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two DEPARTMENT OFFERS NITRATE AT COST i t Buyers of the Fertilizeer Musi Make Deposit With Designated Agency CHARGE TO BE $81 FOR-A SHORT TON Distribution by Means of County Organization is to Be Followed. agricultural agents, and nitrate com- i mittees, composed of local business i men, will direct farmers in filing j their applications. Application I blanks to be used by farmers will be sent to county agents and the members of local committees at an early date. Under the law the nitrate will be sold only for cash, and the farmer will be required to deposit th"> i money covering the cost of the ni- j trate for which he applies with the i local bank, association, or individual ' to be designated by the department. May Allot Supply. In practically all counties, distribution of the nitrate will be made through county distributors. If the quantity of nitrate that can be secured will fill all orders, each farmer will be allotted the amount applied for; otherwise it will be necessary to allot the nitrate proportionately to those applying for it, so that all may participate on equal terms in its distribution. Arrangements have been made to secure a large quantity of I ? ll- - ' uiuaK'i (inn uuiviM me aemanas should prove very much greater than anticipated there will be enough ni- . Irate to supply all reasonable re- j quirements. The distribution will be ] handled, as last year through the ( Bureau of Markets. ( HOUSE DISPATCHES BUSINESS QUICKLY; The lower house of the general as-! semWy quickly cleared the calendar, last Thursday morning and ajourn- | c-d within 25 minutes until 10:30, o*clock. There was little business J before the house . The concurrent losolution on good ; roads legislation by Representative i Belser from Sumter was adopted with a slight amendment. The change was to omit a section by which the "merged" good ft>ads bill v ould become a speical order. The plan is to have a committee of nine, one from each congressional district and two from the State at large, to which committee along with a similar committee from the senate shall be submitted all bills relating to a , Statewide scheme to build permanent highways. Out of the lot is to be evolved a good roads bill, embody ing the best ideas advanced from all i measures. ( Mr. R. Cooper from Beaufort in- i troduced another joint resolution, , proposing to call a State constitu- , tional convention. This is the fourth ' to be introduced this session, there h being three now in the house and one in ? .*? ft unncitn Mi' rriAtidi' nlffi i**_ troduced a bill relating to fhe assess-1 menl ami equalization of taxes in ^o ; far as it relates to tax districts, as-1. sessors and county boards of equali-j, zation and the time and place for taking returns and assessing prop- | erty. The practical abandonmnet of 40,-} 1 000 acres of Camp Jackson, which 1 has recently been used for a rifle range, and the further utilization of j the camp on the remaining 17,000' became apparent when Senator Pol lock was advised by the war depnrt-l rnent authorities to this effect. The Secretary of Agriculture has announced that under the authority of the food-control act and subsequent legislation the Department of Agriculture during the coming season will offer nitrate of soda for sale to farmers for fertilizer use. The nitrate will be sold for cash at cost. The price to the farmers will be $81 a short ton, free on board cars at the loading point or port. In adtition, the farmer will have to pay the freight charges to unloading | point and any incidental expenses J that he may himself incur in connection with the delivery of the nitrate. To Use Last Year's Plan. The plan used in the sale and dis- I tribution of the nitrate will follow in , a general way hu/ year's plan. I State directors of extension, county! STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL SOUTH CAROLINA PEOPLE Walterboro is still wrestling with the influenza epidemic. % Snow and sleet were falling over points in West Texas last week. The annual meeting of the Equai Suffrage League of South Carolina was held in Columbia last week. There are now about 150 soldiers from overseas at the base hospital who are undergoing treatment for wounds at Camp Jackson. Dr. C. V. Akin, in charge of influenza control in the State, received a request from Troy for a nurse to assist in combating influenza which is prevalent in the community. Dr. C. C. hambrell of Abbeville has notified Dr. James A. Hayne, State health officer, that he has returned to the State after having been in the army, and is able'to participate again in matters concerning the health of South Carolina. It is a far cry indeed from the suffering peoples of the distant East to