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KEOWEE COURIER (KS tal ?I Isl MM! I HIU.) Published Every Wednesday Morning sriisntiiTioN PRICK. Ono Vear .$1.00 Hix Months .ri? Three Month*.510 Advertising Ratos Reasonable. Jim Ry Steele, Sholor, Hughs *V Sholor. Communications ot a personal character charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices, cards of thanks and tributes of respect, either by Individuals, lodges or churches, aro charged for tis for advertisements nt rate of ono cont a word. Cash must accompany manuscript, and all such notices will bo marked "Adv." In conformity with Fodoral ruling on such matters. WAMIALIJA, S. O. WI OD MOS DAV, I >i?:<\ I, 1020. IM MO CROP unsri/rs. We do not believe that any county in South Carolina is capable of pro ducing or does produce better crops than Oconee. Ot* course lhere ure inslaneos of special yields on "pol pu telles" in other counties thal have eclipsed Ocoiioo's reported yields, but in general wo believe Oconee can lend our Slate in line crops, your in and year out, in every day- practical op eration ol' tho farm. Hr that as it may. wo recently had presented ni The Courier olllce some mighty lim! evidences of crop possi bilities within our horders. After the exhibition of products al tho recent exhibition for Hie boys and girls of I he valions county clubs, we saw tho ten-ear exhibit of corn of Master George Taylor, ll years old, of tho Oconee Crook section. The ten ears of corn weighed full ten pounds, and they look the Drat prize in the corn contest, which was Judged on tho various points of {excellence. We have often viewed, in the seed cata logues, Hu pictures of large ears of corn, oneil ear fully rounded out lo the und with a grain of .corn in Hie I center of tho tip of the ear. And young Taylor's lon ears looked as though Ibey mimili have been the originals of one of tho most perfect of these pictures, lt was practically perfect corn, considered by points. The grower of ibis corn, ns slated above, is 1 I years of age. Ho did a considerable pari of the work ou tho . hut bis plowing done by i. However, he has ly sot In his mind 1 f sciunco as applied 1 corn and the ambl o hotter crops and 'heroin lies the hope of our country in an agricultural way, we think- the fad that the boys of to-day, who will bo tho men of to-morrow, aro going to excel I heir daddies in crop-making and in profit making. Tho club boys are getting what (hair daddies were unable to gel in their young days scientific instruction, hearty encouragement, and the all-important incentive to excel--to never bo satisfied with tho accomplishments of ono day, but to start each day with tho determination to improve on the past. There wore lots of fine exhibits at tho county club show, and it was stated by ono of tho judges from without the bounds of our county thal tlie exhibit would have done credit to the State Fair. II. A. Wood, ot Walhalla Route ;t, was one of tho grown-ups who had exhibits at thc club show. He had an exhibit of 12 sweet potatoes, the dozen weighing r>2 pounds. They were1 beauties, and as sound as it is possible for potatoes to be. Mr. Wood set out 2.000 plants, and from theso ho gathered live two-horse loads of tine potatoes- 13fi bushels. They were something of a curiosity -twelve potatoes, some weighing in excess of live pounds each, and tho whole pulling the scales down to f>2 pounds. Hut "thorn are others" young ladies- in our county who are not only practical farmers, but good farmers of which fact wo had am ple proof last Friday when two young ladies. Misses Hannah and Hertha Itrucke. of the lObenozor section, stopped in The ("ourler olllce and we had time to talk with (hem for a short while about crops. There are three of the Drucke sisters, but one of our visitors disclaimed any special credit for Ibo farm operations, as she is giving her time largely lo teaching school. This w;is Miss Hertha, who gave all ibo real credil for crop-mak ing lo her sisters. Misses Hannah mu? '-'lizabeth. And if we may bo counted us u Judgo in tho promises, they are ,r,.;1i farmers A. F. Itrucke. Ibo father of those "farmerettes." is now past .)