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01 bi NO OTHER W.KE IT. NO OT H ER AS GO0D ne the NEW HOME" :nt von will hav P ).et at thie prie rett diay. The eliinationt o expense by superior workmanship, and bies Y of niaterial insures lide-long service at mint mt cost. ln.:st onl having Nhe: NEW HOME'' WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME.. Kn ."".:t the wvorbil ev-r for maperior sewingr qualities N Et s.bll mble"r :any other nante. THE ,.EWl HOME CEWINGl MACHMIE CO.,,RANGE,MASE son sAiLC any ER, THORNLEY & CO Tax Notiee, 1918 v. fCoentty'lTreitsurer, I'lekenns County, PickeOs N. C., October 1, I9. s nooks for the colectiot, of State an taxes will be open fromn October 15 )- ecember 31, 1918. e who refer to do so can piay in .aujIi e 0), with Iper cent additional. T12 hos " -ef r aiey ig In l ruar , 1919, caan do i per cet aditional. Tose who refe 10 t u so by paying an additional 7 per~cet :aid dtto the books will closo. -'Taxpayers ownin o perty or payig pr others will please ask for tax recep townshiy or speal school district n s4,t or they may own property. 'This I 1otnit hr r s aysho . r, )p THr E & CO ThCoe whoty notaIuer wiskch to comey( rte can write te, not later than ah 0t ner, awi I weil furuish them with t e duo ant they can p e by check, order or" registered muall If stampH ar{r. $ntsn bv -.otdnmntu.tt no Pedaove (-Jt dtnomiaion I~ni S"' )t us~e themn. Please (d0 not seend ine cash (' eit registeritin same, a it I , liable to ge f r seat otherwise it must he tit senger's )i State tax .... .... ... .. H mith r ConstItutinal o 4o inox . :1 myill - or orditnry ciluntytax . ... ... mille r o tr ly sOh b1nd .... ....;:1 mith f~y I lev~y ... .......... ...... ..._.t' m ills ;4' llitl) 1,. TA . r t levies for the following 'istri1ts S ) strict No. l --- -- -. -- . 1 m124)2 9 '. 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Hi4rricane 1)ow1hIp )I...... ... .......4 212mi1 Ea1sit)oe4 ~tos N.*:..... ......... 221m1? Piokens)O 1)ownsit o 5..... 2 mill1e P~hol 2a )lroe io.la 4t1 O . .ie - 4u l 22)11 zn122) from21 rt Ndyao. age.. s.:1 22e2e1e15 areh lil rioet too II). u..ed...y 22nw. Cpitatio)x2nl Nlo. Ta.--A...per....I 2221Ig dQos are24 rqIre No pay......p...tion taxo hole wori2tng o itaementa4 of tir tax will ploese inlwtl 2212age. Pol I~X 212 I1lI Al T'I1)2. CyIlNTON,1 012 24122(1)22 O~n(10y~t iton21 iv Treasurer.CIS toEye122.I Sufferer -Railroad1.12) fAr pa2221 one20)22 wrai to ra Who Prchae Glsses Eyes examined12 by specialistby andw ogl are0 madll~e1( )2 W ie youIl~t~ tai. Kodak l~I2g O Films Devel.tope byk a wl Eyeiet Sufer'y&eres. Pcknstn CotomePtisnts, Msonucs Gemple. glasesma o wileyo wait. e Consltin Op omeists in and..e ,~US *f N 1" N lUb1 I" 1 r TO N IC With Paw-Paw Added THREE POWERFULP FORCES IN ONE PUT -UP IN LIQUID FORM When run down, nervous, tired and worn out all the time, take this relia ble preparation and know what it is to again feel like your old self. The cost, regardless of the size of your purse, is the same, and it may be secured with out trouble at any first class drug store, and by taki g. it one loses no time from work or pleasure and soon j' feels the wonderful transformation which comes over one when regaining strength, vitality and old ambition. The formulit is on every bottle, and you are taking an honest Tonic on the wine basis without addition of any al cohol or bad whisky compounded with the best-known drugs for the special object of restoring your strength and stomach to what they should be to en joy health. In your anxiety to got better quickly, don't overdo it, as many sufferers do, and take larger doses of this standard remedy. It will not act any faster, and you will not receive the same bene fits from its use you otherwise would. . Your druggist possibly keeps it, but if he doesn't, it is sold in Pickens by the Pickens Drug Co. WARNING- Ironized Paw-Paw if taken according to. directions and not as a beverage, will be found superior to any tonic, having. a quarter of a century's unqualified in dorsement from people all over the world. Interstate Drug Company, Inc., New York.