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The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-12-19

ReV. w. {. Allen has accepted the
call from the First Baptist church
and is making arrangements to reach
Dillon about the first of the year. The
call was extended at a conference
held on the first Sunday when the
vote was unanimously in favor OF
calling Mr.. Allen. Mr.. Allen is no
stranger to the people OF Dillon. He
is son of Mr.. w. b. Allen of NAL
lory and his early days were spent
in Dillon county. For the past sew
oral years he has served in North
Augusta and other sections OF the
state. He comes to Dillon from Man
ming.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-12-19

Hugh Calhoun. one OF the best
farmers of the Albritton section. has
purchased part CT the late Henry
Smith lands near Floydale and will
move there about the first of the
year.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-12-19

Messrs. T. l.. Manning and son
Hampton are at Fayetteville hospi-
tal where they are recovering from
minor operations. They are doing
nicely and will be able to return
home in about ten days.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-12-19

Marion Stablers name appeared
among ...e list of "deserters" in a
recent issue of The Herald. Mr.. Stab
Ter was not among the list of de
serters.' but should have been class
ed among the delinquents. as he
had not received his QUESTIONABLE.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-12-19

Brooks Afford of the Consular Ser
vice it at home again after an alb
sence OF six months. Mr.. Afford
was stationed for several years at
Riga. Russia. For the past few
months he has been in Mexico.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-12-19

Renting for his subscription l.
A. Hammond of Latta says: Il en-
close 81 for which please renew my
subscription to The Herald My sub
scription will be out this week and
I don't want to miss a single copy
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-12-19

Mr.. j. =. McLaurin, who has beer
lowing an attack of influenza. is bet
TER and will be able 10 leave his room
la a few days.
The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1918-12-19

Fred Tart, who has been with
charlie Saleeby for the past Is
months. has resigned his position and
will engage in farming near Latta.
Mohave County miner., 1918-02-02

Hoover said, "an examination wal made of the costs and profits of refin- ing and 1t was finally determined that the spread between the cost of raw and the sale of refined cane sugar should be limited to S1.30 per hundred pounds. The pre-war differential had averaged about S5 cents and increased costs were found to have been impos- ed by the war in increased cost of re- fining, losses, cost of bags, labor, insur- ance, interest and other things, rather more than cover the difference. After prolonged negotiations the refners were placed under agreement estab- fishing these limits on October l, and anything over this amount to be agreed extOrtionate under the law.
 "In the course of these investiga- tions 1t was found by canvass of the Cuban producers that their sugar had, during the first nine months of the past year, sold for an average of about S4.24 per hundred f. O. b. Cuba, to which duty and freight added to~the refiners' cost amount to about S5.66 per hundred. The average sale price of granulated by various refneries, ac- cording to our investigation, was about S7.5O per hundred. or a differential of $1.S4
 'Tn reducing the differential to $1-9o there was saving to the public of 54 cents per hundred. Had such a dif- ferential been in use from the 1st 0i January, 1917. the public would have saved in the first nine months of the
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
AMERICAN AND GERMAN
EFFICIENCY CONTRASTED

The searchlight of war has brought
out many interesting facts, and one
of these is that the Wanted German
Efficiency will not always stand the
test of comparison with American eff
ficiency.
The Germans boasted Of being the
greatest farmers on earth lnvestiga-
ton shows that in efficiency in agri-
culture, measured by the productive
acre, America being graded 100, Bel
GUM leads the world, at 205; Great
Britain comes second, at 1874; and Ger
many third, at l55; America comes
fourth.
Rut the better test is the man test
rather than the acre test, and here
America leads the world by over to
/. Again, grading America at 100 per
farm worker, Great Britain produces
Az and Germany Al The American
farmer cultivates 81 acres, the Ger
man farmer but 7. With the aid of
vast quantities of fertilizer the Ger
man produces more per acre, but he
produces at a much greater cost per
bushel and he produces much less than
half as much per man,
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
THE PEOPLE ARE SAVING

