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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
FREE FROM TAX
U. 5. War Savings Stamps Are
Free From Federal, State
Or LEGAL TaxatIon-.fay
/ Good Interest.

Ono OF tho advantages OF the war
savinss stamps as an investment IL
that they are not subject to taxation.
The following statement In reference
to this feature has been issued by the
war savings committees:
when preparing for the issuing Of
Thrift Stamps and War Savings Ger
tidoates, the national administration
very wisely decided that they would
not be subject to any taxes-federal,
state or local. In this respect, they
are entirely unique, being free when
almost everything else Of value Is sub
ject to impost.
"As the amount that an individual
may hold Is limited to $1,000, this con.
csssion does not deal unjustly toward
other security holders. 1t is simply
an inducement to the small investor
90 make all unusual effort in his own
country's behalf by depositing as
much OF his surplus with the govern
ment as possible. Those who buy
these little bonds-and all should do
tt-Bhould understand In advance of
tho coming days Of taxation return in
April that whatever Of their earned
savings or surplus derived from eco
nomics Is converted into Thrift
Stamps and War Savings Certificates
need not be recorded upon the assess
or's blank. As the interest and prin-
Opal arc payable in 1923. neither is It
necessary to make mention of the in
vestments in the return to the in.
come tax collector
"They are, az stated, absolutely free
and. as they also pay per cont COM
pound interest. are the best securities
that one can buy III these troubled
times.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
WORK IN mo MANS LAND"
Exciting, But Not as Bad as Supposed
Back Home.
(Greenville NeWs.)

"Believe me, it is exciting out on
No Mans Land working on barbed
wire entanglements, specially when
the shells are bursting over your
head and you can hear bullets whis-
tling all around and then the flares
go up and everything Is bright as
day." says Top Sergt. Sam NJ. Hun
ter, Jr., Greenville man who Is in
the engineer regiment in France, in
letter to his mother, Mrs. S. NJ.
Hunter, Of McGee street, Greenville.
Sergt. Hunter went over with the
Rainbow Division about four months
ago, That he Is credit to his city,
State and country is amply manifest
in his letter. Sergt. Hunter wrote:
I'VE were up tnere Gin the
trenches) more for the experience
than anything else. 1t is pretty bad
up there, but not so bad as the peo-
pie at home imagine. Up there we
lived In the dugouts, which are shell
proof. Our job Is to build barbed
wire entanglements and dugouts.
| Most Of the work Is done at night.
believe me, 1t is exciting out on
No Mans Land working on barbed
wire entanglements, specially when
the shells are bursting over your
head and you can hear bullets whis-
Ting all around and the flares go up
and everything is as bright as day.
You are nervous, naturally, at first,
but you soon get used to it all. OF
course couldn't let the other fellows
know | was nervous, as that might
demoralize the whole bunch. But
many time at first was encourag-
ing the others when deep down in
my heart I hated to sec the next
shell burst.
"Our colonel says every man IS
nervous the first time and also that
any one that says hos not Is either a
objection to our sleeping quarters Is,
or was, the rats. They were awful.
Have seen lots Of them as large as
an ordinary cat. We had a cat In
ours one night, but it was afraid Of
the rats. am glad to be away from
there, but | wouldn't take million
dollars for the experience.
we are soon to have seven days
leave OF absence-not thing to do
but rest. There are three places we
can go. Don't know yet where will
60 You have to be over here four
months before you get the leave.
Seems like I've been here four years"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
Will The American Farmer
Kill The kaiser's Wolf-Famine
chao. A. whlttIo, Editorial Manager

chas. A. WhlttIe, Editorial Manager
The farmer can win this war.
Only by famine does the Kaiser hope
to conguer-famine by force Of the sub.
marine. If the submarine brings Eng
land and France to their knees, beg.
Eing bread in the humiliation Of de-
feat, the Kaiser will then turn upon
the United States.
England and France can be saved
from famine by the farmers of the
United States and Canada in spits of
the submarine, If they will. The sub
marine will sink food that England
and France so sorely needs but the
submarine can not sink enough to
starve our allies, II the farmer Of the
United States will raise maximum
drops, raise every pound and save ev.
cry pound Of foods he possibly can.
It's fight, therefore, between the
farmer Of the United States on the
one hand and the gaunt wolf of the
Kaiser, famine, on the other hand
If the American farmer can raise
enough to allow for the submarine
toll and enough more food to place
"over there" to feed those who are
fighting, then victory is ours.
But It's marrow margin. The
whole world Is on the verge Of star
walton. If even normal crop Is pro.
duced In this country 1t Is not going
TO afford enough to feed everybody
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03

