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i=i: -- ?Hank Make* Good Showing. t The annual meeting of the stock-1 holders of The Bank of Latta was held Tuesday the 31st of December. The year 1918 was the best in the history of the bank, both in the way f profits and in business done. The usual 8Tc dividend was paid and a ice sum passed to the surplus account. The directors passed a resoluAomiunn/Uno i V? & nffir?Pr? l?f t ho IIUU tviuiugnuuif, Hi" X-. Sy' bank for the efficient manner in which the business was handled during the year. The same officers were re-elected with the addition that Mr. L. A. Manning, Jr., who has been in the west for the past four years, was elected an active vice-president. Mr. Manning is no stranger in Latta andj his high standing and business ability will no doubt be a great asset to the bank. o? Impertinent, But True. A coat was being bought in one of the department stores for a S;rlThe price seemed high to the mother and she remarked: "Just think of hat much money for a coat for a Httle girl," she said. "Little folks are expensive, that's true," said the saleslday, "but we would not do without them." "No," said the youngster, who was he proverbial little pitcher with the verdeveloped ears, "because if tlure were no little people in the world, there wouldn't be any one to grow up into big people." o Important to Farmers. In order for you to get your gov-j vnment soda it will be necessary for you to get your order in by Saturday, January 25th. You will find application blanks at the banks in. Dillon, Lake View and Latta. Don't I fail to give this your prompt atten-1 tion if you want government scda. j S. W. EPPS, County Agent. ?-??? One More Star. Eight-year-old Jimmie is very partiotic. He has taught his three young-! r brothers to sing "America," "The Star. Spangled Banner" and "Overj here" with great gusto. He has also taught them to envy Boy Scouts, to reverence War Mothers and to respect all service flags. Recently a new baby came to Jimmie's home. The four boys had long-, d for a little sister, but the new arrival was a brother instead. Glooin yeigned through the entire household xcept over Jimmie who still smiled. "You needn't be so mad," he scolded his brothers. "You're going to be jlad some day 'cause at the next war he'll be just one more star in our. ervice flag."' I( r 1 : / FOR COLDS AND GRIPPE ? DOCTORS AND REMEDY.< hhysician1; and druggists are elat- i ed over the fact that they have at last found a genuine and dependable rem edy for colds, sore hroat, influenza and la grippe. For years they have depended chiefly upon the old style ealomel, which is certainly fine, but unfortunately many people would not take it beacuse of its nauseating and dangerous qaulities. Now that the pharmaceutical chem ists have perfected a nausealess calomel called "Calotabs" whose medical virtues are vastly improved, the doctors and druggists are glaiming 1 that Calotabs are the ideal remedy *o abort a cold over night and cue short an attack of sore throat or la eriDDe. They are also finding it most ; effective as the first step in the treat- j ment of pneumonia. One Calotab on the tongue at bed time with a swallow of water?that's j; all. No salts, no nausea nor the j lightest interference with your eat-1 ing or your work and pleasure. Thej. next morning your cold has vanished and your whole system is purified and" refreshed. Calotabs are sold only i ip' original sealed packages price Xbirty-five cents. Your druggist rec ommends and guarantees them by i ' refunding the price if you are noe de^ lighted.?1-16-lt.?221. , Atte: FARMERS am I have just r ormv anH now Inral U1 111 J M**V> uv ?? purpose of practice cine and surgery. All calls appn i prompt attention. Headquarters a Fdwards E R. M. BAIL1 Graduate V LATTA, - A INHUMAN ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY TURKS. . i "A barrage of dead bodies so thick 1 and numerous as to turn the course ot the Euphrates river was made by the bayoneted women and children at the hands of the Turks in Jinx," according to the United States Consular report made t0 Ambassador Mor- ; ronthmi nf Tnrlrov which has ill si 1 been made public through the American Committee for Relief in the near l east, whose campaign to raise $30,- 1 000,000 for these starving people < commences on January 12th. "Men > and women were stripped naked, tied ' together in hundreds, shot and then J hurled into the river. 'i "Day after day, night after night, the prettiest girls were carried away; I some times they returned in a piti-b able condition that told of their suf- i ferings. Any stragglers, those who 1 were so old, infirm or sick that they|s could not keep up with the march, j< were promptly killed. Whenever a I Turkish village was reached, all the'j local vagabonds were allowed to prey! upon the Armenian girls. '< Hundreds of orphaned children i are wandering aimlessly alone overi the desert sands. Their skin hanging Is from their bones like ra<?s, slowly < dying of starvation and thirst. Well t fed Americans can hardly imagine t the terrible conditions of these war i wrecked people of Armenia and Syria who are dying and will conti -ue to: die at the rate of 20,000 per month ji unless relief is