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Fairfield, July 10.-Mr. ]. A. and
E. C. Young went to Mccormick
last Friday.
There was a meeting at Fairfield
school house last Friday for the
benefit of the Red Cross. The aux
iliary closed with the joining of 20
members. Mrs. j. A. Brown was
elected chairman, Miss Willie Young
Treasurer, and Mrs. j. A. Young,
Secretary. We hope much good
can be done by each one.
Miss Eva Young spent Saturday
night and Sabbath with Miss Minnie
Bell Talbert.
The writer of this celebrated a
happy birthday on the 18th. Several
dined with us on that day, among
them was Mrs. Mary Creswell, mo-
Their, who gave the writer four $40
bills for a birthday present and
sure it was highly appreciated. No
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one like a mother. Mr.. and Mrs.
John McCaslan and son, Furman,
Miss Minnie Belle Talbert, Ansel
and Lucian Talbert and Mr.. Tom
also dined with us on the 18th.
Mr.. W. H. Kennedy spent Friday
night at the home of Mr.. Joe Young.
Messrs. John Henry Young, James
Long and Lonnie Young dined with
David Yroung Sabbath.
Mr.. Joel Young spent Sabbath at
Mr.. j. D. Creswells.
News reached here a few days
ago of the marriage of Miss Maud
Parker of Piedmont. She visited
Mrs. J. D. Creswell last summer and
while there Cupid touched the
heart of some of our good boys.
Now such news grieves htem over
their great loss, but it was a Mr..
Herd of Piedmont, whr gained this
fair. maid, so don't be discouraged
boys, live in hope if you die in de-
spair. Just as good fish in the sea as
ever vas caught. Bate your hook
right, and try your luck again.
Mr.. and. Mrs. E. C. Young and
children, spent the 4th in Troy the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Bowen.
Messrs. ]. w. Young and T. F.
Langley went to Mccormick last
Friday.
Mrs. j. W. Long and Mrs. Sam
Long spent Friday at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. julie Adams.
Born-Last week, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Ashmore, a daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. A.. Y. Young and
daughter, Margaret, and dear little
Elise Redden spent last Tuesday
with Mr.. mad Mrs. R. A. Crawford.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. D. Purdy and
little Pressly, spent the fourth with
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Creswell.
q. One of our good farmers arose
from his rest one morning last
week and to his surprise his sus-
penders were missing. Now Mr..
Rat, it is laid on you, are you going
to wear them and take this good
farmers place? He is too old for
war but lok out, if he sees you he
might get the best of you.
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COLD SPRING NEWS.

