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"TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FALLOW AS THE MCHffi By Steck, Shclur HugliM & Shclor. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNj "T^N" ^LJ L IE ^ . Car fresh Young Mules to be unloaded to-day. This is our 6th car ot War Mules since January ?5. All 5 and 6 years old ard good broke; fat and ready for work. C. W. ?? J. E. BAUKN?G HT, MERCHANDISE ^ MULES ?* HORSES WALHALLA, S. C. IT PAYS TO BUY f-*OR CASH. I (Winston-Salem, N. C.) HIGH GRADE f i To the Farmers of Oconee County: Please take notice that I am now ready to supply you GUANO OF ALL GRADES at thc Old Harrison Warehouse, at Blue Ridge Depot. I am in business for myself, not as a member of a firm, as it was last year. Don't forget that this is the Union Goods, Call, phone or write for any information. Walhalla, S. C. 11 um.III ii mi? mim..nm-T ?i mi-rmi r - - MMMMHHMWUm wniv HBimManVI Tl IK VA ia IO OF XITKOt.lOX IX A FKRTililZHIt. Nitrogen not only produces vogel nido growth in cotton, hut it also A(Vl Ml LATHS IX LA KG IO QUA NT IT1 IOS IX T11 IO SI0101). Al Jj of this clement in tho plant and soed hus boon lakou from tho soil. Unless there is ample available nt tropeen furnished in tho soil, it is impossible for the plant to moko a good yield, as seed must, contain nitrogen lo mature. As cotton is a plant with a long glowing period, the nitrogen in the IVrUli/.er should come from such sources as will release it for use during the entire period of its growth. Compounded from Highest Grade Super phesphate. Dried Ground Blood, Soluble Fish, Genuine Slaughter House Tankage, Sulphate of Ammonia. Cotton Seed Meal and Muriate of Potash, carefully balanced for these particular soils and crops, and in perfect mechanical condition. I offer thc planters of Oconee County a linc of Complete Fertilizers that are unexcelled. ALSO y AMMONIATED COMPOUNDS, J 6% ACID PHOS PHATE, \6% BULK ACID PHOSPHATE, NITRATE OF SODA, COTTON SEED MEAL. My stocks arc large, and I will bc glad to serve yoti, PRICES AND TERMS RIGHT. J. C. RAMPLEY, WEST UNION, s, c. Flat Shoals H. I. A. Meeting. Tho Flat Shoals School Improve ment Association will hold its regu lar monthly mooting' nt tho school house noxt Saturday, March 1f>, nt isl y program und important business will he tho special features 01 the meeting. All members are urged to bo pvesent. Tho entlro community Is invited. Rsta Arve, S o'clock In tho afternoon. A liter Secretary. PllOPIUil Y CHANCES HANDS. | Hits of Interesting Notys from Seneca -Hoys Heturtnikg. -Seneca, March ll.-Special: L. C. Patterson and Kuri Harper have pur chased from .the Cary brothers tho grouter portion pf lite square upon .vbtch the business bouse of \V. P. Simmons stunde. This bas hoon tin Ugly spot in our city for some years, and we look forward with s.Ulsfuc t on to Its improvement. Ah Interesting meeting of the Once-a-WooK Club was held with Mrs. K. U. Doyle Thursday afternoon. While the members finished some left-over Red Cross sewing, Mrs. Lunney read inst ruc ive selections for their entertainment and bone it. During tb.' social hour a salad course .vus served, Mrs. Doyle being assisted by 11rs. .1. 10. Hopkins and Mrs. Cl. W Unllengor. Miss francis tlolle mun rendered a piano bolo, which ! was greatly enjoyed. The club will J 1 old its >v m M-;i:>.;; with Miss Ruby Harper. .lohn Lawrence. li. it home I from ovorsests. lohn says ho didn't pee the (iring line, but he (lld soe some things he never saw before, .ind "home looks good" to him. i (out, ". !.. ! in milton ls slinking bonds with friends In Sonecn and receiving ti warm welcome. Dr. J. II. Burgess, who has, been in '. M. C. A. work'al Cy mp .Creon. C., is cow relieved front ddty, fis many friends tire glad ?to wel come him back, it is ploasijnl news that Mrs. Burgess and little daugh ter. Mary. w!P '-on > join him. abd Ihoy will he ul home lo their friends In their residence on Walhalla