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IS HP 10 ! CHRONIC .1,1.1 ! MJ VOL, L.VIII. NO. 3 CAMDEN. TENN.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 17. 1J1! 181.00 PER YEAR SOLDIER LETTERS FROM OVERSEAS COUNTY NEWS IN A N UTS 1 1 EL I. it i r Kewbern F. Marchbauks, Com pany 13 129th infantry nud 33rd Division American oversea forces, Xvritt's hh follows to his father, C. 3L Marchbanks, of Mouut Carmel: France, November 23, 1918 Mr. C. P. Marchbauks, dear father: I will write you a few lines to let you know I am well; hope you are all the same, I am in the Verdun sector, don't know how long we , will be here, but am most sure it will be some time before I get Jback to the States. I didn't get to the front, but Would have been there in a very ehort time. I will try to tell you b little about my trip, as I am per mitted to do bo. I went aboard ehip in New York harbor August 26, and after plowing through the augry wave? for. 12 days, on Sep tember the 7th at 3 p. m. a German "sub" popped up about 150 yards nway and fired t v shots on us. The first one missed us, but the second one plunged into the side f our ship in the deck and on the game side where I slept, but we were all out on top at the time, so it was only a few minutes until our deck was filled with water. It was very exciting for a while. The sub destroyers were very ac tive. They reported that they eunk the sub, then they took us on j fboard and carried us to shore, and ! Relieve me, dad, I was some glad to get my feet on land. There was no panic. Everybody used good 'judgement and we didn't lose a anau, but we were very busy smok ing our cigarettes, as we thought we would have to take the water and get them wet. I can't tell you U about it, as it would take too much time. Guess you read about at, any way. The name of the ship was the Persic torpedoed 48 miles off the Irish coast on September 7. We landed in England and stayed thero nearly six weeks. Cecil Stepp nd the other boys were in the ame 'fleet, but not on the same hip,oI don't know where they are now. Well, I havn't time to write any more this time, so write nd tell me all the news soon as you get this, 'for !I havn't gotten any mail since !I left the States. ' Hope you will have a good time Christmas. Tell W. J. B. and sEIattie hello for me. As ever.your son, Newrbn F. Marchbanks, Company B. 129th Infantry 33rd Division American Expedition ary Forces. And Who Is It That Does Not Need a Teacher? Do we not every Sabbath have teacher in the pulpittind in the WuDday-school, so that we may '2ive better lives'? Does not every lawyer have from one two thousand silent1 taachers in his office, that is, his law books? And he daily learnsfrom them, eo that he may be a better lawyer. Does not the physician have his books (his silent teachers) and medical papers that he learns from every day? Many of them go often to take special courses in large vcity hospitals, eo that they may be more skillful physicians. Do not our children listeu to the" teachers in the public schools nine mouths out of the year? Does not the banker take the financial papers and -attend bank ers' conventions, in order to leam better method, even if his hair is .ft! mm'. "VV. ' mm mm w THEY How in God's name can you let millions die the most hideous death dealt to humanity Starvation? You cannot do it! You will not do it! America will save the orphans and babes frpm their hunger. Will you do your part? You could not do otherwise and be a man, much less an American! Every penny you give goes for. food and clothing for the starv ing, .helpless people of the near East. THE NATION'S QUOTA $30,000,000 YOUR QUOTA $-? CAMPAIGN JANUARY 12-19-1919 .AMERICAN COMMITTEE -FOR RELIEF IN TOE NEAR EAST white as snow? Yes, it is all true. Why should not the farmer have his teacher and bring forth the'frnits of the earth more abund antly? Without such fruits the population of the earth would dis appear. The farmer heads all occu pations in importance; he feeds the world, with the help of Provi dence. Surely he needs teachers also. There is no farmer, no mat ter how good a one he is, but who can learn to be a better one. Every farmer should read a re. liable farm paper, oue covering the exact needs of his section, and, whenever possable, he should take a short term course -at the State Agricultural College. FARMERS SAVE $4,500. A farmers' supply association, organized by the farm bureau of Crawford County,' Ohio, saved $4, 500 to farmers on a business last year of 149,500. The association hasacapitol stock of $10,000, di vided into 1,000 shares of S10 each, one share to a man. To My Patrons. I wish you would call at once and pay me some money. I need it. ' W. P. McGill. The Chronicle and Nashville Ranner, only $0. MM .... mm SHALL NOT PERISH Ti ARMENIA- G RESCE-SYRIA.