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HOLSTEIN BULL Registered Will t>*? - for net-vice at W<esterhani P 1 a n t a t i o n. Terms $2.00 cash for season. W. A. RUSH, Manager, Lutfoff, S. C. Collins Brothers Undertakers for Colored People Telephone 41 '/I 4 W 0* K a Ib 5l F. D. C A M P B E L L, Jr. Cotton Buyer 1 <!?>siiv in u> >i 1 fy ihi? farmer.* of Ker*lia\\ ami adjoining <"ouulies that I have riik?*t> <?sit tlo* interest* of Mayhauk A ('<?.. of ('harlestoli, ? otton meivha lit ??, forin?? r I v repre M iili-il here hy the lair .1. H Steed mail, nii11 will emleavor to mtvc the puhlir in I tic same etHrieiit manner as < 1 i<I inv |Hvd??eesMor. rial form Hear of IClmitie Itro.s. Store RUB OUT PAIN WitL ( .ml liiiiiiiciil. ll>c ;.irnnl way to stop them. 1 he (K'sl luobing liniment is A il (jO'k! for ihc Ailments of Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. ijood for your own Aches, Pax! Rheunativ-m. Sprains, b'.'V.-i, JLtC. 2Sc. 30c. $1. At all Dealers. i.O A -N M;i<i?? <in ;ii);?r??\?? <? < ? and city ival fstatr. I Miy t^rrns, low int?MV~'. ;>1. M. .JOHNSON. \i:y.. Camden. S ('. ALFALFA GROWN Just as profitably hi th?? < ;?r..!.::as a:ul Alabama, as in tin- Wi i .: voti I: ? ?? y > ir laod with LADCO GROUND LIMESTONE. ( oms h triflf, lii?uri > pxiti >;.i: 1 at ?: vi>"trous rrowtb of HifnliH vpi.^i i :..v. r> .??. i nr.mi. VrlU? for rle;.vrrcM |ir ?? vi; . ?? ,c in>1 r>?{??*t-. . ..a..La a : ir.inT LADD LIME & STONE COMPANY. V4ti HtALlY UUIl.DINC. ATLANTA. QA. r A R M LOANS \\ ?? ai l* prepared t<? iH'^o ite loans on improved farm iul> in Kershaw county at 'iw rate of interest. Loans run for five years. J. MASSE Y !. c. 11oi'(; 1 i Dr. E. H. KERRISON Dentist < \ ? ? r IIrii'v's Sr <>n* I'.iujhI Mini I)? Kalli Sis. 1 Ml.nit- IS.", COLUMBIA LUMBER & MANUFACTURING CO. MILL WORK SASH. DOORS. BLINDS AND LUMBER PI. A IN & HUGKR SIS f'W.- , \ COL.I \1Lii V. - C DR. R. E. STEVENSON I; J: n i!v J Cro< her ftiiiidini; C'anidon, S. C. Washington,?Sixteen great military clues, which when <*< >i 11 {> 11* t ?*< 1 will hou^e about men 1'iicli?it tut there are not more than 1 J>0 titles ill tlie entire I'lilted States <?f greater population?lire" now in process of construction. These cities nre tin* can tonments In which tin* first American selective draft armjvof between ftOO, <hx> ami (Mmumhi men. will recoive their preliminary training in tills country, prior to their transfer overseas to the allied hat tie fronts In France. The contractors to whom the contracts have been let for the building "over night," so to speak, of these lfl army cities, are already hard at work, and tin y must finish their Jobs by Septem ber 1. That the war department will suc ceed in making good and that each of these new cities will be ready on schedule time for the more than SO,000 draft men who will be ordered to them for tralniiiK. Is the belief of every ofll cer in the army. Army officers and reg ular army enlisted men,,with several! thousand civilian employees added, I will bring the population or each can- ? toDinent to about 40.0(H) men. necessi tating a building problem involving flie construction <?f about 1,000 houses, all of them of considerable size, In the space of a few weeks. The average ground area covered by each canton ment will be between 1,500 and acres, ami the maintenance of the 10 cities Is expected to entail an expendi ture which in one year will probably total more than $120,000,000. To feed the soldiers alone, who will be trained in these cantonments, will require In one year more than 2,000, 000 bushels of wheat, more than 84, TXM>.