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Rates on long term advertisements vary reasonable. For rates apply at this office. In remitting checks or money orders sake payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. Thursday, June 14? 1917. The Time Has Come. The time has come ? "When reason primes the rifle. When honor draws the sword, I And Justice breathes a blessing On the cause that we uphold." *. What Wc Fight For. "The right is more precious than. peace, and we fight /or the things ' we have always carried nearest our hearts?for Democracy,for che right of those whc submit to authority to have a voice in their own Government, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by 3uch a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free."? Woodrow Wilson. Every bachelor will try to impress you with the idea that hp is a wolf ' in sheep's clothing;whereas he is just a poor, trembling sheep in wolf's dothing.who goes through life in the eternal fear that every woman he meets is about to lead him to the altar for sacrifice. CONTRACT AWARDED. Georgia Firm to Erect Buildings for Columbia Cantonment. Washington. June 11:?The war department today awarded the con tract for the Columbia cantonment to the Hardawav Construction company of Columbus, Ga, and that for Atlanta to Arthur Tufts of Atlanta. These contracts call for houses of both one and two stories in construe-: tion which will accommodate approximately 30,000 men and must J be completed in every way and ready for occupancy on September 1. The basis of remuneration which | the contractors will receive will be; 8 per cent on the aggregate of construction. and as stated here today it is impossible to say at this time , what ihis final cost will be. < The awarding of the Columbia 1 contract now eliminates any element ! of doubt that might possibly have been lingering since the plans of the ^ war department for the various can- , tonments were somewhat changed i two weeks ago. i Immediately the construction com- ! pany will begin its work of construction near Columbia what in itself i will be a good sized city and everything will be rushed toward completion. A penitentiary sentence of 11 months and 29 days for not register ing under the selective arari ia\\ was imposed by Federal Judge Chatfield in Brooklyn, N V, yesterday on Herman P Levin, school teacher and college graduate. Cotton went to 25 cents in Savannah Tuesday, 273 bales being sold at that price,the highest since the civil war. Predictions of 30-cent cotton are freely made. J * , % NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. Short Items of Interest Culled from Exchanges. A Home Guard has been organizes at Florence. Among the member, are Hon R J Kirk and J D Gilland Esq. Jackson Barnett, said to be the richest Indian in the United States. subscribed $t>4U,uuu to UDeriy L.uan bonds. The cornerstone of the Beaufort public library was laid last week. The building is expected to be completed in July. The Southern Retail Furniture Dealers' association, comprising the Caroiinas and Virginia, will meet at Danville. Va. June 27-28 James McNeill, Jr, a grandson of Mrs H B Browne, late of Kingstree, is ill with typhoid fever in the army hospital at Ft Oglethorpe. Ga. The annual meeting of the South Carolina Press association will be held at Beaufort June 28-29. Gen Wood has been invited to address it. Another building is to be erected at the clothing factory at the Charleston navy yard, when the plant will have a capacity of 100,000 suits per The Columbia ambulance company, 100 strong, has gone to Allen town, Pa, for a training period of several months, after which it will be sent to France. In spite of the cold spring and recent hail storms,Georgia has shipped more peaches this season than for a number of years. Prices are exceptionally good. If a cantonment be established at Aiken, it is purposed to enlarge the hospital established there by the winter residents and turn it over to the government. Ira Nelson Norris, United States minister to Sweden,bought $500,000 worth of Liberty Ljan bonds by cablegram Monday. C D Bristow, for 27 years secretary and treasurer of the Florence Loan & Investment company, has resigned becavse of ill health and has been succeeded by J W Howard. The southeastern aerie of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, embracing South Carolina,Georgia and Florida, will hold its annual convention at Macon, Ga, Tuesday and Wednesday next. Rev L O McCutchen officiated at Bishopville Presbyterian church Sunday in the absence of the pastor, Rev L L Legters, who has been visiting in Kingstree and at Indiantown. / Mr Jas ED McCutchen of Bishopville states that he and his daughter, who were injured in an auto accident May 27, are still convalescing and hope soon to be restored to health. A 65 pound tarpon was caught in Georgetown waters last week. It was sent to a famous taxidermist in New York and will be returned to Georgetown and placed in the museum there. . Under a new order of the German Imperial Clothing bureau no person may have a summer and a winter overcoat without a doctor's certificate that the winter coat is necessary for health. The four railroad brotherhoods in Charleston will observe next Sunday as Memorial day. Service will be held in St John's chape!, Rev G C Williams rector. A number of officers and enlisted men have been ordered to report at i Fort Oglethorpe training camp