THE ROBESONIAN. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1919.
PAGE TWO
ra0M "WAY DOWNeorgia
,:r- Cm. Hancock-DaaUrdly
Deed, of the Huns a. Told by a
C A. Man-Fort Valley th.
Large Peh and P"Mrki"
. . - Grows on
. ' m nil : t v-
me " l A,
TrMc" -Other Interesting
et by Former Robesoww
Com-
-To the Editor of The
Since coming to
few weeks ti ort better
eral times of .,"n. "t until now
to The Robesonisn, but umu
we have even failed thank
: m. vnhPonian lorwmu --.
ing (bee pardon ana
80 We ih'Vh.tTt 52 fall appreciat
assure him that it was a v
ed just thwsaet',500rng without the
how we could get aiong
-old Robesoman. Ybefore we be.
cut they .hould B't " ian -,t
care 01 Mr. ynming.
trill soon ire ,
you that w " ; - we did
At least, vnin. - - .rtuarintion
IfLrHav nieht, and the following over. said that on another
un t"-- - ,,,0 rprpiv-. : . - ... .1
and seen for himself, he could truth-J
fully say that the half had not beeiv
to!d He pave instance after instance j
of the most terrible 01 crimes wnu,.
were committed by the Germans, and
which crimes were not to him ..ear
says, but rather, which enme undci
nis own observation. He said that at
one time he was in a French t wn of
several thousand inhabitants, and
that while he was there a German
airplane came over flying at a very
great height, and that everything ran
for safety to their cellars, etc., fear
ing that bombs might be dropped,
but that the 'plane instead of drop
knmha wn dropoine printed
leaflets, which were printed in both'
French and Englisn. inese ieoi
lets were an appeal to the French
and Americans to join Germany and
help her whip England. a
nln nassed over and it had drop
ped no bombs the people began to
crowd the street and to pick up the
nrintarf Annuls and to read them.
About this time he said the airplane
turned and came back, but this time
it flew very low, and the people, see
ing the apparent friendly attitude of
the plane, did not try to leave the
street, but remained and watched it
as it flew so Jow tnis time, dui. im
mediately it opened fire with ma
and there was more than
five hundred men, women, and chil
dren lying read and wounded upon the
street after the plane naa passea
I Owe My Life to PERUNA
1
Blr. McKinley's letter
brings cheer to all who
may he sufferers as he
was. Read it:
"1 can honstly say thatI v
m-r life to Peraaa. After om of
thj beat doctor In th country
grave me up and told mo I could
not live another month. Peraaa
vert ate. Travelling from town
to town, throughout the country
and having to go into all kinds
of badly heated store and build
ings, sometimes standing up for
hours at a time while Plying my
trade ns auctioneer. It is only
natural that I had roles fro
tiaeatlri so when this would
occur I paid little attention to It,
until last December when I con
tracted a severe case, which,
through neglect on my part
settled on my lungs. Wkern al
noit late, I fcegaa doetariag,
bat, without avail. aatU I heard
Parana. It I
cannot praise It too highly."
Cured ?::
Me C
Mr. Rasaael MeKlaJer. SSOT B.
12th St, Kansas City, Mo., Mem
ber of th Society of U. 8. Jewelry
Auctioneers.
Bold KTerywkere.
Tablet ar tiald Farat
. Avia time wc cvw
rtrVobesonback at home -it
Cammeealike 'alongetS 552
Sctttlt' IZe aS S of us who
HJ W 5TW see its
WeU0 we shall first tell the boys
f the old 72nd machine gun com
pany, about camv Hancock and what
seemed to be its "destiny" when we
passed through Augusta on our way
?o Fort Valley. We thought at one
time that we would go ouv .
one- ui
told us that
occasion he was with the American
army when they took possession of a
French town that had been occupied
by the Germans for a long time, and
in which place they were so strongly
entrenched that they had laid plans
for a permanent stay. At this place
on the side of a hil lor mountain the
Germans had a large "dug-out in
which was arranged every comfort
and convenience of the most pala
tial home. Mr. Holloway said that
he doubted that there was a home in
Fort Valley that could compare with
that modern German dug-out in its
rostly equipment, ate , it being one
hundred and fifty feet wide under
ground and containing parlors and
other rooms very lavishly furnished
with the finest Brussel carpets, etc.,
also moving pictures. But there came
he said, when the nuns nad
ful and spiritual men we have ever
heard. He also spoke of how deeply
grateful the French people were to
the Americans. He said especially
was this true and very noticable
when the Americans were advancing
into the territory so long occupied
by the German armies. Many times,
HAVE YOU A BAD BACK?