Evidences are accumulating that
the habit of saving among the Amer
lean people, especially among the pa
irons of savings banks and posta
savings, is outstripping the financial
demands made upon them by the Gov
eminent.
While no exact figures are available
at present, government official is
authority for the statement that pos
tai savings deposits have steadily in
creased during the year 1917, and no
tably since the lst Of July Of that year
which was after the first issue of the
Liberty Loan.
The reports from savings banks al
so show steady gain, apd the same
is true of cooperative building and
loan associations.
Nor have the people of small means
been the only savers. 1t is estimated
that the savings of the whole people
of the United States, ordinarily five to
six billions of dollars annually, were
increased to fourteen or fifteen bill
lions in 1917.
The response of the people to the
national need of economy and saving
has been general and generous.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
THE AMERICAN RED
CROSS IN ROUMANIA

Betrayed by her closest ally and
now crushed in on all sides by the
enemy, the little kingdom of Rou-
mania today presents what is proba-
bly, the saddest example of the trag-
edy that follows in the wake of war
fare. Three million of her eight mil
lion once prosperous inhabitants are
dead-victims of battle and disease.
The remaining five million driven
back by the enemy hordes from the
fertile portions of the empire, are
crowded together in what is left of
free Roumania, a strip Of sterile land
lying along the Russian border and
representing less than third of
the nations original territory
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15

progress in constructing billets,
bridges, trenches, dugouts, and the
other requirements Of Mars.
AS they level the forests which are
the last strongholds of the Old Eng
land many of their forefathers knew.
the men are unmoved by imagination.
except when some lumberjack con
jures up a mental picture of the fore
es responsible for Belgium and the
Lusitania, and swings an extra vigor-
Gus and vicious stroke in consequence.
The units are scattered along the
banks of a river for ten miles and
each is small community in itself,
gathered around n central hut presid-
ed over by Young Mems Christian
Association secretary, where the men
assemble for amusement in their leis-
ure hours.
To illustrate the inexhaustible ener.
gy of the men--the statement tho
basket ball is the most popular
amusement after hours of vigorous
work means much to those who know
the strenuous possibilities of the
game.
During the Christmas holidays ov-
err half Of the men paid visit to Lon
don where they were accommodated
at the Eagle Hut of the American
Young Mems Christian Association.
Several days were spent acquiring ex-
perience which will be retold in Amer
Jean numbering camps for many years
to come.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
LUMBERJACKS ABROAD
Ten Saw Mill Units From New Eng
land Cut Down English Forests

What few other sections OF lhc
country could give to the war what
New England gave? She sort 500
lumberjacks to England
They are helping cut down the his
toric English forests in order that
timber may go to the Allies as they
need it, For billets and bridges and
trenches and dugouts depend upon the
work of lumbermen.
This is the story of the New Eng
land lumberjack in England.
England's ancestral forests, jeal-
ously guarded by many generations Of
Englishmen, are rapidly being cut
down by American Drawn.
Word of this latest sacrifice of SEN
timent to necessity, came to this coun-
try recently in reports of the progress
of the ten saw mill units which New
England contributed to the common
warfare against autocrac.'
These units numbering over 300
sturdy lumberjacks, recruited by the
Boston Committee on Public Safety
from the backwoods of Maine, New
Hampshire, and Vermont, have been
busily engaged in the forests around
which much of the best of English
literature has been written.
History in the making rather thar
that of centuries past, however, leaves
its impression upon the northwood'
representatives of America as they
turn out in hundreds of thousands OF
feet the lumber necessary to Arm,
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
Camp Theatre Prices
Far Lower Than at
Metropolitan Houses

While figures are not yet available
on the proportionate number of 81
and So smilage books being purchased
for use by men at the camps and can
tonments, the Commission on Train
ing Camp Activities, in charge of the
sale, states that there has been unex-
pected demand for the larger books.
Smilage books selling for 81 contain
20 coupons good for admission to
camp entertainments; books selling
for $5 contain 100 coupons
From two to five coupons are re-
quired for admission to Liberty thea
tres at the camps, although many of
the productions are of the class which
command 81 prices in metropolitan
houses.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
A Bilious Attack.

