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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
To Keep Christ Warm.

/, Among the Vlachs - an ancient
people widely scattered over the CEN
trial Balkans-a big fire is made In
leach house on Christmas eve, to keep
Christ warm. The ashes are not swept
out of the hearth until Epiphany, and
meanwhile the fire must not be allowed
Ito go out. Boys go round and knock
lat door after door with stick, in re-
Spouse to which gifts of cakes and
nuts are bestowed upon them. Their
Header carries at his waist long
fstring, on which he threads the cakes
the latter being shaped like dough-
nuts, with holes through the middle.
THE family Christmas cake is huge
affair, decorated with currants and
sesame seeds, After being sprinkled
with few drops of holy water, it is
broken into pieces and given to the
sheep, horses and other domestic ami
mals, to keep them in good health.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
chippendaIe.

{ Chippendale-that's a name to con-
lure with! mean this literally, for
$50 many people do it or try to; am
sure that every one Of you, reading
this, knows the type Of commencing
connoisseur who ascribes most of the
furniture of the eighteenth century
and some of the early nineteenth-t0
this same dominating Thomas Chippen-
dale. But, after all, isn't that tribute
ito his personality, a recognition Of the
fact that he, first Of all the English
cabinet makers, was able to break
away from tradition; that he actually
'recFeated his trade, making 1t pros
|fession, an art; and so stamped his
individuality on all his work that it
became known by his name, not by
that of the reigning monarch?-Alice
Van Leer Carrick, in the House Beau
itiful.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

George Gill, ST., was another victim
of the grippe this week and was con-
fined to his home for a few days.
p. j. Kommes brought in carload
of hogs which he sold to one of our
leading stock firms, making the sale
last Monday.
Mrs. Miller who has been staying at
the home of her friends, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jake Engel and wife while taking
treatments Of local physician. re.
turned to her home near Adair last
Sunday, much improved in health.
Mr.. Jake Engle has been very
much under the weather all winter
mad we hope, as spring approaches,
to be able to see much Improvement.
Martin lessen and family held a
family reception at their home west
of this city Saturday night in loving
remembrance of his brother and fam
lily, Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew P. lessen
who left here Monday for their new
home at Askov, Minnesota. The kind
wishes of all who know the family go
with them.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the Au-
dubon township Christian church sur
prised Mrs. Chris Jacobson; last week
and left her very nice present.
Mrs. Jacobson, husband and family
will move to Moorhead, Minnesota in
the near future and the co-workers of
the church desired to be remembered
by Mrs. Jacobson by presenting her
The union evening services will be
held In the Congregational church on
next Sunday evening and Rev. Link
letter will conduct the services.
= Bill Thielen was among his friends
here the first of the week. The "old
boy" may be enjoying himself but he
didn't "look it, Better move to Elk
ira, Bill, before it's too late.
Will Kommes was under the care OF
a physician the. frts of the week with
severe attack of the quinsy
James Rendelman was passenger
to Des Moines last Thursday where he
attended to business matters and Wis
tied with friends. He returned te
Extra the latter part of the week.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
Mothers and Children.

!; No one can tell us exactly the
things it is best to do with children.
but If we begin to watch and think,
read when we can and exchange ex-
periences with other mothers, many
suggestions will be found to meet
lour needs. Take a glimpse backward
into your own childhood and many
ideas will occur to you in that way.
land through it all we will find that
1.-THE children are helping to bring us up,
tteo. Courage and joy prolong life, and
1--WE can well afford to stand and wait,
feeling sure that if our motives have
been right, and we can find something
Ito love even in the hard things of life
tour little ones viii see and know, and
will "rise up and call us blessed.@-
Exchange.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
The Serenity OF Labor.

Latimer recalled the wonder that al
ways possessed him when he stopped
to peer down into excavations where
men CROPPED about in a crazy network
of mains and conduits, or when he
looked up to the steel Orders swinging
into place on the new skyserapers.
Only now and then would he catch
sight of heavy sledge in play, or the
heave of muscles. AS a rule men
moved about in the tangle of cloaca
las If engaged in an elaborate minuet.
He saw men poised on the end of a
steel beam go through a graceful cal-
listhenics, with measured wave Of
the arm, now this way, now that way,
80 stories above the sidewalk. Yet the
subways got themselves dug, and the
ipavements were laid-and torn up
iagain-and the skyscraper grew a
couple Of stories overnight.-From the
Atlantic.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
All Drank Milk Then.

