Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WEET POTATOESr 1 SHOULDBE GROWN ill Help Provide For a Hungry World During Coming Winter. < Columbia.?The sweet potato will 1 !p In a large way to solve the proo- , % of providing food?and, like the ih potato, a food that will largely e the place of bread, a order that the best results may obtained, the following informa1 x>n "Growing Sweet Potatoes in ith Carolina" has been prepared by H>rge P. Hoffman, extension hortiHturiit of Clemson College, at the uest of the Food Administration tor Hth Carolina: |Brt>wir>g Sweet Potato?* In South W Carolina. here are few crops so well adapted Hfouth Carolina conditions that can Hprown with equal success and profit Mean the sweet potato. This crop Hrs to the growers every advantage K is offered by other field or truck B>il selection, preparation, fertillx|H careful fitting and planting, and Hhrating are the essentials of sue H ?u nt? (ivnui( wi m wvy vi TT Htoe*. fl:?The rweet potato adapts itIto a great diversity of toil, butj 11 Hbts In and thrives beat on a well HBied sandy or clay loam soil on- |Bdd with a clay subsoil. RegardH ot tit* apparent ideal physical BjKitlon of the soil, this crop must be |Bei$ each year. Sweet potatoes j^B* follow corn; cotton, small grain leguminous cover crops. This may be easily and effectively ^Kedlnto any well balanced three H rotative system. j^Bparatton of Soli:?The soil may IHoroughly and deeply prepared by twioe to a depth of 6 to 8 HHm followed by cross discing. Heed and irregular formed roots from preparatory shallow prep-' ?Qpn of the soil. Therefore, deep I borough preparation is very es1 la the growing of marketable tlllzere: ? Both Barnyard and ercial fertilizers are recommendt the former mast be judiciously Under the present potash shortjnditioDs, that element of plant lost needed in excess, liberal apOns of barnyard manure will be to be. yery effective in supplelg this shortage, and correcting lyalcal condition of the soil. The 7 and physical condition of the kould determine the extent oi plications, which should not be ess of needs. Ordinarily, H^fcommerchd fertilizers and barn|9La9ur?i are applied la the drill, HjHthe soil is being fitted for setHK? plants, and as a side dresser. HHng the Sod and Setting the jH:?Preparatory to setting the which should be from May 1st 15th, lay off rows Zbi to 4 feet HjHand apply tb? barnyard or comBl fertilizers la the drill and ^^Hghly mix with the soil. PlantMUs of Medium height, depending SHWferainage, should be thrown np H^Baggad down, and the plants or fi^^Bttiojrs set 14 to 18 inches apart MRBtlng the packed condition of ^ ii- thought about through the BRBantlng process, immediately Iig th* setting of the plants, the farrow* should be harrowed or ;se shallow cultivated, ate plantings, the one leaf, 8 to vine cutting# are more desiran are the plants, thk being es' true in the growing of seed tie*:?The Nancy Hall, Porto nd Triumph are the leading st popular varieties grown in te. The Triumph is one of the varieties, and should be plant* 1 potatoes are grown for early at Ion:?Frequent and shallow ion should be practiced until si have covered the ground, which period the greatest of ist be exercised hi the turning ines. At the first cultivation, insists of a careful hoeing and ,iV ? V??.m.A o atria I?1U1 9L uruau muvn, ? of cottonseed meal should be at the rate of one-half tea per d thoroughly mfxed with the le Orangeburg sweep or heel [ shovel will be found to be ictive In cultivating this crop. Uowing record of expenditures irns on an acre of sweet poas furnished us by a grower and county, South Care Una, J17 and 1918: Expenditures. alue of land $ S.00 I and harrov/ing twice.. 