next j Wednesday. Among them is First Lieutenant W S Lynch of Scranton. The Terry & French Shipbuilding! company, which has a government contract for the construction of twenty steel ships.has purchased 100 acres near Savannah for the erection of a plant there. At the Woodmen's encampment in Atlanta in July there will be a sham battle between . French and German aeroplanes. It is expected to attract the largest crowd ever in tkot nitv JCril 111 luav vi v Miss Nellie Screws, for 26 years a hor in the nublic schools of Greenwood, died in that city last week. Her length of service in one position exceeded that of any other puolic school teacher in the State. It will never be known how many bushels of tender young: Irish potatoes were destroyed in she Atlanta fire, for it is discovered that practically everyone had a back yard garden, and many are bewailing their loss in that respect more than that of their furniture, which was generally insured. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stop* the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold Druggists refund money i? it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. .'5c . ? * . -> -* 1 KING OF GREECE ABDICATES. WILL LEAVE THAT COUNTRY?A GREAT VICTORY FOR THE ? ALLIES. The leading foreign despatch in i the press of the country yesterday | was from Athens, Greece, and says: The fall of Constantine I, King of the Helenese, has come. In response to the demand of the protecting powers, France, Great Britain and Russia, he abdicated today in favor of his second son. Prince Alexander. TKi'q nlimov in thp affairs of Greece was brought about through the agency of the French Senator,M Jonnart, who has held posts in several Frence cabinets, and who arrived at Athens only a day or two ago on a special mission as the representative of Kussia,France and Great Britain. M Jonnart had previously visited Saloniki and other points,and he lost no time in getting into conference with the Greek premier,Alexander Zaimis.The demands of the powers respecting the abdication of KiDg Constantine also specificaliy eliminated Crown Prince George as his successors the Crown Prince being included among those Greeks in official life who were considered strongly pro-German. Both the former King and Prince George, it was announced today by n * fA Infltrn fKn rremier ^nuia, micut w icotl *>.<. country immediately. It is reported that they will embark on a British warship and proceed to Switz?rland by way of Italy. It is presumed Prince Alexander will take up his kingly duties with full acceptation of the ideas which the protecting powers desire to be put into effect in the government of Greece during the present war. fie is twenty-four years of age and has been free from anti-Entente proclivities. Affairs in Greece, which several times since the outbreak of the war had seemed on the verge of a settlement.recently had taken on such an aspect of uncertainty that it became necessary for the powers to act with decision. M Jonnart was selected to proceed to Athens for the purpose of laying before the premier the aims which France, Great Britain and Russia had with respect to establishment of unity of feeling among the Greeks and greater security for the Entente fnrrns unlaced m oDerations in the j east. While he informed the premier that the reports had been placed at his disposal, he appealed to that official to use his influence toward a peaceful settlement. The troops, according to M Jonnart's instructions, were not to land until the King had given his answer. M Jonnart called upon Premier Zaimis Monday and demanded in the name of the protecting powers the abdication of King Constantine and the nomination of his successor to the exclusion of the Diadochi (Crown Prince.) To Stve or Not to Save. American women who honestly de- J sire to be a help rather than a hindrance to their country, and who stand ready to practice a wise economy if it will avail to preserve supplies, are a little bewildered by the clamorous but contradictory counsels offered them. On the one hand, extravagance is condemned as wasting resources; on the other hand, retrenchment is condemned as injur* 1 ..--JJflnno Mn cnnnor hflQ | ing traut" .I'liuiuuuo. nv ow?jv? ! a domestic economist pointed out j that indulgence in any one luxury | can be,and should be, curtailed than ' the purveyors of that luxury rush to the fore, protesting that the welfare of a number of worxing people I depends on its lavish consumption. Will You Walk I Now, you thous ed to pull off thai the spider and the the sort. We mere our big store to se large and varied 1: nishings, which v 1V\ 1} prices siricu^ m n ity. Porch Chaii Rockers, Book C tings, Art Square I Kitchen Cutlery a naware, Lamps ? other articles that comfort to your 1 Steele Fur j I ! "A recession in the volume of busiI ness will involve far-reaching calamities." But where is the economy that does not involve some recession in, - ?C L :_, 1 ' llie VU1ULUC U1 OUSIUC3S. 1VCL1C11V.II* | meat is seldom a matter of choice, and never a matter of enjoyment. It is either a necessity to which we reluctantly bow, or a moral obligation that we recognize but do not | pretend to relish. It is also at times a criterion of taste. Money has been very plentiful in the United States for the past two years. Some of it ( , has been generously given. Much of' it has been lavishly spent. Wherever J the spending has been excessive, asI in