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-v; Letters From Boy j Letter From H. B. Kimball. it % Sunday, Nov. 24. 193 S. t Co. F, 321st Inft.. j ] U. S. A. P. O. No. 791. A. E. F. 1 ] Dear Mother: This is Dad's day. I : take a great deal of pleasure in writ-' j ing you and tell you where I have been t -anu wnai i nave oeen uoing m r ranee. We were in training at a little vil-p -lags near Flogry until we were ready i "to go to the front. We went from i 'there f.o a front at Denepavie near thej t city of Sant Die where we were in the'] stanches for about one month. We ] tthen went from there to Verdun front,' jpassing through Nancy and several 1 Jarge places. Walked through the city < of St. Mihiel, where not a single build- < Was left that had not been practically ; destroyed by fire. I also went all over i the ruined city of Verdun which I : found in the same condition. Also visited dead man's hill, which you have read about so much in the papers. Can't describe this place to you now but shall do so when I see you. "We were in the trenches there some time. ; Left for another front near Metz on j the 9th and the morning of the 11th j Dre met the Boch in open warfare and ! rirnvp rhpm hark at a:l noints till the! i last shot was fired at 11 a. m. Am|< glad to say I had the honor of being t in one of the most active battle fronts j 1 '< "When the war came to a close and! i certainly glad to say I managed to go' ] through it all untouched. j 1 The Wild Cats showed the Huns | what they were made of and they said' < that they had never been up against a '< bunch like us during the whole war. N \V boys from China Grove are all safe. Saw Worth Miller, Upright and "Trexler after the battle. Brown is all j O. K. and we are still together. We j are now at Robert-espange about 40 miles from Pounere, and I hope on our "way back to the Statesc. Ha, at least one can rest better as we are back: "where the country has not been affected so much by the war. i I can imagine that there was great "rejoicing in the States during the aft-. 2 ernoon and the nierht of the 11th. The ' * people over here certainly seem to be 11 lappy since it is all over. I think I I . * ^shall have to celebrate a little myself when I get back. Tell John and Fish- i? ?r to wait till I return as I want to be' * ii)est man. Ha. I sent you a handker-1 -chief some time ago. Did you receive ; * it? I also sent Thelma a souvenir. |f Tell Mary to ask her to see it if she I iss received it yet. I am sending you ? q nintiiroc rvf mvoalf -a V/Vupxu vi ivtui vi iuj ovii taxvtn ; -3ust after coming out the trenches.! 43hall have some better ones made j when I get back home. lam feeling fine and have not been j "sick a single time since I have been in 11 ^France and certainly hope I can re-! r main well the rest of the time I am : Y Jiere. . : t I have been having some real nice ; ~3times since I have been over here and c ?e have been faring excptionally well all the time we have been here. We ; c have been doing a great deal of hiking t since we left the front but 1 have stay-! ^ d right with them; have not fallen ^ I yet. ; ^eard from Hamp Stirwalt a few days ago. Guess he wants to come! across now as it is all over. Ha. Am. 'writing enough this time for all. Tell, them I have very little time to write now as we are moving most all the time. I am real anxious to get back again to see you all. Think I shall get there about the time you kill hogs, Ha. A little sausage from home would go mighty nice. Ha. Here is hoping it xron't be much longer till I shall be " with you once again. Am looking i forward to that time as the happiest! ^moment of my life. Trust this will i - find you all well and enjoying life to ( the fullest. Tell grandma I shall al- i 3most get back by Christmas, Ha. Wish 11 :you a very happy Christmas. i t I am as ever, your devoted son, H. B. Kimball. {? Written to Mrs. Bessie Kimball, his r another, at China Grove, N. C. i ; i 4 Two Letters From Soldier. j 1 Private Jacob E. Livingston, of J * t I Company A, 54th Pioneer Infantry, j1 American Expeditionary forces, has ' "written letters to his father and moth- * <er, Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Livingston, of 1 j Pomaria. The first letter was dated -December 9 in Belgium, where he says ' - they have been building roads but * were then guarding cannon and am-12 ^munition that they had captured from j1 the Germans, along with some that the Germans had left when they "moved." 