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VOLUME 36?NO. 24 THE COUNTY RECORD, KINGSTREE, S. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1921. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE J
TO ORGANIZE 1
l ASSOCIATION
f MEETING TO BE HELD AT SALTERS
TOMORROW AFTERNOON
AT 3:00 t
r
There will be a meeting tomorrow t
(j^day) afternoon at Salters for the c
jJJ&ke of organizing the first of a c
P number oi trucK growing <umi<tuuiu
ir Williamsburg county. These local I
associations will later on become af-!
filiated or consolidated into a county
association. The banks of the county
are planning for this meeting and will
be represented at Salters tomorrow,
i Agricultural agents of the Atlantic
Coast Line and the Seaboard Air
Line railroad, Dr. W. W. Long of
Clemson College, and Mr. T. B. Young,
district agent, of Florence will also
attend this meeting. It is important
that every farmer and citizen who possibly
can, be present. It will be greatly
beneficial, we believe,.to their in-,
terests.
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Di-iof Mantinn From HpTTtinCWAV.
Hemingway,Aug. 23?Mrs. Clarence fc
Alsbrook and- baby of Kingtrec came t
Sunday to visit relatives, here. Mr. t
Alsbrook accompanied her, returning i
to Kingstree Sunday afternoon. i
Mr. Fitzhue Eaddy of Georgetown c
spent Sunday here, with his mother, t
Mrs. J. Eaddy. t
Mr. and Mrs. Pinkncy Bodie of ?
Batesburg are visiting their daughter, g
Mrs. G. B. Ingraham. fc
Mr. and Mrs. C. 0. Davis of George- t
town spent the week end with friends p
in town. r
Mr Oliver Venters left last week for c
Sanford, Fla. to visit his sister, Mrs. I
Balford Kaselden.
Mr. Douglas Venters returned
Thursday, from an extended visit to
relatives in Florida and Johns Iseland.
Mr. Sam Hobgood of Manning was
a pleasant caller in town Saturday
afternoon.
Mr. Carl Cozart spent the week-end
with his family at Creedmore, N. C.
Mr. Prudin Mangum returned Saturday
night from his home at Durham,
N. C. Mrs. Mangum came with him
and will spend some time here.
Miss Mildred Hemingway is visiting i
Miss Neil Nelson at Oaks.
Mrs. Sallie Davis of Georgetown is
spending some time here, with her
daughter, Mrs. George Chandler.
Messrs E. L. Rogers and W. T.
Hemingway went to Georgetown Monday
on business.
Mrs. Dortrage Of Tarboro, im. v,., is | ^
visiting her father, Capt. J. H. Hutchins
here.
Mr Lucien Haselden of Charleston
tis spending sor ie time at the home of
his father, Mr. J. P. Haselden.
The Ladies Missionary society enjoyed
an afternoon picnic at Snow's
lake Thursday. After quite a number
of the party had a good swim, lunch
was served. The good eats were too
numerous to mention.
The young folks enjoyed a swimming
party and peanut boiling at
Snow's lake Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Tallevast of
Georgetown spent Sunday with relatives
here.
Misses Leone Price, Isoline Davis,
Inez Woo ten, Margaret Gandy and Mr.
J. P. McNeil, Jr., of Florence were
* "the guests of the Misses Burney Monday.
Mr. J. W. Gaskin and family spent
Sunday with relatives near Lake City.
Mr. Willie Baxley had the misfor- *
is bam and mule by
fffct
iswald returned from
day, where she had
itives.
vent to Charleston on *
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M. Grubb left Fri- 1
ne at Norfolk, Va.,
t to Mrs. N. M. Ven- (
ters. t
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Jas. A. Cole, Dentist, Coming Here.
Dr. Jas. A. Cole, a well-known den- <
tist of Manning, expects to locate in
Kingstree. He was here Monday looking
over the town and meeting some
Hio rtid acauaintances and upon the
V*. ?
solicitations of these has decided to *
^ establish an office and locate here 1
V permanently about September.
