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KI? "TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, ANO IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THB HAY: THOU OANST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, .WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1010. Buy Th? Help Win TOR SALE E MULES One Car of Fine Younj "Young Mules; 80 head our barn. Come in and C. W. & J. E. WALHA] IT PAY8 TO B Absolutely I Cash in Advance i for Subscriptions* ?fi ?fi ?fi We cannot extend credit on subscriptions? Please bear this in mind. The U. S. Government, for reasons of its own and for the best interest of all-forbids it. ?fi ?fi ?fi On. January J st, 1919, all subscriptions not paid in advance will be dis continued by us in con formity, with the Govern ment's new ruling. Watch your label. If it reads like this X DEC. 18 you will know that your paper, will stop coming to you on January I, \9\9f unless you renew. ?fi ?fi ?fi We hope that not one of our subscribers will permit his name to be drop ped from our list. Our "family" now consists of upwards of 2,500 members -but we want every one of them to stay in "the home circle/' ?fi ?fi ?fi It's up to the sub scriber. You can stay in the circle by paying in advance. We can't keep you in "our family" by ex tending credit. Uncle Sam says so, and what your Uncle Sam says goes. ?fi ?fi ?fi Make Checks or Money Orders Payable to The Keo wee Courier. "Do It Now." 1 year . . . $J.OO 6 mos .... .55 3 mos.30 j ' Absolutely * Cash in Advance for Subscriptions* Buy Bonds! Buy Liberty Bonds! And then buy some more Bonds! Bonds build ships. Buy Liberty Bonds. Buy Bonds till you feel lt hurt! s?s* > ? 0TATM umang | ' &m And The War VJERYWHERB_ ?_ MARES g Mares and One Car of of Mules and Horses in sec them. BAUKNIGHT, LL.A, S. C UY FOR CASH. APPEAL, TO SUNDAY SCHOOLS j v _______ 1 Of Oconeo County to Get Into Fight i Against Illiteracy. Fellow-Workers: Read this appeal to your Sunday school. Find out how many illiterates in your reach-d and who they ai*e. Organize a toach ing-to-read class In your Sunday school. Call for volunteers to go to the homes of these people, or Invite them to the homes of the teachers, and help them open their eyes. You can find the volunteers. Remember our key word: " Tho j Kingdom"; our motto, "Thy King- ! dom Come." Remember the four things stressed at Buffalo: 1st, pa triotism; 2d, education; 3d, Chris tian unity; 4th, Christian progress. Frateranlly, Wm. S. Morrison, Pros. O. C. S. S. A. Clemson College, Sept., 1018. The Appeal. The world's arch enemies to-day aro militarism, lack of self-control, and ignorance. The flrBt two thrive chiefly by the support of the last. Il literacy is the heaviest burden the people of South Carolina have to carry. Every man and woman in the State ls concerned, and every one can do something to help in this cam paign against illiteracy. Are you a county superintendent of education? If so, you can organ ize a literary survey in your county, help the commission organize your county for work and assist the com mission in raising funds. Above all, get busy establishing adult schools in your county for work and assist the commission in raising funds. Above all, got busy establishing adfllt schools n your county. A>e yc<u a school trustee? If so, agitate the establishment of adult schools in your district. Help the teachers organizo them, persuade the illiterates to attend them, and provide the equipment to make the enterprise succeed. Aro you a teacher? If so, you have no excuse for not giving your support to some plan to reduce tho il literacy in your district. Try to or ganize a night school In your district. At loast you can persuade one grown person to let you teach him to road and write. Aro you a student in college or in high school? Could you not find tho timo to teach at least one grown person to rend? In so doing you would l)e giving your State real ser vice. Aro you a form demonstrator or a home club demonstrator? In every address at, every gathering remind your hearers that we musa hlot out illiteracy. No matter what your sub ject, this topic is pertinent. Are you a Sunday school superin tendent or teacher? See to it that at lenut one class in your school is taught to read the Bible. ] Persuado at leaBt one grown person to attend this class. The Bible cannot mean what lt should to the man unable to read lt. Are you a minister of tho Gospel? Lay it upon the conscience df your people to perform this net of Chris lion duty and mercy. Get some of ! your members to do the teaching. ! Gently and tactfully persuade tho il literates to take the teaching. If you really believe that "the truth shall make them free," you will not hesitate. Are you a legislator? If so, dem onstrate your vision, your faith 4n your fellow-men, and your patriot ism, by causing the State to make adequate provision for the teaching of all the people. Are