When you have bilious attack
your liver fails to perform its func-
tions. You become constipated. The
food you eat ferments in your stom-
ach and causes nausea, vomiting and
a terrible headache. Take Chamber
lain's Tablets. They will tone up your
liver, and clean out your stomach and
you will soon be as well as ever. They
only cost quarter.-Adv.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
DEATH is CAUSED
BY TYPHOID FEVER

Special to The Tribune.
PROVO, March S.--Mrs. Christina
l.. Nuttall, wife of l.. John Nuttall of
Lake View, died last night from ty-
phoid fever at the age of So years.
Mrs. Nuttall was the daughter of
James A. and Ann Little of Kanab
both deceased. She is survived by
her husband and eleven children, two
brothers and four sisters.
The funeral services will be held
Monday at IL o'clock in the Lake View
meeting house.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
Carrier Pigeons
Are Being Killed
by Hunters

pigeon section of the Signal Corps
that carrier pigeons of the racing
homer type, being trained throughout
the United States for communication
service with the American Army, have
been shot by persons on hunting ex-
petitions.
Because of the important part car
rier and homing pigeons are playing
in the war, and the need for their
breeding and development in this
country, the War Department has con-
siderably expanded the pigeon section
of the Signal Corps. Homing pigeons
constitute one of the most effective
means of communication in the Army.
Any pigeon in the air may be car
rier pigeon flying from loft under
Government supervision. Its destruc-
ton may be serious loss to the
American Army. Anyone coming in
to possession of pigeons labeled gu.
S. Ais" indicating they are being
trained for Army purposes, is re-
quested to report the fact at once to
the office of the Chief Signal Officer,
Land Division, Washington, ID. d.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
Deaths in British Forces
in Action and from Wounds
Estimatd at hut 7 Per Cent

Now that the American troops are
taking their places in the trenches,
attention is again directed to an esti-
mate by the Secretary of War, that
the losses up to June 1, 1917, of the
British expeditionary forces from
deaths in action and from wounds
amounted to but z per cent of the
total Of all men sent to France since
the beginning Of the war.
The ratio Of losses of this character
today, because of improved tactics, is
less than Z to every 100 men.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
weekly War News
From War Department, Washington d. C.

under 20 years of age and 1,050,000
are negroes. A majority of the wom-
en- workers are found in the Southern
States,
The lines of work in which women
will be likely to increase their farm
ing activities, according to the report,
are vegetable gardening, poultry rails
ing, butter making, hog raising, etc.
1t is suggested that women who know
how to operate motor cars may with
little additional training operate trac-
tors.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
Automatic Insurance
Covers Men Lost
on TOrpedOed Transport

Any American soldiers lost on the
torpedoed transport were protected
by United States Government Insur.
ance and Government compensation
Those who had not applied for insur.
ance were covered by automatic in.
surance which is payable to wife
child, or widowed mother. The auto
matte insurance aggregates about ST..
300, netting $25 month for 24C
months. Insurance that had been APP
piled for is payable to much larger
class of benefciaries and can go as
high as $4,000, netting $3.50 a
month for 240 months.
The compensation in case of death
given by the Government without
charge and regardless of rank or pay
ranges from $50 to $75 month";
bosed on the number of dependents
Payments under the compensation
feature of the military and naval in
surance act in case of death are paya-
BILE to a widow, children, or dependent
widowed mother.
The automatic insurance ceased on
February IL, but the compensation
featured f the act is separate pro-
vision. The scale of compensation in
case of death follows:
(a) For a widow alone, $25.
(b) For widowa nd one child, $35.
(c) For a widow and two children
$4750, with SIS for each additional
child up to two.
(dD If there be no w,Gow, then for
one uhild, $50.
(e) For two children, $50.
(f) For three children, $40, with
SIS for each additional child up to two.
(g) For widowed mother, $50. The
amount payable under this subdivis-
ion shall not be greater than sum
which when added to the total amount
payable to the widow and children,
does not exceed $75.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15