--(Adv.) Notice of Meeting A special meeting of the stockhold ers of the Pickens Railroad Company will be held at the office of this co.n pany in Pickens, S. C., on Monday, December 16, 1918, at 11 o'clock, stan dard time, for the following purposes, viz.: To authorize, approve and ratify (1) the execution and delivery of a con tract or contracts between this c' m pany and the United States or its rep resentatives relating to the possession, use, and control of the railroad and its appurtenances, of this company, and to the operation of such properties, and to any other matter connected with or growing out of the relationship between said company and the director- general of r-ailroads, or arising out of the Fed eral Control Act; and (2) any action of the board of director-s of this company in respect thereto; to authorize the said board (a) to alter, ame-nd or add to such contract, (b) and to take all such other and further action as the saiu board shall deem necessary in the prem ises; and generally to consider andl act upon any and all questions and matters incidental to the purposes aforesaid or growing out of Federal control of properties of this company. -For the purposes of the meeting, the books for the transfer of stock will be closed at 12 o'clock mn., on Friday, De comber, 13, 1918, and will be reopem d at 12 o'clock mn., Tuesday, December 17, 1918. By ordler of the boardl of directors .J. McD. BRUJC1, Secretairy. CHIGHESTER SPILLS DIAMOND - BRAND LaDI~ts l Ask yonu- Drastfat for CH!-CIHta-TIR S DIAMOND nIRAND PILSa nRRD and GOLD. metalite boxes, sealed with Blue~y Dwgas 6and ask f I. OUI.CUJST ux V DIAMOND DRA NE PIL.Is, for twenty-five years regarded as flest, Safest, Always RetI able. 3010 BY ALL DRUSGISTS fi1 EVERYWHERE ye%' Porter's Pressing Club Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing, Al tering, Etc. Suits are sent for and delivered when promised and the work is done by an ex ert. Work guaranteed. tspressed at 25c per suit; cleaning and pressing 50c suit; dry cleaning, $1 suit. Special attention given to ladles' suits. We appreciate your patronage. B. B. PORTER, Proprietor, At Porter's Barber Shop. Telephone No.38 CASTOR IA For Infants and Children a tin Use For Over30Years S Always bears the Signature of W,ILLBE SHOWN SOME OF THE DEVASTATED 'DISTRICTS ON THE WESTERN FRONT. HASY DATE OF FINAL PEACE No Real Fear of Outbreak By the ~ Bolshevik In Germany But the Present Regime Is Unstable. President Wilson is expected to ar rive in Paris on the morning of De cember 12. It Is likely, before any meeting of the allied delegates, he will be shown some of the devastated districts on the western front. It will certainly not be before the middle or the end of December that he will meet his fellow delegates. December 16 is mentioned as the probable time for the first meet ing, but December 20 is the more likely date to be agreed upon. The peace conference proper prob ably will neet in March or April. It is possible now to give a general out line of the probable course of the peace negotiations, although naturally at this early stage, no definite pro gram has been established. The prob lems are too vast, for any immediate peace to be fixed without the greatest danger to future peace and, even with the cost of maintaining some armies in the field, it is well not to hope for a final settlement for many months. There are many factors in this de lay. While it. appears there is no reason for fearing an outbreak of bolshevism in Germany, there is abun dant reason to suspect the present reghme is unstable and at the mercy of any absolute coup d'etat. LARGE FIGURES SHOWN IN BURLESON'S ANNUAL REPORT Washington.-Telephone and tele Graph lines of the country, now un der government control, should be eme government owned at the eon :lusion of peace and the expiration 5f the provisions of the net under which the utiltties are now controned, Postinaster General Rtwleeon declares n his annual report made pubble. Operations of the postofftce depart neat for the fiscal year ending last Tune 30, resulted in a surplus of re "eipts over eMnses of $19,97!,s$, beoordlg to the repoet. Approi mately $44,500,000 add*ioal was paid over to the treeasury fiem the inesmes ed postal charges impeeed war rerenue. Total revenues of a de partement from all sources dsing the year are given as $688,976,942, against PS29,796,116 for the 1917 fiscal year. Thtal espenditures are reported at !M24,888,7I8, aginst $319,88,710 WiA 1017. Dieregarding thte ineroased pee tai rates eteetive November 2, under the war tax bill, the actual increase in postal serviice busicess durinig the rear is placed at 4.47 per oent, while twpenditures increased 1.56 per oettt. Mr. Burleeon, for the flest time-, of iola~y reperts upon the use of air slanes for transmission of mail, and fevernmeont-owned trucks for thre op tration of rural parcel post routes, liisclosing plaits for wide extension of ,oth facilities. Hie also renews his wreviously made recommendation that ostmasters now appointed by the 'resident should be selected under ~ompetitive civil service examirrations. USINESS INTERESTS APPEAL FOR GOVERNMENT RELEASE Atlantic City, N. J.