r'* J* ' '?kv5&3^ RPB^V :>-^:;-!^B t?^ . ~^W|WffWiTr^MB EeSffi ;. J ^ v^^8B8tHMMy^^BI^BHHBH8B^HBl^HB^BBS^B IBSBSt''. ' x:*.'-: v': * ". - v;> : S.v^MK^*>' S:?:I?':?^*-^M V' '" "' - {.i' ' . |k__? I I jp' . "'''''" Ov* tfvv^ . J g|?v ?2^ " ' ~ i to' I j you Avrote your letter. I cont sup- 1 j pose 1 we at anyvthbre I dont generally;" go very far from my company as onefi j never tkricrtv -when they might want jJ him for something and besides I dont j * | enjoy running around over" here as I 1 ' cat ..talk to-the people. But the poo* J ; pie are: very land to us in Germany. | No Maggie X havent heen any of the H^Ani. iWA? 'cnnltuft nf latAlv T SJ1.W tWO of - the Price boys several weeks ago 1 j but it seems to me I toW you about 3 :]seem?r tjiein in one of my previous let 1 -; tors. J didnt get a chance to talk to "; them any just saw them in passing < -yaha*dropped my address, to Daniel and .i he wrote, to me once he was getting j along alright .then.' I answered his j1 w Ifctter but hjvent heard from him any j i : :uore. ' ' ~ j1 Well hfaggie as there is nothing j else this time that I can think of will j 'j; Close, with love and best wishes, HBD.And hoping to hear from you soon .rand a long letter I remain as ever. m Yours Truly, . i Oliver C. Taylor. ; } ' | * "? -V' ; lit ^va.val Training -Camp .t' Charleston, S. C? February .5, .1319. : Dear Editor: ' Will you kindly allow, me space in < ; your paper- for these few lines; it's! : only a- suggestion, though. I think it j V worthy o-ne to begin with I'm not : b an educated, man, and can only ex--j : p'-ain my subject in a crude way, as} . the reader wijl soon. note,. though I j | hope we will all understand alike. In] . hlthe navy, and Army are a large body, ^ of men, men who are some timeh j spoken of as the "Cream of our Na- j ; tion,' and I'm greatly proud to be one] among then).; yes I an proud to say; f'Tiat I answered my country's call,, ] giving up civil iife and all that was | dear to me to defend my country's; I honors, and if there is anything in I the world I detest More than I do m) "Kaiser*' It must be an out and out Id "slacker", In my estimation, he's - a. te nian without heart, soul or principle, "1 and holds .nothing dear but his greedy a (worthless self. nW to an enlisted I. man there's only one way to distihy ie-guish a slacker from a compartriot jaixd that's -by the. uniform Though 11 I'm proud to say for one boy in dvl*s}ifian's tha.: I'm sure he would have en 'C | listed if conditions would, have per mitted him to do so, and I knowid | there's thousands of others like him, ?c that are taking the responsibility of m j looking out for needh of the dear ones j left behind. While the brother goes to away to face foe; this particular case kc j is in my home, and"-I thinly that there at j should be something given these i- j "many boys" to distinguis them as the. as -f .. . v ?u j ennsiea jhljs.u *1 iuc?u, ..v~? i-! companion'4 for "slavery loving in ! friends" who's despised. .. Id! Respectfully, 1- { A. T. Taylor HA1CUSN.RF ^ id Somewhere in France es Saturday night, Dec. 28, 1918 J to Dea r, mother and all: I I will write you a few lines tonight St-' to let you hear from, me again. I am well and hope this finds you all well, s- 'J clo not know anything new to write m you. Xmas has come and gone and I st hardly realize it. We had plenty of ut course but nothing like at home. I y was expecting a package from home j | hut dont guess you all sent it without re | a permit and we could not get them, in j ;h i time to send you. Anyway we had a j tir ] fairly good Xmas. How was it with ijyou all? Well mama I'm still work- ! ot ing with the cooks. Have * a fairly | id good job. How has the winter been j be over there t It has been raining over bor*? fnr a.Vvmit n mnn+h and is still I >3 raining. I havent saw the sun only id about the time it rises and sometimes i<5 just before it sets. You can imagine j about what kind of a country this is. | ie While I am writing this my friend J w Bonnet from Spartanburg brings me /e a piece of cake his mother sent him. j at It is fine and makes us both home I ot sick. He just ree'd it tonight. Do ie j you all hear->from Lloyd? Hope he j m will be at home before long. "Well at mama I saw a copy of the Newberry at Herald and News this evening printed w at Newberry, S .C. A copy was hent to th Vance Miller in my company. He is from Newberry county. I was glad ie (to read a paper from so near home. re Miller is Mr. Andrew Millers son guess you know him. Well mama I dont know what to write that would inter! est you. I guess you are anxious for me to get home and I am just as anxi/Mtc ac vrm arA but I rsint snv whfn Til get back. Am expecting to be at nome by early spring anyway. and hftfift ihk will find VOU oil the same. I have not heard from you all in some time, only some old