Farm Service Bureau, Atlanta, Ga.
dependent upon this country, a full
ration. At best there Is going to be
lack. The American farmer must
awaken to a serious realization that
this Is no small task, In fact, It la
only fighting chance.
II the American farmer will only
realize this, then he must recognize
that every blow he makes must count
for the utmost. Maximum yields
must be striven for rs never before.
This is no time to leave anything
unemphasized that will count for
greater yields. Efficiency must oper.
ate with every act on the farm from
breaking the soil deeply to garnering
the crops with a saving hand.
Thorough preparation Of the seed
bed may be accomplished with less
labor than Is customary, by the use
of labor saving farm machinery.
Liberal and rational applications of
plant food should be made this year.
Farmers who never used commen
cial fertilizers before should certain.
ly do so now for the nations sake.
The same modern, labor saving
farm machinery that will enable a
farm hand to plow two rows while
plowing one heretofore-and plow
them better-must be made use Of.
It's e. hard fight all spring, summer
and fall for the American farmer.
Will he win2
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
Ugly, Unsightly Pimples
Are Signals of Bad Blood

fier known, and contains no minerals
or chemicals to injure the most deli
cate skin.
Go to your drugstore, and get
bottle Of S. S. S. today, and get rid
of those unsightly and disfguring
pimples, and other skin irritations.
And it will cleanse your blood thor
oughly. If you wish special medical
advice, you can obtain II without
charge by writing to Medical Direc-
tor, 20 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta
Georgia.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
Recitation Contest.

Following is the program OF the
recitation contest of Flat Shoals
Graded School to be held at the
school house on April 5, at 8 o'clock:
Sister Sue and Her Beau--Ovaline
Cowan.
The Stars and Stripes Forever
Lloyd Bell
A Boys Lecture on Knives
Claude Brewer.
A Yankee in Love--Jesse Sloan.
When Mama was Little Girl
Thelma Bell.
John Maynard-Ina Cowan.
A Joke on Grandma--Annie George
A Most Obliging Little Sister-Le-
ora Head.
A Boys Idea Of Grandmothers-
Theodore Galloway.
Mollie's Little Ram-Claude Sloan.
The Lost Kitten-Jesse Belle Bar
rett.
Aunt Elonora's Hero-Janelia
George.
Grandpapa's Spectacles - Beulah
Whitehead.
The Gingham Dog and the Calico
Cat-Pearle Rogers.
Asleep at the SWitch-Viola Head.
Kentucky Philosophy - Ruth
George
Big Meetin' at Swingin' Limb
Beatrice Head.
The One-Legged Goose--Effie Rog-
ers.
A Funny Man--Rufus Head.
Epamenandos Sloan.
When Hubby 'Spects Her Beau-
Lula Whitehead.
Rastus' Sunday pants--Pauline
COwan
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
What Your Quarters Will Do.

II you have an idea that your quar-.
tors won't help win the war and do
lots OF service when invested in War
Savings and Thrift Stamps, Just look
over this table. Tho little bonds" are
translated into terms of soldiers
equipment. Here's how they stack up:
Thrift stamp--Five bullets.
War Savings Stamp-One pair Of
shoes.
War Savings Stamp-Two wooden
shirts.
War Savings Stamp-Four winter
undershirts.
l War Savings Stamp-One steel
helmet and $1.14 over.
l War Savings Stamp--One shelter
tent and part payment on overcost.
Those quarters will do tho govern.
ment lots Of good. And remember,
you are not giving them away, but
lending them at 4.27 per cent interest.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
!. :. 1. i i. i. i. !. i. ess j. j. !.
!. HONOR ROLLS. j.
: II y. !. Il !. !. !. !. !. !. I.