virent anco more. * We noie with Interest that; listed nous tho medical men Just dis charged from the navy is the linnie of T. 0. Redfern, of Clemson College. Dr. Redfern is a son of Dr. A. M. Redfein, of (Mollison, a graduate of that institution and later of Johns Hopkins Medical School. He volun t sered for service at his country's I'rst call and now returns to us a youthful veteran of the world's" greatest war, having discharged his 'littles ably and honorably. Oconeo is Indeed proud of him. , Miss .Winifred Ad a m s ha s ? accant?ifc i ? position-ol?'W??cul^ land school. The school is to bo con gratulated. Miss Adams lins ability as an instructor and disciplinarian. Mrs. C. P. Martin and Miss Hilda Emerson, who were visiting their sister. Mrs. Clive Folger, during tho ,iast week, have returned to Chatta nooga, Tenn. Mrs. Mayne Lowery is on a visit lo her daughter, Mrs. AV. O. Hamil ton. This venerable lady was among bo first who made Seneca a spot on [he map and will always be grate 'ully received in our "City of Oppor tinity." Littlo Sarah Edwards' friends are rind to know that she is recovering 'rom a slight illness. Wilkes Bondy's friends are pleased o hear he bas fully recovered from lis lalo illness and is again on duly li the Marine Hospital service, Paris ls1 a nd. Helen Folgor entertained n few 'fiends at dinner las! Saturday in li'?nor of her I Oth birthday. Pat. Dickson, of Seneca ll. F. D" was in town Monday with an idea of niyjng a home and moving bis huntly here. Loud a band. Mr. P? operty Owner. Wo want such men is Mr. Diet;son with us. Mhort Molberg was on a visit to vV.:ilhnlla Sunday. The Christian ICndoavor reorgan ized lasl Sunday nt.tho Presbyterian church. This is Ibo society that our .?vis kepi going last year while our !;oys wore In tho army. Now that they are rotuming lo us the associa tion should do moro and betlei work, Youth Slays His Father. Birmingham, Ala., Mandi 9.-J, ,\. Kinley, chief train dispatcher of ibo Louisville and Nashville railway, was shot and killed by his I 1-year old son, Robert Kirtley, this morning it the residence in Roebuck Springs, i fashionable suburb. Tin; boy claimed be killod his laiher in dofouse of his mother and himself. Ho stated bu was preparing for Sunday school when his father ordered him to stay nt home and work in tho yard. His mother remon strated and tho father attacked her With a poker. I li? stated ho ran to tho bath room and got a shot gun and when ho reappeared Kirtley turned toward him saying: "I will kill you first!" "Shoot Bob. shoot!" His mother exclaimed, bo said, and he (Ired. Tho entire load entered tho father's jaw at close range and death was instantaneous. When tho neighbors arrived tho mother claimed she had (Ired tho nhot in an effort to shield hor son, it is stated. Tho boy, hdwevor, In sisted on telling what he claimed to be dotails of tho tragedy. Advertised Mail. Tho following is a list of letters re maining uncalled for In tho Walhalla nest ot?lco for the week ending March l'Mh, l? 19: Macy Mc1 aniel, Joni) Nichols, r.'sther S id esl. When calling for the above please jay they are advertised. N. Fant, P. M. ANARCHISTS AND SOCIALISTS AiU al mfttt. r ft? ? i' W. W. dut in? to Overthrow U. S. Government? lngton, March 10.- Moll feel'?od since tho signing of Jimstice has disclosed thal tho I. W.'.AV., anarchists, radical Social isas and others aro "perfecting an amalgamation" which has for ils ?bjee|- the overthrow of the Ameri can!; ffij?vornmorit through bloody I revolution and the establishment ol' a lioisjiovik republic, accord i ur, to r n?ejjn<pi,unc?u?n scat tito Senate i ''Q&MBVhfla committee hy Solicitor l<f)n^K*'0f thi> Post?nico Repartaient. Tili??.JipOoiO!' :. \\\u\ w;.s made pubiic to-d'n?R'hy C.'