letters that'had' been forwarded to me while I wah in the hospital, -we are getting- papers but, no letters, the last letter I receivd was written November 12th received that one bfor we left for our hike. T am now in Germany near fthe Rhine River, dont know how long we wi!ll be here, but I hope that we wont be here very long for this sure is 1 a poor country and poor people. I have never saw any f the 'Lexington boys dont think that any of them !or in the. Thirty Second Division and they are the only boys I ever see, I think that we have some boys from every State in our Division. I am with boys from. Michigan. Seven of us are in a house together we sure do have some good times. Guess that some of the boys are home for Christmas, saw in the paper that the boys from England had gone home. 'Dont know what we will have for dinner they dont have Christmas *****??mmmammm?mmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmtmm ' ' Millinery Ai i OPEI | Thursday and Fi IN ' t . ! | G. W. Lindi I A select stock of new] offered at a price tt i i i i ! \ Lowman M i ; Chapin, ?ir r-'i'-'' \. V ' . " ' o^i- 'J^oro i>>re sve;-Aqv r-But ire are aroiiig to Imrv'a Hr t\m?>Mhight the band is w;uri'S"to p*ay for 'hs , I -tf-as-Jat. tjsf f rc-ht ait'd in tho last? battle.'and. f .api. sue giad that I- was ( there, $iar] that this war ist over too. i I flont kiiow; when I vnR get home1. ' at tiara k that I win 1>e home by; spring' if' not before, and I dont care how soon for I have seen s much ah j care to see. 'fhey have gave all f us new clothes ! ~ - J Tl.T 1 A _ i crtilU UtH.il Jveus. Will close for this time hope to get I some mail socn and my box too. Shclton E. Corley Moutierchome, France". Monday, December 30, 19IS. Dear sister: I will now try and write you a few j lines to let you all hear from me once ; again and to know that I am well and j feeling fine and sure .hope this will j find you all the same. Well every- j thing is about like always over here, j We are still railroading here yet but j cannot say how-long we will be here j yet. But I hope our time is not so 1 awful long. Wo are having warm j weather here yet and just lots of rain i and nice mud. I never saw so much j mud in all of ray life. But I hope we can leave this mud I behind some day. Well I guess you | ail had a very nice Xmas we had a { good dinner for Christmas chicken ! and pumpkin pie. seemed a whole I lot like Christmas here but not so much as at home I guess it is getting real cold at hotne now. Tell James Bart and L#ula hello for mo arid that I would Ike to see them also give Boyd ; and Bessie Lee my love and best regards to all will close for this hoping to hear from you ail soon. Your loving brother. P.vt. Hamilton H. Mathias. . FRANCE. Dec. 25, 19IS. My dear mother:: Here is just a few lines after a battle or Ins! drive rather which I was in on one of the'most active fronts j and coming out all right without a i scratrh add since which we have done Quite a bit of hiking and still I am get i ting along fne hope that each and all j are getting along alright and may en ; joy a 'nverry Xmas. / Your devoted son Pvt. Jessie L. Keisler , December 26, 19IS. My Dear friend: I will write you a few lines to let j you hear from me. This leaves mc well and'I hope these few lines will find you all well to Robert. Say I guess you boys are having some time now and I sure do wish that I was with you now. Say Rob, I answered your letter a few days ago and I guess you have received it by this time and f I would like to get home while the war is over. But it looks like that we wont get ljome any sooner than any of the ! rest. I understood when the waa* was ! over that we would get home then.But 11 dont think that we will. I sure did ; get home sick the other day when I | began, to think about Christmas you boys are Having- tnere ana we VVIpi I here far away from you all. I sure was home sick then. Say I have heard from Elvin and I have sent him a let ter. -But I have not heard from him yet. 'But I am looking to hear from him anj- time and when I hear from him I am going to get a furlough and go to see him. Say Rob you tell the boys to do * all they can for us so we can get back home. Tell them to do . tvin hMt for u<; that we want to come home now if I could see you I could tell you more than I can in this letter You tell Sam that T get my paper alright from him and I will pay him as soon as I get back home. So I guess I will cl&se. Answer me soon , by by friend Rob. , XEW FLOWER S?ET>S. A large assortment of New Crop Flower Seeds grown by the well known flower seedsmen Mhndeville & King. Popular priced packages. Harmon J Drug Co. imouncement ) j iiiiBiiiiiiiHaiiBUHnimmiiHira^ MING | iday, Feb. 20-21 I 7 i rHE I er Building i > I and fresh goods are _ lat will please you. / I ? illinery Co. S. C. ' __ _ 1:1 i __?? * Charlton