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? sj V I^NGT^j MONEY TAKES WIN* LOOK! HERE'S THE 1 TO STOP IT! A MAN win start downtown witl will pass a bank. If he depo sparing in his expenditures, little currency and a FAT CHECK am elephantine WAD OF GREENE BOOK! BANK OF I * How Do Our Pr r% We give below the prices < articles of food and drink w you will see that jrou can su here as anywhere, quality c Flour, per barrel $12 00 Meal, per barrel 4 75 Hams, lb..?_ 35c Smoked Shoulders, lb 28c | Cheese, lb 35c ' -i? a 1 c i oaraine?, * coxes iur wt , Canned Peaches 25c ' Canned Peas 15c Heckers' Buckwheat 20c i Corn, per bushel, $2.00; 1 Oats, $1.00 THE CAS ODOM (El DENIS p* -Fhone 120. Ac L. S. DENNI ^ i*ni\n rvnmnr m vmst A carload just received solid oak, clean-cut and si kind that lasts and looks before the last advance ii on the freight, and they at our prices. Call and se good values in Iron lattresses, Kitchen and Window Shades. / Remember, too, that w Proflt-Sharinj with all Cash purchases. Steele Furnitu K1NGSTREE, I -v / P II 12k lb. Paid I Choice Beef, 1 Mutton a Highest Prices Pai THE PEOPLE H. A. MILLEI b i $50 in his pocket. On his way he sits $40 of his $50 he will be more Money will not TAKE WINGS! BOOK is a better combination than IACKS and an ANAEMIC CHECK ?IN GSTREE. I ices Strike You? on a few of the many choice e carry in stock, from which ipply your table as cheaply onsidered: Cream of Wheat 25c Cabbage, lb 5c Condensed Milk 15c and 25c Apples, doz 25c i Coca-Cola 5c Pablo 10c Syrups 10c to 80c Potted Meats ? 5c, 10c, 15c Jellies, all kinds 15c Hav, $1.50 per 100; Seed per bushel. H STORE riS, Proprietors ademy and Mill Sts. S, Manager ^t1 RS, WASHSTANDS . These pieces are all ubstantially made?the well. We bought them i prices; saved money are exceptional values e our stock. flWe have Beds, Springs and Safes, Small Rugs e give I Certificates ire Company - - S. C. ITcYmirf attic I UU M. VU1 VUlllv lest Market Price Paid r n ii* l tor low Hides. Pork, Sausage rnd Veal. d for Hides g Furs i'S MARKET I, Proprietor. nwai'ii? Report of Treasurer ol Town of Kingstree Showing Receipts and Disbursements for Quarter Ending De | cember 31, 1917. R?c?ipts. Balance October 1 $1,609 74 Taxes 198 11 Licenses 79 0? Fines and forfeits 168 0( Loan, Bank of Kmgstree 1,000 0( Overdraft 360 91 Total $3,405 81 Diibursemanl*. Germania Savings Bank $1,050 0( Kingstree Light & Ice Co 656 81 Street labor. 264 54 J H Epps 255 0( J A Scott 195 0( T W Epps 1SU IX Walter Steele 165 (X Williamsburg Live Stock Co 154 16 L W Gilland 75 0( W M Vause & Sons 50 0( People's Mercantile Co 64 5( Police dept, sundry bills 51 1J W H Welch 8 OC Miss Etta Jacobs 25 0( P S Courtney 10 06 Bank of Kingstree 20 OC C C Burgess 10 OC J J B Montgomery 20 0C County Record 43 7? L S Dennis 20 0C W W Dennnis 36 62 Scott-Logan Co 11 0C Fire dept, sundry bills 10 9C Kingstree Telephone Co 5 01 James Epps 8 0? L H DuBose. 2 9C Sundry expenses 13 31 Total $3,405 82 Walter Steele, Clerk and Treasurer. Auditors Notice The Auditor's office will be open from January 1 to February 20,1918 inclusive, ior uie purpose 01 tuning uu returns for the fiscal year 1918. Returns must be made for all real and personal property. All male persons between the ages of 21 and 0 years, Inclusive, are liable to a poll tax of $1.00, also a road tax of $2.00, and must be returned. Don't fail or forget or ip any manner try to dodge returning your dog or dogs. All property must be returned in township and school district in which located. Income tax should be returned at the same time other returns are made. Pursuant to law, there will be no appointments for the purpose of taking tax returns elsewhere than in the Auditor's office. A penalty of fifty per cent (50%) will be added after February 20. J J B Montgomery, 12-27-t2-14 County Auditor. Commissioners' Notice. Notice is hereby given that on the first Tuesday in February the Board of County Commissioners will receive sealed bids for the jail, pauper and chaingang medical practice. Bias are to include all medicines and service, and chaingang in eight miles of courthouse. - J N Hammet, l-10-4t Co Supervisor. Notice of Application for Einal Discharge. Notice is hereby given that on the 7th day of February, 1918, I will apply to P M Brockinton, Probate Judge of Williamsburg county, for Letters Dismissory as Executor of the estate ?of Mrs M E Brown, deceased. R J Brown, l-10-5t Executor. Trespass Notice. All parties are hereby warned against hunting, cutting or hauling wood or otherwise trespassing on the lands of the estate of J J McCullough in Anderson township. Violators