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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1922-01-04
LANFORD NEWS

Lanford. Jan. 2-Dr. Graves H.
Knight preached at the Baptist
church Sunday morning and accepted
the pastorate, much to the delight of
all the members. He was the guest
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. M.
Fleming.
Misses Pauline and Margaret Wal
drep, Eleanor and Margaret Drum
mond and Lille Mae Cox were guests
of Misses Josie and Iona Mel Will
liams on New Years day.
Mrs. Othella Payne, of Greenwood,
spent Christmas with her homefolks
and returned to her home Wednesday.
Capt. Eugene M. Cox was married to
Miss Watson in Atlanta, Ga, and was
given a beautiful reception at the
home Of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. O.
G. Cox. They have returned to Texas
where Mr.. Cox is a member OF the
faculty of the A. & M. college Of
Texas. This popular young couple
have the hearty good wishes Of hosts
lof friends and acquaintances here.
Miss Jenness Cox has returned to
Conway, where she is teaching.
Misses Nina Lewis, Jennie Burgess
and Anna Footman have returned to
their work In the schoolroom, and
pleasant Christmas spent with their
friends and homefolks during the
Christmas holidays.
| Mrs. Jessie Cannon Massey and lit
tie son, John M. Cannon, or Rock Hill,
spent Christmas with Mr.. and Mrs. a..
M. Cannon.
Mr.. REX Patterson, of Pacolet and
Miss Remelle Reid, OF Barksdale,
were guests OF Miss Belle Patterson
during the holidays.
Misses Kathleen and Martha Patter-
son entertained their little friends
with delightful party Wednesday ev-
lening.
| Mrs Nabors OF IIaurens and Mrs.
Furman Poole were guests OF Mrs J.
r. Patterson, and while there Mrs.
Poole was taken seriously Ill and had
to go to the hospital for treatment or
Operation Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ell fluff and Mrs Wy
ley Moore, of Enoree, were guests of
Mrs. Estella Bomal and Miss Nora
Cannon last week.
The BY, p. ~. will meet at the home
OF Mr., n A. Drumnioad next Tuesday
might.
sisir. ]. ID WI Hams Is moving into
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06
TURNED 1T BACK TO BAKER
Chinese Dairy Farmer Had Good Es-
cuse for Selling His Product
Without Using Scales.

A dairy farmer living In small
town was recently summoned to ap-
pear before The local magistrate on n
charge of selling butter under weight.
The complainant was the village
baker. who felt he was being wronged
when he discovered that every pound
of the farmers butter fell below the
weight that pound ought to be.
'Have you a pair of scales?" asked
the magistrate of the farmer.
"Yes, your honor"
"And weights?'
"No, your honor, I have no weights"
You have no weights. How, then,
can you weigh your butter?"
THAT is very simple, your honor
Since the baker has bought his butter
from me, l buy my bread from him,
and his one-pound loavcs serve me as
weights to weigh my butter. If the
butter does not weigh what it should,
1t is the bakers fault. and not nine
you see."-North China Herald.
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06
MADE HIT WITH YOUNGSTER
companionabIe Mother Need Not Have
Been Afraid She Was over.
doing Her Romping.

A prominent Hoosier clubwoman
is n devoted mother. and takes time
to rOmp with her children every night.
The other evening her eight-year.old
daughter brought her chum home with
her for the night. The chum's moth
er is dignified and never romps or
jokes with her children. So the prom.
inent woman outdld herself for the
children's amusement. Finally she
said laughingly: II must stop or NIL
dred will think You have nut for a
mother"
The next morning when she went
upstairs to pull her daughter out Of
bed she heard the two youngsters
talking. And the little visitor said.
"Tm going to begin to pray that God
will make my mother into nut like
yours"
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06