you the'son or the daughter of an illiterate parent? What more beautiful filial duty could you per form than to persuade one who has done so much for yon to lot you put a new light, a new power and a now Joy Into the years that are growing dim and unsatisfying? Are you a speaker in a war cause? Couple the battle-cry against illite racy with the Liberty Loan, tho Y.M. CA., the Red CrosB, the W.S.S., the health campaign, and all tlve rest. The Huns aro to-day putting more reliance in ignorance than in shot and shell. Are yon a club woman? If so, please remember that this commis sion Is largely the child of your own organization. You can give it not only your loyal silent support, but your vigorous public advocacy. Work to put the. people to thinking of the educational situation in the State. Talk discreet^ persuade tactfully, work diligently, and give devotedly Iq this great cause. Are you a patriot of any class? If so, talk for the campaign against il literacy, work for it, and subscribe to the fund. Such campaigns arc neither new nor untried. Mrs.Stew are in Kentucky, Miss Kelly in North Carolina, one or two local workers in South Carolina have demonstrated what can be accomplished. In the State are some men able and willing to give each $100, scoros would give willingly $10 each, and hundreds would give $1 each.'The commission needs the help of all. Patterson Wardlaw, Chairman of Illiteracy Commission. A CHALLENGE. This is a challenge to every wo man! Every eligible nurse should respond ! lt is necessary that our wounded boys have, the best of care and at tention, and there are not enough nurses enrolled to render this care. The estimated total . number of graduate nurses in the United States is 80,000 to/ 100,000. There are from 50,000 to 70,00.0 graduate nurses not enrolled with the Red Cross. Where are they? We must mobilize our entire nursing force If we are going to win! Enroll! Our boys must not be allowed to suffer for lack of skilled care. The Secretary pf War has just Issued a regulation placing members of the Army Nurse Corps above all non-commissioned officers. Mem bers receive, by act of Congress, $60 a month over here and $70 a month in active service "over there," with maintenance and traveling ex penses. To the graduates of the ,hlgh schools and colleges for women just a word: Enroll at once as student nurs?s in hospitals or in the army school of training. The nursing service must hold three great lines. The first line is the care of the wounded; the sec ond line ls tho care of our soldiers in training in cantonment hospitnls in this country; the third line ls the maintenance of health and recon strucaion of the soldiers when they return. If tho loijt 5 O', 000 nurses are found we can bold these lines. En roll now! Hold the line! The nursing service cannot hold Its linos without your help. Several young ladles of Walhalla will have charge of tho onrolllng-of nurses in this section. This com mittee will he headed hy Miss Julia Maxwell as chairman. Give them your co-operation and assistance, as they have other work to do, and are busy with Rod Cross and other nec essary work. Mrs. J. A. Steck, Chairman, Mu raes' Committee, Walhalla Branch, Oconeo Red Cross Chapter. Card of ThuukH. Editor Keoweo Courier: We wish through your paper to express our sincere thanks to all friends for their many and valued deeds of kindness during the illness and at the death of our wife and mother, Mrs. Ja ff orson, and also for tho kindly sympathy extended to the iged husband f nd father lp the beau tiful floral offerings presented in our lime of sorrow. These evidences of :rue friendship will ever be held in grateful remembrance by her Husband and Daughters. t?r ? ? - ?.. MK. SCllRODKK CIUTICAM?Y UJI?. Physicians Announce tilts Morning Slight Hopo of Recovery. Fred, A. H. Schroder, of Tho Cou rier, is critically ill. Physicians an nounced this morning at 9 o'clock that while thore is still hope of his rallying, there is still very little chance for recovery. Mr. Schroder is suffering from a very serious attack of pneumonia, which became acute at the office last Friday afternoon, and his condition has grown gradually worse hour by hour since, though thore have been brief periods at which lt was hoped and thought that there were signs of Improvement In his condition. Yesterday his two sons, John and Frank, of Clemson CoMege, were summoned to Walhalla and the en tire family ls at home with thc stricken man. There are hosts of friends who will join with us tn the sincere hope that, he may even yet he spared for other and many more years of use ful life. Tho End Near. Just as The Courier goes to press the sad .Intelligence comes to us from Mr. Schroder' homo that tho end ls Mr Schroder's homo that the end is gradually drawing near. Mr. Schro der lies unconscious and the end is momentarily expected, all hope of a rally having boen abandoned. TWO KN MM Y SUBS AUK SUNK. American Sub. chasers Do Good Work nt Durn/.za. Rome, Oct. 4.