<hH> pounds of fresh beef, and 42, (MHUHM) pounds of fresh pork. The milk needed will total In a year more than lo.f.oo.ooo gallons, and there will be needed probably 2,~?00,<M)0 bushels of Irish potatoes, over tt2f?.000 bushels of onions, and over 27"?,000,000 pounds of other vegetables, such as cabbage, spinach. turnips, etc. In addition to all this food for man are the oats, hay and other feed which will be needed by the more than IOO.IHmi Imi'M's ami mules which will be em ployed at the cantonments. Location of the Cities. Tin* PI army cities will In- located iii :ir Mass.; Yaphnnk, L. I.; Wri^'iii <t.i\\ n. N. .1.; AnnapoMv .1 unc tion. ,M?I Ivicrsbur:;. Ya. : Columbia. S. (; A'lanta. <Ja. : < 'lit 11 i<< >1 he, <).; Louisville. Ky. ; IJatMe (*i*????k. .Mich.; 1 >? ?- .M11i*n? -. la.; *l"<lit KiJey, Kan.; Fort Sam 11.Tex.; !<? ?? kt"??r?l. 111.; i.illle Kim k Ark., and American I.iiI;Wiivli. What I h? ? i 111 ? ? J'lTi ? 111 lilriuis whirl: !':ui ? | Hi.' war depa r! m??nt following i!i> |iii?.siu'r d! the selective draft law and ill- announcement b\ President Wilson that In- would 'all (?? !h? ? ????! ? tin- hi-' nan "f conscrip tion ii.'1 ? nil Si jrt.? j? it.i? r 1. ??;i:i t? under siiumI. :iv whs pointed cut by an oilicer i?i the qiiart*?nna-!or corps. I?y keep im.' in iiiiinl what happens it) lilt' brdi- . 11ary run "f affairs during the con st ion of the average living hnu^i1. Tim ar?? 11iifi t takes his time over the plan-. iliere i - plenty of time to look about for a com raetor. and much time i? wii'ied waiting f<?r materials. "* 'oinpare." says a war department nieniorandum. "this everyday experi ence with the nuvurunmni's task uf providing in ahout twelve weeks bar racks for about men. with wa ter supplies. plumbing and heating equipments. hospitals, storehouses, sta bles. and shops in locations where there was nothing at the time the site was >e|eeted hat meadow* a fid prove. What private citizen would expect to 111?? n ? into a house on September 1 oil whith not a stroke of work had been done on ,1 uiie 1 ?" l!;-.' h ' antonment will be a city of orderly and properly laid out streets ati'l b 11? * ks, with complete sewerage and . lietric liphtmu system*, railroad yar?l>. water lines and tire depart til'?!11s garbage incinerators, and hun dred- of other convenience-; necessary it; the bfe of any wel 1 -oruamized mod ern s.-: t leinetir. In the ..iis1 .-netion of the Panama canal the po ??!,niii?,!it expenditure amoimted to about S lo om.into a year, and for the canton?...-n!" probably as mil' Ii will be expend'"! in four months. .Ju-t about one month iu'h "the officials on w'...-e shoulders v\a- pla<vd the bil'ilen nf makin- the c;i n' otiliieat>s ready on time, started to s.ihe the problem. Involved in the ta-k was first ot all the sell ?<! loll of the It) sites, the -I ii ntilic planning and la.vinp out ef the p; cv; . - the purchase and tie* :'.ss.-m!.... tlie materia!^, 'he druw in^' up tiie contracts and tie- "U'niiiL' up "f the <? ntr.i' tors. AS'i there wa the :i."biii/a:i< "f the thou-ands "f carpet:!. ' - ; ??? !, lines alld other hibor e I -, -k d d tin-k I ill d. and ?!. ? 11 s of ..'h.-r ma".:'-, -oiin* bi?*. oth er ?? -*i:i!l aiH! < f which had to hr ? ... . ?i ? --i ..;?!? -: pi:--lb1e t'.fie. Jcfc Measured in Carloads. " ? . - ' i a ? : I en Ii * >1 i lie ?! ,V # , e r-<: . :? ! 1 .* t'l'D carloads ma ? - s ' he s.',. ? us det? ? r mi':. ' ' : ? ' tary ? nuineer, n city phi: ? >: ? y ? ?' r repr?*?et.! i: _ - ? ? i." pr?.i '????!.-d to th>" | ? ::. ? 1 s t a r' eij the ?v r\ ? -.