The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, May 01, 1924, Image 6
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THE PEBPLFl* BARNWELL, S. C.
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American l<*'lon News Service.)
ESSAY CONTEST IS
NOW IN PROGRESS
tesj of
ip+il 1
^The (hlrtl unnual essay contesl
the American I^*Klnn ‘began A
with the chosen subject, “Why Com*
munlam Is a Menace to Americanism."
This contest, conducted by the Ameri
canism commission of the Legion, Is
held annually with .a view of enlisting
a majority of thought In the direction
of some vital question facing America’s
citizenship.
Heretofore the contest has closed in
the fall, but in order to coincide the
work with that of the school year nor
land W. Powell, director of the Le
gion's Americanism commission, decid
ed to open the contest in the spring and
close it with the completion of school
terms.
According to Mr. Powell, .‘{00,000
school children participated in the last
contest held by the Region, which took
as its subject, "Why America Should
Prohibit Immigration for t Flve Years."
A previous contest conducted by the
Legion enlisted efforts of 200,000 chil
dren, who submitted essays on the sub
ject "How the American Legion Can
Itest Serve the Nation.”
Kacli of the subjects chosen reflects
some phase of American Legion activ
ity and the Legion view' of such poli
cies. The Legion believes that by
bringing the subject before the chil
dren of the nation It can cause a dis
cussion in many American homes that
will be of \ltul import to the welfare
of America.
Prizes aggregating $1,500 are award
ed the winners. The best essayist re
ceives $750 in cash, to be applied as a
scholarship in any school, college or
university he may designate. Second
receives $500 and third $250, each for
^ scholarships. The essays are chosen
by elimination. Beginning with the
county superintendent of schools in
each county, who selects local Judges,
the three most representative essays
are sent on to Judges designated by the
state superintendents,isuperintendents
of public instruction or school commis
sion. These Judges pass on the three
best essays submitted In the state.
The-winning essay from each state is
sent into national competition, .from
which are chosen the three winners by
a committee of Judges selected by the
Legion. Posts frequently give medals
and awards to winners in their own
counties, state departments of the Le
gion provide medals for 1 he three
winning essayists there and the cash
awards are made by the national
Judges.
Tlie co operation of practically every
educational oflicial in the country has
been afforded the Legion since these
contests have been Instituted. In ad
dition, educational bodies and organi
zations have accorded the Legion a
great amount nf help. Efforts have
been made this year through some of
the nation’s largest fraternal bodies to
concentrate the rfforts of school chil
dren in the contest.
Winter Outing Club
New Legion Enterprise
A Winter Outing club is the latest
enterprise of the American Legion and
the Forty and Eight voiture in Keen,
N. 11. Imagine, if you can, the thrill
of a tenth of a mile slide far-up on a
hillside, to the landing chute In the
valley, many feet below.
For a long time, the chamber of
commerce In Keen had been endeavor
ing to build up ah interest In winter
“FORTY AND EIGHT 9
AIDS LEGION POSTS
The Forty and Eight—the "play
ground" of the American Legion, la
proving a valuable adjunct to the par
ent organization In many instances.
Certain problems afjse in Legion posts
or departmental organizations thnt*the
Legion may not always consistently
handle. Then the Forty and Eight
steps to bat and pinch-hits for the Le
gion, usually successfully.
This- has been true of the organiza
tion practically since its formation by
Joseph W. Breen, a Philadelphian, in
1021. Originally intended to express
the joyousness of the veteran, the so
ciety has taken over many arduous
duties to perform that the Legion has
been unable to meet on account of its
more cumbersome, .organization. -
In recent moqtlis this lias been seen
in a national way. In addition to play
ing a prominent part in the child wel
fare program outlined by the Legion,
MOTHER!