Cold Springs, July 10.-Mr. and
Mrs. Otis Smith and children spent
Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs. D. E.
Newell.
Mrs. j. M. Rowe and little Martho
and Clara Margaret are spending a
while with her father, Mr.. W. B. VI
drick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry MCGEE and
children spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. C. C. Kay.
= Misses Matte Uldrick and Maggie
Hagen left last Thursday for Pryor's
Hospital, where they went for an OPP
Grafton for appendicitis.
MI. Frank and Miss Sara Uldrick
spent Saturday night at Mrs. J. D.
Winn's.
Miss Ola VIM spent a few days
last week at Mr.. W. R. Ellis.
Miss Addie Bowen visited her
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. A.
King, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kay Carwile spent
Sunday with Mr.. J. A. McMahan
and family of near Lowndesville.
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sANTUc NEWS.
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Santuc, July 10.-Miss Lizzie
Sharp spent the weekend with her
sister, Mrs. W. F. Kay.
Mr.. Henry MCGEE and family, of
Bolton, spent the weekend with rel
tives. ,
Mr.. J. P. Robinson and family of
Due West, motored down Sunday
and spent the day at Mr.. W. E.
Morrison's.
Mrs. A: J. Morrison spent Sunday
and Monday with Mrs. Ernie Had
don.
Miss Mary Kay spent Friday at
Mr.. W. F. Kay's.
Mr.. Clarence Kay took supper
with Mr.. Walter Hughes Saturday
night and reported a fine time.
Mr.. Allen Palmer Of Camp Jack
son spent the weekend with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. +. S. Palmer.
Master Ralph MCGEE is visiting
his uncle, MI. M. B. Kay. l E.
Miss Mamie Mae Milford is spend
ing this week with her aunt, Mrs.
W. F. Kay.
MI. Edwin MCGEE spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mr.. Roy Kay.
Master Clarence Morrison spent
Saturday night with Mr.. Mack
Wright.
Mrs. M. S. Langford spent Sunday
with her mother, Mrs. E. J. Bolts.
Mr.. Henry MCGEE. and family
took supper at Mr.. Frank Kay's Sun
day night.
Misses Margaret and Sara Mae
Ables, Annie and Louise Kay spent
Saturday Afternoon with Miss Lois
Morrison.
Misses Margaret and Sara Mae
Ables spent Saturday night with
their aunt, Mrs. Joe Ables.
Messrs. Geo. Morrison and Clar-
ence Kay attended the singing at
Long Cane Sunday night.
MI Ben Ethridge spent the fourth
with Clarence Kay.
Miss Mary Kay and brother, Roy
enjoyed the picnic at Rapley Shoals
on the 4th.
Miss jamie Belle Boyd spent a
few days last week with her cousins,
little Vera and Emma Milford.
Miss Daisy Link is visiting her
GRANDPARENTS, Mr.. and Mrs. S. C.
Link. !
Nh. W. H. Sharp spent a while
Thursday evening with Mr.. James
Haddon.
Mrs. R. B. Haddon has returned
home after a weeks visit to her
parents.
Quite a number from this section
attended services at Long Cane Sun
day morning and heard Rev. H. D.
Corbett deliver a fine sermon.
Quite a number of men from this
community were in the city Satur-
day for the speaking.
Mr.. M. B. Kay spent Friday night
with MI. Claud Kay.
Mrs. E. ]. Bolts had as her guests
Sunday afternoon, Misses Lizzie and
Willie Ables mad Mrs. Jessie Boyd.
Misses Mary and Annie Kay had
as their guests Tuesday afternoon
Mrs. W. F. Kay and little son, Fran
els and Misses Mamie Mae Milford
and Lois Morrison.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. R. Haddon are
visiting the latter's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jessie Richey.
Miss Marie Boyd has returned
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home after a visit to Mrs. j. V.
Smith.
Mr.. John Stevenson and niece,
jamie Belle Boyd, dined at Nh. W.
]. Milford's Sunday.
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Extracts From Everywhere

A thousand Chinese have been
murdered in Chinese Turkestan by
rowing hordes of the Bolsheviki, ac-
cording to reports from Pekin.
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Contributors To End
Red Cross War Fund
CONTRIBUTORS TO SECOND
RED CROSS WAR FUND IN
ABBEVILLE COUNTY.

Below we publish a list of the
contributors to Second Red Cross
Fund of Lowndesville Auxiliary:
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International.

A half million men are with Perish
ing as fighters now.
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The Turks are to start a great
offensive against Jerusalem in the
autumn.
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$50 Western Union Key men quit
work Monday in Atlanta. In only
one other city, Oklahoma City, did
Konenkamp's strike order operate.
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Slavs of the Thurman Coast have
broken with Russia and Joined u
allies. This provides the entente
with a strategic base on the White
Sea and Arctic.
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Furman University will have mill
tary training next year. A profess
sor and eight students 60 to Platts-
burg so that they may qualify to
act az officers next year.
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II. H. Dean, of Gainesville, Mon
day announced his withdrawal from
the campaign for the United States
Senate from Georgia. Continued
illness was the reason given.
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Women were included in the
"Work or fight" bill passd by the
Georgia State Senate Tuesday. Per-
sons affected must work five and a
half days a week instead of five.
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The great United States tubercu-
losis hospital for soldiers near Ashe-
vile, will be completed and ready
for operation August /.
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"ro BE BRIEF is TO BE POPU-
LAR."-Johnson.
State Items.

