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The Pickens Sentine PICKENS, S. C. HP U 3 L I S H E D WEEKI' APRIL 18, 1918 gntered at Pickens I'oatoiUco as Second Cla. Mall Matter. 1.50 A YEAR, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCI GARY HIGoT.T Manager. My Country 'Ti* of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty." Democratic Club Meetings Members of the respective demo cratic clubs of Pickens county will meet at their polling places Saturday, April 27, 1918, for the purpose of reorganiz ing, election of ollicers, and appoint ment of delegates to the county con vention which meets at Pickens on May 6. Each club is entitled to one delegate for each S members or majority frac tion thereOf. The president and secretary of each club shall certify the list of delegates to the county chairman on or before May '. G. F. Nonnes, County Chairman. "The Poor Farmer" Exchange. Of all people in the world the farmer is least justified in kicking about the prices that the retailer must ask for merchandise today. The farmer is get ting the biggest returns ever known from every variety of farm produce. A merchant friend in Wisconsin rc ports the following interesting conver sation: Farmer- -What's the price of that wagon over yond(er? Dealer- $90.00. Farmer---$90.00? Why my father bought the same wagon :t0 years ago for $60.00. 1)ealer--Yes, sir, he did, and -. bought it from me; but money wa. scarce at that time and I wanted som corn. So your father delivered me 30 bushels of corn in payment for tha wagon. I can use some corn at thi time and will make the same trade wit you today as I did with your father : years ago on the same wagon and wi give you from my stock in addition i this wagon at --$ 90.( I power washing machine .__ 50.( 4 suits clothes for vourself . 100.( 1 (resses for your wife 1.00.0 1 dress for baby -5.0 I crib for baby . .25.0 llox cigars for your friends .3.0( 25 pounds(1 coffe cc.......6.2 12 pounds of tea.- .. 6.0 50 pounds( of sugar.......5.0 800 gallons of gasoline.....2010.0 *Luibrcating oil .. - .. 7.7 Ir. Total~~ iyor - -$600.01 Now brn3n0or1) bushels of corn and haul the stuff home in your nev wagon. And say, Bsill, don't let me hear yet kick any more about paying two (101 lars and a halfI for a good pair of over alls. Try that on somebody t hat'u saleep. * By the way. I notice here by th< paper that corn has gone up to $2. 25, So I'll throwv in a raincoat, a pair of aunsto overalls, a searchlight for the car, 41 tires andl 'I extra inner tubes along * with this wagon, and don't you evem call me a robber again! 1I[urry up, though, and come in withl the corn, or l'll hav'e to throw in a new *Ford, and deliveries are' a little slow rct present. You can get Thlie Senmtine'l 8 months f or $1. 00. Confederate Veterans, Notice All Confederate veterans and widows are hereby notifled to call on W. L,. Matheny, clerk of the county hoard, at Folger, Trhornley & Co's. store, and *get their county penlsions. 11. C. ,li'OllN. Chairman Pension Board. County Singing Convention The Pickens County Singing Conven tion will meet with Griffin church on Saturday and Sunday, April 20 and 21. ~ i Prominent singera are expected and the public is cordially invited. This will be the time for election of officers and a full attendance is requested. E. P. Mc~ravey, Pres't. J. Luther Bagwell, Sec. All persons, whether veterans, wid orws, or descendants, whoiwish to ob tain a Cross of Honor on June 3ld. wil * please make application without delay to the President of the Pickens Chap ter U. D, C, Advertising in The Sentinel pays big 'WKATYAU CAN DO TO HELP How the Stay-at-Homes Can "Do ' Their Bit."-Not Asking Too Much, Columbia.