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FROM A SOLDIER ;
ON THE BORDER
j Dear Editor: Although I am a
stranger to you; I trust you may
not overlook this piece. I am writ
ing to your paper as my parents,
and also many of my friends live
id Sylva,.N. C, and as I was in your
town a few weeks ago on a visit
and enjoyed myself so much. Since I
came back to the Border lam some
what lonesome, and cannot think
vi aiijuuug mai wouia give me
more pleasure in this lonely hour
tnan writing a piece for your paper,
I will tell you something of the
noruer me. uncle bam has over
nve thousand of his sons here. We
have been here
more than two
years. '
j We have some pleasant times
and some sad times. I will say
uul iuc sauuesi moments, to me,
are at evening when the sun is
sinking iq the west and the band
begins to play "Keep the Home
Fires Burning" and "The Girl I Left
Behind." I will say it would make
the tears come to any fellow's eyes,
j The "flue has taken several of
pur soldiers. It certainly is a sad
sight to see a dear soldier die away
from home and mother. I witness
ed the death of three of my pals,
some plead for mother until the
last, - t
i I must say - a . soldier sees some
sad moments. Some people may
think a soldier's life is all sunshine.
But no; he has his' dark hours and
they are not few. ? - - v
; We are aft treated well and are
Just like one . big .family, Imd. we
have lots of amusements. But I
GET GOOD GLASSES
Don't wear glasses unless you have to, but
when the condition of your eyes does make it
necessarvjhave glasses fitted by a specialist
who knows his business aud tells you the
truth about your eyes. '
Have Your Eyes Examined by
Dr. S.mobiiisoini
The Reliable Eyesight Specialist
78 Patton Ave. Asheville, N. C.
'AT- V
PAPRIS JEWELRY STORE
SYLVA, N. 0.
Tpesdlay Feb. 18th.
- r ONE DAY ONLY
N6te:--Come to Jackson County
Robinson and see Better from now
Price Reasonable
AsIiMlle MiHig
SYLVA WAREHOUSE
From the Manufacturer to the Con
; : sumer at wholesale Prices.
241b. bags of Flour
1,55
75 lbs. of Mill Feed
f When in Sylya make this
SYLVA W AKHirlU L SHi
Wv M. BROWN, Mgr.
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tell VOIl nnfMnrf
, - -"""s ajf perns io a man s
neart like home. You know the
song -Home. Sweet Home" is much
dearer to me than before I became
a soldier, although I love army life
j . . r , . " 7 rf
wnnfH nTw 8 r je,Wel
would probably sDenrf mv 1if
the sprviW "
ue service. , '
n.. .
uy some nower snmp nf no Ka0
rr UUiIura (0I ine DatUe.
eiterhnrJL boVS!!ftened
e,iger hearts for our call.
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A I HU T
v. . .
nean went ud tn Rnrf in tv,oi,
mvuuukii i mil itri i nn on nn
, . . uiaunoi
wnen the glad tidings of
spread over the universe, and my
. 138 whose boys went and never
ua , :
Well, a few lines about , the coun-
tryaownnere. It is like summer
here now. Flnwra ur u ;n ki
2he r -?
try is leve. and sandy. The land
j wvcicu wnu uacius ana tne trees
me covered with thorns. We don't
have much ram and no snow. But
the sand storms are what get our
nVi , .
01 all the country I have ever
- uuuuuk.u ucar lo
me as the good old hills of North
r ' i- -
wtuuiiua. a i ci ill wesrern rvnrrn
" ii , rTaen Sp0t 0f tne
nuuu- "cii, i Kuess one reason is
because-North Carolina holds a
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1F W! fnr met A II r i I
j.. w ...v. .r. U4 us poor uoys
haveajeweTat home, and when
some ot us fail to get letters from
our girls when we are expecting
them, we sit around with that long
face with an expression "No one
loves me.' . '
. We weie called out the other
night at midnight and had to make
Court on that dayt See Dr.
on.
Perfect work Guaranteed
place your headquarters
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patrols up and dofni the riverV s" iriiT nnniiFii mm n..
the Mextcans W trying t -.UU LIEtlT; BROWN AND REV.
raia on us. That is the kind ofJ
lire we lead on the Border, f At
night we are sound asleep ohe fnin-
bxo oig ouu
1 Ute and the next w are probably
7 - . . vny
w" w SOIne mm or to some
, niiet ti... v .,.
