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... _ _ ? . ' " ' ii^mmmmmmmmm IP ERSHING SPEAKS ' ' * My Experiences ? ' Ci ' in the World War * By GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces The first true and complete account of America's participation by the man who directed it. I I I I t xGreat Story . . . which* will be available to readers The Camden Chronicle Wf ?t|\<* _ a.* v f lL :ijJL ' 1 it you are not a subscriber to this paper, send in your 1 Nobody's Business WriUeafe# The Chronic Is by Qm McGee, Copyright, 1928. HU8JNR88 BUHDKNM I vitiited K friend in ft nearby town not long Ago. I had not been to see him in over a year. I knew nearly everybody in that town and learned to like aeverul of her leading business men. I always naked about the various acquaintances . when I failed to see them while there. . . .1 will call the town of my friend Hopeville: but'that isn't what the p oa toff ice sign say*. While talking to my friend Hi A (who's name is laek), I naked him how Mr. Brown, the fertilizer dealer, was getting along. He suid?"Why, haven't you heryd. He sold fertilizer on credit last year unci he's in.the asylum now. ... .1 knew 2 other fertilizer dealers in Hopeville, and I thought JL',1 ask about them. Hill (.hick) told nie that Mr. Piddle sold guano on credit also last year, unci he's in the poorhouse now. Mr. Fiddle sold 278 tons of on credit: he's on the chaingann?offense?whipping a cash (?) customer. ....That was sud news. to me and a couple of tears trickled down my vest anil lodged in the crease of my britches. Being a fertilizer ugent myself, I asked'-Jack, whose name is not Hill,* how it all happened. He said-?"Well, ycu know, all of these men were great believers in peddling out the milk of human kindness." ... .1 replied?'"'1 hut's so, but they should not have put it into bags." Tnen Hill explained it ai.: "Mr. Brown sold his stuff to his friend who promised to pay him when theyj sold their cotton?they havon't soldi yet. Mr. Piddle was to be paid when they got thru hauling but they ap--parently have not finished. (Where they bought 200 bags, they hauled only 1 !Klf 50 YOU ?pp iHt?V ' i H' t thl'U yet.) . . . .He stopped talking. I asked him what happened to Mr. Fiddle. He said?"Mr. Fiddle expected a settlement from his milk-of-human-kindness friends 'next week' and 'on the first' . and by 'May 10th.' The fertilizer companies paid their dealers nearly a dollar a ton for handling and storing and selling and delivering their goods?-that is?they allowed them 4 per cent from the cash price of the stuff when they got it in the early spring. ....Nobody blamed the furmers or the guano agents. Ten-cent cotton and 50-cent corn won't pay debts. The guano companies got their money (mostly), but after the dealers got thru paying interest and licenses and losses?they had no other course except the asylum or poorhouso or chaingang. Of course, they could have shot themselves, like many of them did, but we are certainly having some fine weather here of late. HOW TO DRIVE AN AUTOMOBILE 1. Don't fail to blow your horn ; when turning a corner on 2 wheels. This will attract the atten'tion ol" some people who really and truly enjoy watching a fool do foolish things. * * 2. Kindly sound your horn in the following manner: "toot, t-o-o-t, t?o?o?t, t oo 1," when the guy in front of you chokes down and can't get his starter to work?in congested traffic. That's the way all lunatics act. 3v. When someone hits you in the - isaeir find, an<r trtssTo-^xptetirTr toyou, hold your temper?and tell him that it was all your fault?that you held out your hand?but that you have a small hand, and he could not possibly see it, and offer bo pay for his 2 lights aiid gtypmper and your gas tank." " ? x # * ? 4. When you overtake a large truck or a covey of large trucks that occupy all of the middle of the road, stop right in your tracks, turn around, go back home, and try to make yotir trip tomorrow. Of course, if you are in an Austin, you can ^acoot under those road elephants, but if ycu are in an automobile, don't ever try to meet or . pass one of them. It can't be done safely. 