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CiP JACKSON IS UNLIMITED NUMBER OF YOUNG --MEN WANTED FOR CLASSES IN VARIOUS TRADES. ' DEMONSTRATION IN WINDOW Army Officers and Instructors Giving Men Highly Skilled Training in Many Useful Trades. Camp Jackson. — Strenuous cam* p&igning is now going on in Columbia for enlistments for the university in khaki at Camp Jackson. An unlimited number of young men for classes in various trades are wanted at once. To stimulate recruiting in the recon struction division, which is directing the school, MaJ. George L. Peterson, )as established a demonstration unit in one of the windows of Mimnaugh’s department store. Hundreds of per sons stop at the window and watch, with keen interest the young men working industriously on problems of drafting or latrines, or other mechani cal engineering problems. Men who enlist in this branch of the service can not be transferred, ex cept on their own applicatiorf, and the army officers and Instructors are giv ing the men highly skilled training In many useful trades. ., Drunkenness Discussed By Council. * Fort Mill.—At a called meeting of town council the matter of the pre valence of drunkenness and the illicit sale of alcoholic beverages was very exhaustively discussed .and ways and means of coping with the sltuatta* considered. It is believed that illicit stills are being operated near Fort Mill and that the biweekly quart law of the adjoining state of North Caro lina is being used to secure quantities of whiskey for sale in thin territory. At leas*, one organ isatioa has Invoked the nid of the state officials and the local authorities are continually work ing for evidence to apprehend and convict the outlaws. PBHiCETOJT B0il> ! CONTRACT LET Work ©» Improved Road From Lau- * reus to Prfcaceton to Start July 1st Top Soil Trackage. Laurens, S. C., June 25 (Special)- 1 *- . The first contract for improved roads in the county under the direc tion of the highway commission work ing in connection with the board of county commissioners, has been awarded Gregory fe-Tfawnw, nowTtfnr-- Mrs. M„ A. Hays left Tuesday for Dillon to visit Mgr daughter. Mrs. James Sprunt. Lt. Colonel Carl Barksdale is due to land at Camp Jackson this week. His Clinton friends will be mighty glad to have him home again. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Blakely vis ited in Laurens this week. Miss tfessie muinn has returned from a trip to her home in Smyrna. Mr. T. 6. Jeans is in Greenville undergoing treatment for his health. * ij. - ... *■ •■h pleting some contracts in Cherokee county. The project let to this con tracting company here constitutes what is known as the upper route from Laurens via the Shell place, Hickory.Tavern TuoibUug ShpfjBJ—Mrs J ft Jpatw and' Jack are on to Princeton at the Greenville coun ty line, a distance of about 20 miles. The surveys are being made as rapid ly as possible for this work which is to begin July 1. The job is to be done at so much a cubic yard. The width of the road out to the Shell place is to be 32 feet, from there to Hickory Tav ern 30, and from there to Princeton 28, with top soil trackage of 14 feet all the way. The first project is being handled visiting relatives in Greenwood. Mr. Jeans went over and spent the week-end with them. Mir. S. M. Quinn who h? just out of the U. S. service, spent several days here with his sister, Miss Bessie Quinn. Mrs. J. X. Quinn of Smyrna is visiting Mrs. P. S, Jeans. Friends of Rev. J. B. Branch ^ntirely-hy the., fttata and rmipty^k, } n ^oHirer-wnHouTahFTsslsfangrff^^ . - the government. In the next few ,a .' s ‘'^°' weeks it Is proposed to let contracts that embrace several projects on which government aid has been se cured.. Over $300,000 is to be expend ed by the county on the different roads of the county, and the improved road construction will be directed by N. C. Hughes, civil engineer, who has been employed by the local commission. Mr. Branch ha& 1 « . ......Ic;'*®*’' in the Red Cross service, j V 'AL-.'’- CQTTON ADVANCED DURING PAST WEEK All Road* Lead to York. York.