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I A CARLOAD MOBILES " == If you are a r ty and want the b money come and s Hup It has no equj on the road and oi L after all, is the be I Automobile, and t ma8e a puts it at the top ; up gives it the pre u r* viAmifnl'iAn iito icjjutatiun vestigation when i , J.V.& Lake City, When you are ^ "as good as Ro jj The only gen KUI I FER' I 1- . 'II I is distinguisnea i\ . V Look fo V S. ROYSTI ilk, Va., Richmond, \ r N. C., Columbia, S. Hfe a., Columbus, Ga., M* GORGE '?? ?? W OF THE FAM( i JUST RECEI esident of William est Automobile m see the mob il when it comes to I it of the shop qu st quality to be his coupled with th Hop Gets Out of as a service car ar per touch for a pie is sufficient to me IV n the market. T. L CAR \ : told that any yster's" remember uine STEI rinz by the trade n TRADE MARK Rf GI9TERE0. r it on every j iR GUANO C( ra., Tarboro, N. C., Charlott C., Spartanburg, S. C., Atlai ontgomery, Ala., Baltimore, M :a.McEU cal Agent. \ I )US HUPVED. sburg coun ade for the tie. 1 11 the staying ality, which, : put into an e I Gasoline, id its make asure car. rit your inTER s. -c. Ill I fertilizer is this: t ,s! :er ; a E I h nark t 0 a a u 1 I L sack ; II c )MPANY I c t a I e, N.C., Washing- s ita, Ga? Macon, id., Toledo, O. d 71717 XT II t 0 1 y. WHY ONE MORE LOAN IS NEEDED It Will Settle Nation's War Debts and Will Care for Sick and Wounded. Once in a wbile some one asks: "What's the need of another Liberty Loan now that the war is over?" Revenue from taxes will not be sufficient to pay all the bills, so the people will be called upon to provide the money by subscribing to govern ment bonds. This money is going to Pay off the army of producers at home ?the farmers, merchants, manufacturers and others. America had just begun to fight when the Hun decided it was time to quit. Allied leaders expected the war to last another year and the United 8tates government was turning out ships, arms, ammunition and food to overwhelm Germany in one big drive. Treasury officials have revealed that in 1919 America would have had a tank at the front for every seventyfive feet of line. We would have had ten tons of mustard gas ready for shipment for every ton Germany eoqld produce. Thousands of batteries of guns would have been in action for every one America had in 1918. Everything else was being produced In proportion. This gigantie preparation brought an early end to the war and saved thousands of lives. Victory Liberty Bonds will pay for this work which had been contracted for and was being delivered when the armistice was ligned. There are other purposes for which money is need. Part of our army of 1,000.000 men mast be kept in Europe intil the peace treaty is signed, rhese soldiers must be fed. clothed ind otherwise maintained. Then they must be brought home. The sick and wounded must be carsd for in hospitals. The army must !>e demobilised. There are thousands >f maimed soldiers, heroes of the preat war, who must be taught selfinpporting trades and given an oppor:unity to earn their living. This reconstruction work at home nust be carried on. The job must be Inished. The American people who tarnished the money to win the war nust supply it also to bring the union back to a peace basis. FARM PROFITS WILL! LOAN taral Business Bfen Are Well Able to Take Un Their ? _ A Share in the "Victorious" Fifth. More than ever before the American armer finds himself in the position , if comfort and prosperity which in lis just due. Lean years are for him 10 longer. Last year the average of arm earnings broke all records. Six ' nillion farms in 1918 produced crops vorth $12,280,000,000. This year it is estimated that a : Teater wheat acreage than ever will 1 ?e sown. Naturally, the farmer is , naking the most of his opportunities. | ,nd with guaranteed wheat prices | >nd high prices for everything hn ( Tows, the outlook for hint is most , ncouraging. And Europe will furlish a market for his fat hogs and !' teers. It would be interesting, if possible, j1 o assemble comparative statements j i if the farmers' bank accounts now j .nd five years ago. and the list of 1. nortgages that have been cancelled, j, Lnd il would be more interesting per- , laps to have a statement of the Lii> ' rty Bonds now in the hands of these illers of the soil. Very soon the farmer will have furher opportunity to prove that he is 1 tot without loyalty as well developed '> is any man's. For another loan is ilmost in sight, a loan that will draw < ipon us all. |( Because of his price guarantee of , 2.26 a bushel. Uncle Sam stands to ' | ose from 50 to 75 cents upon every tushel of wheat harvested next seas | m. Having given this guarantee to M he farmer, he will make it good i That is Uncle Sam's way. But what < s Mr. Parmer going to do for Uncle i lam in the Victory Liberty Loan? In every Liberty Loan to date tbe | armer. as