4.00 ground 1.10 -10 loads at $1.W.... 10.00 x % compost 1.50 0,000 at $2.50 25.00 I plants z.zb i iree times 3.00 md turning Tines 4.25 id meal, Vt ton at $48.. 24.00 cottonseed meal 1.50 iff and storing 12.00 expenditure $97.00 Return*. ?le No 1 potatoes at 0 |412.0# la call* at $0.60 16.00 returns $427.10 $330.$J Contributors To 2nd Red Crass War Fund i CONTRIBUTORS TO SECOND ] RED CROSS WAR FUND IN j ABBEVILLE COUNTY. Below we publish a list of the contributors to Second Red Cross Fund, at Glover Colored Church, Warrenton and Shady Grove Colorjd Church. Sallie Belcher 25 00 Henry Heard 10 00 S C Calhoun 25 00 Mary Young ... ... ... 25 00 timma Clayton 1 00 Dannie Edwards 5 00 \ Rachel Belcher 5 00 Willie Anthony 1 00 Harold Crawford .1 00 Flora Brown 1 00 Fannie Murray 1 00 G. H. Lee .... 1 00 ' Will Dodberry 5 00 Eliza Young 50 Calling Tucker ... .... 1 00 Henry Walker ' 10 00 Abrara Heard ' # 10 00 Chas Walker 10 00 ^ John Hunter ..i 10 00 Richard Cade 10 00 Toke DuBose ...: iu uu John Heard 10 00 John Heard 10 00 Simon Davis 10 00 Sam Brown; 10 00 Kate Glover 10 00 Janie Green ..... 10 00 Andrew Edmonds 10 00 Walter Watson ...... .. 10 00 Wallace Heard 10 00 Archie DuBose 10 00 Charlotte Connor 10 00 Kitty Hester 10 00 ? Alden Reynolds 1 00 Eliza Doughty 1 00 Mary J. Brown 1 0') r Eliza Davis 1 00 Louisa Patterson " 5 00 Daisy Pin son 6 00 j V John W. "Lee 10 00 Lewis Roundtree 10 00 ' j Maria Roundtree 10 00 Ontvmnl niflTinonf "If) Oft J oaiuucx 4 ouuvav Bill Bryant 10 00 E. R. Roundtree '. 15 00 J J Jenkins *. 15 00 Singleton Tucker, 15 00 Jake Bell 15 06, Ellen Foote. 15 00 Thos. Thomas lg 00 William Gary 20 00 Simon Green 25 00 William Hester 25 00 Josh P. Pinson 25 00 Olive Heard ... 25 00 Henry McCollough .... 25 00 Georgia Tillman .25 00 John Green 25 00 -Robert Blue 25 00 Nancy Clayton 25 00 Jas. Thompson 2 00 Fannie Murray 4 00 Willie Cole 5 00 John Thomas 5 CO Rena Hill 5 00 Roxie Tucker 5 00 Kittie Hester ... ... .. 5 00 Allie Thompson 6 00 Mamie Parker 5 00 Nancy Hester- 5 00 Elizabeth Harper 5 00 George Bennett 5 00 Pat Posey 5 00 . H. E. Kieser 5 00 Minnie Green 5 00 J C Crawford .J 5 00 Louise Thomas 5 00 I STOMACH I . Mr. Marion Holcomb, of N m a long while I suffered with ?5 have pains and a heavy fee M disagreeable taste in my mot butter, oil or grease, I would m regular sick headache. I hai g| after a course of these, I wc seemed to tear my stomach g no good at all for my trouble I THEDF DUCK'U I recommended very highly, si me. I keep it in the house j liver medicine made. I do stomach trouble any more, the jaded liver and helps it thrnu/inar nut u/flcfp materials M tem. This medicine should ,use in time of need. Get a sluggish, take a dose tonig] morrow. Price 25c a packs 1 ONE CEN1 Lila Smith 5 00 Carrie Walker 5 00 Rosie Reed 5 00 Marjorie Bullock 6 00 Marie Wilson 5 00 J H Boss ... 5 00 Floride Jenkins 5 00 Cathrine Heard 5 00 Kiska Tennaut 5 00 Sing Clayton 5 00 Frank Oglesbly 5 00 Mamie L. Crawford ... 5 00 Rebecca Reed 5 00 Clark Foote 5 00 Sam Reed 5 00 Nancy Wilson 5 00 Emma Jones 5 00 Lula Watson 5 00 S P Reynolds 5 00 Monroe Long 5 00 VARRESTOX? Green Davis 5 00 Mrs F W Wilson 10 00 t ' wii?js Gladys Wilson .... 1 F W Wilson 10 00 Maggie Heard 5 00 Miss Mildred Wilson V.. 100 S. Allen Wilson 1 00 Herbert Wilson 1 00 John A. Wilson ... .... 5 00 S. L. Wilson 10 00 T E Wilson 1 00 Geo W W ilson. 1 00 Rev H C Fennel 5 00 D W Thomas 11 00 H M Mundy - 1 00 A S Mundy .. 