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Soon the equinoxtial period will ar- *
rive with its storms and you will feel '
better if your houses and bams are
covered with windstorm insurance in 1
one of my companies. Windstorm insurance
costs so little and means so <
, much. I sell the best. Wm. W. Bod- i
die, Kingstree, S. C. 8-18-tf.
SOUTHERN DAIRYMEN PROSPER; |
COTTON GROWERS ASK LOANS ,
Merchants in Town Surrounding Milk
Producing Districts Report Busiift ss
t j be Exceptional y Good.
A comparison of the financial condiion
of dairy farmers and dairy comnunities
with cotton farmers and coton
communities in Mississippi brings 1
>ut the fact that while 80 or 90 per i ^
:ent of the cotton farmers owe banks ]
noney and are asking for extensions J
>n their notes, there are few instances *
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>f notes held against dairy farmers. '
rhe merchants in towns surrounded by '
he best dairy communities report 1
heir business throughout last fall and
vinter as remarkably good. j'
This statement is made on the au- 1
hority of the extension dairy hus>andman,
who for nearly 10 years has
sngaged in the movement carried on j1
>y the United States Department of '
Agriculture and the State Agriculural
College of Mississippi to build;1
ip dairying in that State and furnish *
he farmers with a source of income (
ifter the boll weevil had reduced the *
>roduction of the South's great staple, j1
To farmers of this section, these (
acts should lend encouragement to J
>reak away from the one-crop system, ^
he specialist says; to the bankers and <
lusiness men they should be convinc- <
ng proof that greater farm prosperty,
attained by a more permanent and <
onstructive type of farming, benefits J
he entire community. The growth of *
he dairy industry throughont the,*
>outh is limited in a very large de-ii
;ree by the willingness and ability of j *
.imtorc and other moneyed interests 11
o finance the cotton farmer of the i
?ast in buying cows and leaking the 3
tecessary changes in order to branch ]
iut in a new line. J
The experience of the business peo- s
>le in a western Pennsylvania town, ,1
vhich became interested in promoting <
lairying and improved agriculture i
generally, should be illuminating to
nany of the southern bankers who lave
not been converted to diversified, i
arming. In 1915, a creamery wa3 or-11
janized in this Pennsylvania town, <
ind one of the two banks in the placej1
>ecame very active in promoting dai-; <
ying and financing the industry. It11
ook the initiative in bringing in cows 1
o sell to the farmers at cost, and in- <
onvenienced itself in many ways to, ]
tccommodate the farmer. ij
In five years there was built up a ;
arge membership in various dairying 1
issociations; 43 members in the cow-ji
esting associations, 96 in bull asso-11
:iations, 187 in breeders', and 698 in ]
rreamery patrons' associations. A, 1
ifoung Farmers' Club had a roll of 83, j1
ind there were 75 members of the j <
Joys' and Girls' Dairy Club. Thirty 1
farmers bdcamc members "of the! j
:hamber of commerce, thus making 1
he farmers feel that town and coun- 1
;ry were inseparably bound together I
n one big community. The dairy <
lerds, after five years, had 1,100 pure- i
jred cows, 232 purebred bulls, 1,360 j 1
purebred heifers, 4,513 tuberculin-1 <
.ested cattle, and 176 accredited herds. 1
During the year ended June 30, i
1920. the creamery paid out $410,125.- (1
15 to its patrons. The bank which had i
jromoted the agricultural develop- j
nent made a gain in deposits of $968,1'
147.12; while the older bank, which!]
dso gained because of the greater j
general prosperity in the town, show- <
id a gain of $542,383.01. About $1,- <
>00,000 in these two banks was de- i
posited by farmers, an increase of $1,- i
>00,000 in farmers' deposits in five
rears.
Items From Beulah. |('
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Beulah, Aug. 23.?Mr. and Mrs Ed ;
VIorris and children from North Car- ]
>lina visited the latter's sister, Mrs. 3
iV. H. Thompson, the past week. t
The Beulah base ball team defeated j ]
3edar Swamp Wednesday afternoon,.]
he score being 25 to 9. They also ]
riayed Spring Branch Saturday, the J j
score being 14 to 9. ]
Mrs. Herbert Cox, Mrs. E. A. '
Snipes and children of Florence arejl
rlsitinc- their father, Mr. E. H. Thomp- !?
ton. 11
A week's revival meeting, which be-1(
fan Sunday night, is being held at !1
Beulah church. 1
Misses Wfiftnd Marie McCutchen, j1
!<ouise McClary and Donald Mc-'
2utchen motored over to Greelyville
Saturday afternoon.
