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♦/ ■* ‘ir ']} ■ i-U / 1 1 t.A i ^ J- ■rl V L lAEnwnc Bunaiu baknwsll, a. *::• / g '' - /I i 1 —m- REPORT OF SCHOOL CLAIMS ’ . ~~~ 1 -—i . ■ - v - paid by J. B. Afmstrong. County Treasurer from/Jan. Ipt4 to • Mat-ch 31, 1918, Inclusive / / District No. 1.- -Bull Pond ±t 25.00 Robert Owens 8.00 Allawee Watson . Virginia A. Ryan —- f - 30.00 J W }m*r ^.00 Mary F. Cole;——— 60,00 A^-RS**** —~t- 00 .00 ‘4.00 Nolle Griffin ' ./-T r,( ' .Mary r. Cole'—-..-- 80.00 AthEte gfcttban~Z_Z _. .Z 27.50 Susie Langford, — KQjQQ.,..Ii^■ fie Mr>y_-fei.th Z±±±=-±l- 2->,00 Carniee XViMi&ms* 30.60 ' Bona . I/padholt' J~- 2;/.0b ,1. P. * Povfrll ,'.u ___, —Y 35fop -»h*art Griffin ------ — ;_~2f>.-00 /-* /' »f > - C. iK. Molair rr> n „ i • *..• ! LIBERTY LOAN SUPPLEMENT; .£■ PAGE 3 LIBERTY LOAN . ALPHABET : " •_>-•’• , •— • Ity VV. F. O'DON NELI* V \ for AMERICA, Land'of tbo r\ * v . ■ • * 1 * r ree-r-** .... , -i Guarding onr freedom you and for mo. for r *7 is for BONDS we must Buy • y And sfiTr Buy— - ' We t on Buy more 5f- wo only will try.- | ) mis is for CAfn—just a little today, Tt«'h small installments the balance will pay. . is for DIG -in your pocketa Dig Deep— Dollar an-Doliar will malce a great heap.. ■'J 0 .1. Farmers Assist Loan. ... ' />$. 9 - - — T —-— i© ^ splendid tribute bft* been ® ® paid to the farmers of New York ® ® 'state by William Chur'eh Osborn, ® J® life member of the New \ork , ; : ® State Agrieulturtl Boclety. In a'® ,\ 77® statement to the Liberty Loan @1 Nobody Who Eas Not Been in the Front-Line Trenches ® cominitee, Mr. Osbprn said: ® rr ; ‘ „ ±<:\ ■ T7- tt — • • • « ., ® “The farmers of this state have '•> Trenches Can Possibly Know the Horror and the © sflrtwn that'they know that a ® 1'Misery of War, or -^tarreciate the Heroism of Our b *’■ ““'l fjt I v J * . rr , j(*l grain of powder and a pound -Of ^Fighters, Soldier Writes Mother.. V j® poTk as good as a pound of lead ® ■ ° j ' * ,. v _—. , . . . . .J.® to-help win the war. -Wwrt The letter printed below haa beon right, for it -is- peace at arty priceT'® labor,-b»bort of cash, short of ® reproduced in pamphlet form by the e\en if the prico is life, and we ar* ® seeds,^suffering frmn the discour. fo j ceutiul- Liberty l.oatf committeo for going to, pay millions of> lives before ® aging weather of 1917, t|hey are' ® Vir.saiia, ami is being givqn wide pub- wo get Tt. ~ - - *» r! oi>C;ilng the-spring ynmpai?ti-trf ^ Here I have written a few pag'®'you' ® lt»lS full of cmirago nn.l of ® may never receive, end in thinking ®^wt*vngVh. This is particularly ® over what T have written 1 havo sai,d ® true of the small farmers, and ® nothiirg that can give you' any real @ my observation has been that clear idea of'what thiivi war is like. ® the ^mailer the farmer the bigger ® Tt is nndo up of a thousand little (•) the heart. Xl^usp farmers who ® •’lieity in the stale. It is one of tlio j nio>t strikiiigdtfat has-come from any 1 ■ soc.rce. The committee prcface$ the j letter witTi theie words: I j * f 'l lie foj[owing letter from a young Aim : icon captain to his mother shows 1 the,? pi wit, the courage and the resolve up details and the mastex ’of / is for EYKU.YONE pulling together— . , If \;ou_ stay out you..will show the white feather. - i- fi>r rRANGE, on whose soil we must fight,, filth men and with money, for freedom and right. is for GIVE wlnle vrej won’t vJ miss the Giving — Robhed of your Freedom, would life be worth living! ’ - : T is for TTOXOR, for which our ^ sires fougiit ^"o , :r bit and mV bit will keep cwhat they bought. 