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Hermitage Mill Newit. Tho young* "peoplo of the communi ty wore delightfully entertained Fri day night at a party givon by Miss not Crpllcy In honor Of Missi .i Th-I ma and l.?ota Hammond. Kvoryone entered inti> the spirit of the games which wore played, making them thoroughly, enjoyable* Later in the evening refreshments wore served. 'I'Ik' Horniilag- Suniay Juho.il |H gan the Now Your with an uuubually la ? lie attendance, which is ovi dunce of a growing Interest in this phase of community 1 i f ? % M?. and Mrs. W, M. WUllams spent Sunday at tho home of Mr. W. T. Muttox. Mr. Uoorge IU 11 and family have returned U> make their homo in the Hermitage Village. Miss Minnie Alexander was a visi tor of Miss Carrie Crolloy during the holidays. The community Christmas tree whi?h was given at the Hermitage Mill Church was one of the chief hol iday events. Quito a largo numlvr were present to enjjoy the short talk-i which were given by Mr. II. H. Pitts, Mr. W. . K. Hammond and Mr. Iiundy. Later toys and fruit wore distributed to the great delight of tho many children present. Mr, Joe Parker and sister af llock lliil spent a few days at the home of Mr, F. ,S. Shirley. Misses Kate Williams, Kli'/.abelh I.estdie, Nancy Jote-r and Klissal>(?th Yarfcip rough have returned after spending the holidays at their 'homes. Miss Mary Simpson was unable to return to take up her school work on account of the serious illness of her father. I Mr. 15. I'. Tollison of Dishopville has joined the carpenter force Here and will make this his future home. Mr. K. ('. Kiley was called to Co lumbia a few days ago by the death of his father. Mr. W. A. Thornhill has recently moved to Darlington to take up his work there. o Mrs. Karley Watson spent Christ mas in Hishppvllle Visiting relatives. Mr. Qary James and wife from Lancaster have recently moved Into the Village. ? Mrs. Gary Grolley has returned from St. (leoige where/ qhe spent the holidays visiting her relatives. Miss Gertrude Kddings is visiting her grand>n<ithei% Mrs. -J. A. Crolley. Miss Mabel Talhert of Hethuho spent I he week-end with Miss Kunice I Gardner. M i\ arid Mrs. Waiter Thompson were among the Christmas visitors here. Charles A. Counts, of Newberry, was 'shot in the abdomen last Tuesday 11 an altercation with David B. ltuff. Huff su- 1 cn'iri ? d to the sheriff. The injuries of Counts are said not to be dangerous. BUDDED PECAN TREES k . : . . '? . ? FOR SALE Standard Varieties Write For Prices W. li. LAMAR Park Front, Thomasvillp, (?a. Get Results Rubber heels now are on r>0 out of each 100 pairs of shoes worn by inen. Such is the estimate going the rounds in the shoe industry. It is not surprising, if you have noticed how many men wear rubber heels. I] lit maybe you remember back only a few years when rubber heels were unusual. What brought them into popularity? The answer is: ADVERTISING. Three-fourths of the rubber heels sold are for men's shoes. This is because most of the advertising has been directed at men. One of these days some Wise manufacturer of rubber heels will notice this. Then he'll call in the advertising man and his staff of writers and artists. Campaigns will follow. And soon women will be wearing just as many rubber heels as men. It's, all a matter of advertising ? the most powerful force in the sale of goods. The ideal combination is advertising, which reaches consumers' brains through their eyes, and personal salesmanship, which reaches consumers' brains less vividly through the ears. Our present standard of living is largely the crea tion of advertising. For advertising creates the de mand, makes the people want the thing advertised. When the lure becomes powerful enough, they hustle about and get the money to obtain what they want. Advertising thus spurs sales. It. also stimulates production ? both of the things advertised and the tilings that have to be done on a bigger scale to obain money for purchasing advertised wares. There is a new thought for you ? that advertising ls a definite agency of production. Most of us have been thinking of it merely as a medium of salesman ship. Advertising is what is making us buy. Advertising us what is enabling us to buy. It creates the demand. And the demand induces us to work harder to get the money to spend. If all advertising were abruptly discontinued, the American standards of living would quickly drop to the levels of grandpa's day. Read the ads. They are a part of the news, tell ing the intimate story of the average American's inner desires. THE REAL HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION IS WRITTEN IN* ADVERTISEMENTS. l' S E THE C H It O A' / C L E Fishermen at Kealakckua Bay. 1 (Prepared by t?