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"TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FALLOW AS THE MCHffi By Steck, Shclur HugliM & Shclor. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNj A Merry Christmas -and Happy New Year is our sincere wish for each and every one. O. W. & J. E. Bauknight, WALHALLA, S. C. IT PAYS T? BUY FOR CASH. Give Wisely For Christmas! From now until Christmas wc are going to have something nice for making fine Christmas Presents,,. FINE SILK HOSEr Put up Three Pairs to Box, Special for Xmas, $5.00, FINE MERCERIZED HOSE, Put up in Half Dozen Pairs to Box, This is our special for the Holidays. We have other grades of Hosiery on which you can save from 33 J-3 to 50 per cent by buying direct from us. Walhalla, S. C. Car Coal This Week. NOTICE. Highest Market Price Paid for Cotton, Also have ample warehouse facilities for storing cotton. See me if you want to either sell or store. Office in Moss &, Ansel's Store. BAYLIS W, HARRISON, Walhalla, S. C. Sept. 27, J920- 39-tf. ?j? fy fy? fy* fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy COUNTY AUENT'S NOTES, fy fy fy? fy? ?|? fy? ?fy ?fy ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?|? -*? fy Yon Can't Afl'ord to Neglect Your Fruit Trees. "No legs, no horse; no trees, no fruit." Pruno, spray and plant now. We fall to estimate the value of good fruit. The doctor will tell you how important fruit is. Last summer I saw some "cotton farmers" buying considerable fruit which tliey ,could have raised at home. And again, we fail to take the proper caro of those trees we have. Did you ever realize that you were losing monoy on trees and land set in fruit which did not bring in any roturns? Tho only, way to get re turns from fruit trees is to prune, spray, cultivate and worm. An "Orchard Week" will bc held and efforts will bo mnde to have demonstrations and lectures in prun ing and proper caro of orchards in different sections of tho county. Tho noighbors will be Invited to these demonstrations, for lt is Impossible to pruno ovary person's orchard. If you havo an orchard of fiO trees or more, not over four years old, ploase drop a card to tho County Agent. Orchards of this size and ago will bo more suitable for the dem onstrations. An old, dissipated or chard ls a very hard problem to ren ovate, Just as it is hard to correct the habits of a boy who has not been trained properly. If you have no orchard, or else havo a very old one, you should or der some suitable trees now, and some grape vines. Tho County Agent has numerous price lists and will be glad to help you select varieties. There will be an "Orchard Week" hold In every county in the Shite, and there is no reason why Oconee county should not have more and botter orchards as the result than any other county. Please lot me hear from you at once. Then watch for announccmont of "Orchard Week" and attend the orchard .schools. Ceo. H. Briggs, County Agent. Flat Shoals S. I. A. Meeting. The Flat Shoals S. I. A. will hold its regular monthly meeting at the school house on Thursday afternoon, Doc. 23, nt 2 o'clock. The special foaturo of tho meeting will bo a Christmas program, consisting of songs and recitations givon by the various grades of tho school. AH members aro .urged to be present. Visitors will bo cordially welcomed. Ora Arve, President. Christmas Tree at Itocky Knoll. There will bo a Christmas tree at Rocky Knoll church on Dec. 26, Tho exercises will begin at 1 o'clock. An interesting program is being prepar ed, and the public ls cordially invited to be present. Children ami Furniers Greatly Ben efited by Their Labora, Editor Keowee Courier: Will you please give ipe space in yo<- r valuable paper to try to prove to Mr. Sanders how much good we children get out of Mr. Briggs' and Miss Counts' lnbors in our county? 1 do not believe there are two officers in Oconee who do half as much work as these two do. Both of them have been in our community lots of times this year, and they would have been glad to have helped Mr. Sanders if if they had been asked. I live in the same community with him,our homes being Just one mile apart. From the looks of his crops 1 feel sure these two officers could have been of groat help to him. I am Bure that our delegation will let us keep Miss Counts, and as for Mr. Briggs, he ls paid by tho Federal government. Therefore his salary being cut off would do the roads In Oconee no good. He will continue to db tho children and grown-ups lots of good, as he has in the past. I do not know how much salary our good-looking, fat sheriff gets, but from his looks he ls well fed, and I hope be will como down this way Christmas and capture some of the "booze wagons" that have been driving around lately. I don't think Mr. Briggs has gained a pound in weight since he has been on his Job. Mr. Sanders, if you had gone over the county some and seen the many patches of green clover and vetch that he has growing, and the nice Jersey calves and pigs that he has over the county-and if you lind gone with us to our picnic at Clem son and to our fair at Walhalla,, aiid to all of those farmers' meetings that he has organized around, and ospo dally if you had attended tho good lectures at Seneca last August oil tho subject of