Interesting Letter from Nobel Whitlock
San Diego Cal., Feb 27, 1921

Dear Dad and all: -

Sunday and setting around so will drop you a few lines. We came back to port Friday,
after three days out to sea. We only went out about two hundred miles to some islands and had target practice. We will go out again this Tuesday, in fact I think they will
go out every week for practice until after final practice. I am acting gun captain and if I can qualify that will mean then more a month.

I went ashore last night for the first time in San Diego, it is a pretty city and I think I will like it alright when I get acquainted, but it won't be like Se3attle for I believe Seattle is the best city for a job on the coast for a good time.
San Diego is a hundred miles from Los Angels and sixteen miles from Tiwania Mexico.

You should see me now, after being in Seattle so long my face was white and tender and after three days here my face and hands are a solid blister from the sun. I will be all right as soon as I get toughened up again. I am still thinking about getting out and will if you think I can make sixty a month there.
Don't think I am disgusted with the Navy. Naturally you know when you see some of the boys paid off and you know you can if you will put in for it you think about it lots and think how you would like to go down the trail home, and on the other hand the navy is a good
fast easy life and good time when pay comes around. I am a a rated man and the petty officers have quarters to themselves and they don't have to clean their apartments, of course I work some but not much just when I want too. Saturday morning put on our
dress suit and stand inspection at nine thirty then there is nothing to do until Monday. We don't start working eight in the morning and have an hour for dinner and quit at four and go ashore if I want to. Why haven't I got a good job.

When you write tell me how prospects are. Oranges are 5c a dozen here. Orange orchards, grape vineyards, cabbage and lots of other vegetables all the from Sacramento here are in acres like wheat, oats and cotton there and pretty palms along the drive way.

We are going in full commission March 1st and stand by for a trip to Australia, don't know whether we will make it or not.

Love to all, Curley.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, March 11, 1921
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

CARROLLTON SAILOR RETURNING TO NAVY
Noble Whitlock has been in telegraphic conversation with his ship this week, and by the time the Chronicle is off the press he will be speeding to join his comrades at San Francisco.
Young Whitlock is on the Steamship Texas, plying Pacific waters. The Texas anchored at San Francisco June 10 and while waiting for re-sailing, he has been visiting in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.
He has had wonderful experiences but he says in nine months when his time is out that he will locate at or near Carrollton, that this is the best part of the World

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, June 16, 1922
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

A burglar, so it seems, made bold to enter the Noble Whitlock home Monday night. Mrs. Whitlock happened to be awake and awoke her husband and he in turn called the Jake Gravley home. Heavy artillery was brot forth and the ammunition wagon placed into position and then the charge was made.  The burglar escaped and may not have any marks of conflict as a memento of the fray, but if so it is doubtless due to the fact that no smoke screen was thrown about the scene before the heavy barrage was launched. We wouldn't like to play the trade of burglar in that neighborhood and so are not going to recommend it to the profession, for when Jake gets that "gat" in action there is likely to be blood spilled.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, August 24, 1928
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

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