University of South Carolina Libraries
MIR SAVED FOOD FED THE ALLIES Food Administrator Writes Presi dent America Conserved 141, 000,000 Bushels Wheat. CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN. Meat and Fat Shipments Increased by 844,600,000 Pounds. Conservation measures applied by tho American people enabled the Unit ed States to ship to the Allied peoples and to our own forces overseas 141, 000,000 bushels of wheat and 844,000, 000 pounds of meat during the past year, valued In all at $1,400,000,000. This was accomplished In tho fa co of a serious food shortage In this country, bespeaking the wholeheartedness and patriotism with which the American people havo met the food crisis abroad. Food Administrator Hoover, In a let ter to President Wilson, explains how the situation was met. The voluntary conservation program fostered by the Food Administration enabled the piling tip of tlio millions of bushels of wheat during 1017-18 and the shipment of moat during 1017-18. The total value of nil food ship ments to Allied destinations amounted to $1,400,000,000, all this food being bought through or In collaboration with the Food Administration. These figures are all based on official reports and represent food exports for the harvest year that closed June 30, 1018. The shipments of meats and fata (Including meat products, dalry prod ucts, vegetoblo oils, etc.,) to Allied des tImitions were as follows: Fiscal year 1010-17... .2,100,500.000 lbs. Fiscal year 1017-18.. ..'3.011,100,000 lbs. Increase . 814,000,000 lbs. Our slaughterable animals at tho be ginning of the last fiscal year were not appreciably larger than thc year be fore and particularly In hogs; they were probably less. The Increase In shipments ls duo to conservation and the extra weight of animals added by our farmers. The full effect of these efforts began to boar their best results In the last huff ot the fiscal year, when the ex ports to the Allies were 2,133,100,000 pounds, as against 1,200,(100,000 pounds in the same period of the year before. This compares with an average of 801,000,000 pounds of total exports for tho same half years In the three-year pre-war period. In cereals and cereal products re duced to terms of cereal bushels our shipments to Allied destinations have been : Fiscal year 1010-17..259,000,000 bushels Fiscal year 1017-18. .340,800,000 bushels Increase . 80,000,000 bushels Of these cereals our shipments of the prime breadstuff s In the fiscal year 1917-18 to APicd destinations were: Wheat 181,000,000 bushels and of rye 13,000,000 bushels, a total of 144,900, 000 bushels. The exports to Allied destinations during the fiscal year 1910-17 were: Wheat 135,100.000 bushels and rye 2,300,000 bushels, a total of 137,400,000 bushels. In addition some 10,000,000 bushels of 1017 wheat are now In port for Allied destinations or en route thereto. Tho total shipments to Allied countries from our last harvest of w4?cnt will be therefore, about 141,000, 00? bushels, or a total of 154,900,000 bushels of prime hreadstuffs. In ad dition to this we have shipped som? 10,000,000 bushels to neutrals depend ent upon us, and we have received -some Imports from other quurters. "This accomplishment of our people toa this matter stands out even more clearly If we bear in mind that we had available in the fiscal year 1016-1T trem net carry-over and as surplus over our normal consumption about 2eQi000,000 bushels of wheat wbtch we were able to export that year without trenching on our home loaf," Mr. Hoover said. "This last year, however, owing to tho largo failure of the 1917 wheat crop, wo had available from net carry-over and production and imports only Just about our normal consump tion. Therefore our wheat shipments to Allied destinations represent ap proximately savings from our own wheat bread. "These figures, however, do not fully convey tho volumo of the effort and sacrifice made during the past year by the whole American