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* 1 FA6B1W0 ' . ' ^ '<* *%• * • The Press and Standard, Walterboro, S. C. Wednesday, January 8, 1919, Che Pleas and Standard B.C I • • • • • 4 I • • • • J« t lOz Mgr. at thn pnntofftee at Wat- B. C., aa necoad claae matt Svbaerlptloa Rales: I Year / IKS.oo Movtbii . . j 1 WAR. ^ H« did not care if he never returned Back to the world that he knew. He left it' a youth with a shriveled soul. ■ And his heart—it was not true. > But there pn Flanders’ blood red fields. Where men are broken or made. He fought the battles of flesh and soul • 'While' he had red blood to wade; * : ■ He swallowed the aetd taste of fear . That rankled up in hia throat: And fought the one great fight of • man. And crossed, with God. the moat. Yes', crossed the moat and won his flflht. And went through the purging fire—— ie And a man like the pure white liliet afloat Sprang from out of the mtrs. He did >.oi know and eould not see. But war has opened his eyes; It showed him the road to Hea^n or Hell. And how a brave man dios. Yes, how he dies and how he lives. And should fight the battles of peace. So now it matters if he .never re- turns t* • • «fiWI When this wild furmoi) shall cease , ing that he has done all that is to be expected of him; th*t the end of the year 1918 meant the end of hl4 patriotic duties. The person suf. fering with I'm-thru^enxa * becomes very forgetful, sad to relate. He forgets that the American govern ment. relying on the loyalty and duty of every individual, has spent needed sums with the expectation of borrowing the money from Mr. Kvery American.' He forgets thnt America full has a tremendous army' overseas which wrtil be in .service many month*, and -which will re\. quire bUK? sums to maintaiw. > He forgets that it will require many millions of dollars for the govern, ment Anally tc wind up all war mat ters. ‘One sure cure* has been found for which will be on sale during the t nzi«. -and that cure is the continual buying of war savings stamps, righting this new disease. I'm-thru. *ntire year of 1919.. The govern, ment appeals tc all patriotic Ameri. Card W. W. Smoak To the Voters of Colleton County:- *> . . t In again offering my services _for the legislature to succeed th-: lamented Col. J. W. HilfM do so not unmindful, of the responsibilities which being a legislator carries with itr I know that it mefins a lot of discomfort and ’ hard . work, am! financial loss. I know that it means being misunderstood. . and hav<n? my UK>tives questioned, and perhaps unkind things said of me. But in spite of all this. I feel that there hv here a field for greater usefulness to the people of the.county and State. Wry foolishly, I have been (old, F have striven all my life to do thos< things which . mean the betterment of the people of the county aml- State. For this 1 have sacrificed •and labored, when my efforts wer* not appreciated and my motives not understood.;,. Y'et I have felt that « duty lay here and have gone on. The same feeling impels me to offer a« a candidate for the legislature man. of whatever ability, tc be of worth to his county or State till he learn# the legislative *game and get* acquainted with the rulea and cu*. toms of the law making body. This will take at least one term. Those counties in ~Jhe State which are most ably represented send the s»me *nen back term after term. It is a mistake to change legislator, and I Pay 'this in ,an ex parte sens-?. 1 . was on the most important committee in the House, the Way# and Means, ’and I have the assur. ance of the Speaker that my place awaits me on^this same committee. .He urged me to enter this race say ing to me Over" the 'phone: '‘Smoak. you must enter the race. We need you in the legislature, and I desire ihat you run.” v The Stock l.au (JurMion • . One matter J wifch to clear np. It has been .fold me that several per. sons *oted against me on account of my position' in reference to the stock law. Now my vie.ws on this Are You Open-Minded? J * . \V. S. S. stands for 'Welcome Soldiers. Sailors'. Also, "You sent them over, now. bring them back” is the new slogan., / • • w * Yes I Everybody Takes Cascarets Only 10 cents! Harmless cathartic for sluggish liver and bowels Well, how ahoul that New Year’s resolution? Is it suM in a'*!.’ SHOl l.H HU MOHt: t \HKKI I. Feel bully- Cheer up! tfakefcas. carets to liven your liver and clean the bowels and stop headaches, bil iousness, bad breath, coated tongue, ftallo--ness, sour stomach and gases. Tonight take Cascarets and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced. Wake up feeling grand—Every, body*# doing it Cascarets best laxative for children. They gladly take this pleasant candy •cathartic because it* never gripes .or ■siHcem like other things. this year. A few months ago I lacked but a M«estion have been the same that fans to continue their fine assistance f,. w \otes of being in a second race they have been for the past two in continuing the purchase of .W. for this office. There have been years. 