In those early days, as the new
corners flocked into Missouri, those
who had come earlier and who ''kept
tavern" had way of classifying the
new arrivals as Northerners or South
erners, without questions, says Walter
:B. Stevens in "Mssourians of One
Hundred Years Ago" If the stranger
asked for sweet milk he was from the
North of the Ohio river-from New
England or one of the Middle states.
If he called for sour milk, that identi-
fed him as from the South. Sweet
milk sold in st. Louis at 25 cents a
gallon. Sour milk was 1884 cents q
gallon.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
Proved Value Of Nut Diet.

Nuts are free from trichinae, tape
worm and other parasites as well as
the infection due to specific diseases.
Nuts are clean and sweet. Liquid nut
preparations have saved the lives Of
hundreds of infants within the last
twenty years. A telegram from WELL
known senator at Washington ans
nounced the fact that his infant daugh-
ter and only child was dying from mall
nutrition, as cows milk and all. known
infant foods had been found to dis
agree. I advised liquid nut feeding,
and fortunately the prescription suited
the case and the little one began to im-
prove at once, and the child ate almost
nothing else the first three years of
her life.-New York Sun.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
Bread and NEWSPAPERS.

5 We must have something to eat and
the papers to read. Everything else we
can give up. If we live in a small way,
there are at least new dresses and bon
nets and everyday luxuries which we
can dispense with. If the young zou-
ave of the family looks smart in his
new uniform, its respectable head is
content, though he himself grow seedy
las caraway-umbel late in the season.
He will cheerfully calm the perturbed
map of his old beaver by patient brush
ing in place Of buying new one, 1t
only the lieutenant's jaunty cap is
what it should be. We all take pride
lin sharing the epidemic economy Of the
time. Only bread and the newspaper
we must have, whatever else we do
iwithout.-Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
.EUROPE: faces
Dire FOOD and
FUEL SHORTAGE
Inadequate Supply Of Heat Ex-
pected to Cause Much
Suffering.
HOW THE ENEMY STANDS
People Have Less to Eat This Winter
Than Last, Is BeIief-Two Fodder
Observation-Disclosures
in Austria.

London.-Europe is going to lead
the simple life. this winter and for a
long time thereafter. There is not a
country that does not now realize the
real danger of extreme food shortage.
But food shortage is not the only or
In most cases the worst of the men,
aces. The nations face and realize as
never before the exhaustion Of all nee
essary supplies. Although food will be
scarce in all countries, whether bellig-
erent or neutral, 1t is doubtful whether
that will impose as much hardship on
people as the shortage Of fuel, writes
Judson @. Williver in the New York
Sun. :
In Europe's climate food is fuel to
the body quite as much as it is nour-
ishment. Sharply restricted supplies
Of food, and that Of doubtful quail
ity and poor variety, might be endured
if there were plenty Of fuel. 1t is
when the supply of fuel, both outside
and inside falls below the necessities
of physical effort that people begin
to suffer.
Europe has neither carbon for it's
food nor carbon for it's fireplaces, and
in some respects the northern neutrals
are even worse off than the belliger-
ents. Rations of important food nee
essaries have been reduced by some of
them even below the amounts allowed
! in Germany. England is by far the
host c,,pp1;od oo,ptrv in tho ,Oottoy, of
food, and the authorities are making
desperate efforts to make the popula-
ton, realize that rationing will soon
be compulsory unless food consump-
ton is considerably reduced. The food
authorities have announced policy
of accommodating sufficient reserve to
feed the country for three months,
even If no imports shall be received
during this time.
Question of Shipping.
In the case of England it is entirely
a question of shipping. Big stocks of
food have been gathered in Australia,
New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere,
but there are no ships to bring them
here. England is probably better stu
ated in the matter of coal supplies
than any other country, but must di-
vide with it's allies, France and Italy,
| and so far as possible some of the neu-
trails hope to be taken care of from the
English mines.
The German food situation is puz-
cling. Apparently the authorities are
| not nearly so confident about it as they
would like the public to believe. The
years harvest turned out more sat
isfactory than seemed probable dur.
| ing the period of droughts and hail.
storms in midsummer, but on the 9th
er hand reserves were heavily drawn
upon before the harvest of 1917 was
| gathered. Reserves, indeed, may fair
ly be said to have disappeared.
The carefully cultivated official I'M
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
Concentration.

