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• r y V X n h -4- ■ ■ -Ji-*- , Jt r ■ ft. 414 -4- r 4- / SIXTY SIXTH YEAR ESTABLISHED 1852 —v . . x V.... • L 3 '.L/i a :.i-i *x- ‘ SIXTY SIXTH YEAR VOL. LXVI. BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNK tv. 191 NO. 33. FARMERS TAKE NOTICE. flu 1 T/Cottoil €cmf e rencc at Columbia on M<iy 14th, At hehl ,a «qieml committee was ap- ppitv4-;4b, pterfeHt' plans for the formal! -n of Community Mark- 'lubs and County Mark- «rii; j;' Associations *> throughout tiborth Carolina. The members of that committee met in the office of, State' 'Warehouse Com missioner on Monday afternoon and arranged tor meetings .at several county seats. Below are the nam'es of the places at which and the dates on wliich these meetings will be held. Sumter, June 10Darling ton. 11; Manning; June 12; Chesterfield, June 13; Barn well, June: 17 ; Bamberg, June IS : Hampton, June 19 ; Ander son, June 27 ; Greenwood, June j28 ; Newberry, June 29. These meetings will be held in the county courthouse at 11 o’clockn.m, on the dates namocTT Other dates and other meet ings will be provided later. Cotton farmers and all otli- ers wJjo are interested in the es tablishment of a state-wide sys- fern for marketing cotton and cotton seed, are urged to attend these,' meetings. The- purpose* ■of• the South Ctrplina Cotton Marketing organization) will be fnilv discussed and every farmer will be given an opportunity to enroll his,name as a member of this -tate organization,.'Certain interests inimical to those of pro ducers are exerting every possi ble influence to -induce thd Gov ernment to fixtlie price of the 1918 crop, tii^at is, to fix the price before the crop has been pro duced and before the cost of pro duction has been ascertained Mirnce-t.he-f'aymor.s of i the- State .should associate themselves to gether, and should there be any price-fixing their voice anil their influence should bb felt in fixing a reasonable and just price for ti crop p: oduced by their own hands. T! B. Thackston, Secretary South G’arolina Cotton Marketing Organization. uuiiwnun ttimirm tnrrns> states JXJVSBMMIMT b. QUOTA IS r• wtifliwosnuffi > mvu nr tu VNITID sum JXPVtKMMIKT s' WOMAN’S COMMITTEE To be invested in War Savings Stamps this year. So far we have purch- . . '1 . ' • ' - y - . : ■' 1 . : - - 1 ■ ■ T ‘ v t ” • - - - r-y—• - ' ■ . • ’ ased only about $1,500,000—The worst showing in the whole United States! To make up for this poor showing the state must buy $6,000,000 worth of ■ * » stamps during June and-must pledge to save and invest in $33,000,000 alto gether during the year. — : • p SIGN THE PLEDGE and buy all the War Savings Stamps you can. Let’s swing South Carolina into line. It can and must be done. HBWMDHI A War Savings Stamp costs $4.17 irnjmre. Redeemable Jan. 1,1923 For... WITED STATES £G¥tBKMIMT| The Week’s War Activities. not willing to jeopardize this fu- turtTs access by the prize of a few square miles of ground. It is known fact that always lose more men, than those attacked, 'i’he Allies are surrendering grohnd for dead Germans. An- theYttaCking forces LAUDS AMERICAN VICTORY. London, May 30.—Comment ing on the capture of Cantiguv by the Americans, the Evening New .says j • l Bravo !'The Young Amer ican ! Nothing in today's battle narrative from tile front is more exhilarating than the account of their fight at Cantiguv. It ^ was clean cut from the begining Nto end, like one of their coun trymen's short stories, and the short story of Cantiguv is going to expand into-a full length novel, which \vijl write' the doom of the‘Kaiser and Kaiser- The su'pense. of both sides/ was ended a week ago by the long promised battle by the Ger mans. The scope of operations another well was on the southern side of the Amiens salient which had'be come too narrow fpr safety. The A Pies had been guessing where this blow would fall.' It was other fact in tliisT*ecent battle is supposed that it would eitlnH- Ix^that the Allies were*~unwi] toward the channel ports and thus seriously cripple the Allied transport service, or a blow at Paris. But the Allies were part ly outguessed*. In the week’s battle just past the Germans to date have made a gain of twenty- six miles. In one day they re- ling to run the risk of withdrawing their reserves from the defense of the channel ports through which come all the inen and sup plies for their armies to save a few square miles of land in the south. As the matter’ stands, the Allies have lost some tetri- Reports on Red Cross Work. Tft M^ef With ibe Cscncil cf Defense Fri* _ - day. Jooe 7ih. ' - i I, as county cliairman of the woman's division of the coun cil of defense do . here- by < ppoint, the -following* ‘ holies as township chairmen of their respective townships. -They are 'to appoint 1 their- ; helpers by school districts. Each of these is urged to accept This. ; responsibility and in behalf of the. council of defense tU. l-pusii___ the War Savings Stamp campaign. The War rSaving- Stamp campaigfT'Ts" a part of tlie'work of the council ,o’ defence,, and as a inenber tf .that committee these same I * individuals are urged to attend the Council of Defense meeting to be held in Barnwell on Friday, June.7th, at eleven o’clock at' tile court house. Mrs.E. II. Oswald,Allendale ; Mrs. II. L. A), Ban non, Barn well'; Mrs. 1 W. Z. Bryan, Allendale; Mrs. C. B. Ellis, Jr.. Martin, S. C.; Mra. Matilda Grooms, Barnwell; Mrs. T. F. Hogg, Kline; Mrs. J.C. Fowke Lyndhurst; Mrs. J. W.