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THE MOUNTAIN GIRL AS SHE IS NOW " S Shooting and Scouting Have Done, a Great Deal for Her. Roay Cheeks and Accomplishments That Put City Dwellers to Shame (By Earnest H. Edinger.) Eor two centuries the hardy dwellers of the Blue Ridge mountains, in Virginia and Kentucky, North Carolina and Tennessee, have formed one of the most picturesque people of the nation. Their isolation from the rest of the world, through nature's natural barriers of mountains and forests, has been largely responsible for insufficient school education, failure of industry and enterprise, prevalence ol feuds and "home made" iaw, nc compained, however, by deep rooted ideate of sturdy' virtue. The girl of the mountains as yov have pictured her from the novels ol best known authors and still more rcl ccntly from the modem "movie' screen is a lank, rugged, untutored, ill dressed girl, a woman before hei years. She did all the hard worli about the home but otherwise differed little from the men of the country and she was just as dangerous a person to trifle with, for of course she "toted" a pun. This conception is all wrong and out of date today and if you would know the mountain girl as she is, you must revise all your previous ideas. Miss Mail of the Blue Ridge is now a sharp, alert, tidy, neatly gowned young person. The same ruddy cheeks and flashing eye with the head held high, and the. sturdy frame and little figure are still hers and always will be, for that is her heriatge. But I here is a da3h and vim about her that gives her an entirely new character a pleasing personality and one quite as distinctive though different, from her old self. If you chance to see her in her favorite regalia of brown middy blouse and khaki skirt, scarf and olive drat roll hat, you will best appreciate and immediately recognize her. She is a Girl Scout. Scouting for girls has been introduced into the mountains and is :-preading like the growing of greer grass in spring. In Kentucky and Virginia especially has scouting alicady taken rot. Girls are keen foi the scouting programof healthful and " helpful fun and activity, and parents have accepted it for its worth. * !n the hmnking down of the reserve and natural aloofness of these girls and in bringing about the group ides of participation in sports and com panionship, scouting has worked won ders. All that her sister of the citj or surban town can do, Miss Moun taineer can accomnlish and not infre quently excel, for she "catches on' quickly. This is the case of Pine Mt Harlan county Kentucky, in the hearl uf the Blue Ridge. Natural physical onditions have not changed much ir the mountains, however, and the magic outward and mental change ir he girls is simply the product o1 one big idea?scouting. The schools ill lack electric light and hot water ":9 miles is, as before, a long day's ourpey, and Baltimore and Washing 'on, as England and the Alps, are -out yonaer - in tne general (lircctior of the northeast where the nearest : nilway lies. There is only thf v aguest conception of either the 'Tnited States or the Kentucky gov rnment. At school the girls get up at 5:3C > clock in the morning and do the . hores and after lessons are finished engage in tasks about the house and eld that is their lot. And after a day's work, the size of which might put to shame the efforts of many a < ity dweller, the girls find time for a alf hour or more of scouting before supper and for a whole two hours or 'aturday afternoons when work is finished befors 3 o'clock. Bed time is at 8 o'clock sharp, which may account n part for the general health of the girls. What do the city girls think ahout this? From the small beginning of one roop with a single patrol, less than a vear ago there are now several hun ire? giris in tne region enrolled as . couts, and the movement is still in its infancy. An interesting description of the ":fe of the district is contained in a ' iter received at the national headuarters of the Girl Scouts, 189 Lexigton avenue, New York City, by Mrs. Jane Deeter Rippin, na.'onal dieetor, from Miss Lucretia Garfield, in < harge of the Girl Scout movement i the Kentucky mountains. Miss 'arfield, from Pine Mountain settle.aont school, Pine Mt., Harland counin Kentucky, whote as follows: "The girls here do not have much isure time but they are keenly en' lusiatic about scouting. livery girl 'i the school of ten years or over has -?ir.ed a troop. Our meetings are an -piration to me. The girls have not id as many years of school as girls (. their ages in other parts of the > "ntry, and it is therefore harder for ' 1 e.n to meet the tenderfoot tests. Yet ':ny would not for one moment allow ^ "e to make the tests any easier, and as a result the pirls are quite up to standard. "You will appreciate that our location makes it'harder for $he people here to realize their connection with the rest of the vountry; Were surrounded by mountains on all sides over which we must climb to reach 'the outside vrdtki. The nearest station is four miles across . Pine mountain over a steep, rough, and dangerous trail, and the near#t*town of any size is some ten or* 12 miles farther. Most of the children come from place* even less accessible, and [ it is