. .iucy-fteip us coins ail 4ne
rim - :
WeIl j hu .
1 shajl .not be altogeiher Jiappy
until t am h i c.i . xri
I a axu
I
i ik. -
" jenci . auu : mama. 1
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"qui me viinians oi ayiya to
the boys have have no one to pray
we all need
all the nraVPW thnf ran Ka AnV
So now. goodbye to all.
Sergeant Zcllie j. CANNdWif ,
agle Pass, Tex.. Jan. 28; 1919
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30TB CAPTURED MORE
THAN OWN CASUALS
TW th - t L
Un,i snh m uJ:
against the enemy than the Germans
made against them is shown bythe
fact that "our boys" captured more
uermans than were both wounded
na vv:mu. i a., .
auuiucu uiai me ooys oi tne
30th' probably killeJ several times
as mnnv r,Vmono
tt.PnwiH o roQOftnMfl w.i:.
" " iwujuuuuic we
. . ..
reached as to what the Old Hickory
boys did to Jerry a ad his comrades,
The following statistics, which are
taken from the Stars and Stripes,
the official newspaper of the A, EL,
give some idea of what they did;
Prisoners captured: Ninety-eighi
officers. 3,750 men. Guns captured;
Eighty-one pieces of artillery. 426
machine guns. Total advance bh
it uuj. 5 uuc i weiuy-eigni ranxiiOTe
half kilometres. v : r H
The operations in which the Old
Hickory ;was engaged are also com
piled and made public. A! short his
tory of the 30th from the time they
arrived in France till the armistice
was signed is given as follows:
Nation 1 . guard . of North and
South Carolina and Tennessee: Ar
rived; in France May 24, 1918.
Activities: Canal sector, south ot
Ypres (brigaded with British) July
16 to August 17; Canal sector, south
of Ypres under owu command, Au
gust 17 to September 4; Gouy-Nau-roy
sector, September 23 to October
battle operations; Beaurevoir secu r,
October 3 to-12, (battle opera ions)
J-e Cateau sector, October 18 to 20
battleoperations, Asheville Citizen
NO EXTENSION OF TMt
FOR Mi: TAX RETURN!
Internal Revenue Com m if sionei
Roper has instructed Collector
Vatts that no general extension ot
time beyond March 15 for filing
income and excess profits returi)s
by individuals, firms and corpora
tions and the payment of 1 the first
quarterly payment of the-tax due
on or before that datewill be grant
ed. This is necessitated by the con
dition of the Treasury. - There are
Treasury Certificates of Indebted
ness approximating $800,000,000.00
maturing March 15th, and the first
quarterly payment of income and
excess profits taxes is needed to
take up these certificates.
Blanks will be sent out as sooi
as the Revenue .Bill becomes law.
and Deputy Collectors and othe?
Revenue officers will go to every
county to assist taxpayers with
their returns. Notice of the times
and places will be published in the
papers.
! HOW TO KEEP: WELL.
"Keep the bowels open" ' is one
rule of health recommended by all
schools of medicine, . Foley Cathar
tic Tablet cleanse the bowel", sweet
en the stomach and benefit the
liver. For indigestion-, biliousness.
bad breath, bloating, gas or consti
pation, no remedy is more hijghly
recommended. Fine for stout per
sons. - For sale at Sylva Pharmacy
adv, ;
dkOwN EXPECTED
HOME THIS VEEK
Lieut. Claud Brown, former Dost
:ar . . . :
, fositioa here -
who was shot down in battle.
whilft iPHinrt h;0 n- ut
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brother, Rev. Fred Brown, who left
a large charge in Texas to answer
the Y. M. C. A. call to service, sous
of fL A. Brown of West Asheville
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auu vanaier, are expected to visit
relatives here this week, having ar-
'riyed in New York a few days ago.
j-icui. orown; aitnougn a married
man wit,h five children and holding
a government position, responded
to his country's first call and re
ceived his commission at the first
officers' training camp at Fort Ogle
thorpe, Ga. He volunteered for over
seas duty and went over at once,
attached to the famous 30th. or
Old Hickory" division, he partici
pated in all the engagements of this
division until he received his
wound. While leading his men in
a machine gun company he fell,
wounded in the neck. Chances
against his recovery were slim, but
he pulled through and was about
ready to rejoin his command when
the armistice terms were signed.