? committee and Chalr !n?Mv'l)veria i said it wouhl he read in'o record to-morrow. Hold and Outspoken, f^cjaftrlng h a in Bolshevism ibo rndicil elements of the country had ! for tIve ?irst Hmo. "found a common enso/'upon which they can unite." j V!t|?. astunnr said his iuformtvtion j fthowoft that propagando against tho . go vera tn eal. was being conducted v-th'-.'gront regularity am' thal Its i i'ngjmude cool I hi measured by tho "boifwfyitd oui spoken stn tomoo ts" ''pupiFMh the ll tern turo. Accompany':-1 iKg h'fs memorandum wore several hundred excerpts from mail matter .du?w?ii'g Hi" trend of ?ho propn rraildoY. These will he imidO public UitorV? V'..:'r? T. W. \V. Mo?l Active, '^amjenlav reference was made by ""IMcittu' to tho activity o? the ilOd foreign ch mont 1 in th? m hut ho said perhaps tho !. ."was tho most activo In the patio,- of tho propaganda he has "ot its commend a large force Known as recruiting ig?K^jts?bscriptioii agents, etc., who \v?j^sihc'oaxl-.?gly in the furtherance or caui-X." f $|$?oinei<?es With /Jtobins. Th? .'information furnished hy Mr. Lanita jt?c?iiic.dcs to an extent with thei itements reiterated to-day by Raym md Robins, fbrmer bend of tho ? nericon Red Cross mission in Kuspia, when ho again appeared be- . fore ?? ,neh committee, primarily to V nr./up statements concerning him' mute; Saturday by David R. Francis, Ainhr?aff-ambassador to Russia. ? ftt?-:W^vas.Uie lesire ot thenSolshovlsts to" over* f throw all tho governments of tho world, and in their placo sot up ter roristic governments similar to those in Russia. He Bald he did not know of his own knowledge that Bolshe vists from Russin actually were en gaged in trying to accomplish this purpose in thc United States, but t'.at. bc was convinced certain peo ple here were engaged in propagat lng Bolshevist ideas. "Tho I. W. W.," ho added, "bas been doing it for twenty years." FU?3NCH WAR ON HIGH FRUTOS. Nine Government Food Horrocks Are Opened hi Paris. Paris, Milich C. The French government's offensive against the I high cost of living, led hy M. VU- | grain, under secretary of the minis try of provisions, stalled this morning when nine barracks wore thrown open to tho publie for tho r.ale of foodstuffs direct from tho government lo tho con. inner. The barracks, which are mimed tho "Vilgrain Barracks." are situ ated in the most congested ami populous poorer quarters of thc city. A correspondent ot tho Associated ; ress visited several of them, out side of which long lines ol' women. I'M Goss, With disheveled hair blow Iv.j in the chilly breeze, and bloc froth cold, wailed patiently their turn to he served. Price Lists Cheering. The crowds were kept cheerful hy the sight of great hills on tho walls Of tim barracks, reading: "Rice, eleven cents a pound:" "beans, thirteen;" "lard, lilly;" "ham, flfty-llve;" ' shoulders, lifly:" ' fi t-back, fifty;" "breasts, boneless. Ki) ty." At the horrocks in Ute Eleventh ward the correspondent was in formed hy Inspector Pierre that al ready 1,500 persons had been served Up lo noon, and he expected to servo as many in the afternoon. People Sought. Fats. Tho people everywhere wcro neg lecting vegetables and asking for fats, of which everyone took tho full quota allowed-two pounds. Mrs. Schmidt, manager of tho bar racks, asked the correspondent to trnnsloto for her tho marks oa vari ous coses imported from the United States. Sho led tho correspondent to a store room, whoro bags of boons, stoncilod "Now York," wore piled beside huge stacks of lard, marked "Chicago." Donlors' Prices Higher'. Walking to tho next barracks, tho correspondent passod tho public marian near tho famous Placo De SIONI) lll'X FOOD KFlQl'llMCI). Inhumanity In Continuing Present Condition, Says Stephen richon. Paris, March 0.-Stephen Pich?n; thc French foreign minister. In als talk with tho correspondents to-day d'scussod the bearing of the food t> luntion in Germany on tho speedy conclusion of penco. Ile sahl that ibo urgent need of supplying Ger many was recognised hy al! tho governments represented ;.t Taris. Thc hunger with which Germany was confronted, ho added, was a bud 0 mselor. No ono could ho dead to tho inhumanity ol' continuing presen 1 conditions there, ;<nii llio supreme (.