sion even when she was angry or seri-
Gus.
Anne, smiling demurely over her
white sewing, was small, prettily
made little woman, with silky hair
trinity braided, and rather pale,
small face with charming and regular
features. Anne had admirers" too.
Cherry reflected, looking at her to-
night, but neither she nor Alix had
ever been engaged-engaged-
gagged!
Aren't you home early?" said DIR.
Strickland, rubbing his cheek against
his youngest daughters cheek in
sleepy content. He was never quite
happy unless all three girls were in
his sight, but for this girl he had al
ways felt an especial protecting fond
ness. He had followed her exquisite
childhood with more than fathers
usual devotion. perhaps because she
really had been an exceptionally en-
dearing child. perhaps because she had
been given him, a tiny crying thing in
basket, to fill the great gap her
mothers going had left In his heart
"Mr. Lloyd had to take the nine
o'clock train" Cherry answered her
father dreamily, land he and Peter
walked home with mew She did not
add that Peter had left them at his
own turning, quarter of a mile away
81 thought he wasn't going to be at
Mrs. North's for dinner" Anne OBJ
served quietly, in the silence. She
| had been informally asked to the
| Norths for dinner that evening her
self, and had declined for no other
reason than that attractive Martin
| Lloyd was presumably not to be there
He wasn't" Cherry said. He
thought he had to go to town at six. I
just stopped in to give them Dads
message, and they teased me to stay.
you knew where was, didn't you
Dad?" she murmured.
Mrs. North telephoned about six,
and said you were there, but she didn't
say that Mr.. Lloyd was" Anne said,
with faint hint of discomfort in her
tone.
Alix fixed her bright, mischievous
| eyes upon the two and suspended her
reading for a moment. Alixs attitude
toward the opposite sex was one of
calm contempt, outwardly. But she
had made rather an exception of Mar
tin Lloyd, and had recently had a
conversation with him on the subject
Of sensible, platonic friendships be-
tween men and women. At the men,
tion Of his name she looked up, re-
membering this talk with little
| thrill.
| His name had thrilled Anne, too, al
though she betrayed no sign of it as
she sat quietly matching silks. In
fact. all three of the girls were quite
ready to fall in love with young Lloyd,
If two of them had not actually done
| SO.
| Cherry had not been at home when
Martin first appeared in Mill Valley.
and the older girls had written her.
visiting friends in Napa, that she must
J come and meet the new man.
| Martin was a mining engineer; he
had been employed In Nevada mine,
but was visiting his cousin in the val
ley now before going to new position
In June. In its informal fashion, Mill
Valley had entertained him; he had
tramped to the big forest five miles
away with the Stricklands, aud there
had been a picnic to the mountain-top,
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06
By
KATHLEEN
NORRIS

everybody making the hard climb ex-
cept Peter Joyce, who was n trifie
lame, and perhaps a little lazy as well,
and who usually rode an old horse.
with the lunch in saddle-bag at each
side. Alix formulated her theories of
platonic friendships on these wallis;
Anne dreamed foolish, happy dream.
Girls did marry, men did take wives
TO themselves, dreamed Anne; II
would be unspeakably sweet, but II
would be no miracle!
II was just after that mountain pic
mic that Cherry had come home; on
Sunday, as II chanced, that was her
eighteenth birthday, and on which
Martin and his aunt were coming to
dinner. Alix had marked the occasion
by wearing n loose velvet gown In
which she fancied herself; Anne had
conscientiously decorated the table,
had seen to II that there was Ice
cream, and chicken, and all the acces-
sories that make Sunday dinner in
the country national institution.
Cherry had done nothing helpful.
On the contrary, she had disgraced
herself and !nfuriated Hong by decid-
ing to make fudge the last minute.
Hong had finally relegated her to the
laundry, and 1t was from this limbo
that Martin, laughing joyousy, eStri-
Gated her, when, sticky and repentant,
she had called for help. II was Mar
tin who united the checked brown
apron, disentangling from the strings
ha eiI ril hut
ing over Cherry's white neck, and
Martin who opened the door for her
sugary fingers. and Martin who
watched the flying little figure out of
sight with prolonged 'Whew-w-w ~
of utter astonishment. The child was
beauty
Her eighteenth birthday! Martin
had been shown her birthday gifts !:
books and silver belt buckle and a
gold pen and stationery and handker-
chiefs. A day or two later she had
had another gift; had opened the tiny
Shreve box with a sudden hammering
at her heart. with presage Of delight
She had found silver-topped candy
jar, and the card Of Mr. John Martin
Lloyd, and under the name, in tiny
letters, the words "Oh, fudge!" The
girls laughed over this nonsense ap-
| preciatively, but there was more than
laughter in Cherry's heart.
From that moment the world was
changed. Her father, her sister. her
cousin had second place, now. Cherry
had put out her innocent little hand,
and had opened the gate. and had
passed through it into the world. That
hour was the beginning, and it had led
her surely, steadily, to the other hour
tonight when she had been kissed.
and had kissed In return.
"So-we walk home with young
men?" mused the doctor, smiling.
Look here, girls, this little Miss Muf-
fet will be cutting you both out with
that young man, If you're not care
full"
Alix, deep In her story, did not hear
him, but Anne smiled family, and
family frowned as she shook her
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06
CHAPT Err |.