If You Have, the Statement of this
Lumberton Resident Will In
terest You.
he says, they were greeted by the'dav.
Does your back ache, night and
s-omn nuc see 1 UK
AinrnstH. who
there was not much out that way.
we aeciueu - thnn.la time, ne said, wnen tne nuns naa
as that there were only about a tnou I tQ j haye gQ much
sand soldiers there at that time, ana jn which Mr HqUo
that they were mostly at neaaquar , he wag am thfi
ters. However, we am go out -., f. t wh went , to this dug.out just
ww far as the car line goes, . fVl
from wnai we t-oum ;-."-,that from a room in there they re
rrom wni -, - - ..-.that from a room m tnere tney re-
.u.lr WAD fast becoming a thing , , . .
-- . ..vtamln IMivy yuuug guts, aj nuuc o
of the past. Well, boy "Jl1 ! the day they were born into the
had some gTeat experiences there,.
nnnnose tnat we snsu;
didn't we?
never forget them
many of us will
Mn.n Of cours
actually "ranged" will ever have an
TT-11 j
ever
er nmonc those cantured bv the Amer-
Of course only tnose wno a r' nfflr ' ho 5nsiated
1 v
i
JIaa rM what, thn word "ranee" real
ly meant. Some of tne ooys sam 11.
,... o nW where the boys were
vv ao e " - ,
icans, a
upon trampling upon the faces of
our dead as he was being marched
back with other captured prisoners.
An American soldier told him to keep
" , . 1 1. 1 aii American o
taken to lor a iew aay n - his feet out of the faces of our dead,
get tnem iuuy ... " f to which order he paid very little
over " and perhars that t as tte t- d goon in lant.
vaoA definition as :ould be given, lor . . aa
wnetner or 1:. 1 r--r--:.. ...j he:n warned the serond or
miA hOOtl BQ11 n rMlllT. P J "
one uunK '.ui.u --t third time to keep his heels off the
it; it would have served faces of the dead, he replied to the
rjuraose. for we do not remember to' . ... ' ... .
. niiici KOII BV1UIC1 aOMUK 11 14C WIS
nave seen a ooy ; - soldier) knew whom he was talking
than "ready" or willing to take ' he d
chances on another place, and that( j know wh the hun
without many questions "to officer told him that heVas talking
"where," for most h,bSJ to an officer of the Imperial CrowS
evidence of a "moving not on, even prince,s and again"the soldier
Zt orders finaUy Vane and told him emphatically that he had i killing frost,
.- - ... - mo. ,.f Detier not again step in tne xaces 01
a hot and sandy hike was made out k p Holloway
to the station where we were to he
board the train. This was in the af-
ternoon and we reached the stetion g)? ' f are ' situated-
about sunset, but our regret found fo n I how you
no train there waiting for us as we k y it again," to which the
had expected to find. We thought soldier
(all of us) that the proper JnK self anas they pds.3ed on the Ger-
dowas to .spend the night there TOit- ffiher fa not f . f
ing for the tram, which was to come; an
t-.e following day- B n at was 8
not Uncle Sam's idea or j,lan at aU de had
to as we were campmg with him we nQ sooner d the soldiers or-
agreed to do whatever h, thought dgrg th had
best. This meant that w2re .j,ran hig fa fc th h him M
have another hike baoV : to the H gaid. ..j t kn, hi
"range," and spend one more . nht bufc T tok knife and
as "rangers," and we set out, and from hig coft
about 9 or 10 p. m. we were coming hig mQn of which
up to the tents, and again grabh , ng now Mr Holl gaid that it
for our bunks which we had upon wou,d difficnlt for U8 who had
leaving, folded up ana gicaea nt nofc geen with
our own eyes, to get
kissed) "good-bye." Next came sup- . . . . h-,,..,!.--.. ' iH h
npr and we were what we termed 1 u. .:. iU. u. J -
"hungry," but as we were n..t ex
lected back, no anangeroents had
teen made for our supper until we
.-ft thf .lBtior. and word wai carried
o'. a short distan-.t aheaJ of us to
prepare supper for us, that we were
"coming back." Bread was out of
the ' range," so a substitute ha.! to
Le used, and I suvvose it's no, w. Mli
Tvhile to say what was used as a sub
stitute, for the "absent bread, as
j-.ny soldier knows it was "spuds"
that were always used as a substi
tute for any and everything in the
line of eats. Yes, some spud3 were
boiled or scalded enough to get the
peeling to where it could be taken
off, (though not many took it off)
and a spoonful of salmon and a spud
was served to each hungry "ranger."