legumes, 1 think you would have been greatly benefited. YOu certainly were invited through the papers. f Now, let me toll you. &K??bnQjjMk State and Federal governments. For illustration: There are four of us children in our family, all of school age. My oldest sister gets niuo months' tuition at Winthrop Col lege, and the roBt of us get seven months' free tuition in the public schools. We have received over two hundred market bulletins and fer tilizer bulletins, and others. We also had the benefit of the short course at Clemson College. If you do not get this government aid lt Is your own fault. When your children get to be older you will be proud of it. My grandmother ls 7 2 years old, too, and can can fruit and vegeta bles: but she said that it would have been so much easier if she had had the opportunity that we young folks have. Our truant officer has visited our school, and he certainly is fed well, if we may pudge by his "condition." He is good and fat, too. He went around to the families whose chil dren were not going to school, and started them. If he is the cause of one child learning to read and write who would not otherwise have learn ed, it is well worth his salary. You know the trustees could not quit their work and hunt up the children and look over their excuses every month. I think the trustees do quite enough free work. { 1 rend In tho Constitution last week about the poor man having tho operation, and I surely was sorry for him. I did think about joining the poul try club next year. If there were a few more chicken-eating dogs killed aroi\nd here I would Join the club, but as it is I will have to Just stick to the pig and canning clubs. I I also nm not trying to create any controversy, but ns Mr. Snnders said he wanted proofs, I thought I would try to give him something to think about ns to the value of tho officers ho would like to see "fired." Mildred McDonald. Richland, S. C., Dec. 18, 1920. Spartanburg Man Killed Instantly. Spartanburg, Dec. 18.- B. A. Buekhelster, superintendent of tho Spartanburg Street Hallway Co., was shot down on .Main street, in tho business section of tills city, last night about 8 o'clock, by George W. Bulman, life insurance agent, but formerly an employee of the street railway. Ile died on the way to the hospital. Bad feeling is known to have existed between the two since the strike of employees several months ago. Pittman ls stated by police to have been under tho influ ence of whiskey at the time of lils arrest. There were no eye-witnesses and it is not known whether or not any words passed between tho two men before the shooting started. Elvo shots were fired, ono taking effect In tho eye. Buckholster, who wns un armed, lind been connected with tho street railway about 26 yours. Put man was placed In tho county Jail immediately after tho shooting. Hog Island Hoing Depopulated. Philadelphia, Dec. 17.--JPron? tho high water mark of 3G.0O0 tho Hog island shipyard force of workers has boon reduced to 3,500, and In about a month these mon also will bo gone. Moving I'M YOUR MA X I do MOVING au I and anywhere on I by truck than by i ?-?-G It makes no di or 100 miles. I other way. ARTHUl To the Moth Caro THIS BABY WAS K.< The mothers of Italy are appeal ing to you, the mothers of South Carolina, as did the mothers of Bel gium in 1914. lt is the same distressing cry 4 Give UE milk, that our babies may live!" . With beating heart we went to the succor of the "Babes of Belgium." What shall wo answer to the deso late mothers of Italy? Thc need is urgent. Five bundie'! tnousand babies are suffering from hunger and the hunger diseases. Thc whole child life of Italy is en dangered, and disaster can only be averted by sending milk in sufficient quantities to tide them over this crisis; and we must ask ourselves this question: Are we willing to make the sacrifice to send it? AX APBKAIi FROM Hero's a personal letter to every man and woman in South Carolina. It is sent out from the State head quarters of the Near East Relief to every newspaper in the State. Each reader is requested to consider it ad dressed to him or her individually and to "take it to heart'' in the true Chris!mas way: Dear Friond: . The children of sorrow stn nd be fore you to-day. Won't you set a place for thom at your table on the glad Christmas day? They aro ragged, hungry and homeless, but they are not hopeless. Jn their simple faith they tum trust ingly to you. The children of sorrow! There are unknown thousands of thom 110,630 of whom aro under Ameri can caro. It is an appalling number of pitiful, orphaned wards the .Near Bast Relief must shelter under Its merciful wings. There is mile after mile of human misery to bo relieved. Fatherless and motherless --those are tho children of Armenians and Greeks, Syrians and Jows, made homeless and dopendent by tho , atrocities of tho Turks. They will have no placo this year at a family ? H N. & I'M * I id all kinds of HAU quick notice. It is .ail, or with teams-a IIVE ME ATRIAL Lfference if you wis) can get you there ( W BROWN ers of South lina: iVKI) BY OUR MILK. .Milk ls the very elixir of life to thc baby; but In Italy there is no milk. A milk famine exists, war and disease having left the nation with out cattle or milk goats. Will you help