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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
DAMAGES ABOUT 100000.
Explosions at Munitions Plant Last
ed 3 Hours-17 Missing.

New York, Jan. LITTLE plant Of
the Canadian Car and Foundry Co.,
one-half mile east of Kingsland, n.
j., In which were stored hundreds of
thousands Of three-inch shells des-
tined for the British government, was
destroyed late to-day by fire and a
series of explosions which continued
for three hours. So far as could be
learned tonight no one was killed
or injured, although it was said II
workmen were missing. No estimate
Of the loss was obtainable, but it was
said it might reach $4,O00,OOO.
Approximately 1,40O men were
employed in the plant, which COM
prised between 40 and so buildings
and covered about 80 acres Of
ground. No munitions were manu-
featured at Kingsland, but the plant
was used for the filling of shells, the
chief constituent used being trinitro-
toloul.
The fire started in what was known
as building No. 80, where shells were
being cleaned with denatured alco-
hol. The most generally accepted
theory is that electric wires on the
ceiling became crossed and piece
Of blazing insulation fell into the al
cohol.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
Constipation Causes Bad Skin.

A dull and pimply skin is due to a
sluggish bowel movement. Correct
this condition and clear your com :
pleXion with DR.. Kings New Life
Pills. This mild laxative taken at
bedtime will assure you full, free,
non-griping movement in the mora
ing. Drive out the dull, listless feet
ing resulting from overloaded intes-
tines and sluggish liver. Get bot
tie to-day. At all druggists, csc. ad [
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
White to he Worn In London.

London, Jan. 13.-WOmen are
urged OF wear white millinery Vt
night so they may be plainly seen by
vehicle drivers, and white coats are
urged for street sweepers. The rec
concentrations followed q series 0f
street accidents due to the pitohy
blackness Of London nights during
the Zeppelin season
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
EbeneZcr School,

Following Is the honor roll of Ebe-
neZer Graded School:
Grade s. Honorable mention,
Prank Hunt.
Grade Honor roll, Paul Hunt
honorable mention, Hazel Tollison.
Grade S - Honorable mention,
Ethel Hunt.
Grade 2-Honor roll. Mae Hunt.
Grade l (advanced) d)-Honor roll,
Lee Hunt.
Grade Honorable mention,
Frank Huskamp, John B. Medlin.
Addie l.. Davis, Principal.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17

to try lydia 3. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound as she had taken it with good
results. / did 80, my weakness dis
eppearea. 7 Gained IN strength, moved
into on" new home, did ali kinds of
garden work, shovefed dirt, did build.
ing and cement work, and raised hUn.
drcds OF chickens and ducks. | car.
not say enough in praise of Lydia Il.
Pinhham.'s Vegetable Compound aud
If these facts are useful you may pub
lish them for the benefit Of other
women. '--Mrs. M. @. JOHNSTON, Route
D, Box 80, Richmond, Ind.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
Meeting County Farmers Union.

The Oconee County Farmers I'm
ion will meet with Ebenezer Local,
at Ebenezer school house, on Satur-
day, the goth, at II o'clock n. IN.
All locals are requested to send full
delegations. as business Of import
ance will be attended to. Demon
strator G. M. Barnett and others will
address the meeting.
II. Y. Chalmers, President.
J. II. Garrison, Secretary.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
Shal'pSliOoter Veteran Dead.
(The State, 7th. }


". X. Powers, Confederate veteran
and inmate Of the Soldiers Home,
died early yesterday morning. lie
was "a years old and resided in An
deron county until last September.
Volunteering in 1861, he entered
Company !. Palmetto Sharpshooters
in BrattoE's Brigade. lnterment
TOOK place at Elmwood cemetery yes
teday afternoon. Death was due to
cancer
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17

month OF December. Most Of these
were In the Western portion of Texas
or in Arizona, where the climate fs
said to have been extremely sevece
during tho past two months.
Only one death from typhoid fever
has resulted during the entire seven
months.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17

TO avoid limitations and ineffective
substitutes be sure you get DR.. Catd-
wells Syrup Pepsin. See that a fac
simile OF DR.. Caldwell's signature and
his portrait appear on the yellow
carton In which the bottle Is packed.
trial bottle. free of charge, can be
obtained by writing to Dr.. w. q.
Caldwell, 455 Washington ST., Montt-
cello, Illinois,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17

from my age that
when going up
stairs l had to 60
very slowly with
my hands on the
steps, then sit down
at the top to rest.
The doctor said he
thought I should
have an operation,
and my frie n d 9
thought I would not
live to move into
our new house. My
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
Card of Thanks.