-From time to time the Food Administration has giv en the people of this State var ious rules and regulations issued by the authorities in Washington. Just at this moment the chief drive is to conserve wheat. The authorities in Washington are trying to make a voluntary sav ing, but if the American people do not respond, more drastic measures may have to be taken. The Food Administration has worked out the best plan after careful study and closely watch ing results, and have notified the food administrators throughout the country that they are re quired to enforce as best they can the following rules: "First, householders to use not to exceed a total of one and one half pounds per week of wheat products per person. This means not more than one and three fourths pounds of Victory Bread, containing the required percent age of substitutes, and about one-half pound cooking flour, macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals all combined. "Second, public eating places and clubs to observe two wheat less days per week, Monday and Wednesday, as at present. In addition thereto not to serve to any one guest at any one meal an aggregate of breadstuffs, macaroni, crackers, pastry, pies, cakes, wheat breakfast cereals containing a total of more than two ounces of wheat flour. No wheat products to be served un less especially ordered. Public eating establishments not to buy more than six pounds of wheat products for each ninety meals served, thus conforming with limitations requested of the householders." "Third, retailers to sell not more than one-eighth of a bar tel of flour to any town customer at any one time and not more y than one quarter of a barrel to any country customer at any one time, and in no case to sell wheat products without the same of an equal weight of other cereals. "Fourth, we ask the bakers and grocers to reduce the volumE of Victory Bread sold, by deliv e ry of the three-quarter pounc loaf where one pournd was sok before, and corresponding pro p lortions in other weights. W< Salso ask bakers not to increast Sthe amount of their wheat flou1 Spurchases beyond sevent per cen Sof the average monthly amoun purchased in the four month - prior to March first. )"Fifth, manufacturers usini wheat products for non-food purposes should cease such us< entirely. "Sixth, there is no limit upot the use of other cereals, flours and meals, corn, barley, buck, Iwheat, potato flour, etc." FOR A FULL FOOD ACREAGE Columbia. - Mr. David R Coker, chairman of the Souti Carolina Council of Denfense, ir his appeal to this State, states the importance of raising more foodstuff. Mr. Coker himself is a most splendid farmer and is ir close touch with the national sit uation, andc what he has to say'is of the most importance. In his appeal he says: "The food situation is increas ingly serious. High cotton musi not prevent a full food acreage, Many farmers do not intend tc plant sufficient foodstuffs. These must be reached in these few~ days remaining before planting Is completed." Corn Bread Brigade! Enroll-At this hou,. join! Our men are fighting, SThey need the wheat Sign up-No red tap. Simply I eat no whoe As for me and my household, I eat no whet-No rolls. No biscuits. No white bread. -Corn bread, Wholesome! Good, Palatable, Nourithing, You will soon like it bettor! Stand Airm It is little we can do. I eat no wheat wUti viatory, how over dear, is wenl Stand behind your Commandent4g. Chief. The President needs you-.ag6U woman, boy, girl. Attention! "CASH AND CARRY" PLAN A SAYING ELIMINATE COST OF DELIVERY SYSTEM AND CUTS OUT CREDIT LOSSES. Opportunity For Community Workers to Establish Plan Everywhere by Bringing About Understanding Be tween Storekeepers and Customers. Fair and oven moderate prices of food and food products these days of abnormal conditions are so greatly in creased over prices which were stand ard a year or two years ago that many housekeepers whose family purses have not been fattened in proportion to the advance in prices are experienc ing difficulty in providing, even with rigid economy, the necessities of life, and many others are stretching the weekly or monthly allowances over these periods only by taking advan tage of every opportunity to save. The retailers are, as a general rule, selling at prices which give them no more than a reasonable profit above cost and expenses of operation to which they are entitled; but one of the big items figured in cost is the ex pense of credit and delivery. This ex pense is of course greater in larger centers, but even in the small com munities it is a factor which con tributes to making food and foodstuffs, already dear, even dearer to the con sumer. - Any