Kev. rred Brown is one ef the
best known young men of this sec
tion and has been in the ministry
for several years, holding a number
of the leading pulpits of the coun
try. He has often preached in the
First Baptist church in this city.
He has been in France for many
months, rendering , spiritual aid to
soldiers. Ashe ville Tiroes.
som Dir. fflf BEicli
AMERICd 1ST Of MARCH
Colonel J. Van B. Metts, command
erof the 119th infantry, of which
many Jackson young men are mem
bers, has cabled members of his fam
ily at Wilmington that the 30th di
vision will embark at a French port
on February 20 and will probably
reach America the first week in
March. According to present plans
of the g)vernment the division will
land at Charleston and will be sent
to Camp Jackson for demobilization.
Several cities in North and South
Carolina are already making exten
sive preparations to welcome and
entertain members of the gallant
30th division, when the Carolina and
Tennessee boys return from France
The 30th is now supposed to be
near a French seaport, presumably
awaiting ships that will bring the
men back to the United States.
Whether they will land in New
York, Norfolk or Charleston is prob
lematical, but it has been stated
that they will lar.d at Charleston.
R. Otis Self, principal clerk of the
Senate, recalled yesterday attending
the unveiling of the Vance monu
ment at the State Capitol when the
late Or. Kemp Battle delivered an
address. One sentence of that ad
dress was ii delibly impressed upon
Mr. Self s mind. "Poetry, patriotism
and lofty seatiments are closely
akin," said Dr. Battle on that occa
sion, "an 1 those sentiments most
abound where nature is most pict
uresque and grand, where the mist
of the morning 'are dispelled from
the glowing peaKs by the rising sun,
where the lengthening shadows of
the evening change the form and
color of the clouds, where the rush
ing streams and leaping cascades
furnish two eyes which can see and
ears attuned to hear a beauty un
known among the foothills on the
level' lands below."
Mr. H. C. McKee received a mes
sage from his son Robtv Thujiday
stating that he had landed fMs
country.
THE HOW QUFST10N
Editor Asheville TIMES:: "
Unconsciously The T imes didMr
towan, the genial and enthusiastic
genlleman from Jackson county an
injustice in its report of -the address
- JdeIivered Dy Mr. Cowan, and thesug
4 ' .
I gestion went out that Mr Cowan
wanted county seats M5,000 popula
tiou" and over linked in a system of
good roads. The size of ,the towns
was the error. Mr. Cowan wants ALL
ounty seataand for that matter all
of the leading towns of Western
North Carolina linked with hard sur
faced roads. He believes that good
roads will make Western North Car
olina what it has a right" to be the
garden spot of t le Old North State.
Invour issue of February first,'; , 8luruy CIiaract
u reDort me as hnvind eowi ?f hacked by a clean heart tnd unse. - :
you report me as haing said in
addressing the Good Roads ' meeting
in' session in your city on that date,
among other things, "That I hoped
to see a system of highways built
that would connect . very County
seat having over 5.000 populatbn,
in the entire State." '
I neither used this expression nor
any expression which carried such
a kind.ed limitation; I feel that it
would bean injustice to the cause
of good roads to let this statement
go without correction. In fact, a I
was discussing the Stevens-Scales
Mate Wide Road Law, and offered
t e resolution endorsing the same.
which resolution was unanimously
and enthusiastically adopted by the
meeting of the twenty-two mountain
counties, the public might be led to
believe that the meeting had by
implication endorsed as well as
this statement, when in fact I did
not make the statement nnH nm
sure that it was far from the spirit
of the meeting to endorse any such
limitations to the State's participa
tion in the construction of our high
way systems. Wh le most of ouf
towns in these mountain counties
seem to -have a steady, healthy
growth many of the county seats
have not reached a populatiou of
5,000, and in some instances, the
largest towns in the county are n jt
he county seats. JSven Buncombe
county, with its great metropolis
of the west, could not advocate such
a limitation without doing; an in
justice to many of its sister counties.
Good roads is no longer a local
question. While all local communi
ties must urgently feel the i eed of
good roads, all students of the ques
tion have come to the conclusion
that the problem of good roads is
much broader than any sommunity
To illustrate, Buncombe county will
soon have its princiDal hidhwavs
built to its county lines, consequent
ly it is beginning strongly to fetl
the need of good roads it eyfty ad
joining county. Every piece of good
highway built calls for another to
make more efficient the use of the
money thus invested. So it must go
on until the Tennessee, Georgia and
South Carolina state lines are reach
ed in every general direction.
