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Hon. J. F. Grayden Qmckly Stopped Kidney Trouble. Another South Carolinian Testifies to Remarkable Efficicr.cy of New v.:, 1 Herb-and-fU ri Medicine. Gives v. Signed Interview. When the kidneys hurt and the back feels sore, don't get scared and nroceed to load the stomach with a lot of drugs that excite the kidneys and irritate the entire urinary tract. Keep the kidneys clean like you keep the bowels clean, by flushing them with a mild, harmless, natural medicine which will remove the body's urinous waste and1 stimulate the kidneys to their normal activity. The function of the kidneys is to filter the blood. Their part is hard rapd tiying. It is absolutely essen Mai tney. De. sept in ucaiuum tion at ail times. J. F. Grayden of Simpsonville, S. C., seems to have found a good natural way for keeping the kidneys and entire system in good healthful condition. In a signed interview he says in part: "I was run down in every way, I suffered terribly from kidney and bowel trouble and was also very bilious. I lost my appe tite and could not sleep. I saw in the newspapers where this new herb medicine Dreco was doing so much for people in the same condition as; I was and I decided that if it could help others it could help me. So Ij bought a bottle. This first bottle of Dreco has helped me more than any <-hing I ever took. AJtnougn i ain 60 years of age I am able to run athrashing machine and I will tell everyone what a wonderful medicine Dreco is." Dreco, referred to in the above statement is purely a combination of natural ingredients. It contains no mineral acids or dangerous metallic salts. It is easy to get, pleasant to take and its effects are quick, ? safe and sure. Dreco is now disposed by best druggists everywhere and is particu-j larly recommended in Abbeville by: P. R. SSneed.?Adv. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv V ^ V COLD SPRING NEWS. V; ^ s; vvvvvvvvvvvvvv s Cold Springs, Nov. 12.?Mr. and Mrs. J. Kay Carwile spent Monday with Mr. Andrew McMahan near Lowndesville. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Kay and children spent Monday at Mrs. F. E. Hagen's. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Culbreath and children spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Culbreath. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Anderson and J 1 baby spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. P. McMahan. Miss Francis Hagen spent Satur-j^ day night and Sunday with Miss Ellen Hagen. Mr. and Mrs. John McMahan and , i \ twa girls spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. P. McMahan. r Lieut. Allen G. King from Camp Hancock, visited home people Sunday. o Mr. Sam Culbreath has been con- j Anted to his bed with blood poison. His many friends hope he will soon ^ be well and out aeain. b VWWVVUVVWVV^ " -V \ d v BETHIA NEWS. g ^ V f VVVVVVVjt B - If Belhia 'Nov ^?gure was gladjv Monday when the news came.i "that the war had closed. Won't therej \ be rejoicing when our boys get back| i home telling what they have done < and seen. , < Alma Wlson returned back to |; school Monday at Abbeville. She has i been home for some time on ac- : :sv.rt of the flu. M Miss Maude Pettigrew has gone to take up her school in some partj ' Marion County. Sorry to losej such a good singer at our Sabbath j vcnuui. , Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hall and children spent Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. John Hall. Mrs. M. E. Beauford and son and . daughter, and Miss Pauline Below motored to Greenwood Monday af-! ternoen. Bethia had Sabbath school last Sabbath for the fir?t time in 4 or 5 Sabbaths. I ; INTERESTING LETTERS FROM t THE MEN AT THE FRONT d II (Gre?r.v!i!c >Tews.) !v Corporal David W. Lyon. j h One of the most vivid narratives jv j of experiences by a member of theis ! Thirtieth Division is contained In a ? | j letter from Corporal David W. Ly- j j] j on, son of U. S. Marshal C. J. Lyon, 1t to his mother in this city. He passed j j through thrilling scenes, killed more j c] 1 than fifty Huns and was wounded ! i:i action. His is one of the most t I notable letters that has been pub- \ j lished from our fighters in France. v jit is as follows: t "Somewhere behind the lines," a October 13 th, 1918. v My Dear Mother: d Received your letter that was r written on the 8th of September and ^ just got the one that was written on v " - "i. J J AT?I xne iitn., unu eujujrcu mcui uvsuu very much. Mama,, your son would 0 have answered sooner but we have ^ been on the go for about three 0 weeks?day and night?and really haven't had time to eat a meal in peace. I will tell you why. We have driven the Germans ten miles in the c last week?I mean the 30th Division has?and the 27th Division has still got them going. They relieved us. Mama, we have about forty miles to go before reaching German soil, ] but at the rate we are going now, we will be there in about four weeks Mama, we first went in and gained ? about six hundred yards. We lost U our captain and two lieutenants and some privates, but I came out lucky. 