>? NuUonal OwoKraphlc So- | otuljr. Washington. D. C.) Hawaii, territory of tlio United Plates, and most Important strate gically of the lands of the l'ucltlo, is Dot alone interesting because of its military and naval value to Uncle Sam, emphasized some months ago by the deliberations at Washington in ' regard to the world's greatest oeean. It 1h In many ways literally an Island paradise. Scarcely anywhere else In tho world niay one roam through tropical Jungl(*s with nerer a thought of poisonous in iect? or snakes. Such creatures do aot exist In these fair islands. Even poison Ivy and similar noxious plants are unknown. And though In the edge of the tropics. Hawaii has ? cooler temperature by ten degreeH than any other land In the same lati tudes. Moreover, one may chango his liWftato at will by u Journey of a few miles; for the northern half of each Island, swept by the trade winds, Is rainy and heavily wooded, while Just over the mountain ridge la a drier, warmer region. In a way. the United States may well thank Boston and Its daring traders and missionaries of the early days for the fact that Hawaii now Ales the Stars and Stripes rather than the tricolor or tho British union Jack. A Spanish navigator lirst discovered the Islands in IM,"), but his country laid no claim to them, and they were practically forr??tten. The British Captain Cook visited the Hawaiian group in 177N, and named them the Sandwich islands. Still the islands were practically . unknown. Then, fol lowing tho close til the American Rev olution. American ships began to sail the, seven seas in growing numbeis, Hnd In 17SJ* the lirst ship hying the Stars and Stripes ? from Boston ?vis ited the' llawallans. It was the lirst of many from the same pert, carrying traders, whalers and adventurers; anil soon the natives had learned of the republic on the continent to the east, and came to consider the "United States" and "Boston" synonymous. The Boston traders found each of the islands under a separate king, with two rival rulers on Hawaii, the largest of the Islands. One of the latter ob tained firearms and ammunition from the traders and got their assistance in frplhllnr- " "niiMViJI WlUl? tf 0* --A-WW44 can help he became the "Napoleon of the Pacific, " conquering the other Is lands. and. as Kamehameha I, ruled over the consolidated kingdom. Hawaiian Trade Wai Valuable. The Americans f-.und the Hawaiian trade a good thing. They sold the king and his nohw s everything from 1 clothes and Jewelry to billiard tables ' and Hteam yachts, nnd in return cart ed away shiploads of valuable sandal wood. Strong liquor was not forgot ten among the Imports, and in Hono lulu among the naturally light-hearted natives the American suilors contrib uted to the creation of n gay Pacific resort, a sort of forerunner of Snn Francisco's Barbary Coast of later dec ades. Deserters from American ships, In the delightful haven of a barbarous paradise, helped to heighten the fame or the Infamy of the Honolulu of those days. The situation became such that in 1 S'JO President Monroe sent nn agent to reside in Honolulu and look after American interests in regurd to commerce nnd seamen. i A shipload of missionaries, also from I Boston, arrived in the Islands In 1S1X), much to the disgust of the traders as well as those who had deserted the ; aca to trend Hawaii's primrose path. I The complaint of the traders was that ? ' tho missionaries taught tha natives (! "the value of things," and so made trading unprofitable. American ways and teachings at their best made a > j great Impression ?n the more thought , ful Hawaiian*, nnd when they re ' Khsp?d th?'