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FOOD IS SCARCE. n Caring for the Living In Storm See tion j8 Now a Problem?Injured Doing Well. Atlanta, On., April 27.?Practical Jy complete returns from all portion! of Ixiuisiann, Mississippi, Alabami and Georgia show that tine death lis in tiro wind, rain and elcctical storn of last Friday, Saturday and Sunday will not be more than 400. The num ber of injured stands tonight at abon J,200, with reports indicating that j number of the persons hurt in thii Btorm probably will dio. Relief measures have been extcndei by the United States government t< Hattiesburg, Miss., Purvis and othei towns in the four States. In additioi to lcdenil aid the Slates took promp measures today for the prompt as sistance of those made homeless b^ the storm and for hospital accommo dations for those injured. The department of the gulf offeree fieorgia any :iid necessary late today f?ov. SiniIh, for (ieorgia, immediate ]\ wiivd lor information as to whether federal assrslauce was neeessai'v a I any /mini within the Stale. Similai action was tak. ri in Alabama, Mississippi ami Louisiana, and at soiik points Slate troops have, been caller out to guard devastated districts am to aid local authorities in relief work Tents and supplies have been sent tc many of the towns wrecked. The flood which threatened part..' of Georgia today caused no loss ol life, but did considerable property damage. Reports from all parts of the four fStates show that a number of' death. have resulted from injuries received in the storm. The property loss will probablv exceed $2,000,000. New Orleans, April 27.?'Will about 'f2> newly made graves distri hilled broadcast over nearly I lie en tire width of Louisiana, Mississipp ami Alabama, the dead in Kriday's tonighl, ami il was possible to sa\ tonight, ml il was possible to s,?n with accuracy that, the death list it these Stales would nol exceed ,'{50 The lew who may yet be added to the fatalities are possibly a score of tin 200 most seriously wounded in hos pitals throughout Ibe Stales. The re ma.in.ing injured, numbering abou 3,000, were reported on the road to ro cove ry. I he gravity of today's situatioi centered in the problems of the liv ing, namely, hunger and 'shelter. A - least one stricken town was reporte< 'to have eaten literally its last mea at noon today and was relying oi charity for its supper. Fortunately the great territory over which tin Ktricken districts were scattere<r lef an opportunity for the unharmet neghbors inl'erspersed everywlren throughout these centres of want t.< furnish relief more quickly and eft* ectively than would have been pos sible had the disaster been confined to one place. Cities, little and big on all sides of the tornado belt mad. rapid preparations today to shi| supplies and men fnto the tornade districts. iXew Orleans started t money subscription and also shippe'd food to Amit,', the worst damaged town in this State. Amite was I lie town which reported today. Otherwise (he lilllo lown was making rapid progress toward rehabitat ion. the primary feature ol the r?'s| oral ion being there opening ot si reels by dragging trees, roofs and oilier wreckage off roadways. Tin CiUirchc~, every one of which waavrecked, wciv among lire lirst edifices to rise in the form of temporary pavilions above I he ruins. At Purvis, Miss., today cook stoves were about ihe most valuable assets in the community. A few ol them had been brought from tin wreckage and under the direction ol the authorities their use was loaned first to one family and then to anolh er. Purvis was one of the few com munities still reporting fresh list: of injured and dying, who were foutu in the outlying country, some of then .in a desperate stale from lack o care. These unfortunates were m.udi as comfort hie as possible. So I'ar a known, all were* negroes. Supcrin iendeut of Education T. \\\ Davis, ii charge of the relief work at Purvis said in describing the situation: "Wihal we will do largely depend upon what is done for us. We our selves have no resources. The debri must he cleared awav, the dead stoel removed, the injured oared for. W have put on a small force of worker? but will not be able to continue liter unless money is rapidly forth com i ng.'' Amite, Purvis and several ot lie stricken