"Quite a spirited debate took place at New Liberty school house on the night of December 24th on the question of the Woman (sic) Suffrage question, Sam R. Duvall and Azro Hadley representing the affirmative and Rev. Roy Hadley and J.V. Dudley the negative." [It's quite possible that J.V. (Jan Vetter) Dudley was the Crocus correspondent for the News at the time.--Jim]

"Prof Sam R. Duvall will teach in Georgia during the ensuing winter and spring. We understand that he will again engage as principal of our school in 1916. We are glad to have him with us again for a finer gentleman or better teacher than Prof. Duvall cannot be found."

"Tells an Interesting Story

Mr. Sam Duvall, who received his education at the Lindsey-Wilson, and also taught in the institution a year [I found no other reference to him teaching at the LWTS--Jim], returned from overseas last week, having spent eleven months in France.

He was in fifteen battles, went over the top, and escaped without being wounded. At one time he escaped getting hurt, a heavy pair of gloves and his woolen cap protected him. In entering a battle he removed his gloves and cap, putting them in a pocket at his side. He had not been fighting long before a piece of shell struck the pocket, going through his cap and gloves and his clothing, stopping when it reached his body. He is satisfied that the gloves and cap saved him from either being killed or wounded. ["Over the top" was an expression used when soldiers scrambled out of the trenches -- literally, went over the top -- to charge the enemy.--Jim]

The army was so busy fighting, he says, he often went a day and night without eating, and when he did eat, it had to be done hurriedly while the fighting proceeded. He says the day they broke the Hindenburg line, the fighting commenced early in the morning, the sky being clear and bright, but in a few hours perfect darkness reigned, the smoke from the big guns and smaller arms creating it, and they fought without seeing until the line was broken.

He was also in Belgium and he says the horrible stories told of how Germans treated women and children was not overdrawn; that he saw a number of little boys without hands and feet, they having been chopped off by the cruel Huns.

He stated that quite a number of little Belgium boys were brought across by American soldiers who would adopt them.

Mr. Duvall is now with his wife at Glenville, this county."