!r government they made the Ten Commandments the basis of 1 j their laws J M.>re nnd more Americans visited j *, v(?tV 1 In i * ? islnnds and the 1 Hswa!l-ins I. upon America n* their be?! fri??nd ;v.e-ng the nntlons. When fr-?m the T'nlfod States were ? rg ?0"t toward California t'>e Mc\>nn war. which addc 1 >? ' >'-*'e t" i he I n'"n a Brit | ish naval commander In -4 ho -Pacific, | reali/4nii the strategic Importance of I t tie Hawaiian group, seized the Is ' lands, hut his country promptly (lis I avowed his act. After some difllcul ' tics wit It Franco over the Islands In : the forties, the United States declared j a sort of Monroe I>octrino toward ! them. As early as 18-r?l the Island ! government, fearing trouble with other nations, provisionally ceded the Islands to the United States. But the cession was not accepted, and numer ous efforts to become a part of the United States were made In the fol lowing half century. Annexed by Uncle Sam. In 1887 the United States obtained a concession for the use of Pearl har bor for a coaling station. When Queen Uliuokalanl attempted to abol ish the constitution In 1803, the con stitutional party, led by American settlers, brought about a revolution and. dethroned her. One of the first acts of the provisional government was to apply for annexation to the United States. Oermany was seizing Islands right and left In the Pacific, and the Ilawallans wished to get under a sheltering wing. Politics In the United States delayed action, and In the meantime the Republic of Hawaii was organized. Then In 1898, during the Spanish-American war, congress suddenly voted to make Ha waii American territory. Though the Hawaiian Islands are known as "the half-way house of the Pacific." In reality the distance from San Francisco to Honolulu Is only about half that from Honolulu to Aus tralia. the Philippines or Japan. All the Islands are of volcanic origin, nut coral has grown on the shores of many of them. The disintegrated lava has formed a rich soli which re sponds liberally to irrigation. Only Cuba and Java produce greater total crops of sugar, and the per acre yield of Hawaii Is the greatest In the world ?four tons without Irrigation and six tons with. The sugar crop for the year ended June 20, 1020, was worth $78, f? 00, 000. The pineapple crop, sec ond In Importance, was valued at $18, 500.000. Mauna Loa Volcano. Perhaps the Hawaiian group is best known to most people because of the huge vnirnno Maun.i Loa onjiifr Island - "oTTnTwaTh In September, 1919, this great safety-valve "blew ofT steain, giving a most unusual demonstration of nature's forces. From a huge vent In the mountain's side, a flood of molt en lava was belched forth. Spread ing out Into a great shallow streiim. It came roaring down the mountain slope, burning forests, carrying huge trees and Immense boulders on Its sur fnr(> ? sweeping everything before It. With a speed varying from 1 to 20 miles an hour, according to the coun try It was passing over, It broadened out until It was nearly a mile In width. After wiping out the government belt ' road,' razing telephone poles and de ' stroylng a vast amount of property, the red hot lava tumbled over a high precipice and plunpod hissing Into the fen nearly 20 miles from It* source. In approaching the flow from th# sea In the early evening, the glow from the lava was visible for many miles. As one drifted within 200 yards of the point where the liquid rock wa? rushing Into the sea. the scene wa? awe-Inspiring Slowly the smoky haza from the burning forests, which hung over the source 20 miles away, lifted and the river of Are stood out In Its ' full glory. I-eaplng from pall to val ! ley. rushing uphill and roarlrg down, ! the fiery flood thundered down th? ' mountain slope, carrying on Its bosom ! rocks ns big as houses. As the stream of blazing lava neared 1 the coaM&ine. It appeared to gather ' more speed, ttcklng the final plunge ? over a lorvfoM cliff at a terrific rate, ; nnd looking for all the world like a I fVry Niagara. As the red hot lava j came In contact with the water, great 1 columns of s rerun and gas, like huge ! waterspouts, were f-rced hundreds of ! into the air Huge boulders, hurled into spr.re. <*rploded with thun derous rf ports Ityo .rtras <>f re 1 and erevn Ugh??. while flnshr* of what looked like lightning added to the [ chaog. Bring Your Cur- Here regularly to have the crank case refilled, with the best lubricating oil made, after our 1 competent man ha* first drained out the old oil and cleaned the crank case of all dirt and sediment. This fa an impoitant part of the aervcie the Filling Station renders to owner* of automobiles. Beard's Filling Station WeHt DeKalb Street SOY J WANS SUCCESSFUL. Profitable for Sale, Soil Building, Hay, or Grazing. Clemson College, ? January 5.