—All roads will lead to York July 4. On that date there will be staged here a mammoth good roads rally, which promises to draw the lar gest crowd that has assembled In Yoi^ for many years. In addition to tMi part of the program directly con nected with the aubject of roads, there vKll be attractions numerous and var ious enough to suit every taste. Lead- Itng features for the day are addresses Iffy several men of national promi- nance, a monster parade, basket pic nic and baseball game. Orangeburg Band la Fampua. Orangeburg.—Among the Eighty- trot unit# to arrive at Camp Jackson Is the Three Hundred and Eighteenth Field Artillery band, formerly the Old ^Second South Carolina National Guard regiment band from Orangeburg. Twenty-five of the 37 men in the or ganixation are at Camp Jackson: This band comes home with the unique distinction of roceiving a beau tiful banner from the city of Nice, where it entertained hundreds of thou sands of American and allied soldiers. Favorable View of Political Events and Unsatisfactory Weather Caused Ad* * vanee. New Orleans, June 22.—A favorable view of political events and continued unsatisfactory weather conditions on the .belt put the price of cotton last week to new high levels for the pres ent bull gMMWMBt v Highest prices carried July to 33.10 and at this level the market was 162 to 192 points high er than the close of the preceding week and 235 to 272 points np from the low levels made at the middle of the week. Last prices showed net gains of 101 to 130 points. Contributing to the strength of the market were the large exports and the very favorable accounts from the dry goods markets of both this country and England, which mention a large turnover at high prices. Exports this week were 157,841 bales against 90,- 337 this week last year, bringing the total for the season thus far up to 4,810,208 bales against 3,884,583 dur ing the same period last season. LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Man Shoots Mother-In-Law. Greenville.—Hugh T. Bramlett, aged 35, at liberty under bond on a charge of assault and battery, shot and possi bly fatally wounded his mother-in-law, Mrs, L. 'C. McHugh, inflicted slight wounds on his sister-in-law, Miss Be- ola McHugh. 30, and was in turn shot twice by Sheriff Rector. Little hope Is entertained for the recovery of Mrs. McHugh. Bramlett is now in Jail, having been overpowered and placed under arrest by the sheriff, chief of police and a patrolman after being wounded. f To Complete Clinton Postoffice. Washington (Special).—The* sundry jeivil appropriation bill reported to the house contained an item of 839,- 600 for the completion of the post- office building at Clinton. » • • • • • \ • • Fish for Mill Lake. Washington (Special).—The Oconee JCills company is completing a large lake adjacent to its factory at West minster and purposes making this not only a place of recreation to its opera tives through the opportunities it will offer of boating and swimming, but a source of food supply to its em ployees as well. The management, through the interest of Senator Dial, has arranged to procure from the fed eral bureau of flsheftes a generous al lotment of bass and bream with which to stock the lake. Misses Lentz and Day, milliners at Adair-Sumerel’s and at King’s, left lastlveek for their homes. Miss Ella Adair visited Mrs. Sam Adair at the hospital m Ches ter last Week. Dr. and Mrs. James R. Copeland and Mr. Hale Shands spent Sun day in Greenville withMrs. T. P. P. Carson and from there went to Hendersonville. Misses Ina May and Emmie Pitts spent the week-end at Renno with Mrs. Leisel Copeland. Miss ^telia DuRant left Satur day for Jacksonville, Fla., where she will visit her sister, Mrs. Royal. Miss Mary Carrigan has return ed to her home in Society Hill, af ter a several weeks’ stay to the Misses Dillard. Mrs. George Cornelson and Miss Rose Cornelson, who have been the guests of Miss Connie Bailey, left Tuesday to spend the summer in Montreat. Dr. R. L. Wylie of Clover has re turned home after being the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Robertson. You Do More You are more ambitious ISiAipM fet more enjoyment out of ever^Mttg when your blood is in good condition. 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