Tfn1gn1n is no more necessary
YRkUuII than Smallpox. Army
UuOuU experience has demonstrated
the almost miraculous eff
esey, and hsrmiexsness, Of Antityphod Vaccination
Be vaccinsted NOW by your physician, you snd
Jour family. II Is more vital than house Insurance
ASK your physician, druggist, or send for Have
r1u hst Tyrheidi" telling OF Typhoid vaerire.
iesuu from Va and danger from Typhoid Carrie 8.
Tff CUTTER LABORATORY. BrRnritY. CAL.
rsosV ne sseeisss a sssvss vsess o. g. Gov liessss
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
Nine Tests Are Used
to Prove Physical Fitness
of Men i'm CAMPS


The director of athletics at one
Army camp has arranged program
as a means of determining the rela-
tive athletic caliber of the companies
in the division. Each man is required
to pass in eight of the following tests
to obtain a positive mark for his unit
Jump feet from standing posi-
ton; chin 10 times; clear bar at A
feet inches; throw l2-pound shot
33 feet climb 20 foot rope in Is sec
onds; dash 80 yards in'7 seconds; run
IA mile in minutes; lift a 60 pound
weight over the head with one hand
sit up from supine position with q
5O-pound weight suspended from the
back of the head.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
SmOkeless Powder Plants
Will Have Capacity OF
Million Pounds n Day

Plans and contracts are completed for
the construction of two smokeless
powder plants, each to cost approx
mately $5O,OOO,OOO. The estimated ca
pacity of each is 100000 pounds of
powder day, and from 10000 to 49,
600 men will be employed at each
plant.
The initial output at each factory
is expected not later than next Aug
ust. Much of the product will be
available for the allied nations.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
REWARD

Will reward any person furnishing
evidence of trespass in pasture for
merly owned by Sheep Association in
Cross Hollow hills. II. Hunter
Adv.2w. pd.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-03-15
1900, 900 Women are
Engaged in Agriculture
in United States

According to a late report of the
100000 women engaged in agricul-
ture in the United States. 100000 are
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-29
Practical Education

One of the most ridiculous mis-
takes of the older education was its
failure to bring up young people
fitted to live in the country and en-
gage in agriculture. This is one of
the principal causes of high cost of
food. We refused TO teach country
young people anything about the
calling in which they expected to
make living.
We fitted them to be- clerks and
book-keepers in city stores. Moth
ing was taught them as to how
food production can be made a bus
mess success. or as to how country
life can be made successful and ad'
vantageous.
AS a consequence most bright
Young folks, having learned to de
spise their fathers business. rushed
off to the cities, The farmerse were
left without help. Foreign laborers
were brought in But they were
no satisfactory substitute. Often
this hired help could not be had.
AS a result, having driven all the
food producers away from the farms
we now complain because food
costs high. =.
A large number of agricultural
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-29
Widespread Thievery

Complaint is made of a carnival
of thievery now going on, particu-
larly from railroad and express
shipments. Crooks who dispose of
stolen goods send out gunner to
rob from freight cars and freight
stations.
The railroads, owing to shortage
of labor, have had to take on some
undesirables, who may steal them
selves, or at least accept tips TO
keep their mouths shut.
There has been complaint of an
unus ual amount of crime since the
war began. The criminal element
have felt that the law and order
forces of the community were too
busy fighting a war to look after
them, and that they could ply their
nefarious trades with less inter.
ference than usual.
Modern penoloey is inclined to
treat a first offender lightly, and by
the probation system to give him
a chance to make good. But if he
shows persistent criminal tend
ency, merciful treatment not merely
encourages him to persist, but it is
a bid to all uncaught criminals to
take their chances.
Railroad officials need to be viei-
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-29
schools have now been starred.

schools have now been starred. A
great l. any young people are learn
ina how 10 make farms pay, and
how to organize community life in
a country town. In time this will
lead to greater food production. But
there are not nearly enough of these
schools, and they need more gener.
Gus support.
Practical education is a big sub
ject. The many questions relating
to The education of girls has not
been taken up In conclusion it
can be said that if our education
can be made thoroughly practical,
we can attain an efficiency that
will make the United States more
prosperous than ever before, in
spite of the great burdens it has to
carry.s
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-29
We live ia the midst of blessings

