Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Why. Suffer with the 'Grippe ? Try a dozen of our LaGRIPPE CAPSULES At 50c. a Dozen. If they don't cure you just tell us and we will gladly refund your money. Could anything be fairer ? PHONE 61. MANNING, S. C. A. J. ARD, Sanitary Plumber ! Water Systems and Electric Light Plants For Country Homes A Specialty. We would be glad to go over any proposition with you and give you estimate FREE OF CHARGE. A. J. ARD, 24 East Liberty St. SUMTER. S. C. The Best Drugs AT Reasonable Prices Nothing but the very best materials go into our prescriptions and they are com pounded just the way your physician says. RUBBER GOODS and TOILET ARTICLES and a full and cornplete line of STATIONERY. We have A MODERN SODA FOUNTAIN We keep a Full Line of CIGARS, TOBACCOS and CANDIES. BROWN'S DRUG STORE, Below Bank of Manning. Manning, S. C. "Time tells what( you did yesterday. aseMake to-morrow better by starting a Bank* account to-day." If, for no other reason thtan the unforeseen demands incident to human It's a duty, because you haven't the power to predict the future but you have power to start a Bank Account and fortify for the futpre. 'esyou w ure aank Acl wotyyunt.nen to succeed. Begin today with $. THlE BANK OF MANNING RED CROSS TO COLLECT CLOTHING FOR BELGIUM Hoover Asks Davison's Aid In Work Of Relief Beginning March 18 and ending March 25, a seven day, nation-wide campaign will be carried on by the American Red Cross and the Commission for Relief in Bel glum to secure a minimum quantity * of 5,000 tons of clothes for the destitute people of Belgium and the occupied portions of Northern France. At the request of Herbert Hoover, chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, Henry P. Davi son, chairman of the Red Cross War Council, has granted the use of the na tional Red Cross organization for col lecting the needed clothing. As the commission h allowed most of its local committees f disband be cause of the financial arrangements made last June with the government, it has turned to the Red Cross for help. Where the local committees of the Relief Commission are still intact, they will work side by side with the Red Cross Chapters. The practically entire exhaustion of clothing, shoes, and leather in occupied Belgium and Northern France and the shortago of these necessities in the world's markets are making it in creasingly difficult for the Conmission to keep clothed and shod the unfortun ate people in these territories. In ad dition to new material, gifts of used and surplus clothing, shoes, blankets, flannel cloth, etc., are needed in large quantities from the people of the Unit ed States. The donations will be shipped at once to the Atlantic seaboard and sent overseas for distribution. CANTEEN SERVICE FOR SAMMiES IN FRANCE Red Cross To Serve Boys In The Front Line Trenches The American Red Cross has just arranged to establish with the Aneri cao troops in France a front line can teen service similar to that through which they have served more than a million pollus with hot drinks during the last six months, according to a cable just received by the War Coun cil from Major James H. Perkins, Red Cross Commissioner to France. This will consist of rolling canteens stationed close behind the front line trenches. There are now fifteen of these operating- behind the French lines, from which fifty or more large receptacles of hot drinks are sent for ward daily, usually in the small hours of the morning. These drinks are served free to the men going on or coming off duty. This service has proven of such value to the French that the Ameri can army has asked the Red Cross to have this service directly in touch with the medical relief stations near est the front. The work is often done under heavy shell fire and requires men of great bravery and sympathy. The American army officers are man ifesting a keen interest in having this service at the disposal of the American troops and have asked the Red Cross to enlist a substantial number of men of the highest caliber to undertake this work. It will be performed at the point nearest the firing line at which civilians are permitted. NURSES NEEDED IN MILITARY HOSPITALS Surgeon General Asks Red Cross To Supply 5,000 Nurses Surgeon General (Gorgas of the United States army has called upon the American Red Cross to0 supply to the Army Nurse Corps flye t housand nurses between now and the first of, June. These nuris's are nei(eed for service In the military hospitals both in this ('ounftry and aibroadi. Although the Red ('ross has already supp)lie~d nearly 7,000 nurses as a reset-ye for the Army andl~ Navy Nurse Corps since the beginning of. the war, the impera live need for a greater army of nurses grows danily as the war progresses. According to a statement made by Surgeon General Gorgas, it is est imat ed t hat the'e are be'twoont eighty and ninetyv thouisandl registered nurses in the Unitedi State's, and- that approxi ma tel y tirt y thIousa nd will be need edl for servie in a rmuy hosplital~s duttring the present year. 'Te immediate need for five t housand of these Is (emlpha si zed. MIss Jane A. Delano, Director of the D~epartment of Nursing of the Amern can Red Ctross said: "Not only are we aplpealing to the nuirsi's to volunteer for this service, buat we also appeal to the public and to the physicians employing these nurses to aid in ma kinfg it possibtle for them, withlout too gt'eat financial sac'rifliee on their part, to hold themselves in readiness to respondI to the call of their country. We wis~h also to bring to the attention of nurses the unustial opportunity offered by the insurance law enacted for the protection of otir array and navy, which applies equally to nurses assigned to ditty as memb~ers of the Artmy and Navy Nurse Corps. "A great responsibility rests upon the nurses of the country. They are the only group of women recognized as a part of the military establishment, and should he looked upon as the rep. resentatlves of the womanhood of America at the front. 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