Child’s Best laxative is®,
‘‘Qalifornia Fig Syrup” 0
1»—Scene in New Orleans
pupils under the blossoming
fr+>m lu'idKo UUn4v rlvw by
v lifter
cherry
freak gale that hurt 50 persons and did $-100,000 damage. 2—Young d im ing
trees along t-lm Potomac ijn-W-ushlngti>n.—lP__Pnssenger txuln In India blown
ona. 50 persons being killed.
sports, but w.lthout great success. Pre=
vious attempts to construct u tobog
gan slide had failed. But when the
Legion men took up the proposition,
the busy ring of hammers of,carpen
ters was soon heard and the slide soon
became a matter of fact. One of the
first to make,the trip down the long
slide was Past National Commander
Owsley who got a perfectly good-thrill
shooting down the hillside through the
plne-t;lnd country. The slide Was eon-,
sfrtjt-ted muter—direction—of—Prof
(’buries Proctor of Dartmouth college,
an expert.* •; • ■*—- '
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
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Senate Passes Bonus Bill
After Rejecting the Cash
Option Amendment.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
A T LAST the American ex-service
man who fought in the World war
seems assured of receiving a bonus, or
as he prefers to call it.’ an adjusted
compensation. The senate on Wednes
day passed the bill essentially as it
was adopted by the house, and in
both cases.tlie majority was so great
that there is no doubt it would lie
rtpassed over a presidential veto. But
the bonus provided for is not in cash,
so it may he Mr. (YmHdge run see Ins
way clear to approval of the measure.
He, like President Harding, was op
posed to a cash bonus for tin* pay
ment of which no special financial
plan was offered.
According to tin* present measure,
instead of ea.sh the -former survive
man will receive a twenty-year en
dowment insurance eertifiente on whieh
he can obtain a loan after two years,
equal to !M( per cent of the ciftrent
cash value of the j«>licy. This loan
will he obtained through a hank whieh
will he reimbursed by the government
in the event of a default. The loan
value of a $l,(NtO policy would he SV7.-
PM at tin* end of two years, .flofl.ot? in
five years, and $5Sp.lp in fifteen years.
Senator f’opeland of New York,
supported by a number of Democrats,
tried to have the Mil amended to pro
vide for a cash option, but tills was
defeated, to IS, because most of
tiie senators felt it would mean tin*
certain veto of the measure and per
haps its 'defeat. However, the
Democratic leaders announced after
passage of the- hill that they con
sidered it an unsatisfactory makeshift
and that next winter they would make
a 'fight for tbe cash option. If a
Democratic administration is elected In
the fall they believe they can so amend
the law. Witli several minor nmem!
meats adopted op the floor, the hill
was passed by a vote of (57 to 17. Eight
Uepublienns and nine Democrats were
recorded in opposition.
The cost, of the bonus under tin* in
surance plan Is expected nr lie some
where between. $2,202,407,120, the
figure given by the actuary of .the
veterans’ bureau, and $:{.0;iL017l>01 T
"You ask me what influence legali
zation of 2.75 per cent beer would
have on general prohibition enforce
ment. I answer in-one sentence: It
would transform the people of the
Lulled States from a whisky drink-
: ing to a beer drinking nation."
“The dissatisfied man is the one
who becomes the drunkard. The satis-
; lied man becomes, the good citizen.
And I sny. that this prohibition of
today has caused the utmost in dis
satisfaction."
“No one wants the saloon: No one
will la* foolish enough to- try to re
peal the eighteenth amendment. What
we wlio plead for 2.75 per cent beer
want to do is to get the good that lies
in temperance and rid ourselves of the
evils of the present prohibition." , s
Several eminent psyehiirtrists- told
tlie committee of tiie great Increase
In insanity from alcoholism since pro
hibition. and at least one minister of
the gospel stepped forward to de
clare that the Volstead act is unen
forceable, unpopular and wrong
ethically, morally and socially. A
large number of samples of the poison
ous stuff sold in Chicago for “hootch”
comprised one of the exhibits.
and communist leaders who preach
destruction of constitutional govern
ment, destruction even of human life."
O
I-TJEUS for ^Muscle Shoals were-up
before the senate agricultural j
eommitter- ami a delegation of Ten- 1
tiessee manufacturers appeared to
argue against tiie'Ford hid. Their
statements may be thus summarized:
,1. E\p< nditure of thousands of dol
lars made the South look on Ford as
its savior if given Muscle Shoals. »
2. Some $."5,000 fur this propaganda
came from Ford friends in Naslgville,
Chatlainjoga, Knoxville
and Memphis
and its source
alone. How much more
is unknown
.'{. lint tlie South , now is waking
up to the fact that Ford in Muscle
Shoals means ruin and not salvation.