-r^ foil..wed hy SIXTEEN MILITARY CITIES TO BE ERECTED WITH GREAT SPEED Home* to Accomodate 600,000 Soldiers of the National Army Must Br Ready by September 1?Each Cantonment'Is To Have 1,000 Houses, With a Population of 40,000 Men-?Food Needed for Army. tho contracting engineer, who holds n major's commission, am! under whose supervision the city Ih now being built. An Idea of the size of this Job may bo gained nt a glance at the material estimate for a typical cantonment. Lumber In the big Item, Home 20,000,* iMX) fret or 1,325 carloads being the re quirement. Hoofing nails alone will (111 one modern freight car. Crushed stone for the roads will make 812 carloads. llore are some of the other items: 28,000 squares of rooting, (10 cars; 20 carloads of nails and hardware; 20 carloads plumbing; 11)2 carloads of tanks, heaters, stoves, ranges, piping, electrical materials, refrigerators, and the like; railroad matcrluls for live miles of track, divided Into '50 car loads of ties and other timber. 20 car loads of spikes, rails, fishplates, etc., and 114 carloads of ballast; 1<> car loads of electric light poles, wires, in sulators, etc. Materials for'12,000 cubic yards of concrete will make 7o car loads of cement, 350 carloads of stone and 175 carloads of sand. The men of the cantonments will sleep in double-deck bunk*. This means there will he 37,000 separate bunks, each with Its mattress. To transport the mattresses, 125 cars will be?required, and the bunks will take 62 more. Water and sewer lines will make 05 carloads each, and 1 ."?<? car loads of hospital equipment will he necessary. Three carloads of screens are also Included In the estimate, as are 20 carloads of construction tools. Where water cannot be' obtained from already utilized sources wells must be driven or reservoirs construct ed. The problem of sewage disposal will be met by connecting cantonment sewage mains to already existing sew age systems where possible, <?r by building reduction stations where nee Provide Rifle Ranges. Areas of the cantonments will vary with the topography, the minimum be ing from l,fiOO to acres. In addi tion to (he city itself, parade grounds, maneuvering spaces and rill" ranges must In? provided. Kach cantonment will contain close i?) I.ihmi buildings, the typical <??,mpany barracks being a two-story stm ture. built ??!' wooden framn, cove:-'"! with matched hoards. Root's will in wejl cov i'ivi! with prepared roofing -I h* y w 111 ! o well ventilated with Hues, lighted by ? lect ricit.v. heated in the North hy -team and in the South by Moves. Kach win have a kitchen and mess hall. Col. I. W. Kit toll of the quarteri.!)!.? ter's departlimnf of the army, who is ii) charge of tiie work of building the < antoiuie nt s. made public I he fee sys tem of the cantonment contracts. The fees vary from l" per cent on small >on'i\a<is of Siiio.iiou or less to pet eon; mi i ontraet- .if more than ?"><?'. (HMt. with a final upset limit of ? ?0O; Tin fees in all I'a-rs cover both profit and overhead expense. They were fixed upon by the department acting with the assistance of the emer gency construction committee of the gem ral munitions board and other civilian advisers. "In deciding on the cantonment con tracts we have had to consider three tuain i*?ints of practically equal im portance," Colonel Lit tell said. "The first has been the absolute necessity uf speed, the secund. proper construc tion, including salutation and commu nication and transportation facilities; the third, economy. Taking all three into consideration and also the fact that time will not permit the comple tion of drawings and specifications which would be neeosary in order to ask for competitive bids before the work must be started, the quartermas ter's corps, acting in conjunction with the emergency construction committee, decided to make contracts on the per centage or 'cost plus' basis, at the some time using all possible safeguards In the shape of guarantees from the contractors as to their capacity and in tegrity. "The profit system has