The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 17, 1919, Page PAGE 6, Image 6

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Normal Prices Returning Ono .statistician has estimated thai there are in this country today con itructive expenditures toia-ing tiv< billion dollars, which are hesitating to begin on account of the high pric es of materials and labor. It is evident 'ha' an individual corporatior is reluctant to erect a bui'ding which trt/Jix- will rvwf Pint 5100(100. if hf feels that six monlhs 02- a yearhenct he can << hi plicate the same identica structure for $(>0 000 of $70,000 However, there is a certain patriotic element in all this, and if everybody waits ror the bottom price, v/i will all suffer from the inevitable stagnation, and complete resumption will be indefinitely postponed. The policy of the founder of the Rothschild banking house, which was to buy securities neither at the lowest price nor to seU at the highest, am! which 'he baron demonstrated so successfully, is not a bad one just , now. There is, moreover, the p:x>bability that a building, erected at more than the normal cost, may furnish the opportunity for conducting, for some years at least, a business at profits which will warrant the unusuai expenditure. There is always a "happy medium" somewhere between the abnormally high and abnormally low, which is usually difficult of determination, but which is warranted and advisable. Some building materials have already fallen in price; a substantial reduction in many others will doubtless produce greater profits at the end of twelve months, by reason of increased sales, or sales which would otherwise not be made at all, than by trying arbitrarily to maintain war prices, which is ultimately impossible. The Sales Department of the War Department, which has the disposal of hundreds of millions of dollars of raw and manufactured products, bought for war purposes and no longer needed, has already arranged for the release of certain commodities. The lumber associations have been authorized to commence the sale of the vast quantities of lumber on the Government's account and expect to clean up the entire surplus in six months. The copper interests, representing 90 per cent of the American producers, exnect to disoose of the Government's holding of copper in fifteen months, or less. Sodium nitrate and hardwood lurrber are also now ready for release. Other line^. will follow as rapidly as arrangements can be made, and all without "breaning" the market, though prices will naturally be less than war-time prices. \ A fair stait has been made toward settlement with the thousands of contractors,' and subcontractors, although the process is less rapid than could be desired. On th^ whole, we are Recovering from conditions of the "dav after" quite as rapidly as should be expected.?H. H. Windsor, in the May Popular Mechanics Magazine. Connecticut Blue Laws Boy. and girls who have to go horr ? when -he curfew rings at Dor 9:30 p. m. should read some of the old laws of Connecticut and rejoice that they did not live in our early Colonial days. Here are several of the most interesting on<,\s. Look them over carefully and compare them with our modern care-free lives: No one shall run on tnc daonain, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath day. No one is to cross a ferry, but with an authorized ferryman. >No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds sweep houses, cut hair, or- shave on the Sabbath day. No minister shall keep school. Whoever wears clothes trimmed with gold, silver, or bone lace above two shillings by the yard shall be presented by the grand jurors, and the Selectmen shall tax the offender at 200 pounds. No one shall read common prayer, keep Christmas or saint's day, make pio, iaiu^, vi p.u; v<> any instrument of music. except the drum, trumpet and jew's harp. No man shall court a maid in person or by letter without first obtaining the consent of her parents; five pounds penalty for the first offense, ten for the second, and for the third imprisonment during pleasure. Iievtdoping Neatness My hardest struggle?" asked the ; oung \ idow \.he is "b vr.rg up" a family of th ee. "My mo.- difficult probont is to have the cr.il iron pieK up their own toys and clothing every tine. is a; I and sa < ;i Jv that let l.'