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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23
POTATOES CHEAPEST.
FOOD YOU GAN BUY
FOOD ADMINISTRATION APPEALS
TO PEOPLE TO CONSUME SUR
PLUS AND AVOID WASTE.

Columbia, S.. Gin a letter sent
out by William Elliott, Food Admin.
istrator for South Carolina, to the re.
tail grocers throughout the State, at.
tention is called to the big surplus in
Irish potatoes, and the retailers are
urged to push their sales. The ap-
peal is made by the Food Admins.
tration to the people of the State that
they eat more potatoes and consume
the big surplus during the next few
weeks in order that a tremendous
waste may be avoided.
There are in South Carolina at the
present time A $1,000 bags of potatoes
in hands Of the wholesalers and 10000
bags in the hands Of the retailers. 1t
is estimated by the Federal Food Ad-
ministration that the surplus this year
over normal times is 100000 BUSH
els. The new crop will be coming in
in a few weeks to add to this surplus.
1T woul dbe a crying shame in this
time Of food shortage for this surplus
in potatoes to go to waste" says Mr..
Elliott in his letter to the retailers.
Farmers were last year urged to
plant big potato crops in, order to re-
lieve the food situation, and did 80
periodically, and at present prices,
says Mr.. Elliott, Irish potatoes are not
only the most plentiful food, but they
are the cheapest food that consumers
can buy.
Wholesalers at different points IN
the State are selling potatoes at from
one dollar to two dollars a bag less
than they cost then.
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HOW A RURAL SCHOOL IS
FIGHTING THE KAISER
Whole Community Awakened to a
War Consciousness by the Bethea
Rural School.

Whole Community Awakened to a
. War Consciousness by the Bethea
Rural School.
Columbia.-How effectively a rural
school can fight the Kaiser and make
its influence felt throughout a commu-
nifty, awakening the people to a war
consciousness and to a sense OF their
responsibility in the present crisis,
has been strikingly demonstrated by
the Bethea schoolh in Aiken county,
reports of which have been received
by the Food Administration.
Food production and conservation
have been so impressed upon the peo-
ple of the Bethea community, through
the medium Of the school-the chill
dren carrying the gospel home to their
parents-and the night school, which
is attended by many adults, that in
to the crying need OF the
allied world for food, sixty-one acres
have been sown in wheat this spring
as against only ten acres last year.
This is only n of the several
achievement of Bethea school In wal
work. Bethea is a two-teacher school,
five miles west of WAGNER. The
Young, women who preside over the
school are Misses Mary Eva Hite and
S1yrtle Burke; and they have, in addi-
ton to their regular duties, devoted
time, effort and careful thought to
helping the people Of the community
70 do their utmost in helping win the
war.
A plot of land adjoining the school
ground has been secured for a Wa
Service Garden, which is given as
such attention as any other part or
the school work. A Junior Red Cross
organization has been perfected with
a membership Of thirty-three-alI
school children. All community work
was directed to Red Cross work last
fall at the beginning Of the school
term. and practically every home in
the community has turned liz some OF
the two hundred and sixty-eight artf-
cles that have been finished.
If there is in the State another rural
school that can give a more practical
example of the fighting spirit, the
Food Administration would be glad to
hear of its achievement
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23
WHOLE TEXAS COUNTY
QUITS EATING WHEAT
Will Use No More Wheat Flour Until
After Next Harvest ip Grimes
County TexaS-


