Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

["PAMi SOME IUU li Tc A Fifty Pound Bo : have had this Season, than we have been p j per pound. Only six Eating for Less- Cost Good Fat Mackerel \ The Size and Fatness < nothing more wholes h Fat Fresh Mackerel I Evaporated Apples cost of living and bre fare. Let us have yoi Trish Cohhlov Soorl most prolific of the Ea loo many or too oftei ply NOW of Pure * Seed, Pure Bradford Rock Ford Cantaloup< equal to a shot fired i of This County at Hoi woman or child who i to raise more food of < his life is an enemy oi Red and Yellow Oni bage Seed, Millet and and Burt Seed Oats, Garden Seed. We will serve you w your needs, you need where. The Union G Phone 100 or 80. 4 Y The Government Money by Pure! v ^ It is a great thing yourselt and t j; Wc Also I SAVE | By X Dry Goods, Dref * Notions X % Good Goods - Low Pr Y Y Tiir1 n? rt/i X IHL KAdU Veterinar j I will have m \ A. B. Bn UNTIL SATUR1 Will Trea Surgery J. M. O'Shi r now -1 " THINGS in't Afford ?Miss x of the Choicest Prunes, we for Less by the Box at Retail aying wholesale by two cents or seven boxes left. Better than anything we know. 1 Fish, 10c, 20c and 30c each. 3f the Fish regulates the price; ome and desirable than Good rish, the kind we are offering. and Peaches?they reduce the ak the monotony of the bill of ir orders. Potatoes, one of the best and ,rly Varieties. You can't plant l. Don't fail to get your sup[leckley's Sweet Watermelon Watermelon Seed, Genuine 2 Seed. Every Seed planted is nto the Ranks of the Enemies' ne or Abroad, and every man, s not doing his dead level best every kind than ever before in F his country. ion Sets, Early and Late CabCane Seed, Red Rust Proof and a full new line of Small ell, and when we fail to supply not waste time to look elserocery Company, L. L. Wagnon, Mgr. 1 > t Uuges You to Save * hasing Thrift Stamps * V [ to do, for you help both your government. T r Urge You to % ; money :l irehasinn { 9=9 >s Goods, Shoes and X at Our Store X ices - Courteous Treatment IRCOMPANY | < ! *> < ?> 121 . _ LI- . _ . "1 I. U y Surgeon! y headquarters at mnon's Barn MY. MARCH 23rd t All Animals. j A Specialty. jj ields, P. V. S. | [he Union Urgent Need of Greater Food and Feed Crops Union, S. C., March 18, 1918. Mr. Editor: The National Food Administration and the Council of Defense are ursine: upon the farmers of the nation, and especially the farmers of the South, a greater production of food crops. Union County and, in fact, the whole State of South Carolina, made a splendid response to this appeal last year, but we are called upon to produce even more largely this year than last. Where we planted four acres of corn last year, we must plant five this vear. nrenarincr and fertilizing it bet. ... ^ v ter than \v0 did last year. Let not our people ho deceived by the present high ( price of cotton, for this may be very easily changed. Last year there was a very short crop in Texas and Oklahoma, an<l it is probable that the cotton crop in these States will he very g much larger this year. The submarine has- not been conquered yet, and it may he that less cotton can be ex- ^ ported this year than last. If so, the price of the staple will inevitably jj fall. The food supplies of our allies, France, England and Italy must come ^ more and more from this country, as ^ their labor supply grows less. Our railroads are taxed to the utmost to ^ handle the freight offered, and as ^ our country increases its armies, the railroads will he required more and tj more to handle government business, so that it is possible that the State, or section, that does not produce its n own food, will go hungry another year. Besides all this, cotton has not s( advanced as much in price as other (| farm products during the past two years. A bale of cotton at 30c .per p. pound will not buy as many bushels of corn or oats or as many pounds of meat or lard as it would two years ago at 12c per pound. t,| Understand, T am not urging the p cutting down of Ihe cotton crop, for we and our allies need it, but I am ^ emphasizing the fact that there will he suffering in South Carolina if we p do not produce an abundance of all n the foods and feeds necessary for both ? man and beast. After doing this, (j, plant every acre of cotton that can be c( prepared, fertilized and cultivated well. We hear so much about econ- f omy, let mo ptivo ynvi eomo Cccnres that will save 11c per day in the feeding p( of every horse and mule in the county: 100 lbs. of cotton seed now sell ^ for $3.55; it can he exchanged for _ 150 lbs. of cotton seed meal, making the meal cost $2.37 per 100 lbs. Corn ei now cost, at $2.25 per bushel, 4c per lb. The average