brown, Chandler R1
Lawrence Haynie, Athens
William T. Bell, Athens R7
Robert P. Cotton, Athens R1
Robert R. Williams, Murchison
James A. Atwood, LaRue
Willie T. Campbell, Frandson, R1
Thomas W. Bristow, Athens R7
Virgil J. Clanton, Murchison
John A. Meazell, Kemp, R5
Joe Roberts, Athens R5
Charlie B. Chappell, LaRue
John G. Dean, Athens
Edgar Franks, Dallas, C/o 1900 2nd Ave.
Gordon W. Stephens, LaRue
Elbert E. Belcher, Athens, R8
Isaah D. Gardner, LaRue
William W. Dean, LaRue
Monnie F. Thomas, Athens
Henry Shelton, Trinidad
Emmett D. Cook, Athens, R1
Willis Davis, Kemp, R3
Thomas H. Morrison, Athens, R1
William P. Carroll, Athens, R1 c/o J. C. Bonner
Geo. B. Wood, LaRue R2
Daniel B. Bynum, Eustace
Hommer B. Spivey, Kemp, R5
William K. Gibbs, Athens
Arthur L. Dickerson, Poynor
Calarence L. Willis, Mabank, R2
ALTERNATES
Carl Fortenberry, Frankston, R1
Edwin Thomas Green, Eustace
James E. Townley, Murchison
Marvin Mat Snowden, Kemp, R5
Ande Carter, Brownsboro
Robert Taaffee, Malakoff, R1
James T. Hall, Kemp, R6
William I. Cole, Stockard
William A. Franklin, Murchison R2
Gus T. Dingler, LaRue.

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