5. Don't dim your lights when meeting a car. Undertakers and garage men have to make a living, and you can help them by observing rul*. In parking "your car, be sure to make it impossible for the car on either your right or your left to back out without mashing your fender off, or possibly ruining his own. And- it*a nice to park right behind the-other-fellow also. ^ J, ' ' r - 9\ 6. D<mt blow your horn until you have actually struck a pedestrian. If he hasn't got sense enough to stay at home or out In the woods, he won't 7 V have Sense enough to know that you haven't any sense at all, so Ibe nonchalant?put him in your car and take him to the hospital, after phoning the coroner. Then' look yourself up a good lawyer. Sensible people who are able to pay damages generally carry liability insurance. 7. Always drive 06 m. p. h. If you can't pay "cash for your gas, give the man a chedk.), Dodge your creditqrs and our speed cops. Meet your monthly installments and let your grocer, preacher and doctbr starve. Have yopr oil .. jmcL. pocketbook drained at every filling statiom keep your taii light lit, but don't get lit yourself while driving. In case of sudden death, have your address in your vest pocket. But while! living, don't have any regard for the other man's rights. o Throws At Dog, Child Is Killed Greenwood, March 28. -Howard Sexton, 21, was placed in jail here tonight on a charge of murder fidlowing the death this afternoon of CrlvinjColbh, f>, alleged to have been struck by a rock thrown last Sunday afternoon by Rext'on. I Officers say that several children were playing last Sunday ufternoon on the hillside in the rear of the home occupied by the Cobb child's parents, at Ware Shoals, and that a, dog belonging to one of them aroused i the ire of Sexton, who began throw-1 I ing rocks at the animal. The other children ran, officers sav l they have learned, hut a large rock j struck the Cobb child in the fore-j head, knocking him from the swing.' He was brought to a local hospital. Lockjaw do\ eloped Yesterday, nr. ! the child died today. _ | Three Cs School Honor Rotl Grade 1.?-Edward Coats, Edn.i j ( oats. Shelley Brice Horton. Jr. Grade 2.?-Ruby Broughtop. Paul Sowell, Dorothy Mae S,.well. Grade 4.?<Oarliene Sowell. I Grade 5.?'Mary Coats, Mary Twit-1 ty. Grade 6.?Jessie Walters. Grade 7.?Virginia Horton. Recover Stolen Mohey Sumter, March .TO.?'Essex Nelson, well-known negro convtict, was arrested ,by local officers late Saturdaynight charged with robbing the office of County Treasurer B. C. Wallace last Monday of $722.23, and $404 of the stolen money was recovered through the keen work of the officers who were working on the ease. Nelson was arrested, after officers had been on lookout for him ever sirue the robbery, one of the most daring in the history of the city. I)r. Walker Dead Spartanburg, March 28.?Dr. W. Laurens Walker, 58, for the lust four years head of the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind at Cedar Spring, and associated with the institution throughout his life, j^lied here today after a lingering illness, having' been in ill hen 1th since! last December, ahd in a critical condition for the last several weeks. Bandit Loots Bank; Posse Captures Him Trawlers Rest, S. M:t -n "i>. Thirty minutes after a lone bund t had held up the Farmers' Rank here today an?l escaped with $8,000,, he was shot, down by a posse and raptured. The bandit, short and swarth. was bleeding freely when the posse returned him here, but apparently was not fatally wounded. The money was turner* over to the bank and officers left with the prisoner for Greenville, the county seat. More than 50 men took part in thi/ chase after the bundit who aped from tlie scene of the robbery in an automobile. He was overtaken and shot eight miles from here. <". \V. Nieolls, the cashier, and two negroes were in the bank when the bandit came ,n. Xi.olU said the man eaipe in vvalki*"g ".-i'.-.T -t - ?*k and-bent over, then u ! n.y ,t a rhtened up, drew a j>istol and demanded "all the money on got." The vault was open and the bandit forced the cashier to turn overv^8,-* 0(H), all the cash in the bank. The bandit then backed to the door and leaped into his waiting automobile N'icolls sounded an alarm and the chase started. Renew Your Health by Purification Any physician will tell you that "Perfect Purification of the System jl Nature's Fqundptiop of Perfect. Health. Why not rid yourself ofl chronio ailments that are undermining your vitality? Purify your entire systehi by taking a thorough course of Calotabs,-?once or twice a week for several weeks?and see how: Nature rewards you with health. Calotabs purify the blood by act!- v' vating the liver, kidneys, stomach and bowels. Trial package, 10 eta. Family package, 35 eta. All dealers, (Adv.) 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