of this notice will be prosecuted^at law. 12-27-4 tp A E MCCULLOUGH, Agt. Registration Notice. The office of the Supervisor of Registration will be open on the 1st Monday in each month for the purpose of registering any person who is qualified as follows: Who shall have been a resident of the State for two years, and of the county one year, and of the polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote four months before the day of election, and shall have paid, six months before, any poll tax then due and payable, and who can both read and write any section of the constitution of 1896 submitted to him by the Supervisors of Registration, or who can show that he owns, and has paid all taxes collectible on during the present year, pioperty in this State assessed at three hundred dollars 01 more. B E Clarkson, rlerk of Board. Christmas mail this year was 25 per cent heavier than ever before, according to the post office department. The congestion was less, however, because the packages were mailed earlier than in former years. ' Telling It To Mar}1 The Story of a Lost Neck lace. By CLARISSA MACKIE I Jim Haswell and I stared at cact other across the polished top of tb< ) library table. Between us lay ai * open cash box showing a neatly tiet j packet labeled "Mary's Bonds." Ii ) my extended hand was a leathei > jewel case?yawning?empty. ! "The necklace is gone," I gaspec | at last. ) "Mary must not be told?yet,' > panted Jim, resting back on hi.1 ! heels, dusty and disheveled. "N< I telling what might happen to hei > weak heart if she became excited." 1 There was a light tap on the dooi ' and my wife's voice. "I mereh i want to remind you both that to > morrow is my birthday?you haven'1 ' forgotten that I shall be twentv-fiv< ( years of age and that at last I an to have Aunt Bethiah's necklace ?" ? "Of course we haven't forgotten,' ! I said with dignity. ; "I believe I shall claim it tonight ' boys! At midnight I shall be of age and you may deliver it to me then.' "Very well, dear," I said drearily "What is the matter?" entreatec Mary tearfully. "You both look s< i worried. You?you haven't beer speculating?" "Lord, no! Didn't I promise yoi I never would again ?" She drew herself away, smiling "I'm glad of that, Peter?it's a greal temptation?to obtain money quickly?but it's risky and worrisome Goodby, dears. Cheer up and bt sweeter tempered when I come home." And she left. "What do you say to my calling headquarters and have a detective sent up here?" said Jim. "Let *cr ?0," I said gruffly, and while Jim talked at some length ovei the telephone I rearranged the safe, We sat in melancholy silence foi an hour; then the doorbell rang and Stiffins ushered in a small, stupid looking little man. He tendered a printed card. "Ah, Mr. Bump?be seated," 1 said, after introducing the detective to Jim. Briefly I related the circumstances: That Jim Haswell and myself were eiecutors of the estate of the late Miss Bethiah Haswell (own aunt to Mary and Jim), who had died eight years ago and left among other bequests one to mj wife; this bequest consisted of several listed securities valued at perhaps $4,000 and a handsome diamond necklace, estimated to be worth at least $30,000. 'J'hese were not to be given to Mary until she reached the age of twenty-five, which would happen on the morrow. This afternoon we opened the safe to check off the bonds and arrange for their transfer to my wife, and we had discovered the jewel case to be empty. Mr. Bump's eyes darted from Jim's distressed face to my own and he spoke for the first time. "I'll look around," he said in a dry, husky voice. He examined the safe, the cash box, the locks and keys, the combination to the safe, the rugs on the floor and looked up the chimney. "Inside job," he said tersely. "You mean the servants?" demanded Jim. "I didn't say so." We leaned against the mantelpiece while the detective stared ai the safe. "You didn't ought to kep' 'em in the house," he 6aid severely. "We are aware of that factnow," remarked Jim impatiently. "Give us fresh information if von can!" "I can," snapped Mr. Bump ominously. Then his voice went on rapidly, without pause: "There wat two men on the job; they knew th combination, had keys to the cupboard and cash box; it was a cincl for 'era, gents! One man was tail and fair, with a scar on his tempi* like Mr. Haswell here, and the othei feller was the very spit of yourself Mr. Drsyton." He smiled impudent ly into our astonished faces. "What do you mSiP?" sputterec Jimmy threateningly. "I mean when a firm of architects is pressed for $10,000 and they hole its worth in trust for a relative it'* an easy matter to raise the mone] and call in the central office to cool up a robbery yarn," he said brutally "Now, gents, I'll give you till tomor rnw nffpmnrm tn nrnrinr-p thflt neck lace." The door closed behind hii shrinking form, and Jim and I tottered into opposite chairs and starec aghast at each other. "Fool idea, that, your calling uj headquarters," I muttered .merrily ''"You've ?'