work animal requires , 12 lbs. corn per day, which makes his grain cost 48c per day. By cutting his corn to 8 lbs. per day, and adding 2 lbs. cotton seed meal, we have a better balanced ration and one upon which the animal will do better work e\ at the following cost: 8 lbs. corn, tc 82c, 2 lbs. cotton seed meal, 5c, total rt 87c per day, a saving of 11c per day tr for each animal fed. g< The food administrators in each qi section arc urged to cooperate with p< Mr. Carwile, county farm demon- fi strator. and with Miss Alsie Smith, in is their efforts to increase food produc- th tion in our county, and in every way ht possible impress upon our people the th absolute necessity of increasing food cl production this year. pc T.owndes Browning, w Food Administrator for Union Coun- uj ty. wi Italy's Fifth War Loan m CO Rome Feb. 6.? (Correspondence of as The Associated Press)?"A man must ti< he either a fool or a. traitor to refuse er to subscribe to a*war loan," declared m Prime Minister Orlando in connection fo with Italy's fifth loan which has dc hrouprht in about $500,000,000. "The id nation needs the money to carry on tr the war and if there are enough fools ds and traitors amonpr us not to sub- fo scribe, then the government will sim- id ply take what it needs by high taxes." up The result of the new loan, how- w< ever, proved satisfactory and the cx- irr treme measures of unusual taxes w< will not have to be applied. War be loans have come to be quite a customary proceeding and the Italian re- M public has each year made new subscriptions in response to the advertising campaigns of the secretary of the treasury ami the hanks. TT One of the features of the war loan ag has been the frankness of the news- un papers and particularly of Secretarv pa of the Treasury Nitti regarding fi- sti nancial facts. "There's no use trying th< to fool the public regarding national ra] finance," he said. "We need the mon- th< ey. We are paying six per cent inter- th? est to get it. It's a good investment. aTTi The Italian government will always ' pay its debts. It's an international arT1 fact that it does so. As far back as wh i -b Hardwa L866, when it had to offer eight an< ,en per cent interest, it adopted th aolicy of standing by its pledges, am t will always do so." Confidence in the Italian loans hav ror several years been shown by th \mericans living in Italy. To the present time the war ha; :ost Italy about $4,000,000,000, two birds of which money has been spen >n the army or land forces and th> tther third on the navy. Of this $4, >00,000,000, $1,500,000,00 have beei aised by war loans, $500,000,000 b; axes, and about $2,000,000,000 bj pecial treasury bonds placed princi >ally in England and the Unitei States- for the purpose of paying foi iar purchases. Collection and Shipment of Worn and Surplus Articles 1. All articles collected should be ssembled, inspected and packed ir pace provided for that purpose. Nc art of this work should be carried n where articles of standard chapter roduction are handled. 2. Only articles appearing on the st of "Garments Needed" will be ccepted. Such articles must be of trong, durable material but need not e in perfect repair. 3. Articles should be inspected only 3 determine whether the condition 'arrants their acceptance and to elim late those not wanted. Final inspecon and assortment will be done by le commission in its own warehouses. 4. It is not necessary to pack shiplents for direct overseas dispatch, ut only in such containers as will inire their reaching the warehouses of le commission intact. 5. For each shipment chapters will repare four typewritten copies of the )rm of shipping memorandum accomunying these instructions. Of these ipies, one will be retained by the lapter, one will be put into case or ackage, and two will be mailed to ie Commission for Relief in Belium, 165 Broadway, New York City. 6. Chapters should number their ackages, bales or urates with serial umbers in direct sequence, putting nder the number the name and adress of the chapter from whom it >mes. 7. All shipments will be consigned o. b. cars as follows: Shipments >??m tl,a? Mow Ennlnnd, Atlantic, ennsylvania, Potomac and Southern ivisions wil be consigned to "The ommission for Relief in Belgium, New York City." The exact address has not been givl us yet. iJook for it in next number f "Briefs." March 12, 1918. Idleness (Contributed) Some say idleness is the root of all dl, others money, but money seems ? have the advantage, not because it ^presents the base of our worldly ansactions but because of much nod. Idleness, per contra, is a double jick pace in the wrong direction. It irmits one's store of energy and useilness