people. De spite the magnificent effort of our agri cultural population lu planting a much Increased acreage In 1917, not only was there a very large failure In wheat, but also the corn failed to mature prop erly, and our corn ls our dominant crop. "1 nm sure," Mr. Hoover wrote in concluding his report, "that all tho millions of our people, agricultural as well ns urban, who have contributed to these results should feel n very definite satisfaction that In a year of universal food shortages In tho north, em hemisphere all of those people joined together against Germany have come through Into sight of the coming harvest not only with wea I flt and strength fully maintained, but with ?raty temporary periods of hardship. "It ls difficult to distinguish between various sections of our people-tho homes, public eating places, food trades, urban or agricultural popula tions-In assessing credit for theso re sults, but no one will deny the domi nant part of the American women," Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic .enteres vitality end energy by purifying and en riching the blood. You cen soon feel its Strength ening, Invigorating Effect. Price 00c. BIG BUSINESS MAN GRATEFUL FOR AID "Tanlac is Xo Ordinary Medicine," Saya Factory I'resldeitt. FOUND MERIT IN IT. Says Tun Inc is First Medicine timi Ile Ever Endorsed, Hut "Tnv.? lac Merited It." "Tunluc hus done so much tor me timi I feel obliged to endorse and roconunend this wonderful medi cine," said D', li. Smith, presiden! of ?. B. Smith & Company, ol I'tica, N. Y., manufacturers of Hie fatuous Smith's Lightning Sprayers. Mr. Smith is just one of the thousand: of prominent men h wo have publicly endorsed Taulac because- they be-' lieved it was the right thing to do. . "Tanlac is no ordinary medicine. ! but a real builder for weak, run- ; down people," said Mr. Smith. It ; seems to assist the whole body. My stomach was weak for years, and 1 tried most everything, but nothing , touched the spot until I learned of 1 Tanlac and what it was doing. "Even after tho first bottle I ' could seo a vast improvement. Af- I ter 1 had eaten, gas would form on i my stomach and caused pain that oven kept me awake at nights. I used to get up as tired and worn out as when I went to bed. My ap petite became poor, and this landed inc in a general run-down condi tion. "Tanlac lias made a different man of mo. It lias put n\e right back on the map. "Tanlac is, ol' course, the first medicine I have ever endorsed, but, as I said, Tanlac deserves it." Tanlac, the master medicine, is sold exclusively by Bell's Drug Store. Walhalla; .1. C. Cain. Oak way; Sa lem Drug Co., Salem; Seneca Phar macy, Seneca: Stonecy plier Dru? Co., Westminster; Hughs & Dendy. Richland.-Adv. Win. Duke "Feels Lucky." On Active Service with the Ameri can Expeditionary Forces, Sept. 1st, 1'tlS. - (Med. Det. II. B.. 1st Anim. Train. ) My Dearest Mother: 1 will write you a few lines to night in answer to your letter of July 19th. Useless indeed for nie to say that I was glad to hear from 'Oil. I am well and in good spirits as usual. I hope this will lind you feeling the same.. 1 was sorry to hear that Laura's baby is dead, but we have all got to die some time; and I have seen the time when 1 thought that I was a "short-timer," but am still living. You can judge for yourself by what'you see in the pupers as to what is going on. and that we are not here for our health. You were right when you said the Americans are better than the Ger mans, for tho Americans are as good as the best-if pot better. '"'And what it takes to win this war we happen to have." Of course, the Germans are good fighters, but they aro not good enough to win this war. About thc surprise: There is nothing to it-only rumors that some "rattler" started. The thing for you to do is to stay in good spirits and worry about nothing. If I come back, all right; If I don't, why, all right; you'll get my luaur ance, and that will