County, Texas.
Columbia+The Food Administra-
ton has received advices and assur-
ance from the citizens of Grimes coun-
ty, Texas, that no wheat flour will be
used by them until the next harvest.
In Grimes county every day will be
a wheatless day until the next crop
comes in.
In the same fine spirit of patriotism
with which the citizens Of this Texas
county refrain from eating wheat
bread in order that the American SOL
diers Of the Allies and the people Of
warstricken Europe may be fed, they
have turned over to the government at
cost one car of wheat flour and will
deliver others now in transit. These
cars are being diverted to an Atlantic
port for immediate shipment to the
Allies.
The food situation is still far from
being satisfactory. The most urgent
need now in Europe is for wheat.
News dispatches received from Italy,
Indicating that a powerful offensive
is about to be begun by the Austrians
who have received great quantities OF
supplies from Russia, says that the
Italians are in desperate need Of food,
and that only about one-third Of the
italian army of 5000, 900 men Is being
maintained on the battle line, the Of
fetal explanation being that there is
insufficient food to provide for the
remainder.
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GROW BULLETS TO LAY EGGS.
An Egg Famine Threatens South
Carolina Next Winter.

Carolina Next Winter.
Clemson College, S. c., April 20.
According to reliable information
the number of poultry in the United
States at this time is one-half what
it was in normal times. The ruling
of the Food Administration to pro-
hibit the sale of hens and pullets to
licensed dealers until after April
3Oth was promulgated to prevent
the further slaughter of laying and
breeding stock from which chicks
could be Matched this season.
Unless everyone in South Carolina
owning a flock of hens doubles the
production Of chicks grown this
year, there will not be sufficient
layers to supply our State with eggs
the coming twelve months. The
scarcity and high prices of eggs last
winter is remembered by all, and we
are facing an even more serious
shortage Of eggs this winter unless
we grow at home the pullets to lay
the eggs.
Matching should. be continued
later this year than usual, and If Il
sufficient number of pullets are not
grown this summer, the Matching
should continue through the fall
months. Our people have the i'm
preston in many places that May
Matched chicks are difficult to raise
That this is an error, it is only nee
essary to refer to many breeders
who raise May chicks as successfully
as those Matched in the earlier
months. What one family can DO,
others can duplicate if they adopt
the same rules.
These can be summarized as fol.
lows: First, before Matching apply
a touch of thirty-threc per cent blue
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OUR FARM

Make sure you have good seed,
then 60 ahead!
Now is a good time to start a
permanent pasture.
Make plans now to save enough
rye for next years seed.
If watersprouts were not removed
from the fruit trees while pruning,
it should still be done.
Cultivate corn and cotton before
planting by making liberal use of
disk and drag harrows.
A thick paint made of white lead
and linseed oil is good for tree
wounds where large branches have
been removed.
When it's too wet to pillow, let's
give more attention to the stumps.
Many of the old fellows that have
been in the way so long may be re-
moved with little trouble.
Dragging the roads occasionally
even if farm work is rushing-will
do much to keep them in good
shape for summer traffic.
1t is we'll to look over all terraces
after a heavy rain and repair all
broken places before another rain
doubles the damage.
Strawberries should have been
mulched with straw before now but
it is better to do it late than to have
dirty berries.
Put the heavy turning plows I'M
der cover as soon as they have fin
ished their work, but first grease
the shares and paint the other parts.
Keep a close watch on the Shout
ders of your horses and mules. A
little care at the beginning of the
work season will save a lot of trou-
BILE later.
Locate any wet or soggy spots in
your fields and arrange to drain
them some way. Standing water in
a field is death to almost any crop.
It is especially important to disk
land on which rye has been used as
a cover crop before turning if it is
to be used for tobacco. Follow the
turning pillow with a disk harrow or
a drag harrow.
1t is a good plan to cut the rye
sod with a disk harrow before it is
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STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Abbeville.

