Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEB. 24,1919 \ i -t-1 < WANTED--- >■;< * | ♦» Scrap Iron i . V. 'H !! Highest cash prices paid for cast scrap. /Iva v ; / 4? - ♦ T . i >■, V. : »'■ •.v' v; ‘V Universal Plow Co. Florence, S. C. ?; With Winter Comes Aching, Stiff • • * Joints and Rheumatism Matthew’s Liniment instantly relieves. The finest thing on earth for stiff joints, rheumatism, cramp and neuralgia. For sale everyv/here, 25c per bottle. NO ARGUMENT IS REQUIRED to prove that our vulcanizing process is the only really effective method of repairing tires. The tires we re pair speak for themselves. We can repair any tire damage. Whether it be a pin hole puncture or a long cut or tear our vulcanizing will prove equally egective in restoring the tire to service. FLORENCE VULCANIZING WORKS % E. E. Gaston, Proprietor Free Air |8 8. Dugan St Phone 88 All Expert Men Florence. 8. C CALL ■ Mappin & Hamilton i For house painting and paper hanging. In terior wall work of all kinds. Money sav ed by seeing us before buying material. Shop at No. 4, R. R. Ave. Phone 568 Florence, S. C. WE CAN Furnish the home with groceries at the right prices and guarantee prompt deliv ery and perfect satisfaction. Have a ship ment of the finest grade seed Irish pota toes just arrived. Give us a trial. ENJERPRISE GROCERY CO. D. M. Campbell, Mgr. Phone 24 115 E. Evans St. Over 18 Billion, Years War Cost What the American People Had to Pay in 1918 for Operation Against Germany It cost the American people about $18,100,000,000 to run its war government and make loans to the allies in the past year, according to computations from treasury reports. December expenditures above $2,000,000,000, the record of the nation’s history, sent aggregate war costs to approximately $24,500,- 000,000. . 1 ' Of the $18,100,000,000 paid out of the treasury’s coffers in 1918 probably $10,000,000,000 went for the army and the general military establishment ; about $1,000,000,000 for the navy ; $1,000,000,000 for the shipbuilding program; $1,000,000,000 for other civil government needs, and $4,150,000,000 as loans to America’s brothers in arms. That the public has paid only about one-third of the war’s expenses, excluding foreign loans, in taxes in cash and two-thirds in loans to be repaid in another generation is indicated by treasury figures of collections from various sources. TIME TO START POULTRY RAISING At no time in the history of the stantlard-bred poultry business has there been such a favorable opportuni ty for the beginner or small breeder to make a good profit from poultry. There has never been a time when It would pay so well to keep even a small flock In the back yard to supply the family needs. In conversation with a back-yard poul- tryman, writes a poultry expert, we learned that from nine hens he had secured enough eggs during the past year to supply fresh eggs for the table uso of a family of three, anil they had eggs on the table at least one meal every day. His feed bill was very little owing to utilizing the table scraps, which, made into, a mash, made up a nice part of the dally ration. The saving in meat and egg hills was no little item of expense, and, as he put it, “The expense and trouble are so little it’s just like finding them.” For the poultryman the future never was brighter. The demand for stock, eggs and baby chicks is sure to be the greatest in the history of the business, and those who have stuck through the trying times of the past and those who will take up the breeding of staudard- bred poultry will reap u great harvest during tlie next few years. The present prices of market poultry and eggs, j bucked up, by recent government re ports on cold storage holdings, indi cate prices will continue to sour higher. The man who is in the poultry busi ness, or can get in even with a few fowls will come out a long way ahead, even if only a few are kept for his own family use—to reduce the ad vanced cost of living. Kansas With 11,184,000 Acres Has 22.8 Per Cent of Winter Wheat Area of United States A reporter for the federal depart ment of agriculture declares that Kan sas, with 11.184,000 acres has 22.8 per cent of all the winter wheat area of the United States. A full crop on this enormous acre age, which Is 13 per cent larger than the record acreage of last year, would total 200,000,000 bushels, or more than one-third of the 509,304,000 bushels for the average annual consumption in the United States, the report says. Such a production, with a guaran teed price of $2 a bushel, would bring Kansas $400,000,000. The December report stated that the average condi tion is 98 per cent. “Not only is this the largest acre age of wheat ever sown in a single state, but It Is probably the largest acreage ever devoted to a single grain crop of any state,” says the report. “Tlte Texas cotton crop is possibly the only state crop that ever excelled it in area.” A campaign for mobilizing a great army to harvest the 1919 crop is be ing worked out by the Kansas City office of the director general of the federal employment service, in charge of western farm labor. Last year the federal employment offices supplied fully half of the 40,000 men used in Kansas and Oklahoma harvest fields. It is expected many thousand more hands will be needed for the 1919 yield. Women, children and business and professional men responded to the “wheat won’t wait” call and helped gather the big war crop. Phone SIXTY-SIX, Mr. Dealer FOR- We will publish the names of every Grocer in the City of Florence that sells Purina Feeds, beginning March 1st— See Us. PURINA FEEDS Mothers Self Rising Flour, Meal Grits, Rice, Mill Feeds, Hay, Grain. NESMITH-POWELL CO., General Distributors ONLY - T X 4* “200 Members by March 1st” Returning Soldiers Have Outgrown Civilian Clothes Some of the soldiers returning to civil life from the world war are fac ing a problem they did not expect—not the problem of finding a job to fit them, hut that of finding a suit to do so. As they return to civil life and civil habil iments it seems likely the tailors will be busy, for the men are finding they cannot get Into the clothing they dis carded when they donned uniforms, (tains in weight up to 25 pounds are common, while some have made great er gairis. Those who went in the army young and not fully developed, made especially large gains, but men of twenty-five years and up, who thought they had stopped growing, find that they have added brawn and muscle to a degree that prevents them wearing their former garb and that they will have to provide themselves with new clothes. In some cases, the shoes, too, will have to be a size or two larger and made on a wider lust as well. Can’t sleep! Can’t eat! Can’t even digest what little you do eat! a 8 a One or two dotes * ARMY & NAVY JMI DYSPEPSIA TABLETS will make you feel ten yean younger. Best ’known remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach and Dyspepsia. 