Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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, . y. V • / i DODGE TOURING CAR Fully Equipped At Bargain Price $1^0fr00 It has been driven only 4200 miles. Is in good condition. Jacobs & Co. Clinton, S. C. NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS 1 —^ 1 — r —'TZ A meeting of the Stockholders of the First Natjona] Bank of Clinton, S. C., will ire HcTTSepternl)er” , 97'T9T9, at 4 o’clock p. m., in the Directors’ room, to decide upon an increase of the Capital Stock," and to transact such business as may come before the meeting. Yours very truly, B. H. BOYD, 4t President. This Is isiier Than P.sxatim On* N« Tablat Ctc.'r r:i-Ut For AW**h Will Correct V~J.r Ccr.sxipation end Mali* Constant Doling Cnnoces- sary. Yry It. TO ASSIST STATES POSITION IS MADE PLA^N BY PALMER IN ISSUING ORDERS TO OHIQ OFFICIALS. PHY SHUTTLECOCK SYSTEM Administration Hopes for But Little from Congress Unless the People ' Prod Their Representatives On. The opposition to any extension, in the control act, is growing on the sen ate side. Several democratic senators. Smith, of South Carolina; Smith, of Georgia, and Ransdell, of Louisiana, blocked action on’the Palmer sugges tions for more power. The senate is to be the storm cen ter of the resistance to the efforts to bring the food profiteer to justice. The fight to’stay the President is already on. The administration hopes for very T!trig'tmrrrCuttKI ess unless 1 the* people Poor digestion ami assimilation mean a poorly nourished body and low vitality. Poor, elimination means clogged bowels, fermentation, putri- faetion and the formation of poisonous gases which dre absorbed by the blood and carried through the body. The result is weakness, headaches, dizziness, coated tongue, Inactive liver, bilious attacks, loss of energy, nerv ousness, poor appetite, Impoverished blood, sallow comfdcsion, pimples, skin disease, and often times serious ill ness. Ordinary laxatives, purges and ca thartics—salts, oils, calomel and the like—may relievo f.tr a few hours, but real, lasting benefit can only come through use of medicine that tones up and strengthens the digestive as well as the eliminative organs. Get a 23c box of Nature* Remedy (NR Tablets) and take one tablet each night for a week. Relief will follow the very first dose, but a few days will elapse before you feel and realize the fullest benefit. When you get straightened ont and feel just right again you need not take medicine every day—an occasional NR Tablet will then keep your system In good condition and you will always feel your best Remember, keeping well is easier and cheaper than getting welL Nature’* Remedy (NR Tablets) are sold, guaranteed and recommended by your druggist. Youugs Pharmacy FftlING BLUE? LIVED UZV? hue a mm If you have not tried Calotabs you have a delightful surprise awaiting you": The wonderful liver-cleaaing and system-purifying properties of calomel may now be enjoyed without the slightest unpleasentness. A Cal- otab at bedtime with a swallow of wa ter,—that’s all. No taste no salts, nor the slightest unpleasant effect You wake up in the morning feeling so good that you want to laugh about it. Your liver is clean, your system is > purified, your appetite hearty. Eat v what you wish.—no danger. The next time you feel lazy, mean, nervous, blue or discouraged give your liver a thorough cleansing with a Calotab. They are so. perfect that your drug gist is authorized to refund the price as a guarantee that you will be delight ed. .. Calotabs are sold only in original, sealed packages. Price thirty-five oentp. . At all drugstores.—-(adv.) prod their respective members on. It is feared that great food handling agencies will be able to delay first, and then defeat any remedial legisla tion. The serious nature of the opposition was shown in the senate and house committees on agriculture. The attorney general will assist state officials in routing food hoard ers that cannot be reached under lo cal statutes. Ho will pot permit the packers and other big interests 1 to evade the law by removing stored food from one state to another to es cape penalties. His position was made plain when he instructed the representatives of the department in Ohio to make seizures of stores of food reported there by Governor Cox. Immediately upon being told of this supply of meat, and the conditions un der which it is held. Mr. Palmer di rected his agents to act. This means that Mr. Palmer is to take a hand in carrying on the spirit of state co!4 storage laws, to prevent the shuttle cock system of big con cerns, which in sending their stocks from state to state to hold them long er. and dodge the state laws. APPEAL IS ISSUED TO ■FARMERS OF COUNTRY. Washington.