been decided on only after weeks of study t?? find a basis for the fees which would assure the country of the highest grad^of w ork from the contractors and at the same time prevent extravagance through the payment of excessive prof' its. It is a pleasure to pass tribute to the loyalty and patriotism of the great majority of contractors who have come here to discuss the question with us. With n few exceptions, they have ac quiesced willingly in our contention that the profits must he kept down to the lowest level consistent with hlgh grade work. Some tinns have offered to do tiie work on a cost basis, but we have considered this an unwise policy both economically and nationally. The utmost speed and efficiency must he developed in these mid future build in^ lobs for the g \ernrnent, and the ?<?? eptance of offers of free service nrri.* easily disrnp: the high-grade e?:.'ra. tins; firms b-<t qualified to do * ll< w . .rfc effect) v. ! \ '. 11 amounts between $f>3."?.714. : d .<,'{.0 which will probably e..\.r the rnnjt?ri*> of the important the f. .? Deluding the cen **verb ?1 profit, 'oil! be 7 I ' v < There is proba'- bo more Interest ing :ure of tie- great cantonment Is *1 ' * problem than the subsistence of the soldiers. "II. M. Cottrell, agriculturist of the (arm development bureau of Memphis, w as asked l?y the Little Hock Ii<?rd of Commerce to estimate the nmotmt of food Mupplle* which will l>? needed at one cantonment. Mr. (Cot trell Is one of the recognised Agricul tural experts of tiio South, aiul his con elusions are made with authority. Air. Cottrell took as his unit, lit compiling hU figures, the army division of 28, MK) officers and men. "Army rations," says Mr. Cottrell, "vary somewhat with the opportunity to secure the different foods. In a x??*r manent euntonment like that to he es tablished at Little Hock (which Is slnl flar to all the others In the country) ihe allowance per man will approxi mate four and a half hutdiels of wheat and one and a half bushels of corn per year. T^ie daily rations per man wll\ average one-half pound of heef, one fourth pound of pork, one-fourth poijnd of mutton or goat meat, one-half pint ikf fresh milk If it can In* obtained at a reasonable price, one and one-fourth ounces of butter, and two and one-half pounds of vegetables, including twelve ounces of Irish potatoes and one ounce of onions. "One division of men will need at at least 7.000 mules and horses. Each horse and mule will be allowed dally fourteen pounds of grain and ten pounds of bay. Three-fourths of the grain ration will be oats and one fourth corn if the price and supply make this practicable." To feed a division of American se lective draft troops Mr. Cottrell esti mates the following as the amount of food needed : 128,250 bushels of wheat. 42.750 bushels of corn. 146,608 bushels of Irish potatoes. 20,320 bushels of onions. 17.554,250 pounds of fresh vegetables, other than Irish potatoes and onions. '.901.250 pounds of fresh beef. 2,600,625 pounds of pork. 2.600.625 pounds of mutton or groat meat. 650.000 gallons of fresh milk. 822.250 pounds of butter. 57.800 dozens of crks 91,260 pounds of chicken. For the animals required by one di vision there will be needed annually vS.S8.400 bushels of oats, 1511,000 bushels of corn and 12,775 tons of bay. "With average yields," Mr. Cottrell continues, "it will take the crop from 11,000 acres of wheat, 10,000 acres of corn. .'$7,000 acres of oats. 10.000 acres of hay, 2,000 acres of Irish potatoes, 140 acres of onions, and probably 1,000 acres of green truck, such as spinach, turnips, mustard, cabbage, and like crops. It will also require 10,000 fat cattle weighing over 1.000 pounds! each. 17.