1 ""'When this letter was written Private ( - Livingston says: ".We are staying in ] a big church that they have been using ( . lor a hospital for the last four years. ( i Let me tell you we sure see lots of * queer things. You ought to see the girls going to town every morning ~with their milk wagons. Some of them ' 'are driving one dog and some of them have two, and they sure can pull. 1 Well, we have a nice town here, some nlace for soendine vour monev." He goes on to tell of the high prices <-over there. They can buy almost any- 1 thing except candy; they can get a litUle of that but it is high priced, and < f >s "Over There" cigarettes, he says, are. from 50 cents j o a dollar a pack, and then you can hardly smoke them. He says: "We; have all kinds of money. They have marks here and in France they have j francs. You can have a hand full and; hen you won't have much." He says he doesn't know when he : ivill be home. "I may get home before i this letter and then it may be some ! time before I get there, but I hope, to be there in the near future." The i letter left him "all 0. K. and enjoying life fine." The second letter was dated December 16. He mentions having seen in ?ne of the papers the notice of the j tleath of Otis Crooks. He says: "I i sorry we lost him for he was a i fine boy, and he stuck to his company as long as he could. I thing that was I tiis trouble?he didn't want to leave ^ A Wfrtrt A ^ WO t /I It A AAlf 1/4 AI'Ati uo jlUi nc vvao clli aiu 11c tuuiu ncvci find us. Some that came across with us just found us again last Sunday; tiad been in hospital ever since we n-ossed. But I have been lucky?have lost one day, but wasn't so sick then,1 but it was rainy weather and I didn't ;are to go out." < Speaking of hog killing time he says: "We have been having sausage Dver here, but we had to buy them and :hey are sure high. I paid eight 'rancs (near $2) for-a piece, and pie is from fifty cents to five dollars a ?iece. So you see how it is over lere." j; Continuing this letter he says: "You (Iwflvc nhmit the* nthpr hnvs Thpv 44 w v"v ww* * ; ire all here but Crooks and Sam Cook.; [ r-jn't know where he is. When he' eft us his fever was 104 and we have < lever heard from him. John Folk! md Charlie- Shealy are in the room | ivith me now. John is playing his. nouth organ and singing. Everybody I :s as happy as can be." Livingston says that "all you can aear is when we are going home, and ao one knows. We are now back in France again and living in a hotel. Don't think we will be here long. Moved in Saturday evening, and yes;erday and last night they had me on juard. Will tell you what I was guarding when I get home. I don't enow what I will do for a living if I ;ver get out of this, but will be home o see you all as soon as I can." He tells his mother he would like to lave some of her cooking and says his ather ought to see some of the Irish >otatoes over there as he likes them ;o well. Letter From Willie Wicker. Camp Hunt, France, Dec. 19, 1918. ! : Dear Home: How are you all geting alone; fine I hope. This leaves J tie well and enjoying the best of teaiin ana i nope mis win nna every>ody at home well. ( Where is Emanuel? Is he still in I amp? How is he getting along? 1 We are having some rainy weather j ?ver here, it rains almost every day, ? >ut 0 my! when the sun does shine 2 ve certainly appreciate it very much. ] suppose you had a fine Thanksgiving linner, but do not want any better 1 han the one we had and I certainly ? mjoyed it. We are in quarantine or the measles. I believe we would ] lave been on our way, home if it ladn't been for the measles. I do not 1 rnnur roliotTior T nrill crai hnmo till kUV <T T? llvwilvl JL 'Mil OVsV llv UlV Vlil Christmas or not. But I believe I vill be there soon after Christmas.. I 1 im satisfied I will be at home time ^ >nough to start a crop next year or I 1 lope so any way. I would enjoy beng home to start a crop and be a free nan once more. i The American girls are better looking than the French and I can not unlerstand them at all. They do the lien's work over here. I guess the nost of the men have been killed in ;he war. Most of the people wear wooden shoes. Tell Will this is a fine place, rhe soil is very rich. I am still gong to the picture show yet and enjoy it. I guess you never, though the ;ime is different over here, when it is ? o'clock in the U. S. it is 12 o'clock lere. I am still with the boys from dewberry county?Tommie Hair, Ben 3ease and Colie Cook. I do not think ive will be separated now. ; I am expecting to sail for home at my time after Christmas. But do not :orget me although I'm many miles iway my heart's at home this Christ nas day. Tell poor Mamma not to worry ibout me for I am getting plenty to 2at and I am coming home as soon as t can. I know you have been butchering by this time. It has not been ^old enough to kill here yet From your loving son, Willie Wicker, j Letters From Henry V. Haltiwanger. | Letter J. 0. Haltiwanger received from his cousin "over there:" Somewhere in France, Dec. 14, 191S. Dear Cousin: I will write you a line or two to let you hear from me.' I am well and hope you all are the same. Say, Olando, how is "Aunt % I Polly" by this time. I hope she is all right. I didn't ask anything about "Uncle Jos." because I know he is all right. Well. I hope you made a good crop. Did you not? Well. 1 suppose you want to know something about France. Of course I don't know anything much hnt- T nni lik? ft. S_. "If it is as bi.T the other