1 00 A C Mundy 1 00 C B Mundy ... 1 00 Fannie Mae Mundy ... . 1 00 Mrs Mary Bowie 1 00 Children's R. C. Chapter 3 00 A B Foster 1 00 Frank Pursley .... ... 5 00 Walter Gilliam ... 5 00 Geo S Wilson, Sr. ..... 5 00 C L Rock 5 00 Wm McNeill ..^... .. 5 00 Hester Adams I 00 Lillie May Johnson 1 00 F P McNeil 5 0b C F Gilliam 5 00 J E Palmer 2 00 rarrenton Shady Grove Chnrch? Colored. James Ellis 1 00 Patsy Sanders 1 00 Rosa Brown 1 00 Wllo T Whartnn . . 1 00 ' Rachel Green 1 00 Sheila Gray 1 00 Susan Miller ... 1 00 ;Sinah King .... 1 00 Mary Belcher 1 00 Clara Colyer .. 1 00 Susan Devlin 1 00 Anna Gray .... 2 00 T F Harper 2 50 Wilfie Knox 5 00 Jack Ramsey 6 00 , Sara Jeter 5 00 Jim Bibbs ... ... .... 5 00 Arthur Jackson ....... 5 00 John McBride 5 00 Capers Jackson ... ... 5 00 Tom Williams 5 00 Alice Cobb 5 00 J H Ware 6 00 Lem Kay 5 00 Horace Gray ?.. 5 00 Wm Wardlaw 5 00 John Gray 5 00 R R Richardson 5 00 Russell Gray 5 00 Marlon Boyd 6 00 J A McBrlde 5 00 Scott Thomas 6 00 Marshall Giles 5 00 Luther Young ... 5 00 Jerry Ware 5 00 E J McBrlde 5 00 Marie Boyd ... 5 00 TROUBLE 1 4 .. ancy, Ky., says: "Tor quite i stomach trouble. I would JK ling after my meals, a most ith. If I ate anything with m spit it up. I began to have m d used pills and tablets, but ? >uld be constipated. It just all up. I found they were m . I heard R ORD'S I MUGHT - i??? .... u ti ...../i J UCgcUl 1U use 1U II IUICU H ill the time* It is the best B not have sick headache or M " Black-Draught acts on to do its important work of i and poisons from the sys- m be in every household for m package today. If you feel I lit You will feel fresh to- H ige. All druggists. r A DOSE (j is) J &?? ' <;lvw'; J M Young 5 00 Giles Martin 5 00 ( Elizabeth Johnson 5 00 Lucius Cain ... 5 00 Francis Tlli9 5 00 Fanny Pressly 6 00 Mattie Pressly 5 00 Joe McBride 6 00 Wm Johnson 5 00 John Williams 5 00 G W Wade 5 00 James Jackson 10 00 Mary Wade 10 00 Walter Brown 10 00 Dannie Johnson 10 00 Lanie Ramey ' 10 00 Robert Devlin 10 00 Phil Jackson ........ 10 00 Ino Pressly 10 00 Jim Ellis 10 00 Wash Bray ....... ... 10 00 W C Calhoun 10 00 Lewis Belcher 10 00 Pleas Harris 10 00 Judge Chiles 16 00 A H Nash 15 00 Geo Scott 25 00 Jim Jackson 25 00 Butler McBrlde 25 00 David Manning 25 00 SAGE TEA DANDY ! TO DM HAIR It's Grandmother's Recipe to Bring Back Color and Lustre to Hair. ' Tou can turn gray, faded fiatr. beautifully dark and lustrous almost over night If you'll get a bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound" at any drug store. Millions of bottles of this old famous Sage Tea Recipe, improved by the addition of other Ingredients, are sold annually, says a well-known druggist here, because It darkens the hair so naturally and evenly that no DTI* mn (All It hs* hoAn onnlla/l Those whose hair is turning gray or becoming faded have a surprise awaiting them, because after ofte or two applications the gray hair vanishes and your locks become luxuriantly dark and beautiful. This is the age of youth. Grayhaired, unattractive folks'* aren't wanted around, so get busy with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound to-night and you'll be delighted with1 your dark, handsome hair and your youthful appearance within a few 1 days. ' 4 This preparation is a toilet requisite and Is not Intended for the cure, mitigation or prevention of disease. Mi I 1 Wll * AT STAB) t / to buy good i high WILL \PA^ Wi I % ^ V fsiw .. tktiiiiifsil ;&&? MAGISTRATE CARWILE. Mr. Frank Carwile was in to^ Saturday taking in the big ds among the candidates. His recei appointment as magistrate to