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|t 1.1 I 11. l-il UHI |<?yniTPff^nfmmtfiiT?n|mfinfniii f Gunner f f Depew | I i Jllberi JA?. <DcpeW 2 52 2 7* Ei-Gunntr ind Chiel Petty Officer, ? ~ U.S Ni?y?Member ( the Foreign ~ S Legion ol Frence ? Ceptain Gun ~ JT Turret, French Bet'Uehip Ctuird? ~ {; Winner el the Creis 4e Gu er rel ZZ BllH'HinilihiltfiH.tNitthiiiinlnimihil Oopyrlrht. IlKg. by liellly end nrltton On.. 'J brooch Special Ar.anceiuent Wfih il.e ueorce h?niieow Ad erne Serrloe. (Conneud From Last Week) CHAPTER XVIII. "Pack Up Your Troubles." We urrived nt Hwlneniunde, on the enst bunk, and after we had had our drink of water and had been rousted back Into the hunk era, Itudewltz went across to the weat aide In u launch with Joyce and Hill und a guard of IIImp. in - - 1 n. ..TTjr nvm IU OC Knot IIIO next morning, with some others, at a public shoot! gg-fest. The rest of us wrapped ourselves In lumps of coal as best wo could and tried to sleep. In the morning crowds of (leriunns came aboard us ami were turned loose on the boxes In the hold. It was a sight to see them rip off the covers ami gobble the salami and other stulT thut we carried. Table manners are not needed when there Is no table, I guess, but If you had seen them, you would say these Ucrmans did not even have trough manners. 1 have seen hogs that were inore fln| ieky. t While they were at It, hand to hand ' with tin- ?,ho\v. giving and receiving terrible punishment, we prisoners \ were mustered on deck, counted, kicked on'o digs and transferred to the " (?. hank, where the mob was v aitlng for us. My wounds, us you cm hn> gine wrc 'n u pretty hao state by this true, nnd were getting more piilnlul every minute, so that I fmun! 1 was getting ugly and anxious for :in argument. I knew that If 1 stayed this way I would probuMy never come out alive, "*for there Ih every chance you could want to pick a quarrel while you are a prisoner that will mean freedom for you?hut only the freedom of going west, which I was not anxious to try. * When we got nenr the west hank, on the tugs, we could see that we were tip against a buttle with our urms tied. Over half the crowd was women and children, I should say, and the re$t were laborers and old civvies, and reserve soldiers, and roughnecks gen vrmiy. ?e loum Hot? me spit experts ?the spit snipers, deployed to the front, almost. As we went ashore, the homhnrdtrient begun, and we were not only tinder Are of spit. If you could call It that, hut also of rocks and bottles and dtlcks and most anything that could be thrown. All this time, *'le.;t you forget," we hnd no shoes, and no clothing?only what hnd once been our underwear. It Is all right to be n Coney Island snowbird and pose around In your luitblng suit In the drills, because you are In good condition, and last hut not least, because you do not have to do It. Figure out the other side of it for yourself. They marched us Into a field where there was nothing much hut guns and ammunition and snow, and set us up In something like skirmish formation. We stood there for some time, und then we saw a lot of liuns with the new long rides coming toward us, yelling Just as they did In battle, and we thought sure wo were being used for prueUce targets. It Is a good ^ thing they halted and stopped yelling when they did, or we would huve started for them to Aght It out, for we were not the kind that likes to be butchered with hands In the air, and we would have been glad for u chance to get a few of them before they got uh. nui iney uid unit, nun tnen surrounded ur, and drilled uh away through HwnmpH and wondH and shnllow Anter or slush. The women followed, too, and there were plenty of bricks and spit left. Women as well as men are the same the world over, they say. I wonder? You cun JuhI picture the women of, say, Rockland, Me., following a crowd of German prisoners that way, can't you? Not! But of course the women of Itockland are pretty crude?no kultur ut all? and Gott never commissioned President Wilson to take the lid off the atrafe pot for him. They drilled us ulong the docks, and It looked as though the whole German nnvy was tied up at Swlnemunde. We saw many of the ships we had heard about, among them being tbe famous Vulcan, the mother-ship for submarines. There were many sailors looting along the dockR, and they gave the women a hand with their days' work. They were no better with a brick, but they had more ammunition when It came to splUlug. One of them tripped a young boy by the name of Kelly, and as you would never doubt, Kelly picked up a rock and crashed the sailor with It. He was then bayoneted twice In the left leg. We befan singing then, our popular favorite, Tack up your troubles," etc., and when tbey heard us, how the swine stored I Then they drilled ns past the German soldiers' quarters. The men were at rifle practice, aud I guess all of us thought how handy we would be as