'TMIE house committee on hanking
^ and currency, perfecting tiie Mc-
Fadden biH—twising the national bunk
act, approved city-wide branch bank
ing proposals. Tin* committee’s de
cision in this is approved by Con
troller of the Currency Dawes. 1
Ti
ESTIMoNY before the Teapot
D RESIDENT COOLIDCE traveled
* to New York hist week and spoke
at the annual luneheon of tho Associ
ated 1’ress. The more important of
ids statements related directly to Eu
ropean affairs. He said he hoped
France would accept the Dawes com
mittee report and that American capi
tal would join in the loan proposed
for Germany. He thought that thus
the reparations question might lie
definitely settled, and promised that
he would then try to bring about-utl-
other world conference on disarma
ment to carry on the work begun by
tlie Washington conference and to
take up the codification of interna
tional law with an attempt to estab
lish the rules of warfare and to de
termine the rights of neutrals. He
also indorsed tlie Harding proposal for
American adherence to tlie world
court.
Tiie President touched on tlie desire
for profits and tiie quest for easy
money, revealed in current govern
ment investigations, as symptomatic
of the morbid iinnneial state of_uiind
brought on by the war. ami continued:
“From nil of this sordidness the af
fairs of government, of course, suf
fered. In some of it a few public o(li-
cers were guilijL participants. But tlie
wonder is not that this was so much
or so limny. rather thht it has In en
so little and so few.
"Tiie encouraging filing at present
is the evidence of a well nigh com
plete return to normal methods of -no
tion. and a'sutfe public opinion. The
gravity of gi’iilt of this kind is—fully
realized and publicly reprehended.
There is an exceedingly healthy dis
position to Uproot It altogether, and
administer punishment wherever com-
pet-eut evidence of guilt can |>e pro
duced. That I am doing and iiropose
to cohtiiuie.’’ - *
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EALIZ1NG that economic relations
between Japnh'amL America are
far more vital to tiie former than to
the latter, Japan’s privy council is un
derstood to have Indorsed the govern
ment’s conduct jn the immigration ex
matter. That is, continued
against the American exctu>
Sion in i blit no retaliation. The Japa-
troleum engineer, upheld hornier Sec- n( . St « were still hojdng that President
tary Denb\ s policy of getting tiie Pnolidge would vet/ the* measure, and
n. p:.l reserve oil out oft Teapot Dome. ; t hi s lie was askeif to do h’y a great
hitne committee lost its ex-par,te_4_pi us i,, n
character for a few
James D~. Lewis, a
minutes wbeu protegt
consulting pe v| ()Il . l( . t
! and into storage us ex[>editlously as
possible. I le said:
"if Teapot were rapidly developed
today, the recoverable oil could be gi>t
.OM^'tweii
^Snj-pensi
-ex-
Eo-
and
and
and
the
Iowa Post Plans to
Render Civic Service
Tnnm, in., is but a small city, hut
i^je Legionnaires there, sensing a need
for definite performance of genie civic
duty, have lilt on a fou'rfold plan whieh
they believe will bring their town into
national prominence.*
The first undertaking of Tama Le
gionnaires will be to-establish a free
dental slinlc In tbe public schools.
Next, the post proposes tlie opening
©f a series of playgrounds In the city.
The third move of the Legion men
will he to open a tourist park near
Lake Cherry, a favored spot with aq-
tomobillsts, ahd the last, but not the
least Important to the community will
be safeguarding of tho milk supply of
the city, which community leaders de
clare will be of greatest assistance.
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Department Headquarter*
In an effort to secure department
headquarters of the American Legion
for Columbia. Mo., much aid was given
to the Legion meji by the Commercial
duh of that city, which undertook, to
provide suitable quarters should the
oftices be moved there. Estimates of
the cost exceeded $2 500, which wa*
Arranged for by tbe club member*.
the amount claimed by the treasury
j actuary., The cost the fir'd year would
- be considerably in'excess of $100,
: 000.
Fnder its terms tlie basic rate of
compensation is $1 a day for home
t service and $1.25 for overseas service,
with maxlimims of $500 for home serv
ice and $02.5 for overseas service. The
first sixty days of service are
eluded from the computation.-
i listeiL^men ^of the army, navy.