(Oneil hud resolved io send lo Gov uoiiy nil ibo food tli:<t the country : en ni i od. Cn :h(- oihi v ii.'.id, however, fiiis could liol ho done if I he Connans c used working ami nolhirg to it: Icc ..orfiiin that tho expense caused (. i he (?entente countries hy tho de Sti'ttctioii and damage ol' ihc wa,v should be mel. Germany lialUs. In signing tho armistice last Jan u iry. Germany ngreed to hand over h <r emu meroin! Hool to be used In rovictualing Ruropo generally and Germany particularly. Vet. con 1 inned tho minister. a1 a recen I meet ing .ii son tho Gorman delegates d< cb.red tu.nl the si mi n gem en I waa iin .vtisfnetory und tho! (hey would "ab solutely rcI'uso lo purl willi theil' sh,lps.". Thc Allies wore willing, M, Pich?n . ' ii on. not only io supply*Food, hm te iccord crcdil lo Germany, hui Ger many munt Ural declaro her willing ness lo live up to thc conditions of tl e January armistice. S<fO HOM'S hoi? SOLMFHS. There ure ninny In OcoilCO who uro lutercstcd in tho .soldiers' $(10 boillis, All discharged soldiers or Sailors who have been in the ser vice of tho U. S. Government will receive (his bonus in addition to nil pay duo them ut the Gino (hey uro honorably discharged. In for warding your papers along with application for the bonus bo sure that you send with tho pupers the papers' will not bo nccoptod. Tho original ls absolutely esseniiul to (ho securing of (he bonus. The following information will be of Interest to all parlies concerned in securing (he bonus. The discharge papers will bo returned to (ho sol dier witli his check: "Those who have been dis charged and have received (heir (inal pay without (he $00 bonus, should write a letter to the /one Finance Olllcer, Lemon Building, Wash i ng( on, I). c., stating their service since A neil (1, 1017, (he dato of las( discharge and their present address, to which (hey de sire (heir bonus checks lo he sent, and enclosing with (his lotter (heir discharge certificate or inili (ary order for discharge,and holli, if holli were issued." School Supt. Attempts Suicide. Greenwood, March 8, -Tho con dition of Prof. w. W. Nickle?, super* hitcndcnt of tho (?roonwood Graded Schools, who attempted lo lako his own lifo Into last night, following a complete nervous breakdown, was reported as still critical to-night. Prof. Nicklos had a nervous break down several days ugo which de veloped into n collapse, and it. was while he had lost .entire control of himself that he inflicted what may ho a f.ii.i! WOUtld upon himself, practically severing Iiis jugular vein. New York Vol ?I'M 118 Landed. New York. March 0.-Fourteen thousand New York soldiers, mem bers Of tho Twenty-seventh Division, who with the Thlrtloth (Tonnessee, Soiltli Carolina and North Carolina) Division, proved lo tho world that tue Hindenburg line could be broken, arrived here to-day on tho trans ports Leviathan and Mnttrolnnia. Hoboken's wntev front, was crowded IP never before when the Leviathan swung into her dock, and across tho river, outside tho Cunard piers, an I other great throng greeted the ?dnuretnnia. IllnstlllO, where he asked a butcher tho price of pork. This was a dol lar a pound and ham was $1.80. lt was mildly suggested by tho cor respondent that the same goods were cold at half the prico at the Vll graln barracks, at which tho butcher disdainfully replied, "Yes, but lt is dirty7! yellow American pork." Hut tho customers dopartod for tho barracks and tho correspondent was troated to a great vorbal out burst of uncomplimentary ror nrks. elisa.. WILL ATTACK BOLSHEVIK!. Field Marshal I Maim lng to Uso Volun teer Units-Secrecy Observed. Cohlenz, .March So-Field Marshal von Hindou burg is planning lo nao volunteer units in a drive against tho Bolshevik., with Lilian as tho baso of Iiis operations, lt is indicated by information which has roached A mor loan