Cherry Strickland came in the door
of the Strickland house, and shut 1t
behind her, and stood so, with her
hands behind her on the knob, and her
slender body leaning forward, and her
bosom rising and falling on deep,
ecstatic breaths. 1t was May in Cali
fornia, she was just eighteen, and for
twenty-one minutes she had been en-
gagged TO be married.
She hardly knew why, after that
last farewell to Martin, she had run
so swiftly up the path, and why she
had flashed into the house, and closed
the door with such noiseless haste.
There was nothing to run for But it
was as If she feared that the Joy with
in her might escape into the moonlight
night that was so perfumed with
lilacs and the scent of wet woods. She
was afraid that 1t was all too won
derful to be true, that she would
awaken in the morning to find 1t only
dream, that she would somehow fall
short of Martins ideal-somehow fail
him-somehow turn all this magic Of
moonshine and kisses into ashes and
heartbreak.
She was a miser with her treasure,
already; she wanted to fly with 1t,
and to hide it away, and TO test its
reality in secret, alone. She had
come running in from the wonderland
down by the gate, just for this, just
to prove 10 herself that 1t would not
vanish In the commOnplaceness of the
shabby hall, would not disappear be-
fore the everyday contact of everyday
things.
Dad was in the sitting room, with
the girls. The doctors house was full
of girls. Anne, his niece, was twenty
four Alix. Cherry's sister three years
younger-how staid and unmarried
and undesired they seemed tonight to
painting and glowing and glorified
eighteenl Anne, with Alix's erratic
help, kept house for her uncle, and
was supposed TO keep a sharp eye on
Cherry, too. But she hadn't been
sharp enough to keep Martin Lloyd
from asking her to marry him, exulted
Cherry, as she stood breathless and
laughing in the dark hallway.
An older woman might have gone
upstairs, to dream alone of her new
joy, but Cherry thought that 1t would
be fun" to join the family, and "act
as If nothing had happened" She
was only child, after all.
Consciously or unconsciously, they
had all tried to keep her a child, these
three who looked up to smile at her
as she came in. One of them, rosy,
gray-headed, magnificent at sixty, was
her father, whose favOrite she knew
she was. He held out his hand to her
without closing the book that was in
the other hand. and drew her to the
aide arm of his chair, where she set
tied herself with her soft young body
resting against him. her slim ankles
crossed. and her cheek dropped
against his thick silver hair.
Alix was reading, and dreamily
scratching her ankle as she read; she
was a tall, awkward girl, younger far
at twenty-one than Cherry was at
eighteen. pretty in a gipsyish way. un-
tidy as to hair. with round black eyes,
nigh, thin cheek-bones marked with
scarlet, and a wide. humorous mouth
that WIS somehow droll In its express
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06
Probably Not.

81 presume my letters to her will be
read in courtt"
ITS quite likely said the lawyer,
who had been engaged by the de-
fendant in a breach of promise suit.
II dread that. The pet names l
called her will make me look foolish"
II wouldn't worry" said the lawyer,
soothingly. THE court is used to hear
Ing terms of that sort. and I don't
suppose you thought up any new
ones. s.'-Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06
Wifely Training.

$50 you have graduated from col.
lege?"
.'Yes, SIR
STUDIED abroad, too?"
= 'Yes, sir"
Consider yourself now fairly well
able to get along and adapt yourself
in any kind of society?'
II believe So"
"That's what I used to think, but
I lived TO discover this: No matter
how many college degrees man earns
nor how carefully his parents may
have trained him. when he gets mar
ried there's always n lot his wife still
thinks necessary to teach him."-De
troit Free Press.
Perfectly Frank.
"What an awful cash you have on
your forehead !" "Oh. next to nothing
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06

ana the cara OF mr.. Aohn martin
Lloyd.
head. She considered Cherry suffi-
ciently precocious without Uncle Lees
ill-considered tolerance.
He would have had them always
children, this tender, simple, innocent
DIR. Strickland. He was in many
ways a child himself. He had never
made money in his profession; he and
his wife and the two tiny girls had
had a hard enough struggle sometimes.
Anne and her own father had Joined
the family eight years ago. in the
same year that the Strickland patent
fire extinguisher, over which the doc
tor had been puttering for years, had
been sold. 1t did not sell, as his
neighbors believed, for a million dol
lars, but for perhaps one-tenth of that
sum. 1t was enough, and more than
enough, whatever 1t was. After
Anne's father died 1t meant that the
doctor could live on In the brown
house under the redwoods, with his
girls, reading, fussing with a new in
vention, walking, consulting with
Anne. laughing at Alix, and spelling
his youngest-born.
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06
"You darling-ys, title ex.
quisite beautyp
(To BE CoNTINuED.J
Cold Comfort