Miss Lucile Allen is visiting Misses (
Marie and Vera McCutchen. (
A crowd of ycung folks enjoyed a 1
straw ride out to Mrs. Addie Mc- <
Cutchen's Wednesday afternoon. 1 j
?"Red Wii|r".
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SLIPSHOD METHODS j
CAUSE LOW PRICES
rOBACCO MARKET OF SOUTH C
CAROLINA INDICATION OF
PRICES SAYS JOURNAL
"The South Carolina tobacco mariet
as an indicator of prices that will o
prevail in other districts is defective n
in that allowance must be made lor | n
Jie slipshod methods of preparing jd
the weed for market there." says "To-! r
jacco." One of the leading publications
of the industry. t
Further, quoting the Greenboro ?N. c
3.) News, it says, "Indeed there is no i:
preparation."
Continuing its comment on the v
South Carolina way of handling, or, d
naybe not handling, tobacco, the pub- t
ication says: a
"Not only is the stuff put on the
market ungraded, but it is not even tl
:ied in bundles or "hands" Equal j 5
:rudeness in curing and handling may | C
)e fairly assumed. In a year when i \
:here is an unusual disparity in the|G
iemand for poor tobacco and good the
producer of stock, properly prepared v
'or the market, may be unduly dis- v
:ouraged by the prices at the South C
Carolina market. J
"The opinion prevails in informed J
:ircles that this is to be such a season. V
Poor tobacco is not wanted, and time
xnd attention given to it are just n
ibout wasted. Skill, care and ex per- A
ence in curing and grading always b
idds importantly to the price received n
>j the farmer; these are apparently
joing to be unusually valuable this n
fear. The North Carolina farmer who tl
produces good leaf, cures it well and t
issorts it carefully may cheerish a rea- y
;onable expectation of prices that re- F
;urn a living wage for the labor put d
ra the crop. Otherwise there need be b
10 such expectation.
Another thing that will effect prices o
?it alwavs does, but the effect was b
elatively unimportant when prices fi
.vere high?is whether the stuff is b
lumped o?i the markets in greater a
volume than they can absorb Whether c
me is placing his weed >u a big mar- p
icet or a email one, the sales will bejb
letter if the receipts are about even' s
iuring the warehouses' season, and [a
prices will range lower when the mar- p
sets are crowded.
The buyers of tobacco know about; I
what the crop will bulk,, they know j ii
ibout what they can handle, they d
tnow about what they can afford to F
pay for it and their agents will be on 1
land all the while at each market.
When a buyer has bid in all that he
:an handle for a day, his interest in;
hat day's market naturally ceases,
ind he will buy no more unless forced!
1 "? *- -1 1-~4. Va
to do so by a aecnne oeiuw wjiaw uc ,
would ordinarily be willing to pay. Q
So far as the calendar is concerned, ^
)ne day during the warehouse season '
is as good as another; if the farmers ^
aold back instead of rushing the weed' ^
m the market that certainly will not j ^
tend to cause a decline, but rather the I
reverse, inasmuch as financial onditions
may be expected to improve ^
rather than to grow more unfavorable,
The official announcement from y
Washington the other day of taxation
plans will have the effect of tsJcing Q
jome money out of the farmer's pock- j
at, it is expected. These include an increase
of tax on tobacco product3,and j ^
.lobody believes the consumer will I y
stand an increase price. g
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Caught Snake Milking Cow
This is a true snake story, because v
Mr. Thomas Chapman, a most reliable b
:itizen from the Montmorenci section p
touches for it. Last week Bub John- f
3on, the colored caretaker of the H. M. li
Dibble place at the Vale of Montmo- f
r?nri. noticed one of the fine cows
standing hunched and cramped in the
pasture and went up close to the aninal
to see what was the matter with
jer. Imagine his surprise when he o
saw a long black snake coiled around h
Bossy's hind legs with its head and h
nouth held tight to one of the teats ti
Jusy sucking the milk from her. As
lohnson had nothing with him to at- u
ack the reptile he seized a large lump w
>f clay and threw it at the snake, a
fvhich at once let go of the teat and c
rapidly uncoiling itself shot through t]
'he grass.?Dillon Herald. b
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Six of the 11 textile mills in Cabar- b
rus county, North Carolina closed k
iown by strike June 1, have resumed o
jperation, without disturbance or even
Jie assembling of pickets, state troops t'
i>eing stationed at each mill at the j r
opening hour. The Brancora ana can- t
non mills al Concord and the large h
mill at Kannapolis opened Friday. a
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\IRSHIP COLLAPSES
FORTY MEN KILLED
1IANT DIRIGIBLE PLUNGES 1000
FEET INTO TIIE HUMBER
RIVER, ENGLAND
Hull, England, Aug. 24.?Seventeen
fficers and men of the United States
avy and twenty-seven officers and
".en of the British navy met death toay
in the collapse of the great diigiblc
ZR-2 over the city of Hull.
