"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
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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.