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rTHE TEACHERS HELD AN IMPORTANT MEETING The teachers met Saturday and discussed the wajTs of making up the time lost on account of the Quarantine. The ways discussed wet e teaching Saturdays, lengthening the f term at the end or the session, and the teaching of a summer term of i. 6 or 8 weeks. Some schools are now j.'sin^ Saturdays, some rural schoo's prefer a summer term, all are in favor of making -up as much of the time lost as is possible. Most o? the rural schools Trill find it impossible to lengthen the terra in May or June on account of farm work. A summer K session is the only solution for these ^ conditions. r tProf Derrick and Mr. .Sale each offarod riienlntirtnc whiph WPTO f n PHTTl 1.V.A V/U IWVIUVIVUM ? ? ? "W? f** crated into the following on which the I x teachers voted separately: I Resolved: 1. That we, as teachers, m are willing, and feel, that the time I lost on Account of the quarantine F should be made nip. 2. That we will teach on Saturdays and will lengthen the term whenever it is possible. Wherever this cannot be done we will teacii a summer term. 3. That the teachers are willing to cooperate in any way without making unnecessary financial sacrifice, j These resolutions will he presented to the trustees at their meeting next Saturday at 11 o'clock at the court house. The trustees are asked to attend as important questions concern ing school term, State aid. and paying teachers will be discussed . , Gandy-Kohn. An interesting wSdding of the week ^ was that of Miss Ruth Gandy, a popular trained nurse of Columbia, to Armm thnr Hart ohn. Jr.. which was solem nized at St. Paul's Lutheran Church [_ Wednesday I evening. The Rev. H. A.! jjb McCullough officiated and only the family were present. The bride's Wm brother-in-law and sister, Mrs. and F Mrs. Cooper of St. Matthews, came I over for the occasion. The young couple are making their home for the j present with the bridegroom's parents at 1517 Laurel Street. j The bride, who is a native of Flor-j j?t-j e rA|Hm. eacw, was sniuuami n vw uto uvmiu-< Iria Hospital Training School in 1917,1 and has since that time been prac- j ticing her profession in Columbia. I For the last half year or so she has! 1 been living at the nurses' registry on I 1 Richland Street and the resident! i m ' nurfees there complimented her on the I / eve of her wedding with a delightful j f party Tuesday evening. > The members1 of her class, together with the girls in i the house, and Misses Joyner and Fraser, two of the nonresident nurses, enjoyed the evening together and showered the bride-elect with all man- j ner of conrtibutions to her linen chest.j Mr. Kohn is a well known Colum-; bian holding the position of cashier! ^ * 3- 1- ? 1 nam1ina T ifa V lit Lilt; 1UU11 Ul^C Ul iuc vai U11UB unv i I Insurance Company, of which his j I father is secretary and treasurer. | Died Since the Accident. L t Lexington Dispatch-News, 12th. 1 Jhon D. Hiller, a prominent mer-| K chant farmer and business man of, ' Chapin, was seriously injured in an i nnlnmnkiln ?nn>/1anf Co-fiir/tov nljrht i * auii/uivunc avviu^ub u?*#- **?0MV and is now at the Baptist hospitalj suffering from a crushed chest and fracture at the base of the skull.! ^ From the information gained it seems that Mr. Killer and his cousin. Mr.; John E. Dreher, were making a trip in Mr. Hiller's Chevrolet touring car j to some neighbor's house, a short dis-! tance away when the car skidded and! landing in a diitch choked down. Mr. Hiller, who was driving, got out of s the car to crank it, forgetting that he had left it in. gear when it knocked i y him down, running over him, crushj ing his chest and fracturing his skull. i Mr. Dreher, being inexperienced in f handling automobiles, was unable to J get Mr. Hiller from under the car until ^ lie could go some distance to a house and get help. Mr. Hiller is now at the Baptist Hospital in Columbia un> - dergoing treatment and it is feared that his recovery is very doubtful. OtnAA in rr f hn ohAtrn rva loom U1ULC TT JL UXU^ WUt UUVT ^ Tt V AVUiu HB. that Mr. Hiller died this morning at 4 V o'clock. The funeral will be held this flW afternoon at Chapin at 4 o'clock. W EXERCISE8 AT RUTHERFORD f SCHOOL, FRIDAY NIGHT, f FEB. 21, BEGINNING AT 8.00 Star Spangled Banner.?SehooL Welcome address. No Cure, No Pay.?Seven Girls. Doll Drill.?Seven Girls. The First Week of School.?Two Boys. < ColTiD>bia. the Gem of the Ocean.