One reason why so many young per-
[sons find 1t hard to concentrate is that
they are not in sympathy with their
work or with the way their work is
presented to them, or with both. Those
iwho try to force themselves into SYM
Ipathy may be an obstacle to the devel-
iopment Of spontaneous concentration.
! There ought not to be any effort IN
concentrating. There. ought to be pleas.
ture. ~. <.
1t is this obvious truth that the best
teaching Of today Is founded on, In
jcluding the Montessori system, which
deals with children SO young that they
might not be expected to be able to
.Jconcentrate of all.-John Barry.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
Christ or "the" Christ.

Protestants do not use the article
before the word Christ, although from
pathological viewpoint this is quite
incorrect. AS everyone knows, Christ
is an adjective in Greek, meaning an
ointed. Now, an adjective cannot be
employed alone without name or an
article. We can, therefore, but say
Jesus Christ, or the Christ. Christ
alone has no meaning whatever. Also,
in view of the fact that there have been
several Christs, the term "the Christ
is more appropriately applied to Jesus
to distinguish the Christian Savior
from all others.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
JAPANESE BUILD
$50 SHIPS A YEAR

Tokio.-Japan is able to build
$50 ships a year, their tonnage
totaling 100000, according to
a government statement. The
shipbuilding business of Japan
has had an unprecedented
growth since the beginning of
the war, and on September l
there were 113 shipbuilding
slips owned by AZ firms, besides
"a slips which are building and
will be ready before the end of
the year. These facilities are
more than three times as great
as at the beginning of the war.
Each slip is capable of turning
out ship of more than 1000
tonnage in less than a year.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
cIawed by a Hawk.

ST. Marys, o.-Clawed some time
ago in fight with a chicken hawk
Ben III. Strasburg, forty years of agen
married and residingin the Ferguson
school district, is disabled with Blood
poisoning affecting one of his hands,.
The hawk was killed. Ut measured
four feet between wing tips.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
Aot Heard. but Seen,

Doctor-'Pardon me, madam, but my
time is not my own. You have given
me all your symptoms in sufficient de-
tail and now perhaps you will kindly
let me see" Observation-Disclosures, he
doesn't want to hear your tongue any
more; he wants to look at it,
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
Bad Bobby!

Virginia came into the house crying
as if her heart was broken. When
questioned as to what had happened
she answered that she and her friend
Bobby had been fighting and Bobby
had hit her. "And what were you do
ing when he hit you?" asked her
mother 81 was hitting him back"
she sobbed.-Exchange
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28

Little Princess Jeanne, youngest
member of the Italian royal family,
photographed while on visit to
wounded soldiers recently, returned
from the Italian battlefront. The
princess is one of the most popular
members of the kings family, espe-
cially with the italian public. She is
idoEzed by tie soldiery.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
Damages for Being Called Traitor.

st. Louis.-John 81. Boyer has been;
awarded 81 actual and 5000 punitiveJ
damages from Gus v. r. Mechin, wh6l
tried to force Boyer to stand while|
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was be-
ing played. Boyer testified that he
was called traitor and assaulted.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28

Some Women Have That Knack.
He-"Where does your wife carry
her street car fare?' His Neighbor-
SIN the other woman's purse. Honest,
though, you'd think she wanted to pay
lts
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-02-28
Golfers euv sheep to Now Links.

Arkansas City, Ark.-C Combining pa
triotism and economy, members of the
Country club have purchased flock
1t sheep to NOW their links.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
THE INTERDENONINATIONAL
Sunday School Convention-Wnlll
Presbyterian Church Aug. 27-28.