The loafng law was enforced IN
Gaffney Saturday, when Paul NC
Comb was tried, found guilty, and
fined.
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The improved highway from
Greenwood to Greer, which has been
in process Of construction for sever
al months, is now completed and in
use.
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Lieut.. Quentin Roosevelt, young
est son of the former President, has
engaged in his first air fight. He
was pursued by two Germans, but
escaped by skillful jockeying.
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Two South Carolina men were re-
ported in the casualty lists of the
week as wounded severely: Lieut..
VIM. II. Hayes of Newberry; and
Corporal Charles H. Brantley, of
Georgetown.
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Senator Smith, of South Carolina,
chairman of the interstate COM
merce committee, reported out to
the Senate without recommendation,
the Aswell resolution, providing for
control Of the telegraph and tele-
phone lines for the period of the
war. He stated that, in his Onion,
it VISA unnecessary and a waste of
time to hold hearing on the bill.
A house resolution authorizing
the return to former President
Roosevelt of the $4,000 Nobel peace
prize which he voted to an indus
trial peace commission and which he
now wishes to distribute to the Red
Cross, Y. M. C. A., and other or
CARNATIONS aiding soldiers, because
no use was made of it, was adopted
by the Senate Monday and sent. to
President Wilson.
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A conference has been held at
German headquarters to discuss the
advisability Of appointing Albert
BALM to the post of Foreign Secre-
tary, in succession to DR.. Won Kuehl-
mann. Before the war, Herr Balm
was head of the Hamburg-American
Line,
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| Extracts From
ITO BE BRIEF is TO BE PoPu-
LAR."-Johnson.
State Items.
The loafng law was enforced in
Gaffney Saturday, when Paul Nc
Comb was tried, found guilty, and
fined,
Furman University will have mill
tary training next year. A profess
sor and eight students 60 to Platts-
burg so that they may qualify to
act as officers next year.
The improved highway from
Greenwood to Greer, which has been
in process Of construction for sever
al. months, is now completed and in
use.
Two South Carolina men were re-
ported in the casualty lists of the
week as wounded severely: Lieut..
VIM. H. Hayes of Newberry; and
CORPORAL Charles H. Brantley, of
Georgetown.
The city of Chester, following the
example set by Greenville,. has in
augurated the custom Of having its
electric lights turned off each night
for one minute, the object being to
remind our citizens of the terrible
war that this country and her allies
are waging across the seas.
! The Due West Railroad stands in
the unique position of opposing the
government increase of $50 in
freight. rates. The problem arises
from the fact that the increase may
make it cheaper for the people OF
Due West to truck their freight
from Donalds.
South Carolina no longer stands
at the foot of the class in the matter
of buying War Savings Stamps In
May this State stood seventh from
the last-Georgia being the one at
the very bottom. Leaders in this
State think the States rank will be
much higher tthan that when the f.
nal figures for the drive are tabu-
lated. -.. .
National.
Christie Benet took the oath of
Office Monday and was seated in the
Senate. "a
Worth Daniels, son of the secre-
tary of the navy, entered the naval
academy at Annapolis Tuesday.
The great United States tubercu-
losis hospital for soldiers near Ashe-
vile, will be completed and ready
for operation August /.
$50 Western Union Key men quit
work Monday in Atlanta. In only
n other city, Oklahoma City, did
Konenkamp's strike order operate.
Women were included in the
"Work or fight" bill passd by the
Georgia State Senate Tuesday. Per-
sons affected must work five and a
half days a week instead of five.
II. H. Dean, of Gainesville, Mon
day announced his withdrawal from
the campaign for the United States
Senate from Georgia. Continued
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Worth Daniels, son of the secre-
tary of the navy, entered the naval
academy at Annapolis Tuesday.
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The city of Chester, following the
example set by Greenville,. has in
augurated the custom of having its
electric lights turned off each night
for one minute, the object being to
remind our citizens of the terrible
war that this country and her allies
are waging across the seas.
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National.

