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I 4 I VOL. XXXII. KINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1917. NO. 8 k "GALLON-A-MONTH' ONLY MEMORY NOW LITTLE "QUART-A-MONTH" MAKES ITS DEBUT, BUT ONLY FOR SICK, IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Columbia, April 24:?At midnighi tonight the striking of the elocl sounded the death knell of the gal ? i? ?j i 1J?j lOD-a-monin law anu iicibiucu time for enforcement of the quart a-month statute substituted at the last session of the South Caroline General Assembly. The act was signed by Governor Menning Saturday night, February 24, and the At torney General ruled that the sixtyday limit expired at 12 o'clock to night. The quart-a-moth act differs from the gallon law in more respects thac in amount specified. Under the terms of the old statute procuring s gallon of liquor wai a matter of little red tape ana formality. The act that takes its place specifies thai the quart ordered shell be only by e male adult or a woman who is the head of a family. One gallon of wine to churches or other religious bodies is permited in one calendai month. An affidavit must be presented tc the Probate Judge, stating the pur pose for which the liquor is to tx used, after which that offieer will present a certifiate which is to be filed with the common carrier before the liquor is delivered. The consignee must get his intoxicant in {[ avoid n " Do Not Wail to order Screens. lower now and hurried. Our spe( ^ auies us bu pruuu WINDOW AND * of all kinds at j prices. When Screens you have correct workman; product. Kingstree Mfg. r : LET US FURNISH THE / NEED AND YOU WILL HAV THE KIND OF SUPPLIES TH OF SATISFACTION. AND W1 1 PRICE. YOU WON'T HAVE "ROAD YOUR SUPPLIES FROM US. King Hardw< The Popular H k > person at the station or office of the carrier nearest his residence. All packages are to be plainly labelled, showing their exact contents. Storage is prohibited except in homes. The bead of a Jewish famii ily is allowed one gallon of wine for ' religious purposes during Passover season. The making of over five 11 gallons of wine for the home in a i year is prohibited under the act. c! The act, which went into effect to I night is a compromise adopted be?[ tween the House and Senate after a j . I strenuous fight for a strict "bone: . j dry'* law. I 51 News from Andrews Vicinity. ' I Andrews, R F D 1, April 24:- Mr I . j and Mrs John Poston of Blooming- j . vale spent Sunday with their daugh-1 ter, Mrs Eunice Benton, i J Mrs Carrie Barnes and children of i Rhems were the guests of Mr and ' Mrs George Elliott Sunday, i Mr R D McConnell was the guest i of Mr and Mrs S R Long Sunday. ?: Miss Omega James and brother, t Mr Telvin Jame9, of the Morrisville i neighborhood, were the guests of i Misses Maybelle and Estelle Long ! Sunday. > Mr John Morris.of the Morrisville section,was noted in this community ! Sunday afternoon. > j Mrs H L Long, who has been in> i disposed for the past week, is im!' proving, we are glad to report. I j ; | Elihu Root of New York has been f chosen to head the American com ! mission to Russia. He has not yet i signified his acceptance. IE RUSH! I, I until Summer Prices are much workmanship not :ial equipment en?^ V?i/vU ue liigii ^iauc DOOR SCREENS astonishingly low you select OUR the assurance of ship and superior i . & Const Co. : /^VE SELL THE BEST AUTOMOBILES j$^ SUPPLIES. AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES YOU E THINGS RIGHT. WE KEEP AT WILL GIVE YOU THE BEST ? SELL THEM AT THE RIGHT TROUBLES" WHEN YOU BUY are Company. [ardware Store, FAMOUS VISITORS I IN WASHINGTON. BRITISH (OFFICIALS CONFER WITH \ PRESIDENT WILSON CONCERNING CONDUCT OF WAR. Received with miiitarv honors and! I made the central fipure of a {treat df-mnnRtratinn that hroucrht a dint of pleasure into his eyes, Arthur J; Balfour, Principal Secretary of State \ for Foreign Affairs of the British Government, reached Washington at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. With him came more than a score of men distinguished in the impor- J tant branches of the British war ' service who were designated as members of the commission to confer with the United States Government. The most important undertaking of a series of conferences arranged between the representatives of the British Empire and those of this 1 Nation will concern President Wilson and the former British Prime Minister. Upon the result of these mnnaanfAua infnrtrioarfl KintTPG th?* I i lUVUtVUVVfUO lUkVl tiv KIU^VW V..^ part that the United States is to i play in the war to exterminate the Prussian military system as a men- 1 ace to the peace of the world. < Clothed with power to represent not only his own country, but those allied with it in this supreme effort. 