1 made no effort durin-4 many persons to tell me during the - my service as a. legislator to have .past few* days that they think I am the law changed. 1 would not if (entitled to the position qnd should this time, make any effort have It by appointment rather than ,0 change the ^present condition, by election. The only thing I would do, and that Defeat Turned to Victor). I have stated over and over aggiu. I wished, of course, that since'would be to favor submitting thi.* there must be an election, that 1 matter to a vote of the people and should be permitted to get file of * only then if a very strong petition » -flee unopposed. This wish has no‘ presented asking fpr an elec, been' gratified, and there will be op. Hon on the matter. I would not position. I am sorry, but not afraid submit -to the passage of a law of the result. Dosens of people throwing the county into- stock Inw have told me and written me that F without first allowing the people to am the logical candidate, and that *P^ ak 6n it at a primary. efection.'1 I tm sure to be elected. I have tru8 t this statement will set this been told many times in the pa«t matter right. two weeks that my defeat of a few | 1° conclusion I desire to ask that weeks ago would be turned to vie- ev ery voter in the county consider' Ovambcrlaln’H rough llctnch. Before using this preparation for cough or cold you may wish to tory. I trust so, and I firmly be. lieve It. To insure this I ask my friends over the bounty to interest themselves in my behalf and abov? all to go to the polls and vote and to get their friends to do likewise. Surely if I can afford to lose 4 month and a half of time each year of the term to serve the interest! of the people of the county* they can afford to lose a few minutes or a few- hours to go to the polls and cat: ! their ballots for me when the elec, tion is ordered. I ask them tfli do this at least. And, please remem, her that this will not he a primary election, but that each man who votes will be required to have a reg. 1st 1 at ion certificate, and jhe elec, tion jarfU be ifhder the rules govern. itK in General Elections. the matter of my candidacy, and to give me the consideration the im portance of the position demands. If elected I shall do as Ivhave done in the past, strive for the better, ment of the people of the county. 1 shall appreciate the honor of again representing the county in the law making body. Respectfully. W. W. SMOAK. Walterboro. Dec. 30; 1918.- Soqic Comment* Hon. J. T \dje*5, Lieutenant Gov. ernbr. and who was chairman af the Ways and Means committee of. the House of which,committee I wa* a me 1I1 her wrote just after the last primary.'' "I regret very much that you ""Vill not be a member of the legis- 1 iature, ami frankly, I am surprised The average American is open-minded - w • ’ -V „ . ' American business is con ducted by true Americans of. vision, open-minded men who believe in their country and strive to meet their country’s needs. The men in the packing industry are no exception to the rule. The business of Swift & Company has grown as the na tion has progressed Its affairs have been conducted honorably, efficiently, and economically, re ducing the margin between the cost of live stock and tt^e selling price of dressed meat, until today the profit is only a fraction of a cent a pound—too small to have any noticeable effect on prices. » ■ . -4* The packing industry is a big; vital industry—one of the most important in the country. . Do you understand it? »nd I believe that ihe that you have gained would the By riding over tho bounty on*, fee* hundreds of bales of cotton ly_ ing piled up or fiat on the ground- Without any protection at *11 from the weather. Very seldom doea on* find cotton stored carefully un. der a shed or inside a barn. The result* of this careless method of handling the money crop of our farmers will be a loss of from 25 to 60 pounds of lint, and a poor sample to sell by. It will be safe to say that the loss will be anywhere from $10 to $25 per bale, depending up. on the length of time this cotton is permitted to stay on the ground and In the weather. The best place the farmer could keep his cotton would be In a bond, ed or standard warehouse where it could l>e insured. Not having it there the next best place would be In a barn or well stored' under a shed Off the ground. Of course the danger from fire would then be great, but tht* loss from totting Would be reduced to a minimum, We tjave thought that the ware. JVmd of lter«»r J know what It has'done for othenuk, ^ oir > in offering my Kervicen to I that your people did not re.elect Mrs. O v Cook. Macon. HI . wrltex, > _P^°P>e of the conijty, I do xo ‘ yon. I regarded you as one of th« "I have found it gives the quickest relief of any cough remedy I have ever used.” Mrs. James A, Knott. Chlllieothe, Mo .' says "Chamber. Iain’s Cough Remedy cannot be beat for roughs and-colds.” H. J. Moore, Oval. I’a., says "1 have used Chapi- berlain'a Cough Remedy on several j occasions when I was suffering wr^ a settled^ cold upon the chest and ii has always brought about a cure. C, F Muchenfuss went to Greens, boro the latter part of the week on a conference with the home Insur ance office. LIKE ill ELECW BN Oil TOES Tells \V1») a Corn Is *0 Painful and Says Cutting Makes Them Grow Press an electric button and you form a contact with a live wire which rings the bell. When your shoes press against your corn U pushes its sharp roots down upon a sensitive nerve and you get a shock oj pain. Instead of trimming your corns, which merely makes, them grow, jqst. step into any drug store and ask for a quarter of an ounce of freezone This will cost very lit. knowing what I* means to bo a rep. most serviceable members of resentative. I have served on-' House, an term I point with pride to my perience tecord as a legislator. IJWish It have enabled you to b*» of greate- were possible for every voter to ! know all that I did. ing to hide. Perhaps 1 have mado j tin,*, you feel that I can"he of assist- 1 „ anre to you in any way, I hope you service. ) I hope that you will again I have noth, represent your county, and IT at anv Swift & Company presents facts in the advertisements that appear in this paper. * They are addressed to every open-minded person in the country. Tbc booklet of preceding chapters in this story of the pecking industry, will be mailed on request to Swift Ac Company Union Stock Yards • • Chicago, Illinois 1 mistakes what assurance have yri'i that a new man would not make th - same mistakes or more crievou*: one#? At any rate the people of v. ill call upon me.” Hon. T. P. Cothran, of Gceenville, a member of the Ways and Means tlft> r <>»nty have not suffered be. | committee during the first session, cause of those mistakes, and there is ami speaker of the House during less likelihood of my making them the second session. wYote* again than a hew man, who woul4 Swift & Company U.S.A. • have the same lessons of experience to learn. Experience Ncce**ary. One of the. men you elected to represent you ia a man without legi- islatire experience. To elec* another man who has' had no ex. perience would be. to take away from the county the value of this * \p<rlene«| and J challenge “Am distressed to know that you were not returned. You made an exceedingly able representative. Your work on the Ways and Means committee, of most trying charac. ter as I am prepared to say, was well done, and I do not koow of a more effective debater on the floor than you proved to. be. What pleased me moat waa that you were any always on th* right aide.” 5^' Richard R. Yarnodoe Writes. V* T - •France Nov, 24, T91*.—Dea. . , . , , x * , tie but is sufficient to remove every I , house is a better place to keep col. har< , or * oft corn or callus from 1 ^ - ... f 'ones feet. A few dross aonlied I houie » w <> days ago, and as 1 Weir father. I have seen the fuosr ton anyway. Another practice pftich bad on you. you had to fix it in the dark. It went pretty had with 1 nie at first but I don’t mind it «ow father:—Just a few lines to let you for I have been doing it now for hear from me. This leaves me well about four months and I have got and getting along fine and truly “** *? U ' * hav< ‘ ou <. for ^ . four days at the time chasing after poTbat you all are the same. I our artillery trying to get then one have not heard from you in about load of shells. bu t I would cotch three weeks, but I guess i t is about the,1 ‘ aH*' 1 a while, but. Dad. believe little to*hear from you now for wo when those Huns-did begin to a..M «... o.r m.H very o„ ra hete. we get it about every two caught them for good at last and weeks and some times a little ear. now I <lon’t have to eo out all night I received a paper from *° htuil ammunition any more. as THE BEST CHRISTMAS OR NEW YEARS’ GIFT MONUMENTS! .. ..... A few drops applied, . - —— . ■■ y we ma: 'directly Mpon a tender, aching corn I you know was proud to get it as 1 and *8 well mention in this connect 10.1 | ’h** *»'•<’«>«•** instantly, and and one which is t. H > frequentlv ,h< *, corn 8hr ‘ V * 1 * “*» 80 ‘t ' . . ' , iri^bt out. root «nd all. without pai l tlc«p in he county, is that of al- TM 8 drug freezone Is harmless "and lowing costly farm implements to never inflames or ever irritates the ' ’hrec times every — . ...... ... . . 