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\ l K V • An Appeal to / V" ; 'THREE and onc-half million children in Eastern and Central Europe * have no alternative % to disaster between now and next harvest ex cept American aid. For monthl these most helpless sufferers In the track of war have been admitted to American feeding-stations only If tragically undernourished, and have received American medical aid onlj If desperately threatened by death fron^dlseuse. •’ / i cent hot American meal today has saved a, thousand lives. Winter Is closing down. The mohey of many nations is .valueless out- aide their own boundaries. Economic'and crop conditions make famine. With fts terrible train of diseases, a certain visitor until next harvest. Inev itably the helpless children will suffer most. No child can grow to health and sanity on the pitiful makeshift*'f^r food with which millions of Euro pean adulta must~coutent themselve# this winter. .It U obvious that U»e ramedy can come Obly from outside. / . . America saved 6,000,000 European children winter before.last Nor- ihal recuperation cut tlie need nearly In half last year, but unusual condi tions have resulted In scant sfarlnkaga of child destitution during the twelvemonth just past. The response of America must now decide whether 8,500,000 of these charges, in acute distress, shall begin to be turned away In January from more than 17,000 asylums, hospitals, clinics and feeding- stations dependent on Amerlckn support There would be no tragedy in history so sweeping or so destructive ef those who can deserve no evlL The undersigned organisations, working among every rare ami creed,! ^ many engaged tiso In other forms of relief, agree unanimously that.the ? ^ plight of. these helpless children should have complete prlorltjMn over- ^ seas charity until the situation Is met. This Is an issue without politics and without religious lines. There can be no danger of pauperisation, for the $28,000,000 for child food, and the $10,000,000 for medical service that we seek, will relieve,only the critical cases.’ The medical supplies, of course, must be An unqualified gift, but for every American dollar used in child-feeding, the governments and communities aided furnish tw dol lars In the form of transportation, rentj labor, clerical help, cash contri butions and such food supplies us are locally obtainable, v America has not failed In the past In great beartedness. She has never had a more poignant call than tinaT Contributions should bwturoed over to the local committees which ore now being formed for this national collection, or sent to Franklin K. Lane, Treasurer, Guaranty Trust Co., New York City. '' . EUROPEAN RELIEF COUNCIL Harbart Hoovar, Chairman American Reliaf Administration, by tricar Rtckardj Director "'\^nierican Red Cross, by Livingston ; l^aiTand, Chairman American Frlands’ Service Committee (Quakers}, by Rufus M. Jobes, Chairman ' t Jewish Joint Dl8trTtHUjQ n Commute*, by Felix M. WarImI'g.’ Cha.U'man Franklin K. Lana, TTSaturtr Comprlslngi " Federal Council of Churches of Chrlat In America, by Arthur J. Rrovvn Knights of Columbus, by James A. Flaherty, Supreme Knight T^M C. A., by O. V. Hibbard. Inter national Committee Y. W C. A., by Misa Sarah S. Lyon, National Hoard JL-. WOO CHILDIIEN FACING STARVATION - liberally fertilized. Seed 85. Ul; Wb produced tVyo and 4 one tenth times as much cotton where we^plant- ed your eolidmas we made with best other Varieties, conditions identical, weevil infestation severe.”—Affidavit Boyles Bros., before President Allen dale Bank regarding my cotton, a strain pomhining best features Cleve land Big Boll and Improved Cook. Seed $1 bushel. _./r< LA. ALLENDALE, S. C. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. _ Notice is hereby given to all and Singular the creditors of the estate of Dave Roberts, deceased, to render an account of their demands duly at tested, to the undersigned Adminis tratrix of said estate, at Meyers .Mill, S. C.. within the time required by law; nd -- : - NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY Given to all and singular the debtors of the said estate to make payment of the* said debts to the undersigned' Ad ministratrix of the said estate at Meypr’s Mill, S. C., within the time’ required by law. VICTORIA ROBERTS, , __ -• ... —Administratrix. V. S. OWENS, A tty. for Admx. This 17 day of Jan. A D. 1921. i-^20 -3t. J ' —it M ASTER S SALE. DEPOSITS........ . . . ? , . . . $214,223.00 Surplus and Profits^ Due Stockholders 16,396.38 Paid to Stockholders* Since 1910. . 27,543.00 (Statement Made Bank Examiner Jan. 31, 1921) -T^V WE PAY 5 PER CENT IN OUR SAVING DEPARTMENT. . State of South Carolina, . County of Barnwell. Court of ^Comm6n Pleas. , Claudia S. Buford, as Administrator of the‘estate of Enoch Buford, ^de ceased, Plaintiff. vs. Sal lie Givens and James Join Our Liberty Bell Savings Party Defendants. G. Givens, . -- Vp/SSSSSSSU i FURORE’S GERS Vast Relief Effort Launched by Eight Leading American Organ izations to Avert Tragedy. 