way as this way. she is a whopper." Well, I will close for this time. f As ever, Voight H. Pvt. Henry V. Haiti wanger, Co. F, 3rd Pioneer Inf., American E. R., France. Letter Bessie Shealy received from her cousin "over there:" Somewhere in France, December 11, 1918. Dear Cousin : I received your card and was verv clad to hear from you. I am well and hope you all are the same. Well, Bessie, I guess you would like for me to tell you all about France, but I don't know anything much to write about, so I will just wait until I get home. I hope it won't be long. Well, I suppose you thought that I was never going to write to you but I have been in the hospital for almost three months with the influenza, but now I am back to my company. Say, do you ever hear from Colie S., or any of the boys? Well, they call this '"Sunny France," but I don't see the sun once in a week. It rains day and night and we sure have some mud. Well, I will close for this time. Tell all the folks to write. As ever. Voight H. Pvt. Henr\r V. Haltiwanger. Co. F, 3rd Pioneer Inf., American E. R., France. articles I MMA PICTURES mm% each pg^y^e^ MONTH f POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE 1 IS FOR SALE BY ALL NEWSDEALERS I Afit them to show you a copy or tend 20c for 8 the latest issue, postpaid. 1 early subscription I S2.00 to all parts of the United States, I it* possessions, Canada, and Mexico. . A POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE 8 N. MicUgsn Avenue, Chicago, 111. I SIMPKINS' IDEAL PROLIFIC COTTON. One of the best and most productive iarly cottons; grown ninety days from slanting to boll. It has produced as nuch as three bales per acre averaging 40 per cent, lint and in tests made it the Arkansas Experiment Station it iveraged first out of twenty-eight varieties tried. This cotton also took first premiums it the North Carolina State Fair for several years. 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COOPER TAKES STAND FOR (OBSTRUCTIVE WORK CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 ! cially able to give to the Con fed rate i SOUlltr lin liicreaatru (>v >u nn: i I time. We owe these men a debt o | Igrrtitude that we can never repay in j kind, but we can give to tlicm in these t their declining years the ordinary comforts of life as a token of oui ap; preciation of their heroic sacrifice. ! There are some yet amongst us who ; went through the thick of the fight 1 snd the nension they are now receiv I * ~ I j ing is not enough to keep the wolf1 ! from the door. If we are ever to do | I anything for these gallant men more ; than is now being done, we must do j i it now. Ten years hence practically . all of them will have answered the last roll call. State Militia Considered. I have not attempted to make to you ! anv detailed suggestions as to legis- j lation necessary to accomplish and | carry out the recommendations which j I have submitted. I have tried to in-j dicate in a general way a course of action. My purpose is to lay before you som,e conditions as I see them.; You will be able to suggest remedies, j if you agre ewith me as to the exist- j ing necessities. There are many mat-. ters of real importance that I have not been able even to touch upon. I have! tried, however, to give you my views. on what I consider questions of prime j importance' and of pressing necessity. J I shall from time to time call other j matters to your attention as it may i appear to me wise. I believe it is j necessary that you make a liberal provision for an organized militia. There is some doubt as to what will be the future policy of the war department. It is my purpose to deal with this mat (ter in a special message as soon as 1j have an opportunity to confer with the adjutant general and others especially interested. I shall endeavor ~ r\ r- if io rlnfinorl iu uibciiiirgtJ my VIULJ- ao it 10 u^uu^u by the constitution and laws of the State. If you see fit to adopt measures; not in accordance with my views for the accomplishment of our common purpose, you may rest assured that I i shall give to such measures an unbiased consideration. It is for the legislature to enact laws aneffor the governor to execute them. Whatever laws are enacted I shall endeavor to adriin- i ac tr> arvnmnlish the T)UH)OSe XCIV1 UV UtJ VV r- x t intended. I want to see South C trolina ta^ a positive and advanced si?p to safeguard the future. Whatever may be the cost, whatever may be the sacrifice involved, we must maintain our democratic institutions and pre-; serve to our posterity the blessing of liberty purchased by the blood of our fathers and so recently saved and secured to us by the sacrifice of our returning heroes. i Let us turn our face to the morning of a new day and like Longfel low's hero "bear ever upward through snow and ice, the banner with the i strange device, Execlsior!" I I SPECIAL NOTICES. We pay the highest ca<h prices for chickens and e^gs. Eggs 50 cents per dozen. Hens 20 cents per rvour rt. Miller Brothers", Prosperity FOR SALE?Dodge Touring Car, re cently painted, new top, three prac-; ticallv .new tires, two extra service * i tires, chains, tools, 'Cheap. Need the money. G. C. Cooper, Newberry,' S. C 1-21 If *>?:? cur*?s by removing the cause, i <*.? rf FOR SALE?Motor truck in good con! dition. Reason for selling need a heavier truck. Newberry Lumber | Co. 1-17 tf (iooi, sonnd far com, two car loads. I for ?al? by .Tohnson-McCrackin Co. j You can buy now and save money, j 1-17 it. ! | EXTRA FINE?'Will have in, on i Thursday or Friday, a car load of n 1 .Tnhn son-Mc i 1 CIIUCI??CU U1UAVO. w v/ Cracki* C<>. 