Editor Keowee Courier: Let me
again use your press to speak to the
Sunday school workers Of our coun-
ty. Our executive committee has
called the annual convention to meet
August 27th and 28th in the Presby-
terian church at Walhalla.
Organized Sunday school work in
the world, in our country. in our
State, in our county, is in better
shape, doing better work, planning
larger things than ever before.
Oconee has done we'll in Liberty
Bond sales, in Red Cross offerings. in
War Stamps sales. Don't let's slack
in Sunday school work. We are a
banner county. Let's make ours a
gold star ,unty.
Will YOU kind reader, (second
person, singular number) be there?
If you have something better than we
have, come and give it to us; if you
find there something better than
your school has, get it, take it home,
and carry on" your school.
"The world must be made safe for
democracy" and the only safe de-
mocracy is Christianized democracy.
Organized Sunday school work is one
OF the greatest factors in the world s
Christianization.
Get in the procession; catch step;
keep step. The Sunday school of
1910 will not suffice for 1920.
The law of our work is eternal en-
,aeayor. That bears the school on
ward and upward forever.
Live Sunday school workers at
tend conventions for three reasons:
70 learn something of the work of
the past; to find out somewhat OF
the circumstances of the present; to
gat visions of the future.
Hoping, fellow-worker, to see you
at Walhalla, am
Fraternally yours,
VIM. S. Morrison,
State Executive Committeeman.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
Food Riots In PetrOgrad.

London, Aug. 20.-Hundreds of
PERSONS we're killed and wounded
In veritable battle between Lettish
guards aid rioters during food dis.-
orders In Petrograd, according to an.
Amsterdam dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Company.
The dispatch, which quotes Petro-
grad adVices by way Of Berlin, says,
that after the city had been without
food for two days procession Of
Workmen marched through the
streets shouting, Down with the
Germans; down with the Kremlin!"
The battle between the rioters and
the Lettish guards occurred before
the Smolny. Institute. Martial law
was proclaimed in Perograd the,
same evening.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
SUBMARINE CAPTIVE RELEASED.
Held Prisoner, Captain Later Set
Adrift in Small Boat.

Boston, Aug, 19.--Capt. David Ev-
ans, Of the British steamer Penistone,
who was taken aboard a German sub
marine us a prisoner OF war after the
undersea boat sank his vessel Off
Nantucket last week, was landed here
late to-day. With Capt. Evans were
eight members Of the crew Of the
Norwegian steamer San Jose, also q
victim Of the same submarine that
destroyed the PenistOne.
Cant. Evans appeared little tho
worse for his adventure. He was
seized by the German commander
when he tried to return to the sink
ing vessel for the ships papers.
The San Jose was sunk some time
to-day. Capt. Evans, who had been
kept prisoner on the submarine eight
days, was put into one Of the San
Jose's small boats which was picked
up later by government vessel
twenty-five other members Of the
San Jose's crew had not been
accounted for tonight. Naval au-
thorities refused to give out anything
concerning the experiences of Capt.
Evans or the sinking Of the San Jose.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
U-Boat Sunk or Our Shores.

Philadelphia, Aug. ia German
submarine was sunk In a running
battle with British tank steamer
last Friday about 500 miles north
east Of Nantucket, according to mem-
bers OF the tanker's crew. The oil
ship arrived here tonight from
Mexico.
When first sighted the U-boat was
two miles away, according to the
captain Of the tanker, who said he
Immediately opened fire. Two shots
from the submarine struck the Brit
ish ship one Of them passing through,
the boiler room and the other passing
through tank. Neither Of the shells
exploded and did no material dam.
age, the captain reported.
Twenty-seven shots were fired by
the tank ship, one or more Of which
her master declared scored clean hits,
as flames were seen to burst from
the port side Of the submarine, which
he said sank in few minutes,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
ANOTHER OIL TANKER SUNK,
Horrible Ordeal of Crew-Blazing
Sea OF Oil Faced by Survivors.

Norfolk, Va, Aug. S.-Forty-one
survivors of the gasoline-laden tank
ship Mirlo, who fought their way in
lifeboats through blazing sea of
oil when two torpedoes from a Hun
U-boat exploded the inhammable
cargo of their craft, 25 miles east Of
Cape Hatteras, Friday afternoon,
were brought to Norfolk tonight on
a government patrol boat. or this
number seven were sent to hospi-
tai to be treated for burns and bro
ken bones. Somewhere in the ocean
the bodies Of eleven Of their COM
rades, burned to crisp, have found
a seafaring mans last resting place.
A more horrible ordeal than that
which those two score British sea-
men went through, cannot be imag-
ined. The Mirlo was steaming
north when, without warning, the
wakes Of two swiftiy-approachin
torpedoes were sighted by lookouts.
There was no time to manoeuvre the
ship to escape.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21

ALL l. w. WIS GUILTY..
Ono Hundred Leaders Convicted as
Charged In Indictment.

