Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ONLY TWO INCHES OF SNOW IN MAINE DURING JANUARY Portland, Me., Feb. 3.?Maine res idents who went south to escape the rigors of a New England winter may ke interested in Candemas Day re ports that grass hoppers are being caught in Oxford cotinty fields. An other correspondent sent from a Bearby farm a fruit tree branch on which buds had begun to ope?. In contrast with last winter when i seven feet of snow fell, within as many weeks, the weather bureau re ports show a total snowfall of two inches in'January this year and an aggregate temperature more than 300 degrees warmer than last Janu ary. COE-MO QUALITY FI For Cotton, Co Grain, Peanut QUALITY in plan QUALITY in avai QUALITY in mec QUALITY in big 3 QUALITY in prof: Dry and drill Analysis as j Prompt, court THE COE-MOR1 Subsidiary of The American Ch&rlesto , FOR SA r. e. COX, Abbe a. d. ke;nn :: : I i nc m gam Oi 8 You can't in poor in mak of pi / \ i When a mere whole reputat being sent ou employees an So when you > be as advert) goods advert NINTH VICTIM OF FIRE FROM USE OF GASOLINE Rochester, Vermont, Feb. 3.?Mrs. Henry Martell died today, the ninth victim of a fire which, starting when her husband used gasoline by mis take for kerosene in building the kitchen fire, destroyed their house Tuesday. Martell's aged father and five of their children were trapped in the house and they burned to death and two other children died later Martell, who escaped injury and three children who were not at home at the time, are the only survivors of the family. Public funeral .services will be held in Grand Army hall here to rn of row. RTIMER UTILIZERS >rn, Tobacco, s and Truck t food content lability. hanical condition, rields. . itable farming. able goods. Iguaranteed. eous service. ' riMfiR CO., Inc. Airicuttural Che mica] Co. Q, S. C. LE BY ville, S. C. EDY, Due West n i oes ' V Li buy adverti nly goods fail lagine a metcha 2; aud will not g lblic condemnat :hant signs his na ion of his busine: t to all the people LU 111U51 UI 1115 111C / i buy advertised ised. That is v ised. Advertisi CIGARETTE No cigarette has the same delicious flavor as Lucky Strike. Because , Lucky Strike is the toasted cigarette. . _ ! "PLAN FOR MEETING Anderson, Feb. 3.?The Anderson bounty Federation of "Women's clubs will hold an all day session with the Divic association here March 5. Plans ,vere made and discussed for this; Tweeting at the regular session of the 3ivic association which met with Mrs. Sbor Horton Tuesday afternoon. The sxecutive committee will form a pro gram on subjects of vital importance rhe meeting will be held in the First Baptist church annex, and the Civic issociation will serve lunch. It was iaid by Mrs. Rufus Fant, Sr., presi lent of the Civic association, that 200 vomen would be expected to attend ;his meeting, and that it would be I he biggest clut\ meeting ever held in Anderson. There are 21 federated ilubs and each will liave four dele ;ates, with the officers and executive ommittee. ' I A Witchita, Kansas, minister ent his sermon to a half dozen ( ities recently by wireless tele-11 hone. |I > t ised goods yc fly priced ca / ** ht advertising a V five reasonable i ion. That is w ; i i tme to a stateme 3S is at stake, he i, so that anythin ;nds; then you rr / goods you get 1 vhy it pays yoi ng protects you, EFFORT TO REDUCE NUMBER OF OFFICERS Fight Made in House During Consid eration of Army Appropria tion Elill i Washington, Feb. 3?A fight to re duce the number of commissioned officers in the army came to th'e sur face in the house late today during consideration of the army appropria tion bill. Representative Fields, Democrat, of Kentucky offered an amendment to cut the commissioned personnel by one-third and to reduce the appro priation for their pay from $42,000, 000 as recommended by the commit tee to $30,000,000. He explained that iuch a reduction would be propor I . Reductioi We are now in p . < This reduction j every farmer, stration on E. F. 1 \ the] >u are gettin n stand the \ \ i? lot of articles 1 wear. Such g< mm wa li^ l?. m m ny il jjctp iu wu nt he is careful is doubly carei g in it is not true iay be sure he the best of the I a to read adve . Read it and I tional to the decrease in the enlisted i men to 150,000 as proposed in the bill. Representative McKenzie, Re publican, of Illinois opposed the a mendment, declaring it would strike . a body blow at military preparedness. Advocating the combination of the air branches of the army and navy under one head, Representative Mann Republican, of Illinois said that the United States with intelligent effort; could so develop her air service as to control the air in any future war J i England, he said, is now giving the I most intensive study to this subject and is not paying, so much attention to naval construction. Representative Huddleston, Demo crat, of Alabama in the course of the debate denounced what he called the "luring of immature boys from their ii in Price of >osition to deliver Foi '678 places the tractor with If interested arrange your farm, i erms to r< parties. ARNO g the best of strain of ad \ I that are poor in >ods can't stand y advertised go( / what he says, ful. When that will be known is ten times dou bargain, because rtisements, and get the best o s/s/s/s/s^v/s/s/s/s^s/sA/s/s/sAVs/sAv/s/s/s/vAs/s/s/s/s/s/s/s/s^s/s/s^s/s/sAs/sA mothers' apron strings by recruitimg sergeants." The house had not acted oh tke amendment when it recessed umti tomorrow. GOOD TO Th? LAST MOfi" SEALED TMS ONLY iu YOURGCOCZAS MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE MARK Tractors dson Tractors at in the reach of i for demon esponsible iLD am the bar Ivertising. \s J *3 i ' s "n '*>' i quality, or I the strain )ds. When the statement is to all of his ibly careful. ! they must to buy the f bargains.