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industria! Woman's Service Club Brings Home to Girls in New Factory Ccmmuniiy. BLUE TRIANGLE MEANS CHEER Club Stands for Hot Lunches, Clean Towels, Comfortable Cots, Parties, Games and Recreation to Girl Workers. Katherine Holland Brown. ((jL irY name ls May Isabel Carna 1.VX 'ian* 1 ?"" e'snteen v,''"'s old. and I work in a big fac tory in Michigan. More than four hundred other girls work there too. I don't aim to tell you about our jobs. You can read about our work in the labor department reports. But I do aim to tell you about our Dig Sister ami of the things she has done for us. "To begin with, our factory town isn't a town at al!. It's a huge barn of buildings stuck down in the country' nineteen miles from nowhere. There is a railroad siding, a station the size Of a dry fronds box. seven farmhouses and one general store and postoffice combined-it's pretty near as bl/ as a hot tamale stand. And that's all. No * Main street, no banks nor stores, no Ice-cream parlors, not one solitary movie show, in nil those nineteen miles. Lonesome? It's the raised edge of desolation, that's what it is. "I was ono of the first carload of forty girls that was shipped up from Chicago. The factory was swarming with workmen putting In tho machin ery, and we girls couldn't begin work for a day or so, so we began hunting places to eat and sleep. That was a trille that the employment folks hadn't thought of. The workmen were sleep ing and eatinp in thf curs that had brought them there, hacked on the Siding. Our only chance for beds and food was with those seven farmhouses, so we marched straight to Hie farmers' wives and asked for board and room. Farmers' Wives Hospitable. "* "I will say thai thoseworaen were kind and hospitable. They fixed it tip be tween them to feed us forty girls, and they pave us pood food too. But for rooms, that was the question. They could each spare one room. That meant sleep five or six In a room. But right then along came the boss of thc factory and told us the machinery wai ready and he'd expect us pirls to wort double shifts, night and day. '.Ile wanted to make use of overj minute, you see. But that pave us oin chance as to sleeping. We fixed ?t ur witii the farm folks that we'd wort double shifts and sleep double shiftt too. w "So we planned it. Three pirli would use a room from eipbt at niphi till six the next morning. Then they'c bustle over to the factory, and tin three pirls who'd {.cen working al' night would take thc room and sleej till afternoon. It wasn't any luxurl Otis slumber, believe me. The fa rn women laid so few sheets and pillow cases that most of tis went without And towels were scarce ns diamond! on blackberry bushes. As io soap well, the general store kept yellow bai pon??, that kind that is so fuli of rosir you could usc lt to calk a ship. Bu' we made out till the next three car loads of pirN came rolling in. The* we went 'most distracted. Those pool girls had to sleep in tenis and in th? cars thai the workmen had abandoned by this time, and they were lucky il they got a straw tick and a blanket By ibis time it had 'turned raw cold and maybe you know what late au tumn nights in Michigan feel like. Tr cap the climax the farm folks cut down on food, and for a week it was potatoes and beans and mighty few beans at that. Along Came a Miracle. "But. right when we were abott' ready to (put our jobs and beat it foi home, along came a miracle. Tw?: quiet, businesslike women climbed down from the eastbound train otii morning. With them came eight work, men, a carload of scantling and tai paper, another carload (d' cols ami blankets and pillows and sheets and towels -brand new blankets and beds -think of the glory of that!