Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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f :*- *' "wjirwi^ ..m,vt.wjmupj-L rnjUjTTn i mi m m. 'i,. ,.11. Lllii|'M>f?w^PWIff!?J!* ^ ***. ' 1 * Lend Your Money to the Cause of Victory. Buy War Savings Stamps. Sign War Savings Stamps Pledges I3l)? Chesterfield TZVdvertiser Yv a*. No. 13 flHRSTETMrTPT n S P TUTTDOniV frinn - .. . ? - 1 1 " ISO YOUNG MEN *._GISTER FOR SERVICE ( Robert Lewis Rogers, Lorenzy Hil- ' to ., R-.nee Bryan Funderburk, Corbe.t Bogan Edgeworih, Robert Dcniby, Isom Early Dees, Herman Catlo tge, Rufus Randolph Baker, Joseph Cash Griffin, Willie C. Bowden, William Franklin Wallace, Wilson Merritt Quick, Albert Monroe Agerton, Steven Alexander Morse, Henry Lucas Mills, Cecil Parnell Funderburk, Jas. Bry.xn Tndlock, Curtis W.Laney, Will { Davis, John Thomas Little, Sharper C'apMian, Ellerbe Braddock, Alon Junes, Clarence Edwards, Zack DeWitt Chapman, James Trivette Perdue. John F. King, Jennings Bryan Pinkston, Edward F. Boan, Gary Lee E v.ns, Lee Clayton Sanders, J. W. r Fursk-y, Harmon Sullivan, Carl LeRoy \Vilks, Leonard Preston Robertson, Ben G. Graves, James Cordy Johnson, Kesler Short, Lee H. Freeman, Charlie Mack Baker, Thurman Cassett Massey, Irvin Jones, Albert Eugene Lowery, Charlton Sellers, David Elijah Rorie, J. Archie Short. John Fred Parker, John Thomas n..: t? i: ?1 a 1/ 1 n m 1 viuiiia, L>i'Miid Aiiri'ti Duun, Lnariey C. Kirkley, Dozier Watts, Joseph Bridgers, Willie Webster Brewer, Earnest Plyler, Richard Hanley Newsome, Lonnie LeRoy Munn, John Frank Morgan, Carlie T. A. L. Jenkins, Roy J. Burr, Albert Townsend, William Grooms, Thomas Bennie Davis, Thomns Hadley Freeman, Willie Davis, John Riley Sellers, Jeff Holliman Turner, Elisha Rushing, Bon E Funderbur! , Clarence Robert Kiz ziah, Kirby B. Gibson, Carl C. Hilton. James K. Watson, Tillman Witkins, Ollie O. Watkins, Walter Broady, Joseph Cooley, Timothy Williams, Zannie Malloy, Anderson Mitchell, Clarence Nero, Sky Baskins, Robert Brown, James Ernest Teal, Ross P.irker, Thomns Teal, John Calvin Rivers, Grady Watson, R. Ross Jones, Jesse A. Rivers, James D. Campbell, Mack C. Sellers, Oscar McDuflfie, William F. White, Sanford L. Moore. Boyd Hopkins, Robert Paul Sellers, Edd Lisenby, Daniel Caulder, James Oscar Parker, Erastus II. Burch, Andrew Ellerbe, James Thomas Robinson, Hurley Franklin McCray, George Carroll Truesdale, Oscar T. McBride, Ira Walker Boan, Albert J. Eddins, Mack L. Gibson, Thomas Gainey, Shepard Ross Atkinson, Jesse Alexander Wilks, Sidney David Hilton, Robert Leon Watkins, Thomas Belton ' Sowell, Barnwell E. Pegues, Julius C. Moore, Vester Jordan) Orie Merritt. c, Cyrus Floyd, John Thomas McCray. ^ !/" ~ ~ ~ 4-U n nk-:-L?l T7* 1- /-I T> 1 .nciMici.il w. will iniiuim, rranii ti. pilKer, Clarence S. Catoe, James McCas kill, Louis Reid, Joseph Redfearn, James W. O. Smith, A.DeWitt Large, John Richard Lockhart, Paul Dunn, Henry Thomas Watson, John Hampton Melton, Silas Johnson, Peter Evander O'Nails, Robert Sykes, Archie Duncan McLaurin, Clarence Eugene Lee, Allen J. Garrett, Vernon Britt, Earl May Adams, Walter H. ^ Knight, James Bennett, Thomas Lewis Smith, Claude W. Ingram, John Alexander McCall, George W. Lett. Isaac Scott, Bronson Currie, Duncan H. McGregor, Roachel Poison, Lonnie Wallace, Josie D. Ruthvens, Jesse Keith, Jr., Cornelius K. Bundy, ^ Jesse Chavis, Clarence Broadie, Thomas Wilson, Isaac Ellerbe, Spurgeon Thompson, Chas. Hoyt Belk. I nwton Dean, James Ben Hoffman, William Julian Reid, William T.Jackson, Boyd McLain, Alouza Shaw, McKinley Hoffman, Wade Benjamin Blackwell, Emanuel Campbell, Earnest W. Beasley, Harry Baxter Redfearn, Richard Bryan Holley, Bud Brown, Hurdie Gulledge, Junius B. Davis, Alfred McCray. ft MI?dfrfcil?UI?<Wvlt h PARNELL MERMAN |t : CALLED FOR JUNE 25TH. The 'o'lowing white men will be :alled to report on June 25th for innduction into the army: c Frank L. Finlayson, Cheraw. Robt. P. Britt, McFarland, N. C. Wade H. 