targets. But when we got nenr them, they quit practicing and crowded around us yelling: " Ttaus! Zuruck !" Finally we got to the top of the hill, and were halted near the barracks while an officer read the martial law of Germany to us. At least ^j we thought maybe that was It. Finally they let us Into the barracks, and the first thing we saw was a great pile of buy. That looked good b to ns, and we made a rush and dived Into It. But the iluns told us to take the bay and throw It In the middle of the road. They had to use force bofore we would do It. Finally we gave i In, however, and started to carry it Zl'li- uuL-i 1.. UUJ crying, and I do not blame thaw much. But one of the boys tried to hide some of the hay behind a bo* and was caught doing It, and two sentries clouted blm from one end of the barracks to the other, tils nose wns broken and his face mashed to u Jelly. But there was nothing we could do, so we Just wandered up and down the barracks, nbout as we did between decks on the Moewe, trying to keep warm. While this marathon was on we heard a whistle hlown very loudly, and when we looked out we saw a wagon piled up with old tin enns. Then we were told to form Rlngle file, walk out to the wagon and euch get o can for himself. Each man had to take the drst can he laid his hands on. and ninny of us got rusty ones with holes In them. So that about half an hour luter, when we received hurley colfee, and all we had to drink It from was the cans, lots of the men hud to drink theirs almost In one gulp or lose half of It. The hnrracks were very dirty and smelled horribly, and the men were still not even half clothed. We all looked filthy and smelled that way, and where the coal dust had rubbed off, we weri? very pale. And ull of us were sturved looking. About eleven o'clock thilt mnrnlntr the whistle blew again, and we came out 4m<l were given an ftluinihuiu spoon ami a (llsh apiece. Then we cheered ?ip and miw corned beef and cabbage for ourselves. An hour later they drilled us through the vtv?v )<< the h'jche. When we got there we stood In line until at least half-past twelve, and then the Germans shouted : "Nlehts zu essen." But we did not know what that meant, so we just hung around there and waited. Then they started shouting, "Zuruck! Zuruck !" and drove us back to the burracks. loiter we heard the words "nlehts zu essen!" so often that we thought probably they meant "no eats." We had our rcusons for thinking so, too. Those words, and "zuruck" und " 'raus," wore practically all we did hear, except, of course, various kinds of schweinliunde. i It was awful to see the men when we got hack to the barracks. Some of the boys from the Georgic, not much over twelve years old, were almost crazy, but even the older men were crying, many of them. It wus nothing but torture all the time. They opened all the windows and doors In the barracks, and then we could not heat the room with our bodies. When we started to move around, to keep warm, they fired r. few shots at us. I do not know whether they lilt anyone or not; we had got so that we dhl not pay any attention to things like that. But It stopped us, and we had to stand still. The Huns thought we would take the rifles from the sentries und use them, too. I never saw a yellower bunch of people In my life. I do not meun people. I wish I could nnhllnl? ?ih?? * really mean. We had stoves In the harrnrks, but no coul or wood to hum. There were many boxes plied up there, hut they belonged to the Germans. We would have burned them If we could, but the Germans made us carry them across the road. They weighed about 1W) pounds apiece, and we were so wenk that it wus all two men could do to budge them. And we had to carry rtiem ; they would not let us roll them. Wo were so cold and hungry that even that exercise did" not warm us. About 2:80 the whistle blew again, and the Uuus picked out a few men and took them down the road. We could not llgure out why, but they came hack about three o'clock, all of them with bread In their arms. They were chewing awny on It when they had a chance. Whenever the sentries were not looking they would bite ut It like a fish going after a worm. Each man carried flvu loaves. When they got In the barracks the sentries made thcin put tho bread down .on the floor, and then, with their bayonets, the sentries cut euch loaf once down the center lengthwise and four times across, which mount ten men to a loaf about the size of un ordinary ten-cent loaf in this country now. They gave each of us a piece a little larger than a safety-match box. The bread was hurd and dark, anil I really think they made It from trees. It -had Jiiat exnctly the name smell that the dirt around trees has. We filed past the sen tries single file to get our ration of this mud, nrid there was no chance of getting In line twice, for we hud to keep on tiling until wo were out In the road, and Htund there In the hiiow to eat It. We could not go hack in the barracks until every man had been nerved. Ciur meals were like this: A can of j hurley coffee in the moruliiK; cubbaws Koup, ho called, at noon; a tenth <;f a ! loaf of bread at 3 p. m. That wan our menu day In and day out, the kalHer'h birthday, LIucoIu'h, May day, or any other time. This cabbage Houp was a great Idea. We called It Hhudow soup, because the boys claimed they mude It by bunging a cabbage over a barrel of water ami letting the Hhadow fnll on the water. We pretended, too, that If you found any cubhuge In it, you could tuke your dlHh back for a second helping. . Hut : I Tllivor anu/ nnuK/i/lu ?