Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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iPAGR EIGHT KERSHAW. ++ ++++++++ +++++ Kershaw. S. C.. Jan. 23.?Miss| F 1L.Uke Blackwell visited friends in.Grie I Lancaster last week. i Fort Mrs. Homer Bowling, of I.ancas- vice ter. visited Miss Lillie Mae Black- hon< mon Sunday. i of & Scott McCoy, who went to France liste with the 118th ltegiinent from vice, South Carolina and fought with the Fift; American troops in some of the se- was . vrerest battles of the war. arrived in artil Kershaw Monday. The 118th was ing part of the Thirtieth Division, which gonr broke through the Hindenburg line state and has credit for doing some of the less best fighting that was done by the fight allied armies. Octo Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Knight, of owin Terrlel. Texas, are here to visit rela- gres.? tlves of Mr. Knight. Mr. Knight is ous a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Massev them Knight, of Taxahaw. He went to train Texas about fourteen years ago and was this is his first visit home since lenv-| \y Ing. lie and his two brothers, Au- the ditor J. \V. Knight, of Lancaster, and Mill. C- T. Knight, of Taxahaw. were weeV Kuests of their sister, Mrs. C. 0. i has Floyd, Monday night. the James Hough, son of the late Mr. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hough, was married the to Miss Lillian Heekham. of Heath'yean Springs, last Wednesday, the cere- with mony being performed by Rev. J. M.lhane Neal. . Klml W. F. Russell, auditor for Ker- man; shaw county arrived yesterday to gret lake tax returns for this section. He] will be here only today. Mr. and Mrs. E. \V. Railev, of T1 Hancaster. spent Sunday in Ker-i Lanr shaw at the home of Mrs. L. J. some Mackey. ! ditio Misses Eunice and Stella Hilton.]- rr>' of Liberty Hill, and Miss Jessie Mne monic Hilton, of Kershaw, left Inst week castr ifor Limestone collepe, Gaffney, S tweb C. cond J. \V. Knlpht. auditor for Lancns- solle ter county, spent Monday and Tucsday in Kershaw taking tax returns. ' Dr. and Mrs. L. D. Simpson and their little daughter. Francis, - will Rock leave today for a visit to the former home of Dr. Simson at Prosperity. where they pn to bid good-bye to Dr. Simpson's sister, who will return to * ' usun Africa to rejoin tier husband, a mis- arou sionary. after having spent some j,OW( time at Prosperity with relatives. stre? R. M. Perry has purchased from bad. F. E. Culven and J. T. Stevens the "I Hlakeney home at the corner of Ma- Sanr rion nnd Mntson streets, which they ye?" bought, from E D. Rlakenev some ^ time ago. Mr Perry get only half the lot, the acre on which the home ] stands. \M worr + 4, + + + + + + ++ T + + + 4 44^ + RED DROSS NOTES. 4 'wroi + + + + + + + + A+ + ++ + + + but The local chapter of the Red Cross takes pleasure in making tie COI following report of work done s'tic November 22, 1!'18: :?<>n refugee paimeuts, 210 Italian comfort kits, ( 7!t sweaters. 1 !t0 pair of socks. Much thanks is due the auxiliaries pine of Kershaw, Heath Springs, Liberty iter ; Hill and Pleasant Hill for the assist- shot anec given in this work. flopp The Red Cross has again been feet, called on to help in the recent influ- nigh en/.a epidemic, and assistance has ami been Riven in almost every part of my the county. miss Since the organization of the "| Home Sei-vice in the Lancaster Red cept Cross 4 02 record cases have been nabl bandied. Fifteen Insurance blanks gove have been filled out for widows and [ die mothers of soldiers who died in the derfi service. We The terasury department is urging serv< every returned soldier to keep up guns their War Risk Insurance. This is scan the cheapest kind or Insurance, and