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f?dgcfteld ^dtxrfiscc ?Es?alilishr? 1B35. J. L. MIMS,_Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday, July 31. When the "Yanks" go a-gunning the Huns go a-running.. Wonder who will report the larg est watermelon in the county this year? Even the fig crop is good this year on the few trees that were left by the severe winter. How we watch the casualty list each morning with bated breath ! Our boys are over there. When barbarians, like Germany and Turkey, fall out maybe civilized people will get their dues. The promise of an abundant har vest confirms the old saying: "A good crop follows a hard winter." We like to hear of a young soldier marrying before departing for over seas duty. He has more to fight for. The American people have been so busy swatting the Huns that the fly and mosquito swatting has been largely overlooked. Stock your coal bins before win ter comes. Railroads can better af ford to supply coal now than after the fall traffic is heavier and the weather is more unfavorable. Kraut the cabbage, pickle the on ions, can the tomatoes, preserve the peaches, marmalade the apples, jelly the plums, and all will go well with you and your house next winter. All who are not in the trenches must get between the cotton rows, as soon as the staple opens, and be come harvest hands. The people at home should not have to be urged to work . As we see the casualty list steadi ly growing, we should resolve to leave nothing undone for our boys. Let them know, as never before since they left the fireside, that we stand shoulder to shoulder with them. Read the very interestine; letters from our soldier boys in this issue. When you receive letters from "Some where in France" send them to The Advertiser for publication, so others can have the pleasure of reading them also. Notwithstanding the fact that ag ricultural labor has been more dis turbed this year than ever before, on account of the draft, there were never better crops at this season throughout the co.unty. People have gone forward this year with a quick step, and God gives the increase when man docs his part well. Cowardly Campaign Liars. There was a time when one could injure aspirants for office by circu lating false reports during a cam paign. But the people are too intelli gent now for the campaign liar to get in effective work. In fact, people resent yuch an unfair method to in jure aspirants for office and many whe otherwise would not support them rally to the support of tne men against whom false reports are cir culated. Such cowardly methods may work in some counties but the intelli gent citizenship of Edgefield county resents dishonest and unfair practic es of this kind. A year like this, when no campaign meetings are held, the malicious campaign liars are hope ful of getting in effective work. Growing More Patriotic. A very marked change has come over many of our people. Not only are registrants within the draft age who are qualified for military ser vice more willing to go to the front, but an increasing number who have been given deferred classification are volunteering. We mean that men wh? would probably never be forced to serve are volunteering. The Am erican people everywhere realize more and more that THIS IS OUR WAR and that we must rededicate and reconsecrate ourselves to the caus? for which cur boys are fighting, never letting up until peace terms dictated by Woodrow Wilson are ac cepted by the Kaiser. Our people are growing more and more patriotic. Immense Food Stores. As our army grows so must the food supplies for our soldiers grow. In the matter of having large, well organized, well-equipped private plants for supplying food in practi cally limitless quantities, Germany was better prepared than America. It matters not what article of food is desired by the government, there can always be found a dealer or manu facturer that can supply the need on short notice. Some idea of the great need for food in large quantities can be gain ed from purchases that were recent ly made by the government. An or der was placed with the five large packing houses in Chicago for 99, 500,000 pounds of bacon and 134, 000,000pounds of canned meats for shipment to Europe. It will require 1,900,000 hogs and about 900,000 cattle to . fill the order. In order to meet this demand for food for our army, the five leading packing houses jof Ch'cago are slaughtering 360,000 hogs daily. The packers are paying from two to two and one-half times as much for hogs and cattle as the i pre-war prices for it. But it matters not what food for our men costs just so they get the best. They deserve the best that mon ey can buy and that is the kind that Uncle Sam is sending to Europe by the shiploads. Our boys first and the home folk last. We will live on skim . milk and ccrn-bread if such diet be necessary in order that our boys be properly fed. Sugar Supply Less and Less. Must Reduce Consumption. Further reduction of the con sumption of sugar is made necessa ry by the present critical shortage, ?and the food administration, in call ing upon the home consumers to cut down the use of sugar to even less than the ration which had pre viously been established, emphasizes the fact that unless the new regula tion? are voluntarily carried ont by the people, the sugar supply will not last. It is to safeguard against a sugarless ration or sugar famine that the food administration has cut down the allotment, which is new three' pounds per person per month, to two pounds per person per month. This allotment applies par ticularly to the month of August. In public eating places, restau rants, hotels, boarding houses and dining cars the new allotment will be two pounds fur each 9U meals served. Manufacturers of soft drink* and candy are now receiving oniy .TU per cent, of their normal supply, or of their last jear's consumption of sugar. The private homes have not been asked by the food admin istration lo make so deep a cut as that. Sugar bowls have disappeared from the tables of many of the ho tels, restaurants and cafes, and su gar is carefully measured out to guests and customers, Under these existing conditions, there can be no unlimited use of sugar, even for a portion of a month, in the homes of those who are endeavoring to conscientiously and patriotically live up to the food administration rules and regulations. Sugar must be used with the greatest care. It ls too precious to be wasted