3 Tir_ _1 4- J?T 1- J I t YV c WCUI/ aUUUb IWU 1X1I1CS UflUA auu a thought we were going to get rest. The 119th and 120th were to go over the next morning about six o'clock, ^ and they did, but a good" many of ^ them were knocked off, or went West, as they call it. We were called back to protect the flanks to keep a the Germans from coming up behind our men, and that was an awful ^ night believe me?pouring rain and w falling shell holes all up the road T because they were full of them, as ^ they had just driven the Boche over them and given them a good many ' of the big shells; but we finally got b there and when we did we thought we were going to have a dug-out to get in, but had to sit on the railroad ' all the rest of the night in the rain, v but we stood it fine and stayed there n two days and went out on the battle field the next day where they fouerht c* so hard, and it was harl to see our -c boys lying out on the ground dead? shot all to pieces. Then we were 5C to relieve them, and we did. Mama. -1! then we went back for two days rest and shot back through the line where we went over the top, and, Mama, you can't realize how it was to see m your boy friends dying beside you; and one of the most awful things that I saw was two brothers who M tvent over the top together and one \o >f them was killed instantly, but the lei :>ther one stood it fine and went on through the battle like a man. Mama, so ;hey were just as good as any two )oys that ever lived. One never vent anywhere that the other didn't. rhpv WPTP fncpfViPT Hav arul r>io?Vi+ 1 lever left each other?ghat's what nakes it so bad. tei Mama, we went over the top fhree lays ago and they shot gas on us. tr( was gassed lightly, but it had no af flFoct on me, but a good many of no hose that were on my side fell out, ut we went on. A big barrage was wi louring all over the field?shells ic Iropping all around me but didn't xh< ;et me. We went ever on looking lcil or Germans. We came to a village | Hi hat the Germans had been in for) / our years, but at last we freed the j as vomen and children that had been) irisoners for a long time and they vere so happy and as we went thru rh ,bev would run out their doors and to< jive us hot coffee, and were so glad ca :o get out of the hands of the Ger-! wj nans. We have a Frenchman in lil< :>ur company that could talk to themi ?n a:id they told him that they had, r, treated them awfully mean. We still j se advanced, but when we hit the end j st< of the village we struck up with the bt Germans and they took us by sur-jcr prise and mowed our men down like ir grass. They were falling on all sides of me and groaning so pitifully, but I quickly got my gun into action and j D filled the road full of Germans, and| I can get lieutenant's signature stat-! w ing I killed over fifty and I am proud j o-< of it because they were certainly w killing our men fast. Then when I( ">: killed all in sight lieutenant told me I to take a new post and I went into c a tall building at the edge of the jt I own and opened fire out of a window and was killing them right and sft, but lieutenant is a real man and r r.'t send one of his men in a place ie won't go himself. He thought I >ms in.a dangerous place, as I was, nd sent for me to come down out of he building because Fritz was shellng the village and lieutenant hought he would hit the place where was. Just as we started out he ropped a big shell in the back of the uilding and it fell and wounded wo of the boys that was with me. Ve wrapped them up and off they rent?then we went out where lieuenant was and he shook my hand nd said, "boy, you are brave?did rtiat I wouldn't do;"?but, Mama, I lon't mind that?I was killing Gernans as fast as I could mow them lown. I guess you all have heard /hat the machine gun will do. Well, used it like a man and we are out n a rest now, about five miles bet iind the lines, sleeping in the duguts that we have just run old Fritz ut of. He was sleeping here four ays ago himself and now he is four r five miles from here. The Ameri? ? ? 1% a?va? f An flVflT tills UOVO UCCli U?CJl IUC buy Vf V* ince we started the drive. Mama, after all you have fun lyg behind a machine gun, mowing hem down like grass. I couldn't elp but laugh all the time we were ighting. You could see some awul funny things. One of our boys' uns went out of action?he picked p a shovel and made for a German hat had just killed his partner beide him and caved his head in with he shovel?down he went. The boy ras named Sports?a big husky guy. Ie went through that battle without scratch, but the next day he was illed by the fipt shell. We hated o lose him. tTT 1 _ n ; J 1 ]?A J we leu oevier wiui twu nuiiuieu nd fifty men, have been over the op four times and have lost but orty-six men in my company. We rent over the top with six officers? rhen we came back, we had one. 