Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Children Cry for Fletcher's In Use For Over 30 Yeats The Kind You Have Alwaye Bought WHITES FROM FRANCE. Clarke Finds Section Where He is lo cated Cooler Than Our Climate. Thi" following in a letter from France, from Arthur Clarke, written nnder date of July Hi, addressed to his mother, Mr.}. John H. Clarke, of this city: "Dear Mother and All: I * ec-fived some mail from home the other day and I was mighty glad to get same. I am getting along mighty fine and know you all are the same. I surely wistM covld be with you all for a few days on a short vacation, but we shall have to put it off for a while, but I hopo we shall all be together again soon. I know you all are having a very warm season in the States. The section we are in is so cool and i nice, not like our climate at all. We ! sle<ui two together to keep warm. But ler Hfir I sleep together and we use live MiiiJPt* ?U(i our overcoats, rain coats, and -shelter halves, but we certainly do sleep. We have the cutest little huts von over saw, just room for two and you ran hardly turn over in it, made out <>f gnlvcriiized iron. "All of the boys arc well and getting along lino. Where we are now looted von run hour the constant roar of the Mggnns and sop observation balloons and .'K-rnplaups engaged in actual warfaru al most ovn-y minute of the day and hear them all night. We don't have m> much work to < l< i over here. Our work hours are shorter than when we were at Se vier ami not any harder but more in ???n'Miu". Something new every day. U - in.- getting so many boys over here, ?loin mi|i|kim' you have many left, uud the mucker we get tlieiu over lipre the ?iniiker we shall all go back home and that it what we are all after. It takes ?i I'iu number to play this game. You more Sammies than any other troops in this section. We are getting the Muantity and all of them are of the best ?i'ia!it\ lake an American half train ??'I ainl he thinks he can whip any Oer aian ;i 1 1 1 1 he will come close to doing thut ' Ml he wants is a chance. Our officers treat us lino and that is what counts in a tnilitory company. Every one must work together to get the host results and we are getting that. We think we are the best there is and we are only waiting for a chance to show them. 'Mule, Dess uud C.'ll. said to tell their folks they were all well uud getting along line. Tell ull of the people hello for me. , "Well I must, close for this time. You must write to me real often as a letter from home cheers n fellow wonderfully uud send the pictures as 1 want them badly. 1 shall write to you as often lis I can." ? I..OSNKN MUCH LOWER Total Casualties in Army and Navy Number 21,407. Washington. Aug. IS. ? Casualties in the United States overseas forces an nounced by the war and navy depart ments during the week ending today num bered 1 ,380, compared with 4.1)1(5 for the previous wedk. Total casualties announced to date number 1'1 .4(17, in cluding 370 in today's army list. The total army casualties number IS. 707 ; the marine corps list. -,700. Total deaths, including killed in hc timi. deaths from wounds, disease, ac-< cident and other causes vinee the United States forces landed in France, number 8.133. including 201 soldiers nt sea. Of that number. 7,200 were of the army and N37 marine corps. The wounded to date number ll.tilo of which 0,7<8ft are of the army and 1.830 of the marine corps. Men missing- in action and prisoners in the hands of the enemy number 1,710. of which 1 .02S are of the army and 03 of the marine corps. How To Use The TELEPHONE Did it ever occur to you that you might not be using the telephone in the right way? Do you speak sideways, above, be low, or six inches away from the trans mitter of your telephone? You should talk directly into the transmitter ? not simply at it. Keep your lips about one inch from the mouthpiece. Speak in an even tone. It is not neces sary to shout. There is much that can be said about the proper way to telephone, but these little rules will help. ? . When you T eUphotu - - SmiU SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY J. A. HOUGH, MANAGER. Kh.KSII WY NKWS NOTKN IlllnrsllMX Happening (iiilhfHll IVom The iii u( That ri.M. VI r.?. Sidney I towers iltiMl at her ho|J?e j near Heath Splines Sunday, August 1 1 1 1> and whs buried tit** following day at ' HfiVt't ('rWK < 'lun ch The funeral mm ?? ? \ ices were conducted by |{cv IV IV Carson.. She U?fi her husband ant! one; little sou, aged two year*, surviving. ' Miss jtcrthu Hunter aud Claude Trail' or of tin* Kershaw Cotton Mill villugc were married Sunday morning by liev. .1. M. Xeal