'Johnson, Chesterfield. Jus. C. RatlifT, Patrick, R. 2. Kenneth Morrison, McBee. B. T. Douglass, McBee. Charles B. Starnes, Pageland R.2. T. Lester Huntley, Chesterfield. I Jno. B. Boone, Patrick, R. 2. Harmon W. Alien, Pageland. Murdock D. A. Gainey, Middenlorf. Carroll W. Middleton, Jefferson R3 James A. Mills, Pageland, R. 2. James B. Goodale, Chesterleld R 3. v Robt. H. Sullivan, Angelus, R. 1. John Daniel Hancock, Ruby. E. Calvin Campbell, McBee, R. 1. W. Arthur Rivers, Chesterfield,Rl. James Eddie Short, McFarland,NC John E. Austin Funderburk, Monoe, N. C.. R. 10. W. Walter King, Chesterfield. C. Guy Chapman, Society Hill, R S I. Shepard West, Pageland, R. 2. Walter T. Vick, Chesterfield, R. 4.! Allan W. Winburn, Society Hill. Walter T. Sanders, Pageland. Gary Brown, Patrick. Carl F. Sullivan, Jefferson. LeRoy King, Patrick, R. 1. Lorenzie D. Ogburn, Jefferson. Henry Moore, Chesterfield, R. 1. Vance D. Moore, Chesterfield, R.l. Henry E. Mullis. Pageland, R. 2. R. Frank Williams, Jefferson, R.l. Geo. Edwards, Society Hill. Isaac Gainey, Middendorf, R. 1. Lewis T. Wadsworth, Chesterfield,3 Oliver H. Eddins, Chesterfield, R.2 James P. Jenkins, Jefferson, R. 1. Anguish Dixon, Middendorf. Samuel T. Roberson, Jefferson. Arthur W. Woodword, Ruby, R. 2. Charlie Goodwin, Patrick, R. 2. James A. Clark, Patrick, William H. Griggs, Patrick, R. 3. Jay G. Alexander, Middendorf. Jno. G. Merriman, Chesterfield,R,4 Luther T. Hick, Cheraw, R. 2. Charley R. Melton, Hartsville, S.C. Clarence Brown, Patrick. mi ? ? * 1 i nos. Ej. nae, Uswego. I Thos. M. Jordan, Patrick, R. 3. Fred Sellers, Chesterfield, R. 1 Henry R. Davidson, Ruby, R. 1. Whiteford Tadlock, Pageland. Geo. W. Simpson, Ruby, R. 3. Luther A. Burr, Chesterfield, R. 3. Henry Curry, Patrick, R. 1. Elmore L. Johnson, Jefferson. Jesse Watts, Pageland. Charlie D. Catoe, Jefferson. L. Samuel Hopkins, ChesterfieldR3 Jule Wilson, Ruby, R. 2. Robt. E. Vaughn, Chesterfield,R.2. H. Clyde Lowery, Pageland, R. 1. CALLED FOR JUNE 19TH. The following colored men will be ailed to report on June 20th for inuction into the army. Jas Paterson, Lawrence Thompkins, Cheraw. Green Sowell, Angelus Wm. E. T. Wilson, Wheaton, N. C. Frank Taylor, Cossatt, S. C. Spofford J. Gathings, Jim Williams, Cheraw. Henry Sowell, Pee Dee N. C. Walter W. Hall, McBee. Frank Whitfield, Society Hill. k Robt. Chapman, Society Hill. Vance Kennedy, Hopewell, Va. Thos. Little, Cheraw. Parnell Streater, Baden, N. C. Lewis Covington, William Burffin, Jr., Cheraw. Cleveland Streater,Winston Salem, r. C. Robt. Black, Jr., Jolly Short, Baden, N. C. Robt. Smith, Chesterfield, R. 4. Lonnie McNair, Winston-SalemNC Will Roberson, Chesterfield. Allen Myers, Cheraw. James Smith, Cheraw. { orenzo Reid, Fieldale, Va. Th*. W. Rivers, Siler City, N. C. R5 Randolph Peoples, McBee. John E. Davis, Cheraw. Earl Streater, Chesterfield. Ernest Craitf, Cheraw, R. 2. Eliaa Thomas, Cheraw, R. Handy W. Patrick, Cheraw. Geo. Williams, Cheraw. Mitchel McRae, Cheraw. Lewis Austin, Cheraw. James Capers, Sharon, Pa. John A. Gathintcs, Charlotte,N.C. Creak Wilson, Society Hill. Fulton I.vnfVi PK. u, Charlie McQueen, Cheraw. Frank Howard, Cheraw. LeRoy Little, Charlotte, N. C. Henry Cash, McFarland, N. C. Ned Chapman, Cheraw. John Dunlap, Cheraw. Ezekiel Marsh, Mt. Croghan. Walter Gainey, Cheraw, R. 2. John Tarlton, Chesterfield, R. 3. John Williams, Hopewell, Va. Robt. Hubbard, Cheraw, S. C. Will Mark, Cheraw, R. 1. Albert a Drake, Joe Jackson, Cheraw, R. 1. James Gaddy, John Bass, McBee. Buck Jawers, Baden. Nelson Love Ellis Pegues. John Gainey. CANNING OKRA Use only young tender pod; blanch rive a cold bath, pack, fill with waer, one teaspoonful of salt to a pint, rhen process intermittently or for hree hours.?Southern Ruralist. 