1 M ) !- for INTEREST paid on the T.r-nn — Never a 'hetter Investment v was known. . is foriKHN with the patriots true -• VGUr—w 1 r—n oy will see the war tuYungb. b for kaiser tlit foe of man- ( , ,. kind— Whose rruel hands we with shackles must bind. is for T.IBERTY, won long Pgn— Pi 111 e nionev can save it, what voice will say “No"! is for YirST -Wn Mu?t save and Must pay— Money, will win, th'erA is no other way. for NERVE If wo have our full share, ' We shkll raise money enough and to spare. is for ONWARD' No time for delay! Nop is the time! Get your Loan Bond Today I of our men over there. v “tshall we not do our part, when they meet death smiling! Shall stand behind them!" Tins Is the message sent home:. Franca,,Dec- .25, 1917. My Darling Mother: It i3 all a tittle, boneless and use less, but here goes pgain as it is .Christmas,•• and that should bring luck. Every now and then a long lonked- for letter arrive^ and then a little joy and then silence. ■« I am just back from “out there*! and }ic*w good a little French room and fire seem once more, nml,. water, to ! wa^h in, lefs of it, and clean sheets, ami hot food and greatest of 'all' the silence of a small town. ? havo clean clothes emeo more, nothing In them but me and todav is Christum* end I should be thnhkful. all is -®'mrrde*n wimrrnjg—and there w ft re Cj»ur:^gfrnPd Work-. I® many of-tbem' last year—-will put ® Work from morning to the next ® every dollar they can afford into ® we not morning, and work so hard you don’t ® the Liberty Loan.” '* ® know when morning actually comes. ® •* / ' (• I suppose it is Jn' my'.blood, for’all of ® ® 7 ® ® •" ? •' ®. ® ^ ® J- ? » T 1" T T T T ,T our ancestors fohght, and I like it in —-——: —— spite of the hell of noise, and sudden States, or by any local taxing, death, and lingering death, anl awful ou thoritv, except: Work^nd no water, and lice, and raped | f a ) Estate or inheritance taxes, women and mangled children, and ; r ^ q-raduM-ed additiu.nal income, towns that were, and friends that were, x ., Sj coyimonly. known as r'lpirtaxcs and the glorioun life to go back to » ]n ] excess ppufirtr or war-profits taxes after war. homo way it all seems as if - ^ nvv or hereafter imposed - by the I ha'd been through it before. Eiu^ed States upon the ihcome or I remember the la't letter T started j-.j-o,fdtsi of corporations, .individuals, to write you about two weeks.ago r in partnerships, or a^soeiations. a dugout nearly forty feet .deep, a". ! ^ , The.interest 011 an amount of bonds almost fft the start a shell hit the t-p-nd yertifi"tit- <, -not - in cxi'e^s of top, made an awful noise. my qqc) j n onc ,,u uprslup, is exe^njd from candde out, and made jna_think I had taxes provided for in clause {by / \ better .inspect our .trenches hud tn4»- f p- vp . — ._ / a little to my men, for T' felt a litlto j * Q 1Ws ,i t1li , i hnt the bonds are free from all local taiat/fir! A. Yes; the local assior tax fCZA ...... - „ ; t n npa.l of cheering. So I didn’t write ifaw on Earth good will- towards n;l ^ mor(t( bnt parted to inspect our mankind..’’ God, what a joke, but some ^ tion< wokc up flny is obn^p 1 to arri\c ana 1 **i \ • ! things become rformal. j -T'on’t min 1 if I n*ve in this letter -A little,. I have so much to tell, so very little, I can tell, nnd in all probability ■■ yrni will never receive it. so here goes. Ages ago it seems T arrived over i.here and have lived about'six lives ■ since then. . ^ in my dfug r ! ont with a little bit of overcoat left, a very small and shallow hole in my shoulder, a few gravel in my faro -and the bate of hell in fny heart for the'man who fired the-,shot. and there The Trenches. . So it goes. You walk through Y> go at breakneck specd - tr(in , lloa B - 0 d.tack vou skin your face w ill be no let up until The ■ in , t lho wa n 9 0 f it. curse the twist- asscssar yr , / eidlector cannot assess tVsc bDinls as p-’r.onal proper'V. ■/ Q. What is tiio aniymnt of the Third Li'nufy IvoanJ / A. The secretary of the treasure is |inviting suh^/npLinns fbr_ >h!.QOOJ}(iO,- 0<‘0 and r<yfrvcs the right—to aliot'ad ditional jbonds. IIow to Buy. How much do bonds of tin Third Li} orty I ,6'an cr'tf _ A. From $">9 to $100,000, whatever face value calls fu. The law Bochc is whippefb and hr is’ft hard ^ R , ia 0 - f if< and ^ ish to God you dev d t° whip. T have seen him in f0ulil BOO something real to sihoot ah, all Ins max'ty^J.is dirt .and filth, have , SixtPon lo „. r )l0urs of blackness atbl | s'rn the remnant of„his’ handiwork thcn a twil i ? ht twisted in. fogrand thtTr (God- help them! heard his hymn of ina if orm od bv {^hidden sun. Then the states that these bonds must lie sold hate, seen him on the battle field, - Ba " m( , thing over and over aj^in. Noth- i at tut less tlujir “par’'; that }s the'r heard his cannon roar, hjs machine j nR happens in the dayb hell pops fac>r value—100 cents on the dollar, gun sputter, pone through his gas, j oose a t darkness. \V£>e n I left the | Q. llow can I.buy the bonds of the Third Liberty Lotinf able to see in the darK. - | A. ®Ry ftFing ft lit j the world green, have, seen him rot on ! no man’s land, have seen him in all w ill be , ppjsihle forms and conditions, and though he is a good soldier we havo him whipped. Tie is a fighter and a are awake so am La large part of the Washington or any authocized solici- gomd one. but he has mt*t a .better one time. Everything works fast here, life, kor< than ho-H. I have seen-my men after, death, men, artillery, all are at con- , .^Q. When can this application for. cert pitch and going faster than you bonds he made! _ t can imagine; so if the Bocho l^dncky ^ At any time from the fith day of and one of his shells happen to Tity April, 191S, until the sales campaign me and I take the hai^'Jotig slfOp^Hcises. Thos. O. Sanders ... ... 20.(K> Rebecca Thwmp'son 20.00 > Jessie Bel! 55,00 Atr>‘ !i r, MfcNab — 55.00' Ruth liaigler 5T00 T Mae B. Kant ,JC. 60.00 1 t ' ,,r ‘ i ce O:' Williams ... i 55.00 gia'Mack Antley* 55.00 Jennie MorftppmCry ^5.00- * W.i!lianas It- 15.00 Koon ; __.