Editor Courier: We wish to ex-
press our sincere and heartfelt
thanks through your columns to all
our friends who have given us so
mucli assiSt,tnce and sympathy in the
Illness and death Of our husband and
father May Gods richest blessings
rest u gon y0T all.
Yours sincerely.
NTs; t. \. Lewis and Family.
Wnihalla, AN. 8, 1917.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
British fsat&lesilip Sunk.

London, Jan. 1.-THE British
battleshiD Corvallis, $4,000 tons,
was torpedoed and sunk in the Medi-
terranean On Tuesday. She carried a
crew of $50. Thirteen are missing.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17

The worlds best cork comes from
Spanish and Portuguese trees that
are allowed to become 40 years old
before the bark Is cut, and then it IS
removed only every eight or ten
years.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-17
CLIMBED STAIRS
ON her HANDS
Too lllto Walk Upright. Operation
Advised. Saved by Lydia E.
Pinkham' Vegetable Compound.

This woman now raises chickens and
does manual labor. Read her story:
Richaond, Ind.-"For two years I
was SO sick and weak with troubles
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10
w. j. Harris ond His lab

From the Macon telegraph
Nothing William j. Harris
has done since it has become
known he is a certainty in the
race for the senate against the
present incumbent has given
more strength to his position
than the announcement that
within a short time he Will re-
sign from the $4,000 a year
he holds on the federal trade
commission and come back to
Georgia to fight for his seat.
There are some Of US who do
not believe such action is NOR
ally necessary, but there can be
no understanding the fire po-
litical effect Of such 9 decision
There is no doubt that as the
thing stands Mr.. Harris occQ-
pies the spotlight in the sena-
torial situation in Georgia. It
would not be surprising ir he
has not at the present time
rJ)re pledges Of support fer
his senate race than al the
rest Of the candidates, avcwed
.and prospective, Hardwick
included put together. Ac-
cording to theiG present per-
spective most Of the loyal peo-
.pleqin this state whose main
concern is to see to It Georgia
is misrepresented and humili-
ated in the eyes Of her own self
respect and her sister states by
Thomas William Hardwick as
ilittle longer IS possible, be-
liave William J. Harris is the
logical man to run against the
locoed Gamecock of Washing
ton.
There never was a time in
Georgia politics, perhaps when
the man meant so little and
the issue so much as in this
senatorial race. A good many
Of our ambitious public men
have seen in the situation a
chance to go to the senate, to
ride in enwrapped in the folds
Of Old Glory, SO to speak.
They have sounded political
friends on the subject and
have been rather shocked by
the answers given them. "Pll
support the man who is surest
to beat HardWick-and | don't
care who he is if he's an honor
able and able Georgian and q
frst-class American-is the
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10
"BUCK" MAKERS
DO THRIVING RUSINESt

1lhomasville, Dec. 9.-Sher-
if Perkins, Of Grady county
has had a lively time Of late
running down moonshine stills
Down near Beechton S. Green
YVES found to be reveIing in a
wealth Of five gallons Of Whis-
Ky and two barrels Of buck.
Green was arrested and his
four children were arrested.
When the Sheriff went to ar
rest Andrew Mcdonald, living
several miles from Cairo, for
beating his wife. he found
that Andrew was the owner OF
a still and several barrels OF
buck, which he cQnfscated. An
drew was Il arrested and, on
pleading guilty was fined $40
and costs. Several other men
have been arrested within the
past week or two, for making
and having = on hand moon
shine LIQUOR and ''buck."
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10
THIS ACT TELLS