-Folk, Williston; Mrs. Lizzie Dicks, Dunbarton; Mrs. L. A. Bush, Ellen toilMrs. John Jenny, Fairfax; Mrs. Win. Jones, Williston ; Mrs. Hermon Brown, Blackville;- Mrs, E. D. Blount. Appleton. Eloise Cavfe, Countv Chairman of Woman’s Division ofCouncil of Defense, I had hoped to give a full account of all Branches ami Auxiliaries of our chapter in (his issue but owing to the fact that some have failed to tend in a report cf tlveir work it will be impossible to render a complete report. t Li our last issue Fairfax a. membership of about one hundred white people and twenty five or.more colored people, with Mrs. C. C. Meyers as chairman, Mrs. Idis Brabham vice-chairman; Mrs. IL. S. McLean, treasurer; Mrs. J. S. Mcllwaine, secietary, and Mrs. C. B. EJlis, Jr., chairman of lsjn. ‘‘We expected it. We have seen those -yming Americans in London and merely to glance at them was. to know that they are comjuerers and brothers in that great Anglo-Saxon Latin compact wliich will bring down the diabolical Prussian idol; wirli its poisons anVL calculated - infamies, to enthrone chivalrous humanity -again. "* -‘"They do not swagger and icy have no war illusions. They Have^Jone their first job with swift precision characteris tic, of the United States and Can- tigny will one day l>e repeated a thousand fold. On that day the Kaiser’s crown will go to the Allied museum” took all iho ground and strategic tory, guns, and men,' but the Germans have gained nothing that will materially contribute toward their final victory. The progress of this battle is as was to be expected. Tt is pos sible to make an advance into the enemy’s lines by either side. The Germans by the large use of points tluit Frame had won in 1917. They have made their us ual claims of large captures of both men ami material. The,de tails of tnis new offensive are not of as great interest to us as certain,other questions. We are coi.timlallv asking our- r V O Ives : Why are the Germans sue- ^iv cesi- m these three 9. great bag ful ties of this year? W hy have the Allies with their backs so c 1 ose ta the cl tan n el ports yield ed ground in e case METHODIST CONFERENCE. The second quarterly confer- will be held at Siloam Sunday, June 9th. On this day the new church will be dedicated. The meinbers of the ohprch are asked to bring dinner as there will be two services. Why do the Allies wait until the Ger mans strike, instead of striking themselves?. It dots no good to deny to the Germans the fact of having a highly disciplined army, led by oflicer* of a very high grade* Neither is it true to deny to tlit in the-fact that they have won practically three victories this year, 'rile South won some brilliant victories, but these vic tories didn’t win the war. Nei ther will German successes do. more far them than,to win a temporal*) success,. Tiie policies of the opposing armies differ. Germany is fight ing against time. There are no where- any soldiers coming .to take the places of those lost from her armies. --She has no Amer- cans to fill her .armies. , All the increase she can expect must come from tne troops withdrawn from tl^e-Rus&ian front. If with these reinforcements she cannot gas shells made a larger advance - than was expected. There seems to be no obstacle offered to a straight advance, because there is increasing, danger when the. depth of a salient increases more than its width. The Allies have .held eacn side firm, and the next few days indicate a complete halt of the movement. " _.. . work done by her Branch and we are justly proud of theshow- ing made by this noble little band of workers. They came into our chapter on March 12th last and lutve a membership of about one hundred and sixty ; have also a Junior Auxiliary and have turned insixty finished garments. And that means that when they brought in sixty garments they also carried out a goodly supply. And what about Williston! Here comes this splendid report j from our sister town, which -peaks for itself : “The Willis- -ton Branch of the Barnwell county Red Gross began work i.i November last. During these seven months 3-19 bedshirts, 07 pairs pajamas, .34 sweaters, 3t> pairs socks, 2 prs. wristlets, 11 prs* bed socks And 17 iracture pillows have been sent in-520 articles. * . r I. rge Win, then neither esmlrsnvtff when the Allied armies are in creased "by American armies. Th$ Allies are looking not so much at the winning of any par ticular battle at present as tiie winning of the war. They are DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BALDOG* Mr. J. Albert Bennett, of tliis city, was notified yesterday morning (Wednesday) that his barney stables, three head of fine mules, fine horse, all liis corn, fodder, hay, etc., on his farm situated near the Savan