Lorick, Ellis Elders and Ira Harrison Make Bold Dask for Freedom. Charlton Lorick, Ellis Eldors and Ira Harrison three of the five boys who were arrested at Batesburg last Wednesday morning on the charge of robbing two stores in that town, made a bold dash for liberty Friday evening a'bout 7:00 o4clock while sheriff was at supper. The youths occupied the same celt and the sewerage was on the connecting wall between the one they occupied and one adjoining. The young men removed this sewerage which made an opening in the wall large enough for a small person tn> soufteze through and reach the ad joining room Which had a defective window. Lorick; Elders and Harrihon crawled through this small opening and entered the other cell. Here they twisted the.lock ofg the window and jumping 4o the ground helow th.ey succeeded in leaving the vicinity of the jail without 'being discovered. Sheriff Miller entered the cell a few minutes later and found the other two boys Luke I^andoff and R. M. Cross sitting by a table. They too had intended leaving with the. other three but the sheriff came in before they could make their getaway. Sheriff Miller immediately 'phoned and telegraphed all nearby towns and is work ing hard to lorate their whereabouts and 'bring them back to jail. Landoff and Cross have been carried to the State penitentiary to serve their sentence of 180 days.All five were taken to the county Chain Gang Friday but were refused by the officials there because they, had not sufficient suppiles''and facilities to care for them. V MRS. SIS AX c. GRIFFITH Ms. Sttsan C Griffith died at her home 1800 Gadsden street Thursday afternoon. 'Mrs. Griffith was the wife of Capt: D J Griffith, former sup erintendent of the South Carolina pen itentary; treasurer of Lexington coun tv and also state senator from this county. Mrs. Griffith was a native of Lexington county and was before ! her mayriage Miss Susan Hook. ?>ne ! was first married to Maj. Edward Kin [sler of this county; who died some years ago. In. 1908 she married Capt. Griffith. Mrs. Griffith was loved and honored by all who knew her and her death has caused universal sorrowr with a j larg circle of frieiids and relatives, j She is survived by her husband, two [sisters. Mrs, John M. Caughman of i Lexington and Mrs. R N Senn of New ! Brookland. Her only child Daniel TV Kinsler having preceeded her in dectti several years. The funeral services were conducted from the residence Sunday afternion at 2 o'clock by th Rev. C. A Freed pastor of Ebenezer Lutherat church. Interment followed at th< old Kinsler home in Lexington countj I six miles from Columbia. J The fplolwingr acted as pall bearers: Honorary W. A. Clark; Gen. Wi lie Jones; Albert Taylor; G A Guig nard Allen Wyse; A. L Hook John F Livingston and Frank Farrell: active Dr. Hook; of Eastover; Sheard Hool of Eastover; Joseph M. Caughman oi Lexington; J. Simon Caughman o; Lexington; O. E. Leaphart of Lexing ton and B Frank Dent of Columbia. j FOUR KILLED IX PIEDMONT WRECK | Greenville. Feb. 8.?Four person: ( were killed, six seriously injured an< ! fifteen others received ininor mjune: , today when a northbound train or the Piedmont and Northern railway jumped the track on a trestle neai j Chick Spring's. The dead are James ! E Tomason, 11 years old. of Greent ville. kileld instantly; E. W. Robt i Easley died at the has? hospital, a' [ t'amp Sevier; John P. Bright a sailoi j 18 years old of Greer; and M. TT. "Wal| ker, age unknown, thought to be from ; Spartanburg county. ! The seriously injured are; Mrs. Ij B Thomason, mother of the hoy killed who was injured internally; Mrs. Biz| die Boone, Greer, carried to the Camp Hospital; Captain John W. Will bank Casual Company Camp Sevier, home in Union, S. C.; J F Randolph, Green viRe whose hip was fnictured and who wah said tonight to be in a critical condition; J. F. Mann Greenville, badly injured; Thomas M Farrington, Pittsburgh, Pa., fractured hip and internal injuries. The cause of the wreck, beyond the jumping of the track by the train has not 'been ascertained. An ivestigation has been started. COTTON CONVENTION WHiG BE IIEIj1> THURSDAY Bexingtgon Dispatch-News; r 'Hcrin urirod to give notice of jl iiavu meeting- of State Cotton Growers Con vontion to he held in Columbia on next Thursday. Feb. 13th at about 1:30 P. M Every farmer; banker: merchant and everybody interested in price of cotton in Lexington county is urged to attend and consider himself a delegate from this county. A full attendance is desired. D. M. CROSS OX. HOST?A 1519 Auto, number attach ed to rear body gate of Ford truck lost between Ibexington and depot. Bring and get reward. Harmon Drug Co. jL . , - ; Would Restrict Power of Sweiu ingeir of Browii and Stokes luring: Sharp Issue In House of Representatives f * The Davis bill to remove the regis! i .