<* i>> no end of a !' "Hot did lie !?';irn se m*<*ue< $10,000?" groaned Jimmy. "Must have snooped around a lot on his way here." "It's his business to snoop. That's r what you hired hini for," I remarked. At dinner that night Jim and I were sunk into an abyss of melan choly. Mary was the very spirit of joyous anticipation. She talked and laughed and merrily rallied us on our silence# Afterward she played and sang until the clock struck 11. Then she rose to her graceful height, i "Boys," she said tremulously, "I'm ? going upstairs for awhile. I'll meet j you in the library at 12 o'clock." 1 In the library we smoked drearily i until the hall clock rang 12. r The door opened slowlv, and Uo tv rncnlnnrlonf- in whitr> qat in 1 entered Jim knelt before the safe and ' opened it. Silently he handed n;o 3 the tin box, nrd as silently I opened ) it. r "Mary, dear, these securities will be transferred to you tomorrow? r today, I mean," I said lamely. j 'Their value now is about $4,000, - and you may do as you please t about"? ; "Bother the old securities, Peter," i interrupted Mary. "I want the necklace." ' I held the jewel case in my hand. "Dear," I said, "can you bear a , shock?" , "What is it, Peter?" she half ' whispered. "Dear, the necklace has disap1 peared I" I blurted out suddenly. > "Since when?" demanded Mary, t "We discovered its loss this afternoon?I mean yesterday at 4 o'clock, i If it does not show up, Jim and I will make up its loss to you." "Fiddlesticks! Open the case!" h AAmmonrlorl \forv \* tv/iumauuvu mui j I snapped open the cover, and . there on its white satin bed lay the i diamond necklace! s "Jove!" yelled Jimmy, prancing excitedly about. ; "A foolish joke," commented my ! wife as I clasped the necklace around her graceful neck. She kissI ed me softly and then reached and drew Jimmy into the triangular era. brace. "Dears," my wife exclaimed, forl getting all about the necklace, 1 "you've been in trouble over your i stupid business. You needn't deny it. I heard you talking one night! You needed just $10,000 to set you ' on your feet?not ten thousand borrowed dollars that would have to be paid back, but that amount for 1 your very own?and I've got it for you!" "What!" we roared increduouslv. M.i i fil > "lea, sirs," sne smueu nappnv. "I've committed all sorts of crimes to gain my ends, and I'm not a bit repentant, although I've been dread' fully afraid you would find me out ' ?especially yesterday afternoon? ' you acted so queer. Now, listen. I 1 stole the combination to the safe 1 from Peter's desk, and I took his 1 key when he was sick two weeks ago and had a duplicate made of it, so 1 that early this week I took my neckf lace and raised $10,000 on it." She 1 paused dramatically. ! "I took the money to father's old friend, Colonel >fculdoon, and asked 1 him if he wouldn't please invest it so it would be doubled at once. I have heard that everything he 1 touched turned to gold. "He said he liked my nerve in 1 asking him to do such a thing, but he said he was going to stir up Prai! rie Limited, so he put it in that"? "Heavens! Prairie Limited? solid gold!" I burst out. "Don't interrupt, Peter. Yesterday he telephoned me to come down to his office and receive the pro' eeeds, and-, dears, there was enough ; to redeem the necklace and ten thousand over?here's the bank draft. Am I a financier?" "You're a darling!" cried her brother when I had released her. 1 "But, Mary, dear, you, er?speculated: it's against your principles. ' You should not have done it even ' for us." I ' WT nnror nf if in flint. 1 ^ X lit ' t i VIIVU^UW VA ?V ?x? 1 way," she faltered, and then her ' face broke into a lovely smile. "I | did it for love of you two, and what ^ i6 principle compared to love ?" 5 There was only one answer to : that, and we gave it. > ? Keeping Dogs as Pets. The fashion of keeping little dogs ' as objects of luxury is not at all modern. Both Greek and Roman > women used to have small pet dogs, 1 over which they made as much fuss ? as does a fashionable lady of today r over her poodle. Even men, usual; lv foreigners, were not ashamed to . stroll about the Koman streets car rving dogs in their arms. Find the Bright Spot. ? There are advantages all around - us if we will but look for them. It's 1 I ha an nnKmist if I caov UllV/U^li V\J WV UU ? we'll but try. Now, take the dog ) with the little stubby, bobbed off . tail. He has the consolation of 4 knowing you can't tie a can to it.? 1 I'?