3,500,000 Facing StarvatiofrCan; Only Be Saved by America’s Response to Joint Appeal. y The most spontaneous ns well ns th# largest consolidation of effort in the history of American relief and charlla- Llo organizations has grown out of the disaster ' which Afirenlens 3,500,000 European children this winter. To the headquarters of every agency (hat dis penses American mercy overseas ha* come one steady cry for months past; tlio children, most helpless and blame less sufferers In the track of war, will perish by the thousands before next harvest unless America saves them 1 When Dr. Livingston Farrand, chair- man of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross, returned from a recent trip abroad, his report,throbbed with the need of the children. From the feeding-stations of the American Relief Administration throughout east ern and central Europe came letters, cables, pleas- of every sort. The Pro testant churches sent investigators Into after-war* condlllons and every report breathed the Impending tragedy of starving and diseased children. Protestant Catholic and Jewish, (he —Third lire*or birrupe i» ruJTJfrfin-u X',i.V heartrending misery. The European Relief Council, with Herbert Hoover as chairman and the whole power of American charitable thought and effort behind It, has been formed. It consists of Edgar Rick ard, representing tha American Relief Administration; Dr. Livingston Far-, rand, representing the AtnerTchn Red Cross; Felix Warburg, representing the Jewish Joint Distribution Commit tee; Wilbur K. Thomas, representing the American Friends’ Service Com mittee; James A. Flaherty, represent ing the Knights of Columbus; Dr. C. V. Htbbanj, ,,ie Ymrn * afion; Mias Sarah S. Lyon, representing the Young Women’s Christian Association; Dr, Arthur Brown, representing the Fed eral Council of Churches. It Is th# purpose of the Council to raise $33,000,000, In an appeal center ing at the Christmas holidays, to the end that the situation regarding child community of the nation, ft is hoped, local committees, representing ail the co-operating agencies will he formed to secure the vitally necessary funds. Of the amount sought, $23,000,(XX) will 'of tnese Ammcau dolinrs the local governments and communities alded^ It IS utterly Impossible for one who lias not acrually «*en the misery of the early Autumn In Europe to vlsiujl^ Ize what tlut (hlhPon of the Easteru and Central portions of the continent face this winter. To say that 3.500,000 children have no alternative to starva tion or death ffbm disease except American aid, Is'slartllng,BuFlnflfipentf- ent observers by tluF score and care ful scientific surveys of the economic and crop, conditions overseas brand the figure a* conservative. In Pqtand, dor iifsiunbe, v 1 ere 1,808,- 000 youngsters Iasi year subsisted al most entirely on the one free Ameri can meal a day I liar they received, cu» <11 tit 114 as wliiter closes down, are ; of h decretal ord^F tS^me" Hrected in the above entitled cause, 1 will sell at Barnwett in front of the Court House on Momta^ the 7th day, of February 14)2 L..it 'being: salesday’' in said monthswithin the legal hours of sale, the following described real estate: . AH that cerFain piece 4 ," parcel or t of hind situate, lying and dicing -in iv\ n\i‘ii), in the t ount-y O'lBai'nwMLhi - the State of South Carolina, contiTmjng eighty six acres . m((re oc less, ancPSojumled on the "1 North by lands of Mrs/^Adp Bush; on the East by lands ofCounseLtkish; on the South by lands of Paul GiVens and on the West by lands of Horace 4>ovd. beine the same.-Pact of land in- hentetf4vv Sallie Givens ,from_ her father (leorge-Williamson. 'Perms of sale cas+n ^Purchaser to pay for papers and stamnsr =;= CL- \ h. l; p'banno^, Master for Ttavnwell County. Master’s office January, 1921. . 3, /- Harry D. Calhoun, President^. w Norman B. Gamble, Cashier a T* William McNab^ ( - Jt f - _ • £ • & MASTER’S SALE. SU'te ef South.4 arolina, ’ * < V-.’.nty, of B '.rnvvell. Court of Common Pleas. .Charlie Brown, Executor, of the-will Or Ester Mk-halson, Plaintiff. against Ifehrv Michalsnny et. at. Defendant: ‘T- order ^ to aorse than evenOcft^ ^be Bolshe- ’Ky yirtiie of a' decretal \Ik Illusion stripped large p >i(Tons of j me ’dina tcd iji the above entitled the country of all grain. Professor j^i a usd, I will Nell at Barnwell jn front E. / D. Durand, Food Advisor ta the "f the Court^Uo^ei oh Monday, the Polish government, after an exhaustive ' 7th day of February 1921, it being aurvqy, has reported that only forty ! salesday in said month, within the per cent Is available of the food neces-1 lrtral h " ul> ( St tlu ' ,! '’ s - cribeil real es’tate: sary to carry the populatfl).; througli the winter. afMe-.