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K \ V - DUE WEST NEWS. * \ Mr. Wallace of Ora, S. C., was a visitor in Due West on Monday. Rev. W A McAulay of Greenville spent a part or Monday in l?uc n est. > Miss Mary Jordan came home fori the Easter season from her schoo1 near Campobello. _ Mrs. Sam Davis is on a visit to her daughter Mrs. J. S. Johnson of ..Greensboro, N. C. Miss Anna Brice Baird of Concord, ' | N. C., after spending the week with! friends in Due West and Abbeville returned to Concord on Monday. ! Mrs. A. S. Kennedy has returned from Charlotte, N. C. We are sorry to say that Mrs. Kennedy is not well j and has not been out since her re turn. Mrs. J. E. Todd went up to Belton Monday afternoon on account of the death of Mrs. Eunice Todd Haynie.' Mrs. Haynie died Monday morning. Misa Christjine Jamison returned from Atlanta on Monday, having gone , to Atlanta to attend the funeral of her fathei\ ? Miss Janie McDill, who is teaching ' at Cherryville, N. C., spent a few days ?t home returning to North Carolina ^ a Monday.. | Mrs. W. C. Agnew and Miss Lucia Agnew of Greenwood have been the guests for a few days of Mrs. Lila v v Agnew. > . Miss Barbara Grier came over from her school at White Oak, S. C., And Mr. P. L. Grier, Jr., from the Blue Ridge School at Hendersonville and spent the Easter vacation at home, j Rev. C. B. Williams preached at j Chester last Sabbath. Mrs. Williams; ' accompanied him. She went on to Nashville, N. C., to spend a seasonl with friends at her old home. ' * I The Erskine base ball season opens' this week, Thursday, with a game1 with Bailey Military Institute on the local ground. On Friday they meet! ,the Lutherans from Newberry, also' n the local ground. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Kennedy are hime from Birmingham.' Mr Ken-' * * : j I? i I; ucuy iuuv;ii niipi uvcu i/jr ma ucau ' ment in the hospital % Ersklne and the Woman's College gave a short vacation following the, ? spring examinations and embracing h the Easter seasqn. We tegret to know that Mr. J. E. Ttfdd has not recuperated ds fast as w " ' IJ * friends hoped, since his return from | Baltimore. He has been carrying a J tittle temperature since his return. I j Dr. Calvin Todd of Ware Shoals and j Dr. Henry Young of Anderson were 'j down to see him. They took him tp|| ' "the .hospital at Anderson Monday morning. ? /1 JOHN BURROUGHS, NATURALIST DIES j ON N. Y. C. TRAIN V> Wxi in Hi* Eighty-Fourth Year; Wat Enroute To Hi* Home in New York. ' New York, March 29.?John Bur ' roughs, famous naturalist, died at 2 j j 'clock this morning on a New York I j Central train at Kingsville, Ohio. Word of Mr. Burroughs' death was I received here by New York Central .' >fficials. He was returning east after . spending the winter in Pasadena, Cal. where he was reported to have been - sEjghtly ill with affections incident to Id age. He was in his 84th year. While it was known that the natur . alist had been ill, it was reported that he had recovered before he started east for his home in West Park, New,j York. j John Burroughs, American poet j j and writer of natural history, wasij horn in Roxburv. Deleware countv.! i N. Y., on April 3, 1837. In his earlier years he engaged in various pursuits, ! teaching, journalism, farming and j fruit-raising, and for nine years was J a clerk in the treasury department, I Washington. After publishing in 1867 I a volume of notes on Walt Whitman jj as poet and person, (a subject to j which he returned in 1896 with his j Whitman; a study), he began in 1871 j with Wake-Robin, a series of books j on birds, flowers and rural scenes j which made him the successor of Tho- j Teau, las a popular essayist on the I j plants and animals environing human i , life. His later writings chose a more ; philosophic mood and a greater dis- \ position toward literary or medita tive allusion than their predecessors, I r but the general theme and method I remained the same. MANY RAILROAD^ REPORT DEFICIT Two Hundred and Two Tell of Loss. Figures for Month Washington, March 31.?A deficit for January of $1,167,800 was shown for 202 railroads of the coun try in reports submitted to the inter state commerec commission, the As sociation of Railway Executives an nounced tonight. Tabulation of the report as furnished them, the asso ciation added, showed that 100 of the railroads whose reports were ' ? * -Toilrtrl f A A O T?T? m&ue (ivaimuit-, laucu w it WA pensesand taxes during the month. Of these 109, it is said, 45 were in the Eastern, 16 in the Southern and 48 in the Western districts. This compares, it was added, with 88 faifed to $arn expenses and taxes in December. , Operating revenue for January, according to the announcement, was $468,834,000, an increase of 5 1-2 per cent, over January, 1920, while the operating expenses were $442, 474,000, an increase of 6 3-5 over corresponding period a year ago. The net operating income which was Id I JcAREFUUV 1 EXPERTLY ATTI PRINTING POKES Ft TU P, X liV 1 J and Ba Compa not given, represented a decrease of " 120.6 per cent as compared with p January, 1920, it was said. Freight revenues amounted to $325,585,000, an increase of 4 1-5 per cent, over the previous January 0 and passenger revenue was $105,- ^ 247,000, an increase over January " 1920 of 14 3-4. Last August, it was v explained, freight rates were in creased 33 1-3 per cent, and passen ger fares 20 per cent. The carriers v however, showed/a decrease in the r bulk of freight carried of 14.7 per cent on the net ton miles, and 6 1-2 on the passenger miles as compared with January, 1920. Roads of "the Eastern district fail ed by 116 per cent to- receive amounts estimated, the statement said. With only the Buffalo, Roches ter and Pittsburg missing, the opera ting revenues of the Eastern were $212,844,000, an increase of 11.3 per cent, over those for January, 1920, while the total operating ex penses were $206,380,000, an in crease of 7.9 per cent, over January 1920. Southern roads failed by 75 per cent, to make the profits estimated the railway executives declared. HRHfiJHHHiBHBfflifl / MIS i OFFICE tOMTHE \ ress nner ny I raraiiUEfiiiEiaii!^^ EAT ONIONS" IS ADVICE OF EPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Washington, March 31.?"Eat nions" was the advice given to the Lmerican people i;oday by the depart? lent of agriculture. Unless there icreased consumption of the vege -1-1? MOI/1 ftlAVA tin 1 1 tiDie, Hie ucpar^Liiciii, ^aiu, wuc&w * ** e a great waste of the old crop of rhich there is now an estimated car y over of 2,500 oars. Failure to con ume this surplus will mean also a irge surplus in the spring crop, ,'hich was reported to be from two to our weeks earlier this year than sual. GOOD 7V TMCUST Qffoe' SCALED T?4S ONLY AryOURGQOCEBS MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE jEfimiaiffliBBiaianiiiii I | The great falls of the - Orange j river in Africa are more than twice j as high as Niagara and higher than the Victoria Palls. Motor 1 n Trucks and passe service at We Haul | ? 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