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In order tofycure prompt and ac curate identification, the War Depart mont has adopted a system of. number ing enlisted men of the Army. The xyiitem provide# for one series of num ber*, without alphabetical prolix, for ill enlisted men, The number assign oil t?? u soldier will iKH'ome a part of his otttclal designation, and will nev er be changed nor assigned to another man. It will l>e entered on idcntljl cation tugs. TAX NOTICE office of Treasurer Kershaw Co. Cumden,, S. C., Sept. 21, 1017, Notice Ih horeby given that the books will t>e o[K?n for the collecting of State County, and School Taxes from Octo ber 15th, 11H7, to March 15th, 1018. A i>on?lty of 1 per coat. will be added to H11 taxes unj>ald January 1st, 1018; 2 [H?r cent. February 1st, 1018, and ft IH'r ceut. March 16th, 1018. The rate jwr centum for Kershaw County is as follows: Mills State Taxes 8 1-2 County Taxes j S|H?clal Taxes < 10 1-2 Uoad Taxes [ School taxes .... ... 3 Total 22 The following School Districts have ^IMK'lal levies: School District No. 1 5 School District No. 2 4 School District No. 3 2 School District No. 4 4 School District No. ft ? 2 School District No. 0 8 School District No. 7 4 School District No. 8 4 School District No. 0 4 School District No. 10 5 School District No. 11 5 School District No. 12 7 School District No. 13 4 School District No. 14 ,.... 3 School District No. 15 3 School District No. 10 4 School District No. 17 3 School District No. 18 4 School District No. 10 4 School District No. 20 4 School District No. 21 2 School District No. 22 7 School District No. 23 3 School District No. 24 4 School District No. 25 4 School District No. 20 4 School District No. 27 0 School District No. 28 5 School District No. 20 4 School District No. .30 4 School District No. 31 6 School District No. 32 4 .School District No. 33 4 School District No. 34 8 ?School District No. 35 8 School District No. 4 School District No. 37 ...... -2 School District No. 38 5 School District No. 30 5 School District No. 40 11 Sehool District No. 41 4 School District No. 42 3 School District No. 46 8 School District No. 47 4 The poll tax is $1.00. All able-bodied male persons from tlie age of twenty -one (21) to sixty (00) years, both inclusive, except res idents of incorporated towns of the county shall pay $2.00 as a road tax, except ministers of the gospel actual ly in charge of a congregation, teach ers employed In public schools, school trustees, and persons permanently dis abled in the military service of this state, and persons who served in the late war between the States, and all 1 persons actually employed in the quar antine service of this State and all residents who may be attending school or college at the time when said road tax shall become due. Persons claim ing disabilities must present certifi cates from two reputable physicians of this county. All information as to taxes will be furnished upon application. ^ D. M. MoQAgKILL, County Treasurer. Khftroe't* Ctosh Road News. lU'mhcrt, Feb, jO.-^Wc are having sohie warm weatlior. It in almost Hum mer- to whut it has heon. March weath er Is coming t ho, windy and dusty. It Is nlOO weather to begin planting the garden. Hood many of the iieople of this section have already plautcd some- in their garden. Tim farmers art' busy hauling guano and also tv planting ?>4t t?. Cold weather killed a | law crop of the oats, Tim wht^u is looking very nicely. ?Miss Dcsslc Hawkins, of this see lion, s|hmiC last week at KemlxMi vis iting her brother. Mrs. J. \V. Kcnncy and .