Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-12-25
EAST SIDE CHILDREN spat,vI.
litiablc Conditions to BE Remet.icd
Investigated Later.

nroaching, East Side children ar
"fainting in school rooms and dyinI
at home because their parents can
not pay the prevailing high price
Tor milk and staple foods, reprhsen
tative citizens to-day organized i;
committee to feed them first ant
investigate afterwards"
A plea that something be done
Tor her pupils, who were "slowl,
starving to DEATH" was made recent
ly by teacher to JOS. S. Markus, q
banker, who now heads the relief or.
ganization. Mr.. Markus himself
visited schools. hospitals and tenants
and to-day issued a statement deal.
ing with conditions on the East Side,
One settlement, he said, has the
names of $50 babies, who, recover
ing from influenza, now face epneu-
monia because their parents cannot
buy milk needed to restore them to
health. Every hostpital in the dis
trict, he continued, contains hun
drcds Of underfed Children, many of
whom are physically unable to con-
tinue their studies.
or his visit to one school he said:
'In one room there we're 90 child
rem. A rag man would not have paid
five cents for all the clothing they
wore. Many had no under garments,
and those who did cou'' harCty call
them by that name. Many we're
Without shoes and 9th rg ha hgel-
less and soleless ones.
I'VE learned that '5t of them
came there without bre; EAST some
find people were givin the ,eachep
q little money every ". ~. > with
that she purchased son mix. and
cereals, preparing grr ol #ovcy a
small stove in the room 81 said
with the high cost of mix 0w she
was not able to buy m, I'll. ia mat
several Of the children had tuinted
right there in the class room. Others
were too weak to leav2 hDluc AID
died there. Malnutrition vas he
cause--starvaton'
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~ lOuAL AND PENS0s 81. -
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- Wm. y. Bell, oa me t5u,h O.ro.
lima University, is at home lor ,ne
holidays with his parents, DR.. and
Mrs. j. w. Bell His friends are
glad to have him among them again.
Miss Carrie Darby Harrison, Of
Chicora College, Columbia, is spend
ing the Christmas holidays with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r, e. Harri-
son. and among friends here, who
are glad to welcome hel home again.
-"Rab' Cross, Of Eocky Mount,
y. c., is at home for the holidays
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. S.
Cross, and among lis numerous
friends here. Mr.. Cross is now en-
Dloyed in the freight office OF the
Atlantic Coast Line Railway at Rocky
Mount.
There viii be preaching at the
Rocky Knoll Baptist church on the
fifth Sunday mornin, at II o'clock
and on Saturday night before at
clock. Rev. w. NJ Thompson and
all tho members Of the church are
requested to be preent, as there is
business Of importance to be given
attention.
Chesterfield Batty left several
| weeks ago for Pariih, Fla, where he
is employed by lis uncle, Austin
Beatty, a grower of oranges and
garden truck for market. Chester
field Is a splendid young fellow, and
has hosts Of frields here and else
| where who will jim with us in wish
ing him every success in his new
occupation.
John Schroter, Holleman Sea-
rorn and Clifton Cobb. of Clemson
College, are amng the holiday visi-
tors here, having come up for the
-hristmas and New Year vacation
reriod. Their friends are glad to
greet them again. They are at the
comes Of thei respective parents,
Mrs. f. a. II. schroder Mr.. and Mrs.
Geo. Seaborn and Mr., and Mrs. w. r.
Cobb.
-sherriff-eect w. NJ. Alexander
4Ld family moved to Walhalla last
week and are now comfortably
chartered In the residence portion
Of the count Jail. Mr.. Alexander
sill take charge a. Sheriff at the
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