men after five years, if the soldier keeps we \ up the regular payments of the (jn,. monthlv premiums, he will be able to change it later Into a standard Tana government policy without medical vice examination. The Home Service a s< section will mail the first payment were on the policy for you on receipt of the were money from the soldier, and later cept blanks will be sent the person hint- Ellio self, so be can mail them directly to 'Mac Washington. remr The Home Service office is at Red Chici Cross headquarters, over the Rank adml of Lancaster. The secretary. Miss thou Etta Skipper, has office hours from i it. 0 until 1 o'clock, and will he glad for ?*\ any one to come and get information pracl advice or assistance.^ thev ??? linos From Congressman Stevenson. hull* Tho agricultural department wants Kami to distribute io farmers in Lancaster Sprii county no quart packages of cotton conn seed of varieties which it desires to. Grid test. Full directions will go with fight each package and no farmer will he of A allowed more than one package. 1 Distribution closes February 28. "I "Will file names in order of appllca-' ens tion. Write me if you want any. and The applications for vegetable ing : need are coming in very slowly and reive must be filed by February 28. also, the ( W. F. Stevenson. I g< L / \l,S i r 7 THE FORT MILL. NAIISFfl + + nnuuLr ort Mill, Jan. 23.?Zenas C. PAI r has returned to his home In Uiil Mill after several months' serin France, having received an arable discharge. He is a son Ir. and Mrs. R. F. Grier and end in the artillery arm of the ser- _ . * . , . ? .. ? Doctors and , being assigned to Battery E, r-second Coast Artillery. He tabs, the ? assigned to duty In the heavy Best I>axati lery and saw service In the fight- and lnfluen; in the neighborhood of the Arle forest and elsewhere. He >s that his battery was more or ., ,flrst i . . time to take a continuously engaged in the | naU8ealegg cal ing between September 20 and liver benefits ber 10 when it was withdrawn,; taken out. D< g to the fact that the rapid pro-1 nothing ' , right and kee * of the infantry made it danger- ^mon to resis to continue their fire behind fluenza and pi i. The guns of his battery were) The best ir led on Metz when the armistice ^nza ah(l pneu , . i liver and your RiKne^- I will tell you . A. uoa'h. assistant cashier of most thorough First National Dank of Fort as the safest has resigned and will leave this, reme('y '<>r ^ , i . % V x. \ i One Calotal c for Eumberton. N. C.. where he BWallow of w accepted a similar position in Baits, no nause National Bank of Lumberton. j terference wit Roach has been connected with ure- or work First National Bank for several J *,8 s and was formerly connected vanished and > the mercantile firms of McEl- or play. Calo y & company and the E. W. 'R'Bts everywhe I,roll company. He haa ma.la. v friends in Fort Mill who re- lighted. Adv. his departure. - The Canadian The Boiuls Are Had. . of the fact tha ic road through "No Man's fered a big re 1" on the Charlotte road and alive, and so t ' uiliri MlfU IIW^ ill t3 111 Oitll COIl-j n JUM ilUUUl I n. It is the well-known variety Rot sore. 1 mud?and in wet weather be-| "I was to le s all but impassable. The Kan- and so I eot r county road out some ten or early and 'zoo re m?les from the c'ty is in good the Hun lines. ition, havinp recently been top- a fe wmiles wi <1 From Pleasant Valley to when suddenly Mill and Fort Mill to Rock Hill, me at once. oad is good. About one mile of then and I got concrete between the river and sixth got awa; Hill has been completed. citement. On airdome the ai At Last H? Understood. 