be worth more than I ever was. But I feel lucky! I sure did have a hot time on my birthday. I never thought about it, until two or three days later. I'll toll you how I celebrated some day -perhaps. Well, I have written all I know, and some besides, so guess I will close for this time. Lots of love and all good wishes. Your loving son, Wm. G. Duke. (Wm. G. DuKe has been ip Uncle Sam's service over three years. Ho went oversoas a year ago last Aug ust. Ho is a son of Mrs. Warren C. Duko, of Madison.) Children Love Cascareis-10c andy cathartic is harmless to tender stomach, liver ami bowels ll! Your child is bilious, constipated and sick. Its Uttel tongue is coated, breath is bad and stomach sour. Get a 10-cont box of Cascarets and straighten tho youngster right up. Childron lovo tills harmless candy cathartic and lt cloanses tho little ?liver and thirty foot of bowels with out griping! Cascarets contain no calomel and can bo depended upon to move tho sour bile and poison right out of tho bowels. Best fam i ily cathartic because lt never cramps or sickens Uko other things.-Adv. Franc? tnuut Import sugar today, most of lt from this side of tho ocean, because the largest portton of French sugar beet land ls In German bands. Aa a result, the, French people have been placed on a sugar ration of about 18 pounds a year for domestic uso; a pound and a half a month. This photograph chows how the German *I* .!* *l" .!* .!* .I* *!* .!* *I* .!* !1 ??? OlTPOlSOMNG ??. i .J. THF PKIKOXFKS. ^. i ' .J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J* ?J? ?? (Popular Mechanics.) ? During the German assault upon , ^ Armentieres recently, a strange and ghastly phenomenon was witnessed. ? Many ol' the shells which fell lu the I ] town were .seemingly ol' very fragile > construction. They scarcely dented the ground where they hurst. They ( injured very few people with flying , particles. They did not contain cyanogen gas or eli lorine. There was , a slight incenselike odor, but this was attributed to a peculiar and im potent powder thc Huns were sup- ] posed to have been forced into using. There seemed to be no reason for the , shells. Six hours later the ghastly truth , began to make itself known. Sol diers, male citizens, women and chil dren began to collapse by the scot'? Many fell in coin ulsions. Some wet stark, raving mad. The whole com munity was poisoned-poisoned by . some new and terrible agent that ? ? even the German archllends had not ! dreamed ol' using before. I , For nearly? a week the terrible gas j did its work, although the shell at- ! i lacks ceased abruptly on the ll rsl j , day. Four thousand individuals ?lied | , in agony greater than even the fear- , ed chlorine ever had caused. i The agent employed was arsine, known in the laboratory as arseniu reted hydrogen, one of the deadliest of all fumes known to the chemist beside which hydrogen cyanide and ! carbon monoxide may be trifled with in comparative safety. This fume fury can be made quick- , ly, easily and in immense quantities, merely by treating any arsenical oro with hydrochloric acid. Made for . demonstration purposes, where the pure gas is desired, the method is to mix arsenic with zinc shavings, and to pour over the receptacle hydro chloric acid. The chlorine combines with tlie zinc, a little water ls releas ed, and a large quantity of the arsine is formed. The allies will feel a natural re luctance to us? this weapon, just as they felt a natural reluctance to ad opt the Germans' chlorine, sulphur dioxide and "Flammenwerfer" at tacks. These fall outside tho pale of ? civilized warfare, in the same class with well-poisoning. No nation j i Farmers WI Fertilized W with our 10-3-0 goods wheat say it is thc fines have ever used. The prospect for g( is very poor. Three z plow and 400 lbs. of J( you will have wheat to Anderson P Oil Cor W. F, FARMER, S?cr?tai / troops destroyed French sugar mills. 