1 Mr Balfour will place before Presi- f dent Wilson an exact statement of i the terms upon which permanent I peace may be assured not only in t Europe but in every other part of < the world. The President is expected to sue- r cintly disclose to spokesmen for the t allied nations at war with Germany 1 the purposes of this government in i; joining them in bringing about a 1 Bpeedy termination of the war un- c der conditions favorable to the t world ot large. ? There is the fullest confidence c among the officials of Latin-Ameri- i can Governments that the President will require satisfactory assurance ! that any peace terms agreed upon f not only will recognize the letter p but the spirit of the Monroe Doc- r trine. c Before the termination of the con- i: ferences between the President and Mr Balfour it will be fully determin- a ed to what extent the United States r will participate in the war on Ger- t many when the chief object for o which it is throwing the balance of t its power on the side of the allies p shall have been attained. p Anlw tkn Kimonlf lrnAU7U n VU!J Hit X ICOIUCUW uaiUtA.ll nuvao V what these terms are, though he I clearly has indicated in his addresses f to Congress and in negotiations with t the German Government and its ece- o mies that his chief purpose is to employ the full resources of the United r States ultimately to compel a last- s ing peace. t That Great Britain and its allies t desire an agreement on the part of t this country that it will not enter- h tain proposals for a separate peace c when its purely national objects have been realized?the freedom of c the sea and protection to interests \ both at home and abroad?is pretty s orpnerillv eoneeded. IC A movement to organize the school | children of the United States into r nationwide Betsy Ross societies, I named in honor of the flagmaker, r has been started in Meridian, Miss. < r It is hoped that the plan will spread | v through the country and that the j national headquarters will be estab-j lioKarl at MoriHinn I I Saturday night Rev Robert F Berry, pastor of a Congregational c church at East Yonkers.N Y.got into a an argument about the war with his r wife and mother-in-law, both pro- <j German. The discussion continued until daybreak, when Berry killed |11 both women and committed suicide. | 8 He left a note containing but two v words, "Insane Prussians. ' 's 1 1 ~ Visit Odom & Dennis' Cash Store, at PeoDle's Metcantiie Co's old stand on Academy street. t | Here Are we forty years 1 ?3 selling of Hardware we g| oughness which we est* j? ness, no concealed faull times in such principles years we have been sell gf ideals of integrity and " $ Coffins and Cas i Kincsti fffl8?^S8s8SeSS^ WARLOSTIFFOOE SUPPLY FAILS FOOD COMMISSIONER HOOVER DE CLARES AMERICA MUST BEGIN AT ONCE TO SAVE FOR ALLIES. The first and most important dut: 3f the American people to thei: allies is to economize on foodstuffs rhis is the appeal of Herbert ( Hoover, recently appointed head o: the American Food board. "If we do not do it," he declared 'we stand a grave chance of losing :he war, because our allies cannoi lght without, food. Our enemies are calculating that America wil 'ail in this and our allies will neec .0 give in. America can upset these :aicuiauons. Mr Hoover's observations were nade after three weeks of consultaion with members of the British, French and Italian cabinets. He tlso investigated the food and shipring situation and plans for Ameri:an cooperation. The net resultf le arrived at was that between now ind the next harvest it would reluire a supreme effort by the Amercan people. "I feel it my duty to emphasize," Hr Hoover continued, "that the cod situation is one cf the utmost vhii>h nnlpm it is snlvpH nay possibly result in the collapse if everything we hold dear in civilisation. "The total stock of food today ivailable in the allied world is simply lot sufficient to last to September if America continues its present rate f consumption. We are now face o face with the result of last year's oor harvest; the diversion of manpower from agriculture all over the rorld; the unavailing efforts of the European women to plant available ields fully; the isolation of Russia; he sinking of food ships and many ither causes. "England, France and Italy are educing consumption by drastic teps, but even with all this reducion they must have from us during he next three months more than wice as much food as we should lave exported normally or than we am send if we consume as usual. "The only hope of providing the leficiency is by the elimination of waste and actual and rigorous selflacrifice on the part of the Ameri:an people. "The barest essentials the allies nust have are, primarily, wheat and )ork products, and, secondarily, neat, corn and beans. They need a ninimum of 90,000,000 bushels ol wheat from North America, more