-American subma rine chasers destroyed two enemy submarines yesterday during the bombardment of Durazno, It was of ficially announced to-day. Tho chief of the general staff of the Italian navy made tho announce ment of the American success. The chasers were engaged In patrol escort service for the protection of the large warships taking part In the bom bardment. jPsart of Great Pinn. Washington, Oct. 4.-Destruction by Entente naval forces of the Aus trian base at Durazzo is believed to be closely linked up with the allied plans for pushing their advance on through Macedonia. Concentration in the Adriatic of naval units sufficiently strong to un dertake such an exploit, navy men say, may mean that a virtual barrage has been formed to push the Aus trian submarine flotillas to the north, relieving Allied transports supplying the Balkan forces of much of the danger they have faced and clearing the Albanian coast so as to permit the establishment there of a new base for the landing of men and ma terial. This would materially reduce the Allied communication lines, which now run far to'the south to Saloniki and Grecian ports. Tho Austrian Account. Vienna, Oct. 4.-The town and harbor of Durazzo, Albania, was bombarded for two hours Wednes day by Allied naval and air forces, bul no material damage was done, according to an official communica tion issued to-day. Attempts to pen etrate the harbor failed, according to tho communication. Da in ful I mid Temperature. llolow is a record of meteorological observations taken by H. W. Brandt, co-oporatlvo observer of the Weather Bureau of the U. S. Department of Agriculture during the woek ending October 6th, 1918, at 7 p. m. (The instrumental readings are from gov ernment standard instruments ex posed In the manner recommended by the chief of the Weather Bureau) * Character of Day. Dale-? _ Sept. 30~-Clear' Oct. 1-Clear . Oct. 2-Clear . Oct. 8-Clear . Oct. 4-Clear . Oct. 5-Clear . Oct. 6-Clear . rt 0 'rt Tempera ture. tc w 75 76 80 it 3 52 li 4 6' 80 51 79l 51 83! 09 89 54 i*! Il 101?TY LOAN MEETINGS. Campaign Meeting Datos Have Ileon I iv.il tor Walhalla DtHtilct. Campaign moetings have been ar ranged for the Walhalla Division as follows, certain school districts hav ing been grouped as hereafter named! Salem Baptist Church-Sunday, Oct. 13, at ll a. m.-(Salem, J ocas see, Fall Branch, Boon's Creek; Fort George and Smolt'/.or. ) Cheohee Baptist Church-Suhday, Oct. 13, at 4 p. m.- (Cheohee, Ta massee, Boar Pen, Llttlo Uiver.) Picket Post School House-Sun day, Oct. 13, at 8 p. ni.- (Picket Post, Oconee Station, Fairfield.) Oconeo Creek School House-Sun day, Oct. 13, ot ll a. m.-Oconee Creek and Flat Sohals.) Ebenezer School House-Sunday, Oct. 13, at 4 i>. m.- (Ebenozor, Koowto and Wost Union. Blue Ridge School House-Sun day, Oct. 13, at 8 ii. m.-(Blue Ridge and West Union.) Double Springs Churchy-Sunday, Oct. 13, at ll a. m.- (Chattooga, Village Crook, Bethlehem, Belmont, Mill Creek.) Long Creek Aciden y - Sunday, Oct. 13, nt 4 p. ra,-(Long Creek, Mountain Grove, Poplar Springs, Rich Mountain, Brasstown.) Holly Sprnlgs School House-Sun day, Oct. 13, at 8 p. ni.-(Holly Springs and Chauga.) Rocky Knoll Baptist Church-Sat urday, Oct. 1, 2?t 8 p. m.-(Neville and Zion.) Speakers will he provided for all these meetings. The time being so short, school districts have been grouped for the sake of convenience, and everybody IB urged to attend. All meetings except one have been fixed for Sunday next. Being for the sale of -Liberty Bonds, automobiles can be used by government permis sion. THESE MEETINGS ARE ALSO EXCEPTED FROM THE ORDERS OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH PROHIBITING PUBLIC GATHERINGS. Local committees named in circu lar of September 20 aro urged to co-operate and Invite attendance of residents of respective districts. These meetings have boen arranged to assist these local committees in their work of canvassing their re spective districts. All members of committees are urged especially to attend. W. M. Brown, County Chairman. Ruth Berry, County Chairman. C. W. Pitchford', District Chairman. Mrs. Arthur Brown, District Chairman. October 7th, 1918. * * ?. # **** * * * * * * * * NO JURY CASK?. ? * _ . * At a meeting of the Walhalla * * Bar Association, held last Mon- * * driy afternoon, it was resolved t * to try no jury cases at the ap- * * preaching Cctober term of the * * Court of Common Pleas. This ? * decision was reached by the * * Association by reason of the fact ? * that the time of tho lawyers has * * been given up so much to war * * work and that the farmers aro * * busy with tho essential work of * * gathering in their crops. Jurors * * will not be summoned for the * * term beginning Monday,October ? * 21st. .ludgo Prince will opon * * Court on that day and sign or- * * dors and boar such equity mat- * * tors as may be ready for trial. * 4* * * * * * * * * * * * + * THE ?TATE I? AIDING Editor Keowee Courier: i The State Board of Health ls sup plying medical relief to thoso com munities in tho Stnto which are In moat need of this aid on account of the present epidemic of influenza. You are requested to publish the following notice in your paper. Respectfully, James A. Hayne, Secy. State Board of Health. Notice to Local Health Hoard. You are requested to telegraph the State Board of Health, Columbia, collect, the following information: 1. Number of old and new cases of influenza. 