At the Regular Session of General
Assembly of the State of South
Carolina, 1916, an act was passed re-
quiring the County Board of Com
missioners of Abbeville County to
insert for three weeks in a county
and state newspaper a notice for
the purpose of borrowing money for
county expenses. Now, in pursuant
to said act, the County Board of
Commissioners will receive bids for
the sum of Eighteen Thousand
($1S,0OO) Dollars, payable one year
from date.
Bids to be opened Eleven A. M.
April End, 1913.
w. A. STEVENSON,
Supervisor Abbeville Co.
NJ. l.. Evans,
Secretary Of Poard.
March 9th, 1918.
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ointment to the flesh below the vent
2nd under each wing of the sitting
hen, covering a space not larger than
a dime with the ointment, and pow
der the head and under the beak of
the hen with yellow insect powder
or tobacco dust: These applications
will kill the lice on the hen. Then
just before the eggs are due to
hatch, soak each egg for two min
utes in warm water. This softens
the shell and skins inside the shell
and makes it easy for the chicks to
emerge.
Place the hen and chickens on new
ly plowed ground, or on ground
where no Other hens or chicks have
ranged. You simply cannot grow
good May chicks on the same ground
used by the early broods. Don't try
it. Put some more blue ointment
on the hen and dust her head and
neck. If the chicks droop and
peep" rub a little cooking oil on
the top of their heads and under
their bcaks, ard if some lice roll
out, then oil all their heads. A lit
tie oil will do the work, but rub it
in.
Feed the chicks on a mixture of
one hard boiled egg, a handful of
rolled oats and a piece of light
bread or a biscuit, all pulverized and
we'll mixed the first two days to start
them off we'll. Then keep before
them a mixture O. one part of rolled
oats, one part of meal, and one part
of shorts. If you do not have the
shorts, you can use equal parts of
drilled oats and meal. Keep this in
a shallow box where the chicks can
eat it constantly, and keep it dry.
1t is we'll to add to bo&h the egg
mixture and the oats anc meal some
sharp sand, spcinkling the sand over
the mixture. This gives them grind
ing material a; once, and helps to
prevent diarrhoea. Scatter grits in
the grass three times daily.
Two or three times a week cut up
a few pieces of cooked meat like
beef scraps left from the table, and
feed these pieces to the baby chicks
This is the best growing food, and
you can almost see your chicks put
on weight when you feed cooked
fresh meat to them.
1t is preferable to keep the hen
confined in a coop for the first few
weeks until the chicks are strong.
Many chicks are lost by the mother
taking them on long walks before
they are able to keep up with her.
When the chicks are weaned, feed
them like the old hens, but keep be-
fore both chicks and hens a mixture
containing one-quarter prime cotton
seed meal, soybean meal, velvet
ban meal, or peanut meal, with
cornmeal, and wheat shorts and
bran for the other t~hree-fourths. In
addition to the dry mash, feed baby
chicks some grits scattered in the
grass, or in straw to make them
scratch, and as they grow older feed
larger grains. These grains should
be scattered about three things a
day.
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Abbeville. S. c.
Chinese %laundryman

A Chinese laundryman ]
immortalized enterprise W
went two of his neighbor m
one better in advertising hi
ness. Next door to Wan Il
drug store with a typical br|
announcing "Open All Nigh
Lungs left is a restaurant
the public know "We Never
Today Lung has an imme1
banner strung across his
business telling the wor]
Wake, Too"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

One of the rarest things
war is for anti-aircraft
bring down an aircraft.
clans have figured that an
is hit by just one shot al
feet. The best anti-aircra1
can do is to keep the enem|
flying high so that observe
difficult. It's the fighting
which 60 out to meet the END
bring him down.
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turned under. This not only
blowing easier but' leaves t
stalks we'll mixed with the 81
MAKES
GOOD BIG
Positive-Convincing


Many so-called remedies fo
mia are only so in name. The
ers are afraid to prove their eli
telling what their medicines !
The only way to be honest \
people is to let them know VII
are paying for. Here is tn
formula. When the doctor
what a medicine contains, il
20 be a patent" medicine.
p Cod Liver and BeefPeptones, In
- Manganese Peptonates, Iron AMI
monium Citrate, Lime and Soda al
phosphates, cascarin.
Any doctor will tell you tina
gradients of Vinol, as named
will enrich the blood and bani5
mia and create strength. w
blood is pure and rich and
body is strong and robust.
You can prove this at our
because your money will be Z
# Vinol does not improve your
P. B. SPEED,
Abbeville. S. c.
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Baron Won Gayl, general CON-
manding> the Seventh German Army
Corps, in Meunter, offers 5000
marks to the person who first sue
eeeds in duplicating an English or
an American agent guilty of incit-
ing disturbances or revolutions in
this district in such a n that
he may be condemned by a court.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