1 Thanks to the French rationing oye. tem the annual consumption has been cut to 000,000 tone, according to re? -, ports reaching the United States Food i Administration. Before the war France had an average sugar crop of about 750,000 tons of sugar and had som? left over for export should adopt such tactics, but this war bas crossed the boundaries of all , civilized precept. The allies' only | chance is to match the "Schrecklich- 1 kcit" of the Hun with still greater j HW fulness. If this can be accom- j [dished with the Germans' own wea- i pons, so much the better. I The arsine bomb is the most dead- j ly weapon the world bas developed. Thrown from an aeroplane, or pro jected from a high-calibre howitzer ] or rifle, the gas spreads slowly upon striking. The gas ls invisible, and so , heavy that no wind short of a hurri cane can dispel it .-uflleiently to make it harmless. It is known as a "creeper"-that is, it follows the I liol lo W8 of the ground, and progresses ? by inches. For this reason its pres- l puce is apt to be unsuspected, und it may take a week to complete its I deadly work. < One whiff--and it dees not have to he a lungful), by any means- -is cer tain death. There is no remedy or ! antidote known to medical or chomi- | cal science. The effects are in some respects much the same as ordinary l Arsenic poisoning-the suffering which ensues upon accidental eating r?f rat poison is an example of this but In addition, the gas attacks the big nerve centers in a totally differ ent manner, causing aberration and convulsion, and death in a half hour or so, after the first symptoms are noticed. The Germans made another vital mistake in revealing this terrible i weapon, the arsine bomb, to the al lies, for these nations most assuredly never would have thought of using i It o'herwlse. The mistake Hes in tho ? fact that while the Germans foisted this ghastly reality upon modern war- < fare, they have not the arsenic to pursue the course they have elected, i They can employ this agent very sel- i [lom, making a hideous threat now I and thou, but not carrying lt into a | campaign such as they have done with tho Flammenwerfer, or liquid Ore, The allies, on the other hand, have : supplies of arsenic ore which are un limited, so far as the possible needs i of this conflict are concerned. They i could manufacture In one year more ' than enough arsine bombs to kill every man, woman and child In the whole of 'Germany and Austria-Hun- i gary. An airplane can carry a sufll- i clent number of glass-bottle bombs, filled with arsine under pressure, to ho Have fheat when they sow the ;t wheat fertilizer they ?tting soda next spring; icres of wheat to the 3-3-0 to the acre and sell. hosphate & npany, fy. make unhabitable a town of five hundred inhabitants. This all lu one trip. This is said advisedly; tho in habitants cannot protoct themselves by masks or other devices as when lighting other fumo enemies such as chlorine and sulphur dioxide, for there is no known substance which will absorb arsine as Hmo absorbs chlorine. With tho "edge" which the coming air lleet of tho United States will give to the allies, tho arsine bombing sf Essen-on-Ruhr, Potsdam, Zee brugge, Wilhelmshaven, and other strongholds of Germany, should be ?in easy matter. [JIHI/N ! DRAW A MOIST CLOTH TH HOUGH ll AIH, DOUBLE ITS BEAUTY Pry This! Ilnli- <?ot?? Thick, Glossy, Wavy nud Kraut Itu! nt Once. Immediate?-Yes! Oortaln? that's tho joy of it. Your hair be comes light, wavy, Huffy, abundant ind appears as soft, lustrous and beautiful as a young girl's utter a Danderine hair cleanse. Just try Lhts-moisten a cloth with a tittle Danderlno and carefully draw it through your hair, taking ono small strand at a timo. Tills will doa iso the hair of dust, dirt or excessive Dil, and in just a few moments you havo doubled the beauty ot your bair. A delightful surprise awaits those whoso hair has boen noglected or is scraggy, faded, dry. brittle or thin. Besides beautifying tho hair, Danderine dissolves every particle of dandruff; cleanses, purities and in vigorates the scalp, forever stopping tching and falling hair, but what will please you most will bo after a "ew weeks' uso, when you soo now tiair-tine and downy at tlrst-yes but really new hair growing all over tho scalp. If you caro for pretty, ?oft hair, and lota o?' lt, surely get a small bottle of Knowlton's Dander ine from any drug store or toilet counter for a fow cents.