The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1918-08-01

.,~.... y. {, more or less religious life he |
shuld want to change the spelling way
of onered name for | am afeard he |
don't want his old friends any more. | |
guess you are quite we'll known acquain-
ted with the produce Of his printing
presses in the shape of the Ledger
which is publiahcd(O time a week at
2.O0S year per annum in advance &, |
he was sued for several thousand dol
lars($) by Beasite onct and also his
Grit 4 Steel paper which tells about all |
kinds Of chickens both male and female
and crculates all over the world and
Mexico and is the favorite family jurnal
OF MIR. Willy prominent Mexican cti-
zen who | guess you have heard of
as he use to be in the generating busi-
ness the same al you yourself This
mentioning of Mr.. Willy also makes me
mention that aide dc camp (Ed H.
DeCamp is his unadulterated name)
mqchit1Yt Icsemblcs and looks like Willy
about the face and mushtash according
to them that are friends Of both tho as
am only friend Of the party Of the
first part Of my own personal knowing
and information to the best Of nv abil
ity | Guild not positively say for shure
but it is my opinion that they both do
forgot to tell you at the beginning
of this letter that you wud be sur
prised to hear from me as me and you
have never been formerly introduced
but in times like this when bleeding
Belgium is being tromped upon by the
bobnail boots of the british Hun and
christianity is being bitterly assaied
by the unspeakable Turks and the sui
tan in his harem and democracy and
baseball hangs in the balance saw we
shuld not let such little things bother us
and it is on Ed DeCamps acct that |
take my feeble pen in hand to drop YOU
these few lineA | shure am greeved
that ne has changed his spelling name
and | hope he has changed his ways
You Will find him nice man in every
particular if he thought he Guild fool me
ny spelling his name just aide de camp
ne IS mlstaking and he ort to have made
a bigger change if he wanted to fool
such fellows az know as much as what
40 tho OF course there is not many of
mat KIND at the present writing But
u'e important part | want to give YOU
lhteiiigence about was his looking like
why and what big scheme YOU and
me could work out by letting the Ger
man nuns see him and make out like
ne was Willy over there in your armv
ana hghtlng we shure Guild fix up a good
TRICK on this Perish old boy but don't
forget he is not Willy ahure enouob hrt
Ia DeCamp (dlsguised as aide de camp,
and the only part that puzzles me 10
no" we Guild get him to fight but as
this letter is getting too much in lonpi-
tude | will have to leave that part ont
and let you know about it when I am
not so busy. wisht he hadn't changed
MS name tho for it would been not 40
complicated to fix up our trick but I
don't think it will have much affect on
the election which will transpire next
Aug when Cole Blease and Nat D;oI
whl contend for the senatorial topa in
'he grand and glorious old Palmetto
s.".e (which is S. CO. Guess you heard
'ha1 Den liiiman was buried last month
ana Is DEAD, yes old Ben is gone and 7
trust he is in better place than WI
ington, Candidates is not cor,;,,o. .'.
last IN pickens co & nobody is taking
much interest in politics but them v,hnt ,
is running which is not many but courss
its no use to write you the news whon
you can see it all in The Sentinel
read that you had lots of Sentinels in
your army Perish old boy and right then
knew you were all right Okeh for that