-am! bushels of dishes and rolls of oilcloth and enough burlap to carpet the coun try. You won't believe me when I tell you that in ten days their workmen hail a scantling-nnd-tar-paper shack put up and burlap tacked over the walls, and the Y. W. C. A. secretarj and her helper bad set up board table? ami coffee kettles and were serving us the grandest hot lunches every day. And back behind the burlap screens were set those rows of clean cots, with enouph cover to keep you warm thc coldest night that ever blew, and a towel apiece for every single girl. Dc you wonder that we all felt, as on? girl put it. Til wager the Fritz-Carle ton has nothinp on this!' "Who were tl ise women? Why. Y. W. C. A. secretaries, of course. I'd think you'd know that without beinp told. All over the country wherevei we girls have pitched in to make aero plane cloth or overalls or munitions 01 canned goods yon'M find a Y. W. C. A secretary working harder than any body else to make the girls comfort able and to keep them happy and well Sometimes they haven't money enougl to pet till that we really need. But al ways they stretch every cent to mak? lt do Iis level best for us. Do you won der that we girl workers have lenrnei to call the Y. W. C. A. our Big Sistei - the very best Big Sister ol' all? Mastering E. FRENCH FACTORY GIRLST? CONDUCTED BY THE Y.W.C.A FOYERS IN FRANCE. Four departments of Hie French1 Government have asked the American Y. W. C. A*, to open social and recrea tion centers for girls employed by them-Finance, Commerce, War und Lahor. Lieutenant Poncet of the Ministry of Lahor recently requested that this X. W. C. A. work he begun for girls in his offices alter seeing the social and recreation centers which had ln?en opened at the request of the Ministry of War. Sixteen centers of this kind are operated in six cities in France. Three of them are in Paris. Tlie last of these Foyers des Alli?es is for girls who ase working in the De partment of Lahor. It is far down the tocino, .under the shadow of tho Eiffel Tower, and overlooks th" QlUti d'Orsay. The rooms are bright and cheerful, with chintz hangings and cushions, comfortable chairs, reading and writ ing tables and a fireplace. A kitchen has equipment so that girls can pre pare meals for themselves. They gc to the foyer for their two hour lunch* eon time, for social evenings ami for classes in English. 400,000 YANKS ARE Y. W. C. A. VISITORS 1 Four hundred thousand persons and more served in tho cafeteria in on? year is tho record of tho Y. W. C. A. Hostess House at Camp Lewis, Amer ican Lake. Wash. The majority nf the -100.000 diners were mothers, wives, sweethearts ami friends win? wenr to the camp to visit , their soldiers. Tbi' remainder wore soldiers themselves who broke the mo notony of "chow" with home cooked meals. In addition to all these guests. 2.3,000 little children wore eared for in the nursery and the rest room serve?! 70,000 tired wives and mothers. Tho workers at tho information ! desk received and answered 07.00C questions varying from how lo get the hes! connections to n destination clear across the continent, the rates of soi diers' insurance ami the kimi of ere , tonne a girl brido should have in hoi living room now that Private John is i coming homo from Franco. Eleven , thousand of thes? ?pieries required rel jcphone conversations with various ! company commanders relativ?; to hunt i lng up a soldier whose parents had ar ' rived unexpectedly. Y. W. C. A. CAFETERIA IN PORTO RICC Porto Rien lias a cafeteria. Il is tin .first one established on tho island, and' when it was opened in Tho Y. W. C. A. i Hostess House at "ump Las ?'asas the I natives crowded around, much amused, at tlie innovai ion. They insisted upon; having American dishes. Tlie house became very well known in a short lime, and a group of women from San Juan volunteered to go out every week to mend socks ami sew on butions for the soldiers. I RUSSIAN PRINCESSES LEARN TO TRIM HATS Y. W. C. A. Saves Wife of General From Becoming Charwoman. Whey the war work of Hie Y. W. C. I A. in Russia luis all been told one of, the most interesting stories will lie in J the establishment ol' die first Women': I Co-operative Association at Moscow. Then? day after day princesses work side by side with peasant girls, wives of high Russian ofiicials make dresses or trim liais nt long tables with simple, unlettered women, and the money is used for self support of these prin cesses and notable women as well as for the peasant classer. The need and suffering throughout all Russia was so groat at thc time the Association was established that It was a problem to find where the money would help tlie greatest num ber of people. It was thought best to expend it to help capitalize organiza tions for giving work and permanent opportunities to families and individu als to earn their own living. The women bring their handiwork to the Association for sale or take or ders to do dressmaking, millinery, etc., In the rooms of tho society or at homo. Suitable work was fourni just in time not long ago to koop tho wife of one of Russia's greatest: generals from going out as a charwoman to earn bread for her husband, who was 1U. m ARNING ENGLISH ?N A CLASS * * * MESSAGE TO Y. V/. C. A. FROM ? * FRANCE. * * - * * I must oxpres> to you tho k .k very grout satisfaction and most * .