25 cents a package at all Druggists, or sent to any address postpaid/ by the d * • U. s. ARMY & NAVY TABLET CO. 200 West Broadway, N.Y* Food Supply Required by Soldiers and Civilians The man who works hard needs in a day twelve ounces of one or of a com bination of the following: Meat, poul try, cheese, dried vegetables, fish or eggs. To vary the above he may count every glass of milk drunk equal to an ounce of any one of the others. The soldiers, either in home or military life, must have four pounds of fresh fruit and vegetables in order to keep the bony structure in good condition. He will need the three-quarters of a cupful of fat (this includej butter, oil, the fat of meat eaten, or any other fat in the dally diet) to keep him warm, and to this group he must add one and one-fourth pounds of bread or cereal, and finally, in order to com plete the necessary amount of driv ing power, he must have two ounces of sugar or one-third of a cupful of sirup, •< ^ Ideas Worth Fortunes Are at the Disposal of Those of Inventive Turn of Mind A soldier was once tramping along a country road on his way to rejoin his unit. Hearing that his luck was rather down, a casual friend put him up for the night at an inn, and on parting with him in the morning gave him some tobacco. To show his grat itude. the soldier parted with the only thing lie had which he thought would be of strvlce to his benefactor, the re cipe for making boothlacking. Out of that simple recipe was horn a great polish firm. “I was singing to the mouthpiece of a telephone,” said Edison, “when the vibrations of my voice caused a fine steel point to pierce one of my fingers. That set me to thinking. If I could record the motions of the point and send it over the same surface after ward, I saw no reason why the thing should not talk. That’s the story.” Il was only an idea, but out of that simple notion sprung the phonograph. It was a passing idea which gave the world the discovery of galvanic elec tricity, so useful In transmitting vo cal and written language. Mme. Gal van! simply happened to notice the contraction of the muscles of a skinned frog accidentally touched at the mo ment her husband took a spark from an electric machine. That was the whole thing. Soap Worth Millions Finds Way Into Sewage in England Four hundred thousand tons of soap are, it is estimated, used -every year in England, practically ail of which flnds Its way into the sewage* If this could be exiracted, the value would be from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000. The residue which was left after all the fatty con stituents had been drawn would be of considerable fertilizer value. It would □ot clog the soil, would be completely sterilized and odorless and could be stored or used on land without creat ing a nuisance. Chinese Use Ancient Method Of. Printing and Engraving The Chinese follow the primitive way of printing from engraved wooden blocks. The mutter to be printed is first written, by means of ink, upon pa per, which is pasted face downward upon a block of a pear or plum tree. After the paper becomes dry It is rubbed until an inverted impression of the characters is left. Then the blank spaces are cut away and the block Is turned over to the printer, who works by hand. He takes care to ink the characters equally and to avoid tearing the impression. ]: WISE AND OTHERWISE I The man who keeps his self- respect has saved all that mat ters. A woman’s Idea of a real party is one for which she feds It necessary to go to an expert to have her hair dressed. Next to shopping for herself I Here’s nothing a woman likes better than helping another woman to pick out a new gown. There's one thing about good ^ . i work—you never have to worry ? ) J about being able to get away 4 i ! will* It. | SMA-a.A j..A Alin! AAA AAA A A. T ▼ ▼ v TTTT’VVTI TTTTTTTT Altogether Now Everybody Boost One for all All for each other. Lets make it a bigger, better, busier CHAMBER OF COMMERCE And the Chamber of Commerce will make Florence a Bigger, Better, Busier Town. VVVVV\^/vVVVVvVVr< HOLD YOUR COTTON And Store It With The Pee Dee Fair Association We have facilities for storing an unlimited amount of cotton. The rates charged will be 50c and 75c, watchman will be kept on the grounds. For further information see C. G. BROWN Florence Chamber of Commerce ssxasxai&gBsxitag&giasg!!^^ A Reliable Cough Medicine “I have given ChamberlaHn’s Oou^h Remedy to my five children on occasion without number for the past fifteen years. It is the only remedy I could rely up on to euro coughs and colds and for croup it has no equal. The- children take it willingly” writes Mrs. C. O. Nesblt, Vandergrift, Pa. Hayes' Healing Honey. Stops 'the Tickle, Hpals the Throat Hid Cures the Cough. Price ?5c A ”oree box of O-PEN-TRATE SALVE 'or Chest Colds, Head Colds and Croup is enclosed with evey bottle. Use The Want Ads f Country Property Owners Why pay from $19.00 to $24.00, when we will write your Cotllh try Pjopeity Insurance for $12.60 on the thousand of InsuranceT • • £ The Florence County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co. J. W. McCUWN, President D. E. FRASER. Secty. and Agent Office with J. P. GILLAND, Esq., Masonic Temple. Phone 880-W rr. Don’t fail to attend big get-to-gether meeting at Pinewood Club, Thursday, February 27th.