2. Number of new cases occurring each day. 3. Number of physicians In active ?practico. 4. Number of nurses available. 6. What aid, if any, is needed from the State Board of Health? ? * * + + * *** * * 4 OlipSlNQ EVERYTHING AS A * PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE * Sheriff Jas. M. MOBS Monday * afternoon received tho following ? tologram rotative to taking pre- * cautionary measures against the " spread of Influenza and other * Infectious diseases: . * Columbia, S. C., Oct. 7. 1918. . To the County Shorlff, Walhalla, * S. C.: - Under authority of Paragraph ? 16, Fourteenth soTtth Carpllua * Code, you are directed to close * all schools and all other lnstltu- * tiona of learning; churches, pic- * ture shows, and all other places * bf public gathering In your * county. See that thoro ls no f crowding lu stroot cars and pub- * He conveyances. * James A. Hayno, * State Health Offlcer. * Mrs. T. S. Strtbling Dead. Seneca, Oct. 7.-Special: Mrs. Maude Vornor Stripling foll asleep In Jesus on Monday, September 30, nt 8.30 o'clock, after an illness of about llvo months. The deceased was a daughter of Robert S. and Mary Johns Veruer, and was only 36 years Of age at the time of her death. Nineteon yoar's ago, in tho first bloom of young wo manhood, she was hap: Hy married to T. S. Strlbllng, who, with four children, survives her. Mrs. Strlhling's life was a beauti tlful lesson to her fr'ends In cheer fulness, patience and Christian vir tue. She was so full of laughter and happiness that she scattered sunshine wherever she went. Even up to her last moments she had a smile and a cheery greeting for those about her, but never1 a murmur for the intense suffering that lt was hers to bear. She was descendod from a long line of Revolutionary ancestors and was a charter member of Seneca Chapter D. A. R. She was a devoted and active member of the Presby terian church, and was for a number of years prosldont of the Ladies' Aid Society of that church, and was zeal ous in all good works.. Perhaps the crowning act of her Ufo was tho care and devotion of a motherless babe.. A strange coincident wnB tho death of hor stop-mother on tho same da>v the two interments taking place only a fow hours apart. To her loved ones she loaves a? rich horltage-a beautiful memory;, of n well-spent lifo. A Friend. f Cheeso Prices Regulated. Tho Food Administration has an nounced that, until further notice, retail dealers in cheese must not make a profit in excess of from six to seven cents a pound over delivered cost. The Food Administration has also announced that retail dealers In but ter must not make a profit on this commodity in excess of from five to six cents a pound. The Food Administration has pro mulgated what it considers reason able margins of profit for wholesal ers to make on butter and cheese. E. L. Herndon, Food Administrator for Oconee Co. MA Deaths at Jackson. The Columbia .State of Sunday last announced that there had been 24 deaths at Camp Jackson during Saturday, the cause being Spanish influenza. Five South Carolina boys wero among the victims of this dis ease. Their names are as follows: Rennet Cook, Helena; Wm. Davis, Warrenvillo; Richard J. Micki, Gaff ney; -. - .Huggins, Aynor; Alhort Thompson, Anderson. DEATHS IN HOPEWELL CI/AS1I. Soldiers Called Out Following Riot Between Foreigners and Negroes. Petersburg,' Va., Oct. 4.-On re ports of a riot between negrov>s and foreigners at tho I. E. du Pont de Ne mours plant at llopowoll, Va., a pla toon of soldiers was rushed thore from Camp Lee late to-day. First reports said two persons had boen killed. Soldiers from Camp Lee and a local military company were patrol ing tho Hopewell streets to-night, but firing ir. the negro section was still in progress. More than a thousand shots had been fired, lt was esti mated. The riot was started by a Spaniard named Gomez, steward in a restau rant, who slapped a negro cook, Her husband resented it and a general fight ensued. Oconee Election Commissioners, Governor Manning last Friday ap pointed the following gentlemen to serve as election commissioners for Oconee county:' Commissioners of Federal Elec tions-P. A. Brown, Weat Union; I* C. Spencer, of Seneca, and Oscar Land, of Westminster. Commissioners State and County Elections-W. H. Talley, ot Salem; John Spencer, of Madison, and <L W. Davis, of Fair Play.