News comes from Russia that the
bolsheviki have begun a schem to
rpudiat tn foreign loans that were
made by the allies to help establish
the new government after the old
was set aside This is the best pos
sible evidence that a gang of cut
threats and robbers and anarchists
has the right of way now. 1t is very
likely that this is a government of
unusually short life The fact that
the loans are repudiated so soon af
ter this new power looms up is the
best evidence that there is a leader
who has very little care for honor
and national integrity II is an ev
idence that the permanencf of the
present regim is not a thing that can
b counted as anything worth the
time and attention of a nation bent
on independence for those suffering
what the people Of Russia have SUI
fered.
The allies have much to lose in
the failure of the Kerensky govern
ment and especially is this true now
that the loans are to be repudiated,
The one thing above all with the
man living in the new Russia is the
payment Of the money with which
the freedom of the nation was made
possible.
We are going to see a change in
Russia and that within a very short
time. The party il power now is
not going to remain there. That is
matter that is going to be determin
ed by the very people who are not
capable of doing more for their own
country than to attempt to cast Off
AN obligation that madt it possible
to enjoy national freedom.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10
prevailing pronouncement.

prevailing pronouncement.
Harris and Gambler, the on
ly two except Hardwick who
is seriously considered SO far,
have been submitted to this
yardstick in private reflection
on them by correspondence
and conversation on uncount-
ed occasions, Harris has Jared
the better as available candi-
date. Murphy Candler's place
of resident is against him and
his past affiliations haven't
been to pleasing to many peo-
pie in Georgia. While he has
declined in importance as 9
prospect with which to beat
Hardwick, Harris has increas-
ed uptodate, more people. be-
lieve he can run advantageous
" against Hardwick than be-
lieve the same al Gambler.
When Harris resigns, he will
make himself so per cen
stronger than he is now. IN
the mean time things are re
solving into fairly permanent
elements. There must be no
split anti-Hardwick vote. We
must choose what standard
we will carry and throw the
rest to one side. Personal al
leriance, affections or predil-
Re~oans mean nothing to us
now can count as nothing,And
they should not determine the
placing Of q single Georgian in
this coming election.
AS q matter of STRAIGHT infor
'nAation, William J. Harris is
out in front at this writing
And promises to increase his
lead very shortly. 81
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10
HE BLEW THE BLUES.

The "Corburn Blues" for band and
orchestra, written for J. A. Corburn's
Greater Minstrels by the authors of
the famous Memphis Blues" and sug-
gested by the snIendid1y uniformed
street parade carried by that attrac-
ton the past two seasons, is still a
favorite number throughout the coun-
try, But as everything has it's day
and the Kaiser interferred with the
imported dyes, Manager Coburn has
outfitted his company in beautiful
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10
NOT ALL SMOOTH

None Of US wanted to read wat
we had to read in the dispatches cf
Saturday with regard to what had
been our misfortune in the war zone
It takes only an average man 10 get
the i'll luck before his eyes and drop
into bad humor over it, Such a
spirit can be found on almost any
corner just for the looking The rare
thing is the fine spirit that knows we
are going to win the war. 1t was
to have been expected that the enc
my would be able to do us some harm
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10

seal brown military coat, cap and
trousers, trimmed with red silk, mil
itary knots and olives for this season,
which presents a natty, classy street
parade in keeping with the times and
fully as handsome as the we'll known
Blues. Don't miss the parade and
band concert on tomorrow when this
popular attraction will make it's annu-
al appearance at the Opera House.
Everything new, bright and up to the
minute as usual. Seats on sale now at
Jennings Drug Store.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10