1 it pretty hot f ndy had not seen his bosom pal, "After that Tor some weeks. This whs nn- plnced in comi 1. as Mac was always dropping AJr porces tr nd to borrow something. One dav, .7 . and circus tri< ever, he came upon hitn in the t, aud Mac was looking pretty H>'' ,u f for overseas e don't look verra weel, m<m,w said %vaB appointed ly. "What's been the matter wt' Cam pof tlie Canada. Evei .h've been laid up wl' th' influ- commercial tl\ >" replied Mac. opportunities f ifluenza? What's thatr* 1 measurably gr< >h, It's a trouble that mnk's y? war MmP an(, , up. and It leaves ye no able to b1||o<1 ;,rm)os .y, mon. but that's what's been ' for ni lg wl' me for the last twenty years, "ving and cor I couldna get a rieht name for It I*1 "The rrosslr _ - matter of hut , BISHOP LIKES ,,ove- an<1 w,n THE YANKEE I LIEKS ' "1L't Jh velopment in Contlnuod From Page One.) i' 'iM lMM,"th>ti _. I " . . .... ' Col. Rishop got cold and I couldn t start ? > . niece of sir , again. Another liun came along. , . . . , , department 'tr my maeltine to pieces and 1 >ed down in it tor a thousnndi. ? ,is lying in No Man's Land alli's t I fittaliy not Itaok to our lines fixing, \\ it was another week before I not ^sh^', "y 0001 next Hun and a Captain's com- l,Ill,"*r ton at the Hotel forget the rest of thent. ex- .lion ^ a that by August. 11.17. I had pM"-rienres in ted forty-seven and the British '' * ' VV' rnment ordered nte on furlough. Photni-nphs ,r In't want to go as it was won- !"K s'lvi" w itl sport and I loved the game.' ,^'xinjMnn ?PP were bombing then, fighting oh-, 1 >rs above and using machine on the Huns in (lie trenches. It (JENERAL >d the Huns and it stirred our \\ tip a lot. making them think vere killing thousands and put -; (Continued lots of pep into them. liter a visit to the states and to senate was we ida. I went back to active ser- addition to ad where I was given command of respect to Se luadron? all picked men?who the recess he called my 'circus.' That is, all o'clock. picked combat aviators, ex- Senator Nl three, who were American boys: been regarded >tt Spring of South Carolina., highest types < ' (Irider from some city I don't n"t a man w inher. and 'Larry' Callahan of hut when he d bgo. I insisted on their being effective. Sen; Itted to my squadron. for I 'V 43 years of glit I knew 'cream' when I saw session at its o j home in Kd Vhon these Yankees went up to good health, lice, as I afterward found out. message was would sneak away over the Hun with the " and rehearse with machine gun 'he news cam ts on the Heinies They were from pneumon e and they 'played for keeps.', Senator Nlchf >gs got fifteen Huns, by official terms as a met t. Callahan sh t down ton nnd was row sorvi or was killed in a gallant air the senate. So they proved my judgment Senator N'ii morieann wan prettv good. , Kllen Sheppnn rwenty-five in Twelve l>ay?. of former Oo wan kept pretty huny doing clr-lpard. and thei tricks and fighting Kichthofen' There will 1 hin men he and I had a shoot- funeral, repre acquaintance many times, hut.j body: Senato r drew blood on each other. In Laney, Banks, lant twelve days of June, 191 8,j Watklnn, and it twenty-five Boche maehinea. ker, Mima, K ! LANCASTER NEWS, LAI iLLSS . ^ ML IS ,((f I BEST FOR FLU J DruKKlxtN Claim CaloinusealeNS Calomel, Is v? fofr Colds, <iri|>p? j ca. Z ? I r sign of a cold. Is the' Calotab, the perfected ; omel that has all the left In and the sting j jctors say that there Is it to put your liver n your system in conit and avoid colds, inleumonia. 