9 * This is die Ps AD Loyal Ami 14th to June Signature Post Office TO THE SECRETARY I, the above signed In addition to those n agree to buy War 8avl as shown in margin at I FURTHER PLEDGE AVE AND EOONOMI2 WIN THE WAR. Total War 8a 8tampa may be bougl FRENCH LAUNCH ATTACK DRIVING GERMANS BACK I The French troops fighting southeast of Montdidier have turned upon the Germans in a violent attack and administered a severe defeat to the enemy over a front of about seven a id a half miles between Rubescourt and St. Maur. It was over this front that the French since Sunday's offensive began had held back the Germans from keeping pace with the advance they were making from the center of the line south of Ressonssur-Matz towards the Ooise River and where the onslaughts of the invaders were met with a defense in man and gun power that brought to the Oer mans enormous casualties. The village of Belloy, Genlis wood and the heights rising between Courcclles and Mortemer, were recaptured by the French and in addition to the infliction of heavy casualties in the engagement General Foch's men took more than 1,000 prisoners and also captured guns. In the immediate center of the line between Montdidier and Noyon where the German had been able to extend the apex of their drive to Antheuil the enemy also was attack-1 ed and driven back, but southwest of Noyon he succeeded in reaching Machemont and Bethancourt. Hard fighting is still in progress in this region. I The American marines fighting in the Chateau-Thierry sector have com- j plcted the capture of the Belleau i wood from the Germans and with its occupation took 300 prisoners. The | latest eGran official communication asserted that the Germans had re-! pulsed several attacks in this immediate vicinity. The third day of the German offensive on the front between Montdidier and Noyon saw the Germans still making progress from the center of the line eastward of the Oise Riv i-r, uui ueing nem DacK in tneir attcmps to bring their positions southwest of Montdidier in alignment. Everywhere they were continuing to pay an exorbitant price for the gains they made. Having reached the Oise in the region of Ribecourt the enemy, if he intends to try to fight his way along the west bank of the stream, soon must emerge .n force upon the lowlands bordering the waterway, wrcrc .he troops u' General Foch ars saiu to l?e in strong array, both meo ai..l guns, waiting to dispute the road to Paris. Although nearly 300,00 men are being employed by the Germans in their efforts to open a way to the ( French capital, their progress is slow 1 when compared to that on other days.' Numerous divisions of the attacking : troops have been cut to pieces by the French gunrers and forced to withdraw from the battle in order to fill gaps with fresh men. Not an inch of ground has been given up U/itVtAllf QVOrtf K?? ? ' ...v..vwV vAnvbiii^ iry Wilt? I ICIIHI UI It I terrible toll in men killed or wounded and nowhere has the defending line been pierced. French Check Move. The apex of the salient driven by the Germans is still in the center, south of the village of Marqueglise. To the west of this point, the Germans at one time almost reached the Aronde River, but were driven back considerable distances by the French. The French are counter - attacking southwest of Noyon, according to the (ierman official communication which says, however that renewed efforts of the French to regain lost territory were repulsed. The German war office claims the capture of 10,000 additional prisoners which with the number of captives reported Monday would bring the total to 18,000 in the present fighting. Another Gorman Claim. Comparative quiet still prevails on the front between Soiaaons and KJ* V., 111U itriotic Pledge That W nricans In South Caro 28th: No Street R. F. D. NO OP THE UNITED STATIO TR1AEL I certify that I now own ow owned, 11 J UNI nga 8tampe V Coat $4.17 each... I ?m ? .QUb J tf VM& Cost |4.1I