-PERSIA. GOVERNMENT INSURANCE Treasury Uepaitment, Washing ton, ;D. C, December 4, 1918 To the soldiers ami sailors of America: approximately four million officers and men of the army aud navy are now iusured with the United States Government for a grand total of almost thirty-seven billion dollars. You owe it to yourself and to your family to hold ou to;Uncle Sam's insurance. It is the strong est, safest aud cheapest, life in surance ever writteu. For your protection ! UncleSam has established the greatest life insurance company in the world a company as mighty, as generous and 8 democratic as the United States Government itBelf. J ust as 'Uncle Sam protected you and your loved ones during the war, so he stands ready to continue this pro tection through the days of read- ; justment and peace. The privilege rl continuing your Government insurance is a valuable right given to you as'part of the compensation for your heroic and triumphant services. ;If you per mit the insurance to lapse, you lose that right, and yon will never be ble to regain it. :Uut ' if you keep up your present insurance by the regular payment of premi ums you will be able to change it iuto a standard Government policy .-. J I! without medical examination. Meantime yon can keep up your present insurance at substantially the -same low rule. The Govern ment will write ordinary life in surance, twenty-payment life, en dowment maturing at age 62, aud other usual forms of insurance. This will hi- Government insurance at Government rates. Ttie United States Government through the Bureau of War Risk Insurance of the Treasury-Department -will safeguard you and your loved ones will) the ppirit and purpose of a Republic giateful to its gallant defenders. To avail yourself of this protection, you must keep up jour present insur ance. Carry baek with you to civil life,-' as an-aid and asset, the continued insurance-protection of the United States Government. Hold on to uncle Sani's iusurauce. W. P. McAdoo The Supreme Court of the Na tion held in a decision-rendered Monday that the Reed bone-dry prohibition amendment prohibits interstate transportation into dry States of intoxicating ltquors'for beverage purposes, even -when in tended for. personal use. For Sale Big bone chiroc Jer sey pigs at a bargain. 'O.P.Smith Route C, Camden, Tenn. ; CLAUD. CONTINUED FKOJI LAST WEEK. Oh, 'what an awful thought! There was a time when I could have found God. There was a day in. which I could have been deliver-: 1 fmm sin and iff H.ftil pi-culty. ut .1 prneiMsi-inaif i. .1 --aid not ifvv. I insulted God v hen he call ed for I be ir rfiiidi- r ( my hoail uiid life and now it ia ali over with, me. The sun of my day bus s t and I am now overshadowed by Uie darkness of crushing despair. The time of my deliverance ih for ver aud eternally gone by. O, he harvest has passed hud the cummer has. ended and 1 nui ! M! rb1 1! forever lont!!! The thought that such a doom 1 iunild befall any ou who read heee lines makes our heart sad in ieed. Friend, as one who loves your immortal soul, which must be enjoying itself in the everlasting light of God's eternal love iu the leautiful City of Heaven or wail g aud crying in the darkness of ;ell ages after the body in which 't has dwelt has returned to duet, et us beg you not to say No to God. It is love for us poor lost creatures that moves God to say, 'Son give me thine heart." It is othing to God, so for as adding or detracting from 11 is felicity concerned, if we do or do not iiey the gospel. He is independent of us and ould never call us to a righteoue ife if his very nature was not love. I'll en do you wonder at what ie nere said shall be the doom of those who turn a deaf ear to the calls of such fathomless love? Be numbered among those wise ones who say, "Speak Lord, thy servant heareth," that you must not bo found among that great multitude ; who shall one sad day pray, though they do not pray in this world. If you say, No to God now and never bend the knee in humble prayer while in this, your probationary state, you will one day be found one of that great host who shall pray for the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of the merciful God to whom they said while in this world, "Go away aud let me alone.' In that great day, the strongest, the wisest shall pray; but only an empty, mocking, echo shall fall upon their ears as their prayers which should- have been offered up in their day of opportunity, re sound and reverbrate through the dark dungeons of the damned, God loved them too well to let them alone, but the time has now come when he is granting the re quest of theirprayer8and is letting them alone. So it will be with you if iu this life you act so foolish as the mau in this -Bible -story. The day will, come wheu God will let you alone. 'hctt alone away- from God, away from your dear old sainted mother and other loved ones who wet away to the' Paradise of-God many years. ago. Shot up in the dark prison cells of Hell, a place God did not make for your and did all He could to keep you away from. He -sent you warnings enough. God never lets us pass through, life without giving us all the warn ings needful. Every time we aw appaled, like Felix, at the thought of the judgement to come; every terror that shakes our conscience, CONTINUED OX.rAfiE.TW. 1 -i