Following is the honor roll of Ebe-
nezer Graded School for month end
ing March 22d:
Sth Grade-Elford Wyatt 97.1,
Hazel Tollison 97.s, Mae Vaughan
GIG.
7th Grade-Alice Newton aG2.
Pearl Vaughan 93.4, Bertha LeCroy
.91.3
9Th Grade-Ernest Powell 9O.4.
5th Grade-Annie Adds 90, Cliff
ton Adds SO, Gladys Wyatt 9S.
4th Grade-Ruth Newton 81, Eva
Adds 90, Annie Orr 81.
Sd Grade-Pauline Hester 9S.
I'd Grade-Gertrude Gilmer 90,
Grady Vaughan 81.
ADV. 1st Grade-Irene Hester 96,
Frank Huskamp 95, Roy Pearson SO,
Ivan Pace 81, Luther Qualls 90.
1st Grade-Annie Duncan 95, Roy
Holland 81, Gambrell Holland 81,
Willis Powell 90, Elinor Pace 95, Ru-
fus Qualls 95, Willis Vaughan 90,
Bolton Vissage 96, Frank Vaughan
SO. J. B. Compton, Principal.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
WOODRUFF LEADS STATE
Has Largest Por Capita Of Money IN
vosted In War Savlngs Stampa.

Charleston, 8. C. - The town Of
Woodruff. s, c., has the largest per
capita sales up to date Of all the towns
In the state. The population Of Wood
ruff is 1880 and the sales up to Feb
ruary 16 were $2,441.28, wich repre-
Sents $3.50 worth Of war savings
stamps and thrift stamps for each per.
son In the town. The balance Of the
state has sold only s092 per capita.
Woodruff, therefore, has made the
best showing in the state up to the
present 'Nte, and expects to conduct
the campaign even more vigorously.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
HERE'S HOW

There are many persons who
have an uncomfortable feeling
that they are not holping tho
nation in this time Of crisis.
They can not for various ree.
sons enter the military or naval
service Of the country. or do
other work that would help the
government In prosecuting the
war against tho Huns, and yet
they want to help. There is a
solution to this problem which
troubles many earnest patriots.
Those who invest in war say
ings and war thrift stamps are
actively aiding the government.
They are placinS at the disposal
OF the government not merely
money, but the goods and SER
Woes that the money can buy
and use in properly supplying
and eauipping our army and
navy. Joining q War Savings
socitey makes saving easy. The
government pays interest at the
rate Of per cent, per annum,
compounded quarterly.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
CoIored School Makes Record
8evon.Miio School Near Charleston
hae 100 Per Cont. War 8avlnse
Stamp Enrolment.

Charleston, 8. C.-The 7-Mile School
at Mt. Pleasant. 8. c., has made the
leading War savinga Stamp enroll.
ment In the State of South Carolina
according to reports In so fay. This 10
q ooiored school. and tho teacher and
every pupil owns at least one thrift
stamp. which IN considered an excel
lent showing, and which IN taken here
as an indication OF what can DO accom-.
pltBhed in the schools Of tho state.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
Flat Shoals Graded School.
(Month ending March 22.)


1st Grade. B. Rogers 81.
Adv. 1st Grade-Jessie Bell Bar.
rett 95, Rufus Head 90.
I'd Grade-John Cowan 81, Ethel
Galloway 90, Claude Brewer 81.
Sd Grade-Theodore Galloway 90,
Ila Tow SO, Bula Whitehead 97, An.
ME George 90, Ola Mae Tow 90, Lula
Whitehead 95.
4th "Grade-Lois George 9O.I
Ruth George G3.4, Leora Head o.
Pearle Rogers 90.4.
9Th Grade-Janelia George 9O.1,
Efie Rogers 95.4.
9Th Grade-Ovaline Cowan 92
Beatrice Head 993.
Esta Arve, Principal.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
Give Heed to the Warming.

Pimples on the face and other
parts of the body are warnings from
Nature that your blood is sluggish
and impoverished. Sometimes they
foretell eczema, boils, blisters, scaly
eruptions and other skin disorders
that burn like flames of fire.
They mean that your blood needs
S. S. S. to purify it and cleanse it of
these impure accumulations that can
cause unlimited trouble. This remedy
is the greatest vegetable blood puri-
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
LEMONS WHITEN AND
BEA UTIFX THE SKIN
Mako this Beauty Ilotion Cheaply for
Your Face, Neck, Arms and Hands.

At the cost Of small jar OF ordi-
nary cold cream one can prepare a
full quarter pint Of the most wonder
full lemon skin softener and complex
ion beautifler, by squeezing the juice
OF two fresh lemons into a bottle con-
tanning three ounces OF orchard
white. Care should be taken to
strain the juice through fine cloth
10 no lemon pulp gets In, then this
lotion will keep fresh for months.
Every woman knows that lemon juice
is used to bleach and remove such
blemishes as freckles, sallowness and
tan and is the ideal skin softener,
whitener and beautifer.
Just try it, Get three ounces Of
orchard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer and
make UP a quarter pint Of this sweet
,ly fragrant lemon lotion and mas
sage 1t daily into the face, neck, arms
and hands IT Is marvellous to smoo-
then rough, red hands. ADV. a.g
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
GIRLS HAVE WAVY,
THICK, GLOSSY HAIR
FREE FROM DA NDRUFF
Save Your Hair! Double It's Beauty
In Few MOments---Try This!