.l v.u is the ; f III erty, for if 1 were not right after Tom and Ned, to say nothing of little Agnes, they would never gather up one thing." -;na* mi* suu>;j;u- mm ?v/i.n v..v . gains. that you have made?" cam* lhe next question, a bit dubiously. "Indeed it has, for I'm just beginning to see the results. Hut for a long time 1 grew very weary repeating tfie same directions every night and insisiting that clothes must be placed where they could be most easily donned in the morning. Now there is no question about it. Of course there is always something new to tackle, but I'm keeping on. the best I can." Every mother realizes how hard u is to insist upon a certain thing, especially when children are tired. Hut every victory won is a victory not only r?r the mother but for the boy or girl who is receiving this splendid training. Have you ever thought of the hoys who went into the service, the ones whose doting parents had never insisted upon a thing's being done? What a "hard row" those lads must have "hoed"! Never had obeyed, and now forced to do so! How much easier it would have been if they had always had such rules. A mother gave her children permission to crack nuts for candy Down upon the floor they "plumped' ? with never a thought of protecting the carpet. When they were througl their mother probably had to sweej up the remnants. How much easie to have taught them neatness. t;! t\ j A N! ! Eastei ;.j * | The Glorious j | | you T i V/. 1 1 i Under: * Everythin | the = I Come and see I SPRING and i ! C.T | RINGSTR i 1111 *** ~ ~ TDISON PHONOG! Life-Li ; The Steele F j r [CE LINE OF r Goods Season is here a will find at Licker* selling Store g You Need ft Season. our big new stock I SUMMER GOODS ucKer, EE, - - S. < RAPHS AND REC iRe In Tone Bp? minneapoli: NEWS SAYS; Ija Thomas A. Edison, Madam Marie Rap] ropolitan Opera C 8 ." strated Friday nigl V '/< ?& Hum that the inve ^ <$? such perfection in human voice that impossible for a U although they facel donee of her closet am Rappold's lips voice poured out. voices in the Audi it became eviden Madam Kappold 1 voice was matched the voice in the ca impossible to disl the two."' o ? 1. - ~ 1- ,|.A O H,-| WHICH wc aic work of art c m these PICTUF 'urniture Com] |; WE HIVE ON HAND | Diamonds, Watche: | ware, Cut Glass, 10 | China, Hot W; i | Traveling B === I Eye G1 no mi ui cvciy convince you as t< these goods. 5 Baggett's Jev East Main Street, Bring me your broken Watches pairs made same day received. )r COFFINS ANI A large and varied assort Automobile Hearse of Horse-Drawn ! Experienced Sero Day or Kingstree Ha Phones <35> 4& | We Lead; Otl c 11 The People' 1 j H. A. Mill. ~~~~ 18. Fresh Beef, Port ORDS r leavfTord | DRESSED < I We are paying 22 cei i Chickens in anv qua THfc PEOPLE' H.A. MILLER, with the aid of ?old, of the Met- j TrL ZZ M. D. NESMITH, ator has attained nFNTIST reproducing the ^ ' ? | it was actually 1*1 iy 3* , rge*invited audi- ?TT?~? , between the pri- BENJ. MclNNES, M. R. C. V. S. id the Kdison Re- McINNES,M.D.,V.M. D ludience familar VETERINARIANS. Id's voice were a One of us will l>e atKingstree tht | V ;he voice they ;trst Monday in each month, at Hel[uestionably hers, ler's Stables. 9-28-tf i the visible evi- __ lips. Then Mad- S?g ? "xhere'were ? John M. Eaddy pi orium now. Here FOR r t that, although 11 Surveying and Platting, J | ras singing, her Notary Public with Seal. 1 so perfectly by 5.9! iyp JOHNSONVILLE. S, C. j binet that it was ' inguish between A. M. SNIDER, Surgeon Dentist . stock a nice , 0 _ _ / Office at Residence f Ml of Railroad Ave., KINGSTREE; m< ______________________________: m< Pictures i 3any | 11 A NICE LINE OF j s, Clocks, SilverHand Painted iter Bottles, A ags, and 'j. asses >n. A call wilj -* :> the quality of relry Store, KINGSTREE, S. C j, Clocks and Jewelry. Re > CASKETS. I merit to select from. and Robber-Tired i Hearse. ^ ices Rendered Night. ; _ _ rdware Co. . 59 or 122 iers Follow. ?????? s Market! er, Prop. i and Sausage. ? ERS FOR ^HiriCF.N nts per pound for mtity. Also pay>ow Hides. S MARKET i , Proprietor. i If you need Glasses, come ) me. Single and double inses fitted correctly at low5t prices. Broken lenses dulicated. . F. RARRFTT. IPWPIPT IBI wil V Via I If v w IV wIVI KINGSTREE |fe?fe l^odge, Ho. 46 A. F.M. sets the second Thursday night in each anth Visiting brethren are cordially yited. B. E. Clarkson, W. M. W. W. Holiday, Sec. 2-27-lv J ? v. 4 J LjS- if -^ Mi ? f nYt fl^y rn*** i jk