National.
Christie Benet took the oath Of
office Monday and was seated in the
-t =.
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Continued on Page S, col. 81
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! The Due West Railroad stands in
the unique position of opposing the
government increase of $3.50 in
freight. rates. The problem arises
from the fact that the increase may
make it cheaper for the people OF
Due West to truck their freight
from Donalds.
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Enroll as Red Cross member.
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GOVERNMENT PLANS
FOR UNEMPLOYED MEN
Community SerVice Societies Urged
To Cooperate With United States
EmplOymeni Service

The Federal state director Of the
T. $. Employment Service has sent
out notice that, In accordance with
the national administrations plans to
do everything possible to obtain em.
ployment for discharged soldiers, there
will bc q meeting Of labor agents and
community service representatives In
Albuquerque next Tuesday, the 18th.
AL organizations in the state which
have the welfare Of the returned sol
dler at heart, have been asked to send
representatives, IN order that a uni
form plan may be adopted and car
ried ont.
The plan to he determined on is one
which win coordinate all forces In
tlie community and choose represen-
tative or committee to act for the
entire community. This representa-
tive or committee is to secure an Of
flee and volunteer assistance 10 look ur
every available opening to which ID
direct the returning men to employ.
mcnt.
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Hog Prices Stabilized

The minimum price Of hogs will
continue TO be $17.50 through Janu-
ary, according 10 agreement between
the Food Administration and the fifty
packers participating in controlled
orders for the army and navy and
export. This price applies TO aver
age packers drOves on the Chicago
market, "throwouts" and hogs under
$50 pounds not included.
The shipping embargo on hogs has
been lifted, announces the Food Ad-
ministration. Because Of shortage Of
labor, the killers found II difficult TO
handle the large supplies Of livestock
coming to market. To control the sit
untion the Food Administration re-
ouested the Railroad Administration
10 apply an embargo. The situation is
now 50 much improved that free
shipping Is again permitted The
runs indicate a larger number Of
hogs in the country than the here
tofore published estimates show.
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PACKERS REPLY TO GOVERNMENT
Refute Claim That War Earnings
Were Excessive.

Boston, Swift 4 CO., have prepared u
reply TO the accusations of the Federal
Trade Commission filed with Senate
subcommittee ON Sept. 2S.
The company states that IN It's whole
consideration Of profits, the Federal
Trade Commission fails to realize that
the profits reported by the packers
are not profits that have actually
appeared In the form Of cash. but are
largely book profits tied up In invent
ory which will undoubtedly disappear
In large measure when prices begin to
go down. Even II the war lasts Ave
years longer and the drop In prices
does not come until then, the loss viii
be just as real.
For the meat and by-prOducts depart.
ments, which are subject to the per
cent limitation of profits the state
ment continues, the rate Of turnover
Is approximately . 1-3 times year
1T must he remembered that part OF
the steer consists Of by-products which
move slowly. that some Of the beef Is
cured and salted, and large portion OF
pork products consists OF cured pro
duets which move very slowly, and even
In the sale Of strictly fresh meat Il
takes some time for the money to re
turn to the company's Golfers after thu
actual sale Is made.
THE commission says that the pack
crs' profit Of One-quarter Of cent pei
pound ON beef amounts TO 81 a ton al
compared to only % cents per ton pro
tit on coal As matter Of fact al
average quality ton OF beef Is wortl
at wholesale at present about $400
whereas a toni Of anthracite coal a
tidewater is worth only about 81. Com
pare 81 profit on a $4OO sale with
a 20 cent profit on 81 sale. The bee
profit is only about IL per cent Goa
profit over 3l5 per cent.
"ln 1917 Swift & Co. filed ovel
30.OOO,OO0 orders Of all products will
total Of about 2O0,0OO,O00 items
large part Of which had to be welghe'
and wrapped separately, while Goa
is delivered In carlots or ton lots"
Answering the charge that packer
have agreed amcng themselves upOl
division Of livestock receipts the com
pany gives the maximum and minimum
weekly percentages Of cattle purchase
made during the year Sept. ], 1917, I
Sept. 1918, as follows:
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AMERICAN RED CROSS
CHRISTMAS ENR0LLGENT
Universal Membership May Ellm-
mate Future Intensive Fund
CampaiHAs