-alien burc-u for teachers fr?m the 1 State department of education was j sent to the third reading in the house I of representatives last night.This bill i created a iivelv Joha^o on ?ne fl/.r of i the house. ' Representative i Dreher of Lexington, in championing | the measure, said the house ought to | call for an investigation of the office' ! of John E Swearingen, State SuperinJ tendent of education and to summons , George W. Brown of prosperity, form ! or State mill school supervisor under ? Mr. Swearingen and put Mr. Brown, Mi* Swearigeh, ~W August Shealy, the | assistant State superintendent of edu! cation and Ruqco Gunter inspector of I elementary schools on the stand. It i was charged that Mr. Swearigen is auI tocratic in his direction of the office { and that the bureau should be- remov ! ed to limit Mr. Swearingen's power, i Representatipe Orr of Pickens Coun i ty argued for the continuance of the j bureau under Mr. Svvea.ringn, .referI ring to, the recent dismissal of Dr. W j S Stokes by the State superintendent ! of education, it being charged that Dr. ! Stokes approved of teachers changing places for hotter salaries even after having accepted other positions.These ! charges were substantiated by affidafvits submitted to Mr. Swcaringen. Mr j Orr took the position that to pass the I meysiire which was introduced at Dr. i Stokes' request was slapping Mr. j Swcaringen in the face and was an j effort of a -nan who. had been fired,to ; "fire the boss." The bill went to f third reading by an overwhelming majority. The house adjourned at 10 o'clock until 11 o'clock this morning. Members of the house returned to Cohimbia yesterday with a sharp axe, I and last night engaged in a somewhat i ruthless slaughter of pending measi ures. ? - . . - .1? c 'I'he Ill'St to meet tile iuh;?j> m gmu i hilation was the bill by W. W. John' * ; son to require ginners to keep separate and to gin and to-deliver to each person his own individual cotton. J Another bill of Statewide interest to be lost was the lade measure to proI vide for the introduction of courses of j physical education in all public ' schools. This was killed by a vote of ! 38 to 25. 11 A third) bill about which much interest centered was that by Represen| tative Mears of Fairfield to put all '. ;! male convicts 17 years old under the j control of the directors of the State ' j penitentiary. The bill was a companj ion measure to the somewhat compre11 tensive scheme for a Statewide system | of permanent highways, in that it was the purpose in abolishing the cou*ty - J haingangr plan to create a State road | building force to build these hard sgr *! faced roads. p*' 5j The Moisc bill to increase the sal7, aries of supreme and circuit court J judges, solicitors and court stenogra phers, the superintendent of the State *; penitentiary and the State game war-j den, received its third reading and - i was sent to the senate. I i Two important measures received c! second reading. One of these which f J will in all likelihood be enacted into ? {daw restricts textile plants and cotton " j mills in deducting from the wages of I employees by a system of docking. ' - ST ! JOHX D. HILLER SERIOUSLT INj JURED. 31 John D. Hiller; a prominent mer1 i chant farmer and business man of 3 j Chapin was seriously injured in an 1 i automobile accident Saturday night x ' J,.and is now at the Baptist Hospital r suffering from a crushed chest and > I fracture at the base of the skulL ! From the information gained it seems ' | that Mr. Hiller and his cousin Mr. t! John E. Dreher were making a trip f* | in Mr. Millers Chevrolet touring car ' to some neighbors house a short disi . lance away when the car skidded and J landing in a ditch choked down. Mr. '< l Hiller who was drdiving got out - | the car to crank it forgetting that boi had left it in gear when it knocked > | him down running over him crashing , his chest and fractnring his skull. Mr s ; lurcher being inexperienced in hand' ling automobiles was unable to get Mr. Hiller from under the car until ! he could go some distance to a house i Pillar i that Mr. Hiller died this morning at ' 4 o'clock. The funeral will be held ' this afternoon atT Chap in at 4 o'clock. FOUR AEROPLANES PASS OYHR LEXINGTON. i , j Friday morping about 8 o'clock tlie" j people of Liexington were startled by the humming of -aeroplane motors which caused alt who heard thorn to | ''look up.'' And when they did they i saw four real aeroplanes coming ; from the dirction of Columbia going I toward Augusta. It was later learned. that the battery of aeroplanes was in phn.rsre of Ma i Smith TT S. A and th'w I they were making a transcontinental' , I trip, having loft -San Diego, Oal. Vei comber 4th. flying to New York i? ! 55 hours and they are now on their | return. The Barre Hardware Co. will have a car of cedar shingles in a few days.* J