—Farmers throughout the country were appealed to by the national board of farm organizations to protest by petition and ballot against "the unfair and un-American methods being used against farm or ganization engaged in the collective sale of their farm prodocta.”—C gress and state legislatures were call ed upon to clarify the purpose of the anti-trust laws in order that the "farmer shall have the right to un mistakable terms to do collective bar gaining in accord with the original in tent of the law.** TIN MAY BE IMPORTED FROM GERMANY NOW Washington.—Tin. In pig or alloy, may now be imported from Germany, under war trade by&rd regulations is sued which still further modify the blockade which existed during the war. Restriction against iiqportation of goods into the United States from Germany now only apply to, the coal tar products, drugs and dyestuffs. HAS SEVEN LIVING WIVES, GOES TO SING SING PRISON New York.—Convicted of bigdmy on his confession that he has seven liv ing wives, one of whom he married twice, Charles Hugh Wilson, 48 years old. former Y. M. C. A. secretary evan gelist and traveling salesman, w^s sentenced to three years and six months in Sing Sing prison where he announced he -will take up prison re form work. CHARLES DECLARES HE IS STILL KING OF HUNGARY Berlin.—A courier has arrived In Budapest, according to reports receiv ed her* 1 , with a letter from former Em peror Charles to Archduke Joseph, in which Charles declares he is still the crowned king of Hungary and commis sions Joseph to take over the sover eign power until his return. A MORE DEFINITE STAGE IS REACHED IN NEGOTIATIONS APP0IIITMENT5 BY AWARDS OF SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE MEDICAL COLLEGES OF ‘CHARLESTON ARE MADE. 6000 FOR ONE YEAR ONLY Selections Are Made From Among Applicants Who Are Unable to Pay Their Own Expenses. Columbia. Governor Cooper announced the awarding of scholarships in the Med ical College of South Carolina at Charleston, for the medical and phar maceutical courses. There is one ap pointment from each congressional district in each course. The appoint ments carry an appropriation of $150 and are good for one year. These appointments were made as far as possible, after careful investi- ■gattonrto appHea»4a.~who 4id-oat4iai the financial nfeans to pay their way through coHege. —Theyarer—-i— School of Medicine: Ashley B. Haight, Charleston; John D. Bunch. Clark's Hill; Arthur Kennerly, Green wood; M. G. Patton, Fountain Inn; W. M. Jones. York; John Mclver Willcox. Darlington; and James Furman Her bert, Columbia. School of Pharmacy^ W. L. Califf, Denmark; Francis Mabry, Abbeville; K. T. McKinney. Greenville; Thomas P. Crawford, Blairs; F. W. Henderson, Conway, and tl. S. Riley, of Leesville. There was no applicant for the 1 school of pharmacy from the First Congressional District, and in several of the districts there was only one applicant Speculators Made Uneasy. Uneasy will lie the head of the deal er or individual who is hoarding or speculating in foodstuffs. Uncle Sam with his whole detective force is after him, and yawning Jails await the of fender who is wilfully contributing to the high cost of living. District Attorney Weaton has re ceived a telegram from the depart ment of Justice instructing him to use all agents of the government in ferret ing out those who are hoarding food stuffs and to proceed against them with the whole force of the govern ment. Prosecutions have-already been en tered in. other stateaf or tnfractloas of the hoarding and speculating law and convictions secured. Lgw Prices for Tobacco. The tobacco crop of South Carolina Is not bringing as high an average price this year as it did last year, or even the year before. The figures for the month of July have been paid on South Carolina markets during the month of July was but 21 cents and a fraction, against 33.86 cents last year and 21.65 for 1917, month of July. /The average prices for the 'several months last year were: July 33.86, Au gust, 33.37. September and October 17.90. •r Census Supervisors. Washington.