each... AtJOUBT Coat |4.19 each... MYSELF TO SEPTEMBER IK, TO HELP Cost $4.20 each... OCTOBER Cost $4.11 each.... v NOVEMBER . Cost $4.22 each.... V DECEMBER Coat $4.1$ each..., . Inge Stamps Own ad and Pledged... Solicitor's Signature it from Post Offices, Banks and Authoi Rheims, although the Germans a nounce that northwest of Chaeai Thierry, where the American m: rines, fighting with the French ha1 several times decisively defeated tl enemy, the Germans have repulse with heavy losss attacks delivert aguinst their front. In one of the most ambitious oj erations carried out in many daj Field Marshal Haig's troops in tl Amiens sector have struck the Ge mans a hard blow. It was the Au tralians who carried out the manei vers and they succeeded in advancir their lines half a mile on a mile ar a half front and took nearly 300 pr soners, including five officers. In ai dition 21 machine guns were captu ed. On the Italian front there has bee no infantry fighting of importanc but numerous small affairs betwee patrols continue of daily occurenc Likewise the artillery of both sid< are keeping up mutual bombart ments. w.s.s. TOTAL CASUALTIES I "7 - - - w asmngcon, June 'J.?(Jasualtit among the American expeditionar force thus far reported by Gen. Pe; shing, including today's list, total 7 315, the war Department announce today in making public the first c regularly weekly summaries of casu ties. Deaths in action, and froi wounds, diseases, accidents, and a other causes number 2,927, while 4 046 men have been wounded and 34 are missing in action, including me held prisoners in Germany. The department's recapitulation fo lows: Killed in action (including 291 t sea) 1,033. Died of wounds, 310. Died of disease, 1,192. Died of accidents and other cause | 392. Wounded in action, 4,046. Missing in action (including pr soners), 342. Total, 7,315. While no official explanation wi given for the decision of the depar ment to advise the country weekl of the exact total of casualties sine the landing of the first America forces in France last June, it is ui derstood that it resulted largely froi widespread reports that casulties ha been very heavy and that total fij ures were being withheld from tl public. It has been explained at the d? partment that the daily lists sent t Gen. Pershing are issued with as li tie delay as possible. The casultii are so scattered in the lists that the <i? iiui give imorinauon 01 value t the enemy, but this does not mca that any appreciable numbers ai j held back. After heavy actions, sue | as that at Cantigny, it requires sevc ly days to check up the casulties. FROM H. B. HUNT Miss Viola Hunt has recently r ceived the following letter from h< brother, Mr. H. B. Hunt: Folkestone, En| May 10, 191 Dear sister: I will write you a few lines to 1< you all hear from me. 1 am well and getting along alrigh hope that you are the same. Well I guess you would like I know where I am at. I am som where in England, I don't kno the name of the place. We arriv< here this morning about eight o'cloc We have been riding about fifte? days. We were on the boat thirte* days and nearly all of the boys g sea sick. But they soon got over it I have not seen Tommie since \ left camp. He did not come on tl same boat I did. I will close hoping to hear fro you all soon, H. B. HUNT, rvouAi, JUiNCi 13, lit 18 iD be Signed by lina From June County IRY: Maturity Valuo Numbtr at $5 aaoh w n <a t An W8.8 00 W.8.8.. 