and it is no bad reckoning when we
look for a considerable amount Of
damage. We may look for more than
that. A fairly large number of our
men at the front and on the seas are
going to lose their lives.
There neverd was a surer thing
than that we are going to win what
we went into the war for German
war lords know what we are fight
ing for and they fear more tht we
win win than anything in the world.
They care more for the defeat Of the
principles that sent us into the war
than for anything else in the world.
If we win royalty as q ruling force
viii pass from the earth. We knew
thecause and preferred 10 fight for
it than to remain out and later suffer
Germany-the Germany OF to
day must be destroyed Taht is the
law with the civilised nations of the
earth and the one purpose that must
be carried out before the present war
is over. Our president has said as
much as the spokesman for the PEG
pie who are set against the German
domination of the earth. He posi-
bly, put it in more preferable Ian
guage but the meaning is the same
and those who know the meaning Of
palm English-the Teuton included,
could have no difficulty in decipher
ing that from his message to the
congress when it convened in the
national capital the other day. 1t
is not hard to get the mission Of our
arms in Europe The explanation
need not be made now. The whole
world knows and it likewise knows
that purpose is going to prevail in
every land and on every sea before
permanent peac comes again.
Nobody in this country need fear
that we are going to suffer to an end
that win keep us from winning the
cause for which we went into the
death grapple.
A defeat now and then--a small
loss occasionally must come We
may prepere for some of these re
ports to come ipbut tire is not the
least cause to be discouraged or in
the least bit low i'll spirit There can
be anothing more certain than that
we, ARD in the end going tomake the
enemy pay for all his folly. The
Teuton Tnows as wen as the rest OF
the world what is going to be the end
of it all lie is going to give us as
much trouble as he can and we may
not blame him for it, That is as
natural a thing as could be and dur
ing the time he has to give us all the
trouble he can he is going to get as
many Of our men and guns as he can.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10
SECRETARY
- ASSUMES NEW DUTIES

Moultrie, Ca, Dec. 0-H.B.
Caldwell, recently named as
secretary of athe, Moultrle
Chamber. o. Commerce as the
successor of Ben Van Dalsen,
who resigned, reaching Moul-
trie Saturday. Mr.. Cald-
well was formerly secretary Of
the Dublin chamber of COM
merce and his work there at
tracted a great deal of atten-
ton. For the past two years
he has been at Vincennes, Ind
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10
OFFICIAL ORGAN CRISP COUNTY
THE BIBLE FUND

The Dispatch wishes to call atten
ton to the Bible fund for the sol
diers. This is fund that goes for
our soldiers everywhere, both at the
locol camps at home and abroad. 1t
is fund intended to be used Only
for providing Bibles and if there
is a worthy fund among them all, it
can surely be said that this is one
The Dispatch, knows all about the
= large number of campaigns that have
been running and it will not be ne
cessary for you to make the excuse
that you have already helped in all
OF them you are able to support. We
vii understand if you do NOT give to
this movement that You feel You are
already as far as you can so in the
matter of giving for the present.
But you must understand that as
soon as we are through with one cam
niagn of giving there is another for
8 US We will have to keep up the
pace until the ght is won No one
need suppose that the burden is go
ing TO be a light one. There is al
l'&ays going to be something to do
and we are to remember that we
as fellow Americans along with the
boys at the front are to do our part
at home every day as we are expect
ing the men in the trnchs to do in
ordr that we may win the struggle
This community need not try to
raise fore than a hundred dollars for
the Bible fund for the soldiers. That
viii be a reasonably fair apportion
ment if the Dispatch has any knowl-
edge Of the amount that we should
give, 1t will be well for You to try
to have some part in this fund. You
will have cause to be glad that you
did something as soon as you have
time to think something OF the val
'ue Of the giving.
Ii there are those yet who should
have some part in this fund, they
ought to be promt and see that mat
ter is properly attended. Some of
the communities are winding up the
work on the fund Tuesday of this
week. We will have just started to
raise the small bit that we are going
to send. But we aregoing to send
something and those who should do
something should remember that il
works hardship on those who are
raising the fund to have 10 wait SO
long for it,
Get up the little donation you are
going to make and see that it gets
to the Dispatch in time to go forward
within reasonable time.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10

Entered as second class matter at
he postofFice at Cordele, Georgia, un-
der the act Of March Sth, 1879.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10
WEEKLY.