towns were given bad scare last night by heavy winds, but Ih only fatalities reported in this seclio from the storm were nenr-Sehna Ala., where four negroes perished. WOULD'PREVENT SPRING FLOO The greatest (lovelopmcnt of wj power that lias y>ver taken place in United States lias been accomplis - during the last few years on the 3 crs which drain tire Southern Appj J chain Mountains, according to an i t ei-al report on the water resources 1 t,lis region. It is estimated t V there is at least 2,800,000 indicti horsepower developed by the strei t which have their headwaters on I i watershed, and more than half of I indicated power is available for eo oinic development. ' Only a comparatively small pari > this has been made use of yet, but l' portion that lias been utilized ' been one of (Ire most important J 1 tors in the recent industrial devel ment of the South. In the future use of this power on J its value - bound to increase tremendou Manufacturing plants are constat 1 increasing in number in the rcg . and if is reasonable to expect thai time the center of the cotton weav . industry in the United Slates ina,v moved from the streams of New K land where it has remained fur long, nearer l<? the source of sup j fur the raw material. I Moreover, waterpower, or po r originating in (he streams, will more and more in demand here, > everywhere else in the country, on count of the increasing cost of i ; power through dwindling fuel resc : ees of the country. Already the wa - power costs much loss than the fi and the difference will inovita grow greater. One great difficulty i I lie users of water power, not only I the South bul along the New E land streams as well, though possi . In a less degree, is the fact that can nol lie depended upon the y around, bul must, be supplemen i and replaced for some weeks - mouths -every summer by cosily t - power, because I he streams run i low Id h(> of service. More ilian this, as (he years go ' "'ill owners are painfully aware t i I he low-water periods are grow i longer and longer. This is been < the iuresis at (h<> headwaters of < streams are being cut off, with the ' snll that the melting winter stv and the spring rains pour off; the nuded and uardened land in dova; t ting floods, sending down for a - weeks far mure water than they use and moreover, reducing the er > city and usefulness of their millpo - by filling them with hundreds of I t of sand and soil which the flc ^ scour off the unprotected uj I slopes. 1 Nowhere are business men wi ? awake to the danger tban in South. Tf indiscriminate cutting the forests on the crests of the wa shod can be stopped, there is a po bilily, according lo a recent reporl experts, of increasing the deve! ment of power up to anywhere fro: In .{() times the .1 ,-100,000 horscpo a I present available. Without it, most nothing can be done. The m< <>d proposed to develop the Appi ehian river resources to the total 42,000,000 horsepower is by s(or I reservoirs, which would catch the s j. plus waters of the spring and ret them until the summer months wi rwmrmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmBmmmmmmmammwmmmmm Hot Stove? i : /Wick Blue Fla , M the kitchen actually seem 9 1 his, in itself, is wondc s Perfection" Oil Stove doe: 6 thing that any stove can < < Hi all-round cook-stove. M ? and fully warranted. I dealer, write our nearest : ? ^1^ some lamp. Burns for mellow light. Just win S talk. rca(''nK or lo I'K^t e not with yourdealcr, w It STANDARD O J (he mills now have to fall hack on >d8 fuel or close down. The United Stale Geological Surlier vcy has kept records of stream flow in tl10 the Appalnchains for a number of hed years and recently they made a careriv ful study of the possibilities of storala reservoirs in that region. The oftl- Forest Service has published their i Df report under the title "The Relajiat tion of the Southern Appalaehain itcd plater Power," as Forest Service wis Circular 144, and will send it free to this anyone upon application. The experts this Geological Survey who made ,on. the investigation, af!er picking out rosorvoir sites and estimating their ca^ 0? pac'ity and the area from which they the wou^ receiy,e the run-off, consider the has f'?urcs Kiwi above extremely conaerPac valivc. Even with only 1,400,000 Ion- li?i*Rcpower, the annual return at $20 per horsepower per year would amount are '? $28,000,000. That is equal to a .' gross income of 3 per cent on a capi"jj; tal of about $033,000,000. These figion ,ucs s(V,n '? jtiKlify a considerable , . ' outlay of money to achieve the benc'j fits promised. Rutherford News. ~0 Rutherford* School, April 20.?