We live ia the midst of blessings
till we are utterly inSensible of their
greatness, and of the source from
where they flow. We speak of our
civilization, our arts. our freedom,
our laws. and forget entirely how
large share is due to Christianity.
Blot Christianity out of the pages of
mans history, and what would his
laws have been?-What his civiliZa-
ton? Christianity is mixed up with
our very being and our daily life;
there is not a familiar object around
AS which does not wear different
aspect because the light of Chris
tian love is on it; not a law which
does not owe its truth and gentle
ness to Christianity; not a custom
which cannot be traced in all its
holy, healthful parts to the Gospel.
The sheriff of Knox county. it is
said, took his son along with him
and beat up a citizen with whom
there haG been some trouble over
passing through small strip of
land 1t is thought up in Knox that
the proceeding was a shade out Of
the line of an official proceeding.
Go to Miss Belle Johnson for
high. grade engagements.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-29
No Cheap Food Yet

lmmedIa G dropping o. .oJd prices
rs the result OF "A conclusion OF an
2rmjstice cannot be expected, Food
Administrator Hoover declared in a
statement received by The Missouri
Division Of the Food Administra-
ton While the prices Of some food
stutfS will decrease, others will in
crease, he said.
With the war effectual.y over"
said Mr. Hoover. we enter a new
economic era and its immediate eff
feet on prices is difficult 10 antici-
pate. The prices of some food COM
modities may increase, but others
will decrease. because with ii6erat-
ed shipping, accumulated stocks in
the Southern Hemisphere and the
Far East will be available. The
demands upon the United States
will change in character. but not in
volume"
All activities of the Food Admins
tration will be continued through
the armistice period, said Mr..
Hoover, adding that there will be
no relaxation of efforts to keep
down profteering to the last
moment"
The maintenance of the embar-
60" he continued. will prevent de-
pletion of our stocks by hungry
Europe below our necessities and
anyone who cOntemplates specula-
ton in food against the needs of
these people can well be warned of
the prompt action of the govern
ment."
Famine, Mr.. Hoover declared, is
the mother of anarchy. and if we
value our own safety we cannot sit
idly by and see the growth of this
cancer in the worlds vitals. There
are conditions of famine in Europe,
he said, that will he beyond our
power to remedy.
There are, 40 million persons in
Northern Russia to whom | tear
little access with food can be obtain
ed" he said.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-11-29

Please bring the little tots in the
M0RNING.-Miss Belle johnson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-10
Tuesday Baseball Scores,
Food for Fans
BY GEO. z. PHAIR-
fCopyright.)

| d JOY Killer.
J Cometh the rainy season
When the juicy storm clouds roam.
Nachully. there is reason:
Baseball teams are coming home
In more ways than one baseball pre-
/ pares one for war. Persons who attend
opening games would feel right at home
! in wet trench.
! Fan in New York bets $500 to $1,000
that the Giants will win the National
$1,000 evidently does not read baseball
dope.
Somebody offers $4,000 to stage the
Willard Fulton fight in Chicago. 1t might
be held at the stock yards as beef show.
! We are beginning to harbor few
doubts concerning Jock Malone All the
| boxing experts hereabout say he is a COM
| ing champion.
I April
But in the ball yards blooms the charley
horse.
! A charley horse is so called for two
reasons: First. because it is rot horse.
and, secondly, because its first name is
/ not charley.
Botany.
Some love the Violet. some love the Rose
Some seeks the meadow where the Biuebell
blows.
/ nut dS LOT me- lONe tue Daruy swat
That blooms in Spring upon the corner
] LOT.
There is no longer any doubt that the
German drive is a flivver. The Crown
Prince is chauffeuring one of the armies.
If those who cook the evening meals
were allowed vote on the question. ball
games would start promptly at l p m.
! Racing experts pick Sun Briar to win
the Kentucky Derby. Wherefore, it is good
policy not to bet on Sun Briar-
! One hundred prisoners in the Westchester
county IN. " penitentiary elected to spend
an extra week in jail. and have the time
Cross. thus raising $50.