-*? f School. Seeing a Ghost?Two Girls. Blue Eyes and Brown Eyes?Three Girls. Wanted; a Valet-?'Four Boys. Spelling Clasejj?Six Boys and Six Girls. Come, yon will be entertained after the exercises for you are going to "lish." Something that will amuse ** you. Prices 10c and 15c. OLYMPIC HAS WIS ! RECORD AS IMPORT Has Carried 3C0.00Q Persons SafoSv &rrrQ?? Arlsntio. vmi uij ni/i nvimii%iw Since 1314. The White Si::r liner Olympic holes the war record as a transport, having transported 300.000 persons, mostly soldiers, safely since 11)14. It was the Olympic that tried to tow the British warship Audacious into port after the latter i\ad hit a mine. The Olympic took troops to Oallipoli. brought Chinese labor battalions to France and since Christmas. 1017. until the armistice was signed, carried American troops. ? . : rr c tup wiympic. wnne currying v. o. soldiers (luring March. April and May. , was sewn times attacked b.v U-boats. ' but not once did the enemy have time to launch a torpedo, owing to the sharp lookout kept and the wonderful seamanship of Captain Hayes, her i commander, and work of the destroyers. The Olvmnic was armed with six inch guns and used them effectively against U-boats The vessel is not without war soars, having bent some of her plates in ram minx a C-l>oat, from which 28 members of the crew were made prisoner. I This occurred in the early morning of a day last May, when a U-boat that carried a crew or ou awjmwi m ?"c semidarkness to torpedo the American troopsiiip. The Olympic whirled about, almost like a racing yacht, and made for t! 1? ("-boat. slicinj; off its nose. A six-inch shell was planted in the rei mainder of the craft as it drifted past, j By the light of star shells a destroyer ! picked up 31 Germans, three of whom I aieu. i 1 CURIOSITY CAUSES FiRE Man Applies a Match to See If Coal j Oil Will Burn. ' Inquisitiveness on the part of an employee of the Grand TrunI Railway company, who applied a ma.eh to a pool o? coal oil "to see if it would burn." was responsible for the confla gration which wiped out the freight sheds, offices and 28 loaded and unj loaded cars of the company at Ottawa. Can., with a total loss of $112,000. Henry Paoust, a freight handler, who appeared at the Investigation 1 proceedings with his face badly humI ed and one of his hands swathed In ! bandages, frankly told how he had come to start the Maze. He said he had noticed a pool of liquid on the floor of the freight shed, dose to a number of barrels which had been shipped id from the inland revenue department. He did not know what the liquid was, but was curious to see whether It would burn. He .applied a matrh with tho result that the liquid burst Into a blue flame. Almost immediately an explosion occurred, which hurled him backward. I CftOU I CAD WO TO QMHifr ruun uLMiino i u wmviib Wow Thoroughly Enjoys Good Briar Pipe Bought From English Firm. ! Marshal Foch has acquired the Eng| lish habit of smoking. The French do not smoke pipes. Day by day Marshal I Foch saw Field Marshal Haig and othj er British generals in the vortex of the war calmly doing tneir worK Dehind good, big-bowled briar pipes. Foch asked Haig what it was like to smoke a pipe. He bought one. He filled it nnder careful British military instruction. F? began the attempt with energy and purposeful determination. ! but at first smoked more matches than tobacco. Now, however, he has mastered it and thoroughly enjoys a good briar which he has bought from an English firm. FINDS LIQUOR IN TRUNK Kansas City Woman Is Now Suing Terminal Company for Damages. | Mrs. Olive Sterling of Kansas City I packed her steamer trunk with dainty clothing and had it taken to the depot. I where she checked it to Charleston. W. Va., where she intended paying relatives a visit. On her arrival there, instead of her fine lingerie, dainty dresses, etc., she found 150 pint boti ties of booze, evidently destined for an i Oklahoma bootlegger. She v^ili bring 1 suit against the Kansas City Terminal I .company for damages as a result of I v 11 r\ % i tilt: uuA-uj#. I Woman Is Deputy Sheriff. A woman has been named deputy sheriff of Cumberland county, Maine. ! Mrs. Mary S. Burnham has taken the I oath of office and assumed her duties. ! Mrs. Burnham has had much experience in police work. She was matron of the Portland police department for a number of years and had much to do in the line of investigating for the Society for the Protection of Children. Banquets Six Canaries. Six canary birds were the guests at , a banquet given in a Pittsburgh ho! tel on New Year's eve by Miss Katie Gullfoyle, an aged employee of the hos! telry. The feast was made up of tea ? and crackers, the birds peeking at bits of crackers held by Miss Ouilfoyle be tween her lips. Miss tJunroyie has been at her present employment for 56 years. Takes Pa":ent Medicine, Dies. A coroner's inqnest lias boon ordered into the death of Hugli MeMahon, sixty, of Sr. Louis, who di<nl 'nllowing the taking of a dosa 01 patent ' cough medicine. ? "" ' ^ M'* ]f .