/? ' . va MM ?T UK/UUU/ 1 Ilium IIIUII j one dishful. All It was, wub Just , spoiled wnter. We tried to go to sleep that night, hut there were so many seutrles ; around us?and those of us who were not sick were wounded?that I do not think n man of us really slept. After a while I asked a sentry If I could go, outside for a minute, hut for some reason he would not let me. 1 had different Ideas about It, so 1 stood around near the door, and when he turned his hack out I went and uround the corner of tho barracks. IJut one of the sentries there saw me and blew his whistle, and n guard of eight came up from somewhere aud , grabbed me. 1 tried to explain, but It was no use, because every time I said I a word it mernt another swat over the ear, so Anally I gave It up. Then they drilled me across the , road to the oftcers' quarters. There, were three officers there, and each of ; them asked me questions Hbout all kinds of things, but never once mentioned my runt Ing out of the barracks. Then they gave the sentries WW tfrf fgfr vim . >, tries took me out nnfl over to the lutrhed wire fence. There lliey tied me. fnce to the fet.e.? nrmu ...v hcnd, and IiiiihIm and feet lushed to the wire, and with a rope around my wnlst, too. I thought, then, that my hunch hud come true, and that I would he crucified, like Murruy und Brown. They posted a sentry there In addition to the regular guards, and every time he walked past me he would kick ine or spit on ine, or do both. One time he kicked me so hard that a prong of the harhed wire gashed me over tlmleft eye?the only one I can gee with?and when the li>ood ran Into my eye It blinded me. 1 thought both eyes were gone then, and I hoped they would shoot me. It seemed to me that I had got my share by this time without losing the other eye, and if It was gone, I wanted to go too. I could not put up my hand to feel where the prong had Jabbed me, and It kept on bleeding and smarting. J had on practically no clothing, you remember. The wounds In my thigh had opened, and It was hitter cold and windy. So you can picture to yourself how gay uml carefree I wus. When I had been there for an hour and a half they untied me from the wire, and I keeled over on my hack. They kicked me until I had to stand up, hut I fell down again, and all the kicking In Germany could not have brought me to my feet. I was Just all In. So they blew their whistles and the gentries In the barracks awakened two of the hoys, who came and curried me In. All the time the sentries were yelling, "Gott strafe England!" and "schwelnhund J" until you would have thought they were in a battle. Whut their Idea was I do not know. The boys had a little water In a can, and one of them tore off part of the sleeve of his undershirt. So they washed the gash and bandaged it. Believe me, I was glad when I could see again. I was so tired and worn out that I went to sleep at once, and did not wake up until they were giving ua our hurley coffee next morning. CHAPTER XIX. German Prison Camps. A few days after I had been lashed to the harhed wire fence some of the German officers cntne to the barracks, and one of them who spoke very good jjngllsh said: "All of the neutrals who were on unarmed ships step out." Only a few stepped out. Then he called for all the neutrals, and the Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, Brazilians and Spaniards stepped out. lint when I did, lie said, "No, not Americans. Americans are not neutral. America supplies our enemies with food and ammunition." He raised his flst, and I thought he was going to hit me, hut instead he gave me a shove that caused mo to fall and get u little cut on the head. Then the sentries pushed rne over with the British and the French. After thnt they took the Norwegians, Swedes and Danes to separate hnrrneks, and gave them clothes and bods and the same rations as the German soldiers. When I saw tills I made a kick and said I was a neutral, too, and ought to get the same treatment as the Scandinavians. They took me to the officers again, kicked me about and swore at me, and the only answer I got was thnt America would suffer for all she had done for the allies. Then I was sent back to the bar- 1 racks again. The next day at about one o'clock they took us from the barracks and