a class, has bought less >onds than men in other prosperous ' lasses. He has been able meantime 0 get more sugar and everything lse upon which the government put ) 1 restriction, than others have. The big question now. when he ' tands to cash in at a K per cent I, iremium upon his wheat crop, is what s he going to do next Liberty Loan Irive? Some Liberty Loan officials are 1 uggesting that the farmer should >uy u $100 bond for each 100 busbelR if wheat he sells to the government, le has made the profit and should tave no hesitancy in taking a high,rade security in payment for the dlference between what the gorernnent gets and what he receives for ds wheat. Send us your orders for Job Printing. Satisfaction guaranteed / yr . . .. < v /' . SOLDIER'S LETTERS The following letter from Sergt. David M. Coker was sent us by J. Ralph McElveen of the Hebron community for publication: Franco, January 27. ia.9. HoiW old sport:I will answer yo ?r letter which I r<<eived this <oon. Sure was gla?' to hear from you to?>. You said yo-i hoped I w is well and ?rjoying Well, I am a'i O. K , except a bad cold, and as for enjoying myself, I should say I am for you know that this is some place to enjoy ones self, but then I guess after all you don't know much about this place over here, for as well as I remember you said it had been some time since you had been here. I guess there has been a lot of improvements made since you were here, anyhow, I guess I might as well tell you something about the place. I do not know which you had rather hear about, this place or the places I have been so I will begin at the commencing of our trip to F ranee. Well, we landed one day late in the afternoon at Ihe bottom of aj great big*" thing which they call aj hill over here, we would call it a mountain back home, but never mind about that, we were anxious to know what was on the top of that hill, so ...A A ie u..? we siarxea oui auuuu vi **r Hundred of us, and what do you think we found up there? We found a whole lot of tents, and we were so well pleased that we stayed there all night. The next day we started out to find a railroad for we had heard that there were railroads over here. Late in the afternoon we found one with a long string of Pullman cars with side doors about 8X14 feet sitting on the track with an engine fastened to them so we piled in, about forty of us to the car. After two nights and one days traveling, we decided we had rather walk and got off and after going down the road a little ways we came to a large hotel where there were some soldiers just leaving. Near by was a large wheat field with a river running through it, which made an excellent bath house so we decided to go in, take a bath and have breakfast. Well, after we had taken a bath and had breakfast of canned beef and bread, we started out again and after walking about two hours we came to a large town of about seventy five inhabitants and a lot of hotels which had formerly been oc-1 cupied bv horses, cows, hogs, rabbits, chickens and such like. After we had stayed here about 4 weeks we began to grow a little tired of the city, so we decided to leave one Sunday afternoon. We got1 up all of our belongings and packedi them on our backs and started out. | After we had traveled about five hours we came to a small town with' a 'ot more of the same kind of hotels we had just left, after staying here all night we concluded we did notj lily? the town at all, so we moved on ! and about one o'clock in the after-: noon we came to another town, but j all of the hotels there were already full of soldiers. We passed on through, but just as we got through an the other side we saw another big hotel with a green floor and a barbedwire fence for the walls.You can imagine what kind of a hotel ' 1 1.? tnis was. Tor it was on lilt' uanivs vi another river like the first one. It was a rather interesting place,1 so we decided to stop and take dinner. While we were here we heard that a train was coming through that night about midnight so we waited for it. Well, about 1:30 here came the train; we all piled on and in a few minutes we were off again and after traveling the rest of the. night and all of the next day until about 8 o'clock in the evening we were getting kind of tired and i sleepy. We found ourselves in another town and after looking around for about one hour we found a large _ I building with a good many cois in it. Well, we piled in, and in a few minutes we were off in "dreamland". I After we had stayed here a few, days we decided to do some more traveling. We had not gone very far; when we saw another town, so we began to look for a place to stay all i night. We soon found some more hotels and fell in for the night. We liked the place and stayed there a few days. The first day we were here we saw a. large bird come flying over which seemed to be about five miles high. Some one on the other side