Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FOR SALE I offer the following City property for quick sale at the very attractive prices named below: i house and lot, No. 820 Campbell St. $800.00 I house and lot, No. 1)08 Campbell St. $1,600.00 I hause and lot, No. i>08 1-2 Campbell St, $ I, hoo.oo I lot, No. 820 1-2 Campbell St. $200.00 1 lot on LaKayette Aw. $250.00. I lot containing threi! acres near Spalding $100.00. The above prices are cash and are all bargains. SG. W. CROSBY Fish Scrap Fertilizer We have several thousand tons of Fifth Scrap Fer tilizer for sale to -the- farmers of South Carolina at wholesale prices. Write us for further particulars. The Fisheries Products Company NATI?NAf< HANK IIMHJ. SAVANNAH. OA. PAY DUES ANNUALLY Now, while money is plentiful let me suggest that the members of Live Oak Camp W. O. W. avail them selves of the privilege of paying camp dues for the entire year of 1919, and thereby save themselves the trouble of making twelve, monthly payments. M. G. HUCKABEE, Clerk. Just received a car load </ Hackney Wagons ... ' o On which we are able to quote a very close price Bought before the advances Geo. T. LITTLE, Camden, S. C. Every purchase you make here, whether large or small, carries our guarantee of full satisfaction with it. You must he satisfied in every particular before our contract is complete and we are here where we can always make good. , This is Worth your consideration. id's Drug Store fephone 30 Thermometers hub, and if you hurry, ask for E Ig Store LAND SETTLEMENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA. ? ? I <l?<m*on College. ? Secretary Hoot j ton. of tho Department of Agri culture, said in ?n address recently delivered to a conference of editors ? agricultural Journals: Mu would b< .desirable to facilitate land settleraan j ; in moro systematic fashion. This ho; j {been too loug left to the haphaxar* f Intervention of private enterprise, an< | :the Nation has suffered not a Jltti. j/rom Irrowpoanlble private direction ; I think It Is high time for the Kedera and State governments both, as wel (as local communities, to seek to al< In land setl lament by furnishing actus faots, reliable information, and agr cultural guidance to begintng far inert and to promote we4l oonsidertxl settli m?>nt plans. It is particularly yiu that the process of acquiring owne. ship of farmers be encouraged ai* hastened." These views art also ahared by Um I>epartment of Labor and of the Id terior. Secretary Lane has assoclat f*l with him, some of the best efigl heers who have been connected wltl reclamation work of various kinds The seml-arld lands of the West, th< cut-over and swamp lands of thi South are being visited, that propei measures may be taken as soon ai possible to render thsm fit for th? plow, and open them for settlement In these days ? of reconstruction when industry may be disorganized bj the cancellation o( Government con tracts for Its , products, and by tin demobilization of large bodJes both o working men and soldiers, the lam beckons to the man more Jnslstantl; than over before. It wHl certainly bi made easier for the mrfn who wishes t< own a farm to get it on reasonabh terms. And these measures cur> a far worse evil. They pjxjvide th? very best security against the discon tent likely to arise from unemploy ment and a. lack of food. Tho idle acre can give healthful and profitable em ployment to all who can be, place* upon them; but home ownership mus be the goal, and fair annual profits above a normal standard of living must be the means advanced to se cure these settlers. Almost every man can find con gen 1M employmeiT at his home. If he owns It, or is be comtnr th? ?wn?r nf it. A few acre) I will suffice to provide food supplies li large part, for the family, and a sur plus for market. Organized methodi of disposing- of the surplus In unj community will go far towards pro viding fluids for the other necessarlet ot life. Tn South Carolina, there arc abou 19,500,000 acres. Two-thirds, or abou 13,500,000 acres are in farms. ? One third, of the State lies absolutely idli for agricultural purposes; it consist) of roads, towns and cities, and worn out and swamp wood iand. But of th? 13,500,000 acres in farms, crops ari grown on less than fcadf. To be exact the crops of 1917 were grown on 6,198, 000 acres. Probably at least as muc! more can be used for growini crops and for pastures, but le us ssy there yet remain onl: 2,000,000 acres in the State fit foi fanning. As 35 acres is the size o< the average farm cultivated, there ii room then for nearly 60,000 more faro families. What a vast amount of Ian* settlement coqld bs done In Soutl Carolina; what untold wealth could tx added to the property lists, if the loca communities, as Secretary Houstoi suggests, should aid beginning farm era ! , Federal and State aid in the settle ment of large tracts la necessary, bu' nothing can be done anywhere unlesi the people who already own the lani are willing to sell it at reasonable prices, and to welcome the new set tiers. Wo have perhaps the best all th< year climate in the whotte country, ai is shown by the location of so man] army camps in the South. We cer tainly have vacant laml in great abun da-nce. It Ik cheap only because of th? sparsity of our population, and their use of poor agricultural methods. It Is Mill comparatively cheap, and at prevailing prices, is in many parti of the State, nn attractive investment But there ought to be In every com munity. * committee of the Ohambei of Ooramorce, or of thei Farmers Union, or of self-appointed citizens, or at the loast, one or two men, whos? business k J* to find new settlers, t< assist them in buying their farms an< to make them feel at home among us It Ts iioT necessary ? to wait ttpot State or Federal movement. We car begin now by assisting those who h*v? boeai tenants, and wish to becorm owners, to find goo<l farms in ou own neighborhood at reaacaabb priree Certainly we can help tfces< men to join a National Farm L<o?i Association, and ro obtain half th< purchase price of their farms at th? most favorable rates To have < share in multiplylg the prosperout contented farm owners of any com munity is to render a very large serr Ice to tho State and Nation, for upoi them our civilization ultimately rests Thnt large service every one of ut may perform in some measure. A fev? 1 of us will make some financial profit i by the settlement of our idle lands but all of us will be Increasingly en rlohed by th?