00 W.8.S 00 W.S.3 00 W.3.8 00 W.8.8 00 W.8.8 00 .W.8.S.0 00 rlied Ag?nU Everywhere n- GEORGE III WAS OF GERMAN J- BLOOD?AND AN ANCESTER v OF KAISER WILLIAM /e ie >d This war has illustrated in tragic id fashion the importance of the educated citizenship in a democracy. P" When the war with Germany came fS on, the average educated, well-inie formed American at once threw him- ! r" self heart and soul into the American cause. He did so because he knew what the war meant. Unfdrtunately, however, our average voter had studied nothing about 1 the menace of Kaiserism, had never even familiarized himself with the I r" names of Nietzche, Bernhardi, and Treitschke and knew nothing of Gerin many's Caesar-like plans to make :e conquest of the world. In fact, the in distinction between the Government e- of Germany, ruled by a "divine right" Kaiser and his military authority, [ ~ and the present-day government of England in which the king is only a I figure-head and the people rule as completely as the neonle in Tin; ted States?even these distinctions were hardly familiar to the average 53 citizen before war came on. y In the limited instruction Riven in r" our public schools below the high , ?" school, no mention is made at all of the change in English government 1 since 1776, nor are fundamental facts ] about the Revolutionary War itself emphasized as they should be. For ' example, how many of our people ! know today that the British tyrant- ! King, George III who fought us dur- j n ing the Revolutionary War was of German blood, having a German fa- | ther and a German mother, and that the present tyrant-Kaiser is on his ' mother's side a lindal descendant of the same King George we fought in 1776? Yet these are facts. ' Let's put these facts somewha' 3? more in order. 1. George III was of German family, George I being imported from Germany and never learning to speak English at all, while George II came eo ' 'ngland from Germany when he 18 was 31, and married a German. ( George III was a first cousin of FredV erick of Prussia and 'had been es- 1 :e pecially taught by his German mon ther," says Earned, "that he und no j the people of England must rule." ^ 2. Coming to the throne, this an IU tocratic rule is what George 111 tried 5" to accomplish; and the war against the American colonies was fought in ^ the days when the King controlled e" Parliament not the Parliament the y King as now. As Lamed wrote in his "History of England" years ago: 78 "It was the blind obstinacy of King y George, more than any and all states *? of feeling among his subjects, that n carried England into conflict with *e her children in American, and that ' ^ gave an irreconcilable bitterness t<> ' r" the strife. . . . He managed the 1 doings of government in his own . way." :j. Meanwhile, however, while L B" George III was trying to oppress ?r America and carry out his Kaiserlike idea of making everything bow to ' K the King's will (and hiring Hessian ' soldiers from Germany to conquer America), Pitt, Burke, Fox, and others of the greatest Englishmen of the time "were against the King, and fought on many occasions in Parlia- ^ merit in the interest of the Ameri- | to cans," Chatheam boldlv de^iarir. e. a famous speech in the House of w Commons: "If I were an American, d as I am an Englishman, while a fork, eign troop was landed in my country, ;n I never would lay down my arms? >n never, never, never." ot 4. The liberty-loving English people have since compelled the King VP Lo give up one power after another he until he now has practically no authority, but in Germany, as we have ,m seen, this idea of autocratic rule by monarch exist* rampart and uncurb-1 eb.?The Progressive Farmer. ? $1.0( FROM EVAN D. VAUGHN On Active Service with the American ! Expeditionary Force, May 12, l'J18 D*-'*1 Dear Mother: L Have just heard from home and in^ ini feeling just fine. Wish I could j 'ow hear as often as 1 would like, but * that is asking too much. j J"era Let me thank you for the lovely et* box of eut3 just received. 