-’ . - fri the trky m t^-ts conducted All that certain piece, parcel or tract of laml, situato', lying and'being ih' v tbc Town -of BlacttviUe, county of Entire Stock consisting of high grade merchandise of well known Brands offered to the publicr’at a Great Reduction. _' Realizing that the market has declinedr we are offering our stock at prices that will astonish you, prices prevailing in 1914. We are offerfhg . In the'American Relief AdnnrtT.sjHu^., R;u-h\yell ami state of South Carolina focal kitchens showed tliaf 52 per cent j and havnii’ <J frontageon Lartigue of the children hoi ween Ihe-ages of.6j street of d(» feef-f^tne dr less and and 14 were “seriously under nourish* running back 200 feet mert? Ql' less ed.” Thlrty-Uu-ee per cent were mark edly umler-notTr shod,. 11 per cent wer<? slightly snbiionihil limFoiTtV 4~pir pent -approached tii^t state of a normal Amerlcr.n chlldA The Amen.-a.i Relief Adinlnlstratlon Is feeding ■ SOO.OQt) Austrian children every day now, and there Is no chance of dlmunltlon of need before nex harfeiL The spectacly of the medical needs of Europe’s children is equally ap palling. Estimates reaching the At lean Bed C nW’^fft? 1 fi1^<s s ^r^ed I cal service In the deitltute areas this win ter include : Qld ArslriarHrngnry; 750,- (XX); new Poland, 1,500,1 JO; Czecho slovakia, 200.000; Serbia, NX),000, and Roumanla, 100,(XX). In the Iscal j’ear of 1019-20 the H-ed Cross has reached with the VTrltable gift of life 1,500,000 children in the Temtola terriflic degree Five children out of seven-In the city of Warsaw, for instance, have been found to he tebetcularj" Typhus 1y widespread; rickets, the right hand of, under-nourlslm.pnt 1$ aLtuoi.^ stantly In one place and another. the American Relief Admir aivd hounded as -follows: North lol of ('alhuUc-44rtfn-h:—rmd lof (’. M. Felder; South by hit of Alfred Tpbin; East by lot of ('. ^elder; auil AVest by Lartigue street.' . - . .i... - X . * ' Als'o: , v All that certain piece or parcel of land with the building thereon situate, lying and being in the Town of Black- ville, county, and state aforesaid, on the South sideLiff Railroad Avenue on the corner of Railroad Avenue and k stmitst ^eonsFsting of two‘store houses, being approxiately fid feet fmnt, more or less, and 100 feet in depth, more or less, and bounded on the North by Railroad,Avejiue; East by Clark Street; South by lot nrf Briggs, Buist & Co., and On the West by StjU anft-ethrrsr ■» ' < J - Also: l . : ^IF that certain piece, parcel or dfhet of land situate, lying amF"be- ing in the Town of Blackville, State ami county aforesaid and containimr / for prices which you have to pay for inferior grades. Prices on goods are obliged to advance later as the mills were practically shut down for nearly five months and caused a great scarcity of merchandise which will be felt as soon as the Spring season opens up and the public begins to buy. We are offering high grade Sea Island, yard wide at. . * . * 10cper yard Best Ginghams at ; . . , . . . . . . . . . . . 18c per yard Stetson Hats, Spring Style $6.98 and tax. If you prefer, you can pay us in of transportation food supplies as are locally obtainable. No children receive the free food ex cept after medical tests showing them to be seriously under-nourished. The remaining $10,000,000 of the fund Is Just ns urgently needed for medical 1 service tq the children. The Eurppean'Rellcf Council will do much more ftfttb effect economics In the raising of the c'dlldsavlng fund. It will, with the inspecting forces of eight great agenda?, keep a constant eye on the administration of America’s merciful gift. In order that there shall * be no wastage and ao tendeacy toward pauperlxatloa - mcrlcan Fricrds’ Service Committee (Qutikera), the Jewish Joint DTstribu- 1 lion C mnittteP, the Federal Council j of the -Churches of Christ in Ameri- I ca, the Knights of Columbus, the Y. M. C. A -and the Y. W. C. A., seeks $33,- OOOJXd with which to meet the situa tion. It has estimated that at least $23,000,000 must be had for food and $10,000,(HX) fo:- medical sendee to avert absoltife disaster amorj the threatened Children. Checks may 1f>e sent to your local cemmlttee or to Franklin K. Lane, treasurer Europc*cfc Relief Council, 42 Broadway, T^ew York, or to the ChIJd Feeding Fu York City. Digest, -New 21t> acres, more or less, and being the parcel of lanifFset off to Esther Mjch- ostattsas shown by plat of R C. Mix- s°n L Civil Engim'er *”“ , * , ian(rTwngT>ounde(l now or foi merjy_ Qn.ihe. ir "KS W .or formerly of Mrs, Fannie DeVVitt; South no\v or formerly by lands of Dyches and lands formerly J. P. Whit tle and on the West oy lands now or formerly of John Blume and Whitte. The purchaser of the tract of land containing 216 acres, more or iels, will not be given possession thereof until Januory 1st, 1Q32. Term,s of sale cash. Purchaser to pay for papers and stamps. V H. L O’BANNON, Master Master’s office, Jan. 18th, 1921. WANTED—One or two share crop pers. Apply to W. P. Franklin, Barn well, S. C. 12-9-tf. ^ ' ' ■j- ' —•— — - basis middling and we will sell you thj eWi^affvgo to twenty cents, iessful year, l X . ... X- . ' r . ;,a— r v