-Adv. FORMER WALHALLA GIRL DUOS At Her Homo in California-Was Known to Many Here. The following dispatch contain ing tho announcement of the death of i former Walhalla girl is taken from a California paper: Highland, dal.. Sept. 16.-Mrs. lt. C. Mitchonor passed away yester day afternoon at 'I o'clock al the Redlands Hospital, and relatixes and friends were shocked as the news spread over the community. During the month ol' .Inly she was stricken with appendicitis and was rushed to the hospital, whero sho battled bravely for her lifo. For days lit tle encouragement was given to her family, but gradually the thread of life grew stronger, and after a month's stay she was brought homo, and there was rejoicing in tho lit tle community,whore she was known and loved. She grew stronger each day, and was happy in being around her home and each day visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. 'E. Garner, of East Pacific avenue. Yesterday morning ?ho was taken to tho hospital again, and shortly after noon a baby son was born, who never opened his ayes upon the world. Her dear ones were summoned In the early after noon, but she slipped over tho brink are they reached her bedside,, and the devoted wife and mother was gathered to tho Great Physician. Rossie Matilda Garner was born in Walhalla, S. C., Soptember 4, 1882. [1er parents, Mr. and Mrs, R. E. Gun nor, moved to Texas when she was between eight and nlno years old, and there she grew up and was edu cated. She was married in Sherman, Texas, March 29, 1908, to floss C. Mitchonor. Sho and her husband made a trip to California after her parents moved here, nearly ten yoars ago, and soon after returning to tho Lone Star State tho lure of Califor nia culled them back, and for about eight years they havo mado their home here. Acquaintances soon ripened into friends, and the sorrow of her fam ily will be shared by many. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchonor early affiliated them selves with the local Congregational [.burch, and were both mombors of the splendid E. V. Q. class of that Sunday school. Sho possessed a beautiful Christian character, and a disposition of raro sweetness, so that lier early death is like the closing of a flower, which will bloom here after. She was the youngest Child of Mr. and Mrs. Garner, who aro tho parents of eight sons, six of whom are living. Besides her hus band and parents she leaves four children, namely, Thomas Richard, Emma Louise, John Ross and Mar garet Eloise. (The deceased was well known In Walhalla, where she lived with hor parents. Sho was a close relative of !vTrs. J. J. Thodc, and there aro hosts of friends of the family in this soctlon who will rogrot exceed ingly to learn of hor death.) Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT feils to cure Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. Instantly relieve? Itching Plies, and you cnn get restful sleep after the fl m application, Price 60c, Dig up tho coln and bury the Hun. Eye Sufferers Who Need Glasses! Railroad fare paid one way to our Oconcc County Patients Who Purchase Glasses. Eyes examined by specialists and glasses made while you watt-. Kodak Films Devolopod by Experts. Odom-Schade Optical Co., A. A. Odom, A. H. Schade, President. Sec'y fi Treas. Consulting Optometrists? Masonic Temple, Greenville, S. C. BLUE RITH9K RAILWAY. Between Relton and Walhalla. Tims Table No. 24-Effective April 21, 1018. STATIONS BAST-BOUND Lv Walhalla '. West Union " Seneca. " Jordania. " AdnniH' Crossing " Chorry'e Crusa'g, " rondloton. " A Ut Ul) . " Sundy Springs... " Donvor. " West Anderson.. " Anderson, P. Dop '. Anderson, K.Dep " Krskino'H Hiding Ar linton.. No. of Train. A.IM 7 20 7 25 7 16 7 48 .8 06 8 08 8 20 8 28 8 31 8 30 8 6I ,0 ('0 .9 01 !) 