War Relics On Display at Hamilton-Liles, Monroe Hardware Co., November 1920

War relics of all kinds, German gas masks, shells, pistols, automatic rifles, canteens, French army caps, trench knives, army shoes, and German pipes were on display in the show windows of Hamilton-Liles Company and the Monroe Hardware Company yesterday. Both firms had a very interesting collection, and hundreds viewed them. A postman's strap, said to have been taken off the first German captured, and a necktie made out of a rattlesnake killed by the late T.J. Gordon on his farm in Oklahoma, which were in the hardware store's window, prompted quite a good deal of discussion. (From the Monroe Journal, Nov. 12, 1920)