na'll river, about six miles southwest of Baldoc, was destroyed by fire about five o'clock a. m. Mr. Bennett, with ■Sheri tf Morris and Mr. Stanl.ey Dicks, left immediately for the scene and have been making every effort possible to ferrit out the guilty party. Up to this time nothing more than tracks have been discovered. Loss estimated at about thirty-five hundred or four , -tliauMud. dollars, no insurance. gave us a sp]ended report of the}finance committee, we feel safe in saying that we have a band of hustlers who will make some., of us wake up and take notice. It is remarkable the splendid showing the colored people in that community have made in this work. This branch takes in Meyers Mill, Hattieville and Robbins, who formerly worked ft/ under the branch at Martins with Mrs. C. B. Ellis as chair man, and we all know of the vast amount of work done by Mrs. Filial, not only for the Red Cross but Liberty Loan, sale of Red Cross seals, for which she was awarded a certificate by the Anti-Tuberculosis associ ation, collection of clothing for Belgian 'relief and other'good works too numerous to mention. The branch at Martins is still in a prosperous condition. Blackville is another branch of which we are justly fnoud, 'being the only branch in our $274.-13 has been raised by chapter to take up a class ‘ in this branch: $100.09 of this surgical .dressing. They, are was giverr ter the Teceii t county ’always ready and "wiTl uig to do Red Cross* drive. There are 221 their part and their work is ex- members in this branch and i cellent. I have not a fuH report of new members coming in every | the work turned in by this branch week. What about this report,; but it is above the averagP and folks? Could anyone wish for) with such .earnest workers, better? From the amount of under'the leadership pf Mrs, Herman Brown as chairman, we feel assured that our boys Mr. Maloy Brodie left this morning (Thursday) for Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C., after spending several days with faiadi lure.. —_ From the amount of-under work done, I feel sure that with the 221 members that 221 must be active workers'. We have a splendid little band at Lynluirst and they have doubled their membership in the past few weeks. And membership is not all, for they are not only mefnbers but workers. Mrs. J. C. Fowke makes a weekly trip to our work room and either brings in finished "garments or carries out work. They also gave a Red CrOSB 1 Hariyana sold re- Healing Springs has freshraents and donated the proceeds to the*work. One of the most earnest and enthusiastic branches which we have is the recently organized branch at Meyers Mill, with at tire front will’ never suffer. We do nonhear much from Dunbarton, Kline, and Healing Springs these days because they are so busy* working for the cause, but they assure, us that they are comTng in on time with their allotment of garments, which are always so perfectly made, every garment pressed and folded just right, all of which is very too. It was with genuiue regret that we gave up this splendid branch. They were akfa^ys so enthusiastic as well as earnest in the work, and while we re alized that it was best for them to unite with, the nearest chapter still we hated to give them' up. And what about the work of the chapter? We are just a little bit modest when it comes to blowing our own horn, but will say this much : We have a band of forty noble women on the cutting committee, ten each day, and up to a few week ago • they cut every garment that has been made by every branch except several dozen suits of pajamas which were bought already cut. We cut these gar ments and carry them to the homes of the ladies (who do not call for them) ; and likewise the wool for socks and sweaters is taken out by the ladies and a number of Junior members and we are doing a splendid work. 1 . In last week’s issue there was an error of 100 hospital bed shirts. /—The report stated that 280 were % shipped last week when there were 380 shirts. The seventeen boxes sent by this chapter and its branches and auxiliaries since November Oth last contained 1,862 gar ments. Our chairman on sup plies, Mrs. L. H. Christie; i9 a IfusTTer and while she works hard she sees to it that every one else does his “bit” and a bit more. r The regular meeting of • the Executive committee will meet at live Bank of Western Ularolina on Thursday afternoon, June 0th, and every member i* requested to he present. ^ Jennie R. Greene* Sec’y. -gr-jt.liiigg.-. is recently raised about $30.00 for the cause which they will use* toward purchasing supplies. The kind expressions from Baldoc in last issue made us feel mighty good and puffed up returning. Miv and Mrs. James Dun-* bar. of .Milieu, were visitors ^ here this morning. . A . . ■ » Capt H. A. Siipms, Mr. N. Gilmore Simms and Hon. V. Owens’left Barnwell this morn ing for Embrec, where they will spend a few days fishing. Mrs. F. S. Brown and little daughter, Mary Catherine, of - this efty, left this afternoon for Spartanburg Where they will - visit friends aud relatives. They will stop over in Coiu&tbia ox*» i- 4\ V