__139.00 . Kpon .I., 18.21 r Armstrong, Treafi.. note -4- "TTnt. _ _±7±. _ _ 2100:00 Armstrong, Treas., loan |_ 1 int, 83.20 . Priester j_ 30.00 O. Sanders _ 20.00 tra Allen 25.00 B. Fartt _'_ 60.00. ib McNab^iv. 55.00 Haigler 55.00 • Bell ♦ — 55.00 •ia Mack ’Ar.tley 55.00 Koon _:_—_,M39.0O e O. Williams 55.00 Jennie Montgomery r_ 55.00 Williams, J5.00 ca Thompson^. 20.00 Aiken 25.00 Aiken 25.00 Aiken 25.00 M, 8^.36 -. District No. 23.—Hercules. . Harley *44.65 Proveaux 37.50 a Grooms 42.00 - Proveaux 50.00 a Grooms ---^------.-._ 41.2& . Harley ______! 25.31 a ‘Grooms 40.00. Proveaux 50.00 —*880.71 district No. 24—Ashleigh. MUes 6.W; Lyles 53.00 E. CUrk 30:00 Posey 1 40.00 idom ^ a 6.00 Clark 30.00 Lyle a 54.00 E. Clark ____ 35.00 3dom ; 2.00 *256.00- Irict No. 25—New Forest. Butler *25.0(r ett Skelton _ _T. 55.00 Cushman 3.60 Sutler *25.00 ett Skelton 55.00 Butler *25.00 ett Skelton s 59.00 ett Skelton ’__ 25.00 T . . ' , *272.50 No. 26—Upper Rich Laad. il. Peeples *30.00 E.Golphin 30.00 ■4. Peeples _'_ > ___*30.00 D. Owens 75.00 *165.00 lr fl Omni^ned next we-k.] ;’w>i; ; have hi>cn knocked down amTcold, fay. bcn^“»° 1 u ’ns rcidkv bogioning to be : 1 , .. j his shells, watched his star shells turn able to. see in the dark. T~" A.TIy ftPThg 4pidh'atiiyn_ Mother, wb A n you get this letter I blank‘and .handing it to any hank or ..ill be back in the line. When you trust company, bond dealer or broker, ah are a-sleep I am awaku (for night is or to one of the Federal reservembanks, avo the time things happen) an'l when you or\to the treasury. (le.partineTnt at 'si _ four (Lays w-Uh-iui sleep, in .mud almost to their-waist, loury. a little ^hungry, very, very tired and in a place no sane 'man would like to be, crack jokes f>. yia for i'EACE You can help it along— Fay the Erjop timv and won t tKjty-us. long. T it . . ' > - V >' » •> ■\\ ■y; e , i r .1 A is 'for QEITTER, a Qued.r i kind of Qu.'U'k, • QiiTck with his talk, but in g i v i n g. Q js t e jS 1 a ck. e—• i is for ROOTERS, clcrhl,. wo- s- nian an l.HJan, • ' B.m'-'l ieg- for Hon )s, while when a fdu 11 hit a little too If-rr off, you must not worry a laugh at death, nnd wounded, wonder how long it will he before they eouhl return to hit at him"once more. Ho will never ppliheeiafc the spirit of oiy ; troops, for what the Roche doesn’t po«- j sess he can’t understand, and the spirit • of our.ineii is strmtHhdug be will never* possess. ' . *~ | There was an affair on the 13th of n certain month (look at" vonr Army And/Navy .TournaD an 1 heifi'g on the JGl.lt./of...course, I was yunp', ’liiiiUM i son;? they—Ruy. ali they can. " . i‘ • n i! has wrong :angs get twisted fdr'jb/E KY E, SEl and SAN E — DENIAL Strike w it'li'your m|ght, anl |. \ , our Flag shall’still u:wp. ] ^ for TOMORROW, whose, sun will n<er shine — Do it TODAY Sign yol going from here to America, but in that 1 ;:TTlc affair I saw oiie nuin go wTth a kinile on liis face into pure death and d’o—knew it. Wlrat the P.ocl:e had in-- !• nded for a big thing ended in a farce, for them. A few/ very, very few of us whipppl hell out of Go! knows I Jao\v ii’vipv of them.- NN’e have got them wl little bit. I Qyln what*form must applications chose- this profeMon-and it ts ‘he only to |>;)V a j/.hertv bond be nNade! one. of the null. Tf I don’t come back A hn ap>b- ations furnished vou bv when peace ia aoumlej, just rcmein- eF by a» ^utburixed'salicl, l^r;-4J»at l met it smiling and tried, ^ (ir and did do ail you would want me to . g MuBt the full prt^-of bonds be’ ’ . , T> , . 