Well, boys, such experiences ought
to make us all the more appreciative
of the way things are done for us at
home hereafter, and if it does, then
it will certainly be worth all that it
cost us, won't it?
This reminds us of a statment we
heard Mr. Holloway, a returned Y.
M. C. A. worker, make recently. It
was our pleasure to have heard him
make the most interesting talk that
we have yet heard from anyone who
has been over. He was both wound
ed and gassed. He said that he went
right with the boys into the hottest
of the fight, and that during one en
gagement in the Argonne Forest he
was one time without food or water
for seventy-two hours, which we
will have' to admit was much worse
; than conditions ever got at the
"pange." Mr. Holloway, speaking ol
the awful crimes perpetrated by the
Huns said that doubtless many of us
had found it hard to believe many
of the reports that we had read. He
said that he did not believe it all un
til he went and saw it with his ov.n
yes, but said that since he had been
He said that once he found a young
French girl who had been assaulted
by the Germans until she was nearly
dead and then a sword pierced !""
through her body and that he car-
l ried her in his own arms to where
sac could receive treatment. He al
so told of seeing a woman and her
baby, both with their eyes eaten out
by poisonous gasses. We had read
of such as some of the above atroci
ties of the the G?rmai3. a3 no aoubt
all of us have, and we only mention
a lew 01 these because of the fact
that Mr. Holloway saw it all, and
it is therefore not simply hearsay.
Mr. Holloway is well known through
mis part of Georgia, being a mem
ber of the South Georgia Confer
ence. He is one of the most force-
women, who just fell at their feet in
tears, and so many times even threw
their arms around tnem ana Kissea
them. He named several divisions
and said, "Girls if any of those boys
ever come back telling you that they
have never had a kiss, don't you be
lieve them, for I know better." Some
of the funniest sights he said that
he ever saw was when the French
eirls were kissing some of our sol
diers said it looked like some 01 tne
the bovs iust didn't know what in
the world to do. while others of
course didn't seem to mind it so
much. He said that his wife asked
him if the women kissed him, and
he told her that he tried to keep the
ugliest ones off.
Well boys, we who didn't get to go
over, can truthfully say that we
didn't encounter any such "rich ex
periences" in all of our camp life
back here in the United States can't
we? And replly. doesn't it look like
that those who went over ought to
bring back a somewhat more gentle
definition for war than the one cred
ited to Sherman?
We thought we would speak of
Fort Valley as a fruit growing sec
tion, but looks like we shall soon be
in the waste basket on account of
length. Yes, when it comes to grow
ing peaches, Fort Valley, Ga., is
sure enough on the map. Ft. Valley
has the distinction of being the larg.
est peach and pea market in the
world. Probably the reason so many
cow peas are grown here is because
peas is the principle crop grown in
the peach orchards. We have been
informed that peas are often shipped
from here in very large shipments,
hundreds of car loads being shipped
some seasons when a good crop is
j rodmed. However, peaches are not
c r:ned to the hvndreds of fun, but
jsiri'.'y run we:. n:o ins tlo.:sands.