su< ceed Mr. L. P. Harkness, is plea: ing to his many friends. HEARSAY EVIDENCE. ' A most persistent rumor was b< ing circulated in the streets th morning that a delivery boy ha been run over and killed on Sout Main Street. Everybody had hear that somebody else had seen the a< cident. The Index at once bega an invsetigation but could find n one who knew anything definit about it. After laboriously tracin the rumor through about a doze places it was discovered that a ma had been rather seriously injured, i an accident in Abbeville; quite distance from South Main Street. It is presumed that some one hear that a person had been injure somewhere. As the reports passe from North to South details rapid! began to collect until the poor di livery boy had been killed and tl] place of accident located.?Gree] wood Index. FRENCH REFUGEES AND THEIR PET (Rev. F. L. Frost in the News an Courier.) "The refugees are from all classes large numbers of old people, an not a few invalids. At one time had four old women, all over ninet; One of the most touching featur< is the way they cling to their an mals. Most of them have a doj which is more like a member of tlfamily, and equally well behave* Some have cats, some birds, son: chickens, and occasionally a goat. "When I seemed interested in canary bird and a dog that one fan ily had, they opened a basket ar showed me a big grey cat, and e: pressed deep reget that they ha been obliged to leave another b< hind. One man offered me a pa of chickens because he said he coul not carry them any further. SWA 1 U ALL i ue in Ainu July 13tl fpn nn i js ur j. sound Mules II i, 6 to 12 years r GOOD Pf r* M IV ^ 1 CU ITU J. M. BILL ,f , /V;'. V: ( >/;: ABBEVILLE SOLDIER HONORED ni Sergeant Mart Cheatham has been tyj given charge of the Company Initj firmary at Camp Sevier. This is a I- j position of honour and responsibils J ity, evidencing the confidence which | his superior officers have in him. j We look for his promotion from the j non-coms. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Cheatham and was home on Sunday. v ? A GIFT FROM A BABY. h ^ Dr. J. S. Moffatt has received from Sallie Ann Landerdale a fifty dollar Lierty Bond for the Endowment at Erskine. The little girl is -g four months old and makes this concr tribution because she expects to atn tend Erskine when she grows up. r There are a good many more babies n in the A. R. P. Synod than ther? are fifty dollar Liberty Bonds. * ' d PAYING BIG MONEY. d . : ^ Dr. F. Y. Pressly has sold his fine y registered Jersey cow?finest in up2" per Carolina?to Mr. J. Allen Smith ie and at a fine price.?A. R. Presby-'a" terian. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years [(j it was supposed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies,: and by constantly failing to cure ^ with local treatment, pronounced it j incurable. Catarrh is a local disy. ease, greatly influenced by constitu}g ional conditions and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Medicine, manufacfactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., To^ ledo, Ohio, is a constitutional remprfv. is taken int.emallv and acts through the Blood on the Mucous i ? . a Surfaces of the System. One Hun? dred Dollars rewaru is offered for ' ' Lild any case that . Hall's Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circul(j lars and testimonials. ? F. J. CHENEY & COT, Toledo, Ohio. Bir Sold by Druggists, 75c. [d Hall's Family Pills for constipation.?Adv. July 2-lmo. NTED ;ville I i S. STARK r- _ i n 1 L 3 to id nanus ? old. {ICES FOR 1 lies INGTON. J ^ */.V'.i;J* H