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yo SHOW YOU A FULL UNE OF MEN’S AND LADIES’ SUITS, SHOES, UNDER- WEAR AND HATS TO FIT THE WHOLE / . ‘ . ' r' :■ • • FAMILY. ' H. W. COHEN Next to Herndon’s Restaurant Jt" ' » ' . • BUY WAR SAVINGS. STAMPS — r V s • r. ♦ % The World Famous Contralto Says:—“Tlie/tohe and action of the Weaver Piano ST / X Suit me exactly.’ x Many other of the world’s leading musicians have, used and endorse the Weaver Piano. X X ' • , * r • .N It is essentially the Piano for the discriminating buyer, for the refined, musically cultured American Home. - * • • The last word in 20th century Piano making. MADE AT YORK, PA. ... Sold in COLLETON COUNTY only by Thos. Black BAMBERG, S. C. V X Willi the American Expedltionarj Force. Anicust 4th. — Dear Mr. ! Editor: ‘if you teill allow me it: small space In the valuable eolurtnrf of The Press- and Standard. I will ’ endeavor td describe to my many friends of dear old Colleton . some of my experiences in hostile country. * - * ~ *.• * i Dear Friends: I can’t write to ydu all separately, so her# jtoes a few words to one and ill. 1 am not at an - conTpeVfllt^tnr write somethin!; that will be- pub lished. That is why I haven’t writ ten before. I received a copy of The Press and Standard last week dated June 36, sent (o me from home. I’m always clad to get the Press, even If the news Is as stale by the time- it reach-, es me as the “haftl*tack” we get to eat sometimes. . . This fourth day of August, as you all know, is the fourth anniversary of the British entrance Into this war. and today we laid to rest our first unfortunate member of the 118th Infantry, formerly t!^ 1st C. Inf. I did not know him. Be was fropi Tennessee, and a member of Co. B. He was buried about tn^d miles from here In a pretky little -emetery. 'He was killed by ma chine gun fire while going Into the f ront line trench. ' , / • 1 We (Co. B) are proud of havlne.j ’‘een the first of the whole division j ihat entered the front line trench. .and I might say that I was the third man who went in.* I found myself looking over the parapet Into No Man’s Land before I realised where I was. I’ve been to the front for two periods; am out for a rest now. Once I was going from (he front back to company headquarters in day time, when alKMit a ten Inch she!} fetl in the road not far behind me. and the next fell so close to m** that a piece of sharpnel struck the fence about four fee( from my head I need not say that I felt very un pleasant and uncomfortable. I went from company headquarters to hat talion headquarter still under shell fire, arid every shell tha* hurstfd > fell and hugged the ground so c!os“ thrt one-wouhl haw- thought I wn ■ hit: ' , . v • - ‘ /r " . \ The r*.\t da' I vent out to p*. *>tW>rration post arid spw sbver ■ i •‘Poc^e” i *e call the ireruidt - •‘IJpc’h.e,” ".!•■» r>” <ind ' •‘FritX' through a telescopes' > Tha’/night I v. itnr ^sctl' an air - raid oir ifattElice. headquartethx Jerry" drojtprd si\ a■ as large bombdi fttj- oug jkigouts. otu — Nliost of fts were insylp and didn’t >get hurt ' X fon^n soldi-r -va" a oat frfQUvUt in with horti legs rieaflv with him then. •blown, off. He died Xft.'v minutes j ^ v< , | iave to sleep'with our shoe; later. ''When 4 Si-er.t outside 1 saw ; i ,. v ,. n w jtH our cartridge holts a‘shell hole in the brick roacd ;.t>ou‘ ‘ " “ “ ’“ n four feet deep. - W1II1 -- gince I’ve been back from the bulb 's around Xta V Now is the time to purchase your wagon. We have a shipment ' of one and two horse farm wagons, which ^were purchased ’byus • " ' c' , * - .