Last season between :hrea and four
thousand cars were shipped from
Fort Valley alone. This seems to be
a very favored section for getting a
crop of fruit each season, as this
section is seldom ever visited with
which protection is
largely due to the altitude which is
high enough that during cold snaps
enough breeze is usually kept up at
night as to prevent killing frost.
Peach trees are more common around
here than cotton is in Robeson coun
ty, for nearly every field for miles
in every direction from here, is set
to peach trees, and the end is not yet,
for the young trees that are being
set each season run into the hun
dreds of thousands. We recently
heard a grower say that to ride
through the country around here and
see the millions of peach trees and
so many more being set each season
was enough to cause anyone to won
der whether peaches in a few years
from this would be worth anything
a all. But prices have been so
fancy for the past two or three sea
sons that the whole country around
here is going at it on a larger scale,
and this season will probably eclipse
anyining tnat nas ever been experi
Hinder work: destroy your rest?
Does it stab you through and
through
When you stoop or lift or bend?
Then your kidneys mtly be weak.
Often backache is the clue.
Just to give you further proof,
The kidney action may be wrong.
If attention is not paid
More distress will soon appear.
Headaches, dizzy spells and nerves,
Uric acid and its ills
Make the burden worse and worse.
Liniment and plasters can't
Reach the inward cause at all;
Help the kidneys use the pills
Lumberton folks have tried and
proved.
What they say vou con believe.
Read this Lumberton woman's ac
count. See her, ask her, if you doubt.
Mrs. J. M. Sessoms, 614 Chippewa
St., says: "I had a slight attack of j
kidney complaint some time ago and!
my back ached a good deal. I used,
Doan's Kidney Pills and they soon'
made me feel like a new person. , I
advise others suffering from kidney!
complaint to give this remedy aj
trial." ' J
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy get!
dDoan's Kidney Pills the same thatj
Mrs. sessoms had. 1? oster-Milburn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y.
than a month ago, before the peach
crop was so generally killed all over
the country, some of the grower
here sold their crop at $2.10 per
crate on the trees, which is 70 cent
a peck for the fruit at the orchard--a
standard six-basket crate holding
about three pecks. However, since
that time the peach crop has been
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E?ery woman la the Joy of coming moth
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Mother's Friend, of the greatest help at such
a time. By Its daily use throughout tne
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soft and elastic, expanding; muscles relax
easily when baby arrives, and pain at thsj
crisis is in this way avoided.
The inflammation of breast glands la
soothed.
Obtain from yom drnrritt, by all means,
this creat preparation which science has of
feredMrorso many years to expectant
Write the Bradfleld Regulator Company,
Dept. D. Lamar Building, Atlanta, Georgia,
for .their helpful and lntereanns- Mother,
hood Book, and begin the use of Mother's
Friend. It Is for external use, is absolutely
wis buu wuuucnuiiy niacuTe.
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or"
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I TROUBLE L
ceauSM aUmaal'that
people are too proae to a.
feet until the danger line la
reached. Don't YOU 4 ttt
Get a ISe bottle of '
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MIXTURE
from your drug store t4
nave it reacy at the
symptom of Diarrhoea, Un,
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half century. FloasaaU
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n v 1 ' tr
famous
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I jr This sum
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Our line of dress goods is exceptionally pretty and at' prices at
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Groceries
Heavy and fancy groceries, feed stuffs. Our prices are right,
whether wholesale or retail merchants, don't buy until you have seen
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Nitrate of Soda and Top Dresser now on
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JBinder Time
Mere
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We are prepared to take care of the needs of the farmers
on binders. We have in stock already set up two McCor
mick binders, the McCormick birder is too well known to
say anything about it because it it the binder that has
stood the test for over half a century.
New is the time to bu7 a binder, because you get the spring
cutting and also the fall cutting.
We also have instock ready for immediate delivery Mc
Cormick and John Dare Mowing machines and rakes.
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Hardware Department
By Buck Norment, Manager
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In appearance the new Studebaker
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Its light weight, low gasoline consump
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operate
W.R.TYNER, Agent
Distributor
Phone 2602
for Robeson County.
Lowe, N. C
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