or to be fsed except sparingly. Even thouyh it may mean sacrifice, sugar must be saved now.. The situation is such as to call for the co-operation of every indi vidual and every householder in the State. Only a certain amount of sugar has been allotted to South Carolina for the month of August. The dealers can procure only a cer tain amount. This allotment must cover all needs. The food admin istration has carefully figured that it can not be stretched to cover the needs of the State unless the indi vidual consumption is cut down to two pounds per person per month. In naming that amount as the' ra tion, therefore, the food adminis tration states clearly what is the patriotic duty of every person in South Carolina for the month of August-to live within the limit, and to cut that down impossible. It is also urged that in canning, fruits be canned without sugar this sum mer. The fruit will keep just as well. It may be sweetened to taste when opened for use. By that time it is hoped that the su^ar situation will have been relieved and that there will be plenty for all purposes. -The State. NOTICE-I will not be in my offce Monday August 5th for one week. I desire my patrons to know that I will be in my office ready for work Monday, August 12th. Dr. J. S. Byrd, "SOMEWHERE-IN FRANCE." (Continued from page One.) I shall try, if I have time, to write them. Tell them all I would like so much to see them and the children. Well, I have about written my time out. and will close. Mother, I am well and faring all right. I do trust that I will be able to continue in as good health as I am today. I shall try and get all the sunshine out of worry? Never does any good. Take everything as it comes. Give all my friends my best regards. With love to you and all the family, I am, Your son, Corp. \\T. F. Manson. Interesting Letter From Naval Air Station in France by Patriotic Edgefield Boy. My dearest Mother: I received your letter all O. K. and I surely was glad to hear from you. Mama, guess whom I met up with over here a few days ago? Freeman Corley and it was such a surprise to me, to meet up with some one just from home. He is the only one I have seen over here that I knew. I received a letter from Linnie yesterday ajnd she said that Milledge was in New Jersey and that she was expecting him to go some time soon now. The weather certainly is bad over here. It is cold and rainy all the time. I surely will be glad when we can get away from over here and get back home. Has little Georgia returned from her long visit with her grand mother? I bet you will be glad to see her come back. How's Papa getting along with his farm? It will soon be time to quit work and go to barbecues. I wish I was there so I could drive you all around. Well, Mother, you will have to excuse this letter for I am sitting down on a bench and writing on a bottom of a chair. Mama, you must write me long letters and tell me all the news but if you do not know any news, write me anything^ From your son, Jasper K. Corley, U. S. Naval Air Station. Guipavas, ? France. Trained Nurses Needed in the Army. W. C. Gorgas, surgeon general of the United States army, has issued the following statement: "I want every young woman in the country, every woman between 19 and 35, to read carefully what I have to say and to give it earnest atten tion. It is a message which every girl ought to welcome because it tells of an opportunity to help the nation. "The army and the country face a shortage of nurses. "The army alone will require some thing like 25,000 nurses by the first of next January. We have secured about 13,000 of this number; we need 12,000 more. We have got to have them or the army will run short. This would be an outcome incredible and^ intolerable to the American people. "Only graduate nurses, who have been through the full course of train- j jj ing are available for this high ser vice. These nurses have to be taken out of the hospitals and from care of the sick at home. This means that when we recruit our full quota for the army, their places in the civil communities must be lilied. Hence this call for student nurses to fill the vacancies, prepare for professional service, and meanwhile to make it possible for our hospitals, both civil and military, to carry on and for the American people to hold the health standards of the country as high as they have ever been held in times of peace. "If I were a young woman and wanted to do my country the great est service in my power, I should go at once to the nearest recruiting sta tion of the womans committee of the Council of National Defense and en roll in the United States student nurse reserve. This enrollment would at once make me a candidate for the army nursing school or for one of the civilian training schools for nurs es. I can not conceive of a more val uable service, a more womanly serv ice. I can give every girl who enrolls in the reserve my personal assurance that she is making herself count, and I should be ashamed of any woman who did not long with all her heart and soul to make herself count in the defeat of Germany." FOR SALE. One power cane mill. Has been run one year and is as good as new, and a nine-foot copper pan. I also have one two horse power gas engine in first class condition, suitable for running cane mill or sawing wood. Will sell both together or separate. You can see them both together at my shop. E. W. Samuel. SER VICE FLA GS Are officially recognized as denoting that a member of a household is in the country's service. Those who have been trying to secure a Service Flag we will be glad to show them our line of One, Two and Three Star Service Flags from 35 cents up to $1.75. Recently received a shipment of Trench Mirrows, but they have all been disposed of. Another shipment is now on the way via express, and will be here in a few days. In stock now for the soldiers Comfort Bags, Trench Combs, Scissors, Bath Rags, Needles, Thread, Straight Pins, Safety Pins and Cotton Tape. A small assortment of Service Pins received. THE CORNER STORE The store that always says, Thank You ANTED FOR War Purposes We bought a few mules in Edgefield on July 25, but we want more of them. Sell us what you can't use this winter and save food. We will be in" Saturday, August IO At Jones' Stables Wanted mules from 4 to 12 years old, weighing 900 to 1200 pounds, not under 60 inches high. Come and bring your mules and get the CASH for them I The Fr et well Mule Company WALL & WISE, Buyers