1 was real 1 * glad to get it, not because 1 am starv- ^ol ing, never, 1 am getting all I can eat and am getting fat, but it is because a it came from home; and that word 1 home means more to me than ever ^ou before. an~ Mother, the boxes could not have arrived in a better time. on Frank was over to take dinner with nij me yesterday and my box arrived 1 while he was there. We enjoyed the t Unn ....... .u _ __ . . wma luKcmer ana iouay Deing my birthday I came over to take dinner a^a with him, a real nice dinner too, con- %OU sisting of beef and spud stew, sal- ^ mons, peaches, figs, honey-cake and coffee. Just after dinner his box arrived, a real nice box of eats, tho ^ou some of it was damaged. This box a^? I11C was sent Jan 4, mine Dec 21, was not . thar hurt. j Tell Roland and Nezzie I received ^ ^ their letters of April 15, also one ori(?i from John April 17. Glad to learn ^ all are well and getting along nicely with their work. Regret to learn of ^ so much sickness, though glad to hear | of all being so much improved. tear We have been on the front three 'j months, the longer we stay the bet- ^ ter we like it. We get more use to the big guns every day. I saw an awful air battle the other day, one machine being brought down. I have seen more fighting in the air than on * j land. I have more to tell you in re- j gards to this after I get home, as. you ^ know I cannot write as much as I , I w wish. . , Mother, you just ought to see the ^ beautiful hill sides of France, being no farming along the front leaves a ^.j. blank for the beautiful flowers and , w * i e l,ett green grass you may bet your life it looks beautiful. ' j' I could write on and on but I will ring off for this time. Give my love and best regards to . father and all the children. . . horn i our Loving son. Evan D. Vaughn. you FROM FRANK P. VAUGHN rem T Co. B., 117 Eng., A. E. F. amu Dear Mother: ')an< As this is Mother's Day and I am "1K ' thinking most of you, I will have to 'u* write you for the first thing this ^ morning. All the soldier in the A. E. ^or F. have been asked to write to their 1P1U1 mothers or the one dearest to them if no mother, and put in the corner, mot* "mother's letter" in place of "sol- ',l iier's" mail and it would go over all >ther mail. So you may bet that this is one letter written on time, 1 want SE it to be among the first to reach the transport for dear old America. Mother, I am well and feeling fine, I)< 1 only hope you all are as well and Ai tnjoying as good of health as I am. havi I am not worrying about anything, -our .veil in fact I have nothing to worry mys< ibout, for I am here right or wrong. IV 1 am fighting for my Country and if p /ou, dear mother. sure So, mother, don't worry about your illy sons for we are faring fine. I went pape >ver to see Evan yesterday as I was were working near his place, I took dinner hesi with him. We had a very good din o tl ler. He received a box from Ton ne 1 Curtis, while I was there, which was then nailed Dec. 21, it sure was fine. Eve- folks ything kept so well. Evan is wel Si md looking as well as I ever saw :ouir lim. lit* seems to be as well satis- u?nu pied as any one can be. iloni Mother, 1 received a letter from 1 1 'Inland yesterday and Evan received uis I >nc from Nezzie, both mailed April t w 15th, we were glad to know that all juit* vere well and that Father was able lots o be up again. 1 kr Mother, 1 am sending you a little now. louvenir, which I hope will go safe I o you. Tell father that I am goine honv o send him one later that he will be he a satisfied with. Evan has just come been >ver to see me. He is going to write dad ,*ou a letter and eat his birthday din "onf ler with me. am | Mother I shall never forget my last ,ain >irthday, for it was on the day 1 chal itepped on to a transport for some ] 'oreign land 1 knew not where. So (*s jn the first morning of the next dill nonth following we landed safe. (jatc So you knew the day 1 left and how vh?