sent at once. Every j penny of the fund to be raised by then American Committee will go towardii purchasing food and clothing, as the t incidental expenses of the campaign 11 have been guaranteed by private sub- 1 scriptions in the United States." o k Columbia, S. C., Dec. 31?The con-'i struction of improved highways in i South Carolina would mark the be- t ginning of a new era in the history < of the state, in the opinion of For-|l mer Governor D. C. Heyward, who is i a very avowed supporter of the plan 1 endorsed by the good roads conven-! i tion ^or a $25,000,000 bond issue, t Governor Heyward declares that the j s construction of a concrete road sys- t tern connecting evefy county in the t slate would be followed by an imme- ii diate advance in the price of the farm t lands. This advance would not be con- i fined solely to the farms located v along the concrete roads, but would jt also apply to farm lands in every foc- ; tion of a county, because there will j: be no section of a county that is very i far removed from the improved high- i ways. And, as Governor Heyward a points out, the county officials will ' not hav'e to devote any of their time to the concrete roads, so that they can use all of their resources to im- t proving and ..maintaining the other f roads in .the county. i Governor Heyward thinks that the i completion of the concrete roads ? would result in a quickening of com- i munity life in the country. There i would be better schools and better a churches. Life in the country would t at once become much more attrac- c tive. The young man could live on the s farm and, owning his own automo- i bile, could, if the roads were good, a go to town whenever he got re.dy. The advantage to the farmer from s an economic standpoint would be j tremendous. The market would be ac > cessible at all time for his produce. I The auto truck would solve the prob- c lem of getting truck to town. e Governor Heyward thinks that all t sections of the state would benefit j alike by the improved roads, just as c they suffer alike from the baa roaas. r The mud of the Piedmont section and t the sand of the lower section are c alike drawbacks to the motorist. i "The Rhett plan appears to me to be the best that has yet been offered j ?one that will come nearer meeting with general approval, "says Mr. Hey. ward. "I have discussed it with some of the best business men in the coun- ^ try, and they tell me it is one of the ^ best they have seen. I believe that our people can get together on it and t put it over and that it will mark the o dawning of a new era for our state." ^ t ; ntion i STOCKMEN <] _______________________ E eturned from the?' c led at I.atta for the c ig veterinary medi-? d e eciated and given' i I1 t j. Sros. Stables . 1 IY, D. ; N. i? . 1 etennarian < - - - S. C. i j I KADIO MKSSAGKS GO THROUGH iVATtilt AX1> l.VDKIt GROUND. fi Government Gives to the Public An- H utber o? its Great War Secrets H Iku^i'is i/nunti ^ t III mtu Pructital Use. Washington, J.n. 11?How under- f ,rou: ;i and through-water wireless ? uas put iiuo practical use dur.ng the ivar was disclosed today by Navy Department officials, giving to tue public another of its wur secrets. Govjr union i officials regard this develop item, originated in private lesearch jy jauies ii. lingers, a scientist, of Hyatlswlle, Md., as one of the war's najor seienuiic ad.isors of the kind. in practical use, the new system so far is employed only for receiving radio uies.ju.ges sent cut from powerful stations in Europe. They are now jeing read at underground receiving stations 111 the United States, and in some cases better than when caught jy the eluboiate and epensive air stations. in addiion, it was revealed at the lepartment, through an adaptation of 3 .he .Rogers' theory, that submarines '( inder water are intercepting radio signals sent from shore, and with i :rude apparatus, the scientist has ] .ucceeded in transmitting signals two | niles from submerged wire, simulat- | ng a submarine. ( rent Department Possible. '. J- ? ? 1 . t, 3 umciais say it is pussiuie, (luuuuoii lot yet an accomplished fact, that ; 'round or water sending can be de- ' .eloped to a considerable extent. They 10 not anticipate, however, that the iresent method of sending from high owei's will be superceded except for , imited special purposes. t The theory most generally held un- ' 11 <lciamioir?ued the correct- ' less of his views, was that impulses j mrled into the air from a radio I xansmitting station and deflected ; earthward became dissipated as does ightning when striking the ground \ w Vv.ier. The luaryluud scientists lowever, believed that the impulses i loned tinougii me eartu as through ( he air and that it was only neceslary to trap and measure them in j he ground. He had been at work, ou ' us theory before the United States j filtered the war and already had in- 1 erested naval experts. He offered he results of his work to the navy ; rithout restriction and officials say 10 was with difficulty persuaded to iccept even remuneratipn for actual .line. One of the first steps taken vas the request of the Navy Departnent, under war legislation, that his ippiication far patents be expedited, rhis was done. Jj Cost Almost