Every one of the Americans on board
he ill-fated craft perished as far as
ould be ascertained at midnight toight
Only five men of the forty-nine who
irere makincr the trial triD in the
irigible prior to the vessel being j
urned over to the United States navy!
re known to have been saved.
The American officers who started!
he trip included Commander Louis H.
laxfield, Lieut Commander Emory
Soil, Lieut. Henry W. Hoyt, Lieut.
ralentine N. Bieg and Lieut Charlie
i. Little.
The American enlisted men who
rent up with the craft from' Howden,
ere C. I. Aller, Robert Coons, L. E.
Srowell, J. T. Hancock, William Julius,
L Lay, A. L. Loftin, A. I. Pcttit, W.
. Steele, N. 0. Walker, and George
I'elsh.
The British losses included the famous
air veteran, Brig. Gen. E. M.
laitland and all the other officers on
oard, except Lieut Wann, the comlander
of the ZR-2.
Starting from Howden Tuesday
loming on a test flight to Pulham,
he big aircraft had been afloat for
liirty-four hours, at times in bad
feather, and was returning to the
'ulham airdome at the time of the
isaster, which constitutes the most
errible of its kind in peace times.
The ZR-2, which was a sister ship
f the famous R-34, the first dirigik
to cross the Atlantic, was on her
nal trial trip prior to being accepted
y the United States navy and taken
cross the Atlantic by an American
rew especially trained for that purose.
She was 695 feet long and was
uilt to carry a crew of thirty. Her
peed was estimated at seventy mnes
n hour. The American navy was to
ay $2,000,000 for the craft.
While flying at about 1,000 feet over
Lull spectators saw the ZR-2 scemagly
buckle amid-ships and plunge
ownward over the city and into the
lumber river.
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J. L. MACK'S BODY FOUND
Believed to Have Been Thrown
From Moving Train
Missing since Wednesday night, i
lugust 10, the body of J. L. Mack,
i' Savannah, special officer of the
it!antic Coast Line police department
as found Saturday lying in the ditch
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y tne rauroaa traces u uuic aim ?
alf north of New Hope. Section
ands who found the body were unble
to identify it Word was soon reeived
from Charieston that Mr. Mack
ad been missing and the body was
ientified by railroad officers who
rent to the spot from Florence.
Mr. Mack's neck had been broken
nd his body had every appearcnce of
aving been badly bruised. It is sup^
osed that the officer was thrown
rom the top of the freight train on
rhich he was traveling by some peron
whom he was attempting to arc*st.
niotnl on/1 his flashlight
1UI. U&GlVJk O pilJWI WiiU U'W Bai -p
rere found some distance from the
ody. There were no papers in his
ockets. Mr. Mack had not been heard
rom since Wednesday night, when he
;ft Florence on a Charleston-bound
reight train.
o Cows
Become Intoxicated
?
John Dickey, at the mining village
f Zillman, new Frostburg, Md., went
r. the field one day last week to find
is four cows in a state of intoxicaion.
