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Big values tunity to sa CAPT. PHI[IP HUNTER RETURNS TO WORK Was Prisoner of the Germans for Eight Months. SERVED WITH THE BRITISH Took Part in the Hottest of the Fight ing in Belgium and France U. il Captured. York, July 26.-Eight months a prisoner of the Germans who under took to slowly starve him to death as they attempted to, and did starve, other prisoners, and after being engaged in the medical service of the British army for two years, during which time he saw service in some of the most terrific engage ments of the late World War, Capt. Philip W. Hunter returned to his home in Yorkville Thursday morning, looking quite hale and hearty despite his harrowing experience of the past twenty-four months. He wears the British military medal for conspicuous service and he also vears the two bars of a captain, having entered the war with one bar-insignia of a first lieutenant's commission. Worked With the British. Volunteering for military service in October, 1917 and s;gnifying his wil lingness to go irto the British mili tary service whose losses in doctors up to that time and afterwards were simply terrific, and in proportion equal to that of enlisted men, Capt. Hunter, although the property of the United States army, was attached to the British forces throughout the war being assigned to the 10th Woraes tershire regiment, a unist of the 19th British division. Both the regiment and a division were in the hottest of the fighting in Belgium and France nw! the (n'alties~ were enormous, the regiment having n-en practically wiped out before the sgning of the armistice and the cessatiton of hostil ities on November 11. Few English OLD PEOPLE'SKINEY8 Many Elderly Manning Residents Suf fer Fronm Some Form of Kid ney TIrouble. When past middle age, there fre luently conies a noticeable wveakenhat >f the organs of the body, and result pg danger of quick decline. It is riite ntecessary to give prompt help o any part that first shows signs of year. Healthy kidneys are necesu o a hale old age. Weak kidneys often ring constant hackache, lame back, iitches and t winges of pain, annoy ig urinary t rouibP5, and the (danger fdropsy or Bright's diisease. D~oan's idney Pills are gratefully recomn tended by very many agedl people. end what Manning resident says: Mrs. R. L. Loga~n, WV. Boundry St., yve the following statement Jan ary 30, 1911: "I hav~e been greatly lieved and benefited by Dloan's Kid y Pills. I suffered with my hack~ I kidney sanid I couldnf't sleep well ghts. I got [Doan's Kidney Pills d they relieved mec wondlerfully of my trouble.' GONE F'OR G~.OD )n February 1 5. 1 9m , M rs. Logar rI: "'The cure1 Doan's K idney Pills ve me( some t ime. ago has lasted. I b.been in fine health ever since I I am only too pleased to again e them my endorsement.'' trice fl0e, at all dealers. Don't ply ask for a kidne:. remedy--get in's Kidlney Pills-th~le same that 1Logan had. Foster-Milburn Co., re. Buffalo, N. V TEINf B in this Sale at prices y lye. Merchandise offei WEJ men there were of the Worcester- gi shire regiment who had the good hi fortune to return to their homes, tl when demobilization was begun, with- h< out hearing with them wounds in- w flicted by gas attack, bayonet, bullet fir or shrapnel. Capt. Hlanter quite for- cc tunately went through two years of in "close up" war without a wound, al- fr though the sufferings he underwent re while a prisoner of the Huns for the ty better part of a year were much to greater perhaps, than would have or been those resulting from the pene tration of machine gun bullet, shrap- ca nel or other implement of modern tv warfare. to Imagine yourself living for eight H long months on nothing save two lei plates of very thin soup per day with as a weekly addition of one loaf of nc bread, and a small loar at that, made' th of the poorest grade of rye and bar ley, horse chestnuts and other substi tutes for real wholesome wheat flour as Such was the ration issued to all G< Allied prisoners of the Germans and si< many a poor fellow, both officers and av enlisted men, died in these prison fr, camps because his live and vigorous be manhood demanded much more than of this slim ration. The unfortunate hr men experienced the terrible pangs of or a hunger that were not satisfied until sir late in the month of August, 1017, hr when through the aid of the British th Red Cross, which finally was enabled pr to get in communication with pris- on oners, the ration was increased at to least sufficiently to more than pre- wi serve life. th Was Captured April 10, 1918. of Captured along with a