'paid on application!. \ -.J^JmieJvee^f^n-ite. m my an-I A N lt ,. ail , ial] fof>Cinstal- rostors an«l tnnir f’^l’tirrcr fffulit-io^. ~± L —** ? yt prrhrtps if i,3 a 11 fl<- Major „„ p , r f., fW l.iala a< T •*** of Y w <-. I niale my 6i.bscrii>tion, M» y . all vmu can and kaD.w th^t I api happy ^ ,1., • somewhere. - ‘ * I V* ■ • e u t •ri • ■ t .. - ... e A. 5 owr-rou can pav in full for any This, I know, from my old remen,- V011 ‘ ,. llltcrl , (( . f or . . , brnnees of t rtrtgrounded a bttlo bke ■ Q If j in fu1 , f or a ^,0. $100, mush, but it isnt. it .* exactly what * > m X m .eive,the Pf '4 KU Lack and IL acres# 1 mcanr an'l feel- ft 1s-fir>t cayv to write, but if LconlJ talk to you -for —a—few mmbt-e-ft—yen—wi-a+W. u n lc rstaiTd, cst knottier, grto l night. A t ’ , " , T ■, . i i. n and I hope this letter ^ 1,0 subserrbors to Liberty bonds j —I am still wretcho 1 particular'recogint.pn ? _ . | ti=s A. Yes; each anjiscf.iljer ia given a- . . -w „ „ — I es a Sam. Coma n:r.:ra 5 \ u nahne on the linel moans EXITED - ho stand- or * to fall— Uncle Sam needs you—rc- ipond tc the call! \ J is for VICTORY; sure to be * won 'When every person his duty ‘ lias done. •“ ; • yo.i.i always understom .. And now. dearest mother, grto l night. Tt is Christ,nas an up;"'.,. Mother, and tney win soou w hen w« were toge”h>r you ttree . . , trnd it out. , not as happv ns votl stiould l,aveTM.*i'* r 4—~± e .. ' been i r .,, rofTnial button, but perhaps this hdjis a little. . Again" goo l iiight and God bless you. -..Your loving son. 1 bond ! A. Yivs! ns soon ns it eau be shipped by the treasury department to ■ the bank thfoilgh^.which you subscribe. in /.the form pf j. ]AitmTr"nd> one. {vhp has not rblKler shell tire, can know anything "ftbout it (1 lwrve jin overooat Or wlmt is lCftTof tt.' T wish you could seeV. it. I h.avo SiVn my. company, under jt flrKl for-m rrre-t-h-art fj' •ibrwwrM7r» T eS^71TiTf“ firiiH: apd I have vet to see'one of t444\Hi\8how* any signs of cowardice. They nVi’ afraid, of course; everyone is afrah.l a- lilt[e, h:t when the noise-' of bursting slipljs was so great that, I s—would have to Van close, and ye ‘11 do J w J. is for WAR'drit is no parlor gafacw— • ■ v Win it with money, or be hoard,..they-always had a snwle and a jpke in reply, : t h 3 ' ' . . ; . , - - “I 1' - .■/■■■ ■ XT 1# for XMAS./tbe seaaon of 1 - • " • 1 / I 2 > • ' «• ' \ ' ^cliVer-^ ' Help Hnitta bring us success_ .this year. , V. 1 . . ‘ * v 3 1 -_-_oj.ber fellow— Show that j-our blood is Red, not streaked, with Yellow’d 2 f is for-ZENTTTT, which means ^ the Tip-Top! — “On to the gQal! Btiy and Buy, and don’Letop! ! TliR'Di^drarn .-cmhisisis Oi leauiug tend V ical" niid 1 nsfrumciital . i 'iiumVrpv wliicJi are . sure to pica<e every opt* present. The procee-I- will go to - the-lx*petit ^_of r the. |ierj CUvss. * 1 : will miss a real treat if j^yoiMio uot come. I have to4d- you before that T am a .captain, and. my eomfiany of 2o0..rtfefi are just the best in tlTn wsirlff. They -. like me nhd T idolize tio*>m. and we ’ ., 11 " w vcrtainly-pull - .together. God hc-lp the r0VVI1 ‘ •B ubo when we hit him, for we won't We hove given him a small sarnide of 'the meal he ha .. yet to eat. an 1 ho is going to .strangle 1 ovep.