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May Your Christmas
Be a Merry One
and
Your N?u> Year
a Happy One
And may you live a thousand years,
Y' and every time you furnnish a home
come to us for the best .furniture and
furnishings that your money will buy
at the same price.
This is the sincere wish of
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The Peoples JNfew
Furniture Co.
lt's Easyto Pay The People? Way"
Sought across the seas his lost youth iii norina's magic
fountain. We older folks, behold again argosies freight
ed with gilded, golden, georgeous expectations Boating,
down the stream of childhood into the port of fulfilled
fpio? when.our .kids approach the cold hearth jon
Chirstmaa morning.
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Just |is the t?es: of
friendship are strength
ened a*: this holiday sea
son? so may our business
association grow in mu
tual accord and confia
../ ;. dence. .
Accept our sincere
^sh for your continued
prosperity. ^ .
ANDERSON
CASH GROCERY G?.
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GERMANS
ENORMOUS
Warsaw, Dec. 24.-With their ar
riv?t .io.'.Warsaw, tho Germans imind
thf^ they not only had to support
.L^tur own .hugo armies, but had also
to provide food and shelver tor an.
enormous number o? Poleo W?o had
been driven away from their homes,
jand then later luid boen {?eat back to
[yiilajjea burned to tho ground,, vil
lages : to which tb ero remained no
single houBe standing, not one head
|of cattle and not one bushel of grato.
That the extent ot tho damage might
bo correctly estimated; a special de
partment to investigate tho destruc
tion waa formed at once,-and officers
began tours, of tho country districts
to see boW great the needs of the ^G.
j turning inhaWtants mignt be. Thej
reported that the Russians not only
had burned up all existing food sup
plies; but *mpty barns, that were to
house the unharvested crop. Cattle
racked into freight traine had be?n
destroyed by sending tho trains over
de&troyed bridges into the rivera. In
individual cases special tracks had
been laid,, down which the. cars -were
rolled to the water's edge.
Bands of Russian soldions, fte In
vestigators claim, went systematical
ly tiirough each village that was to
bo abandoned, squirted petroleum
over each house, and then sot the
town in flamen. Between 3.0?0 and
4,000 villages were destrrved In this
way, their Inhabitants being forced
under pen?lty of death- to flee to Cio
east. .
Bribery played' a not unimportant I
part In tho retreat, lt ls claimed. As
cc&apicuous examples, 'thero stand,
hero and thero throughout Poland,
Iono houses &at havo not suffered at
Jail. Tho inhabitants maintain <hat I
I iheir immunity was purchased with
1 roubles, or that they were left un
J molested becauso they were Russian
I rather than PolidS.
I The Germans up to date havo been
I ablo to investigate only a part of the
I territory evacuated by the Russians.
They. fear, that the estimates' of .
many, many hundreds of thousands of I
fugitives . who now aro. .homeless will
mount into tho millions ''eventually.
Tho investigations show that not on
ly thtihouBcs along the regular lines
of rotreat wero destroyed, :. but also,
that villages far removed from tho
main cast-west Toads were ravaged
also, Tho only excoptiona-aro t'je\
comparatively ? Infrequent colonies of 1
Kaiser Wilhelm ii
TO SUPPORT fl
W'MBERPOLESW
Russians, au differentiated from i
Poles. .;'
Ia thousands tho inhabitants were]
driven eastward, but when the. Gor
man pursuit bocamo too ho', tho civi
lians-Including old mon and wo
men-were.ruthlessly, turned to. cac
s?do of the road und then ordered to j
go back In the ^opo that they would
obstruct Germans.
By. tenB of thousands the men and
wemen who had been torn from their
homes died"; as . they returned. Their
graves line miles of the roads In ?Ro
land. Ono. German ofllcer counted
927 civilian graves that bordered al
einbl? t'horoaghfaro within a space of j
20 l-l kimo ti vs.
Eventually, the refugees returned to
the places where, for mouths. Gie
Germans and tlie Russians had con
ducted trench!; warfare: In tho lack
'of houses, . the Poles sought tho
trenches and bomb-proof shelters, as
homes, and today aro living in them
to a great extent. Supplied with th?
necessities . pf life by the Germana
they are cooking their meals in Vie
bottoms of chimneys that still stand,
ohd slowly are building themselves
new hames. . _
In anticipation of winter the' Ger
mans began-cutting lumber from the
Russian royal .forests, and delivering
lt to the homeless Poles. Tho Po
lish architectural society formulated'
plans for houses-especially designed
to. house Polish, peasant families and
with ,a wing In which cattlo could
fled sholtor-and bus supplied each
homeless' family with f iera. Several
h:<adred have overcome then sus
picion of tho Germans, partly because
tho house clans are promulgated by
.Poles,. nod have erected one-story
.hemes of wood which are vastly ]
moro practical than their old .thatched
cottages.