Communications on all topics pub
lished when not too long and accompa-
MED by full names and address Not
responsible for views Of contributors.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10
Members Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is eXclus;9c'y
entitled 10 the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to ii
or not otr erwise credited in this pa
per and also the local news published
herein.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-12-10

oll inflow tops make good knitting
bags.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01
lBy Milton Bronner.A

'aM# go 10y N1IxUOH oCOIulCrsy 10 E@tH- a
Washington, Aug. TN France
today there almost one-half mil
lion people-old men, women and
children-without homes, without
food, clothing reduced to threads,
without employment, almost without
hope.
'They cling to the fringes Of the
French and British armies, where
they know there is real food. They
live practically on what the armies
give them. They are what the Ger
man Invasion mad them.
They were driven from their little
villages RACED and looted. Their
Arms are pitted with shell holes.
When they get food, they eat it al
most literally as their cave men an
cestors ate it-with their fingers. To
help these people get back on their
feet is one Of the first great construc-
tive steps of the American Red
Gross" So said Henry P. Davidson,
Red Cross head.
THE Red Cross. has a commission
over there now making a preliminary
survey, every man al expert. To
mention two, there are George B.
Post, town-planning genius, and DR..
Livingston Farrara. of the Rockefel-
Ter Foundation, is going to study
how best to combat tuberculosis,
making such terrible inroads upon the
French. The Red Cross also has cleo
trical. drainage and agricultural ex-
perts with h commission.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01
American Red
Cross Assn
Grand Forks Chapter
News and Notes of Women's Ac-
tivides-Here and Elsewhere
Throughout the Northwest. /.
WHO STARVE! RED CROSS
TO MAKE THEM ECONOMIC ASSET

1--WE propose to say to this army
of poor wanderers: Go back where
your native villages once were Here
is food. Here are tools, to build rude
homes from the wrecks Of the old.
Here are agricultural implements and
Seeds
"You see part of our job will be to
restore hope to the hopeless. so these
people can stand on their own feet
and become a help rather than a drag
to the armies. For France itself they
are a terrible economic liability. We
want to convert them into an asset.
If we can start them they will become
self-supporting. Indeed, with French
thrift, they will soon be growing food
for others. i
Meanwhile we must also save the
future women of France. Last year,
among French children, the excess Of
deaths over births was nearly 500, 900.
1--WE are sending doctors to teach
the mothers how to care for their
babes. .
."And finally, in France. we are
studying the terrible war problem Of
the orphan. There are thousands
whose fathers have persisted in battle
and whose mothers have died, or are
utterly dependent. The Red Cross is
going to work in conjunction with the
French government.
And the foregoing is but one
among hundreds of problems the Red
Cross is studying how best to solve."
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01
War Time Menu
for Next Week

Sundays.
Breakfast-Puffed rice and berries,
creamed toast, coffee.
Dinner-Steak stuffed with dress
ing, rolled and roasted; boiled pota-
toes and peas, lettuce and onion salad.
watermelon, iced coffee.
supper-Hamt sandwiches, potato
salad, raspberry cream cake, Iced tea.
Monday.
Breakfast - Cold nodded corn
starch and milk, toast and coffee.
tuce sandwiches, cookies, tea.
Dinner-Codfsh hash, cornmeal
mullins, beet salad, lemon ice.
Tuesday.
Breakfast-Fruit, omelet, toast,
coffee.
Lucheon-Brown bread, iced but
termilk, melon.
Dinner-Macaroni in aspic. string
beans, cold slaw, boiled custard, tea.
Wednesday.
Breakfast-Melon, corn flakes and
cream, biscuits. coffee.
Lucheon-Bread, cheese, marmal-
ade and tea.
Dinner-Meat loaf with rice, cook
ed starchy vegetables, fruit salad, tea.
Thursday.
Breakfast-Prunes and cream, rice
mullins, coffee.
Luncheon-Corn pudding, z
sandwiches, iced tea.
Dinner-Vegetable and meat stew,
cucumber and radish salad, blackber-
ry cobbler and cream.
Friday.
Observation-Disclosures cereal with ber-
ries, toast, coffee.
Luncheon-Cream cheese with
brown bread, pickles or salad, tea.
Dinner-Pea soup, creamed pota-
toes. cheese souffle, tomato salad,
fruit tarts.
Saturday.
Breakfast - Bananas and cream,
cinnamon rolls, coffee.
Luncheon-Rye or corn meal bat
ter cakes and sugar syrup, sliced
peaches, tea.
,Dinner-Fish balls and rice, mixed
vegetable salad, fruit or~melon.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-01

naming before they will be needed,
and the committee is anxious to get
them in readiness as quickly as pos
sible.