intelligence o lucers. According lo tho American exports, who. in tho lino of their duly wore beeping in tench willi the progress of tho readjustment of tho enemy's forces, f?ormun groat headquarters ? seoms to bo following a pol loy of j secrecy ?is regards tho Rn stern front troop questions. This is believed lo be duo to the fae! that, the RolsllO vtkl now have a normal military or gaiii/ulion und so will he able to utilize tiny Information they might obtain concerning their oitemy. Ap parently Ibo Gurman headquarters Staff in Kolborg is directing fis orer gies against organiza lion on ibo Bal tic front in the confidence thai ihoi i is no longer any Imincdinto occasion lor concern over the Polish front. Field Marshal von Hindenburg is in Kolborg ?ind the commanders of both Ibo nor! horn ?md sou I bern armies on Hie Knatoru front are presumed to bo applying most of their efforts at meson! lo Ibo organization of tho forces a vt liable. G re? I nu in hors of volunteer com panies have boon raised throughout : 'i nut .: for i he Fnnt.em front. ac cording lo informa t iou hero. Scores of I h ese small units have been identi fied proceed I n i? eastward, but wheth er I hoy woro organizod into divisions fterwards, or whether tbov nra un dergoing trainin?:, and to what, local ity they have boon assigned bas not Keen established. Tho lola! number of volunteers now on tho lOastorn frontier or a inuit lo proceed Hiere ls estimated nt near ly 100,000. Some of tho old army troops are now on the Haslem front. Women Hendy to Fight. Weimar, Mardi 8.--Frau Gronnor, an authoress and publisher, and a delegate of tho 'Gorman Democratic party In tho National Assomhly, has left for her homo in Koenigsberg to organize tho women of Fast Prussia into a border militia against tho Boh was prompted by reports that a Bol shevik forco a million strong waa ad vancing toward the. Gorman frontier and hor foar that tho men alone would be unable to withstand tho Bolshevik hordes. Republicans Open Campaign. St. Paul, Minn., March 7.-Will H. Hays, chairman of tho Republican >.,'? tiona) committee, in speeches and conferences in tho Twin Cilios to day and to-night, formally oponod tho Republican campaign for nation al victory at the polls In 10 20. Supreme nationalism was the koy nolo of the Republican lender's speeches. "While wo Reek earnestly and prayerfully for methods lessen ing future wars and will go far in deed in ali honest effort to that end, we will accept no indefinite interna tionalization as a substituto for for VOUt American nationalism," waa his Hiand on thc league ot nations ques tion in addressing the Northwest rally hero to-night, Ho also declared tor "strong F?deral regulation, hut not Fedora) ownorship," of Indus trios, Greenwood Negro Electrocuted. Columbia, March 8.-Aaron Walk er, the negro convicted at (?reenwood last December for attempted Cl'i ml-, nal assault, was electrocuted at tho Slate penitentiary hore this morning al 1.1.30 O'Clock for his crime. lt took three applications to kill him. Hi! protested Iiis innocence to Hie last. Tho case of Walker is unique ill (ho annals of South Carolina crimi nology. Ho was twice reprieved for unusual reasons. In tbellrstcase.it was because Hie Stale electrician, who applies Hie current lo tho elec tric chair, was ill from Influenza mid could not. ofllctate, and in Hie oilier the electric chair was out of order on ibo day set for tho electrocution. Mrs. i). W. Alderman Dead. Alcolou, March 7.-Mrs. D. W. Alderman passed away at 7 o'clock vostorday morning. Af tor tho funer al services nt tho Clarendon Baptist church, Alcolou, of which sho was a momber, at 5 o'clock, tho body was takon to Woll's Chapol, North Caro lina, for burial. Mrs. Aldorman ia survived by hor husband, throe sons and threo daughters. Mrs. Alder man waa an oarnost Christian, notod ter her kindnosa and gentleness of spirit. Many of tho poor havo boon holped by lipr. Sho wil) be greatly missod.