OoIu Comfort.
The maiden of forty or so was up.
set. Said she to younger friend !:
Kate talks so outrageously. Yester.
day she told me I was nothing but /.
hopeless old maid"
THAT'S pretty frank" exclaimed
her friend. "Still, it's better than hav.
ing her tell lies about you"
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06
The EXCHANGE.

Esau sold his birthright for n mess
of potage. II was trying to do my
Christmas shopping early" he cried.
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06

Indeed "me.s" For Ali1 cherry' older sister And
husband And Cherry married to Martin And Aix
Cherry And Martin and Cherry drifting
AndD ad is deadand dcant help of them.
Ax the only she Of the work:
who shall
notf for the best?
Norris a California authores
ability handle big like this Sisters
10 large
andfr friendly public.
The Dolores star., 1922-01-06
"WHAT A MESS-MESS-MESSW

NO" she whispered to herself. almost audby no-t can't
be thati 1t can't be Cherry and Peter-oh Cod Oh my
it that all the time that oil the mednd never
knea it-I dreamed i'll
IT'S Peter and Chny' They hare to care for each
ohehy hare for each other she SAID to herself
thoughts rushing untbng mad confusion she tested
and tried the fear ut must be But can't be so Ar
interrupted herself tor what shall dopha shall we
do! Cherry But Peter husband-he Is
ny husband. Peter pho has always been good to
generous to me-and It Cherry all the time.
Poor Cherry the older sister said aloud Poor little old
Chey-e hasn't pey kind to hs She and Peter must be
sorry ths And Dad woud be Of
all things he uanted most that Cherry should be happy! Perhaps
thought Az he realized that she that sort of nature she must
loved uei But wy did he let her marry
Martin and wy wan he here to keep from marrying PeterY
What q neSS-meSS-meSS pe're made Of 1t all!
Cherry would be disgrdcd and Marttn-NGrtn wo"d XII
her If he found her out! little sister, She poud
talk she reckless she woud do anytingshe woud
public scandal and the papers woua hare her cures-Dads
little yellow-heGded Chdyi Oh Dad she said looking into
the dark tell ha to dol need so! Won't somehow
tell vhdt to doP"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-09-28
Baikal hike. siberia. attains depth
Of $500 feet.
Ginseng grown In Korea II consid-
cred Of the most value.
Bas.relIefs seem to have been In.
vented by the Egyptians.

a dozen years ago from Nebraska
and has grown to womanhood
here. She has taught in the
public schools at Elk Horn, Iowa,
the past three terms and with
her training and experience
should be an able helpmate to
her husband in his chosen work.
Out-of-town guests at the we'd
ding included Rev. and Mrs. Ro-
mer of Duluth, and the Misses
Pearl and Verna Nielsen, cousins
of the bride. who are employed
at Minneapolis. Rev. Romer and
the groom formerly attended
school together ct Blair.
The American joins with many
friends in extending congratula.
tions and best wishes to Mr.. and
Mrs. Hansen.
The young couple will leave to-
morrow for Blair where Mr.. Han.
sen will continue his studies.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-09-28
FARM BUREAU MEN
SEEK WOOD MARKET
Federation's Survey Shows Vast
supply Available to Meet
Coal Shortage.

The Minnesota Farm Bureau
Federation, cooperating with
counties affiliating. is making an
effort to find a favorable market
for vast quantities of fuel wood
in the Northeast section Of the
state. A recent survey. taken by
F. L. French, secretary. shows
marketable quantities in Bel
trami, Crow Wing. Mahnomen
and Carlton counties.
Farmers will sell wood at the
following prices: $3.50 to $5.75
for dry tamaraok; $500 for birch
and elm; $500 for oak. All
prices are on cord basis, loaded
at shipping point and in carload
lots.
Conditions in the fuel and
railroad industries have brought
about situation that easily may
cause hardship and privation in
the state, unless q speedy
remedy is found" says President
J. F. Reed. Many sections at
the state have q large surplus Of
fuel wood that can be easily pre-
pared for fuel. The St. Paul
office Of the Minnesota Fedora
ton offers the use of its facili-
ties for marketing. the product.
We would be glad to serve farm
communities or dealers in sec
tions where wood is not available
locally"
Several county agents from
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-09-28
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES
A height Of more than 1000 feet has
been reached by ball0cnists.
Basking sharks. the largest known
variety, grow TO 81 feet.