to ebb, invites criminalitv. and an example of great strength for le weaklings. The sheriff of Texas is been doing some thinking along lis line and reached the happy conusion that idlers are slackers and >or assets particularly at this time hen v;e are at war. He is taking jon himself to see that everybody orks in Texas and thereby merits eat commendation. There are too any drones in our hive. It has been imputed that if everybody worked i they should at the various voea>ns our working day would be shortled to about six hours and much ore would he accomplished, hut unirtunately a comparative few are >ing the work while others stand ly around or knocking. This seems ue in every phase of life and the ty when we will have a rigidly enrced vagrancy law by which the ler can he made to work will open ? a new era of prosperity for the 3rld. This applies not only to our imediate sccton but the whole >rld; it is certainly time for us to up and doing. ardi Gras Uncelebrated In Parisian City Paris, Feb. 13.?(Correspondence of ie Associated Press)?Mardi Gras ain passed uncelebrated and almost perceived in Paris. The traditional ncake, victim of M. Boret's flour reactions, was absent this year, and ? hiprh cost of paper made confetti re. The children and the recruit of ? contingent of 1018 celebrating ?ir acceptation by the medical exliners had the streets to themselves. The only Teal celebrations wer<* onp the Chinese munition workers ose celestial New Year came with < ire Co. - si I1 C0NSER1 . | What better way do you ] y wool so much needed for 01 4 one good Suit in place of t | High Art, Styleplus a 1 CLOT \ are made of dependable fa | prices for dependable sei 5; know you are helping the c | Prices Are Ve / We are ready to show \ est selection of SPRING S | HATS just received. Come | eJ. CO ' The House of ? Ring Dunbai F"oi Beef, Pork, Sai Our many years experh serve you faithfully a Dunbar's Phone 376 Main Sire the opening of the carnival. Several XX thousand of them, divided into groups, a were treated to free exhibitions at the g circuses and cimemas, while real X* Chinese celebrations were organized at the refectories of the different contingents. Chinese feasts were served ( and presents distributed as nearly in * accord with custom at home as possible. But the Chinese celebrate too TH quietly to mane their festival at all 1 resemble the Mardi Gras of other days ' in Paris. i ? 1 To the People of Union t And Union County 1 We, the undersigned, wish to say c t? you thnt we have been entertaining 77! U. S. soldiers in our homes and shall continue to do so inasmuch as we * have found these soldiers to be as perfect prentlemen as are the previous boys who belonpr to our own home circle and are now in the service of their country. We open the doors of our home and our hearts to these boys and piledpre our loyal and continued support to these boys during this war 1 and after it is over, welcoming all * who may come back from "over f there" and with every breath we pray * "God bless them every one." ' Mr nnH TWi-o (1 11 _ _ M MA? V/C1//JCI y Mrs. B. G. Clifford. G0 p If Trotzky s not a first-class C scoundrel he has good grounds for a n heavy damage suit against the per- a sons who print his picture in the pa- C pers.?Newberry Observer. ol Our Paints I and The Test. | I ' f NATION r know to conserve the ;j jr soldiers: than to buy ij wo poorly made ones. \ nd Michales Stern | brics by a dependable !| vice. Wear them and j: :ause for conservation. \ V py Moderate. 5 you the best and larg- :j; HIRTS and STETSON 5 i in and look them over, j HEN iatisf action {: r's Market r usage, Fish ?nce enables us to ind economically Market el Union, S. C. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS | )G FEED?Rice meal, peanut meal, :ocoanut meal and mill feed. Peo3les Supply Co. 110-6 [RASHER'S Allhealing Liniment for sale at J. L. Hames' Meat Market. Great for bruises alevation of pain. Try a bottle and De convinced. Lumbago, neuralgia, headache, rheumatic pains reieved by the local application of ;his great remedy. External use >nly. 86-tf. NNESSEE MULES?Car just arrived. See them. Peoples Supply !k>. 110-6 R SALE?Maine grown seed Irish >otatoes. Price 65c per peck. Sanlers Brothers Company. 4t. VNTED Ynn fA lrnAm ? - v?w w *?<>u?t tuav wo art? irepared to do your grinding. Mr. varmcr, bring us your corn, let us rind it and give you a certificate hat you can use at your grocer's o purchase flour of equal weight. OD SERVICE at a reasonable rice is what you get when your 'leaning and Pressing are done at ly shop. One trial will convince nd make you a regular patron of !. C. Hames' Pressing Shop. Nichson Bank Building, 'Phone 167.