~ Among1 tho now crops being tried out by many progressive fa mors of .Sou' I) Carolina, the soy bean is prov ing to be one of the moat satiafac tory. This. crop is easily managed by the labor and machinery found on , the avoi'age farm. It may bo used i' s a supplementary cash crop to cot ton, as a soil building crop, and as a hay or grazing crop for stock. | From the s;#cess obtained this, year by a largo number of farmers, I it is assured that the acreage in soy ! beans will be greatly increased next! vear, says K. W. Hamilton, Extcnoiion ? Specialist in Soy Beans, Velvet Beans, and Cowpeas, who has fur nished the following notes regarding success with soys in this state: Mr. W. 0. Peterkin, of Fort Motte, harvested over 800 bushels of Mam moth Yellow soy beans from 40 acres in 1022, and has been fattening over a hundred head of hogs on the beans left in the field by the harves ter. He states that he has received several offers for his crop and is well pleased with the results obtained, and expects to increaso his acreage next year. Mr. N. B. Loadholt, of Fairfax, is i highly pleased with soy b<>ans as a I hog grazing crop. On seven acres of Mammoth Yellok soy beans he grazed 115 hogs for several weeks. All of the hogs showed remarkable gains in weight. Mr. Paul Sanders, of Ritter, is one of tho largest growers of soy beans in the state. He has grown them for .several years, and last year har vested over 2,000 bushels. Ho says that every farmer should grow five or six acres of soy beans *to the plow. Information concerning this^ crop may be had from tho county agents or from the Extension Service, Cloni Hon College. Home Demonstration Work, The work has grown steadily and today there is an enrollment in or gapi/ed clubs of 08 girls and 172 women in Kershaw county all taking regular lessons each month in seW i n> ?, canning, poultry, dairying, nu trition and Health Education. This work has come to your county not for a day, but to steadily grow year by yeac and develop the rural women and girls and givo to * them the much needed ? instruction that will enable them to meet the needs of the day and develop them socially, morally and intellectually. ^ It meets a crying need in rural life and will give back to the county an educational and financial reward that far surpasses the small appropria-. tiott made to carry it ob. There ar 36 organized counties with efficient agents. Much has already been accomplished by extension work in our state and as we well know the prosperity of any people defends ul timately, not on how much is' made, but on how it is used, which is large ly the province of our work. The club women under tho direction of these agents have been able to add to tho wealth of tho state $1,539, 344.09. This report has been gather ed from club members themselves. The outlook for the work in 192S is most encouraging and bids fair to be the best in its history. To Welcome bmali Accounts That Promise to Grow Planting" potatoes one clay and pulling, them up the next, would not develop into a bumper crop of potatoes. Just so in depositing funds. While the First National Bank wants and welcomes small accounts, it urges the importance and desirability of having them grow. Remember that regular deposits and consistent checking will have the desired result. W ANTED- 1 ,000 bushels cow peas. F. M. WOOTEN WE ARE SAVING MONEY for thousands of others in cleaning and dyeing Win ter Garments, Carpets, Rugs, Blankets, Comforts, Curtains, etc. We frill be glad to serve you. FOOTER'S DYE WORKS Cleaners-Dyers. Cumberland, Maryland.