The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 17, 1917, Image 8
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OUR GOOD FORTUNE.
Causes For Thanksgiving On Part Of
The United States.
If there is such a thing as luck,this !
nation is the luckiest one on earth.
For a generation we have been as
unprepared for trouble as anew-born ;
babe, and no powerful nation has at-!
tacked us.
And now that we have stirred up
a powerful enemy, that enemy is too
busy at home to give us a great deal
of trouble.
Moreover.the enthusiasm for pre-1
pared ness occasioned by the existence
of an enemy bids fair to put the
country in shape to care for itself in
the future.
There is little prospect of serious
trouble with Germany, now or later
?not now.because she cannot get to
us; not in the near future, because
she will be bankrupt and whipped to
her knees before the Allies have finished
with her.
There is no prospect whatever of
serious trouble with Mexico,because j
that nation,for all its millions of population,
could not muster and equip
an army of formidable size. Its socalled
government is worse than
bankrupt, and is existing on forced
loans secured from foreign bank9|
operating in Mexico. The soldiers of
Carranza and of the other chiefs who
owe no allegiance to him are little1
paid and poorly equipped. There are ;
not one hundred pieces of artillery (
in the entire "republic,"and the few
modern pieces have been abused and
overworked. Of small arms there is
a sufficient quantity to equip a respectable
army.but they are of many
makes.and in all of Mexico there are
not enough ammunition factories to j
provide shells for one engagement. |
Moreover, the people are destitute. |
weakened, starving.
The little Jap on the western horizon
is the only one from whom we
may expect trouble in bunches, and
from present indications we will have
an army and navy in condition to
handle Japan before the end of this
good year 1917. More than that.once
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we nave ine army auu uuvy,uic piuspect
of trouble with Japan will disap-!
pear,for little nations do not court j
$ trouble with bijf nations unless the!
* big fellows are asleep at the switch.
Two nice, wide oceans stand between
us and attack by any nation
big enough to cause us uneasiness,
and now that we have got ourselves
excited about the subject of war,we
will have our armor girded on and
our spurs sharp before any nation
decides to cross one of thoW nice
oceans looking for trouble.? Fountain
Inn Tribune.
Items from Black River.
Andrews, R F D 1, May 15:?A
shower of rain and warm weather
arrmlH hpnpfif f?rnns in this spetion
Mr E McCants of Johnson Swamp
spent Sundar at the home of Mr and
Mrs P J McGee.
Miss Lee Haselden was the guest
of friends and relatives near Earles
last week.
Mr and Mrs Allen McCants and
children of Johnson Swamp spent
Sunday with Rev and Mrs M E
Powell.
Mr and Mrs John Poston of Bloomingvale
spent last week-end with
their daughter, Mrs C H Benton.
Rev Louis Moore, of the Trio section,
was called from the home of
Rev M C Powell here Sunday morn- j
incr th? horlsiHo nf his f?hiiH who i
took very ill after lie left home Saturday
afternoon.
Rev B Oliver preached at the Free
Will Baptist church Sunday morning.
Death of Ned Keels.
Mr Ned Keels, a well known citizen
of the Greelyville community,
died last week at a hospital in Columbia
where he had been taken two
weeks earlier for treatment. The
remains were taken to Greelyville for
interment last Friday afternoon. Mr
Keels was about 60 years of apre and
a man of splendid personality and
unassuming manner. He was well
thought of by all who knew him.
Dont Let Your CoughCHang On.
A cough that racks and weakens
is dangerous, it undermines your
health and thrives on neglect. Relieve
it at once with Dr King's New
Discovery. This soothing balsam
remedy heals the throat, loosens the
phlegm, its antiseptic properties kill
the germ and cold is broken up.
Children and grown-ups alike find
Dr King's New Discovery pleasant
to take as well as effective. Have a
l>ottle handy in your medicine chest
for grippe, croup and all bronchial
affections. At druggists, oOe.
IDLE LANDS ARE EYE-SORES.
Food and Feed Crops First?Put Every
Acre on the Farm to Work.