<>00 fat hogs, and 50,000 fat j young sheep and goats. It will take | s.ooo cows to supply the butter and ! 1.7(H) cows to produce the fresh milk; j 7,000 hens will be needed to lay the j t'L'irs, 2.->.<x>o chickens to supply the i meat needed for hospital extras. A Problem for the Farmer. "It will take from 1.000 to 1,."?00 men :i?nl :i> many mules to raise the field . :? iit 1 L'-inl. crops consumed directly by the soldiers. It will take 030.000 hush- i ? ?is of -rain t<? feed and fatten the cat- . thogs ai.d sheen, l*esides pasture and <?<>tton<e??f] meal. It will take 1. I/.o.imh) pounds' of yraln to feed the hens 1;;1 raise and fatten the chick ?:i?. Tt> rjd-e the train for the live! >?;ik1< and the poultry and to care for 1 1 * 1 lhr animals and to market will require j iIn- labor <?f 1.L'?x? to 1 ,"?00 men. It will , ta 1:. l.r.oo toils of silage to fatten the ?*ai?le. <hi*ep and goats and 27.(MM) tons to feed the cows that furnish the milk and butter?a total of 4J.imh> tons." In order to safeguard the morals of the young men who will form the j greater part of the population of these ' camp cities the secretary of war has appointed a commission on training camp activities, the chairman of which is Raymond B. Fosdiek. Associated with Mr. Fosdiek are Thomas J. How ells, Lee F. Ilanmer. Joseph Lee. Mal colmn L. McBrlde. John It. Mott. now j In Russia with the Root mission; Charles P. Neill. Joseph K. Rayeroft i and Maj. Palmer F. Pierce of the regu- ; lar army. The duties of this commit- j tee, which will have representatives at all the cantonments in the country, will he the proper organization of the social and recreational facilities of each community in or near which is located one of the government canton ments. Walter Wood, fifteen year old lad. of Sompsitiiv ille. \\ ;i- shot and pn?b ;iIil\ fatally wounded b\ a pistol Tues ,'Kiy afternoon. 'i'Lit boy was unload ing a handbag when the pistol tired. Herbert Cox. a traveling >alesman for ;le* .Mutual Publishing Hou>e. owner ? ?!' tlie.Jiajjjlhag. has* been arrested in eoniiei-tion with the killing, charged with carrying concealed weapons. Flies Breed in **-u? ?then come into your home $ T?JLTH M;?ANS DISEASE and Hies are born In filth. feed on IN r and carry fihh wiih thorn wherever they alight. K!i? halc^ today in an outhouse, etableyard or in garbage, may bring your family l^ter on In the summer. Thoy may bring typhoid i*J summer complaint, consumption, malaria, or perhaps infantile paIfc|^ The fly 1J almost the exclusive conveyor of diarrhoea and dyujJ, among children and babies. ' Cats Filth and Dos troys tho Fly ?999 This wonderful Lye eats up filth and loaves absolutely nothing for | to foed on or breed in. Just sprinkle it once or twice a week lt>| privy or outhouse. It does the work. Encourage your neighbor clean his out-house also,I because what's good for yours is good for | JRED DEVIL LYE Is also simply wonderful for making soap, Q ditioning hogs, and lor making compost for fertilizer, RED DEVIL LYE Is sold by all grocers. Demand 10c. cans. Onedlnai contains more than two nickel cana. PiMrfml For ff? gjm VVM. SCHIELD MFG. CO., 616 N. 2nd St., 8T. LOU It, And be convinced of the high quality of the ice cream and cok drinks which ? are served at this fountain. Bear in mind that we deliver ice cream to any part of the city. Crosby's Ice Cream Parlor PHONE 44 CAMDEN CANDY KITCHI Headquarters for Fruits, Vegetables, Candy, Cigars, and Cigai and in fact anything- to be found in an up-t fruit and confectionary store. We especially invite you to patronize our water and ice cream parlor where you will all receive prompt and courteous attention, and are sured of receiving only the best of anything in line. 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