imported potash, an important
fertilizer. This provision would
have cost farmers using that
product millions of dollars annu-
ally.
Hardly had the conference re-
port become public. than was the
full force of the Farm Bureaus
national organization put in mo-
ton to prevent this obvious in
justice. kilograms to state
organizations affiliated with the
American Farm Bureau feder-
alton resulted in such a storm of
protest from all parts of the
country that Congress quickly
placed potash on the free list.
The tariff, as finally enacted
is a compromise measure. and nc
one industry got exactly what il
wanted. Agriculture was well
represented by the Farm Bureau
leaders and makers of the law
probably had a better under.
standing of the needs of farmers
than did any previous tariff
body. The potash incident is but
a highlight in the weeks of eff.
fort that Farm Bureau men al
Washington devoted to the bill
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-09-28

The wedding of Mr.. Niels B.
Hansen to Miss Meta X. Soren-
sen was solemnized at the Dan
ish Lutheran church in Askov
yesterday afternoon. Rev. Fred
Hansen of Audubon, Iowa, a
brother Of the groom, officiating.
The bridal couple were attend
ed by the Misses Susie Sorensen
ard Pearl Nielsen, sister and cou-
sin of the bride, respectively.
After the ceremony the guests
which included relatives and
close friends and neighbors went
to the home of the brides pa
rents in the village where the
afternoon and evening was spent
socially and where the wedding
dinner was enjoyed.
The groom Is not known 10
many in this community but ap-
pears to be a man of fine quail
ties and has chosen as his life
work that of being pastor of the
United Lutheran Church of
America. He has not vet COM
pleted his studies, having about
one and half years left. He
returned to America only a few
months ago from Copenhagen.
Denmark, where he had studied
at the University a year. He will
now continue his studies at the
seminary in Blair. Nebr.
The bride needs no ntroduc-
ton to the people of this COM
munity as she is well and favor
ably known, coming to Askov to-
gether with her parents nearly
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-09-28
BUREAU SCORES
TARIFF VICTORY
Placing Potash On Free List Saves
Millions Of Dollars
For Farmers.

The weight of the Farm Bu-
reau's legislative office at Wash
ington was again demonstrated
when the tariff bill was finally
passed with potash on the free
list. AS reported by the House
and Senate conferees, the bill
carried a tariff of $50 a ton on
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-09-28
Asxov PINE COUNTY MINNESOTA THURSDAY sEpTEnBER q l9aa

= mile water front which makes
ideal swimming and every sea-
son dozens Of boys learn TO-
swim. Tie property has ! big
club room with Are place, : kit
chen, dining room. garage. ID
ministration building, and ak
sleeping lodges that arc equip
ped with two deck iron beds and
can accommodate IS q one time.
Over 200 boys attend the camp
each season: Ave different group
periods are held; boys come from
al over the country - well -
from Duluth and any boy Of
good moral character il accspted
a 4 camper. Trained leadership
is the key Of the success Of Camp
Miller. Each lodge hrs ! header
who looks after the group in his
lodge. The program consists of
swimming. fishing. boating and
nature study. Athletic medals
are awarded for efficiency in
all branches Of sport and ! four
fold program with the aim Of
building up the campers in their
physical. mental, moral and
spiritual life u conducted daily.
The camp opens June 18th and
is in operation until the end d
August. One period ID given
over to the mems department d
the Y. M. C. A. and enrolled 81
men this past summer.
The camp Is under the direc'
ton of n. d. Mcleod, secretary
of the Boys department, Y. M
C. A.. who has conducted il for
the past 20 years. One of the
features each year il the annual
Sunday service to which all
friends and neighbors are invit.
ed. Some Of the best talent in
Duluth always participates and
q strong speaker is secured each
year. The camp closes each year
with a banquet at which time al
honors won during the season
are awarded.
If enough interest can be
aroused a special camp would b.
held for boys in Pine county
This would be a great oppor
tunity for the boys Of Pine
county to get d touch of the Y,
M. c. A. boys camp program.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1922-09-28

Mrs. Oline Mus. widow Of the
late Rev. H. B. Mus, founder of
the Norwegian St. Olaf college,
died recently at Fruithurst, Ala,
where she had made her home
since 1896. She was born at Fet,