() years nf age und is incapacitated for Hie strontian labor of thc farm, hence tho girls have taken over "tho refus of government" ai Hie Itrucke place, and iliey uro making good. Miss Han nah WO judge thal she is the chief in the Itrucke farm operations said (hat up lo his year we hive never made any .om. and it always wor ried father, for ho used lo make such fine com crops." So Ibis year the Itrucke farm produced some corn we say that advisedly, if wc may be permitted to apply tho slangy term, SOME COHN' and Miss Itrucke as sured us thai it was worth all their hard work, worry and trouble Just to noto tho pleased and surprised expression of their old father when thoy led him to tho corn crib and showed him a pilo of olght largo ono-horse loads of (Ino corn-the ro sult of two young women's labors on two acres of land. They did evory blt of the work from beginning to end oxcopt to putting down of tho fertil izer, which they hired dono. They planted, hoed, plowed and worked lite crop from the. beginning lo the ond, and thou they gathered the corn and hauled it up to the homo and housed it. Six ears -line, big oars sound, hard corn -wero left willi us for a sampln of tho crop. And we are j proud of tinsse six cars of corn, as tho drucke girls have a right to be. This your they produced two bales ol' cotton in addition to their other croiis. In this crop, loo, tho work was practically all done by the young women. Hut tho Umeko girls will hereafter always make some corn. Tills year's experience has taught them that it is easier to make than cotton, and that it is foolish to buy corn with Hit! expectation of paying for it with the hard-earned dollars that come from Hie cotton crop. We wish thal more of our mah! farmers would come to a like rea li/.a I ion and quit the ".slow suicide" policy of one crop farming. Bul we could go on indefinitely and talk about better farming meth ods, hotter and bigger crops, and wo j tuny later tuko up this line of thought. For the present, we point to tho records made by three young women of the Ebenezer section, and ask that some of our men consider what has been dono by them, and profit by their exam plo. And, In (dosing, we merely add All honor ,to Ike Br?cke girls! We wish there were more, of this kind in our section-determined, ambitious to succeed, willing to work - tu the limit where circumstances call for Hie exercise of the utmost in brain and brawn. "ONI?; TillN(? IllOr BACKEST." At th.e tenn of F?deral Court in Anderson last week tho Judge, in speaking to the jury and in general to Hie court ollicials and lo Hie peo ple, assembled in tho court room, took occasion lo say that "Oconeo would he tho best county In South Carolina if she could only rid her self of the liquor-making und liquor selling evil." This is Interesting, what Oconeo lacks to make her the best county in South Carolina is lo rid herself o? the incubus of the damning influence and effects of liquor. We do no/, have to rid ourselves of something that Is of value to some citizens or to some section of our county. Not at all. lt is Just to rid ourselves of a detrimental evil-an evil that all of us see. few of us defend, and most of us deplore. We believe that tho overwhelming majority of our people waul to he rid of Hie liquor evil, and are ready lo . lo alt in their power to clear tho fair name ol* our county of this liquor blot. Bul our citizens are helpless. What we need is tho help of our courts. We need judges with back bones strong enough to permit them to deal out sentences of .sufficient severity to make liquor law violators smart. When we get that assistance wo will be well on tho way to "mak ing Oconee county the host county in South Carolina." For years the ses sions of our courts here at Walhalla have proven nothing more than farce comedies- -comedy that suits both defending attorneys and law viola tors. Those farces, however, are any thing bul amusing to the law-abid ing citizens of the county, who see tho sober side of tho acting and vlow it as tragedy--the trifling with a vital force for evil, and the setting at naught of tho high moral principles for which Oconeo citizens havo stood and ballot ted for lo these many years. We call upon