of the mountains began to shoot at it. Some one got a pair of field glasses and pretty soon we found out what it was. It was an Aeroplane and some one was shooting at it, so we decided we were getting very close to where the war was going on. We decided we had better move on to the next place so one evening about 5 o'clock we started out. That night after we had walked about 15 miles it began to rain so we began to look for a place to stay all night. About 1:30 in the morning we 1 V came to another town full of oar favorite hotels. We were tired and wet so we tumbled into our beds and were soon asleep. We liked this place so well that we stayed here over a week. We could hear a lot of shooting just over the hill, and we decided there was trouj ble over there, so one afternoon about 6 o'clock we thought we would walk over there and see. Talk about trouble! I guess there must have been a lot of it over there, for it was Continued on galley 3 Galley No 3 14 days and nights before we got a / chance to leave. When we did get a chance to leave we left right now. In a day or two we came to an old cotton mill. It looked like a very good place to stay so we stayed all r.ight. Tne next day we found we had hit a pretty good town, the best we had struck yet, we stayed here three or four weeks, then we got tired of this place, and started walking again. We walked about 20 milesam: came to a railroad. Some one told me there was a train coming that way after awhile, so wo waited and about 5 o'clock the next morning it came along, so we got on and was soon on our way again. Sergt. D. M. Coker, Co. D. 323 Inf. A. P. D. 791. American E. F. France ? o ^ : 1. From L. H. Cromer. ^ ?? Brion-sur-Ource, France. 1 V<Kniora OO 101Q Dear Mr. Tolley:"We are now getting, along fairly well again. A week or so ago our schedule was slightly changed by prefixing one hour, which, of course, somewhat went against the'grain with the "sons of liberty"?better known as "the sons of rest" in civil life?and the fact that, some good influence has had the effect of re-, moving the better part of the affix and prefix, we are again settled and are getting along about as well as * could be expected, infact, much better than I thought probable from my first impression of France. I don't mean to convey the idea that we have gotten things arranged here just like we had them in our homes, or even like the camps in the States, still we are faring well compared to what we did when we first landed irt France, and what fell to our lot while on the front. Most of the fellows in the line companies had a harder time of ito11 the front than we of the intelligence sections, though we were on duty 24 hours a day there the same as they. This does not mean that we were up and going all this time, as we were arranged in reliefs and took turns at our posts. The part I was playing on the last front was to stay at some good point of observation behind out? lines and find out all that T AAII 1A A U^iif f kii AHAtnir onthnnf 1 WUIU auvuw WtlU CliCIUJ r* auivm? letting them find oat that I had learned anything. The first part? that of getting information of the enemy, I do not konw that I did so well; but the second part was carried out excellently, for a German mind reader could never have told' that I had found out anything concerning their plans or operations, for: I had not. I don't think any of the other fellows of our detail found out very much more than I, though there have been some awful tales manufactured concerning what was found out about the boche. Some of our fellows really found out quite a bit about the boche, but I am of the opinion that the boys who got good dope on the boche were the guys wno uunnt'u <x unman uiuaviiu auu went into their lines and conveyed the information to our lines. Of course these fellows , were not chosen from the rank and file, and it did not fall to my lot to be associated with them. I imagine that is quite fascinating work, but seems most too dangerous for me. Well, unless the bolshevists (?) cause us some trouble, I guess our long hikes and sleeping in horse stables are about over, and some time between now and another new year's Johnnie (or Pete) will come marching home, thanking his star that his sojourn in France was not so prolonged as it might have been. As ever, "Pete". Co. F. 324 Inf. U. S. P. O. 791 2nd Lieut. 824 Inf. o Canning Outfits For Club Members The Farm Canning Machine Co., is making a special offer to club members. They offer a canner for $5.75 which is very good for home use, it is deep enough for three layers of tin cans, 14 No. 2 cans or 8 No. 3 cans to the layer. The larger canners are $6.75 and $9.50. These prices are about one third the regular price. We expect to make an order, and if vou will send us your order before March 25 we will have one sent C. 0. IX to your address. Hattie McMurray, Borne Dem. Agent. iT ? v.?. t , A .J