at thy minister's home, ?lag. W. Floyd, who was visiting rel atives here, left Saturday to return to his home in Texas. Mr. Floyd had in tended remaining about two weeks long er hut cut his vhjrt shorter on account of the illuess (if his wife. The Kershaw Graded School will opell its fall session Monday morning, Sep tember 8, It is highly important that each pupil he present on the lirst day ttj receive the proper classification and begin work with the other children of the same grade. Parents are requested to see to it that their children are promptly on hand. "^T; Miss Kutli Magill, who was in charge of the Western Union Telegraph office at Camden gave up that position aivd returned home last week. She left Sun day with her sister Miss Maggie Magill, for Washington to take a position as telegrapher in that city. /. K. llilton died last Saturday even ing at the home of his daughter Mr" W. Henry Jonivs, south of town, and was buried in the Kershaw cemetery Sunday morning after funeral services Conducted by Hev. II. C. Dunn, Mr. Hilton, who was about (12 years of age. moved to Kershaw from the White 1 tl ii ft' section about twenty-five years ago. He moved away for a time but returned several years ago and has lived with bis dunghter, Mrs. Jones.' He is survived also by another daughter, Mrs. Otis Gardner, who lives in the Flat Creek section. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Gardner left yes terday for a visit at Lancaster. In conversation with the Kra man Mr. .Gardner told of a snake killed by him J about a y ear ago. It was a horn snnke, Which measured six feet and weighed ft pounds, and was killed on P. M. Kirk ley's place. J. L. Sowell Ed. Maokoy arc visiting Cleveland Springs, Ilenderson villo and other North Carolina summer resorts. They are making tho trip in Mr, Howell's ear. Mrs. II. L. Gregory of Camden, spent last Thursday in Kershaw with rela tives. Mrs. M. H Brewer and her da light or Miss Harris, are spending a while at Montreut and Glenn Springs Miss Ida Brown, who visited hor parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. Brown in flit' Abnoy section. returned to Columbia Thursday. Mrs. M. F. Evans returned Saturday froma visit to hor daughters at flam den and Manning. Mrs S. F. Brasiug ton ami Mrs. B. I) Stnlnaker. Miss Mary 1'ittman of Camden is visiting her aunt. Mrs. H. M. Do Bo so at tha Methodist parsonage, W. W. Horton Hpent. a eon pin of days with Mrs. Horton at the Colum bia hospital last week. We are pleased to not*' that she is greatly improved and is expected to bo able to return homo this week. A. Kennedy Blnkenoy, who has been :it lending tiio school of military aerouau ti?*s at tho I'niversity of Texas. Austin. | Texas, for several mouths, is visiting his ? father Mr. E. 1>. Blakeney. Kennedy ( enlisted in the- aviation branch of tho] service some time before going into train ing in Texas. John Young, u faithful and e||i?-ieiit negro employee of Winusboro was ebv- ; troeuted in that ?*ity Saturday morniu* 1h?I when he emnc in eoiitaot with a live wire while repairing dnnnage? CKU?od by a storm. OLD MOTHER EARTH has wHIiin her bosom a remedy for every ailment that human flesh is subject to. Many of thrse are given to us ill the form of MIXKRAL WATKRN For these wre often spend large sums at health resorts. But they ran bo procured right here at home without that great ex pense. We have all the desirable brands of mineral waters, bottled At the springs, of foil strength and rnrathe powers. Kee ns for a remedy for almost any ailment. Zemp & DePass Call or Phoae No. !? AMERICAN FOOD SAVINGS LARGE United States Sent to Allies 141,000,000 Bushels of Wheat. CREDIT DUE TO WOMEN. i ? ? ?? ? ? 1 - ? Allies Qot 844,600,000 Pounds Mor? Meat and Fata III 1917 18 Than In Year Bafora. AMERICAN FOOD SHIPMENTS TO ALLIES MKAT, 1Q16-1T..; . , . , , .2,100,500,000 lbs. luit-ia. 3,011,100,000 n>s. Increase. 814.600,000 lbs. CEREALS. 1010 17 ....250.000,000 bu. 1017-18,. iiWO, 800,000 bu. Increase. . . 