\ll?s Sadie Kogers, attended the Sunday Sch^iol ! convention in Sumter last Saturday. They re|M>rtod it was good. Uev. I.yles preached a line sermon at l'lsgali Sunday morning. A large crowd was present. A delegation of Plsgah Sunday School motored to llcthcsdu Sunday to attend a quarterly meeting of the In ternational convention of Sumter conn* ty. The war 1s still taking our young men. Some are rejected hut many are | accepted, and like all true Americans will prove themselves loyal and patri otic tinder the flag of our country. We long for the time t ? ? come when this sacrltlee of life shall cease anil we shall h:t\e not only a period ? ?t" peace hut permanent peace. A twelve-year-old negro girl, Lillian Hrowu, has revel ved insurance from the government on account of the death of her father, Walter K. Hrown, an Anderson negro, who en listed in the regular army inan\ years ago ami had Ih>cii serving as a prl Vate in the >i(l8tll lit' Id hospital, ninety second division. The limit of time for tiling income tax returns hits heen extended to April 1. SUMMONS FOR RELIEF (Com plaint Served i . State of South Carolina. f County of Kershaw, In The Court of Probate. Kena Meek as Administratrix of the estate of John K. Meek, deceased. Plaiul iff. against Clarence 10. Mwk, Jennie K. Me>ek, Mimnaugh Meek, (fiasco w S. Meek, Denwlth Meek. Jimmie L. Meek, Hilda M. Meek. Hattie K. Meek, II. L. Sehlashurg and Joseph She heen. Defendants. To the Defendants: You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer the complaint In this action and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his oftiee at Camden, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. W. M. SHANNON, Attorney for Plaintiff. Dated at Camden. S. C.. the Oth day of February. 1N1K. To the defendants, Mininaugh Meek and (Jlascow S. Meek: You will please take notice that the Summons and Complaint in t lie above action have been filed in the otlice of the Probate Court for Kershaw Coun ty, South Carolina, the 7th day of Feb ruary. 191S. W. M. SHANNON, Attorney for Plaintiff. Dated at Camden, S. C. Feb. 20t~, _918 45 0-;. LET ME DO YOUR HAULING LONG DISTANCE HAULING A SPECIALTY L. D. ALFORD PHONES? 65 and 140 When in the Market for HEAVY GROCERIES Fertilizers, Grain and Provisions You Will Find Quality and Prices Satisfactory Here Expected Daily Arrival of BURT OATS For Spring Planting Workman Grocery Co. CROCKER BUILDING It KICa MONKY IN PKANUTH Peanut Oil Mill* Aw HpringliiK l)p All Over Southern Watch i?ennutsV As the time for planting itoi?s In the Southeast draws nearer hankers. presidents of agiicul tural colleges, illrtH'torH of Stuto mar kctlnu bureaus, commissioners of ag riculture uud county farm demount ra - tors arc Iwcoiulug uuwe earnest ami urgent In their pica to the southern farmer to grow larger food ami feed crops, even if cotton must l>e made a side line. This advice Is ^Iveu. pri marily, hcciiusc of the neceaslt les plac ed u|hhi the country hy the war sit uation; secondarily, because in this way prosperity is assured, and also because only in this way can the price of cotton he kept anywhere within the neighborhood of tin* cost of pro duct Ion. Southeastern farmers, many of whom were almost beggared b,\ the holt weevil, tried |>canuts as an ex periment hoping thus to ..starve the weevil and at least to keep themselves from starvation until cotton could Ik* successfully grown again. What was the result? it wift found that land which had produced $.'Mi to the acre in cot tori would produce from $15 to $00 in | tea nuts, and with less labor, and that after the in-annts were harvested the hay would bring enough to pay for producing itself ami the peanuts. There has never licen a market tor cotton stalks nixl picked cotton bolls. In former years s??uthern bankers looked upon cotton as the one money crop. Fanners who needed money had to have cotton in hand or growing In order to secure loans. Today tens of thousands of bankers throughout the South are writing letters to their farmer patrons urging them to diversi fy crops and to raise more hogs and cattle. It is but natural to presume that the average farmer will be ln tlucuccd by his banker friend, who Is always In close touch with the money market and whose views are