Negligible. , Some of the main advantages of fa he Rogers' system, as developed so 9 ar, according to experts, are almost I legligible cost of construction, the 8 ntensifying of signals by pointing the A .enuihg apparatus toward the receiv- "" ng hill I I UIl CVIIU It'UUtliUII \J l OIHUV nterference. Because of the latter id.antage the navy's receiving s^aion at New Orleans, where communi:ation with ships in Southern waters iwept by frequent electrical storms s maintained, uses the underground ipparatus with marked success. In war a great advantage is that ubmarines receive messages while lubmerged. This is being done by vires trailing in the water. The togers' development aroused electrial experts of the government to new sfforts to expand and improve radio rausmission facilities. Out of the exlerimental work done with this and ither ideas steady -advance has been uade under war pressure and Rogers' heories are interwoven with those of ither men in the results being obained. o OLLED THREE HUNS BEFORE GIVING UP. Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 8?Three dead lermans lying in a pile with a dead J. S. Marine on top of them, holding l knife in his hand, is the picture hat will linger longest in the mem>ry of James L. Weddington, Jr., a )ublin, Ga., boy who drove an amlulance with the Sixth Marine on five iifferent fronts, beginning at the batle of Chateau Thierry, where the Jarines stopped the rush of the Russian Guards, and ending in front if Sedan, where the Marines for sev>n days led the great American adrance that was rapidly closing the jerman army in the neck of a botle. Weddington is a sergeant. He has Iriven ambulances under heavy hell fire too many times to count. ie hag also quit the wheel of his ar and got into the fight when neessity demanded. He has seen the aarines beat the best picked troops if the German army at their own ;ame of "shook." And today he is nly nineteen years old. "Can the aarines fight," says Sergeant Wedington. "Well, buddy, ask me wheth. r a wild cat ' an fight." The servant passed through Atlanta yeserday on his way to Dublin.on sick eave. He says every Marine in France was worth three Germans. o Little Frederick went with an aunt' hrough the cemetery. Upon his reurn home he went ?o his father and laid: "Father, I went for a walk with tuntie through the cemetery today, tnd we read the inscriptions on the ;ombsiones." "And what were your thoughts, jiy son, after you had done so"? ask?d the father. "Well, father, replied the chUd, Seriously, "I wondered where all the I picked people were buried."?Life. \ The Spring Po Indications are that prices will be good anc received from Mr. G. W. Waller, Secretary a Exchange, Hastings, Fla. Mr. Waller is undoi in the South: "Replying to your letter of Dec. 17th beg t going to be cut about one fourth, in other wor this year we will have about 12,000. I find tl Charleston is going to be cut about 16 per cei tatoes are going on the market very rapidly a marketed over 14,000 more car loads than ha< and the government report shows there are 2 .there was last year. In view of the fact that i country has cut their acreage and that the ol more rapidly than ever before. I cannot see son if we can only raise the crop. Personally ever before and I really believe that now is } all the loss and unsatisfactory things you ha\ past." Also Prof. Massey in recent issue of the P is good. The Government Marketing Bureau there is fifty per cent less potatoes in stora sections than there was this time last year. t* n__ t i. j. i. _ rersonaiiy, i expect, to piam mucii larger a TWO CAP Choice Main Seed COBBLERS and Two more cars Book your orders with me now. If you plant, See Me Before J. H. Bennett Seed Potato Factor 283 \ Fertilizer With Roysters Fertilizers are the man; F. S. ROYSTER. Their exc ience is the resuli continuous effort to perfect a j ly for Southern crops and Soul Is the knowledge and experiei worth anything to you? Then ROYST FERTILI TRADE MAI -rm REGISTERS Order early and avoid i F. S. ROYSTER (j Norfolk, V'a. Baltimore, Hd. Toledo, O. Tar Columbia, S. C. Spartanburg, S. C. At Columbus, Ga. Montf 27S * V tato 1 I quote following from a letter B nd Manager, Hastings Potato B .ibtedly the best potato authority n 0 say that our potato acreage is 9 ds, instead of having 16,000 acres f | le acreage through Beaufort and v 8 it. and in view of the fact old po- 1 md up to this time there has been , 9 1 been up to this time last year j fl 4,000 car loads less grown than A fl every producing section in the \JH Id crop is getting out of the w8$ B why we cannot have a good ea- fl I am into the deal heavier than 39 rour time to go in and make up for fl re had to contend with within the jfl 'rogressive Farmer says outlook in a recent bulletin says that 1 ge in the important producing \ 'M creage than ever before. | ^ LOADS Just Arrived I yRED BLISS I I in transit .MH plant early. K. '; fa You Buy I j , Clio, S. C. I | Agent Coe-Mortimer Co. 1 -Jl Personality \ ' s m \ &?$ $ : life-work of one |B t of 33 years of ] )lant food especialthern Soils. ice of a life-time J i ask for ||fl ER'S ZERS 'i disappointment ^ 1UANO CO. M boro, N. C. Charlotte, N. C, flR lan to, Ga. Macon, Ga. jomery, Ala.