-it. • “War Is Hen." It is hard tif^w'd-' 1 of things yon s’ouhl not. and canm>* ipnd.crstun l. You ; of r* ad songs about “shot fin 1 shell lly- v , v ii ing’’ anil it sounds prottv to music, J .■ Continued From First Page.) • T “j” on the back of the bond in accordance with directions there given. Q.’ Suppose a married woman , wishes to transfer a bond made out jn her maiden name? , • A. 8he should sign herself ‘Mary by marriage “Ma Mu porn/jn t o v. ■ . A p batc«i government bond is frequently spoken of as “best .ftecu- “f.\ in t' e worl 1. \\ ! y jq this-t-rwef '•seJI or assign lA- Because fire promise to Yav. a 4«red boird, tlx Q. As a prac-tic^Lpiatter, w'jll I have ,inv .lifiiculty in-atton tnig t-o ‘these do- 1 ! tail-’ . . A. None at alh Ahy hank. trn«t company, bond house, or broker“wTTI 'gladly give you full-instructions at any .time without charge. How Women May Aid. *S * .1 Q. TTow may women ai<l the Lib erty Loan ? . — .. A. Firs-it—*P.y the purchase of_ Lib erty bonds. Second By ■ helping', to sol Liberty bonds to others. Q. (/an a woman nw.t-n- U-herty bond as her personal pniportyt ' A. A Liberty, bond is the personal property of the purcba-cr or of the fwhidi rollitra^ die of tho rev •( I pleats, barriad efl. Ieavia| rid|a px & A, (Mil to government Enel J-> backed b\ the ship is a in a . regis-, of its owni-r'- 1 the purchaser ma it. If it is a i reror< r of. governmental rec- faitli dn-L. hotiof of the’ United stat s oi l. A Liberty bond is'therefore the of. Airtffi’<•* and by tlm taxing [M>w(>r property of tT.o' ■womrui who' bd^-s/it^ uu- of this wliAle- country, which, is the til sib* i.Epu/es pf it. host MU!fion in the w orld. —*0 ■ How Far Exempt Frorii Taxes. ‘ A rf’gin’ont of* young men—our soR •i di* rs m the making—marched in Bal- a banner bii which was ■nhed, “We have given ourselves; •When you actually hear It,, it "Sounds 4jj9 F imagine hell feels like. Youi.,,.Q. Are Liberty 1»omha exempt from timore with can’t tell abo.ut > it, you simply hnAv* — xntion ! •* . u . in to feel it*. ' A The bonifT hrV ap fi^?rpt*both' n« to xviVtJ have you given f" ~iTho question In America the slogan use 1 to he ‘ principal ali i interest from all taxes is for every one to answer, If you “Control your anger, peace at any imposed #y the l piled SStatea, any-cannot give your blood, at least giv#. nan u*—***o—wuit ;p(" hi" D< lill't {/» J.TVC - " * “Control your anger, peace at any imposed ay- mo i wunii i , J pfjco.“ And they were La a way state;.or*any cf fh* >t~wti- i-- <i . I’>ui*ckha,lter _ 30 00 “ nag e up 3«).00 r. ias enlist,in R ^—-- tlic^.N.i I jigiUR-t*j n corps u tut* r ipth?'k.‘Goolsby _i *70. oo tlie coin maud of- Maj. c MuMrow,, :iur> FT Gole— oo.oo who i> stationed in BaqiwtSP, and ; : v L»nsff«rd —8Q,yo emt-red into active VO-vice on-sSw’ Saturday^of lait week, a * ' Fmacis C. MLcson 10.00 ; posseseious of-tb# bread and serviea. More l H3n i^ays. ior i:Y*^r. le plows and hoes^ - y-five acres. is made of thoroughly so simple and positive just how easy it is to W. L. GAVE, Distributor, Barnwell, S. C. ■ * V ~ ,± ± * Ik y • it * • '* *V^ Afi'**