* fuller, healthier countrj t life consequent upon their settlement hv farm-owners.- -W. II Mills Profos nor of Hur.il Soeielogy. Th < proper field crop rotation will r .? ? your farm productivity j and thai your nontify ngent will heij you pl;in one? 'Ill* YOU can't help cutting loose joy'us remarks every time you flush your smokespot with JPrince Albert-? it hits you so fair and square. It's a scuttle Cull of jimmy pipe and cigarette melon's sunshine and as satisfy in g as it is delightful every hour of the twenty-four! It's never too late to hop into the Prince Albert pleasure pasture! For, P. A* is trigger-ready to give you more tobacco fun than you ever had in your smokeca reer. That's because it has the quality* Quick as you know Prince Albert you'll write it down that P. A. did not bite your tongue or parch your throat And, it never will! For, our exclusive patented process cuts out bite and parch. Try it for what ails your tongue! Toppy red bag*, tidy red tint, handsome pound and half pound tin . humidor a ? and? that clever, practical pound crystal gluts humidor with sponge moistener top that kseps the tobacco in such perfect conditio Mk R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, M C. LKK COUNTY NKWS s> 1 t pins of Interest Gathered I'Yom ItlsH opville Vindieator. I. tist Monday afternoon little Robert Madison fell from ? ladder in the new ?chool building that the workmen used to carry material from the floor to the roof. He fell from the ceiling to the floor and while not seriously hurt, his face was badly bruised. Dr. McCutchen does not think there whh any interna! injury' and the little fellow is getting on nicely. Mr. I'. C?. MeNair who worked here in the post office several years ago, died at his home at Clyde last week after au illness of two weeks with pneumonia following an attack of influenza. He was !}J years old and leaves a wife and ope child 4 years old. M iss Johnsie Kell of Montana has been on a visit of two or three days to her nude and aunt Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Reid. As a trained nurse, she has been in the service . of the Government at Camp Lewis on . the American Lake in the fctate of Washington for the past two years. After a short stay among her relatives in this State she will re turn to her ranch in Montana. Mr. W. M. Reid went down to Sa vannah last Sunday night having re ceived a phone message that his brother Rob lleid was bur tied out or badly lamagcd by fire. His brother conducts i large business known as the Chatham Supply Co. Last Saturday afternoon while Henry flollomnn, a colored boy, was pranking with the "unloaded pistol" and showing !u>\v it worked, it went off and shot a culored boy in the stomach. Henry got frightened mid run <>ff, but was overtaken ami lodged iu jail. The wounded boy was taken to the Florence Hospital and is still iti a critical condition. On last Monday Mr. I* F. Peebles celebrated his 70th birthday with an old fashion turkey dinner. Mrs. Peebles is famous as a good cook and on this oc casion added to hor laurels. Her table was fairly weighted down with good things to oat, a nineteen pound turkey, Georgia backbone anfl other things too 'lumcroiiH to montioj). Mr. Peebles ? in spite of his years is strong and ener getic. His friends wish for him many more happy birthdays. Some one made a report to the Editor i of the' Vindicator last week that Mr. Max Clyburn had died from the second wound received in France. We arc glad to state and his many friends will be delighted to know that the report was incorrect, as his mother came in to see us and stated that, while she had not received a letter from Max since his second wounding, she had received' no tice, official or otherwise, of his death; therefore them is no reason to. believe that his wound was fatal. 1 - O Loyal Russian troops under the au thority of the Omsk government have defeated a large bolshevik army, captur ing prisoners and large quantities of war material, according to n telegram from the Omsk authorities to the Rus sian minister at Stockholm. James A. Summersett, a well known real estate and insurance agent of Co lumbia died suddenly at his home Thurs day night. Mr. Summersett was a can flidate for railroad commissioner at the Iftjtt state primary. Previous to* that ke had been a onncHdate for e^toptrollw Kt'iurral., ?. BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS CONSTANTLY The Constant Mender Of unwelt men and women is medi cine. Never let a sickly system run along. It will get worse, ndt better. It has served you promptly for many years ? It is your duty to serve it when it falls. OUR DRUG DEPARTMENT is the medical army of a competent doctor. It waits to combat any ally of disease. We are always interested iu our customers and genuine interest achieves satisfaction. Zemp & DePass Call or Phone No. 10 We Buy and Sell Homes ' \ ' ' * ?? / v .. for others, also all other elates of Real Estate. Doubtless, we have just the home you have been looking fo but could'nt find. ' ** ?' ' ' iC See us, buy a home, get a stake in the community, and let your^ influence be given to the building up of society. C. P. DuBOSE REA"L ESTATE insurance *. ^ d . - i-f't