our large cities, the spectacle has , been an offensive one, because we j knew tnat in distant parts of the: world human beings were dying of! want. The children of Belgium, we are authoritatively told,have not for two years eaten "according to their , hunger." The children of Poland were more fortunate. They starved ! outright, and ttieir little bodies have j j long since crumbled into dust. But the United States bouvht more can ; dy last year than in any 12 months ! of its history. Food has been wasted as never before,and we are now fac' ing the possibility of a world shortage. If we refuse to deny ourselves for the sake of suffering humanity, we had better begin to understand that the success of our own arms and our own future safety depend upon preserving and dispensing our resources. There has been a disposition to mock at the women of wealth who bound themselves not to serve more than three courses at their own tables, nor to eat more than three courses when they dined away from home. To the great bulk of Americans, three courses fail to represent even moderate privation. | It nature can subsist on three. Thank heaven for three. Amen! Yet any reduction of luxury, any i doninl nf splf-indnlffpnce. is a step in the right direction ? of practical value and of tonic quality. The habit of prodigality is not confined to any one class of citizens in the United States; it is shared by all. It is not confined to food; it plays havoc with every commodity. We waste enough wood and coal every year to keep all i Italy warm. The thin silk stockings ! on a working girl's feet and the j ropes of pearls round the neck of a 1 munition maker's wife are signs of the same lack cf sanity and of taste. It is the women of the country who have been urged to spend with discretion, and to save with austerity. There is no use asking men to economize; they would if they could, but j they literally do not know how. For centuries it has been their part to earn money, and the part of their wives to balance income and outlay. Now it is the part of ail women to spend less, to save more, to waste nothing, to anticipate the enforced retrenchment of another year. So, and so only,shall ruin be averted and the nation be free to play a liberat-1 | or's role. Work on the new school building [at Leo has been started. The contract calls for its completion by September 15. PHYSICAL TRAINING TEACHERS IN DEMAND Young Men and Women about to be graduated from High School should consider this healthful, useful, dignified and profitable profession. By recent legislation Physical train- ( I lng fa made obligatory in every schoo! In New York and New Jersey. Penn . North and South Carolina have bills pending. Send for Catalog of the only school of physical education chartered by the University of the State of New York (Under the Regent*) THE SAVAGE SCHOOL TOR pnnr ition KniOll.ni. Li/UVIl I IVI1 .. [ 310 Wutl 59th Strmtl. Ntw York City I I into My Parlor? ?ht we had start- j t old stuff about fly. Nothing of I sly invite you into 11! i.1^ | eioryourseii me i ine of House Furze are offering at ;eeping with qualrs, Dining Chairs, ases, Rugs, Mat's, Wall Pictures, ; ,nd Utensils, Chimd hundreds of ; will add joy and lome. nituire Co. j i % ?ur Blotto: Better <3 Overst CHAIRS! ruA V/i in Porch Chairs - Parlor Chairs - Library Chairs Dining Chairs - Baby Chairs Nursery These Chairs are absolute satisfactic rkiir nri< Valuable Coupons Gi Hoosier Kite Save Mile Kingstree Fun Phone 167, - ANNOUN( To the Tobacco Growers i and Surrounding Sec We, the undersigned, Warehouse at Kingstree for the sale of leaf tobacc will have charge of the fl< ment, is a tobacco man about ten years on the C five seasons on the South an acknowledged wareho competent to handle and very best advantage; to | worth; to meet you fair i tions and to look after yo Mr G W Bass of Danvil auctioneering,has had tw< Kingstree market and a Danville(Va) market at 01 he will do the work in the try to please you in every Mr R B Tyler will have will treat you with every ute, and see that you get dation from that departrr We hope that you will, your patronage and we w eiation by working hard f come to see you personall, you, come to see us. We know you. Trusting that and often and that you give us a liberal share of to remain. lours tc Proprietors - * i *. i__ =4 5od5s ^or Cess 2Honey * ocked! I JRS! CHAIRS! 14 Different Styles 25 Different Styles - 15 Different Styles 17 Different Styles 12 Different Styles guaranteed to give ?n, or money back. I*kiimtiff MC1VIC UUJUl^t iven to All Customers hen Cabinets s of Steps liture Company KINGSTREE, S. C. ? I ' I :ementi of Williamsburg County ition: have leased the Gorrell for the coming season, o. Mr J A Kersey, who M 3or and general manage- I I of wide experience?of anville (Va) market and Carolina markets. He is useman and thoroughly sell your tobacco to the ?et you every dollar it is ind square in an transacur interest in every way. lie, Va, who will do the ^ j years experience on the long experience on the tie of the leading houses; i very best manner and i way. 1 charge of the office and courtesy and to the minthe very best accommolent. give us a liberal share of ja ill show you our appr.e- jfl or you. We will try to h y, but if we should miss ! 1 want to meet you and t we may see you soon will remember us and your patronage, we beg ) J A Kersey, G W Bass, ' R B Tyler. Gorrell Warehouse. Kingstree, S C. I