American soldiers operating along
the Lorraine sector make almost
nightly visits, up to the German en-
tanglements without encountering
any resistance.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

Congress has been called upon to
pass a new law to handle spies. The
Senate military committee postponed
action on the bill to courtmartial
disloyal persons.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

Col. R. C. Boiling has been killed
in action in France. 1t was first
reported that he was missing but la
ter that he was killed.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

The House voted to increase the
marine corps strength to seventy
Ave thousand men.
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Schwab, director general Of the
ship building, says that his men
work with him and not for him. They
are in perfect accord.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

Frank H. Simonds says that skill
full withdrawal from Ypres lessons
danger of isolation. He believes if
the British fail to recapture the
N~essines-W yteshaete ridge, which
they have been assailing for several
days, that they will totally abandon
Yprss.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

It 10 said that no news from the
front via Berlin means good news
for the allied forces as it gives no
chance for claims.
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The allied lines, on Friday were
holding firmly against the German
assaults. The Huns were hurled
back from all points of attack. Far
to the North they entered the Bel
gian lines but were elected leaving
about six hundred prisoners.
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Lieut.. Sweetzer, of the medical
reserve corps, gave valuable aid to
about forty men who were suffer
ing from gas while he himself was
suffering from the effects. He has
been recommended for conspicuous
gallantry.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

J. S. Watkins of Clemson, won the
Oratorical Contest and E. c. Kolb of
Furman, won the second place.
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The president has signed the bill
extending powers of espionage act
to women. This requires the regis
tration of women alien enemies.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

Fifty-eight members of the Ger
man cruiser, Seadler, are informed
in Chile until after the war.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

Seven vice presidents were elect,
ed at the convention of the D. A. RS
in Washington.
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Saturday the Germans were still
resting on their arms after bitter
defeat on the northern front. A re-
port says that in the neighborhood
of Robecq, many Germans threw
away their rifles and swan the ca
nal to the British side to surrender
when they could no longer bear up
under the stream Of machine gun
bullets sweeping through them.
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Tillman says that he doesn't
blame the strikers at the Granite
vile Mill for holding steady. He
wired them to let the dispute be
arbitrated but he can't see why
three men can't come to some agree
ment.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

Friday, April 26th, will be Liber-
ty Day. The President calls upon
every community to hold rallies
and pledge a new financial aid.
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GENERAL NEWS

Premier Clemenceau, of France,
wants just six months more to car
ry on his work in the "devil of a
way existence, that he is now liv-
ing. He asked the advice and eX-
animation Of an army surgeon. At
ter being told that he could he pitch
ed into his work. He is seventy
nine years old.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-04-23