drilled us through the swamps. The men began to fall one by one, some crying or swearing, but most of them going along without a word. Those who went down were smashed In the head with rlllo butts or belts. Finally we arrived at a little railroad station, and had to stand In the snow for over an hour while the engine ran up and down the tracks hooking on cars. When we finally got In llw. ..... ' T .J mi; VIII n wr wrir n wM'll mill. 1 riMIIU hardly walk, and Homo of the boys simply could not move without Intense pain. I They loaded twelve men Into each compartment, and detailed u Kuard </f nix men to euch car. The wlndowa In the cars were all smashed, and everything about the cars was dirty. Finally the train stopped at a town named Alt-Dainm, and there was a mob of women and children around, as usual, ready for us with bricks and spit. They stoned us through the car windows, and laughed ami jeered at us, hut by this time we were so used to It that we did not mind much. Only, every now and then some fellow would get all ho could stand, and either talk hack or make a pass at somebody. Then he would get Ida? either a bayonet through the arm or leg, or a crash on the head with u gun butt. , After an eighteen hour ride, without food or drink, we arrived at Neustrelltz. It was raining as we pulled In. As wo went up the grade to the town we eould see lights about a mile away, and we figured that that was the camp. The rain stopped and w? remained In the cars for some time. Then, af'er a while, we knew our new guards were coining; long before we could them, we could beer the etfi - - - - X. -- -1-UL racket they mndo. Somehow a Oct rann cannot <!o anything shlpshapt and neatly, but nlwsys lias to have a lot of noise, and running around, and general confusion. Four-footed awlnc are more orderly la their Imblta than the nuns. When they came up, we were rousted from the cars and drilled up the road to the camp. When we got near the German barracks we were halted and counted again, and made to stand there for at lenst nn hour after they bad finished counting us, shivering like leaves. At last they placed us In barracks, and those who could went to sleep. There were about forty barracks in the Limey group at Neustrelltz and two large Zeppelin sheds. The barracks were Just about like those at Swlneniunde?at least, they were no better.j Along the sides of the rooms were Ipng shelves or benches, and every three feet were boards set In grooves. The Hhelves were what we had to sleep on, and the boards In the grooves divided them up so that only a certain number of men could use each bench. The following morning we nearly dropped dead when the lluns pulled In a large wagon full of clothing. We thought we never would have anything to wear hut our underclothes. They Issued to each man a pair of trousers, thin model, a thin coat nhout like the seersucker coats some people wear In the summer, an overcoat about as warm as if it had been made of cigarette papers, a skull rap Him ii pair <ir siHics, whi'li xvcri' a day's labor tu carry arouml. Not uric of us received socks, shirts or underwear. The toe was cut from the right shoe of the pair I received, and as my wounds were In the right Milch and my left had stiffened up considerably ami got very sore, I cot pretty anxious, because there was nothing hut slush underfoot, and I was afraid I might lose my log. So I thought that If I went to the cpnuiiander and made u kick I might get a good shoe. I hesitated about It at first, but finally made up my mind ami went to see him. I told him that It was slushy outside, and that the water ran through the hole In my shoe and made it had for my whole leg. which was wounded, lie examined the shoe, and looked at the open toe for some time, and I thought he was going to put up an argument, but would give In finally. Then he asked me what 1 wanted. I thought that was plain enough to see, hut I srdd Just us easily as I could that I wanted a shoe without a hole In the toe. "So the water runs Into It, does It?" he said. "Well, my advice to you Is to get a knife, cut a hole In the heel and let thu water out." All the other swine In the room laughed very loud at this, and I guess this Fritz thought he was a great comedian. !'