Idle acres, like idle folks, are up
to little (food. This year, particularly,
every faimer in the South
should aim to get the utmost possible
returns frcm every acre on the
farm. Let's see some of the ways
in which this may be done.
1. Drain the wet spots. There's
hardly a farm but has wet spots that
are making nothing and are eyesores
as well. A good ditch or a
line of tile through these spots will
not cost a great deal and will make
of them some of the best land on the
place. If they cannot be drained in
time for general crops, plant them
in sop beans in June or July.
2. Kill the pasture pests. If our
pastures, so-called, are to furnish
the best of clovers and grasses for
our stock, it is high time that the
robber weeds, bushes and briers be
dug out. To leave them to shade
the land and steal plant food is
sheer waste.
3. Follow all oats and wheat with
another crop. To leave stubble land
idle is another form of waste that
should be seen nowhere this season.
Cowpeas are excellent crops to use,
but if seed of these cannot be had,
plant corn or sorghum.
Let every man work every acre to
its utmost capacity. ? Progressive
Former.
Successful Meeting Closes.
The meeting at the Methodist
church, conducted by Rev Geo T Harmon,
of Kingstree, closed last night.
It has been in progress eleven days,
with good congregations and strong
sermons each day at 10:30 a. m. and
8:00 p. m. The house was crowded
Sunday morning when Mr Harmon
preached on What It Means to Be a
Christian," and again Sunday night,
when his text was Pontius Pilate's
question:"What Shall I Do With Jesus,
Which is Called Christ? In these
sermons.and in all others during the
meeting,the gospel was presented in
an earnest, clear and forceful appeal.
Last night Mr Harmon preached
an able sermon especially for men,
though ladies were not excluded'
It is believed that much good has
been accomplished by the meeting.
?Bennettsville Advocate.
Did Not Pay to be Kind.
By a decision of the court of appeals,
a railroad will have to pay for
a kind act that cost a life. In October,
1911, Nicholas J Fajaran boarded
a train "stupidly intoxicated," it is
alleged. At first the trainmen could
not learn where he was going. He
finally handed the conductor a ticket
to Carson,Va,a little town just south
of Carson, Va. The express train was
not expected to stop there, but the
conductor, employed by the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad company, accepted
the ticket. He and the porter
assisted Fagan .to a plank at the
side of a woodpile, about 149 feet
north of the station at Carson. >
The following morning Fagan was
found a little farther up the track
so terribly injured that he died later.
A train had run over him. Mrs
Margaret Fagan, as administratrix
of his estate, brought suit in New
York State under a Virginia statute
permitting her to do so. After pass*
ing through several courts, decision
was handed down by the court of
appeals that the railroad had a right
to eject Fagan as a trespasser, but
having accepted him as a passenger,
it was charged with due care for him
and was negligent in leaving him in
the dark, endangered by his condition
and his situation.?jVcw York
Eceninn News
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Visit Odom & Dennis' Cash Store,
at People's Mercantile Co's old stand
on Academy street.
Notice.
All persons are hereby forbidden to
trespass in any form or manner upon
the lands of the undersigned in Mingo
township, Williamsburg county. South
Carolina. Any person or persons disregarding
this notice will be prosecuted
according to law.
5-3-3t L C Kellahan.
Final Discharge.
Notice is hereby given that the underi
signed will apply to the Court of Probate
for Williamsburg county on the
21st day of May,1917,at 12o'clock noon,
for letters of final discharge as Administratrix
of the estate of II B Browne,
deceased. Mrs M B Browne,
Administratrix.
April 19, 1917. 4-19-5t
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There are thousands of
children who are bright
but frail?not sick but
underdeveloped?they
play with their food?they
catch colds easily and do
not thrive?they only need
the pure, rich liquid-food in
trnrrc
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EMOISIOM
to start them growing and keep
thorn going. Children relish
SCOTT'S and it carries rare
nutritive qualities to their blood
streams and gives them fleshfood,
bone-food and strength-food.
\ Nothing harmful in SCOTT'S.
Scott ft Bowse, MwidS, M. I. iH
THE WOMAN'S PART.