--It was-appar-ent rem the action taken by groups repre enting hundreds of industries and mainosses that strong appeals will be nade to the government to loosen the told It took on business duiring the var emergency. There seemed to be almost a uni rersal demand for a greater merchant narine. Many groups passed resolu ions for less control of business and emoval of restrict~iols and regula ions governing productton and distri mtion. DANNOT ESCAPE BECAUSE THEIR HEADS ARE CROWNED l.andlon.--David Lloyd George, the British prime minister, in the election mampaign, gave a restatement of his oicy. In it ho declares that the alen responsible for the war cannot ascape because their heads were srowned, but that they must be tried by an international court. Mr. IUoyd 3eor-ge also declared himself in favor at the expulsion of all enemy aiens. His remarks everywhere were re yeivedl with marked approval. CH AR LOTTE PER HAPS ONL-Y AERIAL STATION IN N. C. Washington,-C~hrlotte, it ,is under stood, is the only Atop thus far chosen in the state for earail mails to be de livered. Its selection has virtually been qasurod in the preliminary plans for a route from Washington via Rich mond to Atlanta. A relay station may bhe established north of Charlotte, somewhere between Salisbury asie Greensboro, or at one of these points. Preliminary .plans have beeni discusf ed. and suibmitted for approval. lPedged, I.'. t or P &,''P. pt~yda ow- In r yt '!6hiysWry to send It Isti ; tit, AmerioR is still to Feed Ht Igr Word. A hundred and eighty million people in hungry. lands are looking to Amer. lca for food which no other people ez. cept the American people can give them. In their mJsery and famnie, Bel. gium, Northern France, Central Rus, ala, Serbia,' Montenegro, Poland, ltu mania and Armenia are already crying aloud to America. From America food must go. What is sent must be saved. Perhaps that is America's .mission. Peace or no peace, war or no war, the American people must keep on saving food. This is the message of the United States Food Administration, whose leaders realize that the outcome of the present situation will only in crease the responsibilities of the Uni ted states, no matter how everts in Europe turn. Millions of people in territory that has been occupied by the enemy are in misery. Famine stalks abroad. They must be fed. Under any circumstances, the .American nation is bound by the food pledge of August, 1918. The Allies were told: "Make your plans for Victory." To this victory, America's contri bution, among other things, will be seventeen and one-half million tone of food. America is bound. The pledge Is not broken by the signing of the armistice. The change that has come in the situation has rather increased the burden on American resources be. cause the burden of feeding millions of hungry- peoples who could not be reached before now becomes the common burden of the Allies; and that obligation can he lessened only by living up to it There is but one way in which sev teen and onedhalf million tens of food can be got to send to Europe to save the lives of hundreds of thous sads who will die from hunger in a famine land unless they get it. That way Is to save it. It means intensive saving of all food, just as wheat was saved in the wheat emergency. just as sugar was saved in the sugar emergency. There can be no greater folly indulged by the American people than the idea that because the fighting has ceased in MuPope there is no longer any need of saving food. America is pledged. Tim nation's pledge must be se, deemed, war er no war; peace or no Sutering humanity and national homer demand it. NO MORE SUBSTITUTES REUIRED WITH' FLOUR Celuaha.