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SUM.ME s pecials for T his Week Maine grown Irish Potatoes, peck ---------50c Best grade R :e, per peck --------------.... $1.00 Second grade Rice, per peck. __.... - 60c Best grade Self-Rising Flour -----------$1.50 Grits, per peck ---------- -------------.... . ._. 40c Meal, per peck --.....-----------------------40c Rio Coffee, good grade ----------------.12%c 3 lb. cans Peaches --------------------.... .-25c McClary-Broadway CO. Quality Store hsnutuumtmmmmmuimmunnamtumwnm Dress Shirts (All Sizes) --At- - 1916 Prices 95C R1T TRTN CORDTN ALtV6t%-0tttAtt A& Mawt%.rttItttt 3e LttiitttiitItittittttttttttitttitiititititttitttttt!! itiittpiittitittttitittttttttttiitttittttiui RTC H. H. MEDLIN, Now is the Time 1 We carry Get busy on your fri D. 0. RH DRU4 Wiley G. C With the price of cotton almost at a stand-still and a circular broadcasted over the state by a cotton lord with the headline something like this: "Twenty-nine Million Bales Cotton Too Much," has shoved a good number of our farmers over on the "bear" side. It has been said that figures (1o not lie but in reply to such a statement one fellow was heard to say that figures might not lie but w)amte mighty big liars might be figuring however. This is not for us to say what is facts but we (1o not hesitate saying that we are fully of the opinion that there is too much surplus cotton at present, but we seriously doubt thalt unless something besides a reductioin in acreage takes place the relief so much desired and so much needed will hardly take place quick enough for a salvation of many of the cotton grow crs; although we hope we are mista1keni as to the above. And as we have previously stated in our communication we fear that too much grain crops and live stock would not be so profitable. We have just noticed an item which reads as fol lows. "a circular issued by feed mill says corn selling at present time only netting farmers in Iowa and Nebraska about 28c per bushel after paying cost of shelling. This does not deduct any other expense of raising. In Iowa today it takes 2 1-2 bushels to buy one dozen eggs. In Central West, one bushel of oats is 'Worth in exchange one package of cigarettes." It would seenm like that this would be a good time to buy as prices will not stand at this low water mark long. Since the resignation of thV Rev. mr. Tlremle of the Presbyterian church, and the continued illness of Rev. Morris, the people of Summer ton are being visited by many distin guished preachers. Sunday the Metho (list congregation had with them Rev. C. 13. Smith of Manning, who Spoke to the Bible .Class also the church con gregation. Brother Sm ith is an old time Methodist, one who is not afraid to tell the natural, old11 raw truth an~d let the shavings fall where they may. Men of this type will always fintd a 'welcome by the good people of SuI miertonl. The election for oflicers for the town will take place the first Tuesday in March. City politics are beginning to warm up a little aid al ready a ticket is out and on this ticket appears the names of two among Sulmmerton's best wo)Kfen; while it is rumored there will e another ticket composed en tirely of ladies which means one for intendlent and1( four wVard(ens. We mean no special criticism of any of our present city fathers but this is one o? the times we hope that every one elected will feel a specialI interest in our town government, andh through their efforts let them he wvho they may we hope for improvement. The Rev. Mr. A lien, a student at the Presbyterian Theological Sem in ary at Columbia, preached to the Presbyterian congregation Sunday morning and at the Baptist church Sunday night. Mr. Allen made quite a favorable i mpress'5ion on both h is conig regati tis. Miss E'va Ha in who has been t each - ing in North Carolina is home for a few (lays on account of her father's illness and we are glad to report MI rn. Ba in being much improved. Mr. Chovine Sprott, J.,. of Manning, was a very pileasanot visit or to our city Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. G;odwin and Levei ne, Godwint spet Sa turday a nd Sunday' with friends at llemingway. Miss A nna Wilk ie spent several dlays last week wvith friends at Jordlan. A mong the happy faces at the oys ter suppe)~r friday night. was MIiss D~ucworth and MIiss Ward, teachers of the .Jordan high school. Mr'. .Joe Josepih, one of our hustlHng young merchants left here this week for Gastonia where they are estab Ilish ing a merca ntile business. MIr. Walter Mathis of Charleston, spent the first of the week with rela tives in Summertoni. NIr. Norman Davis of' Savannah, Ga., has movedl to our1 city and1( opented an up l-to-dlate Barber' shop on Ma in Street. Mr. C. A. H arvin went to Charleston Monday on business. We received from OturI good fI'iend, Dr. D. 0. Rhame, who for many years was a most dlesirable citizen of our town, but now of Clinton, S. C., the following communication on condlitions *YOUR Al iS called to the efficienc' partment. We use only -(ceuticals. D.O.RH 'Wijoy C. C )B Correspondent. :o Use Insecticides all kinds.' tit' trees Mro Farmer. AME, Inc.. 3GIST riste, Prop. of today: ",1e is quite willing to agree that the term "hard times" has been, in most cases arbitrarily applied and in reality that there has been "no such ammal"-It is very much like the term ghost-of which we have heard all our lives, but have never seen, except when conjured up by diseased imagina tions, it is a case of crossing bridges, 'which we never come to, and which in all probability we will never reach. When the time comes that a thrifty person is mn wrant-in need of food and clothes, on account or the so called "panic," there will be a little more reason to say that we know of hard times. Just now history is simply re peating itself-the financill tide is receding (as it is normal for it to do) and rise again, it most surely will, in eflect. For prices will adjust them selves when people return to work (but not until they (o.) A good deal of the misery now is oc cassioned by our conscience, for many of us know that as we had taken the lesson which "the story of Joseph" was designed, by our I leavenly Father, to teach us we would not have to worry (read the story of Joseph, brethren). We would have marketed our crops, instead of speculating as we have done, and we would not have wasted our surplus in riotious living. We would have used our savings for constructive purposes and not for those short-lived pleasures, in which Iwe sank our funds and we would have first made our homes comfortable be fore buiying auto,;. We would have put 'water works before excursions. We Would have put in home conven liences instead of less useful things - we would have put comb 111d hone' into the hive in preparation for the winter which invariably follows the' spring and suimer. I et ie tell you friends, we must quit whimpering and get down to business. We canl make good timies, it matters not where prices go. Keep the wheels turning. If we use our Ibrains and muscles more, we will have niore. Just go to it. There is rcally nothing else for led-blooded people to (o. Just (llit dreaming of It) cents cotton, for in all plrobability the young est child will never se-e it again, and it will be bad if he does, for it will mean that another period of reorgain zation and reconstruction will have )o be gone over. We should thank God that the greater iumber of ourl noble farimers and business men aIe sane, even though some would soon have been otherwise, which means that our aflairs will be alright- and that a unit ed people will harmnon ize the v'ariious eniiterprises andm that whlole of us will bie happy andi part ly because otf being busy. We haive had our hol idav mit it isI time to4 work and get phy'sically and mentally fit. Our tfood will taste bet ter, our corn bread will hi liet ter thIanI caike antd our abacoa . 'et ter' thlani tuirk ey. An interesting sociai ev'u'et of the Past week was the oysteir supper given I ridaiy evening, llebruariy I It h, un ider the direction of the lalygrund omi')1 miittee of the Sum merton sihouol. T[he proceeds whtichi a mounted to, $150t will be useod in pu rihasinig equii pmen t for the school playground. The bill with the .\celary-BHroadw~ay (Co., which amloun lted' to $20 was dlonatedl to the fua'd by the Compnany. A\riangenients ha v' been madle to e rerct a anmbetr o lileces of playground a ppa ra tus on the hew Iphryground. Thle luimbei for. this was given~ by Messris. .\1lid in anid Touchbertry, WV. A . Richbiurg. an R.u I M. Felider, and ( . M . D avis. It is hioped~ that th(e grealte parii t oif the wvork w il be com111pleteid by the end ofI this week;. Capt. "'Jiimmy"' GodwVin is su Perin)teinimg the constIructi on work at the phlrygrundlu. Messrs. IHill Stuckiey and U lysoes Brunson of sumnmerton splen t the week-end in Columbia. I y thle wvay we understand th at thesi' two yioung mecn are somewhatI inte restedl ini 'o.. lunibia C ollege. "NU. Pahnafesta Palmetto State FestivaI Coltubia, March 28th to A pril 2nd. TENTION, of our' Priescription de( pureC drugs and p~harmal lAME, Inc. UREAG TO THE PUBLIC: Since' prices started falling, our policy has been to mark our goods down and let them go. Our sales for January 1921, were larger than they were January 1920. We have moved most of our high priced goods, and are receiving daily goods bought at the low level, heiice we feel that we are in posi tion to save you real money on lots of your pur chases. "Seeing is believing," so try us before you buy anything,.at any price, anywhere; and please re member we sell nearly everything you can find in a Sear's Roebuck catalogue. Thanking you for your consideiation, wNe arle, Very gratefully yours, C. M. DAVIS, SON & CO. Suiminerton, S. C. Jersey Skirts $5.75 Jno. B. Stetson and Knox Hats $5.75 Hart, Schaffner & Marx Suits Styleplus Clothes At One-half Price Geo. Joseph's Dep't. Store IAREi I ~fi Watch this Space NextU Week. DAVIS & BARNES. tIttttti titttttitttttt!!!~ tittttitttattttt!! I Atttttt sIm isiimi isiiiiiism i