Lnutrine corps and officers up to
including captains in flu* army
marine corps and lieutenants in
navy are embraced within its scone.
Those entitled to $50 ep l(‘ss^receive
Cash/ 'Olliers receive .no cash, hut are
given twenty year endowment insur
tifiee certificates, tlie -fa.ee value of
whieh is the adjustei)! service credit
plus 25 per cent plus interest at 4 per
cent compounded unmmll’y.
Having thus disposed of tin* bonus,
the senate turned its attention ty the
revenue bill, and the prospect was
that the discussion of tills measure
would continue for several ’'weeks.
Even so, tlie leaders in congress now
think it may he possible to adjourn
early. In JtiHe, before the opening of
the Republican national convention.
U'VEN the most enthusiastic prohi-
bitionist will not deny tiie intense
and widespread interest in the hear
ings started Inst week before the house
Judiciary committee which hud under
consideration fifty-nine bills to amend
the Volstead act and legalize the manu
facture, sale and consumption of 2.75
per cent beer and of light wines.’ El'rst
were heard those who argued for this
lihernllzajion of tin* law, and the most
Interesting and perhaps most Influem
tinl of these was Samuel Gompers,
who spoke for the 4,000.000 members
of the American Federation of Labor.
A few of hi* sentences were:
out in two ye.'irs. "Otherwise, with Ihe
gas pressure exhausted, it would take
twenty to tifty years and be very ex
nsive. The loss of, gas pressure
would, in short, unfit. Teapot for un
emergency." i
Mr. Lewis said tin* amount of oil
in Teapot Imd proved "very, disap
pointing"- 12,<MMI.OOO to 24,000,000 of
barrels instead of tlut-buwiuU of. mines'
estimate of 135.<H>0,000. I -
* ! JII^’AFSE of ids ^interference" in
IIILK tbe. Borah committee was D tlie senate investigation of the In-
henring stories of the alleged | ternill revenue hureiiu by suggesting
plot to bring about the indictment of j'the* employment of Francis Heney as
Senator Wheeler in Montana, the same f investigator. Governor I’inehot lost
rought up before the
John S. Glenn
mass meettng'in (tsok+h—Ambassador
Hhnihora. meanwhile, explained to
congress that the words "grave conse
quences" in his note were not meant
to convey anything in the nature of a
threat, hut Representative Johnson,
chairman of the house committee, on
liiini.ignition, replied with a statement
that Fite action of congress had been
assured before the note was written
and that tlierefrrrr r tiie passage of ;he
exclusion clause-~wns not 'due to
sent m eh t against th*
language. - ■■
Robert J. Murphy.
tiie Forty and Eight is extending con
tact for the national officers of the Le
gion by personal visits to many sec
tions that tiie organization leaders
will he unable to reach during the
year.
Robert J. Murphy, chef chemin de
fer, or principal officer of the society,
has had outlined for him a seven
months' tour which takes him into
practically every sSate. Murphy, with
a Legion spirit horn of association
with organization affairs in Iowa,
where lntere>4 is usually nt flood tide,
lias responded cheerfully to tlie task
and is meeting with a splendid recep
tion wherever he lias gone, (’boosing
as ids. subject "The Fnpardonaide
Sin," which he says is just a way of
telling tin* veterans that you can’t
take anything out of tiie Legion with
out putting something in. tiie Forty
and Eight head is speaking before
large groups of Legionnaires.
Following a trip through the Cen
tral West, after national headquarters
of the society had been opened In In
dianapolis, Murphy has been visiting
Legionnaires on this extensive tour.
He went into the South, covered ten
states thoroughly, and in addition to
boosting his own organization was the
center of much real Legibn activity.
Next he journeys to S'ew England and
will wind up his tour nTirLTertn of of
fice with a long trip through.the West,
ending at St 1‘aul, the convention city,
in the fall. ' -
He has been closelv associated with
Hurry Mother! Even a bilious, con
stipated, feverish child loves the pleas^
ant taste of "California Fig Syrup’’ and
it never fails to open tlie bowels. A
tenspoonful today may prevent a sick?
child tomorrow.
Ask your druggist for genuine^TWi-
fornia Fig Syrup” which has directions
for babies ami children of all ages
printed on bottle. Mother! Y’ou must
sny “California” or you may get an.
imitation fig syrup.