-The Fneed Administra tien rule, requliaig the perchase of one peond of wheat sstwitutes 'with evey tunr penadseof wheat Sour, has been r'eseended. Whteat Mer may new be- used with cot eubetqtutes This annemen't was masde by the Pood Adatnisra~eg, and the order le, effective imasediately. Wstti a short Mme age purchases of wheat Aseur could be made ouly en the basis of pound fler pound of substi tates and wheat Sonr. This was 'known as the "fifty-fifty" rule. It was eupereededi by the 'eighty-twenty" rule, requiring that one pound of wheat substitutes be bought with every four pounds of' wheat flour. The "elghty-bwenty" rule is now re sotnded, and wheat ifour may be pur cbased without any substitutes what ever. MERCHANTS ARE- ASKED TO PICTURE WORLD*S HUNGER Columbia.--Thaksgiving week this year is set aside for food conserva tIon, not for feasting. The Neod Ad ministration is asking the stores on every business street in every city and town in the United States to pic ture in their display windows, the prodigious task of feeding the Allied wold through the coming year, if that should be necessary. Posters and win dow cards of special design have been issued by the Food Administra tion at Washlag'ien. These are avail ain~le to every retailer through the etate INod AdmInIstrations. It is planned to make the picture of the necessity so real that nobody can os cape it, and to this end the co-opera tion af patriotic merchante through est the nation Is asked during Thanke giving week. It will be a message of sacrinice and service. Merchants in South Carolina who desire to aid in this direcion sbould immedIately comn mnunicate with 311. H. Norcom, State Weobants Representative qf the 1ood AdminIstration, Columbia; S. C., In the mnateriel for decrating their Wiajows will be geat free on re quest. HULLS ARE CHEAPER; 'MEAL PRICE INCREASED - Columbia-On account of the armi Istice and the ecousequentl erx.ton of demand f~or hull fibre by munitions manufactureui, the prie of hulls has beeun reduced by the Neod Adminle tiation to, $18 t. o. b. mills or $18 de tivered, and in order to equalize this weduceI'en in prie of bulls the price 'of Eneal Is- increased to $66. The price f seed will relnwin anohanged, { When d your oiy i thu~~' might (your hf: You gav the Gkernirent and .the boys le e of your .eport You shared the brdei .f t a other lands who are heavily aden Keep yourBonds for the same ason To dispose of them, except in ca e of dire necessity, is unpatriotic--just asuch so as not to buy ! 3 Furthermore, Liberty Bonds are an in ? surance.for your'future. a n X This is friendly, timely advice no to. lis ten to those who may offer large (returns r.be in exchange for your Liberty ' Bonds. ory Hundreds of millions of dollarshlave been d friends lost during thelpast year by people who you m the parted withtheir Liberty Bgtids-)on't a Sel mpl and PICLKE.NS 'bAN IK PICKENS C. Low Meat Prices vs. HighCattle Prices If the farmer cannot get enough for his live stock, he raises less, and the -.~ packer gets less raw material. If the consumer has to pay too much for his meat, he eats less' of it, and the packer finds his inarket decreased. The packer wants the producer to get enough to make live-stock raiig profitable, and he wants the price of meat so low that everyone will eat it. But all he can do, and what he would have to do in any case to stay in busi ness, is to keep down the cost of pro cessing the farmer's'stock into meat so - * that the consumer pays for the meat and by-products only a little more than the farmer gets for his animals. J Forexample,1last year Swift & Company . paid for its cattle about 90 per cent of ? what it got for meat and by-productspe ('ouch as hides, tallow, oils, etc.) .If cattle from the farm were turnedan miraculously into meat in the hands of ~ t retailers (without going through the ex pense of dressing, shipping and market- th ing), the farmer would get only about 11/ cents per pound more for his cattle, or consumers would payr only about 2% od * cents per pound less for their beef! ? Out of this cent or two per pound, Swift & Company pays for the operation - of extensive plants, pays freight on meats, operates refrigerator cars, maintains branch houses, and in most cases, de livers to retailers all over the United States. The profit amounts to only a fraction of a cent, and a part of Ii prftgoes to bul oepatto gv better service, and to increase the com-. wand eale