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I^ ^ - - " ' ?-r VOLUME LV., NUMBER 96 NEWBERRY, S. C? TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1918. TWICE A WEEK, $1.50 A YEAB ? ??** * & < * RED CROSS NOTES. > t -o? The Red Cross Faces a Period of ^ Great Activity. > ?and? 4 The question as to "What will th ? - ? - ?>? 2- ?. f mo Ked uross ao now: is U1XC kuai uiu be answered in comparatively fe^ words, but thp words cover man; phases of work. The Red Cross i not a war agency; it is an organiza / tion for relief in lime of stress an the reconstruction period folio win the greatest war in history is no tim for inactivity. The work of the Red Cross in wa is "universally known; the work noi that war is over will be conducte along exactly the same lines as durin the days of active hostilities. Firsi the soldiers and sailors overseas nui stand as an emergency reserve arm and they need all the ;Red Cross ha to offer of help, of encouragement an of cheer. As the men come slowl home, numberless difficulties wtf arise before they can find themselve In their old places in- civil life; thes difficulties, whether they touch th hpnie or^the business life the Re kp?ross will help to make easy. The convalescent soldiers and th ! one permanetly disabled will turn t * the Red Cross to be helped back t health and to be placed in new in dustries for which new education i required. Duriner this time of reao justment and protection, and possibl material aid at times; all of this th Bed Cross will gve. America is the one country whos resources are practically untouche by war; famine, pestilence, dange and disaster face the countries whic have participated in the fiercest strug \gle known to history. These countrie must be helped as well as ours an the Red Cross must do the helpin' Protection from tuberculosis, fror i?^T. form? of disease, from nestilenc VIUVI 1VIU1V V*. v.? and poverty, from suffering ar>d dis tress must all come from the Re . Cross. The passing of war has mil tVplied the fields of Red Cross activit "by increasing t^e reed for the Re Cross a hundredfold. The dewberry Chapter. Tt is most imperative that the Re Cross produce vast numbers of refuge garments for relief across the wate r The Newberry chanter has an allol j ment of these o-arments at headquarl ers ready Tor custriDiu'un, mc numc of the town and countv -are urged t help with this work. This is a specr aDBe^l to the surgical dressing wori #?rs who h^re been recently relieve Df *Vo^r duties. Tf pyptv woman in the Southern D vision w1*!! nVdtre herself to>make on sraT*merf a wpek. we can adequate! m^et pn ^nuireme^ts. Let this he a new Red Cross slogan mA garment a week for every woma LworVer." The of woman's work &sl? that a*! so^k?? and sweaters out t B ^finished and sent in by the 11th. s W that a shipment may be made th I week. F We have been iv formed by Nation; "headquarters that thev are anxious 1 t [-. get all knitted article? oomDle'ed t Tanuarv 1st. and to imnress unon 01 kitters that to give real relief to 01 men who must stay in France, oi knitted articles must leave here : . time to reach their destination durir j f the present winter. There is sti I wool in the work rooms for mar sweaters?Who will ofa.' to make sweater by January Izt* fit is hoped tha- there win oe moi volunteers <\>r v-or'c at hoi.iq.?arter an hour or so a flay can be rr:?fit*j!>' v*?ent ;n the worV rooms at nil tivnv There is much to he don-?---vonr ?er ice will be graf.e?i'lly receive*!. At the conference on Wednsda Miss Minnie Gist, chairman of Chris mas packages, reported that 317 box< had been sent through the Newheri Al chapter. r i The Tranwood auxiliary report* - * i j 12 new members, and a aonauon $38. The regular weekly executive cor mittee meeting will be held ,-n I Cromer's office Wednesday afternot at 4 o'clock. A full attendance desired. Mrs. L. W. Floyd, Ch. Pub. Com. - i ? Some one has failed to redeem his * pledge to buy War Sayings Stamps. 0 Is it you? ' ?'??i II ? FARMERS OF NEWBERRY ORGANIZE COTTON ASSOCIATION j I The farmers of Xewberry and other e bisiness interests held a meeting ir y the court house on Saturday and orv ganized and decided to hold cotton for y a minimum of 3.> cents. It was well s attended we are told and much interest manifested. We were out of town d and could not attend but all the farmer er must do now is to sit steady and e* hold his cotton and arrange to reduce ! cotton acreage next year and to plant r | a lot of food stuff and the price wi!l 1 v j come around all right. The following $ | account is copied from The State: ^ ; -- _ - i ..ii? T? T _ ^ A'ewDerry, uec. t.?a couuii uuiumg v association was organized at the court v j house here today with the following s j officers: Dr. George Y. Hunter, pre=ij?! dent; W. C. Brown and Thomas- W. y j Keitt, vice presidents; Thomas M 12 Mills, secretary and treasurer. There 3 ! was a pretty fair attendance of farme' ers. % e ; The members pledge themselves not ? ' J _ J n- i? _ ^,,. ,7 | J; to sell cotton r.naer 60 cents a punni.. | to reduce their cotton acreage next e year, if possible. 25 per cent, and to 0^'contribute half a cent a pound on the 3! cotton raised this year to help finance the fight being made ty the associaa tion for a fair price for the staple. !