—Appointments of cen sus supervisors for South Carolina were announced by districts as fol lows: > First, to be announced later. ' Second, 7 David"W. Gaston, Jr., Aiken. Third. Elbert H. Aull. Newberry. Fourth, Oscar W. Babb. Laurens. Fifth, Seabrook C. Carter, Chester. Sixth, to he announced later. Seventh, Julian S. Wolfe, Orafige- bwg, — —---- ■ ■.. Synod Authorizes Drive. Raising the proposed amount of $150,000 for educational purposes tor Newberry and Summerland Colleges to $300,000 and showing a' spirit of en thusiasm throughout the meeting, the South Carolina Lutheran Synod au thorised the campaign for funds for the two institutions at the special meeting here. The doubling of the amount to be asked came somewhat as a surprise to the most enthusiastic supporters of the campaign. An Invitation HIS Bank’s experience-! ing business is not an inconsider- ^ . able item of its assets. That experi ence qualifies it to serve its customers satisfactorily. And it is the invariable experience of the customers of this bank that its service in any and every department of banking is satisfactory. ' (to- 1 : ' : .A ....A...—— DON'T FORGET US Washington.-r-Negotiations between Democratic and Republican senators looking to ratification of the peace treaty with reservations reached a more definite stage. Democratic leaders, feeling ont sen timent on the Republican side, were told that the treaty never could be ratified without qualification but that more than 20 Republicans wanted to see it accepted in the near future with reservations. SPILLS imffoMD KRANI S(UIY DRUGGISTS EVEmiEtf CLOSE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE STATES AND GOVERNMENT Washington.—Close co-operation be tween state authorities, who possess detailed information of food and price conditions, and the attorney general and his staff of assistants, empowered to enforce the food control law, is be ing established as-a part of the got- ernment’s fight to yeduce cost of living. Instructions went out from Attorney General Taimer to the two district sit- torneys in Ohio to proceed immediate ly to assist Governor Cox. Rainbow Division Chartered. The secretary of state incorporated the South Carolina Division of the Rainbow Division, as an eleemosynary institution, "to perpetuate that spirit of comradship which has been the greatest single factor in the success of the division and to commemorate the deeds of our dead comrades.” The headquarters of the chapter will be in the office of the state highway engi neer at Columbia. The divisional organisation was formed a| Mayschoff, Germany, April 8, 1919. Dial Is Fish Hunting. Washington.—(Special) — Senator Dial has been in correspondence with the federal bureau of fisheries in re gard to deliveries next spring of fish fry for stocking of ponds on South Carolina farms. There are more of such ponds than might be supposed and many of them furnish considera ble additions to the family table. Distribution* of stock by the bureau of fisheries cars are made in the spring and late summer and autumn, but applications filed after June are not filled until the subsequent spring. »!T ■ This bank’s best advertisements are service given utterance by its thous ands of customers. Because it is satis fying them it knows it can satisfy you, and hence it invites your account t « either checking or saving, or both, and it will extend you every accomo dation consistent with sound banking rules. CLINTON’S STRONGEST BANK” Just Received A Car Load of THORNHILL WAGONS ^1, — O * W E HAVE just received a shipment of a car load of Thornhill Wagons —the wagon made in the heart of the hardwooa region of tough highland oak and hickory. . These are the long wear wagons with many patented features. Made with the 61d standard track. / - Not the lowest priced wagons but the best and in the end the cheapest. [6U-M] ( I Hie First National Bank I o Farmers Mercantile Company % i. . Clinton, South Carolina ■*r / ?*? . V. •» V i. .. ‘SC'/rAfri it