our juries and our Judges to help us by doing their full duty when dealing with law-viola tors. Our citizens are discouraged, because they know that nothing can bo done until liquor law transgres sors are adequately punished. Let the courts help us to make Oconee tho best county fn South Carolina! CUT-HUT DON'T QUIT. John T. Roddy, of Kock Hill, one of tho best known and most pros perous business men in South Caro lina, is out In an article in the daily papers advocating tho total abandon ment of a colton crop for 1021. Wo think Mr. Roddy entirely too radical in his views, but he is certainly on tho right line. It is a good time for our farmers to begin thinking of Hie 1921 cotton situation think while tho 1020 dis aster is not only frosh In your mind, bul while the .sting is still thoro as a thorn in tho flesh. The colton farmer has "resolved" and "(Iformed" so often and so loudly in the past-and has broken good resolutions as many times as made until the general public is going to have to be shown a reduction before they Iud i eve thal such a thing is pos sible in regard to the colton crop. Think now what you are going to do in regard lo your cotton acreage next year. Il does,not make one par tie of difference how many-or how few resolutions you may pass, if they are not kept they but hurt, and ev(\'i if I hoy are kepi they amount to bul little so far as any Influence on tho price ol* your staple is concerned. Stop "resolut ing" and do some thing cul your acreage and say nothing about it: nobody is going lo believe it anyway, so why waste per fectly good ink and paper and lime in writing out resolutions'.' The pub lic will believe that the colton acre ag?? of the South has been cut when the number of bales taken from the rudds and ginned Indicate such a con dition, and not until then. This is somewhat of a broad state ment lo make, but lt is truth never theless. The cotton growers have lied so many times about reducing acre age that nobody holieves them when they do it. They do not believe it themselves, for, nlno out of ten of them "go down from tho placo of meeting" resolving mentally thaf they will Individually Increase their acreage In the vain hope that their I follows will stand by the resolution. It's up to the cotton growers to PATTERSON'S SENECA, I SOUTH CAROLINA. 30*1 itch Sheeting.10c. ?{({.Inch Sheeting, good weight amt a very good quality, PRICE. VA ui), 10c. ;lO-inch Torca' ?.lile. ?iO-Inch Teicate, light and duri? Dress Patterns, also Solid Colors, TH IC ll, YA HI), 19c. 30-Inch Wenching.lae, 30-inch Hleaching, good quality, no starch. Thia was selling for 33c sixty days ago. THICK, YARU, 15c. SACRIFICE Apron Ginghams.15c. 'JO pieces, assorted pattern:!, good staple Apron Ginghams, 20c. value, THICK, YA HU, 15c, Dress Ginghams.10c. 35 c. Dress Ginghams, in Dight mal Dark Tat terns, Tlaids, Stripes und Solid Colors, THICK, YA Ul), 19c. \ SI-INCH SH METING .IKc. Kl-Inell Not Bleached Sheeting, very good weight, pretty and smooth THIGH, YAKI), 48c. Cheviots.._?.-,<.. Riverside Cheviots, tho Heaviest and Best Cheviots made. Thirty days ago they were IO cents THICK, YA HU, 25c. We are taKing our losses with a smile our Forty Thousand Dollars StocK of Merchandise is being sold at sacrifice prices. This is your opportunity to buy Winter Goods in mid season at prices no one even dreamed of thirty days ago. LADIES' SUITS AT HALF PRICE. Ladies' High Grade Suits, made of absolutely All Wool Materials. Staple colors, new models, teed Linings and the tailoring is perfect. LADIES1 $45*00 SUITS SACRIFICE TRICE. LADIES' $40.00 SUITS SACRIFICE TRICE LADIES' $35.00 SUITS SACRIFICE TRICE LA DI KS' $30.00 SUITS SACRIFICE TRICE . , LADIES' $25.00 SUITS SACRIFICE TR ICE A FEW ST ITS FROM LAST SEASON WORTH MUCH MORE THAN OUR TRICE Guaran $22.50 $20.00 $17.50 $15.00 $12.50 $7.50 LADIES' $7.50 SILK UNDERSKIRTS, AT HALF PRICE, $3.75. LAMMS' SILK UXItKllSKIItTH, -Assorted Colors. Meiling foi- $7.ftO-. orl; HACIUPICK I'KK'K ls just huir. Thcso have licen $3.75 Danville Tlaids ..15c. Everybody knows they are tito best 25c. Tlaids made. They have been selling for 25 cents TRICE 15c, Vests und Tauts .48c. Ladles* Knit Vests and Tauts, reg