the childhood of America. But that city has not gone unheeded, and just as surely as the grown-ups are answering that call, as is ever the way in America, so are the little folk doing their tiny bit most nobly. Despite reports recently sent out from Washington to papers in the South that the men of the Thirtieth Division would not embark at Charleston, the matter was definitely settled when Secretary Baker informed Senator Pollock that Charleston had been designated for this purpose. This puts all doubt aside. ADVISES FARMERS TO INSURE GOnON r>r. Wade Stackhouse of Dillon, in speaking of the cotton situation said: "Farmers in South Carolina arc po rhaps holding more cotton than *ver before at this date. With spot cotton bringing from 23 to 28 cenhs we have more dollars worth of property rotting in the weather and uninsured than we produced cotton in 1014. This is not good business sense. I would advise to sell cotton rather than let it rot from expo>uro. Store cotton in your nearest bonded warehouse; join wtih your neighbors in renting some vacant warehouse space and place a bonded officer in charge; or pile your cotton on larg * green pine poles out in a ploughed field and build a shelter over it. A house built shelter is far cheaper than taking chances out in the weather. Wherever stored see that j | i i; r'ftVOl'n/l lirltll "Will cotton advance to 35 cents or above? I am inclined to think it will. A very safe plan is to sell sony; cotton each month in the year. In that way a average price is secured for the crop. I especially advise holding low grade cotton recently ginned or to be gathered. The present difference in price between good oidinary grades and middling is not warranted. "All Europe has no available stocks of cotton or cotton goods to compare with pre-war conditions. Germany and her allies con not buy or own a pound of cotton in America. The peace treaty will very likely be signed by April 1. I hope and believe that there will be a scramble for the remnant of American cotton left here from April to August. "I do not believe the prospect for 25 cents and ?.bovc ?? as good as it was November 11. The South seems determined to use a record breaking fertilizer bill. A large acreage will be planted. It will not be the fault of cotton farmers if we do not produce 15,000,000 bales this year. Perhaps providential happenings will cause us to make our fifth small fl|>An Yf OA Alt*. .Imaavw. a C V. ?V. vp, 11 CiMf vut UI trtin VI IllgJl (/riCCo may come true in the fall of 1919." ?? o rha Qulnina That Doat Not Affect tha Haad Beer use of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXAT! V H HHOMO QUI WINK is tetter than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor rinurinR in head. Remember the full neme and loo* >or the nature of C. W. GUOVK. 30c. THE HORRY HH |i i9isE i 1 How They j I During the I ended Nov, 2, I year), Swift & acted the larges j ness on the sn j profit in its hist | Profits of the m< regulations of the Administration ? maximum of 9 p employed but not I per dollar of sales. I Swift & Compa | departments earn* I capital employed I If uuimi u i stues, oui paid interest on b< taxes. Here is h t affect you. jl! Live-Stock Rai Swift & Compan head of livestoc alive, 4,971,500.0C Swift & Company only a fraction ol liveweight. jij Consumer? The sales of our were 4,012,579,00 our earnings wen per pound. | The per capita c ! in the United Sta j pounds. If a const ||U|!g Swilt (St Company |||| contribute only ah j|| or 1H cents a w< |U company. II Swift & Con THE RURAL PRESS ! AND FARM LIFE Clcmson College, Jan. 15.?It is estimated that 70 or 75 per cent of the subscribers and readers of coun, try newspapers either live on the j farms oi are intercstOAr more or less directly in operating those farms. If this is true, it seems that to edit the county newspaper for its majority readers means to edit it largely with farmers and farm folks in mind. Such an editing of the country paper means that considerable space ' should be given to such things as the j News about the country people, j News about the business of the j country; that is, farming. | Good Prope I have for sale cheap, passenger, Studebaker au run about ten months; th the owner is leaving this s car is in good condition. i I FINF. f ANTkK t Also one tract of Pift of Twenty (20) Acres of County on Snow Hill Road quick buyer; also other va and Williamsburg Countie If interested in these "M" care H CONWi tALD, CONWAY, 8. O. Company's 1 Earnings I Effected You 1 twelve months I 1918 (its fiscal g Company trans- I t volume of busi- g lallest margin of | ory. I sat business?under I United States Food were limited to a *9 er cent on capital n to exceed 2 H cents H ny in the regulated I 1 id 7.57 per cent on | Q and 2.04 cents per f? jj of which had to be | 8 jrrowed money and I | ow these earnings U *er? i 1 y killed 14,948,000 | k, which weighed 10 pounds. r made a profit of a cent per pound jlj meat departments ? J] D 0 pounds on which l|| H H ; less than ^ cent HuH consumption of meat | j tes is given as 170 j lmer purchased only | H s products he would f|| out 78 cents a year, H eek as profit to the M News and suggestions about conveniences and comforts for farm and home. News about community effort, I % srch as rural school development, | c ooperation fen* better social, religious, and economic conditions. News about good roads and their value. Educational "stories" of various kinds for country folks. South Carolina editors are goner uii j UIIVUI^V fi>> CJi\v; Lw tiicnu iimnrrS| for they know that no editor not in full sympathy with farming life and country people can hope to succeed well and long- in an agricultural state like ours. Hence the increasing attention and space now being given to such things in the columns j of our country papers. Le tthe good j work go on. j !rty for Sale one six cylinder, seven tomobile which has been e reason for selling is that ection of the country. This ; i i iLSO OFFERED y (50) Acres, and one tract 1 ? ? _ ? ^ tana lying m Georgetown will be sold cheap to a luable property in Florence s. bargains write at once to orry Herald AY, 8. C. FOREIGN ITEMS I GATHERED AND CONDENSED FOR EASY READING The United States government will sell to farmers for cash at cost 120,000 tons of nitrate of soda. * " " Approximately 800 persons have been killed and 5,000 injured in the strike disorders in Buenos Ayrcs. % . s.k In the face of an increasing number of cases of influenza the sanitary commission of Savannah has ordered the ban aganist public gatherings rein st a ted. ! Another appropriation of $500,000,000 or more will be asked of 1 congress soon by Direcotr General limes for the railroad administration's revolving fund to be used ! mainly in extending loans to raili roads. Nine persons are known to have been killed and about 50 injured by the explosion of a huge tank of molasses on the water front off Commercial Street, near Keany Square. Eight bodies were removed from the wreckage and one man died at the hospital. Most of those injured suffered only from bruises. The Bolshevik government in Petrograd has telephoned an utimatum to the Swiss federal authorities, saying that unless 30 Bolshevists, who were arrested and imprisoned in I he fortress of Savantand, in the canton of Valais, are released before l'Vbruary 1, 30 Swiss citizens in Pctrograd will be shot without trial. Appointment of a successor to Attorney General Gregory, whose resignation will become effective March 4. nrobablv will ho dofovroil Kv P?-r?c_ I ident Wilson until his return from Europe now planned for about FebTuary 18. Col. George W. Stuart, commanding the American troops in the Archangel sector of Russia, in a message received at the war department under date of January 11, reported he had made a personal tour of the wide front over which the Americans are scattered and found the general health, discipline and morale of the men excellent and their clothing and equipment ample. Secretary Raker has submitted to Chairman Dent of the house military committee a bill to authorize purchase of land in France for a military cemetery, to be designated "The American Field of Honor." COPY SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. (Complaint Not Served). Court of Common Pleas. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Horry. Mary E. Todd, Administratrix of John D. Todd, Dec'd; also in hor own right, Plaintiff, vs. Jessamine Virginia Todd, Hubert Archibald Todd, Heirs at law of John I). Todd, Dec'd; Susan M. Housend, Samuel Isaac Housend, William T. Housend, Oilio Minnie Gore, Exie Dora Gore, Lou Dessie Cartrett, Benjamin Housend, George B. Hous end, Robert G. Housend, Richard Bellamy, Maggie M. Bellamy, Letha Gertrude Bellamy, Blanche Pearle Bellamy, D. Leon Bellamy, Ethel Mary Bellamy and Richard E. Bellamy, Heirs at law of Alva I\ Housend, Dec'd., Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANTS ABOVE NAMED: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to answer the complaint in this action, which has been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said County, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at his office at Conway, S. C., within twenty days after the service hereof; exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the comnlnint \vUV?in *Vin * !??? ! J '1 ' r.?...v . viiiii vmc vmii" <41 urfhillU, HID plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. November 25th, A. D., 1918. H. H. WOODWARD, Plaintiff's Attorney. To Samuel Isaac Housend, William TV Housend, Ollie Minnie Gore, Exie Dora Gore and Lou Dessie Cartrett, Absent Defendants: , TAKE NOTICE That the Complaint in the foregoing stated action and the Summons of which the foregoing is a copy were filed in the of i ice or the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Horry County, at Conway, S. C., on the 2nd day of December, A. D., 1918. W. L. BRYAN, (L. P.) 1 C. C. C. P. 1 K H. WOODWARD, i Plaintiff's Attorney. 