'he worst part about the Germans > that they are not as brave as they U say they are. They are pretty rave until the Americans get up on lem and then they "Kamerad," and ut their hands in the air and try to ive up, but we only put a bullet ole through their head and a Gerian goes "West." Mama, I am going to send you a iblegram today that will beat thisj tter there a good bit. Guess you ive heard about us by this time,] don't worry about it. Saw Char-j 2 about a week ago. He was well,! at doesn't have to go to the line?j . __ T**ii i or .diii eiuu^ir. Tell Papa I am going to get the' oney because I have killed them! 1. Mama, give Papa, Grandmother,' ildred and Mrs. Rutledge all my. ve. I am going to write Mrs. Rutdge today. Give everybody my love. I will on be home. Your son, David W. Lyon. j Company "L", 118th Infantry, K., 30th Division, A. P. 0. 479. I P. S.?Answers to questions: Let-' r September 8th. You asked me about how they ;ated me?fine! They never get ter me at all. I am a fighting man w?not a child. I i Mama, Captain Craig has been th us for three months. He got k' while we were in Belgium, and ? captain we had in his place was led?Captain Jones. Lieutenant idgens was killed too. XJ1 is still getting along fine. Just hearty as ever. September 14th letter from you: Mama, we don't get much of a ance to write now because we are :> far from anywhere. Mama, we n get all the American tobacco we int, but can't get anything good ;e candy. I am going to get lieut-j ant to let you send me some candy, d cakes. Make us a fruit cake and nd it. Buy some candy out of the! ores. We used to get cheap stuff,' it now we are thirty miles from aj *TTV? n 4- ma -fron/1 Y llimi TT11MW YTC * K? T v id they have nothing. o Hospital, Oct. 21, 1918. ear Mother: After writing you that long letter e went back to the front and went! /er the top early in the morning. Ij as made corporal before we went ack and our sergeant got killed so was put in charge of the Platoon' > lead them against the Huns. But ist after I was put in charge I did I ; along and down I went; but the boys ! went on. The clouds were covered I j with smoke and I couldn't see a g. It was about four o'clock in1 1 ' ! i'' >* morning?not daylight. I lay [here knowing nothing; all I knew ' I fell. They were still shelling and I couldn't move, not even to get in a hole. One shell hit in 200 feet of( | me and pretty near covered me up,' I but finallv one of our boys that had< I ! gone on and was slightly wounded,' , crme along after four hours in the^ ! field. He went out and got help for j me. He brought four stretcher bear-! I ers and a first aid man "Bill Jones" | He was glad to find me alive and. soon wrapped up both of my knees where I was wounded. I am in tht Base Hospital about ^ ' two hundred miles behind the line j now. It is, a Canadian hospital and | the nurses are very kind. They chink when I come out the war will be over. Mama, don't worry now because it is my legs and it isn't as , dangerous as it could be. Charlie , vaa getting along all right when Ii eft. Bill .has gone to a training J school. Give all my love. Your son, David W. Lyon. I , NO MORE OFFICERS TO TRAINING CAMPS j i j Orders Issued Discontinuing Accept ance of Applicants for Commtssions?Changes in Colleges. I L I Washington, Nov. 13.?Orders ! were issued today by the war dej partment discontinuing the acceptance of applicants for the centralofficers' training camps and stopping' the organization of any new classes.! j There are now approximately 100,-j 000 men in training at these camps j operating on a monthly class basis. ! The November classes will be dis! continued and a decision is expected | soon as to whether present classe I BUY? ! WAR ! SAVINGS ; STAMPS | CONSTANTLY | ijhSillliWlililillSSiWilffflil H J The P rest | That jj FineEngra Also j I Come In Let Us Show You Now shall be continued to graduation. None of the additional training camps for officers that had been planned will be established. Secretary Baker said yesterday ' lv.it policy also will be worked out to mm colleges where training units are stationed back to their regular pursuits as quickly as possible without causing losses to the institutions. {m m'mMi . able?n WWMm wick?< Aik to STAN Wat bi ait Norfolk. I Riokmon ; and Banner Company. They ArePrepared toF Harcourt Company' of Louisville,IKentucfyy Oed Business andSociet Engraved Cards of Alii At Reasonable Prices , I Mr. Baker indicated that no defi- I : nite decision has yet been reached I i j as to the future of various army di-1 I ..sions, now completely organized or I 'i being formed at cantonments in this! 'I ountry. 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