*? sincere gratitude of the French * Government for tho service ren- * * dered to the women working in * * Government factories through * * the establish nient of Y. W. C. A. * * Foyers des Alli?es (clubrooms -k .k for raunitioncttes). * .k These foyers have been an ex- * * cellent means for bettering the * .k physical conditions and the mo- * * rule of our workers. They have -k ?k been constantly used by the wo- * * men workers, who have found * TV there new elements of dignity ?* * and social education. * * I must thank you for bringing iV * this lo pass, and I hope that * * Y. W. C. A. work will not disap- * -k pear with the war, birt will be ? ?*. carried on in order to develop -k k the principies of social solidar- * * ?ty which it has inspired. * * (Signed) M. LOUCHER, * ?k Minister of Arms and Muni- -k k lions Manufacture. * * * ****************** NURSES PRODUCE WILD WEST PICTURE SHOW Entertain Roumanian Countess at American Show in France. Picture shows are being put on In France without cameras, scenery or any of Ibo necessary propert3<?*"j*afe> cording to reports reaching the Na tional Y. W. C. A. from a Y. W. C. A. nurses' hut In a Base Hospital. Having no film or camera, the nurses at Base decided lo put on a living picture show and invited a group of nurses from a nearby hos pital to be the audience, lr was a real thriller, one of the wild and wool? ly west variety, with bucking bron choes and wild rides on broom and mop horses. Imagination supplied the scenery, with the exception of placards, which announced "thc sun'' when it was sup posed to lie shining or "cacti" when the cow punchers rode across the desert. Countess Yararosra of Roumatiia, who had been talking to the nurses on conditions in tho German courts at tlie time she was lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Roumnnin, was the most ap preciative of all the guests. INSIGNIA, CURTAINS, MADE FROM SKIRTS Blue broadcloth skirts used for op? gaulzation insignia and plaid summer dresses reconstructed into window cur* tains are after war economies of the nine Y. YV. C. A. secretaries in Arch angel, Russia. These secretaries have just succeed ed, in the face of food and cloth short ages. In opening a V. YV. G. A. Hostess House for American tmops stationed in Archangel, a town behind the allied lines. It was necessary to hunt nj? a voile summer dress which one of the secretaries hail discarded for heavy winier clothes in order to have cur tains nt the windows. They live on regulation army rations. Archangel is the fourth city in Rus sia where tin; Y. W. G. A. has estab lished work. Gemers were opened first in Petrograd and Moscow and then in Samara, 900 miles eastward from Moscow. Miss Elizabeth Boies, head of Rus sian work and one of the few Ameri cans who remained in that country throughout the revolution, is rr rout? to America hy way of England to re cruit workers for Russia. A second Y. W. C. A. Hostess House, for wives and children of soldiers, is soon to be opened at Cast nor, Cahu, Hawaiian Islands, to care for the over flow of women and children from the first house, which opened some months ago In answer to a rall from the coni j mandlng officer of the ramp. During If) days in November li.152 visitors were entertained at the house, including women and children, of the following rationalities; Philipplno, Ha waiian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian Porto Rican, Korean, Jupanese and American, , j Fertilizer with Personality Roysiers Fertilizers are the life-work of one man; F. So ROYSTER. Their excellence is the result of 33 years of