han twice the present apparent sur>lu8 on a normal export basis, ["here is no time to reorganize the lietary of Europe. To carry the illies over until the next harvest we nust reduce our wheat consumption .0 per cent. This means that every nan, woman and child must forego t least one loaf of wheat bread per veek and eat something else or less :enerally. "More than 70 per cent of Amercan homes already are places of hrift, economy and a clean plate. Is a Qui Dehind the times or ten years ?are maintaining the standar iblished many years ago. There ts in any Hardware sold by us. we will stand whatever criticis ing Hardware from our store worthiness. Kets We Lea< pp Hnrd\x W A A M M 1 ^-a?7 vft^vftvCvJJvCvOv^vlJvfivOSlBi I In the remaining 30 per cent no one * can deny that there is profligate extravagance and waste. Temperance in entertainment, food and drink is likely to become no longer an ethical -- question among this class, but a grim imposition of war. "We must also plant everything Y and everywhere it will grow or next r year this time the food problem will hp nhanlntplv nnanlvnhlp nnH thp I world will face absolute starvation, f "I do not believe there will be any j necessity to rigidly ration the Amer, ican people, for, if democracy is of r any value as a spiritual and political t faith, the personal initiative and ; willingness to volunteer self-sacrifice 1 of every member of the greatest | democracy in the world will be > ample to solve the problem. "During the past fortnight we > have, with the collaboration of the . American ambassadors in Europe, laid the groundwork for inter> allied cooDeration in hAndlina nnH . transporting the vast food supplies . required from America, one result ; of which will tend to ameliorate the r rise in prices. I have proposed a , plan by which the allies can consoli, date under one hand the whole purchasing of staple foodstuffs from our market, and not only will com, petitive bidding be abolished, but by co-operation on our side we can arrange a proper balance between , the rights of producers and consumers." Gen Joffre and other distinguished military and civil officials of France j u i.__ d i_ \r_ t 1 anivcu at, iiaiupuuu iwaus, yb, iuea' day and proceeded to Washington. , They were received with every honor. American shipping flew the French flag, and bands played the "Marseil1 laise," the national anthem. Mr H C Tallevast of Nesraith spent tcday in town. Recipi You Help the And the Governi r The Farmers & Mer i i through its com Federal Re; r offers, as an aid to the im adequate food supply in t der all reasonable financis ers, secured by the grow cotton and tobacco. Farmers & Mercha LAKE cr Capital, Surplus and estion: 1 ahead of them? In the g| ds of honesty and thor- g; s are no shams, no cheap- gj If we are behind the gj >m we merit. For many g| i, always with the same g' It Others Follow S? fare Co. jj Events at Earles. Earles, April 23:? Rev Mr Tucker of Georgetown delivered a very interesting address on "Christian Education" at Harmony church Sunday morning. A good audience enjoyed this address, and we feel sure each one derived some benefit. The Sunday-school of Harmony church is making good progress since spring has come. Every one seems to be taking more interest, and the attendance is very good. Miss Lucille Boyd was the guest ' of Miss inessie tamlio bunday and Monday. Miss Lucille Boyd had as her guests last Friday night and Saturday Misses Floride MeCelvey, Lorraine Lathan and Katie Wingate. Miss Janie Johnson was the guest of Mrs J J Marshall the past weekend. A good crowd was gathered at Trio landing on Black river last Friday night expecting to enjoy a fish fry, but many were disappointed as the fishermen failed to catch the fish. Mias Connie Thomson SDent the past week-end at Trio, the guest of Miss Nita Tartt. Mr R C Marshall and family have just moved into their new home at Andrews, which has been recently completed. We regret very much to have them leave us. Misses MeCelvey, Lathan and Wingate were shopping at Andrews Monday afternoon. The Earles baseball team has been reorganized and will begin playing soon. The little son of Mr and Mrs J A Barrineau, who has been ill for some time, is convalescing. Dr Hood, veterinai ian of Williamsburg county, was in this community last week. Mr G W Camlin has begun work on his dipping vat, which he hopes to finish in a few da>s. Miss Phroso Harrelton visited her parents near Gourdin's Chappel last week-end. Miss Delia Harrelson was the 1 M ra Dflnipl K UfSL LUC \jao\. vvv.\;i\ u* Parsons. Red Crow. rocity. i Government nent Helps You. chants National Bank lection with the serve Bank mediate production of an his national crisis, to renil assistance to our farming crops of foodstuffs, rots National Bank rv. s. c. i Profits, $136,000 J