plan whereby the retailer may be enabled to sells food products even a fraction cheaper without cutting into the reasonable profit to which he is entitled and which he must necessar ily have to maintain himself in bus+ ness, will, undoubtedly, be welcombd by bnth the retailer and the consumer everywhere; and the "Cash and Car ry" plan, which is being employed in some of the larger cities of the coun try would appear to commend itself. The "Cash and Carry" plan-which is simply the doing away with deliv eries so far as that is practicable, and paying cash- not only eliminates the one expense of delivering one's goods at his kitchen door, but also the more considerable expense of book-keeping, credit and collections, of which the greatest is that of credit, since that term always implies a cer tain percentage of losses, which muqt likewise be figured in by the mer chant, else he could not continue in business very long. In other words, the man who does not pay his bill pen alizes the man who does pay. it would appear that in any corn munity the retail merchants would willingly give their customers the benefit of these costs--of delivery and credit-cutting down the prices of food products, if they might have the co-operation of their customers on the "Cash and Carry", plan, which wouk mean that the customer would either I all at or send to the store, pay cast - for the goods purchased, and carry the goods home with him. In the handling of heavy goods there must of course, he deliveries made. As an example of what saving car be effected through the "Cash anc Carry" plan, one of the largest. dairiel in the United States operates 185 mill steores or dlepots in Now York City This big dairy corporation recentl, advertised what is termed "tho biggeI service," andi announced that on Apri 1st the "Cash and Carry" plan wouilt b~ecome operative. To all those wvh carry their containers to any one o the 185 milk stores, milk is stold at 14 cents a quart, for cash. If the milk F; delivered, as the corporation is willinj to do if that should be preferred, th4 price for the same grade of milk i 14 cents a quart. Through the "Easi and Carry" p'an the consumer save, four cents a quart. Another system of food stores ii the metropolis, operating on the "Cas1 and Carry" plan, will, on each on' dollar's worth of goods purchased give the customer 14 cents either il cash or in~ additional goods, if the cum tomer will carry his purchases witi him andl have the stores the expens of delivery, fourteen cents on the do: lar is certainly worith saving. PLANT WAR GARDENS, SUPPLY HOME NEED8 It Is the Patriotic Duty of Every Oni to Help Provide for Himself in Present Crisis. Columbia, April 9.-In planting wa gardens, the advice of Herbert Hoove: United States Food Administrator, is "Plant what you will be able to use not what you think you may be abli to sell." There has probably never been time since the South was blockadec during the War Between the Sectioni when it has been so vitally necessarj for the people of South Carolina t< concern themselves about the ques tion of food supplies, not only thai the soldiers fighting in elurope ant the Allied soldiers and peoples may bi fed, but, because of the unsatistaetro:y food situation, that they may not muf for at home. Food production during the coming summer and fall calls on people It cities and towns as well as upon th.l farmer for their very best efforts, and every one who has waste land aroun4 the home or space in the back yard should askc himself: "Will the fact of my planting a gait den help win the wnr?" Our Spring Showing Of Slippers an Spring Shoes far surpass anything we have ever shown in Pickens. We are receiving almost daily by express shipments of spring shoes and slippers, and prices are not one cent more than last spring. Slippers and shoes to day 'are the cheapest lines of merchandise sold, as O compared with other lines, and if you are paying fancy prices for your footwear, you are simply being o charged . too much, for the advance on shoes and slippers is not more than 25 to 40 per cent. O We are showing the same well-known lines we have handled for years: O H.