>ut somehow or other, It did not strike ine so funny that I Just hud to laugh, and I was able, ufter quite a struggle, to keep from even snickering. It was a harder struggle than that to keep from doing something else, though! Our meals were Just about the same as at Swlnemunde?the bread was Just as muddy, the barley coffee Jusl as rank, and the soup Just as cubhugeless. The second morning after we hud hud our hurley coffee, one of the sentries came to our barracks, which was number 7-lt, and gave each of us an envelope and u sheet of writing paper. Then ho told us to wrltd He Chalked on the Door. to anybody we wanted to, after which ho chalked on the door In big letters: kitn:os(J e fa nci: n i : n i.aokk and told us Tt was the return address. We were all surprised, and asked each other where we were, Is-cnuse we had thought we were In Neust relit a. After a while, wv learned Unit It means "I'rlsoner-of-Wart'ani|i." At llrst, though, many of us thought It was tin? name of the town, ami we got to calling It the Hrewery, because the name ended In lager. Whatever beer was brewed there was not for us though. I noticed that all the time he was writing the word and giving us the stationery, the sentry was laughing and having a great time with his own little self, hut I figured he was Just acting (lermati, and that nothing was Important about It. We were all tickled to death to get a chance to let our people know w here wo were, and each man timuidit a long 11 nit* about what he would say, and who ho would write* to, before* be over started to write. Kami man wanted to say all bo could In tlx* small Hpflre ho had. and wo wanted to 1e*t our friends know bow badly they wen? treating us without saying It In so many words, beenuse we knew the IIuiih would censeer the letters, anil It would go hard with anyone who complained much. Ho most of thu men said they were* having a great time and were* treatcel very well, and spread It on so thick that their friends would flguro they were lying because tbey had to. One fedlow had an Idon that was better thun that, though. Ho huel been In Jail in Portsmouth, Knglunel, for three meuitlis, for bi'atlng up u conqtubie, uuel ho hud hud u pretty rough ? I * [ time. 80 he wrote a pal of his that ' | he hud hern captured by the Qer' Diana, hut that everything was going along pretty well. In fact, lie said, the only other trip he hud ever been 1 on, where he hud a better time, was I the three months' vucution he hud ; spent In Portsmouth two years before, ! which he thought the friend would remember. He said that trip was better than this one, so the friend could i figure out for himself how pleasant ; tills one was. Everybody thought this was a greut Idea, hut unfortunately not all of us hud been In Jail, so we could not all use it. Which was Just , as well, we thought, because the (Jermnns would be suspicious if all of us compared this vucution with others. A few of the men did not have anybody they could write to, und some did not know their friends' uddresses, so they would write letters to friends of the other men, nnd sign it with the friend's nickname. As soon us u man hud finished his letter, he hud to go out to the center of the camp, where they had built a raised platform. There the sentries took the letters, und the men formed around the square. There were officers on the platform reading the letters. We thought they read them there in the open, before us, so that we would know they were not tampering with the letters, and we thought the heaven would fall If ttiey were getting so unkultured 11s that. Finally, all tSie men had finished their letters and turned them over to the officers, who read them. And then we saw why the sentry laughed. The officers tore up every one of the letters. They were anxious that we would k?o them do it, ho none of us would have any hope that our friends would get word. Hut we said to ourselves that, if It was information they wanted, they hud as much as was good for them, which was none ut all, because I do not think one letter In the bunch had a single 1 word of truth In It. But we were all very ungry and pretty low after that, because it showed the Huns still had plenty of kultur left, after all, and we knew there was rough sledding ahead j of us. Also, some of the men were 1 sore been use they had wasted their time thinking up different ways of tipping their frlomTs off to the real state of affairs, and nil for nothing. Why milium worry annul 11 II1C>, 1 COI1IU ! not sec. Time was the only thing we liail plenty of, and I for one, thought we were going to have still more of It. Going hark to the barracks we tried to sing "Park Up Your Troubles," hut there was not much pep In It. Wo were not downhearted, though; at leust. we said wo were not. (To Bo Continued) AUDITOR S NOTICE The Auditor's oflice will he open for the assessment of all personal property, poll, road and dog tax from January the 1st, lit lit, and February 1 the 20th, 11)10. , All ahlehodied men between the t ages of 21 and '10 years are subject ' t<> a poll tax of $1.00 and those be. tween the ages of IX and 50 are re' quired to pay a commutation road ' tax of $2.00. The law requires 50 per cent, penI alty added on all properly not returned on or before February the 20th. j The oflice will be open every day except us below stated. I will be at the following places on the dates named: Patrick, January the 27th front 1? to 12 o'clock. Cedar Creek, January 27th, front 1 to 2 o'clock. John II. Wallace's, January 2X, front 10 to 12 o'clock. Cash, January 2K, from 1 to 2 o'clock. Cross Roads, January 21), front 10 to 12 o'clock. Mt. Croghan, January 21), from 1 to '1 o'clock. Ruby, January 20, front 1 1 to " o'clock. Guess, January 21, from 12 to 2 o'clock. Angelus, February 4th, front 1 1 t<> 2 o'clock. . Mcliee, February, 5th and <">ih. Middendorf, February 7 lit, from 11 to 2 o'clock. 