Chicago, Aug. 17.-One hundred
leaders OF the Industrial Workers OF
the World were found guilty as
charged in tho indictment" by the
jury after one hours deliberation at
the trial for conspiracy to disrupt the
nations war program late to-day.
Arguments for new trial will be,
heard next week.
Tho defendants, including William
d. ("Big Bin") Haywood, general
secretary-treasurer of thesI. w, w.,
the highest position in the organiza-
ton, face a maximum penalty Of 27
years In prison and a $4,000 fine
each.
No Speech for Defense.
Tho close Of the case which has
been before the court for 1873 days
was sudden. Two minor witnesses
testified In the morning session and
following them Frank X. Nebeker,
chief counsel for the government,
began his closing argument, for
which he was allowed two hours, but
consumed scarcely half OF that time
Then Geo. f. Vandeveer, head Of the
defense legal STAFF, to tho surprise OF
all in the court room. declared that
he would submit the case to the jury
without making closing statement.
After the instructions Of Judge
Lands, the jury retired at 4.10 p.
M, and just one hour later announc-
ed that It's verdict was ready. The
court was hastily assembled and the
verdict was read at 5.25 p. m.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
Urged to Order Salt Early.

The food administration advises
that the salt shortage in the South.
eastern States last winter and spring
was occasioned by the shortage Of
coal for the manufacture Of salt
ead the shortage of cars in which to
make shipments, and that the same
conditions are liekly to be in effect
this winter. Dealers In salt are urg-
cd to place their orders either at this
time or at least far enough ahead
OF their requirements to anticipate
delay in shipments.
Il. l.. Herndon,
Food Administrator, Oconee County.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
THE PROGRAM.
EYrat Day.

S.I5 p. m.-Service Of song, con-
Quoted by Prof. w. S. Morrison.
$3.50 p. m.-Convention theme,
"Thy Kingdom Come" Rev. w. e.
Davis, of Clemson College.
800 p. m.-"The Finest of Fine
Arts" r. D. Webb, State General
Secretary.
Second Day--First Session.
1915 a. m.-Service of song, con-
Quoted by Rev. w. II. Hamilton.
1890 a. Drafting Adults, !"
by r. d. Webb.
100 a. m.-"The Day Of the
Country Church." by Miss Wilwee
Davis, State Rural and Elementary
superintendent.
l1.30 a. Disappointment Of COM
mittees.
11.35 a. m.--(a) "Over the Ton"
tb) Offering for Sunday School
Work. by r. D. Webb.
12.20 p. m.-AnnOuncements.
1880 p. ADJOURNMENT for
dinner. Basket dinner on the
grOunds.)
Second Session.
Las p. m.-Service of song, con-
dncted' by Rev. l.. w. Langston.
ZOO p. may Making the
Wheels Go Round;" % "Open Par
lament by r. D. webb.
$50 p. m.-"The Challenge Of
Teams" by Miss Milwee Davis.
3.05 p. m.-Reports OF committees.
3.l5 p. m.-(a) what do we Take
from this Convention" % Some
Forward Steps" (c) Installation OF
omcers. Conducted by r. d. Webb.
3.45 p, m.--Date and place Of the
next Convention.
400 p. m.--Adtournment
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
Entertainment at Townyillc.

Townville, Aug. 10.-Special: On
Tuesday. August eth, the Young
Girls Auxiliary, under the manage
ment Of the leader, will give an en-.
tertanment in the school auditorium
beginning at $50 o'clock. The pub
lie Is especially invited. A small ad-
mission fec OF 10 and 20 cents will
be charged. The program will con-
sist of piano and violin solos and
some recitatiOns.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
Meeting at Fiat Shoals.

joint campaign meeting in the
interest Of public health and educa-
ton will be held at Flat Shoals
school house Saturday next, August
gath, at 8 p. m. Local committee.
George Head, Seaborn Barrett, J. L.
Crow, Miss Esta Arve, Miss Eta.
Crow and Mrs. Charles w. Brewer.
A full attendance of the people In
the district is requested.
r. T. Jaynes, Chairman.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-21
A Family Reunion.

There will be family reunion at
the home Of II. G. 0wens, midway
between Oakway and South Union.
on August. oath. The relatives and
friends OF this family are cordially
invited to come and bring with them
well-filled baskets. A string band
will furnish music on this occasion.S
Ellen Owens. a4,