_ The association adopted a resoluv tion urging the chairman of the board 0 of trustees in each school district to | ?0 to work immediately to organize a cotton holding association in his , school distr/ct. h . H* RED CROSS WORK. *i * . * : A CHILD AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT. ? 0 Their Arms Roach Out to You Fro^i Devastated France. d Xever before in the life of our civr7 ilization has there been such an op^ portunity as is offered today to men and women to act rpon the exjample of R?m whcaiH "Suffpr the little child d ren to come unto me." Over there, is e devastated France, thousands of litt.Te children made fatherless in our figut I"- hold out their hands to us. They have t- come to know us as never before, n through our husbands, our sons and ^ our brothers who are making felt thfU force of our arms in their land. Ou?* brown-clad crusaders have whispei^d d unto little hearts: "Don't you worn' you'll be taken care of" And tl?o f- tfred little eyes ard wan lips of hero ie ine mothers have smiled with the co.u y fidence of their little ones. We baclc j here at home, must make real tiiat t: whispered assurance of our boy?. ^ 36 50 will support a French orphan for a year. Newberry county has been :s apportioned 40 children. The people >e of the town and county are asked to :o give this appeal J their prayerful: is careful and prompt consideration. Let each school or community be represented by at least one child if possible, O or any contribution will be accepted. >v | Blanks will be furnished on applii-1 no+iAn interested are asked %" LUHVll. fc uvk/v . . - ? ^ ^ if confer with Miss Minnie Gist, county ir chairman. in - - ? ? ig Central Methodist church, including l'i the .Sunday school room, was filled Sundgjr night with an interested cona gregation composed of members of the various city churches, their pasre tors being present with the exception s. of the Rev. E. V. Babb, who had an v appointment to fill elsewhere. The r?es. casion was somewhat of a surprise, v- Mr. Dibble had understood and so an nounced that Dr. Bowers woull y. preach, but the good doctor engineert ed and led a movement to have a farees well gathering in honor of Central': ry popular and beloved pastor; who held in high esteem by all the people 2d of the community. Instead of preach, of ing a sermon 'Dr. Bowers gave a tal?c from the heart and the other mini:>n ters present did the same. The gran j >r. pipe organ itself, under the magic v.. I "ui.ec Mo7i*p Dominiek. seemed J '' LU I' V. U l/l -tx 4 v o ? ? i's to be filled with the inspiring spirt of the occasion, and the cello ?)lo? by Lieut. Hurd also added to the up i lifting enjoyment of the evening 1 PROSPERITY TO CARE FOR SCORE ORPHAN'S. Public School Interests Citizens of rAmmnnilv 111 I.ifflo FrPTlflh Willi \ VIII III U 11*1 J 111 >->? v-v . Victims. The .State. Prosperity. Dec. 7.?Prosperity was put on the map last night when the patriotic citizens through the high school adopted 20 French orphans. In order to encourage the adoption of French orphans. Miss Mamie Switteuberg wrote a play called "Xear Flan| ders Field." The play consists of two acts, the first pictures a French moth, er with her three orphan children, lamenting her condition of poverty. A Red Cross nurse from America goe? to their rescue and saves their lives The second act shows where America has adopted the children and the happiness it brought into the home. As a grand finale to the play a beautiful tableau was arranged based on "We Shall Not Sleep," the beautiful lyric of the war written bv Lieut. Col. John McCrae of Canada while the second battle of Ypres was in progress. The tableau was a field in Flanders with the red poppies blowing between the rows of crosses. In the rear were noted the spirits of three dead soldiers mounting to the land of the unsetting sun. With falling hands the torch was thrown which was taken up by America, who gave the answer to "We Shall Not Sleep." Mii'ss Thorn took the part of the French mother: Miss Swittenberg. of the 'Red cross nurse; Mrs. Quattlebaum, of America The other characters were selected from the school children, who spiritedly sang several patriotic songs, added greatly to the evening's success. \ The following adopted French orphans through the Prosperity High School: Dr. Jacob S. Wheeler. Mrs. Jacob S. Wheeler, Dr. and Mrs, G. Y Hunter, William Lester Chapter, ill. D C., Prosperity Oil Mill, L. A. Black Dry Goods Company. Prosperity Hardware Company, Prosperity Drug Company. the Rev. C. J. Shealy Sunday school class. T. L. iShealy's Sunday school class. Prosperity Masonic Lodge No. 115. the Boy Scouts and the children and teachers of the school, seven. E- ough money was collected in smaller amounts to care for another orphan. A graud total of $7?^ has been raised by the school, enough to support 20 children in France. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS PROSPEROUS PROSPERITY. Prosperity. Dec. 9.?Dr. G. Y. Huntv. ~ ~ Konn tn tVio rnnnril nf rlefpnTP ici uas vv/vii w v/1. ? ? meeting which convened last week *3 j Columbia. Mrs'. Hunter accompanied him. Lt. Hunter Fellers has been released from the army. Mrs. Joe Sitz spent last Wednesday in Columbia. Messrs J. A. Counts. T. B Young are attending the Masonic meeting in Charleston. Mr. H. J. Rawl of Lexington was a week-end visitor at Wise Hotel. Mrs. 