1 her td hear from me as often as '“rough seventeen of the bigges; J Ord^r BOW. OtiJy possible for I know that she is aU in Erance and sure did enjoy navment re*nnToH i ways anxious to hear from me , * l< * * r *P-• 1 have a lot to tell von * • - Well father, as the war is ovet I when 1 baok ho '«»' fo«* I canno* per cent discount .given write it all to you for 1 never would l»>r (’ASH lie out in all kinds of wither. W < passed n farm a fe.w days ago an 1 saw a wagon, a disc harrow, a. mower *nd i. k* and several costly one ar I two horse plows tha t tujd appar* utly never l*een under a slusl Her received a coal of paint or oil The result will he that wh. u tins farmer begins to us,. Ins implement* they will oe rusted and work li.idly The metal parts mgy e*en be so badlj{ mated as to n*-v<l lepUclni with new ones , Better .saXe th' money this carelessness costs art i buy pure hred live stock, or pay t > the preacher the balance afier skb. scribing to The Fre#a and Standard surrounding skin. am always anxions to rt'ad the. horn > 111081 Pf-Cannada before 1 came here news I have written to mother and England also when we rame up ‘ for a wife, mother, sister or several times since I received *'i r to th<> ‘ r <» n l we came about *i\ • „ -• ,, last letter. I always write two or ku » t,r ^ “lUe* through France by IS a .> flger S.AHig i>ry week for 1 w.in't , ® a< l J n OMt trucks. We came , ma ^nine. a 'I'M—THm—KNZV’ -V -(Contributed* Have you the latest disease that' enxa?" The symptom of this dread •disease is described by ' authorities os an ’'Insidious 'war is over' feel. l0ff> very weakening to the sense of Individual responsibility for a pe*-- POBol share in finishing America's great tank.” /. The victim of Tm-thru. enxa* auf. lorn, it ia said, with a narcotic feel- WOOD’S ANNIVERSARY Seed Catalog Gives the fullest and most up-to-date information, not only about Seeds that tan be planted to advantage, but also about crops that prom ise to give the largest profits during the coming year. OUR 40 YEARS' EXPER’ENCE, ard an aquipmant that ia unsur- r a**ed in this country, give u* un- oqualltd advantages for supplying THE BEST OF ^ Farm and Garden Seeds Writ* for Catalog and Prices of ONAM and CLOVEN SEEDS, SEED OATS, SEED CONN 0*4 SEED POTATOES. Catalog Mailed Free on Naqueet. T. W. Wood & Sons, - Richmond, Vo. Far th* Bast of Dardens, PLANT WOOD’S SEEDS. suppose the people back home ;u. not worried'about their relative's Jhrough writing,-so t will war ] Delivered free to mV n *. t T r , who are over here now. »“> • 8Ct hack home i„ dear old «1.* P t !n ! I am mill up at the front, , Colleton 01111 then I will Ml yo 1 1 S county. •lon’t know how Jong I will be up..-* 1 * ab out it-. Well father. 1 gtq itiy here. We are »n the y*rdun rt,!M **ripe in two more day* ‘front .low and have been hefe about "hieh means m\ -months jp Franc- .three months and believe me. Dad. and t ^ aI n, *‘ an * a ipe and i- jit was a pretty hot time up here for my 1 nc,t ' Sai rt »*>« so i will sta j quite a while, but it is better now a* there is no fighting. We hav* been used for shock troops ever,- since we came to the front about four months ago. ami havent had' a ! i*'*' far. y<ou can imagine how 4 • real good rest hack from the line* would feel to riie. I have been on three fronts since I came. 1 first was and iHe Touel front, but left there after ihe big drive It *•.%*. six more and then some foi he i* always right and believe mr I am proud of him as an uncle .but I don't think he will keep his boy-i over here any longer than he can help for you know he thinks -tyu o,*; his boys. Well Dad Launie and 1 are still > together. He-is well and send* much love to his dU .. - on all. f«Vi 1 have no, heard from Nard in there that I had -my first expvrieftcc a while but 1 hope thal he ix in real war face knd I sure did get ^ 0 k He don't write much no plenty of thrills ther«. but you know wav ani * ^ guess he havent had 1 don't mind thrills so 1 don't mind 1111,0,1 Bine fo write since he w< nt hearing , the shells w-bistle so very to front f° r the dough boys, s* 1 much but I will tell you what 1 did w,> the-infantrymen, are kept not fancy, was hauling ammunt. Pft*”! *>uay any way. Well. Dad. ! tion in my truck when it was so 48 * don't know much news to wri’e dark that I could not see my hand and * Kuess you are tired of reading j before my face and a« vo" v-..-- my war news I will close for (»ys we were not allowed to have anv ,<rao b!, t write again soon, light at all not even to smoke a my ,ove tc mother and all cigarette so you can guess how Horn your loving son. hard it was for If your engine went | Way Richard R. Varnadoa. CALL PHONE Ott WRITE TO SINGER SEWING M U HINL COMPANY M. PANIOTTIE Manage 1* Railroad Avenue Walterboro, S.C. A s i< Yo u r G r nr p\ I AM AGENT FOR CHEROKEE I MARBLE WORKS. SEE ME FOR ESTIMATES AND SECURE MY FIGURES BEFORE BUYING. / C. C. HIOTT ROUND. S. C. STOP, LOOK AND READ TUI?. -f r CHFEK-NEa[S COFFEES jy [very lest they get aiarrled<- that's then '• n,, ” ; -- „ / ‘ \ , tf a man loves a girl, that hi* bust naaa: \ f If a gin love* a man that’s bar •>«•< ..business 8p. if you want your automobile aes* covered* and clothes cleaned, eeii 1 Thr New York Pressing Club: tbat’s their buslnc fc»t New York Pressing Club DAVENPORT, Manager. J. B yr ; ■ Dr. A. J. Anderson. Dental Surgeon Office Honrs: « a. m. to t p. ■ Walterboro, 8. C.