generally broad concerning world events.. Now, why watch peanuts? Statisti cians in the otllees of the southeastern commissioners of agriculture say that those farmers who have grown i?ea nuts to any great extent are more prosperous than they have been In years. Peanuts have been proved to lie the 1 K'st money substitute for cot ton. Here are some examples: Pea nuts for future delivery are now sell ing in Crisp county, t*a., for $140 a ton. and the farmers are making easy fortunes growing them. I>. W. Iiyrd, a farmer of Tift county. <ia., made an average last year of $2<M> an acre from nine acres of peanuts and 9140.50 av erage an yore on thirty acres planted after oats. On the nine acres the yield was ninety-eight bushels to the acre; on the thirty acres, slxtv-six bushels to the acre. During recent weeks many carloads of peanuts have been ship]>cd from South Georgia and South Alabama to New York. Massachusetts. Pennsylvania. Illinois. Virginia. Mis- j slsxiirpl and other States, and in nuui- , erotts instances a single car has brought from $0,iMM) to $7,000. Re cently the Southern Cotton Oil Compa ny paid to the Dawson. (Ja.. Cotton Oil Company and allied plants ap proximately $.100,000 for l.'W.OOO bush els of peanuts. Peanut oil mills are springing up all over Florida as well as elsewhere in the Southeast. Manufacturing plants of various types are going out of busi ness and are getting new machinery preparatory to making peanut oil, ]>ea nut meal and the various by-products of the peanut. In Georgia alone the peanut crop of 1917 was larger by $1 ,500,000 than it was in 1010. One of the big items of expense in grow ing cotton is having the crop picked after It has matured. Judge Culjiepv |x?r and W. N. Piatt of Taylor coun ty. Fla., had a drove of eighty -one pigs to harvest a field of peanuts and then sold the pigs for $1,514.03. DEATH OF H. I). TILLER Was Confederate Veteran and Promi nent Citizen of Chesterfield. . Chesterfield, Feb. 22. ? Chesterfield was maddened when the death of II. I). Tiller was announced, lie had been 111 at his home here for several month > therefore his death was not unexpeet - ed. The funeral services were held In the Methodist Church Friday afternoon conducted by the Kcv. B. J. Guess and the Rev. J. L. Tyler and was nttwided by the C<7T*fedenrte Vetera iik of the community and the l<x-al chapter of the United Daughters of the Con fed - eracy, besides ;i large number <?>' friends. Mr. Tiller was 7'.i years of age and had four years service in the Con federate army, wire re he attained an offtoer** rank. lie was aLso an officer in the old Chesterfield Itifies back in the 'OO's. He held the office of pro hate judge of Chesterfield County for years and hi* service was satisfactory t<> all. Mr. Tiller was a consistent meml?er of the Methodist Church, in which he was qn offkvr for years. And up t<> the last took great interest in the Church and its work. In Mr. Tiller's death Chesterfield has lost a citizen who lived a life of credit to himself and family. Mr. Tiller is survived by the fol lowing children, 4x*ddes his widow : \V. J. Tiller, Mrs. O. N. Laney ami Mrs. Mumic Brit ton, ull of Chesterfield ; J. H, Tiller of Georgetown, Mrs. . Ben Pierce of Camden and Mrs. John Hum phries of Sumter. Meatless <tays in the United States have saved 140.000,000 pounds of beef in four months, the food administration announced Friday. During this period 105,000,000 pounds of beef were ex ported to the Allies together with 140,000,000 pounds of pork products. TILKMAN WIIX KI N \(.