(C. Godman Company's for children and ladies; R. T. Wood, for children and misses; Endicott, Johnson & Co.'s., for boys and men; the reliable Walk over, for men and ladies. No better lines made in the U. S. A. A full and complete line of children's, misses and ladies white oxfords and high-cut shoes from $1.00 to $4.50. Boys' and girls' tan scuffers, in all sizes, from $1.25 to $2.50. Children's, misses and boys' oxfords in all leathers and styles from $1.25 to $4.50. Ladies' oxfords in black vici, gun metal, Siberian kid, tan and white, from $2.00 to $6.00. Men's oxfords in all leathers and every conceiv able style, and color from $2.50 to $7.00. Rubber pumps for boys, girls, women O and men, and the best line of boys' and men's plow shoes in America. dSee us for your needs in footwear, and we will endeavor to please you, and if you have been paying fancy prices for your shoes and slippers, you are simply beingseparated from some money that isn't necessary. Yours truly, FOLGER, THORNLEY & 00. 4 Clothing, Shoes, Hats and Gent's Furnishing Goods a Specialty Sole Agents for Walk-Over and Godman Shoes, Carhart Overalls, Iron King Stoves, New Home Sewing Machines, Chase City and Summniers' Buggies, Mitchell Wagons. 4 No better lines made in America. Therefore there are no better lines sold. TlE MAN WHO READS IS THE MAN WHO LEADS - Savs Mr. Clarence Poe, one of North Carolina's foremost citizens. T. i4m Pickens county men who read THE PICKENS SENTIN ll have the advantage over those who do not. The Sentinel is primarily a county paper and purposes to serve the people of Pickens county, irrespective of class or politics. X1.50 a yr., $1 f'or 8 months, 50c for 4 mos. " The Store That's Always Busy." As springtime approaches we naturally turn our attention to something new i Wearig Apparel. The ladies want a new Dress, Hat and Low Shoes; - the'men a new sprmg Hit and Shoes.. Now, if you want to get a glimpse of Springtime, just make a visit to our store and see the beautiful new Sprin Goods on display. Every department is complete with the latest style ani novelties in Fine Dress'Goods, Silks, Trimmings, Millinery, etc. You can come Shere andlfindiwxhat youlwant and at a price you want to pay. We anticipated conditions several months ago and bought large stocks of' g'oodsif or every~dep artment of our store and got the goods in before the em bargo'iwent intoleffect on the railroads, so we are prepared to show you today one of'the most complete lines of Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Ladies''Ready-to Wear,iMillinery, Shoes and Clothing to be found in this county. You are hearing a lot about high prices, and it is true that prices are high, but'if you willilook through our stock you will find our prices most reasonable. WVe cordially invite you to pay us a visit and let us show you. We are glad to do this even if you are not ready to buy. Belowswe mention a few items from the different departments: Ladies' Rteadly-to- Wear Department.Godeay rdeHcryhiin SLadies' Silk Dresses, $10, $12.50 and $15; anChio.........20 yd Ladies' Silk Crepe-dte-Chine Waists, $2.98 Abetiulneo40ncFgrdad a nid $3.50.PanWieVie tte0( rc Beautiful line :f Organdie anid Voile..............5 n lcyl Waists, neatly trimmed and made up W aeayhn o a ati . .........................$1.00, $1.25, $1.5S0rm h heps tote et Ladies' Wash Skirts...98c up to $2.50 GorttsCe-dchnriaeasS 1 Ladies' Spring Suits,..........$15 to $25) SOSadOFRS.rii eat A full line of Misses' and Children's menofursreiashetrewhi D~resses, made of Organdie Lawn and isl.W aeSosadOfrst i Ginghams, priced cheaper than you could alknso et obigu orfe n buy the material; sizes 2 to 14 years lt13ftte pi odpi fSos ................................ 50c, 98c to $2.50 WehvalteltsttysinSper Best Grade Apron Ginghams, fast col- folaisndclre.Yowllidou ors. worth today about 30c, our price 20c prcsvyreonb. Delmar Apron Ginghams, fast colors, Me'anBosClti.Wehva great value today at ..............15c yd. flladcmetlieoMnsadBy' Best Grade!Apron Ginghams, a lot of CltigBosSusfrm$to15 pretty patteresitosselect.from--.y...M.n's.Suits,.$72to $25 Ed iP.Bli WhieComsateoprice ThWtreT a' A haeyfhinsyomawnti ins~e , St. rC srgt SHOES an XFRS.Tisdpat