1 I I CALOMEL DYNAMITES A SLUGGISH LIVER Crashes into sour bile* mnlcing you sick and you lose a i d%y's work. Calomel salivates I It's mefccuryt Calomel acts like dynamite on a slug, gish liver. When calomel comes into contact with sour bile it crashes into it, causing cramping and nausea. If you feel bilious, headachy, constipated and all knocked out, just go to your druggist and get a bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone for a few cents which is a harmless vegetable substitute for dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful and if it doesn't start your liver and straighten you up better \ " and quicker than nasty calomel and without making you sick, you just4* go back and get your money. If you take calomel today you'll be ' -.1- 1 A _ * i._. . 1 sick anu nauseateu tomorrow; De-/ sides, it may salivate you, while you take Dodson's Liver Tone you . will wake up feeling great, full of I ambition and ready for work u play. It's harmless, pleasant and safe to give to children; they like it. ?adv. , ??o The Uneducated French. Negro troops from Louisiana have A a linguistic advantage over other ^ American soldiers. Many of them, through living in sections where French still is spoken, are more or less familiar with the language of this land when they get here. But their difficulties, nevertheless. *"It's dis way," explains one. "Ah trlk French purfectly, but not kind dey talk in dis country. You^ see, Ah learned French from mar futhah?de pure, classical, ole New Oi leans French?and dey don't speak dat kind ovah heah." ?Stars and Stripes. o WATCH YOUR KIDNEYS. Inhaling the fumes of turpentine and white lead often weakens the kidneys. That's one reason why so many painters have bad backs and sick kidneys Exposure, frequent colds and cnills and the strain of climbing up and down ladders help start the trouble. ^ If your back aches, If sharp pains strike you in the back when stooping, lifting or working; if you have headaches, dizziness, rheumatic, pains; if the urine is discolored or passages painful and scanty, try Doan's Kidney Pills, the remdey so widely used and so well recommend- ' ed by men in the painting trade. Here's Conway testimony. Harmon Housend, painter, says: "I think inhaling the fumes of turpentine is what weakened my kidneys. I had to get up very often at night to pass the kidney secretions, and they were unnatural. Finally I got Doan's Kidney Pills at the Conway Drug Co., and in a short time my back got stronger and the kid m:#y at:cn;m?[ifs UUCUITK! natural. Mr. Housand is only one of many Conway people who iiave gratefully endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. If your back aches?if your kidneys bother you, don't simply ask for a kidnev remedy?ask distinctly for DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS, the same that Mr. Housand had?the remedy backed by borne testimony. 60c at all stores. Foster-Mil burn Co.. Props., Buffalo, N. Y. "When Your Baca is Lame?Remember the Name." ? adv. o GERMANS PAY BILL FOR SHOE REPAIRING Coblcnz?The Third Army on Weil nesday started a shoe repairing business for its soldiers with BerlirjL.pay ing the bills. In a three-story brick * 1 foundry building in Coblenz-Lutzcll,v across the Mosell from Coblenz, 200 Germans began work under the direction of Americans. The same factory was formerly used by Eighth German Army for shoe repairing* Ten thousand American shoes worn by the Americans in their/ march across Rhenish Prussia await- ^ < ed the cobblers, and more are arriving daily. The factory is in charge of Maj. Landres, chief salvage officer*. with T.i#?llt TV^AWinn A ^ a ~ ~ ??-? a. iiuiiiuo rv< viiriwn of Coshocton, as factory superintend ent. ; Soldiers' widows will be added to the repairing force soon, and within a week Jhe factory will be employing more than 300 German men and" women at eight mjarks per day. The wages are paid by the Americans with brand new marks from Berlin, according ot the armistice terms. Colds Cause Grip sad tnftoStfS ' LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets mbov?%? CAUMu There la enl? ma "Hmw* E. W. GROVE'S signature oo bos. 30c. o The government is not only willing but anxious to help men, who have been honorably dicharged from the service in securing good positions.