'Forsyth, milliner for J. C. Schumpert has returned to her home. Mr. Pat Wise of Charleston is home on a visit. Mrs. F. E iSchumpert is spendi'ncr a few days in Columbia. Mrs. G. C. Leonard and Miss Willie Mae Wise are attending the Young People's convention in Charleston. Misses Vannette Buzhardt, Marv Alice Hipp, spent the week-end with their aunt, Miss Mayme Swittenburg. Tranwood Red Cross. The Tranwood auxiliary Red Cross will meet at the home of Mrs. Clarence A. Matthews on Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock, December 12. Every member is urged to be present. Important bus/ness is to be transacted. I. 0. 0. F. 'Pulaski Lodge Xo. 20. I. 0. 0. F will meet next Friday night at S:OC o'clock. All members are requested to be present as it will be an important meeting. w n Peterson. Sec. 666 curss Chills atiu Fever. 8-5 11 1 t Onr boys arc coming home, having i folly redeemed their pledges. Hav? you redeemed )Jonr pledge to buy War! Saving Stamps? ONLY REGULAR FORCE SCHEDULED TO .STAY ???? 1 Eight of Thirteen Divisions Now Approaching Rhine Made Up of Men Enlisted for Period of Emer gency. Washington, Dec. 7.?Eight of the 13 divisions, comprising the American Third Army now approaching the Rhine, either are 'National Guard or National Army troops, and there is every reason to believe they will be on American soil again by midsummer. General March, chief of staff, announced today he anticipated no difficulty in getting these units home j within four months after peace has i hoan formally. 'President Wilson, in his recent address to congress, said the sessions of the conference probably would be concluded byspring, and based on this estimate of the time, General March's statement was accepted to mean that these forces would return during the summer. ^wo National Guard Divisions, th#? Thirty-second and Forty-second, a^d two of the National Army, the Eightyninth and Ninetieth, now are in the front line of the army of occupation which was fvithin 20 miles of the Rhine la^t ni^ht. according to General Pershing's report. The Twentv-eightJi and Thirty-third National Guard and the Seventy-ninth National Army are in the Second line, constituting the roeArvp whinh is occuDvine: Luxemburg J and various-rail centers in France in eluding Montmedy, Longuyon, Eta*!? and St. Mihiel. The First, Third, Fourth and Fifth Regulars comprise the remainder of the advancing army, while the Second and Seventh Divisions are with the reserve. The estimate as to the possibility that all except regular divisions will have been withdrawn from France by midsummer is based on General March's reply to a question as to steps necessary to obtain an extension of the enlistment period for men in the army of occupation. "The law about the men who were raised in the National Army is that they must be discharged four months 1 after the declaration of pe%pe," ho said, "Thata. I think, also was extended to include men- who made voluntary enlistments in the regular army. I won't have any difficulty in bringing back from France the socalled National Army divisions in four months after the declaration of peace. It Is ontiT-ckNr r?r??.cih1p that WP Will have t?~ a?k congrpss for some modification $ I Of the law to provide a longer period of the units which will remain in Europe. A total of 5,325 officers and 125,415 men1, General March said, have been specifically assigned for early return by General Pershing. Included in the additional units reported today are 1,425 officers and 29,381 men, the largest organizations mentioned being the field artiHery brigades of the Eightieth (regular) and Ninety-second (National Army) negro divsions and the Three Hundred and Forty-fifth and Three Hundred and Forty-sixth Infantry regiments from the Eighty seventh ((National Army) Division. The remainder of the list consists largely of motor repair units and auxiliary divisional troops. Discussing demobilization of the forces at home, General March said college men other than those in officers' school which are being abandoned would receive no preference as to the time of their discharge. The order of demobilzation providing tha' > I .? combat divisions be disbanded last, tie said, has not been altered. "The system is working at a very much greater speed," General March said, referring to demobilization, "and I have initiated a system by which I ^et a daily record as to officers and a weekly record as to enlisted men. The actuai number of officers discharged at the time of the last announcement * was 113; the number discharged last I ' week up to yesterday was 7,658. The nuiliuei UI men uioi/iiaigcu in United States last week was over 200.0*0. Cooper's Jewelry Store is a good place to*buy Xmas presents. 12-6tf t | Do Your Chri t I Shopping Ear I ~ | I have a full line of I Sets, Furniture, Drum I Toys. Also beautiful I I Come early and ofte $ / I 1 t A ! Mayes Book & The House of a T1 v Do Your Chr Shopping Ea i It is an excellent pla: tory for you, for the n employees. BUT TO DO YOUR St ~ LIFE IS JUST AS IMPO Start Today With Rent at once a Safet . "ear. We have a few le The Excha Of Newbe "The Bank oft W. G ! 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