80,00t>,000 bu. ' ' ; 'A"-* * ??? In spite of a subnormal food supply lu this country the American people have heen able to ship to the Allies as well as our own forces overseas ,141,000,000 bushels of wheat, besides 84.4,000, (KM) pounds of meat- during the year ending June 80 last. T^iTTfiil I been made possible by the whole souled " co-operation of the people, who, besides practicing self-denial, have speeded up production und re sponded nobly to the appeal from abroad. Food Administrator Hoover, In a letter to President Wilson, gives a brief summary of the results of food conservation In the United States and of the activities of the Food Admin istration to this end. The conserva tion measures have been put through practically on a voluntary basis which is regarded as a splendid tribute to the patriotism of the American people. Meat shipments were Increased 844, 000.000 pounds during the first fiscal year, as compared with our meat ex ports during the year before America entered the war. ? "The total value of these food ship ments," Mr. Hoover wrote President Wilson, "which were In the main pur chased through or with collaboration of the Food Administration, amount to, roundly, f 1,400, 000, 000 during the fiscal year." In 1916-17 the United States sent the Allies 2,160,r>00,000 pounds of meut. In 1917-18, with voluntary con I servatlon practiced In America, and aided by extra weight of animals, we sent the Allies 2,011,100,000 pounds of meat, an .Increase of 844,000,000 pounds. ' Wheat Savinp Enormous. When the Food Administration be gan operations In file summer of 1917, ; this country was teeing a la.be deficit in wheat. Counting In all carry-o\c wheat from the 19 1G crop, w? hud at the beginning of the 1917 harvest year Just enough wheat to take care of America's normal consumption,? -not a bushel of surplus. At the close of the 1917-18 harvest year the Food Administration's official reports showed that our. total wheat shipments to the other side had been 141,000,000 bushels. Kvery bushel | shipped * *?as wheat saved by the American people from their normal consumption. j In cercals and cereal products re duced to ..terms of cereal bushels our I shipments to Allied destinations were .'140, 000,000. bushels, 80,900,000 bushels morO than the amount sent In 1910 17. Included In these figures are 13,900, ; <M)0 bushels of rye and the 1 4 1 ,000,000 boghels of saved wheat. In addition we sent the neutrals dependent on us 10,000,000 bushels of prime breadstuffs. "These figures do not fully convey the volume of the effort and sacrifice 1 made durfhg the past year by the ; whole American people," the Food Ad ministrator wrote. "I am sure that all the millions of our people, agricul tural as well as urban, who have con tributed to these results should feel a very definite satisfaction that lu a year of universal food shortages In i the Northern Hemisphere, all of those people Joined together against Ger many came through to the new har vest, not only with health and strength fully maintained, but with only tem porary periods of hardship. "It is difficult to distinguish be tween various sections of our people ? the homes, public eating places, food ; trade, urban or agricultural popula tions ? In assessing credit for these results, but no one will deny the dom inant part of the American women. I SUGAR SHORTAGE HITS SPAIN AND PORTUGAL in Spain and Portugal sugar prices ? are soaring. Both countries have been ! seriously affected by the short beet sugar crop in Europe and the lack of i ocean tonnage to move stocks ?f cane ; sugar isolated in far away porta. * Granulated sugar, home grown, waa j being sold In Barcelona. Spain, during the early summer at 19 cents a pound. 1 The price of brown sugar in Lisbon, I Portugal, fixed by governmental order, : was $1.94 (O $1.1*2 a pound. By comparison the price of beet I augar in Sweden is 14 cents a pound. I STIIJ. STKONti KOIt (OIJM l>ont Think Ovcrburjlipiiwi hfhldMti Should Have llecn Appealed To. I{< liiKfii V?ik lit. A lino VIU!) tVIJ' here last i il m I > t which I hope will break the terrible hejjt Hint has hung Ukv '? pall. over 1 1? i count ry for weeks. News fiVilil N ? ? i ill ('aroliun vn\ s ih.it ttlO ap ples w ere cooked on the trees ami fac tories- bud to clone down t|v tin* opera tives could not xtuiul it. "lNl?is U unjifc *h>? |??ii t ?'?! for m? Iouk a time in our coitn 1 1 \\ . Kodder polling is now going on. 'I'll** iMin crop is very good through hem1. Cotton is beginning to open real fast owing to drought.. The crop, will bo short. Mr. Marion Iteames ami family of (Jeorgia are visiting his mother' Mrs. J. M. Keames. lie wiiii roared hero ami hat host of friends who are de?' I iK h t 1 id hoc him, I lo is a grandson of t'apt. Adam Team so well known in Kershaw county. & Miss (ienora Williams of Orangeburg county is visiting Miss Van Hay Kenny. Tin- county campaign meeting was held here! ast- Tuesday and was well at tended, Mr. ,1. K. DuPro presided and e\ ci \ thing went off harmoniously. No candidate was asked how he was going to vote ou any question. Wo don't have that sort of thing in Sumter. The quin tet! of congressional candidates are iiiak ing it hot for each other. If I.eVer wins it will he hy tile skin of his teeth for he has proven worthy of li i,s steel to li?ht. I notice some people are so hard up that they had to write (o our hard worked and overburdened president for his choice among the 'senatorial eandP dates in this state. 