- ri*ln Ti:ne>-TTnion. WAR TALKS i By UNCLE DAN H I % Number One Q America Must Fight Hard or Germany May Win? Necessity for Mill, tirv Training. "Now, Blllle," said his mother, "your Uncle Dan is coming tomorrow to ? spend a week with us on the farm, and If you want to know about the war, ^ here's your opportunity. Uncle Dan is probably one of the best-Informed men in the country." Blllle clapped his hands and gave such a whoop that he wakened the baby, but what could you expect of a fifteen-year-old boy who is a living Interrogation point and wants to know about war? Uncle Dan arrived in due time and Blllle watched for an opportunity. It came that evening after dinner when Uncle Dan had lighted a cigar and taken a seat on the porch. . $ Tm mighty glad you came, Uncle Dan. I want to talk to you about the war. We have just put military training In our township high school, but we bad a hard time to do It The Joneses and the Greggs objected. They said the war wouldn't come over here. Grandma Jones said: They ain't no use to worrit, It will soon blow over.' Well, we put the training in Just the same. You orter heard Judge Brownell, the president of the school board, do the slackers up. He said unless we take off our coats and go to it Germany may yet win, and If she does, she will take over the great British fleet as a war trophy and compel us to do what ever she wants to; that she could make us pay all the cost of the war; the kaiser could tax us as he pleased and that we couldn't help ourselves. He could make every one pay over a part % of what he earns; that he could make the farmers pay rent for their own farms, etc. Now, Uncle, what do yoa think of that?" "Well, my boy," said Uncle Dan, M~11 D.AnrnAll flntro I till UlUl U UUgc uiuwuui oajo ??5in> easily come true and may unless we go | quickly to the aid of the allies with i large numbers of men and help them I break the German line. Unless we can beat the submarines, they may prevent us from getting enough food to the allies to keep them going. In that case Germany would win. As matters stand today, our greatest need Is trained men. If we had had several millions of men with military training in our industries and on our farms when the war came, who could have been called at once for service, I do not believe the kaiser would have forced the war upon us. As it was, he had no respect for us, and now we are in It and must go through with It But never again must we be caught so wholly unprepared. "There is only one safe way," said Uncle Dan, "and that Is to adopt permanently universal military training, apply It to every young man who Is physically fit say In his nineteenth or twentieth year. The training can be carried forward in the United States training camps that are now being established for training men called by the selective draft. As soon as these men vacate these stations, they should be filled oy younger men, and this should be made the permanent policy of the country." Billie's mother, Mrs. Graham, had overheard the conversation. She came out and said: "Really, Brother Dan. are you serious as to the dangers of our count) /? If it is as bad as that, it is high tiu.. for us to wake up and do something about it" "Exactly," replied Uncle Dan. "It Is better to wake up now than to be miiolr nvalrenM) Inter We mav aa well understand, sister, that this Is oar war and we must win it or God help America. Everything that we hare or hope to have?our liberti#, our blessings, our opportunities are all involved in the great issue before us. Nothing must stand between us and winning this war. It is a question whether the peoples' right or the kaiser's might shall dominate the world. If there ever was a holy war, this in u Wp htp flehtine for world lihertv. We are fighting for the freedom of humanity. We are fighting for the right of men to govern themselves Instead of being governed against their will by a war-mad overlord. Perilous ? times are ahead of us. We must be prepared to make any sacrifice, to perform any service that may be required of us." "Oh, Uncle Dan," exclaimed Blllle, "may I bring my chum, Jimmle Collins, when we have our next talk? He Is a bug on this war business and just crazy to see you.n "Certainly," said Uncle Dan, with a hearty laugh. "If we are to have more talks, I shall be glad to have Jimmle join us." 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