Dickey at first did not know what
ras wrong with the animals. They
rere drowsy and almost inanimate,
nd it was with difficulty that ?Jiey j
ould be aroused. Dickey examined'
heir mouths, which showed they had |
een eating some kind of mash. Later
b discovered that moonshine mash had j
een emptied into the field by some unnown
person. The cows had partaken
f it and become intoxicated.
He was unable to milk them for
wo days, but now the ^nimaLs are all
ight. When he first stirred them up
hey were unable to rise, and when
e did get them up they staggered
bout as if drunk.
ADVERTISING, IMPORTANT IN
GETTING NEW BUSINESS
Extracts from an Address by Sol
Kohn, President of State Retail
Clothiers.
With new, well chosen and properly
selected merchandise, marked with
the lowest possible margin of profit
in order to successfully continue bus- ^
iness, we are now ready to take up
the second important factor in getting
new business?advertising.
With the ever increasing cost of
noujcnanPr -iHvprtis'nor vour fist mies
tion will be, "Is Advertising worth
while?" It surely is. Ninety-five per 1
cent, of our largest concerns are ,
steady investors in advertising. Of '
course some advertising is more effective
than other advertising, but
what you want is to get the most for
your money.
What per cent of your sales should
you appropriate to advertising? In '
a recent survey of advertising as done
by many clothiers, Hart, Schaffner &
Marx sent out a booklet in which the
fjrm showed that the more you spend
on advertising the less it costs you.
By that I mean that the increased j
business brought about by the increased
advertising always decreases the '
per cent of appropriation. My advice !
to you, however, would be to spend in
advertising from 4 per cent, to 5 per
cent, of your previous season's busi- '
ness. This advertising will include '
newspaper advertising, direct adver- ;
tising and outdoor advertising. I ;
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WOUIU iiUVlSC cui t^'pivpnaMvn vi uw ,
less than 60 per cent of your total appropriation
for newspaper advertising.
Let your message to the public be often.
It is not necessary to have a full
page to carry this message. Even dur- j
ing special sales it is not necessary to
use large space. Have neatly arranged,
well written ordinary size adver
t.sing. Be sure that it is well dressed 3
typographically, and be generous with
your use of white space. Have a clean (
ad, just as you have a clean store and
merchandise. And say something in ,
your advertisement. Let this message
be a reflection of the personality of ,
your store. Use simple English so t
that everybody can understand. Give j
a message that will impress the people
favorably to your store for its ,
service and its merchandise. Be sure (
you don't knock anyone in a similiar (
line of business. Don't try to be fun- <
ny. Don't say things that will start ]
an argument. Don't make far reach- i
ing claims. Tell your story in a pleas- j
ing manly fashion that will be under- ]
stood and taken for face value by men
who buy in your store.
Ginners Association Meets
1
The Williamsburg County Ginner's <
association met here yesterday. Mr. D. 1
K. McCutchen was elected president of
the association for the ensuing year <
and Mr. Claude I. Truluck, secretary J
and treasurer. <
The association fixed the price for 1
ginning at $4.00 per bale, including J
bagging and ties, and $3.00 the bale <
without bagging and tios, or when
these are furnished by the customer, i
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Twenty Cent Cotton Predicted
Since the government issued its re- 1
port on August 1st, giving the estimated
average condition of the cotton I
crop at 64.7, or normal, the crop is 1
reported to have deteriorated fully 25 *
per cent in the territory between Dal- 1
las and San Antonio, Texas, says,
Sugarman's Indicator. There are wellinformed
crop specialists in Texas
who are venting the opinion that the
entire state may not produce more '
than 2,000,000 bales. They are very
bullish on cotton in Texas and are 1
predicting 20c per pound by March 1, 1
contrasting with a prevailing level of (
13c Der oound. On a purchase of 10 ]
bales of May cotton at 14c per pound, 1
necessitating marginal deposit of $100, <
an advance in the May option to 20c '
per pound by March 1 would give the (
fortunate holder an indicated paper 1
profit of $300, less $4.50 commission *
and a small government tax. 1
Even though the May cotton futures ^
should sell up to 20c per pound by
March 1, there would necessarily be frequent
reactions and bulges which
would give numerous profit-making (
opportunities. While trading in cotton 1
futures is highly speculative, at the 1
same time when you consider that the *
Government states a crop of only 8,203,000
bales is expected as contrasted *
with 13,365,754 bales last year, 11,420,763
bales two years ago, and 12,- 1
040,532 bales three years ago, one can ]
readily realize that there should be 1
real merit behind tho present upward j
movement in cotton futures. It
RESPONSIBLE FOR
BERGDOITS ESCAPE
JUDGE ANSEL, COL. HUNT AND
COL. CRESSON CHARGED
WITH CONSPIRACY
A dispatch from Washington late
last week says! "Former 'Acting Judge
Advocate General Ansel, Colonel John
E. Hunt and Col. C. C. C res son are
charged with conspiracy ;n connection
with the escape of Grover C. Bergdoll,
in a report signed by three of the five
members of a special legislative investigating
committee and filed with the
House.