>Ru . therl'ord Farmer's union met on last ,,,l> Sahmlay. Air. T. W. Amick, of Peak, was the WC1 guest of his son, Air. G. II. Amick, and K his brother-in-law, Mr. ,T. P. Pawls, ns Saturday and Sunday, returning to ,nc" his -work at. Peak, where he is erect110 ing some dwelling liouses for Mr. J. "l" K. Summer. iter 1 Mrs. Delia Ilutclnnson and daugh! ter spent a short while with her sis f ter, Mrs. G. H. Amick, of this see tion, last week. _ We are having plenty of rain now, II and the cotton and corn that was planted a few days ago is rapidly ' r coming up. The fruit of this section led was lu>' damaged during Easter. The ' cherry crop is short, but wo have a > I favorable outlook for a large crop of , ^ I blackberries. too A\ < were greatly shocked to hear I of the death of Mr. J. IT. Smith. "Mr. Sinitii was a Confederate soldier and a . good and faithful on,^ and was a good 1 citi/.en. This community suffers a |l.M greal loss in his death. The bereaved M family have our sympathy and may God comfort, them in their bereaveV" nrent. llis chair around the fireside <.t~ is vacant which cannot be filled; his voice is stilled to be heard no more and in the church his seat is vacant. Cftn It. will be a monument to his memory l^,l~ as long as the church stands, for ,u ' "when we go in church we will look and ?"s say where is the vacant scat of our ,0( S brother who we will see no more in >^?r this world. We will see no more his feeble gray head bowed in prayer and idci will hear no more the feeble voice jn the choir singing praises to Cod. He has gone to rest but it. is the work tcy- of the Maker and Ruler of all things. |RS1" His will shall be done, not ours, t of n. lop for sale. 1 10 IT. P. horizontal engine; 1. 20 >(]?. II. P. steel boiler; I laundry wagon; \\n- lot of old iron, piping, etc. Offered for of sale as assets of the Newberry Steam a<re Laundry Co. Terms: cash. See the iur- undersiged if you wish to purchase. ajn IT. C. Holloway, Receiver, lien 4-17-4t-st. Cool Kitchen How do you expect to endure the broiling days of * summer if you prepare all the food over a glowing coal ,-m^ fire?. You need a " New PerfecjAjf tion" Oil Stove that will do the cooking without c.ook^ ing the cook. It concenin trates plenty of heat under IJ the pot and diffuses little Va. or none through the room. Therefore, when working with the EKFECTI0N ime Oil Cook-Stove s as comfortable as you could wish srful, but, more than that, the "New 5 perfectly everylo. It is an ideal ade in three sizes, J \\ f not with your -r~r^ kgency. Lamp \/' i substantial, strong- | | hours with a strong, r , . J j&j it you need for oven- rj rite our nearest agcncy, ^ IL COMPANY j.j Newberry I Hardware Company Weeders Cultivators Harrows Hoes And Farm Implements Of All Kinds NEWBERRY HARDWARE This is Worth j ...READING... It is not our policy to hand you out a bait for breakfast and follow it with a lemon for dinner and supper. Shoddy, shop worn goods?such as you generally j find at "Special Bargain Sales" are too | dear at any price. There is not one sin- | gle item in our line on which there is not 1 a lower price than any other firm can consistently offer. We mean honest serviceable goods at'Bargain Prices'. Study your own interest?come?if we don't Show You a Glean Gut Saving on any every purchase pass us by. The large trade we command was not built in a day or by "Special Bargain Sales." j Only by persistent hard and honest toil ^ have we gained the confidence of the public. Spend your money where the dollar gives the best results. * Yours for Bargains, j o. klettner! The ^air and Square Dealer. YOUR BANKING! THE NEWBERRY SAVINGS BANK. Capital $50,000 ... Surplus $30,000 1 No Matter How Small, Ho Matter How Large, The Newberry Savings Bank J will give it careful attention. This messaged applies to the men and the women alike. JAS. McINTOSH. J. E, NORWOOD, President; Casbton 1 JOB PRMI ''ASYOU I LIKE IT" 1 " I { i l 'i Herald and News . S \ * \ V * iH