number of wl other British officers and men in the w fighting at Messines Ridge in Belgium th on April 10, 1918, at a time wvhen his wv battalion wvas practically wviped out ar and while he was engagedl in minis- I tering to the wvounded, Capt. Hlunter m with other prisoners was taken to be the G;ernman concentration camp at w< Rastadt in the Rhine valley, lie was m kept there until June 1, when he ivas nmovedl to a great German prison pi eamp at Gradeng in East Prussia, nc some forty mniles from the Russian te border andl relatively near the city Iw< of D)anzig. Tfhere were some 600 thi AllIIied officers andi men mi this camp st: and the life they led was one of 1)1 suffering, privat ion andr worry. Not pr allowed to do anyv kind oft work, ex- al eept occass.ionally the med icos in the shi nuimber took turn about acting as th orderlies to the G;ermoan dloctors, wvith ci' lit tle to eat and with little exercise, ofl it. was indeed a lite acute hardship th they led. So far as their treatment hc by the Germians was concerned except w< in the mat ter of nourishment, they fic hadl little or no complaint to make. m, That is the officers did not, although tr the (enlistedI men fared not so well. C1 To a G;erman soldier an1 officer is an (li~ cer* no matter his country, and trned from t heir chiildhood to re- h spect the rank of an officer, they h n iually treatedl their prisoner of- w: ficers with consiuderable consideration. sl "Enlisted men who were prisoners," hc according to (Capt. blunter, "'fared niot ii so well.'' tr Tlells of His Experiences,.w Seen yesterday moornin. at his home mi here, Capt. H1unt er talked moost, inter- mi extingly of hiis experience*s. lHe was of frank to say that he had plenty of pc war ex perience and he thought the ar next time lie was in the military ser- ei v ice would be wheni hiis own coanitry st was being invadiedl. lHe arrived in the ni States only last Friday, coming over t from Brest, France, on the Northern E Pacific and trave'ling in the steerage 11 along with several hundred other of- h( fleers, unable to get first class accom- no miodattions because of the crowded d( (rapacity of the vessel. Upon arrival h< he went to Camp Dix. where he wnes p g Clear )u will not be able 1 ed in this Sale goo [NBERG ven a fifteen-day furlough to visit s home here with the understanding at at the expiration of that time is to go to Camp Gordon, Atlanta, here he will receive his discharge om the service. Possessing healthy for and apparently quite heavy weight, one could hardly -conceive om his present appearance that the turned soldier weighed hardly nine pounds this time a year ago thanks two plates of near-soup a (lay and e hunk of black bread a week. "German doctors with whom we me in contact more or less in the ,o German prison camps we found be a pretty decent lot," said Capt. inter. "However, they would not us work with them except as sistants or orderlies, and they did thing toward feeding us any more an the rules allowed. No Hope of Escape. "Escape was impossible. Located we were in the poorest part of rmany, beset by enemies on every le, there was no chance for a get ray. Had we managed to escape )m our captors, it would only have en to be retaken because to get out the country we would either have d to get through entire Germany the one side or Russia on the other be, and escape through Russia would ve been just as impossible as rough Germany. Several Allied isoners did get away temporarily, ly to be recaptured and sentenced days of solitary confinement. There is nothing for us to do except make e best of it and await for the day liberation at the end of the war rich the Germans saw, as well as , was inevitable. You may imagine at November 26, was one glad (lay th me when I was given my release d( returned to the British forces. wvas not sent back to my 0o(d regi ent--there was little of ti left to go ek to; but was assigned to hospital )rk in which I was engaged until y return to the Statbs." "Even so soon as April 1018 wve isoners realized that the end was ar for Germany," said Capt. Hun r". The Germa ntroops wvere fairly ill fed then and on to the end; hut e civilian population was sf'owly rving. They knew about those twvo ates of soup a (lay as well as we isoners. WVe could tell from the pearance of the horses, the ram ackle wagons taken from Russia, e dlespairing look in the eyes of rilians, the worried look of German icers and soldiers that the end for em was near. And those facts Iped to alleviate our own sufferings ndlerfully. Thanks to the do0od of es of the British Red Cross, we got. re to eat about August 1, the