ular 75c. garments, TRICK 48c. Dross Ginghams.15c. Dress Ginghams, Assorted Pat? terns, in Light Stripes, Checks und Solid Colors, TRICE, YARD, 15 Ul LADIES' COTTON HOSE. Ladies' 15c. Cotton Hose,.pair 10c. Ladies' 20c. Cotton Hose, pair 15c. Ladles' 25c. Cotton Hose, pair 10c. Ladies' 35c. Cotton Hose, pair 25c. Ladies' 50c. Cotton Hose, pair'{5c. MEN'S SOCKS. Men's 13c. Socks, price.I Oe. Men's 2,"?e. Socks, price ..... .20c. Men's 35e. Socks, price.25c. Men's 50c. Socks, price.35c, Men's 75c. Socks, price.50c. MIDDY SUITS AT HALF PRICE. BLUE SERGE MIDDY SUITS FOR LA DI KS AND MISSES-GOOD MATERIALS, WELL MADE AND XFATLY TRIMMED. $17.50 Mm SACRIFICK TRICE . . . . .$8.75 $12,50 SACRIFU ll TRICK ... .$8.25 $10.00 M,n SACHIFKi: TRICK . .$5.00 BOYS' SUIT? AT ONE-THIRD OFF. ALL OUR ROYS' SUITS Gp IN THIS SACRIFICK SALK AT JUST Ht) . I ' - o?> ri * * .TS . . Vv RH ICE TRlCrJ HO -.\? uiv ICI' I ll i ROYS' .510.00 SUITS SACRIFICE THICK . . . BOYS' $7.50 SUITS SACRIFICK TRICK . . . $10.00 $9.00 $6.65 $5.00 MILLINERY AT HALF PRICE. ALL OUR MILLI \ IO RY (?OKS IN THIS SACRIFICK SALK AT K.Y ACTLY HALF TRICK! LA DI KS' LADI1 LADIK s' $3.50 "** SACRIFICE TRICK . . .$1.75 SACRIFICK TRICK . . .$2.50 :s $8.00 ? SACRIFICK TRICK . . .$4.00 LADIES' SILK HOSE AT HALF PRICE. LADIES' SILK $1.00 HOSE- CA SACRIFICE TRICE.JUOt LADIES' SILK $2.00 HOSE- QH nfl SACRIFICE TRICK.$ I lUU LADIES1 SILK $3.50 HOSE- Ol 7P SACRIFICE TRICE.?pi.fU BLANKETS AT HALF PRICE. These have been sell .$2.25 These have been selling $3.00 One Lot of Cood-si/.o Dark Colored Blankets ing at $1.50 SACRIFICE TRICE. One Lot of Extra Heavy Mixed Blankets for $0.00 SACRIFICE PRICE. LADIES' SILK WAIST AT HALF PRICE. LADIES' BEA UTI FUI. SILK WAISTS-GEORGETTE, CREPE DE CHINE, ETC. These h ve been selling at ?O to <j?n i\E $5.50 to $12.50. Sacrifice Trices Just (Half. .$?.1 J $U.?? SHOES SHOES Yes, (hero has been a break in tho Shoo Market. Some time ago wo made, ninny reductions, and in order to do entire justice to tho buying public, wo have now made prices based on next spring's mar ket. Men's W. I/. Douglas (best known ?hos in tho world), values $8.00, $?.00 and $10.01)-Trice now.$0.50 Men's cheaper Shoe? at $3.25 to.$5.00 Ladies' $8.00, $0.00 and $10.00 Shoos, prico.$0,50 Ladies1 $0.00 Shoos, prleo.$-1.75 I indies1 $5.00 Shoos.$3.00 Ladies' Heavy Shoes at $2.05 to.$4.00 Roys', Girls1 and Children's Shoes at $1.00 to.$4.00 reduce acreage by practice; aa a "bluff" it lias proved but a snaro and a delusion, and has hurt no one half so bad ns tho cotton grower himself. Cut your acreage-and you don't need to toll anybody anything about it. If you do it you will know it, and If you raise other things on the acre age taken from yourN?otton crop, you will be bettor off-and that is suffi cient. Rainfall and Temperature. Below is a record of meteorological observations taken by H. W. Brandt, co-operative observer of tho weather Bureau of the U. S. 1 inpart mont of Agriculture, during the woek ending Nov. 28th, 1920, at 7 p. m. (The instrumental readings aro from gov ernment standard instruments ex posed in tho man nor recommended by tho chief of tho Weather Bureau): Cnaractor of Day. romper? ture. Dale st Nov. 22? i'd.y cldy. \ . 1 2 Nov. Clear. Nov. 24-Clear. Nov. 2?"> Clear. Nov. 2?- IM ly cldy. Nov. 27- Cloudy. .. . Hu Nov. 28 - Ptly cldy. . O'.) Total rainfall. . . , 45 ii.) r?:t 5 I I (50 .A" 2:> ?i I 21? Oil Mill Closes Down. Tlmmonsvillo, Nov. 28. The Tim rnonsvllle Oil Mill closed down yes terday afternoon for an indefinite period. This means that more than thirty employees who have been drawing daily wages of from three to four dollars aro now without work. Tho cotton situation ls being felt boro in all lines of business, and all tho cotton buyers oxcopt ono have refused to purchase any more of tho staplo for tho present. lound Much Stolon Valuables. Dunville, Va., Nov. 20.