1 thought the re , suit of the Wisconsin senatorial dec t ion would ti'iicli all a lesson of tlie futility of appealing to the president for help but it seems you cant teaeh some people anything not able to learn. War is being felt rn all its horrors and the tender hearts of our people are torn as in all other wars over the losses of loved ones. Thish should make us all feel closer to each other. Presi dent Wilson feels it as keen l^ as the a ' s rest of us. Every two yoars, the cam paign of abuse, slalilder, lies and mis representations start as soon as candi date come out for the various offices from president down. Nothing good is said of the man you want defeated but every little mistake is amplified aud sent broadcast over the laud no good in. anyone. According to this a poor J sinner man who renolvest o live a . bet ter life could not do so because his past wicked life would be^ thrown up to him and ho would be unworthy of belief in bis iutentions to do good in the future. If there is any Christianity in such coipluet 1 fail to see it. We are commanded to speak evil of no one. Practiced a hit it? If so I fail to see it. From INiM) when Tillman run for Oov. and when he was hounded from tin* mountains to the seaboard by the same crowd that tried later to swallow him this thing' has been going on and will continue right on. Your correspondent. '*A lx>yal Ainerl can" did not father his own production therefore f cannot notice it. JRD,. ^ Heath of Mr. OHIIm. Mr. .lames A. (Jillis died on the tyjh inst in Columbia where lie went for treatment and was buried at. Pisgah Church on Thursday after service* by Hev. A. 10. Palmer in the presence of a large number who came to pay the last rtul tribute to his memory. lie was born and reared in Kershaw county where he lived until at flu; age of sixteen he entered the civil war in the company of ('apt, Jacob DePuss of Camden and followed the starry cross to the end. "wXfter the war lie settled in. flaftliug. Creek township Sumter county and was it very industrious ami Hiut'Wtiful planter For \he lu^t few yearn he health !??? K.iu in r.-til it ii < I continued mi to tli<' end. All \V(lx done for him t Un t could lie. I >ti l (lie summons <<aiUe and lie went \\ i i li thousand* w ho wo r* tin* Kvey to lilt' Wlli'lll llCjOUd. 1 1 *> is survived h,\ his wife, one <iuuK>t let Ml^ I'll It'll S (JiIIm : 1 1 1 <1 I \\ ? > Mills Messrs. ,|. |,. ami .1 10. (J ill in, a uuiu tier of xvuudl'hildt en and a host ol; friends. IHO ; No New raperh. Washington.' Paper mills have been I i s( ?>?l as tin essential industry, the prior ilies division of the war indtiatricH board announced toda.\ on t lie understanding that the creates! pOHsible economy wUI he exercised in the use of paper ami, that newspapers will mluee tholv eon sumption of new* print l.*? per rent; on daily edition* and 'JO jHU -eent. on Suiu day edition*, itecuuhe uf the absolute necessity of curtailing the u*e of pupev, h(i>'h tin* statement, the pulp and paper HOetion of the war iiiduati'les hoard haw ruled that during the wur no ue\Y newspapers shall he rsl tthliched. r i Collins Brothers Undertakers for Colored People TkUphoM 41 714 W. DcKalk St. A "Leaky Shoe on a "Leaky" Day What mil be more annoying? And it V dHiigeroiiH, too. Hut, oil! So easily remedied, Just step into my shop and have them made water-tight, find go on your way rejoicing. C. C. WH1TAKER * 3 Buy Them And Help Win The War rOR SALE EVERYWHERE GROCERIES Good and Better <3 ** - ' 1 We have <*ood <?rocerle* ? Ami (lion we have better. The good jcrneerlen urn intended for IhiiHf who tntiHf make a dollar utrHdi to the limit. .They are just a* , we describe them ? good. Our belter groceries are noticeable for brine JiihI a little ahead of all oilier* ? they hear the plain brand of excellence. Whether yon want good or better Kroeerie*. we Kiiarantee to please yon. LANG'S HIGH GRADE GROCERY \ * SAVE CONSERVE ; I t <> Save all your meal and fertilizer sacks. Do not throw them in damp places to rot or allow them to be placed next to acid or other fertilizers where they soon become worthless. All good sacks, free from holes, clean and fit to be used in sacking cotton seed meal will be purchased by the Camden Oil Mill at 10c each. The sacks to be inspected by us. By returning sacks in good shape, you will save $2.00 on each ton of meal purchased. Do not bring less than five sacks at a time. Southern Cotton Oil ?o. CAMBEN, S. C.