Henry p. DAWSON, the chairman Of
the War Council Of the Red Cross,
sent out today q message 10 the
nearly four thousand chapters and
millions Of members Of the Red Cross
all over the country, outlining the
future policy Of the Red Cross.
In substance he said that II Is con-
li6ently believed there need be no fur
ther campaigns for Red Cross funds,
but instead Of the annual Roll Call,
which takes place this year com
mencing with December 18th, win be
the foundation Of the Red Cross.
Therefore the people should be in
formed as definitely rs possible Of
the plans for the future conduct Of
the great humanitarian society which
they are asked TO join.
Since the armistice was signed, Mr..
Dawson has conferred with the heads
Of all Red Cross commissions, both in
Europe and America, and it is now
definitely assured that the work Is to
90 forward on a great scale, as an
agency Of peace and permanent
human service. During the war the
primary purpose was to aid our own
soldiers first, then the soldiers Of our
allies, and the civilian populations Of
Europe. The Red Cross will stay
with our soldiers until they are de-
mobilized, leaving nothing undone
that can be done for the men over
seas, for those returning, for those in
camps and hospitals and for their
families at home. The problems of
reconstruction, involving feeding and
caring for the distressed civilian pop
ulations Of Europe, are Of such mag
nitude that they must be met largely
by the governments Of our allies,
with whom our government win CO.
operate. The governments will as
sumo the great tasks Of fighting
tuberculosis and other relief work,
assisted by the Red Cross and other
relief societies. Thus the work Of the
Red Cross will rapidly merge into q
peace program-the American Red
Cross, acting in cooperation with
the National Red Cross and relief
: societies Of other nations, will have
its opportunity to demonstrate that
the heart Of America and the heart
Of all mankind may be mobilized or
behalf Of suffering humanity.
Thus the plans of the American
Red Cross will be formulated spe
} officially at a later date to conform
with the general relief program Of
. the allied governments. With the
idea in mind Of being ready for thC
great work before Il, the Red Cross
is planning to develop its permanent
2 organization in this country upon ;
Z scale never before contemplated il
time Of peace.
: Many Of the men and women o,
c great business ability who came int,
= the Red Cross organization at thu
{ outset Of the war have expressed
= their desire to become a part of tn,
a permanent peace organization, ant
I therefore it is assured that the peac
5 activities will be conducted mde
able and inspiring leadership.
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NAVY WIDE OPEN

In accordance with instructions
received from the Bureau Of Naviga-
tion, the United States Navy is now
wide open to all male American citi-
zens (native born or fully natural
ized), ages 1S to 35, able to read and
write English, and Of good moral
character.
Civilian applicants may be of any
registration or classification, or un-
registered minors (under 18 at the
date of registration).
The following ratings are now
open in the Regular Navy, enlist
ments to be for a period Of four
years:
RegulAr NAVY
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Hoover Has Not Resigned

There is no foundation for the
statement that Herbect C. Hoover has
resigned as United States Food Ad-
ministrator, the Food Administration
announces.
Edgar Rickard by executive order
was given authority to act for Mr..
Hoover while absent from the coun-
try. Mr.. Richard has been associated
with Mr.. Hoover since the outbreak
Of the war in Europe. He was one OF
the seven men who, with Mr.. Hoover
as chairman, formed the commission
for relief Of Belgium.
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Thermite controls thermal condi-
tions. Prevents frozen radiators. Sam
Watkins, sole Demng agent.
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Enroll as a Red Cross member