The report characterized Ansel as
the "master mind" in the plan by
which Bergdoll was released from a
military prison, under guard, to dig
up a pot of gold and further recommended
he be disbarred from practicing
in courts of the nation.
A minority report that no testimony
supports the charge that Ansel conspired
to effect Bergdoll's release or
that his motives were improper. The
majority report said Hunt was directly
responsible by his failure to provide
adequate guards and accused Cresson
of only a pretense at prosecuting
Hunt
Major Bruce Cambell, was accused
of accepting a bribe from Mrs. Bergdoll
but was exonorated by the majority,
who reccommended the dismissal,
from the Justice Department of Earl
B. Wood for his failure to warn the
War Department of Bergdoll's plan
to escape.
FIND SAFE IN RIVER
Sixty Thousand Dollars In Bonds and
Securities men uuu
While bathing in Lynch'3 river at
Welch's bridge, about seven miles
from the home of S. W. Young, last
Friday a party of young boys discovered
the iron safe containing, it is
said, |60,000 in liberity bonds and
securities that was stolen from Mr.
Young's home on Sunday night August
14. The safe fas hidden under water
and was discovered by one of the
boys striking against it. Being small,
it was easily raised to the surface and
appeared to have been opened with a
cold chisel. All it contained was an account
book, a wallet containing tax receipts
and a bill of sale. The safe was
loaded in the rear seat of an automobile
and taken to Mr. Young No clue
bas been discovered as to the robbers,
has ben discovered as to the robbers.
Money For Exports.
An application for an advance of
55,000,000 to the Citizens' & Southern
bank of Savannah, Ga., for financing
exports was approved last Friday by
the war finance corporation.
The advance will be made to finance
cotton, cottonseed cake, peanut cake
and naval stores for export sale. The
commodities, the corporation said,
will be for the most part products
from Georgia, Alabama and South
Carolina.
M. B. Lane President of the bask
said the funds would be used "as a
financial resource and facility in adiition
to the usual federal reserve
jank facilities for the betterment of
the people in my part of the country,
rhe war finance corporations' emergency
help will be an addde source of
strength in the orderly marketing of
;he crop from our part of tne country."
Of Interest to Ex-Soldiers
The Bureau of War Risk Insurance
las recently decided to make a special
iffort to finish up all the claims of
;he ex-soldiers. In order to do this
i group of men known as the Cleanip
Squad is traveling all over the
:ountry and stoping at convenient
Maces where they may be interviewed
>y any ex-service man.
Any one wisliing to consult the
Squad about any claim which he has
>r thinks he has against the governnent
will be given free transportation
a Sauad Headquarters if he will ap
)ly for it either through the local Red
Tross office or to the Fifth District
Veterans' Bureau, 195 Per.chtree
Street, Atlanta, Ga.
The Clean-up Squad will be in
Georgetown, S. C. on Oct. 1, 3, 4, 5.
V.11 ex-service men from Williamsburg
md Georgetown Counties may present
heir claims to them.
For further information see the Red
>oss Secretary.
a fnrrp of 400 marines embarked at
Philadelphia Sunday on the U. S. S.
Pennsylvania for duty in Panama as
;he result of a recent decision to
lugrnent American forces already in
.he canal zone.
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