save these babies? Will you {interest your neighbor, your club, your church society, the women of your city and community, in saving these babies? It is the work of the Good Samar itan. Your babies have all that a teador mother's love can give them-thc same mother's love "Over There" is powerless-there is little to give. It is your privielge now to give for that other mother. Upon your answer waits the hope of many a sad mother in Italy. Checks may be sent to Miss Jane B. Evans, Florence, S. C., or to Tho State, Columbia, S. 0. THF MOAH EAST. table of their own on tho (?reat Day we celebrate. As you eagorly plan the Festival for tho Children, dear to your own heart) think for a moment what it would mean if some terrible fate de prived them of your love and caro, left desolate, "suffering with disease and bittor cold. Yet these children across the sea were once the adored i and beloved babies of other fathers and mothers whoso protecting love they never will know again. A diet of bread for breakfast, of bread and soup for dinner, and broad for supper! And yet this slender 1 ration means life to them! 1 Five dollars a month will feed one ' child. Ten dollars a month will feed and clothe ono. Fifteen dollars a month wfll feed, clothe and educate one of these children of sorrow. At this season of giving, won't you let tho claim of one of these chll- I dron of sorrow find a place in your < hoart? ) His hungry eyes look at your woll- 1 fed children, and his longing hand i reaches out to your Christmas tree. i Will you bring a smile to this < child of sorrow by sharing with him I your Christmas? < Please send contributions to Near I Fast Belief, 211 Liborty National Bank Building, Columbia, S. C. ON THE SPOT. LING any time cheaper to move nd much quicker. i to move 5 miles I juicker than any f I, Walhalla. ITTKNDANON OWIOKK. 8PMAK?. \11 Must (io io SdlOOl After tito ICo opcning of Schools. lo tho Public Schools and Patrons' of tho Oconoo Schools: I have this to say to the parouts who have not sent their children to school boforo Christmas: Having va rious excuses, soino to pick cotton, ethers to play and hunt rabbits, wilt not be accoptable. No pupil will ba excused excopt for sickness or, J?V ;loutu In tho family. So parqnts Bad bettor soe that tho holidays are spout lii^Etaieh^ T do .?Ot iniund for any to escape- . not even those ovor 14 years old and not 17 years old. 1 will explain thia law when asked, lt was an Act. that was passed In 1015. Now, 1 know the existing condi tions, but whon the now year star*?* I want every tcachar in tho county to notify me of any child in hi? o?* her district, if such children are not attending school. In such case l will go and stay until they are put. hf school. So if you want to go shed of me coming to put you in a-hool, you had better get ready to bo on hand when school opens after Christ inas. My reason for being a little? loniont up to this timo was tint to many were poor and needy and \\p.d to move and (lilian gathering tholr crops. Put some would not fi M I*- ki If they were lot alone for live years. The teachers are anxious to have all tho children in school, and nomo teachers think that 1 am quito slow, but I havo covered 4 4 districts Kine? tho 1st of Novembor. I have taken Ibo census of those districts through the co-operation of tho tcachors. And here 1 want to thank them for it. Now, ono more requost of tho teachers: Just as soon ns tho holi days are\pver, find out, in your re jective districts, thc children that ire not coming to r.ohool, and I will bo on hand to know tho reason why. I am going to hew to the line, and lt does not matter whore tho chips fall. Please do not pass this notice by itnhoeded, for everybody munt go to school In Oconeo county or leave ft that Is under the compulsory law. A pleasant Christmas to nil tho teachors and pupils. Respectfully yours. J. R. Plyler, Attendance Officer. Ka miers Shoot Kat-h Other. Dalton, (ia., Dec. 18.-Jim Sloan and V. W. Bishop, two prominent farmers, mot In the road near Til ton, nine miles south of here, thia afternoon, Jerked revolvers from their pockets and shot each other to death, tho oncounter being tho cul mination of recent trials in the court involving two othor families. Bishop was one of the defendants In a habeas corpus case instituted in tho Whitfield County Suporlor court hero by IO. P. Moore, alloglng that his daughter, Bonnie Mooro, former^ ly a stenographer in Atlanta, was ho ing restrained of her liberty hy Bish op and his kinsmen. Jim Sloan was not a parly to tho proceedings, but was an interested neighbor, and the killing to-day is believed to havo been the result of feeling engendered by tho Tinbons corpus trial. The shooting to-day cre ated Intense excitement. The sheriff luis begun an investigation. Population of thc United States, Washington, Dec. IS.-The popu lation of tho United States on Jan. 1, this year, as enumerated in tho 14th jonsus, was 105,708,771, as an nounced yostorday by the Cousus Bureau for cortl/lcatlon to Congress to form tho basis for reapportion ment of tho mombers of tho Houso 3f Roprosontativos from tho various 3tatos. Tho now figuro shows a gain )f 25,063 ovor tho preliminary fig ures announced Oct. 7th. South Carolina's population ls l, 683,724.