Assistant chief Of police of Col
~linsville, Okla, persuaded the mob
Of fifty men to give Charles Miller
an uprejudiced trial. 1t was alleged
that he made disloyal utterances
and was pro-German. He was in
semi-conscious condition when he
was let down. One of the alleged
remarks was that he didn't follow
the requirements of the Food Adj
ministration because he couldn't.
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ing to prophecy-while ~
many and her allies have hoa-
fighting AGAINST the :Jewa
1t stands to reason that if any,
Of the nations today have Israe1
blood in their veins thew wou1d
certainly be lined up on the s;da
Of the Jews, and not against
them. See the pint, honey?
And what next? | have gona
over all this long rigamarole in
order to show you how very
probable it is that we Americans
and English are part of the old
Israel nation. And now I want
to show you how, according to
prophecy, we are to be Joined
with our sister nation, Judah,
again, and become the great
World-poWer of the future,
Listen to this from Ezekiel:
The word Of the Lord came again
unto me saying: Moreover, thou son
Of man, take thee one stick and write
upon it, For Judah, and for the
children of Israel his companions:
then take another stick and write up-
on it, For Joseph, the stick of
Ephraim, and for all the house Of
| Israel his companions. And join them
one to another into one stick, and
they shall become one in thy hand.
And when the children of the people
shall speak unto thee saying, Wilt
thou not show us what thou meanest
by these? say unto them, Thus sayeth
the Lord God: Behold, I will take the
children Of Israel from among the
heather, whittier they be gone, and
will gather them on every side and
bring them into their own land. And
| will make them one nation in the
land upon the mountains Of Israel;
and one king shall be king to them
all; and they shall be no more two
nations, neither shall they be divided
into two~kingdoms any more at ALL
Ezekiel 37:15-22.
And if that isn't plain enough
there is plenty more along the
same line. Here are just a few
verses taken at random:
Behold, the days come, saith the
| Lord, that I will perform that good
5 thing which / have promised unto the
House of Israel and to the House OF
! Judah.-Jer. 1914.
Now will bring again the captl-
5 witty of Jacob, and will have mercy
on the whole House of Israel.-Ezek
l 1925.
: Then shall the children Of Judah
and the children Of Israel be gathered
: together and appoint themselves one
: head.-Hosea iii.
4 In those days the House OF Judaf
n shall walk with the House Of lsrael
and they shall come together cut O.
s the land of the north to the land tina
e I have given for an inheritance UNI
+ your fathers.-Jeremiah 3:18.
And I will cause the captivity 0
q Judah and the captivity of Israel Z
|. return, and I will build them as a
4 ~ -. AE7
l, the frst.-Jeremiah 1897.
a M. -. .
And I will strengthen the House
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not but went and played the harlot
also. And the Lord said unto me:
The backsliding Israel hath justified
herself more than treacherous Judah.
Jeremiah 3:6-11.
There you see very plainly
that they were spoken Of as two
separate nations. And if you
will trace their history on
through the Bible you will find
that they remained separate and
were always spoken of as two
separate nations-udah and
Israel. The judah kingdom con-
sisted of the two tribes of Judah
and Benjamin, while the Israel
kingdom was made up of all the
other ten tribes. The word
"Jew" is derived from the name
of Judah, showing that they be-
longed to the judah kingdom.
Now when both of these king
doms we're invaded and destroy
ed and the people taken captive
into heather lands-right there
the ten-tribe or Israel kingdom
seems to end. History does not
seem to know very much about
what became of them. They
were apparently lost in the
shuttle, and they have since been
spoken Of as the Lost Tribes
of Israel"
But it was different with the
judah kingdom. It was through
the Judah people that the Mes
siah was to come, and they had
to be preserved in visible form
to accept or reject Him when He
came.
So along came King Cyrus
after awhile and told the Judah
people that they might go back
, to their own land and rebuild
their temple, and so forth
That was God working to gel
, them back there in time for the
. Messiah's coming. So they went
back to their home land and re.
I built their temple in Jerusalem
t and lived and worshipped there
but they were never allowed tx
f be an Independent nation any
more like they used to be. They
never had another king, AM
+ they were always under tn,
thumb of some other nation.
f We don't know for certain
whether the decree of Cyrus in
Guided the Israel people an,
their part Of the land or not
: Anyway, for some reason O
i other, they didn't go back. The,
= may have been already scattere
I and lost. However it Nigh
: have been, it was Gods plan t
i keep them hid so they wouldn'
r go back. But they were SOME
:, WHERE, and they are SOME
=. WHERE YET. They didn'
just die out and cease to be.
- God knew that Judah wa
- going to reject the Christ, an
He knew that He was going
= punish her for it by long ages {
exile and persecution. And 8
the Israel people were not
Us have any hand in rejecting til
Ell Messiah, neither would the
tn hov1o IN ,,pJop.~o