<?*) if " Ii loiu ues?s> The South is now in a position which might be called "cotton poor;" that is to say, it has large stocks of cotton on hand costing considerably more than present market values to product and for which : there is seemingly no demand except at tnese sacrifice prices. Although there are sound fundamental reasons why cotton should not be as low as the present market quotations, yet in order to be in on the safe side it is good policy not to raise the usual crop of cotton in 1919?then the world will be sure to ni?ii ( r% V rvi Iah.e tilt; UUttUlI 11 tail get emu Mciv mc uuuincni iai uiJ ! Small Crops Bri Every one knows that small crop years yield more i money. In individual cases this might not be so, because one farmer or one section of the farming country or even a whole State mgiht have a ruinously short crop. In this event they would have to suf| fer while more fortunate individuals in other sections f would benefit. But as a general rule when a crop : is short everybody makes more money. It is easy : to see that ten bales of cotton at $150 a bale will yield more net profit than twenty bales at $75 a bale. i I Don't Put All Your i ! J By cutting down your cotton acreage you need I not reduce your land under cultivation. A farmer's business is to farm, and every acre he can make productive adds that much more to the wealth of the world. But a farmer's business is also a business and - . i _ i he should not run it at a loss. Many peopie never realize that the average cotton farmer's situation is something like this: He borrows money, pays rent and either gives his own labor and that of his family or hires labor to work enough land that will produce say ten bales of cotton. Usually by the end of the season either through bad weather conditions or because of boll weevil activity, or because of rainy weather during the picking season, or a scarcity of cotton pickers, his ten bales are reduced to eight bales. Now taking 30c a pound as the market price for cotton, we find that of this eight bales four bales will be good enough grade to bring the full market I price of 30c a pound, or a total of $600. The other -Fsiiif Kolac Kopquco nf haH wpat.hpr during Dickincr or carelessness of pickers, or various other reasons, might average say 18c a pound, $90 a.bale, or $360 for four bales, or a total of $960 for his whole year's Hold the Cotton You I Every well posted cotton man knows that cotton costs more to produce than the present market quotation. Some authorities state that the 1918 cotton wnnlH hp rhpan at 35c. However this may be, the holders of spot cotton should hold their cotton until the demand for it will enable them to get back J at least the greater part of the production cost. Eng2 land has iust lifted the embargo on cotton. France and Italy are expected to do so. The ocean freight rates have just been reduced and the export demand \ will develop immediately. It is expected that the Peace Treaty will be signed soon?as early as the first part of March. This being the case, the Central European nations will be in the market for large sup IHow^Bankers, Merchants, Business Men Can Help i ? Do not let the South lose its prosperity. Do not < let it go back to its economic slavery of past years. Help this big idea of holding the 1918 cotton and planting less cotton in 1919 by talking it to everyhnrlv. You can help immediately and practically by sending a subscription for whatever amount you feel you can afford to further this propaganda. A few dolThe sixteen million bale crop season of 1911-12 brought the Southern farmer only $810,000,000, whereas the eleven millon nine hundred thousand bale crop of the season of 1917-18 brought a total of $1,667,000,000?Secretary Hester's figures. J Texas has already agreed to reduce the acreage ? - ? .i n IV other cotton States are doing the same, doutn i^arom grower must agree and carry out to the letter his agre< cern finds out that there is over-production the outpi less than the cost. > nri v I [ton i ms i ear er a remunerative price for raising it. Do not flood the market with more than the market will absorb. Any manufacturer when he sees that he cannot sell the stock of goods that he has on hand immediately curtails his production. Farmers are manufacturnvi'l 4-V?