In q Few MOmcntS--IFy This!
If you care for heavy hair, that
glistens with beauty and is radiant
with life; has an Incompatible soft
ness and is fluffy and lustr0us, try
Danderine.
Just one application doubles the
beauty Of your hair, besides it imme-
diately dissolves every particle Of
dandruff; You cannot have nice,
heavy, healthy hair If you have dand-
ruff This destructive scurf robs the
hair OF its lustre, its strength and its
very life, and If not overcome 1t pro-
duces a feverishness and itching Of
the scalp; the hair roots famish,
loosen and die; then the hair falls
out fast
If your haiThas been neglected and
is thin, faded, dry, scraggy or too
oily, get a small bottle Of Knowlton's
Danderine at any drug store or toilet
counter for few cents; apply lit
tie as directed and ten minutes after
you will say this was the best invest
ment you ever made.
We sincerely believe, regardless Of
everything else advertised, that If
YOU desire soft. lustrous, beautiful
hair and lots of tho dandruff-no
itching scalp and no more falling
hair--you must use Knowlton's DAN
derine. If eventually--why not now?
ADV.
The five days Red Cross drive in
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
Buy Jap Ships.

Washington, March 2S.--Tho War
Trade Board announced tonight tho
purchase Of twelve Japanese ships OF
the aggregate tonnage OF 100000.
Negotlations for 100000 additional
tons arc under way. In return ia
pan is to get equivalent tonnage OF
steel plates.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
HOORAY FOR CHARLOTTEi

Washingtno, D. C.-Charlotte. Mich.
lgan, O. town OF $500, has the distinc-
tion of being the first town In the
country to make q percentage of 100
on the sale of war thrift stamps 40
cording to reports reaching the ma.
tional war savings committee here.
every man. woman and child in Char
lotto owns at least one thrift stamp.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
Flat Shoals s. /. A. Meeting.

80 FlaC Shoals >. /. "A. Meeting.
The regular monthly meeting of
the Flat Shoals School Improvement
Association will be held on Friday
night, April 9TH, at 7.30 O'Clock. This
meeting will be held just before the
recitation contest OF the school.
Therefore; the members are asked to
come early. Esta Arye, Sec,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
- W, s. g.

Japanese native-made paper is not
surpassed anywhere in the world. 1t
is used for the finest books.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03
CA S OR Ia
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 3OYears
Always bears - .,,-,,.-,..ss
s,xna's;e ;ns of &@z9Az2s7I
w. NJ. u. at ROunty Land.

The quarterly meeting of the sec.
ond division OF Beaverdam w. NJ. U.
will be held at Bounty Land school
house on Saturday, April 9th, Mt 10
O'Clock. All churches having young
peoples organizations will please ar
range for the children to attend this
meeting, as 1t will be principally Il
Sunbeam and young peoples rally.
Mrs. NJ. A. Wood,
Pres. Second Division.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03

Eeinforccments Needed Now to Stem
lido of TeItons.

New York, March 27.-A message
from David Lloyd-George, prime min
lister of Great Britain, calling upon
the United States to send American
reinforcements across the Atlantic In
the shortest possible space of time,''
was read tonight by Lord Reading,
British high commissioner to the
United States, at dinner given here
in his honor.
1--WE are at the crisis Of the war,
attacked BY an immense superiority
OF German troops" said the premier
In his message. Our armies have
been forced to retire. The retirement
has been carried out methodically be-
fore the pressure Of steady success
sion Of fresh German reserves, which
are suffering enormous losses.
"The situation Is being faced with
splendid courage, and the dogged
pluck Of our troops of the moment
checked the ceaseless onrush of the
enemy. and the French have now
Joined In the struggle. But this bat
tie, the greatest and most momentous
In the history of the world, is only
just beginning. Throughout 1t the
French and British are buoyed with
the knowledge that the great Repub-
lie Of the West will neglect no effort
which can hasten It's troops and it's
ships to Europe.
I'm war, time Is vital 1t Is i'm
possible to exagserate .he importance
of getting American reinforcements
across the Atlantic in the shortest
possible space Of time"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-04-03

The five days Red Cross drive in
the Philippine Islands enrolled more
than 1000 new members.
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1918-01-02
CHAPTER XII.