Willing to Square It
-Mom* was equipped with rod ami
basket when he bumped right into the
parson, tiie latter being headed for
church. .. A < ^
"Where to* Moso?" asked tiie good
man gently.
"Well, parson, to tell tin* troof. 1 iu
going fishing.”
"Now. Moso. don’t -vour conscience
: 1 — — * ’ , * ' e .
hurt you7”
"Yes. it do. If I inis any luck FI
leave you a nice mess of fish.”
lanta Constitution.
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CnnMtputlnn (r<*neral!y In.tlratM .HioriV
■tomach. Ilv.-r uml bowel* WrlRht s bn *1
Vegetable I’lll!* restore regularity without
griping. 371! I’earl St . N V. Adv.
Bright Idea
"Hubby, you must wash tin* car and
the dogV" "Suppose I wash tlie car
with tin* dogV"
The wcii of your lift* Is of a min-
—• * • , '“V. • - '
gled yarn, good and ill together.
CORNS
Lift Off-No Pain!
Doesn t hurt one bit! Drop a little
‘Freezone” on an aching corn, instant
ly that corn stops hurting,Jhrn short
ly you lift it rf?W off with fingers.
Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of
j ‘Freezone" for a few cents, suflicleiTFTtf
remove every hard corn, soft corn, or
corn i>etween the toes, and the foot
calluses, without soreness or irritation.
DAISY FLY KILLER PLAa:D ANTW, ' E ' :E
re-
nmbassudor’s
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Legion affairs since his return from,
service. He organized a post in his
home town, Nora Springs, la., and
served as county commander of ail
posts there. He was named to the' of
fice in the Forty and Eight, and re
ceived national recognition at San
Francisco because of his, advancement
of Mie society’s aims.
During tlie war Murphy served as
an instructor In the Officers’ Training
school at Camp F'ike, Ark. He was
discharged from service with the rank
of a first lieutenant of Infantry.
topic was
Brookhnrt committej
of Nashville, lent)., told the latter
committee tlie first move to "get"
Wheeler was engineered by W. J.
Burns ami Mai Daugherty., Speaker
GTliett of tiie house appeared volun
tarily before tiie committee and ex
ploded the sensational-- testimony of
Ci)pt. H. L. Senlfe concerning a "trunk
full of whisky” which Senlfe had more
than intimated was sent to Mr. Gil-
1 eft’s office.
Harry Daugherty, being now free to
talk, made a red hot speech in Colum-
the chance to sit in’ tho Republican
-national convention ‘as delegate a7
, #•-- * ■* •*-'»• •"
large from I’enqsx I vania. Represent a
five Vine arid *Hier-* turitjC-d on him* 1
(or what they considered disloyalty
to tho~'administrafion. and Ralph B.
Strnssburger of 1 —Norristown defeated
the governor by a large majojrtTTP
Btnchot blamed the wets. J’ennsyl-
vnnia, New Jersey and Delaware all
j elected delegates favorable to . Cool-
idge "and seemingly ids nomination is
an absolute certainty. Reports are
that he wants Frank Lowden of Illi
nois as his running mate, and,—falling
bus in which he dented flatly much of^ tbnt. wishes Lowden to be temporary* ..
tin* testimony heard by the Wheeler
committee. His most significant state
ment was that he had given up ids
cabinet post father than “contribute
to a treasonable cause." Files of the
Department of Justice, he said, con
tained ‘‘abundant proof of the plans,
purposes, and hellish’ deslgni; of the
communist internatJonale."
“Bear in mind." iu* added, "thiVt the
files which I refused to deliver to the
Wheeler investigating committee at
tiie time
ed -were demanded by Rrookhaft arid
M heeler, two United States senators
who spent, last summer in Russia with
chairman and to deliver tlie keynote
speech. It is interesting to'note-that
the Democratic national committee is
considering the selection of a woman
ns temporary chairman of tlie national
convention in New York.
i their soviet frlends-
-4
-those same sovitt
A MONG the notable deaths-of the
week.were those of Mine. Eleo
nora Duse, the famous Italian , tra
gedienne, who passed away Iri Plits-
hurgh after an attack ot influenza, and
English
former
minister of finance of Germany, was
otje of the victims of a railway wreck
in Switzerland.
my resignation whs regm-wt— -Murle (’orelli, tiie popular
novelist’. Doctor IlelfFerich,
Give a Town a Bad Name—
"Where do we light next, boss?"
asked the ham and-egg* png, who gen
erally woke up kissing the canvas.