The spirit of the meeting at Ashe
ville was for a State-wide system
and a Cmnty-wide system -elastic
in its purposes aud operations, and
presenting the fullest harmony and
co-operation bet Veen the two. There
was apparently no desire or inten
tion, to place such harmful restric
tions, and I am quite sure it was an
oversight on the part of your report
er in so quoting me, but such state
ment riright be calculated to preju
dice pending legislation and other
desirable legislation yet to be propo
sed to the Legislature. ' -
Very truly yours,
COLEMAN roWAN.
YOU KNOW, bUT SOMETIMES
FORGET.
Everybody knows an imitaUon is
never so good as the genuine arti
cle. Folev's Honev and Tnr
at the top of the list of family rem
edies for COlds. crotm. whnnnincf
cough, bronchial and grippe coughs.
W. L Anglin, Antiocb, La., writes:
I have used Foley's Honey and Tar
15 years. It is the best" For sale by
Sylva Pharmacy. Adv.
$1.50 THE YEAR IN ADVANCE
X I I .FAVORS WOHLD SUFFBAOE
' I
would sure like to see the bie- - '
ture of St. Peter presented to the
President by the Pope. It is said .H
that the picture is worth $40,000.
It must be a living picture, or framed :
in gold and bedecked with diamonds. .
Many things ha vj value that p-?r- -
haps I do not appreciate. I have w
never been able to see much real !
value in diamonds and rubies, etc, :;'
but some people's wealth consists of
what I would consider ' worthless.
F ne feathers do not make fine birds,
neither do fine clothes make a geu- , -
leman. What counts is a strong,
fin klmAk .1 l
ish motives. In these you fi id
something of real worth.
One of the basic principles of the
peace conference should be univer
sal suffrage for all nations, of both
sexes. This, in my opinion, would
solve tl;e question of world pedep.
This would take tie question of war
out of the hands of the war lords
and put it in the hands of the pW
ple. Anything short of this wouid
not be World Democracy. When
this is done, then the sacrifices i
our boy.s in France have been fu'l y
achieved, and not Until then. He
tiouble with the world today is the
few trying to role the masses. I si y
let the people rule. What we need
is for the masters to become the
servants and the servants the mas
ters, Then we would have govern
ments by the people of the people
for the people and the world woi Id
be made gafe for Democracy, ai d
this is the o ly way on earth . for
World espe-and Mforldi Democracy
X.Y.Z.
Farmer Relates
Story Of Trouble
Lost Steadily And Couli Not
Find Relief. Elvery Sign Of
Trouble Disappeared
Since He Took Tanlac
The remarkable experience of Y.
M.Hall,:i 'Wealthy farai living just
out of Adrian, Georgia is another
striking evidence of the extraodi
nary merits of Tan ac. In -speaking
of his two years of suffering and
subsequent relief, Mr. Hall , saidi
"I am proud to say that I have
gained fourteen pounds in two weeks
taking this Tanlac.
"My trouble had. been grow; g
worse instead of better ail tne tint ,
he continued. 'It was impossible
for me to lay on. my left side ou ac
count of the terrible rheumatic
pains. I began to lose weight-and
had fallen off until I only weighed
one hundred and thirtyeight pounds
away below my average weight,
and could not find -anything to re
lieve my pain or build me up.
""Afcerl'had suffered for more
than two years without getting any
better, someone recommended Tan
lac tome aud I started taking it. As
I have said before, I gained four
teen K)uuds in weight and I haven't
felt a sign of the old rheumatic
trouble sine 1. 1 have taken on'.y
four bottles of Tanlac sj far, but
from the way I have improved al
ready, I am glad to recommend it to
everybody." -
Taulac is now iold in Sylva exclusive
ly by the Sylva Pharmacy; in Erastua v
by M. L. Coggins and in Glenville by
W. M. Fowler, i
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with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, m ther
cannot reach the seat of the disease. '
Catarrh Is a local disease, greaUy in
fluenced by constitutional conditions, and .
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cine is taken internally and acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces of the
system. Hall's Catarrh Medlctn was -prescribed
by one of the best physicians
in. this country for years. It is com
posed of some of the best tonics known.
combined
purifiers. The perfect combination of
. the. ingredients in Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine is what produces such- w6nderful
results in catarrhal conditions. Send for
testimonials, free.
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