Boise, Ida. Dec. y
Brave Buckaroo--I wonder IL you ever
In your whole life got Christmas pres
emit? I've been cultivating the Louise OF
me. and here are the first fruits Of my
endeavor-I guess that's the way they say
it I've spent so much time sitting by
mommie when she's asleep ana / get tired
Of reading all the time, a nurse in this
ward-momnie has a room to herself. Of
course. but not a special nurse. because
i can do lot Of the little things. Well
the nurse taught me how to hemstitch
So / got some silk and made some nice
soft neckerchiefs-one for you and one
for me.
This one | made last. l didn't want
your eagle eyes seeing all the bobby
stitches on the first one. l hope you like
1t. Ward Every stitch stands for a
thought OF the hills and our good times
I've brought Minervy back to life. and
try to play my old pretends sometimes.
But they always break up into pieces I'm
not kid now. you see And life is lot
different when you get out into II, isn't III
Mommie doesn't seem to get much bet
ter. I'm worried about her. She seems
to have let go. somehow She never talks
about the ranch much or even worries
about whether Phoebe is keeping the win
dows washed. She talks about when she
was a little girl and about when she and
daddy were first married 1t gets on my
nerves to see how she has slipped out of
everyday life. The nurse says that's COM
mon. though. in sickness. She says
could go home and look after things for
a week or so just well as not. She
says mommie would be all right. But I
hate to leave her.
I'm awfully homesick for a good old ride
on Blue / miss him terribly. Have you
seen anything Of the cove folks lately?
Seems like I'm clear out of the world.
hate town anyway. and a hospital is the
limit for dismalness. Even the Louise of
me is getting ready to do something aw-
full If have to stay much longer. Nom
mie sleeps most of the time. believe they
dope her with something. She doesn't
have that awful pain so bad So don't
have anything to do but sit around and
read and sew and walt for her to wake
up and want something.
And this is Christmas. almost. I won
der what you'll be doing Say. Ward. II
you want to be = perfect jewel OF a man
send me some of that jerky you've got
hanging at the head OF your bunk /
swiped some that last time was there.
L would taste ulish.y gnnd to me now,
The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1918-01-02

absolutely worthless; when the blue dew
lis made him their plaything and he
saw Billy Louise looking scornfully
upon him and loving some other man
better: when he saw his name black
ened by the suspicion that he was a
.stler-preying upon his neighbors'
cattle: when he saw Buck Olney laugh
ing in derision of his mercy and fixing
fresh evidence against him to confound
him utterly.
He had all those moods, and they left
their own lines upon his face. But he
had one thing to hearten him, and that
was the steady progress of his broken
leg toward recovery. A long, tedious
process it was of necessity, but as
nearly as he could judge the bone was
knitting together and would be straight
and strong again IL he did not try to
hurry il too much. He tried to keep
count OF the weeks as they passed.
When the days slid behind him until
he feared he could not remember he cut
a little notch on the window sill each
morning with Bucks knife, with every
seventh day longer and deeper notch
than the others to mark the weeks The
first three days had been so hazy that
he thought them only two and marked
them So but that put him only one day
out OF his reckoning.
He lay there and saw snow slither
past his window, driven by whooping
wind. 1t worried him to know that his
calves were unsheltered and unfed
while his long stack of hay stood I'M
touched-unless the cattle broke down
his fence and reached it. He hoped
they would. but he was a thorough
workman. and in his heart he knew
that fence would stand.
He saw cold rains and sleet Then
there were days when he shivered I'M
der his blankets and would have given
much for a cup Of hot coffee; days
when the water froZe in the pals be-
side the bed-what little water was
left-and he Clipped on pieces OF ice
and sucked them to quench his thirst.
Days when the tomatoes and peaches
were frozen in the cans so that he
chewed jerked venison and ate crackers
rather than chill his stomach with the
icy stun.
Day by day the little notches and the
longer ones reached farther and farther
along the window sill until Ward be-
gan to foresee the time when he must
start new row. Day by day his
cheek bones grew more clearly defined,
his eyes bigger and more wistful. Day
py day mis- Knuckles stood up sharper
when he closed his hands, and day by
day nature worked upon his hurt, knit
ting the bones together.