ex is being furnished by the Red -oss." British Fought and Died Like Sportsmen. Capt. Ilunter has none but the ghest praise for the British. troops th whom all of his service was ent. Intimately associated with *th officers and men of Great Brit n for two years, living in the L'nches with them, binding their :mndls, coming to know their inner Cst thoughts and feelings through anths and months in the thickest it all with them, he is a most com 'ent judge of the trtie character d w"orth of the British and the tillant part that he played in the ruggle for world democracy. He turally madle many fdiends among e English during his long service in igland and with English troops in ilgium and Franae, and while he is peful that it will never lhe neeem ry to g'o to war again, if it ever 'es hecome necessary he could not~ pe to serve wvith a finer andl braver ironnel of oflers nnd men than the moee Sale To' Lo duplicate again thi d for right now and COMPAI British, whom he said looked upon the war as a great sporting contest, who w re the greatest sportsmer. in the worbi and who fought and died lIce sportsmen. Capt. Hunter is the second York ville man who was made prisoner of the Germans during the recent world war, the first being James Moore, a Yorkville lad, who was taken prison er by a German submarine after his vessel, the Norwegian "Storskag," was torpedoed and sunk, and taken into Germany, where he was kept for sev eral months. 0 GUARD AGAINST HESSIAN FLY NOW Losses to the present winter wheat crop from Hessian fly have been rath er wide spread. Losses are reported in the Shenandoah and Cumberland valleys. Straw-fallen wheat due to this cause was commonly observed in these regions where the percentage of infestation by the Hessian fly has very materially increased this year. Reports received from the western half of the Mississippi Basin also in dicate increased abundance of the pest. Growers of winter wheat should put into practice at once measures advo cated by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture to avoid losses tb the 1920 crop by the Hessian fly. There is no remedy for this pest when once it takes possession of a crop of wheat. Injury can be prevented sole ly by keeping the fly out of the wheat. N o use arguing abou minor key! If you" rette makin's notion corr it a few liberal loads of P Boiled down to regu Prince Albert kicks ti Puts pipe pleasure into Makes cigarette rolling t: fragrant, so fascinating ii Prince Albert can't b throat! You go as far as spirit! Our exclusive pa parch! e Toppy red bogs, tidy red Iin, humdos-and-thatc classy, :sponge moistener top that hei R. J. Reynolds Tobacco s year. Don't miss ill seasons. The department experts say the fol lowing methods are effective: Do not sow wheat on stubble if pos sible to avoid doing so. Plow under all infested stubble and ruined wheat where practica%)c' soon after harvest, especial!y where i4s does not interfere with the growing of clover and forage grasses. Destroy all volunteer wheat by har rowing, disking, plowing, or other wise. Plow all land to be sown to winter wheat as early and deeply as existing conditions permit and prepare a thor oughly pulverized and compacted seed bed. Conserve moisture against a period of drought at seeding time. Use the best seed procurable. Plant Sugar Corn, Suop B nips, Carrots, Beets, Ra Weeks Peas, Squash, ( pickling etc. Get the ve The Mannino it, or making chin-music in 'e got the jimmy-pipe or ciga ered in your smokeappetite, slii rince Albert! lar old between--us-man-tail e "PIP" right out of a pipe the 24-hours-a-day joy'us class sie toppiest of sports! P. A. is s flavor, so refreshing! ite your'tongue or parch yot you. like according to your smok~ tented process cuts out bite an i, handsome, pound and half-pound tin rac tical pound crystal glass humidor with pa the tobtacco in wu perfect conditipn. Company, Winston-Salem, N. 4 this oppor Keep the soil in good tilth and, most important of all, sow winter wheat during the fly-free per.,I as advised by local farm -advisors or State ex periment stations. Co:inunity action In t hee meas m es is ausJLUtCy esst:.:a! to com plete success. c0 COLE BLEASE ANNOUNCES Columbia, S. C., July 28.-Former Governor Cole L. Blease today an nounced that he would be a candidate forNCongress at the general election, but that he would not oe a candidate in the primary. Blease is preparing the platform. on which he will enter the race and will announce it in a few days. ~m uumm Now! eans, Irish Potatoes, Tur dish, Ram's Horn Six ;ucumber, Tomatoes for ry best of seeds at I Grocery Co. I by It .Rynol4s d