/"v*r nnn o nnlir flin oorvin riwri^inloo ATI Q cia anu mcj ccin me oauic piiuviyivk; vu u lg smaller scale. If in 1919 every farmer will cut his normal cotton acreage by one-third he will get more money for his crop and get paid at least the cost price for any 1918 cotton he might have on hand, which is now quoted below the cost of production. ing More Money The total value is the same, but the cost of handling, of making, of picking, etc., is twice for twenty bales as it is for ten. The same rule applies to all crops. The slogan for 1919 should be, "Make a small crop and sell it for more than it cost to raise." It is time " >i n _ j i r x. _ i_ j _ i _ _ 4. ior trie douinern iarcner 10 qua uumg uusuieaa at a loss. In any other line of industry when the manager finds that he is losing money he quits and tries something else. It is good business and common sense to cut down your cotton acreage when you are losing money on what you made the year before. Eggs In One Basket crop. This farmer started out to make ten bales of I cotton worth ?1,500. Yet his gross income dwindled ] down to $960. The Southern farmers are certainly entitled to at least 30c a pound for their cotton under present conditions, and tftey snouid get it. Diversification of crops is a common sense policy , for a farmer. If your cotton crop goes wrong, you have your corn, your cattle, your hogs, or other crops. During 1919 you will make more money by * ? * i i? cutting your usual cotton acreage ana puuing more land into feed and food crops. Plant corn. Feed it to the hogs, if necessary. The minimum base price of $17.50 per hundred pounds, Chicago basis, as established by U. S. Food Administration for hogs, will probably remain in effect several months. Even when this price restriction is removed there will be money in hogs. , Europe is short of fats, and it will ? * 1 M - 1 f 1_ J T X ~ L? De a long wnne Deiore porK gets so cneap as to oe unprofitable to the raiser. Europe needs food. Europe is not in a position to raise a big crop in 1919, or even next year. America must help feed her. Plant * * _ t - j- n** j j* xt some 01 your iana in ieeastuns ana ioousluiis, men you will be helping to both feed and clothe the world , and make a reasonable profit for yourself. Now Have On Hand plies of cotton. American stocks will be the only available source of supply. Cotton will never again go down to its old levels. And it never should, because the South will not go back to the conditions of economic slavery that has existed for generations. Its young men and women will leave the farm and go to the city unless farm life is made attractive enough to hold them. This will not happen unless the laborer is paid the hire he is worthy of. Hold your cotton. The banks and merchants can easily finance it. There is more money in Southern banks than ever before. Do not be frightened by paper pricey achieved by "bear" speculators who are sellV ing short in the market. Hold your cotton and let the spinners pay you at least what it costs to produce. Cotton Men, Farmers and the South Stay Prosperous \ lars spent in publicity will save hundreds of millions - ^ # J1 "I L . J? tor the boutn. w e wanr tne morai support 01 every a business man in the South, and of course the finan- | cial aid will be appreciated. This advertising is paid I for by public-spirited business men and cotton men 1 throughout the South. Talk high prices?hold your ? tTAnw nnm onvao era rr of nllicra fn rln | LUL/LUII, UCtlCOOC JUUi U??ll 6^" vwlvtu g. likewise, help keep the South prosperous. i We would advise all producing interests not to use the future cotton market as a hedge against spot cotton because in the present position of the contract market it is not a legitimate hedge. in cotton this year at least one-third. Georgia and the 1 aa must join in and the victory is won. Every cotton | ement. When the mills or any other manufacturing con- I nt is cut down. It would be suicidal to grow cotton for 1 " _ ! " . . . v