\IN Senior Senator Tell? Aii^tmhi Men He'll lie In Tlie Ruer Senator Tillman Is going to otter for re-election to the I ' rtlitMl Statos senate ami In* dt?es not. intend to make the campaign throughout South Cairo linn Mils summer, nrcording to a party of Andersouians who drop|>cd ill the ^senator's other la s|teak to him before they Irft thr capital, says The Anili'i son Mail. The lir-i manor mentioned b,\ the senator to his Anderson visitors wan I he exchange of lot Iocs between form er senator John I.. Mel. am in and err tain member* of I lu> Anderson county legislative delegation. Senator Me I <a u riu's last Irtirr hail jitsi api>ear ed in i ho South Carolina newspa per Asked if In* was going to make reply to Senator MoLaurin's rrfernirrs to liiui in his tlrst letter, Srnator *|%lll luan Irauril hark in his ilrsk chair, and said thai he was not going to imi k?* rrply ; that hr was going to (real Senator McLauriu "with silent eoiitrnipl. which hr deserves." Senator Tillman declared that he is guing to oiler for re-elrrtion and atldrd tlnit hrrailsr of his lonu experience, and r>|HH-ia ll.v undrr conditions exist iim ut prrsrnl. hr hrlirvos he is (totter lit t I'd to serve the proplr id' South Caro lina in thr sniatr than any other. Mr said that he intends to address thr voters of tin* stair through the news papers, and that "he intends to Htay on ilir job in Washington, where he j is needed all thr time.. Senator Tilliuitn is ehairuian of the naval committee of the senate and he is one of the busiest men In Washing ton todav. When the Andersouians en I led on him he had a ureal mass of correspondence before him on his desk, and ii number of clerks and slenogrn phrrs were hard at work keeping up with him. The srnator appeared to be in good health, so the Andersouians say, al though it eon Id be seen that the stren uous session of Congress and his heavy work in hi>s ollk-e had fatigued him ? to some extent. In addition to keeping up with his work in Washington, Senator Tillman Is kerping in close rouch with politi cal conditions in South Carolina. lie is informed on all political moves made reeeiitly, and seems to be enjoying ?most of them. "Thr proplr ran re-elect me or not. 1 am going to give them an opj>or tunity of expressing themselves at the polls, and if the i>eople of South Carolina don't want me as their rep resentative here, then I will consent to remain at home. My personal wish is to stay at home anyhow; I don't Want to offer for re-election," said the senator in summing up his |>osition with regard to the coming campaign. SOON READY FOB TRIAL Former Richland County Man Talks of Unsinkable Ship. \V. M. Kvans, former resident, of Richland (^punty, lunv vice president of the Alabama Dry Dock & Shipbuild ing Company of Mobile, Ala., passed through Columbia yesterday, return in): from Washiugtrjif wbere he had boon in conference with the national stripping lK>ard, relative to wage ad justments. The non-sinkable ship, of whieb ?' 1 1 *-?ceiitly much dlseirs Mr. Kvun's yards. -This vessel, the Lucia. Mr. 10 vans explained yesterday was a former Austrian vessel, interned at Feusacola at the outbreak of hos tilities in Kurope and seized by the American government when the United States entered the conflict. The vessel lias a net tonnage of r?,(M)0 and is the lirst to be bitted out under the gov ernment's supposed uon-slnkahle plan. The method devised to keep the ves sel afloat, after having lx>en struck by a torpedo, is to line it with wooden l??w, render**! ? rt4r+igl)t by sheets of - galvanized iwn. The small airtight compartments arc of different dimen sions, the average being about one foot by two feet, six feet in length. When struck by a tori>edo In rushing waters Into the bulkheads are restrict ed to the space occupied by destroyed boxes and the pliable character of the ledges of boxes prevents the vessel from listing. There are more than lfl.OOO of the small airtight compart ments in. Llie Lucia, Mr. Kvans said. About 14 per cent, of the cargo space Is consumed by the boxes. Wholesale destruction of valuable parts was wrought by the Austrlans upon the interned Lucia, when the United States entered the war. Ap proximately $150,000 was necessary for re]mirs. Cylinder beads were smashed all copper and steam piping shuttered and