1-17 2fj IJKICr, LI3TE AND CEMENT?Sev-j eral ear loads just received. Newberry Lumber 0?- 1-14 It : FLOORING, STDING AND CEILING t We have an exceptionally fine stork of all dressed lujuber. Newberry J Lumber Co. l-l4 *U j > Licensed Pulmbcr?I have secured j license and am now prepared to do . plumbing at reasonable prices and j promptly. Piofte 3421. C. C. Duncan I 1-14 tX I j ' T Ti /-V C":rpnl,?_| JtUK ?Ulie WcUvianu ojla. iuui-| ing, $-'>50: Baker & Oxner. l-172t < FOR SALE?One Dodge Touring Car Good condition, at Baker & Oxner. 1-17 A Stndebafcer Wagons.?Just unloaded a , car. Johnson-McCrackin Co. l-10tf Cabbage Plants.?Charleston Wakefield. Henderson's Early Succession. Will produce neads weighing irort j S to 10 pound**. 25 cents per 100 [ , G. H. Ruff, Prosperity. R 6 1-7 4tp I __Seed YTlieat for sale by .Tohnson-McCrackin Co. 11-22 if jl SJ i I I have just receive I of Blue and White ^ a V a V (If in need, you wil Mayes' Book &1 ji The House of a Th f^More Permanent Newberry Lumt "Co-opera There are three pj your telephone connec nnerator. and the Da "I , - A All three must co-c the highest quality of se YOU co-operate f< when you look in the make sure you call the 1 THE OPERATO giving you the desired c ly, accurately and court THE PARTY ates by answering his promptly. ALL CO-OPER service by speaking clea ly, and by practicing tel under all conditions. SOUTHERN BELL TEI AND TELEGRAPH C NOTICE OF ELECTION. , elec 7 a. "Whereas, one-third of the resident i t * * 1 1 ? ? ?J a. 1?Y*a ?M?ArvA i nr? S\ f iree-noiaers <tnu a nn.e uiuuumuu vr tees the resident electors of the age of 21 act years in the Fairview school rdistrict No. 18, the county of Newberry, State of South Carolina, have filed a petition ! or t with the county board of education of , _ ? iT_ ? whc Newberry county, South Carolina, peJ * ' ' " ? ? J +Tr> r\4r ow a! luiomng axxu KSUUe&Llilg men. au , i G16C tion be held in the said school dis-, Ele< trict on the question of levying an ad- ! gha. ditional special tax of four (4) mills:, ' 16 on the taxable property within the i eacj said school district. j g^a, Now, therefore, we the undersigned ' ,,XT I AO composing the county board of edu-! ^ cation for Newberry county, State of South Carolina, do hereby order the | board of trustees of the Fairv-ew j school district No. 18, to hold an elec-! tion on the said question of levying an i additional special tax of four (4) mills | to be collected on the property located i within the said school district, which; said election shall be held at the Fair-; ^ce view school house in the said school Par district No. 18. on Saturday, the 25th ! Pen: day of January, 1919, at which said Ware d a shipment | Enamel Ware. I I do well to see I Variety Store ousand Things Walls & Ceilings AVER BOARD can have walls and ceilings that are just as nent as the woodwork and hardwood floors. 1 of using plaster that invariably cracks and falls, select Beaver Board and you'll never >e job to do again. You'll stop all wall paper . se and have a rich sanitary finish for Walls "! tilings tli?t will be an endless source of rtion. Let's talk over thi3 home-building sition soon. >er Company I j : - , Xitors!" irties to each of fi 1 ir?-f I +Un LlUllO. y Vlf) rty you call. )perate to insure :rvice. Dr good service M i book first and ^ ight number. I ? R co-operates by :onnection quickeously. . i ^ lLLED co-opertelephone bell ATE for good rly and distinct- a lephone courtesy ^ < .EPHONE ' OMPANY tion the polls shall be opened at m. and closed at 4 p. m. 1 he members of the board of trus; of the said school district shall as managers of the said election. y such electors as reside in the j I school district and return real ^ jersonal property for taxation, and > exhibit their taxes and registra j i certificates ' required in gene* .iI tions, shall e allowed to vote.l ;tors favoring the levy of such taxi II cast a bdliot containing the word J s" written or printed thereon, and I elector opposed to such levy II cast a ballot containing the word i" written or printed thereon. j iven under our hands and seals ; the 11th day of January, 1919. J C. M. Wilson, (L. S.) V, 0. B. Cannon, J. M. Bedenbaugh, lj ~~ A ATTENTION PENSIONERS. ^ will be at the Clerk of Court's ofeach Saturday in- January to pre- . e pension applications So old sioners need apply. 'd W. G. Peterson, Pension Commissioner, wtt HM