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For Women FINE COAT' SUIT GOOD) COATI HlAND)SOME WAIST1 PitETT~Y D)ItESS IIEA UTlIFULI IATH'IROHE M IISOlES )SI I'RY For Girls NICE D)UESS P'I"ITY CATI NICE SWEATElt CUT'IE HIATI lOES OCK( INGS [I)DYS [I)DY IES ; for the Little Tots. d the Rush. 2 Store, SUMTER, S. C. 0iOiSAXSInO LARGE BLACK 15.00to 12.00 RACCOON HEAVY fURRED 8.00 to 6.00 ORDINARY 6.50to 5.50 OPOSSUM 3.151o 2.65 MUSKRAT WINTER 2.8to 2.50 FALL 2.40to 2.20 CATCH ', We Want Al t RACCOON, OPOSSUM, 1\ strong demand. A shi GET A SHU'MEP1 These extr cmel A54 ILITERACY MUST BE WIPED OUT IN SOUTH CAROLINA Commission to Launch Campaign in Columbia Dec. 13-11 TO lE 31A)E S''ATE WI)E Plan of Organization for Each County in the State is Outlined. Columbia, Dec. 6.-With at least 19,8'i9 male whites of voting age in South Carolina who cannot read nor write, the illiteracy commission of South Carolina is about to launch a campaign to wipe out this <lisgrace to the State. .The campaign will be in b augurated at Columlbia December 13-1.1 when there will be an institute. for county leaders and teachers of right schools. An effort will be made te have a State-wide campaign for eigrht schools for illiterates opened. fhe illiteracy commission, composel of Patterson Wardlaw, of the Univer sity of South Carolina, as chairman; Miss Will Lou Gray, of Laurens, as field worker, and J. E. Swearingen, State Superintendent of Education; Mrs. J. L. Cok r, Miss Mabel Mont gomery, George D. Brown, Dr. S. H1. Ednunds and )r. C. E. Burts, are sonsoring the movement. The committee has suggcsted the following plan of organization. First-That there be a committee cf three on organization in each coun ty, of which the county superintend ent of education be asked to act as ex oflicio chairman, one member to be pointed by the county board of education and the other by the two memtbers. Second--That this county organiza tion committee be :aske d to see that a. schoel census be taken andl to have comiled in the county superintend-. (nt's oflice a complete list of all il literants, to encourage the establish ment of as many night schoolsn possible, to work for such legislatior' as is necessary for the success of the movement andI to use all legitimatt n-eans of prop)aganda and agitation. The comnmittee dIesires at least ont replre'sentat ive from each of the coun tics to come to Columbia for institutt and each county to get whole-heart edly into the work of stamping out illiteracy through the miediumi of thli niight school. Each teacher v'olunteer-* ing will be paid one dlollar a night for lher services and in a good man~s of the counties the Women's leedera. tion of Clubs has subsc(ribed anothmt dollar. Thel work nece-~ssarily must bt a patiotic one, unless the General As. sembly makes a speciflie applropriatior for it. SIX TIIOUSAND) DIE OF' l"LU London, Dec. i.-Six thousam (deaths fromi Slanish influenza havt occulrr-ed in Samoa, aiccordinjg toe Melbourne d ispatch to the Exchangi Telegraph Comnpany. Th'le Aust ral iai Government has dispatched a medica staff to Samoa. TO( F-IND) EMIPLOYMIENTl FOlR RETURNING SOlIDIElR. Columbia, Dec. (.--The Council ot National D~efense and the Unite' States Employnment Servic2 jointly will orga nize the machinery for find ing em ployment for so)ldiers and wma workers fol lowintg demobilization. Tlhi secretaIrie's forminog the Council of National D eense have passed reso lutions keeping thle National Counci1 in existence. These resolutions, adopt ed D ecemiber 2, by the Secret aries of War, Navy, Interior, A griculture and Commerce and ILabor, are as fol!ows: "Resolved that the Council of D~e fense system comprised of State county and municipal councils and the State divisions and local units of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National D~efense be continued in the national interest for the purp~ost of cooperating with and supplement ing general agencies in meeting thc exigencies incident to post-war readl justment, and especially for the pur pose of bringing about a normal de mobiliziation of soldiers, sailors and wnr workers to the end that thm~ CUR - l I it'AI ' +, 4 N91.LARGE N91.MEO1UM N?1. SMAtL N XTATO AVC',ATE (EtQa TO AVRACEt EXTRA TO A/tEAr'.Ai" 10.00D0 8.00 7.00 to 6.00 5.0Dto 4.00 5.00 5.75to 5.25 4.50to 3.75 3.25 to 2.75 3.00 4.75to 4.25 3.75t ,3.00 2.50to 2.00 2.50 2 to 1.801 l.60to 1.20 1.00to .65 1.00 2.30to 2.C0 1.80to 1.60 1.50to 1.20 1.30 l.90to 1.70 1.59to' 1.35 1.101o .85 1.0. 1KIN 'EM lie S5outhCraF r IUSKR2AT, tnd all other Fur-bearers unt to ''SHUBERT" will bring you ' T OFF-TODAY. You'll be rnigl v hijh prices quoted for immed Dent. 1310 may most wisely h' rL'eabsorbedI into peace-time pursuits. 'Ani be it further resolvedi that the Council of National Defense ree ommends and it dgoes he'reby recom menld to the several Governors, State Councils of Defense and State I egi: latures that all legislative Acts creating State Councils or Commit I( - hci=' Low Me; High Cat If the farmer can his live stock, he r packer gets less raw If the consumer he for his meat, he eat: packer finds his marl. The packer wan get enough to mal profitable, and he wa so low that everyone But all he can do, have to do in any c ness, is to keep dovi I cessing the farmer's that the consumer pa by-products only a: farmer gets for his a Forexample, last y< paid for its cattle a what it got for me (such as hides, tallo' If cattle from the I miraculously into IA retailers (without g< pense of dressing, si ing), the farmer w 11/8 cents per pound or consumers would cents per pound less I Out of this cent Swift & Company p; of extensive plants, p operates refrigeral I branch houses, and livers to retailers States. The profit fraction of a cent, profit goes to build better -service, andi pany's eisefulness to Swift & Com1s 92 N2 3 N9 4 a urJ aST s uy J V AS TO Siz QUALITY to 3.09 2.00to 1.25 .75to .50 to 2.00 1.25to .75 .60to .40 to 1.50 1.0019 .60 .40to .20 l0 .15 .10to .05 to .80 .50to .40 StOT.OmAGEDAND . KITTS AT I!GHEST o .60 .35to .25 MARKET VALUE IP 'E0M 'sc Can Ship :-cllected in your section in rnore loney"-"quicker." ty glad you did. ,te slpment, tees of Public Safety be s. amended w here necessary as to make it pos sible for the Council of Defense sys tem throughout the country to per form the foregoing functions so lon a: shall appean to he necessary." A copy of the resolutio;n quoted above was telegraphed to Governor .Manning. tt Prices LiePrices not get enough for aises less, and the material. Ls to pay too much less of it, and the :et decreased. ts the producer to ce live-stock raising nts the price of meat will eat it. and what he would ase to stay in busi en the cost of pro stock into meat so iys for the meat and little more than the nimals. 3ar Swift & Company bout 90 per cent of sat and by-products y, oils, etc.) a farm were turned eat in the hands of )ing through the ex uipping and market uld get only about more for his cattle, pay only about 2%A for their beef I or two per pound, ays for the operation ays freight on meats, :or cars, maintains in most cases, de ill over the United amounts to only a and a part of this more plants, to give o increase the corn. the country. panyv.U. S. A