flattened, the steering wheel de molished and all valves thrown Into the sea. When the machinery had been rebuilt, the vessel was removed from the Mobile ynrds to the government dock in New Orleans, where the bot tom and sides wen- scraped and re painted. The Mobile corporation is also con structing other vessels f or the govern ment. Three mine xweej>crs of 800 tons capacity each are under construction. Four other vessels for the emergency fleet corporation are also l>cing built. Two of these are of the wooden type, of about tons each, and two fabricated steel vessels of 7.500 each, the two latter to be used in connection with the Panama railroad commission. ? Saturday"** Columbia State. Itev. II. <i. Hardin, located at Mc Coll, S. C., has been callcd to tin? Mount Vernon Methodist Church in Washington to complete bis unexpir ed term of service of bis brother, Rev. Kdward K. Hardin. I?r. K. K. Hardin will leave soon for Asbevllle. made seaworthy in A (HHH) MUJCV Kronomy, Kwp Out of IM>t" Will Keep You Straight, S*yn Writer Work, economy, keep out of deld Thvio arc Hie lallstitaulc key notes tnut !>?>i nt out with | tor foe t precision the way to fiin^'ss and comfort in old au*'. tJood cittr.ou.shlp Is in the man who work*, ajihors tin* rout ruction of dobt and protects Ids credit There a. re times avIicii those whoso picket hooks are lean ami whose wants an pressing must have lluuuclal aid. Lib oral credit is th?> ruin of an.\ man who cannot tfovern the lialiit of bu,\ inu \\ltli t lio tfruoo of liberality. Soiiio thirty odd yoars ano when I went out from a hcertdioliu Hat Kink home In wards the fill u ro harem I left hohind me :i lot of coin on tin* stalks ill t ho Hold. I a c? -opted an otTer for II on credit from a voting matrimonial candidate, starting out in life mi his own resources. Me is now a progres sive fanner ami one of the comity's host citizens, lie and his noble wife raised a laixe fa in i )> and educated their children. have a heautlftil home and surroundings, land in hi^h Ktute of cultivation, alfalfa Held*. Jersy eat tie, lterkslilre Iuh*s, lino iiiilk'N with Mil tin* newest and l?os| farming lui plcmcu t s Woyk and economy. dollar ?or dollar In all business transactions has always heeu his ih^UkI? ?n. . The final administration ai Wash intftou asks us all to do our Idt and do It now. Our khaki clad l?o,\> oyer yonder must he taken care of l.ri ns nit help win the war. I lour y i.. rictchcr, Nearly all the watch sicn> prop ahl.\ iHi ?>ut of 100, have their hands set at X:lN, hut comparatively lVw people know wh\ this Is. Ii Is no accident W K Wiishhiirn. of New York, was palatini: a ?sijjn for ;i jew eler of thut clt,\ , when the news of th*' assignation of Abraham Lincoln April lltli, I MI.V was reccKetl in New Y?**k and i In* peweler ordered <hc painter to paint the exact time whMi the fatal shot was llnnl, naiuelv s is, atul so it has continued ever since Whenever ,\on see a sIkii after this rent 1 1 to yourself tluit it points to the fatal moment. (!afinc> Ledger. Paul Rehnborg's REMEMBRANCE SHOP ON FAIR STREET Is now open for the 1918 season with a fine line of Good Shepherd and Lion Brand Yarns. Also knitting needles and an interesting assortment of Novelties in Jewelry. CAMBRIDGE Riding School FRANK A. KEENE, Prop. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO CHILDREN Fair Slr?tt Pkone 246- W Cudei, S. C. A Gub Plan Resort Hots! nsar the Sarsfield Golf Course. All mod ern comforts. Suites with baths. Careful supervision. Select patronage. COME TO OUR BANK AND OET ONE THE OAK (iKOWK FROM THE ACORN ? VOL' CAN START A VAST FORTUNE WITH THAT FIRST DOLLAR. \ IF YOU'LL OPKN A BANK ACCOUNT YOU'LL FIND WHAT AN INTEREST YOU'LL TAKE IN SEEING YOUR BALANCE GROW. YOt' 'LL FIND US WILLING AND -GLAD TO SERVE YOU AT A IX TIMES AND ADVISE YOU ABOUT YOUR MONEY MATTERS. COME IN AND SEE UK. WE ADD 4 PER CENT INTEREST. The First National Bank OF CAMDEN, S. C