continuous effort to perfect a plant food es pecially for Southern crops and Southern Soils. Is the knowledge and experience of a life time worth anything to you? Then ask for ORDER EARLY AND AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT . t F. S. ROYSTER GUANO CO. Norfolk, Va., Baltimore, Md., Toledo, 0., Tarboro, N. C. Charlotte, N. C., Columbia, S. C., Spartanburg, S. C. Atlanta, Ga., Macon, Ga., Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. AUDITOR'S NOTICE. All persons owning; property of any kind whatsoever, or in any ca pacity, as husband, guardian, execu tor, administrator or trustees are re quired to make returns of the same to the Auditor under oath within the j time mentioned below and the Audi tor is required by law to add a pen alty of 50 per cent to all property that is not returned on or before the i 20th day of February in any year. All male citizens between the ages ,of 21 and GO years except those ex empt by law are deemed taxable polls The 50 per cent penalty will be added for failure to make returns. For thc convenience of tax payers, I or my representative will be at the j following appointed places on the I dates mentioned to receive tax re j turns. Ropers-Wednesday, January 15, ,1919. Meriwether-(At Joe Thurmond's ?Store) Thursday, January 16th. Collier- Friday, January 17th. Hod Hill-Saturday, January 18th. W. R. E. Winn's Store-Monday, January 20th. Cleora-Tuesday, January 21st. Pleasant Lane-Wednesday, Jan uary 22nd. Meeting Street-Thursday, Jan uary 23rd. ,. Johnston-Friday, January 24th. Herrin's Store-Saturday, January 25th. Trenton-Monday, January 27th. The oilice will he open to receive returns from the first day of January till the 20th day of Feb. 19 i9, as pre scribed by law. ? J. R. TIM M ERM AN, Auditor, E. C. S. C. Dec. 17-1918. FURS WANTED. i I am in the market for Hides and Furs snell as mink, muskrat, Coon and foxes. Highest prices paid. LOUIS TUCKER. Edffcheld, S. C. Viii Surely Si OD Ttk?i Couch Citation. State of South Carolina, / County of Ddgetield. \ By W. T. Kinnaird, Enquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, Thoa. Jefferson Briggs made suit to me, to grant bim Let ters of Administration of the estate of and effects of William Traylor Briggs. These are Therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said Wil liam Traylor Briggs, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Edgefield C. H., S. C., at my office on 18th of January next after pub lication thereof, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 1st day of January, Anno Domini 1919. W. T. KINNAIRD, Probate Judge, E. C., S. C. / Published on the 1st, 8th and loth days or January, 1919. in The Edgefield Advertiser. GIN NOTICE I will continue to operate my ginnery Wednesday Thursday and Friday of each, week throughout J AN UAH Y. J. G. Alford Abbeville-Greenwood Mu tual Insurance Asso ciation. ORGANIZED 1892. Property Insured $2,500,000. WRITE OR CALL on the under signed for any information you may desi'e about our plan of insurance. We insure your property against destruction by FIRE, WINDSTORM or LIGHT NING and do so cheaper than any Com pany in existence. Remember, we are prepared to prove to you that ours is the safest and cheapest plan of insurance known. Our Association is now licensed to write Insurance in the counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCor mick, Laurens and Edgefield. The officers are: Gen. J. Frase? Lyon, Presiden, Columbia, S. C. J. R. Blake, Gen. Agt., Secy, it Trea.s, Greenwood, S. C. DIRECTORS. A. 0. Grant, Mt. Carmel, S. C. J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C. Jno. H. Childs, Bradley, S. C. A. W. Youngblood, Hodges, s/c. S. P. Morrah, Willington.S. C. L. N. Chamberlain, McCormick S. C. R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C. F. L. Timmerman, Pln't Lane, S. C. J. C. Martin, Princeton, S. C. W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. C. J. R. BLAKE, GEN. AGT. Greenwood, S. C. BRICK FOR SALE. We will soon begin the tearing away of thc oil mill buildings and will offer second hand brick for sale at $5.00 per thousand. Now is your opportunity to buy good brick at almost half prices. ADDISON MILL. T. A. H IG H TOWER. Supt.