1 iBurance against Inllu- mai rnonia Is a good active ove physician or druggist , . that Calotabs is the i and effective, as well P<>r and most agreeable and ifu nnrnnan l 1'W. ClClt } at bed time with a I rater?that's all. No ua' a, nor the slightest in- Hl"e h your eating, pleas- side Next morning you fine with a hearty ap- V ikfast. Your cold has stot rou are ready for work acc< tabs are sold by drug- tinr re in sealed packages, e cents. Your money ?ack if you are not de- jj2 ' 1 r f government got wind t the Germans had of- >1 $18 ward for me, dead or hey ordered me home. $20, broke my heart, apd I *22 ave on the noon train. $25 into a little machine Oicd' for the air over ' ** I wont back of them $29 thout Rotting anythingi i* six Roches attacked ** That was roal sport ?? five of them, tint tho y front mo in the ex-, nty way liack to thoj nti aircraft guns ntado or too. I I was sont homo and v mand of tho Canadian / nining men in combat rks. and generally di- fjm ohilization of aviators 1^3 service. Recently I sB Honorary Xide do Governor-General of itnally I will get into ring. I suppose. Thoi or aviators will bo im-j eater in peace than in' lie men trained in our will have wonderful onov making, both in tstruction work, ig of the Atlantic is a a few months, I bethereafter 1?p a roguat means a great dostandardizing aerial k and passenger traf- L> wedded Miss Rtirden. John Katon, Canada's 1 ire magnate, last year. JL home in Toronto. He of a successful work j | ? Inged Warfare." pub-! , ige H. Doran Co. last j is at present stopping, y Hilt more, in prepara- *5 ies of loeturpR on hia Kuropean flying floltls, ? tlch- Illustrated wltn 1 iken during his thrill-' ill be given in the ra house on January ' I ASSEMBLY v ILL NOT RECESS 'J ? IVV & h rotn Page One ) XV^ II up with its work, in journing as a mark of ~~~~~~1~ nator Nicholson, that Moore, C( until Tuesday at 3:30 son and C | The fu Icholson has always at Edgef as one of the best and row. if legislators. He was The sei ho talked very much, liminary id say anything It was sen-Mc(!h ator Nicholson was on- constltuth age. He attended the olutlon r< penlng and went to his the mem cofleld apparently In passage. A day or two ago a day. 27 s? received that ho wan favor, wt flu" and this morning suggested p that ho had died ered. and ia. following the "flu " on Tuesd >lson had served two 27 to 2 ir Tiber of the house and voters of ng his second term In holding n 1 The pc holson married Miss lunihla. t I. who was a daughter and offlcl vernor John C. Shep- together r have five children vision Is >e In attendance at the'has deoi< sentlng the legislative apparent rs McCoIl. Chrlstensen for the p Rldgell. McOhee ano famous f Representatives Wal- this state luckliTgham, Wingard. (llzatlon. t 1 * HCASTER, 8. C FRII 1 1 i -= Lancaster Department 5 "THE BEST PLACE TO SHOP AFTER ALI i Semi-Annnnl Mann ?: OF DEEPEST IMPORTANCE TO 'he end of the season re- > ?3 rking of winter suits and =_= v -?y/- I~~l rcoats brings with it values -^1*4I I ich are extraordinarily im- I I tant this year. Every suit ? .jp' j ? ifljh I I I every overcoat has been de- j?, " * gjs?yw\ ;dly cut in price, and the net- " ' ... jigSw /( \ PH cash savings to be effected * Mjlf A\.\ worthy of immediate con- Bfr V J Ve aim to reduce winder fcc= 3 3 =-- . IE?gal *ks to the lowest notch. We ? j |1 [ J jmplish this by steep reduc- "il 1 11 1 ll III Hi ^ is in price, thus: .50 Men's Suits $9.75 $12.50 Men's Overcoats *0 Men's Suits $11.50 $18.50 Men's Overcoats .50 Men's Suits $14.50 $22.50 Men's Overcoats .00 Men's Suits $16.50 $25.00 Men's Overcoats .50 Men's Suits $17.50 $27.50 Men's Overcoat} .00 Men's Suits $19.50 $28.50 Men's Overcoats .50 Men's Suits $22.50 $29.50 Men's Overcoats .50 Men's Suits $24.50 $32.50 Men's Overcoats .50 Men's Suits $25.00 $35.00 Men's Overcoats 0^ Sale of Boys' Cl That Will Appeal to Boys and T ^ur reputation for selling only the best clothing is too well known to need further i j'^WKfr] when we'announce a reduction on our stoc and