-A wooden box containing $300,000 in Liberty bonds, war savings Rta m pa and life insurance policies, which were stolen from the Hank of Halifax, at Hous ton, Va., eight weeks ago. was found to-day by tiny Lumpkln, a farmer, at Midway, Va., according to advicos Just received hero The Tilga loo Singing Association. Tho Tngaloo Township Singing As sociation will be held at Retreat No. 2) school building, about two miles south of Westminster, next Sunday. Hoc. r>. at 2 p. m. All lovers of music are invited. Oscar Driver. .1. lt. Drown. Sec'y. President. "California Syrup of Figs" Child's Best Laxative Accept "California" Syrup of I<Mgs only - look for tlie name California on the package, then you aro sure your child is having tho best and most harmless physic for Hie little stomach, liver and bowels. Chlldron love its fruity taste. Full directions on each bottle. You must say "Cali fornia."- adv. MOTHER! STATU OF SOUTH GAROMNA, County of Oconeo. In Court Common Pions. E. M. Gambrell, Mrs. Clara DuBoso, John Brandt, J. Gordon, Marshall Abbott, Mrs. J. E. Addis, G. L. Barker, J. Davis Abbott, W. M. Payno, J. C. Barker, C. E. Gam broll, Geo. M. Ansel, Mrs. Sophia llittor, Mrs. D. M. Rimrodt, Mrs. M. J. Koli, B. P. Sloan, John A Ansel, W. T. Alexander, R. M. Al exander, S. H. Collins, J. H. Bar nett, L. A. Guyton, E. M. Smith Jamos L. Burley, Mrs. Florence B. Richardson, Miss Maggie Raj Burley, M. M. Burley, .Nellie Mud son, Mrs. L. D. Chandler. Jessie B Boozer, Mamie Burley, Gladys K Burley, Toarle I). Barron, H. B Burley, Mrs. Carrie P. Gillison am W. VV. Burley, Petitioners, vs. Roy M. Abbott. J. Ed. Addis. B. D Breazeale. J. i). McMahan, W. lt Davis, John D. Rums, Mrs. Blrdb II. Wiekliffe. VV. S. Dean, C. R Dean, and Frank Dean, Defendants. ORDER. This case coming on to he heard and the preliminary repon ol' tit Coard of Viewers having this da; boen Hied with ibis Court, and hav iiig been examined and found to 1) i'i due ?UKI proper form, the Cour I nri lier linds from Hie Viewer's rt port that the Drainage District i i practicable and will properly dral ! the bottom land of said district an : be beneficial lo the public health an protect Hie public highways cross ing said proposed Drainage Dlslrlt and creek, and will lie conducive t ; the general welfare and health of th community; and tho Court horeb .appointa the 28th day of DEOE.N '? BER, 1020, nt ton A. M.. nt Walhall Co,.rt House, as tho time and plu< when it will further hear and coi sider and pass upon the said repor IT IS FD RT 11 KR ORDERED, Tin a copy of this order bo posted at th Court Houso door and at flvo coi spicuous plncos within the Drainer District, and bc published In Tl ' Kcowco Courier, a newspapor of get i eral circulation within the county, for two conaocutivo weeks. Given under my hand and official seal, this 30th day of November, A. D. 1920. JOHN F. CRAIG, (Seal.) Clerk Court Common Pleas In and for Oconee County. S. C. R. T. J A YNES, Attorney. Dec. 1, 1920. 48-19 SIX PER CENT BONDS FOR SALE. Tho County Highway Commission for Oconee County, South Carolina, will offer for sale, at cloven o'clock A. M., on TUESDAY. DECEMBER 14th, 1920, Three Hundred Thousand Dollars Serial Coupon lionels, bonr Ing interest at tho rale of six por i (fini, payable semi-annually. On the first days of January and July of each year, made payable in Chicago. Those hoods will mature in annual installments from two to thirty years. They are in den oin ina tl ont] of $1,000 each. Ample methods are provided for taking care of tho payments of interest and installments as they maturo. They are exempt by law from Federal Income tax. all state. County and Municipal and School 'l'axes. These bonds have beet? authorised hy an Act of tho Legislature, ap proved the tenth day of March. 1920. and are part of the Four Hundred Thousand Dollars in bonds thornby authorised, One Hundred Thousand having already been sold and paid for. Monds are subject lo approval of Attorneys Storey, Thorndike, Pal mer & Dodge, of Boston, Mass. Thc Commission offers these bonds for sale on competitivo bids on DE OEM MER 14th, 1920, to bo delivered January 1st. 1921, at which time in terest will begin to run on them. Certified or Cashlor's Check for $0,000.00, made payable to tho Sec rotary of the Oconoe Highway Com mission, as a guarantee of evidence of good faith, must accompany all bids. Tho Commission reserves tho right, to rojoct any and all bids. M. R. MCDONALD. Socrotary. Walhalla, S. C. Dec. 1. 1 920. 48-49