* before the recent advances ih price of material, and these we are - selling-at figures greatly below what-they can be bought for today- These will not last long, and then we shall have to advance the prices of those purchased after these were. So if you need a -v~.. . * A/-' ' wagon buy now. ^ ^ • • 1* *' # N *'-. - . ■ ■ * '• Also a Car of Buggies ‘ ^ . V • \ The same is true of the car of buggies we were . fortunate , enough to have purchased several months ago. These we have in all sizes in top and open. Wecan surely suit your fancy in a bug- - V »’ ' . • • "■ ‘ - gy, and at the same time save you much in the price you pay for it. Stoves ami Ranges Full line of stovessand ranges from a four hole No. 7 stove to a Range Eternal at prices ranging from $15 to $95. Also heater* in large stock. . ^X ' -x / / r „ ■ ^ XxO BICYCLES X X * X . V ' • ; ’ . * / X * / • . * ^ We have a large stock of bicycles oni hand bought before the price went up. These we can sell at $85 to $45. X? BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS i/. - / A. WICHMAN & X - COLLETON’S LEADING HARDWARE STORE WEAKWl | cupcu* a X front I’ve reen two German planes ;,„ e in bulf. »H'it now when brought down. One last Thmsday i fhaiWe to sleep in the line. ; and the other Friday. The first wa< sleep on a telephone wire af i • ; brought down hjf two anti-aircraft t nderstand we are back hem j guns which were about one hundred ii n e» more than we are In ttioni. x great many of the boya positive—Convincing Proof We publiah the formula of Vino! « v i «.< . ». „ mu,- -- ... t prove convincingly that it has the Royal Flying corps./It was a sight through with thlB ^task^ l cr#ate it rength. 4 Ltrtr mod Boot Poptom* era-had been taken to a near-b; , t " h , 'V. 1 ‘talk about their voyage on thjN /Ammooium citrate, farm house, where their wound* 1 ,j was p 0 seasick that for>^o frere dressed by one of our medical . ; j ( . 0(1 jd keep nothing ojy my officers. The machine was ( aloniar h except mx ,,fe p"» erv< ‘ r * upside dbvn, but not smashed up | r ^ HoseXny letter yards from where I was standing. | The other was driven down obt of control as a s driven down obt of I ip„ v in»; for overseas now. im result of our galliot ! ^ w „ hav ,. over here the quicker corps. It was a sight ."rnuah with this task. I n€o« “sad boys to be seen. I saw one of the ma- ro ” 1(l m , gome of the chines dirvctly after-the two prison- who j )avp arrivedN and h ^ r ’ The ssingN)ne of our boys good-by.> when vre* vvere leaving a town. When I came -to France I went SHIP YOUR COTTON TO Ik Wilder Co. X J X . Savannah, Ga. . * - ' .. i " • * Give this firm and the/Savahnah market a trial. Xfou will be pledsed. Black Representative. i will have to closi The other day there were s e vera * (wlthout telllrig ymy all anythin observation balloons up around hero nhr .., t t hj S gtrangXcountjry. and 4erry; was firing at them with his long rang*' artillery and the sharpnel from the bursting shells fell around us. like drops o/.rain, hut it happened that nearly all the boys were in their billets Mental 1 ' and none got hit. Once 1 was walk ing in a cemetery where seveYal large shells had fallen rind saw t hodies of four soldiers in one sjv£!l — v , / .- hole and two In another. Th^fiegu- went to church one . , tiful church was smashed t*f pn-ces itwo young French ladies. «u also. I ihink that is ai>#<ut all 1h'* understand a word H*? * pr par ’ I'Ve serin.Xl won’t go said. Very few of the>fld folks car. • m.iX for fear of'speak Englisb. hrit/ m^t of the yX> long. 1’irt only young girls can speak Englum a lit- l* 0, * If this wan, waK to end now arK. 1 get brick homo without a wound. T would no* take anything for the experience Y-’ye had over here. hn». rff course, if it lasts much longer >t wil.1 be too murib of t-good thing It julv last a long. time, noimdv knows. \ .X i \ V !ii ten >■«>/ ;» littb^ about what ClycstopboapbatM, tCsaoafla. Any woman who buya a bottle of Vtnol for a weak, run-down, nervous condition and finds after giving it a fair trial it did not help her, will have her money returned. You see, there is no guess work people are very hind to o*. but they a bout VinoL Its formula proves charge! verv Xgtt prices for what there I* nothing like It for all weak, we buy are ‘ en ^ n,s i run-down, overworked, nervous men e;ich oranges ten cents and peaches and women «nd for feeble old people cents each. . f » n d delicate children.. Try it once i nn ,,i<t tadv * n< * be convinced. 