1 Jefferson, February 10th. J. (J. Holly's, February 11, from 10 to 12 o'clock. VV. J. I licks, February 11, from 1 I to 2 o'clock. Pagclund, February 12 and 12. i>uuiey, renruary i lin, irom i?> to 1 o'clock. Cheraw, February 17th and I nth. 1 T. W. KIM HNS, County Auditor CALOMEL SALIVATES AND MAKES YOU SICK Acts like dynamite on a sluggish liver and you lose a day's work There's no reason why a person should take sickening, salivation calomel when a few cents buys a larno bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone -a perfect substitute for calomel. Il is n pleasant, vegetable liquid which will start your liver just as surely its calomel, hut it doesn't make you sick and cun not salivate. Children and j?rown folks ran take ' Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is perfectly harmless. Calomel iH a dangerous drug. It is mercury and attacks your bones. Take a dose of nasty calomel today and you will feel weak, sick and nauseated tomorrow. Don't lose a day's work. Take a spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone instead and you will wake up feeling great. No more hilliousness, constipation, sluggishness, headache, coated tongue or sour stomach. Your druggist says if you don't find Dodson's Liver Tone act better than horrible calomel your money is waiting for you. Adv. 3. cLerk's sale State of South Carolina, County of Chesterfield. In the Court of Common Pleas. 'Iurst-Strcater Company, Plaintiffs vs. I. C. Hillian, Defendant. By virtue of an order granted by lis Honor, Judgc. Melver, Judge of h?' Fourth Judicial Circuit, I will offer for sale to the highest balder for < tsh, before the Court House Door at Chesterfield, S. C., on the first Monday in February, 1919, between the legal hours of sale, all that lot of land in the Town of Cheraw in the above named State and county, IPERUNAme Rundown and Unable to Work "I am pleased lo rnnmnirnd IVroni , uh If whs heiiefleml In rrnlorlDK my health when I was ull run dunn from overwork nml nervouM worry ami was unable lo lake up my r? milar work. A friend recommend'd I'eruna and said he was sure that It would restore my ntreiiKth. I soon found that I was KctliiiK belter and in a little over two montliM I was able to resume my duties villi renewed vlicor nml ntreiorth. It certainly is a wonderful medicine to vitalize the system." For Stile Everywhere Bring Your Bz I n i. 1 f - rv proaiems ia Just at this time, lems of peace?mu: man should watch and should form Ij.i upon. Make THIS your whatever might dev efficient co-opcraticr you throw around safeguards. Isn't t THE FARM ruby, souti T. M. BURCH, R. M. Ni President. V n fw; MtUKS UKTTTJj sxrteu j Buy Tht | Help Win FOR SALE E\ S$ank cf % 11 Oldest Bank I IR. F-. Rivers, President. M. J. H ough, Vice-President. i S'lhe South Trust ( m Invests its premium | munities front whirl gj coins. I his means I money paid to this i ^ upon the community I the money is returnc iiiif up the rommuiiit 1 Chesterfield I fc| C. C. DOUG ALSO FIRE, ACCIDENT, III We Buy and Sell Real I I II I I with fifty (CO) feet front and running one hundred and fifty (150) feet hack, bounded by lot of the Rev. McArn on the East und W. P. PolI lock on the West, fronting the Cftfrlden road, bought of C. K. Waddell and Jou Lindsay. Purchaser to pay for necessary papers. Dame being J C Hillian lot. I. P. MANGUM, Clerk of Court of Common Pleas. TOWN TAX BOOKS OPEN Town Tax Books are now open for the payment of taxes. See me at the store of W. A. Hi vers T. E. MULLOY, Clerk. AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE Good Buic Six and and Saxon Four lor sale. 2p W. D. CAMPBELL, ONDERFUL IDICINE b-^vl To Vitalize Mr. OnrKr Atklnaon, Slatlon.iry Fireman and Mcmlirr I 'nil Workmen, 823 10. Mb Ave., To|? k;i, Kantian. IliH letter 0|1008)t?- lo:iV<H llttlo <Ioul>t of bis faith in l'eruna. I.I<1 nI<1 or Tnblrt Fnrin mkinff s jtroblenis of war and perhaps probj| be faced. Ibis means that every liis hutinen more closely than evsr. nking connrctiom that he can RELY hank, and you can he certain that clop, you can rely upon prompt and ^ Furthermore, our officers will help your business the strongest possible his worth considering? ERS BANK H CAROLINA :WSOM M. L. RALEY, .-President Cashier. sT&l fMIUMN arv Tn 8TATB# KMEMT ;m And The War /ERYWHERE hejterfield n Gncdcrficltl C. C. Douglass, Cashier. D. L. Smith, Assist. Cashier. icrn I afe & >om pany income in the comb the premium money that the life insurance ompany is not a drain r. On the contrary, '(! to lie used ill buildI I f k y . i(>an Sins. Go. LASS, Manager 3altii, hail, live stock :ance estate?money loaned