18 ,0 30 12 3 27 3 47 3 00 4 07 4 10 4 22 4 30 4 33 4 .'(8 4 63 6 02 6 03 6 20 D32 10 11 26 12 C8 12 08 12 26 IS SS 12 42 12 60 12 63 12 60 1 14 1 20 STATIONS ll 5 cl fi ? s 24 _ L il 006 7 30 7 3;? 7 60 763 8 06 8 13 8 16 8 22 837 8 43 30 ?30 591 ?68 6 02 6 IS 6 30 o ai 6 42 T02 720 7 21 T 40 7 66 8 "ll SM WKST-llOUND Lv Pelton . " Hrskine'H Siding " Anderson, K.Dep " Anderson,l'.Dop. " Wost Anderson . M Donvor,. '. Snndy Spring?. . " Auton.. " Pendleton. ...... " Cherry's Cross'g " Adams' Grossing " Jordania. " Seneca . West Union..... Ar Walhalla. No. of Train . P.M. 6 60 .0 02 (i 10 U 20 0 27 641 . 6 4(1 ti 49 0 i>7 7 08 .7 ll 7 27 7 30 .7 50 8 00 ll A.M. ll 35 11 41 12 01 12 or? 12 12 12 20 12 31 12 31 12 42 12 63 12 60 1 12 1 16 1 :?6 l 40 0 A.M. P.M. A.M. . 8 26 . 837 6 66 0 BO ?88 ?68 10 rc 10 10 10 10 38 10 42 11 06 11 BS IS 23 12 33 7 0 05 0 ll 0 20 0 32 8 36 0 43 0 61 ? 67 10 ll 10 36 11 00 11 10 20 2 35 2 41 2 66 3 02 3 05 3 13 3 24 3 27 3 44 4 26 4 50 6 oo 26 Train No. 6. Mixed Pally oxcent Sunday, (not scheduled above) leave? walhalla nt 1.25 p. m.; West Union nt 1.36 and arrives Seneca nt 2 p. m. Train lien over at Seneca until following day and run? from Seneca to Ucl 1 on as No. 8. Kl ai: Stations: Anderson Krolght Dopot, WcKt Anderson, Donvor, Sandy SpringH, Auton, Cher ry's Crossing, Adams' Crossing, Jordania. HI cam trains will Stop Ol) Hag at Welch, Tox nway, Phlnney's, James. J. R. ANDICUSON, Supt. EXECUTOR'S SALE OP PERSONAL PROPERTY AND REA li ESTATE. Pursuant to agreement of all of tho heirs of tho lalo J. T. Timms, de ceased, I will offer for salo, for Cash, to the highest bidder, at 10 o'clock a. m., at tho formor residence of tho deceased, in Seneca Township, Oco nee County, S. C., on MONDAY, NO VEMBER 4th, 1918, the Personal Property belonging to tho OH ta to of Hie *?ald J. T. Timms, deceased, con sisting or - Corn, fodler, ono horse, ono bug gy, ono wagen, ono cow, two year lings, etc. Also, the Real Estate belonging to tho said oBtato, m foi low?, te wit: Tract No. 1, Containing 59 acres. Tract No. Containing 47 aerea. Tract No. :i, Containing 64% acres Tract No. 4. Containing 46% acres EMMA SUM'MERELL, Executrix of the Estate of J. T. Timms, deceased. Sept. 26, 1918. _39-44 NOTIOE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. All persons indebted to the Estate of M ins Harriet L. Darby, deceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all per sons having claims against said estate will present the same, duly attested, within the time prescribed by law, or be barred. A. D. PORCHER, Administrator Estate of Miss Harriet L. Darby, Deceased, 6 Manson Bldg., Columbia, S. C. Oct. 9, 1918_41-44 NOTICE OP FINAL SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE. IN ot leo lu heroby given that the un dersigned will make application to V. P, Martin, Judge of Probate for Oconee County, in tho State of South Carolina, at his office at Walhalla Court House, on MONDAY, tho 11th day of November, 1918, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon ? thereafter as said application can be hoard, for leave to mako final settlement of the estate of Mrs. VI lona Rogers, deceasod, and obtain final discharge as Administrator of said estate. I<\ 10. O'SHIELDS, Administrator of the Estate of Mrs. Vilona Rogers, Deceased. Oca. 9, 1918._41 yl4 NOTICE OP A SUB-DIVISION SALE. {?,000 A OR ES on tho top of Stump house Mountain, known as tho Norris Farm, has rocenaly boon sold to a syndicate. The new purchasers de sire to sub-divide and sell this pro perly in small farms; Parties de siring any of this land are requested to call on mo for location and prices. R. lt. MOSS, Agent, 41-tf Walhalla, S. C.