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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. ;
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.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
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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. <So ;
dont worry I'll be at home by and by.
id Arthur Arnold grot a letter from his
w sister toda^y the first one from home :
m since. he has been over here. He is <
11; here writing on th same table with me i
vr | tonight. wen mama i nope m ue ai
sr j home soon, and that this will find you
to j all well. If you dont hear from me in
iy ! a long- while dont fret uneasy,
ruj Your Loving" Son
m ! Arthur Huffstettler.
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January. 12. 1919.
Hear-Slaters: " ;
] wiH ansv/c-r your letter? received. :
Have' not received any mail from
hornet siilce I havd been over here un
til this month. Have a tetter written
Xov. 2nd; bet -29th; Dec. 2nd go yon
-ee that is the way I get my mail over
here tho' if you ail hear from me that;
is alright I am well and feeling fine, t
hope you all are too. You said Willie !
Miles was going" to. write me. tho* have j
iot heard from, him yet. You asked if
'Oovan;is with me yet no he is notj
nere. I left him at "Camp Hunt in the [
Southern part of France near Bor- .
leaux and now I'm in Luxemburg so
pou see we are a bit apart. But my
friend. Johniken, whom you met at '
-amp Jackson is with me yet
' Has mother received the souvenir j
which I sent her? Tell her not to i ;
woVry about me I'm alright. Mincy,
has Bub been to see you all yet?
When I get home I want you to be
ready to go with m6 to see him. Well, j
Alice you wanted me to tell you some j
thing about this co tin try. I can't
write much as it would take too long j
tho* will yrite some and tell more j
when I get home. r
It is very pleasant over here, I dont |
believe it is as cold as it is at home ;
Lho it is not many days that it , does :
not rain. The grass is as green as it!
was when we came, I've been looking'}
at every meadow to see v&u yy^th the |
old Cows, ha, ha!
The folks over here live in stone '
houses they have their horses, chickens
and all in the same home they live
in. You hardly ever see a. four-wheel
ed vehicle,, it is all two-wheeled carts.
At one place I was at T saw a Fren
yhmnn workimr mules like we work}
Cows over in the States.
I had 2t letter from, you tonight saying
jyken has .his discharge. It was
written Nov. 25. Tell him that T said \
for him to have the.Ford in good rhn- i
ning order till I get back and we will \
go around some. Tell Mrs. BusLee to [
sr vo that girl lor me until I get hack: j
1 cant sling their talk hut believe me j
there are plenty of them right here ;
in town. I hae not received any innii
from i^earl yet tho* I think I bdve :
written her. I "will write her tomor- j
rowv as I'm on guard and wont havej
much to do. I
I saw*. that JLaird boy. who lived j
near .Swansea,., cant think of his given j
name. That was about four weeks be j
fore the war was over. And I think
I saw. -Folder Wise tho am not certain j
as T was on the train and could not'
tell whether it was hftn or not. Do j
not see many of the 'boys we know, j
Tell Mr.' and Mrs. Bus bee to take |
care of themselves until I came back.
And tell Old Man Joe Hello for me.
Will stop for this time. Give my
best regards td all.
Tour loving brother,
Pvt. Samuel R, Pound, j
December 25, 191$. j
Deai* Mother: J
Will write you it few lines to let you
hear from me again. I'm getting
nflflno- fin> 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
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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 !
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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.
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A large assortment of New Crop
Flower Seeds grown by the well known
flower seedsmen Mhndeville & King.
Popular priced packages. Harmon
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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.
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; Would Restrict Power of Sweiu ingeir
of Browii and Stokes luring:
Sharp Issue In House of
Representatives
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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.
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'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.
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! 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
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the. Baptist Hospital in Columbia un
. dergoing treatment and it is feared
thai his recovery is very doubtful.
Since writing the above we lear* ,
> 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.
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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.*
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