> ong I was at sea. 1 will close with J w< ove and best wishes to all. erf i Your loving son, vvorl Frank F. Vaughn. j,otl THE BEST 01 Everything TO EAT At Lowest Prices inn A. F. Davis Market 1 Will pmy highest market orice to i 1 fer Hides. rati - i |, r i . _ f Rh( ) A YEAR IN ADVANCE FROM JUNIUS STANLEY In France, Mother's Day ir mother: luess you in the States are observ"Mother's Day." So are we fels in France. imagine there will be more let^ written to-day than there have n on any one day heretofore. Dut his hadn't been Mother's Day I ild have written to you because it pens to be my day of duty, and ways try to write on those days, lother, dear, I certainly do hope have recovered from you fall and ,,~.wl ^ u^ttlll. am getting along just fine. I 't think you are worrying about but for fear you are I want to you again that it is absolutely ecessary. I couldn't be any betoff if I were back in the U. S. A. in. Am making myself think that are taking care of yourself and m not worrying about you. Now 't do something to make me think ;rent. I often think of the way looked when I left nearly a year now, and when my thoughts take back I remember with pride and tkfulness how brave and true you ? been. I guess it would have i the natural thing for you to <!, but 1 am so glad you didn't, one tear did I see. It was hard igh for me to leave and it would ? been much harder if you had a picture with me of yourself in s. shall always remember the way L. and Herbert left me too. They me a hearty hand grip and joked isual. These are things that a >w likes to remember when he is y from home. do not doubt but I am coming c to you and the home folks, and ?ay not be so long as we think, ill tell you all about my "vaca" when I do get back, m sending you a little pamphlet ?d by the Y. M. C. A.. The poems express my sentiments to you or than I can, especially the one page three. don't think enough can be said in se of the Y. M. C. A. and its k. They certainly do help the i and they always remember the e folks. You can walk in most Y. M. C. A. building and before are outside again you have been inded that you should write home, hey are great on furnishing sements, too. There is to be a 1 concert at the "Y" this evenand I will go. It will help to pass time. ust close now. It is nearly time "chow" and I still have a fine tite. t your letters keep coming, icr. They are always welcome. >ts of love to you and L. M. Your son, Julius. RGT. ANDREW J. HUNTLEY France, May 1, 191S. farest mother and father: m getting along just fine and am ng the best of health, and of se you know 1 never will hurt df working. k-e just received the last bundle lapers that you sent me, and I did enjoy reading them, especi me vmesierneld and Pameland rs. It makes me feel an if I hack home once more to receive . papers and I always give them le rest of the boys that are with rom Chesterfield county. All of i like to read about the home onetimes we have some pretty h times and then apain we have pood times. They all come ir with army life, have been up in the trenches. It been quite a while now, so puess ill he alright to tell you. Had ; an exciting time. Will have to tell you all when I pet home, low somethinir about real war am not the same kid that left e a few months ago. 1 have to dignified fellow now since I've i promoted to sergeant. I am that my officers placed enough idence in me to promote me. 1 he youngest sergeant in the coniiT, so you see I have to "walk the k line." am going to try to make good, like I told ('apt. Hooks at Camp s. 1 told him then that I apprei'd what he had done for me n I was made corporal and that >uld try to show that 1 appreciatt by doing my best. I am not king for honor for myself, though her. I am fighting for you and er and my country, ive all the folks my love and best irds. Will have to close for this 5. Devotedly, Andrew. LITTLETON COLLEGE i just closed one of the most suoiful years in its history. The 37th ual session will begin Sept. 25th. Vrite for new illustrated ca'aje, also and QUICKLY for parti* irs concerning our special offer a few girls who cannot pay our ilogue rate. Address J. M. idea, Littleton, N. C.