The destruction o? the retreating
Russians was not confinod to f ie
country villages, but included also
eyery. Industrial plant in tho kingdom
-regardless of whether it might bo
turned to.mllitary use? or not. Thus,
.for. example, the linen' factory In
Zhirard?w. which was valued at $5;
000,0000 m arks- and whjch employed
.nome ? 6,000 ^Poles'. Vio' ownership
.of .tho^factory was in 'Polish and Ger
man' hands and In addition to . tho i
hands, in the main. factory, about 30,
000 Polos were em-ployod^ 1" ike
branches, which went out of busi
ness* with (C?e .destruction of tho par
ent concern. ? /*'.'
Northern France
(nt rigSft.) ?;/
xtsor, taken ia northern Franco, rid
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mim??,
Wedded Like President
Mr?. Clarence J, jMfcRfcayy.
It . ia just become known that l'.:b
oame limo President Wilson and --Mrs.
G?ltwere married. I? ' Washington.
Ensign Clarence J. .McReavy slipped
from tho battleship Connecticut,
which ls In dry dock In Philadelphia,
and ran off to wed M?SB Phyllis Mun
dny, ono of Charles D. Dillinghams
chorus girls. Tacro was lovo at tirat
sight two weeks ago when tho young
woman went aboard tho VCSECI.
. Twbnty Severe Quakes.
Guatemala Cfjy, Quatemala, Dec.
24.~There havo buen twenty severe
'earthquakes In Guatemala In the
last two day?.' No serious damage
oas boen reported.
EXECUTOR'S SALE
Wo will sell at public outcry at tho
homo of tho late J. Belton Watson,
ipoc. 30, 191G,'.tho. personal. properly,
Except household and kitchen-furni
ture of said decedent, consisting of
nortes? mulcB, cows, bogs, .grass
.w?gon, etc.
Sale will begin ai 10 v? clock a. m.
Terms of salo cash.
, . -Mrs. Martha J. Watson,
j. wane Watson. \
Exore. J. B. Watson, deceased,
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SAVES BA?0HTER
AJv?csof Mother no Dou?st Pre?
vente Daeg?ler*? U?t?iacly Sad.
Ready, Ky.-" I was not abte to do
anything for nearly six months," writes
Mrs. Laura Bratcher, of this place, "and
was down in bed for three months,
. I cannot teit you how I suffered with
ruy head, and with nervousocss and
womanly trophies.
Our family doctor told my husband he
could not Jo me any good, and he had
to riv* it up; We tried another doctor,
butiie did not help mc. :
At last, my mother advised mc to take
Cardin, ihe woman's tonic. I thought
it was no use fot I was nearly dead and
nothing seemed to do me any good: But
I took eleven bottles, and now I am able
to do all of my work and my own
washing. :
I think Caniui is the best medicine ta
the world. . My weight has increased,
and I look the picture ol health. "
If yb? fiuifer from any of i ?s atf neats,
peculiar to WQC^U, get a bo?ti o! Csrdul
today. Dtiay is dangerous. We knoyv
it will help you, for it has helped so
many thousands of. other weak wemen
to the past 50 years. ;
At oll druggists.
Write tai, c?tMtar.?c>s?" Wedjdn* Co.. UdlSi'
in Additiou io High CIsss
Pali??ffieitit? TTlaiMn
TODAY
The Shaw Company
Presents
"A FUNNY FARCE COMEDY
And
Three Selected Reels ?f Splendid Pictures
WE OPEN AT ls30 P. M. TODAY
BOOU TME?TM
TODAY
"FROM BEANERY TO BILLIONS"
LKO Comedy.
"THE GREAT FEAR*'
Laemmle Drama.
"LOVE AND A SAVAGE"
Nestor Comedy.
We Open Today ot 10:20 and Do Not Close Till 10;30 P.
MONDAY'S PROGRAM
"THE TALE OF THE C"
Three Reel Victor?
Featuring MARY FULLER
"WHEN LOVE LAUGHS"
Imp Comedy.
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NOT
because h is
ari honored custom
but of the Sincerity of our
A. nnr. A:.rn r/"Wri ; x
we take this
thanh you for the
part y ou played in our
business prosp^ past
?i????0 months* and we
wish you a %oo? ?ld
and a
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Anderson, S. C., B?lton, S. C., Greenville