! Noble Work of the Gentler Sex of America
in the World Conflict.
j Women play an enormous pait in
every war. Nothing in America has
i been more notable since thiacountry
(entere 1 the great conflict than the
good sense. as we'l hs the unselfish
patriotism that our women have
shown in preparing to do t.ieir part.
There has been, of course, some of
the spectacular, notoriety-seeking
! sort of patriotism that sets women
j to posing for tneir pictures in the
act of aiming a revolver or of crouching
behind a machinegun in a trench;
but that has appeared in negligible
quantity. The real women know the
i seriousness of what they have to do,
'and are goingaboutitwithastraightforward
common sense that no body
of men could surpass.
Take,for examplp.the "war letter"
lto*t the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage
Association has issued to its
members. The suggestions in it are
as useful to women in other States
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as 10 resiufiiLS ui massaciiuscrtLs.auu
to those who oppose the franchise
for women as to those who favor it.
The keynote of it is organization. Do
not try to do alone what you can do
better through cooperation with others:
and do not duplicate machinery.
Join some organization already in
existence, and work with it.
Do not seek the spectacular work,
like driving a motor ambulance. A
few women of wealth and leisure can
attend to that. The important things
are enlarging the food supply, eliminating
waste and preserving the
public health.
The best way to enlarge the food
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supply is to get aavice irom ine
state agricultural experiment station
and from practical farmers,and then
to create the local mgchinery for
establishing supervised back-yard
gardens, supervised boys' and girls'
gardens and supervised gardens in
vacant lots ploughed by the community.
To make an individual
back-yard garden does not require
any machinery?only will power and
work.
Eliminating waste falls naturally
under three heads: saving in food,
saving in clothes and saving in material.
You can save food by studying
the markets and buying chiefly
those things that are in season; by
purchasing only what you need and
not hoarding; by efficient cooking;
by canning fruits and vegetables,
and by sending nothing to the garbage
pail that can be made palatable
for the table. '
In clothing, the chance to save is
! almost wholly personal, and in large
j part a matter of temperament; but
! proper economy in clothes will add
: more to the sum available for worthier
uses than saving of any other
kind.
The saving in material touches
waste paper, old clothing, shoe9,
rubber, bone3, and all the other
things that make junkmen 83 a class
o.\ topnro in orirth unit an nhpprfill
J In the days of chivalry when
I knights went forth to war the chatelaine
stayed at home and kept the
castle. Time has changed neither
the necessity nor the relative value
of the service; and, to paraphrase
Stevenson, here is room for all that
a woman has of fortitude and delij
caey.? Youth's Companion.
j We have several new style sec;
ond hand Singer Sewing Machines
j that we will sell cheap.
15 17-2t Kingstree Furniture Co.
To Cure a Cold In One Day
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stop* the
Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
' B. W. GROVE'S signature on each box. 25c.
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n of his wife and loved ones, but he
IALL NOT WANT. Is there a betby
adding to his BANX ACCOUNT ?
I misfortune. Every man of family
BANK ACCOUNT.
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How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall's
Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY St CO.. Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transactions and financially able to carryout
any obligations made by his firm. *
NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE,
Toledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Testimonials
sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
L.WETHERHORN ?S0K
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Sole Distributors of
"Black Rock Wall Board" ,
Moisture resisting and special
manufacture makes it the best
Write us for samples and prices.
Registration Notice.
The office of the Supervisor of Registration
will be open on the lsi Monday
in each month for the purpose of
registering any person who is qualiBed
as follows:
1ITL L.1I a .AjiHnne A t
Liu 9II2&U uavr uccu a icoiucuh %ji
the State for two years, and of the
jounty one year, and of the polling prejinct
in which the elector offers to
rote four months before the day of
election, and shall have paid, six"#
months before, any poll tax then due
ind payable, and who can both read
ind write any section of the constitu5ion
of 1896 submitted to him by thd iiipervisors
of Registration, or whqjjfr
an show that he own8. and has paid^
ill taxes collectible on during the
present year, pioperty in this State
issessed at three hundred ^dollars or
more. BE ClaRKSON,
' lerk (ft Board.
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