overcoats, the occasion is one that par All Hoys' Suits and Overcoats go M SATURDAY MORNINti less 2.; from their regular prices. crowds have ?t? ? :>&k! A Already Responded to Its Appeal ffvV It-?4 y/ \ A -i ? y J Y / \ // / / The Sales of White have met | Wv\ , Ljt \ /f. I with m enthusiastic reception II ^ < \ /S] ! ^roni our patrons. The excellent ^ K ^ ' values offered, the broadness of stocks and the high quality of \ | l<L ; _ ~f merchandise proved irresis- / | * tible to the hundreds of women ^ ?J . . \ who crowded our store yesterL Vi 1 d?y- sure to come tomorrow and share in these values. irrigan, Itivers, Miley. (Jib- Columbia withdrew its claim and de- Allendale Iraham. Voided not to make any further con- strength neral services will be held test. The senate, with this infornia- Johnstone leld at 11 o'clock tomor- tion, passed Mr. MeGhoe'B resolution sentative lir^lnc that f'nmn Qovloe ho oo1o/.?/??l into today took a 1 ittJo pre- for the demobilization of the Thlr- tlon of A skirmish on the Christen- tleth Division. Senntor I'earce went on I ee resolution, calling for a made the statement on behalf of the once. onal convention. This res- people of Columbia thnt they would The sei squires two-thirds of all of not make any further contest for ternoon a hers elected to secure its the division. ? In the preliminary vote to-j Anions the new bills Introduced "Wlt'R nntors were recorded In its' today was one by Senator Hfdgell SOW EL lereupon Senator Clifton which seeks to provide for a memo-1 that the vote he reconsto-! rial administrative building. It is meeting' that the hill he taken up Senntor Ridgeli's idea to have a ell (Jrocet ay. The vote today stood building erected both by the state the office > favor of submitting to the nnd voluntary funds and to utilize ''a^ter. S< the state the question of the lower floor of This building for i constitutional convention. I the memorial and the upper floor to ft resoluth ople of C.reenvlile and Co- house the various state officials, who to amend hroueh their representative' are now in office buildings through- PnnV hv I caster W al organizations have come j out the city r?f Columbia. Senator ajnj so far as the Thirtieth DI-. Rldgell thinks that this combination prlnci concerned, and Columbia will he satisfactory and has a state- by Ineren led to withdraw from the ment that $10,472.95 Is now paid by maximum fight that was being made.( the state for various offices that are ' -->.000. rlvllege of entertaining this, rented In the city of Columbia for livlslon during Its stay in'Stnte officials. J. R. FA1 , preliminary to Its demoht-j Official reports were made show . Seen At a conference held today, ^ Ing the result of a ballot In f*rvor of / * )AY, JAN. 24, 1919. = ^ stores ?> j. ening MEN i $9.75 $15.75 i $19.50 $21.50 s $22.50 $23.50 $24.00 $25.00 i $27.50 lothing county, ar.d upon tlie of these reports Senator i in the senate and RepreDavis in the house pre11s providing for the creallendale county. The hills the calendar without refernate will meet Tuesday aft 3:30. TO STO< 'KHfthDFRS OF ,1, (ilUH'KHY COMPANY. 11 please take notice that a >f the stockholders of Snw y Company will be held at of said company, In I.anmth Carolina, on the 18th hruary, 1919. at 10 o'clock, the purp<rse of considering on adopted hy the derectors the charter of said comchantrlng Its name to 1. . holesale Company, and hy .ancestor, South Carolina pal place of business, and sing Its capital stock to a of Twentv-flve Thousand 00)' Dollars. R L. SOWF.LL, President. DR. stary-Treasurer. y 16th, 1919. 2 4-41?ltasr. - . M heir Parents grades of boys' remarks. Hence, ks of boys' suits ents will eagerly on sale > per cent X % s {-r .{v: if ~f-|||. j msms^inj