"Kokomo,", replied ids manager.
. "Nuttin' doin', boss. Too many k.
o.'s in dat place fer suit me."—Ameri
ca n I.egiOI+—WCek I y. ^
Compliments Veterans
Governor Austin Pray of Ten
nessee recently greeted National
(’oimnunder John’ R. Quinn of
the. American Legion With the
statement that responsibility of
the World war veterans on the
field of battle won the war,‘and
that present responsibilities of
the American Legion will win
issues of that war In the forums
of the people. He said:
“As time goes on people will
cease to forget * those’who com
posed this mightiest army of
all history. The people of this
nation are not sufficiently +
grateful for these services.
"In you, I recognize the po- +
tential citizenship of our state. ”
I want you to be Interested in • •
problems of government and ”
realize responsibilities of our
citizenship.”
ATTRACTS A N D K1LLS
ALL FtUS. befit,
clran,rmamrn(An^
vemert, r)i«an
all season. Mr Ji/f
mot*!, can’t
tip over; will not *r,u
or ir;ur« anythin®.
Gaaranteed effretiva.
SoM by detlm, or
6 by EXPRESS,
prrp& d, {1.2S.
HAROLD SUM£I<3, 160 Do Kalb A to.. Brooklyn, N. X.
If HI’NT’S SALVE falit* In tho
treatment of ITCH. ECZEMA,
RINGWORM,T KTT K R or alb elk
Itehlns akin tllHennea. Price
75c at (iruKplntH, or direct from
It.Slehari* ttriltin C*. Sturm**.T»l
TOMATO PLANTS
Earhava. btone. Red R<vk. Bonnie Best. Parrel poet
paid, 100, 30c: <(00 . 75c; 6nU. II 00; 1,000, |1 50 t harae*
collect, 1.000, II 00; 6.0(K>. $•! 60; 10.000, I* 00. Four earietiea
of Cabbaue. two of lettuce, threo of I’ollard. Bermuda
Onion. Kale. Bru»»els Sprouts. Beet Kohl Rabl plant*
same price I’rpper plants Ruby Kin* Puniento, To-
hasco Flirrplanta New York Improved, Parcel poat paid
-25, 15c; 60. 25c; 100, 40c; 3 O, tl 00; 500, 11 50; 1 ,iO0, |v 25-
6,U00up aUf-'00. F O B. Summerville-500fot 11 25; 1,00(1
op at { 75; 6,000 up at 11 50. Satisfaction guaranteed.
D. F. JAMISON, SUMMERVILLE. S. C.
Clear The Pores
Of Impurities With
Guticura Soap
Soap, Ointment, Talcum eold eTeryavtiera.
Genuine Improved Nancy Hall and
Porto Rico Potato Plant*——
Government-Inspected and chemically treat*
*d„ from a very - prulltlc variety, producing
four hundred thirty-three husheli* per acre
last year I’lart.- grown from No. 1 potatnaa
from thla selection at |3 00 per thousand,
other plants of same variety No. 2 potatoes.
11.75 per thousand Orders can be fllled
day received. ^
VICTOR DKKN, ALMA. OA.
Wanfed—Young Men
to enroll now for Ihe spring ter^
Charlotte Barber College, Charlott^L^.
I’.liint Sweet I’otutoe* In All Vaeunt Land
and back yards Genuine Improved Nancy
Hall and I’orto Rico Potato Plants; Kov*t
Inspected, chemically tn-ated, 13 50 per 1.000,
prep'd jtlrders sht-pped day rec'd during grow-
n« season Vktor Plant Co . Rockingham. Ga.
-nioking Tolmcco—Absolutely Fresh, Rest
.-•mucky hjifley, granulate,I, Special offer on
-guiar 15c van 12 c a ns for $1. postage paid,
atIsfiiction guaranteed. Writ-* name plainly,
ovell A liumiiigton Tub. Co., Covington. Kyi