therefore not surprising if to ( most of them New York and Balti. more, England and the Alps, are all . "out yonder" or "away off there"? ; generally in the direction of the i^ear. est station, which happens to be [ southwest of here. To be sure the older children are somewhat more eai lightened than thus and those whe have been here for scleral years have . a fairly good theoretical knowledge of the georaphy of the country and I even of their relation to the govern ment as citizens of the United States ; But even so the rest of the country I hardly seem a real to a child whose experience has taught her that 30 miles . is a good hard day's trip. . "Our daily life is interesting. We rise at 5:30 o'clock in the morning I that is to say, rlTDst of us do; the girls [ who are working in the kitchen and ! the girls and boys who have charge of making the fires in the morning P have to get up an hour earlier. Break[ fast is at 6 and immediately aftei , breakfast every child in the school ?x I cept those in the lower grades starts [ work on his or her particular bit ol t work- about the place. The oldesl girls and boys those in the eighth grade, attend school from 7 to 11:4E o'clock and do their manual work al 9 , afternoon and for an hour after sup , per. The girls of the next lowesl grades, up to the age of 16 years work . all morning and go to school in the ? afternoon. Supper is at 5 o'clock and , all the dishwashing and other'tasks [ are finished by 7 o'clock. Then the t upper grade' girls study until 8 and go to bed. You se?e that there is . very little time or energy left for , anything extra. , -"Fortunately there is no school or [ 'Saturdays and the girls get through . their work about 3 o'clock so that we . get about two hours of scouting [ Everyone is e?ger for the time tc patyi n AiVtnn tVin nliil^rnri urill m at *i?a*1 ; v..*. nwi so hard, but until we h?vp a few mort ; modern conveniences such as electri; , lieht and hot water pipes and mon i big boys and girls to do the hardesl . work, the burden on all can not b< . lifted. # , ! "This is the only school of any siz< . in these mountains for many miles . and as the population is scattered ir ? small clusters about the creek?, th< local council of scouts will probablj t include all of the mountain districl [ about here. CANDIDATE CARDS 1 f FOR CORONER % 3 I hereby announce myself as can ' didate for Coroner of Union Countj ' and pledge myself to abide by the decision of the Democratic Primarj UlC't'UUIlS. ' Thos. D. Holcomb. i;OR MAGISTRATE I hereby announce myself a candidate for Magistrate of Pincknej ( Township, Union County, and pledge myself to abide the results cf the , Democratic Primary. J. Ross. I hereby announce mysel/ a candidate for Jfftigistrate for Union Township, Union County, %nd pledffb myself to abide the decision of the Demoi cratic primary. J. Byrum Lawson. Winthrop College i SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION , The examination for the award oi t vacant Scholarships In Winthrop . College and for the admission ol ( new students will be held at ' the i County Court House on Friday, Julj 2, at 9 a. m. Applicarui must not tx , less than sixteen years of ,age When Scholarships are vacant aftei July 2 they will be. awarded to those , making the highest average at this . examination/ provided they meel . the conditions governing the award , Applicants for Scholarships should ; write to President Johnson before the examination for Scholarship , examination blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 15th, 1920. Foi further information and catalogue [ address Pres. D. B. Johnson, ^ Rocl< , Hill, S. C. , May 8-22-June 5-19-July lp>d. i The Canadian parliament has rei ceived a bill which should it be passed favorably it will confer on nativebom and naturalized women ol Canada the right to vote in federal i elections. , v ^ ARTIST^ IN THE ROLE OF HUSBANDS. C (Continental Edition of the Lon- , don Mail.) , Yonug women who are not at tho moment engaged to?or love with?a j musician, or an actor, or a painter > not apply to them. It does?or at least it might. % ] I know very well I am talking about < because my own wife has been married to on a.'tist for close on ten years. ; Unless you happpn to he quite a ] , exceptional woman, married life with i an artist would not suit you at all. Your friends would find him charrh1 ing, no doubt and some of them would . please you now and then by telling . you what a wonderful man he was s and how proud of him you must be > and so on. But you would find him?when the > first glamour wore off?a very great . nusance ihdeed. A creature of moods, > of strange habits; selfish without I knewning that he was being so; sky. high abdtit something or other one i hour wallowing in the depths of r gloom the next-r-a person, in short . who should be permitted into human I society only when he can conscientiously send out from his work and j hopes- the signal of "All's well." r Artist are not really bad people. In i a way they are good people?one | might even say the best of people. . But no woman I stand by that. And r my wife stands by it, too. In fact, . she stands by it more than I do. ? The city man, the banker, the . tradesman, the rate collector, and, In } short, the normal citizen?they are \ all right as husbands. But the artists t no! _ ! You see, the artist plays at the \ wrong time, and works at the wrong [ time. He is worse when working . than when playing. The whole thing is a strain, and if you interfere with him?as of course you will now and then?he will run shaking lingers I through his hair, if in possession of j such and exclaim, "Good heavensl ? Can't you understand?" I And you cannot. You should not , be expected to Why should you, when . your husuand would?one occasion? your husband would?on occasion? , rather scribble, or declaim, or thump , than eat ? , What I say is that it too much to expect of a woman. > Artists should live in caves?alone. And if they must marry, and if certain gentlewomen must marry them then the gentlewomen should realize , that it is unsafe for them to visit I their husbands' caves save by invi, tation. 5 LAND SALE i ~ , Sixty acres of land located about 5 five miles from Union on the Santuc r road, having thereon a large substant tial log frame building, and an excellent two story barn, well, etc. Much of this land will produce a bale of cotton to the acre. The place lies well on the Santuc road, and has fine railroad and highway facilities. A school house in sight. Land in this immedi ate community selling for $150 per 1 acre. * The price of this excellent farm is only $4,000. This farm can not ' stay on the market long. You pay down enough to hold trade, and make arrangements for balance when you get possession, or you pay al'? or else make arrangements to do so through us. and get immediate possession. If r you are v.'anting a model little farm i located right, and near to a good s town, with school, church, highway, and railroad facilities, this is the one for you. Do not put off seeing me at once about this farm now. There is going to be a great demand for such - fjums as this is thig fall. Now is the time to get the pick of them. . 767-3t. S. E. Barron. LAND SALE 4 A nine room residence on Church , street. This property is desirably located between the Methodist r.hureh und the Southern Railway line. This t house is the property of J. D. Arthur. ' The house is plastered and sealed, , painted and presents a nice appear; ance. It has all the conveniences 'f and is a fine place to live, and, also a fine place to own if one desires to run a boarding house or let rooms, as [ it is near in. The price is $5000. Terms are $1000 down, or more of the ( purchaser desides, and the balance on . long easy terms. This property cannot j be easily duplicated in the city any-1 J where for the money asked, nor can [ the terms be bettered. Now, Mr. ) Home-seeker, if you want a nice home at bargain figures, and one easy . terms, let me shgw you this place. I 767-3t S. E. Barron. So closely is the ex-Kaiser protect' ed at Amerongen that the annual cost ' of his guard alone is well over $10,000. ? Out of 836 professions and trades followed in the Netherlands nearly half are practiced by women. f Between 800 and 900 cities and 1 towns in the United States are named after places in Great Britian. - FROM PANSY We are having some cold days now, seems like winter time is coming again. This cool weather is very injurious to the crops and gardens. Rope we will soon htfve some warm weather again. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Willird and little son Deny spent Sunday in Union with relatives and friends. Misses Ammie and Bessie Alexfender, of Monarch spent Saturday night and Sunday with Misses Pearle and Grace Rochester. Misses Nora and Mary' Rochester spent Saturday night and Sunday wit? Miss Mary* Lee Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Alexander and daughter Myrtle, and Mrs. Efarle Whitner and little daughter Edith spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Rochester. f Mrs. C. W. T. Willard and daughter Miss C ace attended preaching at Rogers Sunday afternoon. Misses Bessie Sanders and Mary Little spent the week-end in Kelton with home folks, Miss Sanders returned Sunday; but Miss Little Has gone to be 80 brides maid at the wedding of one of her friends, and will rfeturn some time this week to be at the picnic Friday; which will be given at the closing of Black Rock school. Mrs. C. E. Jeter and children Miss Julia and Ernest and Elbert were Visitors to Union Saturday. Mrs. Elijah Brock and little daughter Lether visited relatives in this section Sunday. Adieu, Pansy. UNION ROUTE 5 The farmers of thin ?.w * * V fewting along nicely with their crops, most of them have a nice stand of cotton also of corn where it is up. Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. G. V. Tracy and daughters Zera and Lunette and Altow Adams made a flying trip to Chester. We arrived in Chestre about 10:30 o'clock, took dinner with my uncle, L. H. Miller, and We sure had a fine time too. In the afternoon we went around .to see Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hope, and found them ready to welcome us. Mr. and Mrs. Hope are natives of Union county, bul have been in Chester for the past few years. Mr. and Mrs. Hope are always glad to see their friends from Union county, and would be glad to have them come over and see them "friends I would advise you to go, for I am sure you will enjoy it. TIjb crops over on that side are looking pretty, I saw some cotton holla and eats ready to hoe and'a very small amount of com. ' -Mm. Eva Adppis of the Baptist! Hospital in Columbia* spent the week end with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. S. F. Adams of this section. Time is fastly passing by and I can hear Mr. Editor getting the waste basket so I will bid you ail Etpa. UNION ROUTE 2 The farmers of this section are very busy planting corn and some few are hoeing cotton, while others are not through planting cotton. Mrs. Gordon Bishop has been quite ill at her home, but am glad to say is improving. Mrs. Bishop has many friends who are grieved to hear of her illness. Mrs. Ed Smith is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Page, of Jonesville. Mrs. A. R. Vinson, Misses Fair Barnette and Sallie Mitchell, Mrs. John Sumner and Miss Sallie Bishop visited at the home of Mrs. Charles C. Bishop, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Robinson visited in this section last week-end. Mrs. Fannie Greer, of Spartanburg, is visiting friends and relatives in this section. John Sumner and Misses Annie and Minnie Stevens visited in this section Sunday. % John Gijeer Bennie and Miss Louise Bishop, of Jonesville, spent last week-end in this community. Mr. and Mrs. John Sumner visited in Union Sunday, to see their little grand-daughter, who is very sick. Hope to see everyone at our next picnic. Forgdt-me-not. ?tart Early andEight Q with * JKgapR Base Ball Goods^ Mi Best on the Diamond cSP vL ^WecaiTythe line THAT MAKES FAMOUS PLAYERS THE UNION HARWAR* COMPANY, Sporting Goods, UNION, S.C. v I ===* " > - "... # ' -*' ' " ."" j'ni[ * f) ' LISTEN! ,v ' ^ '? . I 1 { THIS STORE IS YOUR BESf FRIEND AGAINST THE COMMON ENEMY OF HIGH,COST A ^ OF LIVING. 4 BETTER MERCHANDISE, BIGGER STOCKS, AND MORE COMPLETE ASSORTMENTS. I * I [ V ' For some weeks we have been practically offering ,to give j you as good Flour as the mills make. , We told you the Flour we were offering you for $12.50 barrel was worth Fourteen Dollars or more. We now tell you that we have bought Flour already fonsmore than Fourteen-Fifty per barrel, and in less than Sixty Days we will not be surprised to^ee Flour sell for $20.00 a barrel. v Act while we have the Flour. We are j ust j^ettirfg in another big lot of the Finest Pure Winter Wheat, Fancy Pat- i ent Flour. Not a mill in the country would sel| it to us to- > day for Fifteen' Dollars per parrel, and Minneapolis, tjie j Flour Center of the World, was asking $16.25 per barrel for it some days ago. We will sell you this Flour until this ; add is removed from print only for $13.00 per barrel, $6.50 per 96 pound Bag, $3.35 per 48 pound bag and $1.70 per 24 ; pound bag. For Plain Flour?if you prefer the Self Rising Flofir, of the Pest Grade, will sell this at $14.00 by the barrel, $7.00 for 96 pound bags, $3.65 for 48 pounds and $1.85 per 24 pound bag. ' We invite you to lay in a reasonable supply of Flour. It will prove a good investment, and that yoif niay know that we are your friends and the friend of every hardworking, honest man who wants to economize and get his i full value when he invests his money. We will only say f that you can wire any reputable mill in the country and if they will sell you a car load for the priced we are offering you as much or little as you want, we will make you a preseht-of a barrel of our best and pay for your message too. < I Tfa im fA VAII Pnmn fA OAA ?ia ahami -5? * VW up VV J VU? VV OW UO UOJ 111 V1IC **C\J1V OllU , I ' every week in the year. You will find a cheerful bunch / 'of hard-working, appreciative salesmen .and salesladies ready and glad to serve you. ^ Just unloaded a big car or two of the highest grade i Cotton $eed Meal, we have seen. Have had it Inspected and analyzed by the State Inspectors, and its the Finest analy-sis we have seen. $4.00 by the bag, $75.00 by the Ton. UNION-BUFFALO MILLS STORES L. L. WAGNON, Manager. Buffalo Storey Phone 9. Union Store, Phone 74 " * . . . .= ?, A CHEERFUL ATMOSPHERE ' Reflects a lack of friction; shows that things are going right and working in Hhrmony. ^ V * \ \ *.! ?. The officers of this dependable, government-guided >stitution, though, keenly conscious of their responsibility, evidence always a spirit of good cheer and helpfulness. # A Frequently our patrons voice their pleasure in doing business with a bank whose unvarying attitude is one of optimism and service. '* ? / New business is cordially invited. ^ CITIZEN'S NATIONAL BANK | UNION, S. C. I RESOURCES, - SI.SOO.ppO.OO K. f. JHUKUAN, J. \7. W1LB A NK8, Fresides t. CmUw. A_ ' ELECTRIC WIRING * Work Promptly Done and Guaranteed RIGHT PRICES y W. T. SINCLAIR OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE III, I 'I ' 'I I1 11 'I 1.1 1 .' ' . * Women are now (Uble to be Bum- Polish -women in some of the mirv- \ x'-at/ moned to serve on juries in England, ing towns of Pennsylvania celebrate but to be qualified lor such service a the close of Lent by switching their woman must occupy a house of the hashand and deluging them with taxable value of $150 in London or water. Hie custom is an old one in 00 in the country. 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