'of'ot to sav I saw an oin iaux x r JOHN M. KLEIN. Druggist, and Druggists Everywhere. destruction into details too making my story telling >ot: allygbme of my own ev- rcrlences,. a^jX not what some one me x saX^^ long letter in the pnner n Vernon Padgett to his 1 haven’t seen him ror hi froiher. Clyde, sihee I’ve be< n over I here. I haven’t seen any ef th'» l>o v s I know who catue over before , me - Cant- Padgett said the soldier* ret 1»>-tt#-r treatment over bee than i eni doin Tic* work I’m doing thkj ha I in the Staten' 1 n*ess we now Is vecX*nterdstInI hnt In th do asf far as possible, but it -■ ini haltaliorf- ;nt« HigencX reeliiyi. Tn litde for us to hax e th*’ l'*od to ' this sectinp x-'e haVe snipers, bgotPs. epf and Lb^od hunks to sleep <in like »,bserve>^ 'Th^ sco.uts patrol I WALTKKIKHIO AMAZED BY HI DDEN ACTION patrol perie had at Cap’p Sevier. He hatin’* <><or No Marl's T.h n d and around ■ "wn, ' htior-'<•' P <>rpo •ars. The observers !v « n ro the friont line-yet.‘he said, ' enemy ir'-nehes to yet informbtior of bo would hr.Vc soon the er ryaed , The>snipers eonser.l heniselves in * - to t "hard trivV’ we tti^Vt‘*to smne good place/tnd shoot, when * ’ and the wet niMdv {f’ytoutj good target "e * with “cooties’’. wh'Kjfif we. have ’ are behind to, .|„e»» jo. Capt. Padge'y I# vev- V^pot nbs-jX* nc ^ fortunate, being in the cavetr \wher»>j I am ont* of the eh«crv<»r o . V’e bav 'he*' pi-'e all, the time »rtid lia eXQO! - a comp^t* and y;no work. Hs vo to op v*er« to slay t»j most of the tlm^. ! locate' the eriemv positions and fVn» f Ptked forty miles once wt’h n , ” s; -th«ni on tbe t $an. V' n take the mao nr A k on.^and if weighed about 7 r >. rbCegelice to hcadrimu ters each r.g’’t eoT!pd«, hilt at the end of the first and' the nest dav our artillery shyl’:' ’•perfect dav" about half the com-^lhat you see. | *»ai;v .threw away some of our bur- j will Hose thifCIfttter now. It *? . _ .. . . ^ The quick action of. pure Lavop- tik eye wash Is startling. A school hoy had eye strain so badly be could OOt read. A week’s use pf I.avoptik surprised his teacher .so much she used It for her old mother. • ONE WASH showed benefit. A small bottle is guaranteed to benefit EV ERY CA^'l: weak, strained or in flamed: eyes. The QUICK result !< astonishing./.Aluminum eye cup FREE. John Klein, druggist. . Experience the Best Tea,-her. It is generally adrnitbad that er- periehce is the best teaebyr, he should we not make unt- of r\e e- peri«‘hce of ofhers./ij4 *re||. -ax HjJ;- The experience r^f a thusanbs rsons is nxu-e to h** dep.-nilc<i up n than that oK<>ne iml’vldual. Many thousands fit p< rood's have i -d Chiiiiherliiio's CouV|t lletnedy fo lines at some, hlgM^*' 011 ghtf and colds wi(X ihf: best rr . brough a telescope •t'ults; ^itch shows it to be a tW- oughly ’ reliable pr'-naration /for those diseases. Try it. It IsXomp and efpsrMual and pleasant X ^’k* f>T. \. .1. Ainf' r^t>r. Dental < ■ K ro* v\ e wero on the road ’icaiT.* jqpger thari l Intended' ♦«» write. . «» 'v^ rndefstand w^ljon** ^pil not hothel\you, Mr. Editor, v X . J ■" . ■' 1C cures Headaches. Bilious- Log- ..ppetitc tnaF tired kehlng feeling due to Malaria or Colds. Fine Tonic. ' — ... . . with of*«r softer for food, only when we , n y scratching avain directly. I hope ^ ere ir the line. Sometimes heavv j haven't worn otif your patience. « . / shell fire stop* the ration train and When T go back home I hope to —Grape Juice, pints, quarto and then we havq to divide with "Broth- see you all. ,er Rat." l ' Sincerely, 1 . The first thfnjf I saw In the Pvt. Irving F. Fogartle, * trench was a rat almost the size of Home Address: Walterboro, R. S. , . vX- • . , * » XX J ' X ger Is The Name A new shipment of the Fusions SINGER SEWING MACHINES. \n three dirfetent types ha^ Just ar rived. We s^ll on terms .to suit customer. Liberal allowance for old [Ma chine* in exchange for a Singer. «<l •V v , , , N ^ ^ 0 ^ per cent given for cash. Call, 'phone or write to, Singer .-hop. M. PANIOTTIE Manager. No. 37 Railroad Avenue T’houe SIX Walterboro. S. 0. MONUMENTS! X half gallon!*, at Klein’s. : i. r.iuZ t Orova’s Taatelesa chill Toaic vkalitraad Yoaca Etoct. r 1 by parity las and m- i mom ImI k» Stmtstb- FricSto ^ i am agent FoiKom ijokke MAIUXf: FOR E.'vI’l.MAXES AND SIv l KE n MY Xguuea before buying. C. CeHIOTT - ROUND. 8. C. Piles Cured Hi d to 14 Daps rty leileves ItckinS and >m» can a* •Wpsftsr tbe Irat appUeadoa. FAwdfc.