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Beys Corn and Fig Clubs.
To All County Agents and Club
Members :
Tho following are the official State
jrizes offered in the various projects
af the Boys' Agricultural Club Work
ia South Carolina for the year 191S:
The Beys' Corn Club.
First-A solid ?TOld watch, value
$50.00, offered by The W. H. Mix
son Seed Co.. Charleston, S. C.
Second - Three War Savings
SUia?s, value $10.00, offered by The
Hat ional Lean ?ii Exchange Bank, Co
lambia. S. C.
Third-A pair of solid poid cuff
Battons, offered by Sylvan Bros., Co
iunb?a, S. C.
Ilia Boys' Pig Club Work.
i irsi-Ten dollars in gold, offer
si by T. B. Stackhouuse, Columbia,
S. C. Fifty dollars in War Savings
Stamps, offered by The American
Buroc-J ersey Swine Breeders' Asso
?aiion, (."'..cairo. 111., provided the
jrizc is won with a Duroc-Jersey. A
.rei;! mi 1J . offered by The National
I?:;- h.Jers?y Record Association.
Fecria, provided the prize is won
with a Duroc-Jersey. In addition to
thc above, Thc National Duroc-Jer
?ey Record Association, Peoria, 111.,
off:rs live dollars each to the next
five boy.; making the highest records
with Duroc-Jerseys.
Second - Three War Savings
Stamps, value $15.00, offered by The
National Loan ? Exchange Bank. Co
lumbia, S. C.
r: hird-A scholarship to an agri
en- Lura: short course at Clemson Ag
ricultural College, value S15.00, off
ered by S. E. McMaster, Columbia,
i C.
The Bo3's' Calf Club Work.
A throe hundred dollar bull, offer
ed by The American Short-Horn
Breeders' Association. Chicago, 111.,
to thc boy making the best record
in the Calf Club Work.
?:i- hoys' Wheat Club Work.
A twenty-ii ve doliar check, offered
by i'i.o B. B. Kirkland Seed Co., Co
lumbia, S. C.. to the boy making the
Ugh ;t record in thhe Wheat Club
Wor! .
Grand Sweepstakes Prize.
T the boy making the highest
tumbe: ci points in two or more
proj . . -, a one-year scholarship (val
le r Il'J.00) to The Bailey Military
"fa?? ?, ( reenwood, S. C.. offered
?j Gol. F. X. K. Bailey, Supt.
L; addition to the above prizes,
Th: J*. G. Hastiings' Seed Co., At
fcntaj Ga... donates one hundred dol
hu*s to the furtherance of the Boys'
Agricultural Club Work in South
Ciro, aa, which we propose to use
toward defraying expenses of a trip
Jbr all State prize winners, details
af which will be announced later.
L. L. BAKER.
Sap rv'sing Agent of Boys' Club
werk.
Ii;*: cf Articles Contributed to
? :e Ked Cross in the Linen
Shower.
Trenton Branch: 4 sheets, 31
asnc towels, 26 Turkish towels, 58
handkerchiefs.
Antioch Auxiliary: $6.00 in money
wich which the committee bought
tiir?^ y neets.
Clo ora Auxiliary : 4 sheets. 9 hand
tow:'.;, 7 bath towels, 20 handker
chiefs;
Horns Creek Auxiliary: .': hand
tow :!s, 'J bath towels, G handker
chief 5.
Pleasant Lana Auxiliary: 18 hand
towels, 12 bath towels.
Ropers Auxiliary: (! hand towels,
9 bath towels. 9 handkerchiefs.
Sweetwater Auxiliary: 2 sr'heets.
8 Int*-: ;(.v.(.-.v( t; handkerchiefs.
Edgc?eld: IT sheets, 137. hand
tew :>:', bath towels, 40 napkins,
14 7 han die ere bi cfs.
}*: all G78 articles were sent iii
from this chapter.
Aguthat A. Woodson.
.3P US A CARD
We will send you' sample of a
Composition Roofing for your barns
or ten mi houses that will absolutely
la;t from twenty to thirty years.
Neponset
Paroid
Roofing
an PX tra heavy; fir1- proof, long
wearing material. Has stood the
twenty-year u-sl proven by govern
ment and railroad use.
Price $3.50 per Square
YOU M GB LOO D ROOFING
AND
MANTLE COMPANY ;
625 Broad St.' AUGUSTA, GA. j
FOR SALE-One dark bay mare
at a bargain if sold in ten days.
MRS. A. F. OUZTS,
Bdscficld, S. C.. Route C.
U. S. Public Health Service Issues
Official Health Bulletin
on Iniluenza.
LATEST WORD ON SUBJECT.
Epidemic Probably Not Spanish in
Origin-Germ Still Unknown-Peo
ple Should Guard Against "Droplet
Infection"-Surgeon General Blue
Makes Authoritative Statement.
Washington, D. C.-(Special.)-Al
though King Alfonso of Spain was
one of the victims of the Influenza epi
demic in 1S03 and again this summer,
Spanish authorities repudiate any
claim to influenza as a "Spanish" dis
ease. If the people of this country do
not take care the epidemic will be
come so widespread throughout the
United Stales that soon we shall hear
the disease called "American" inilu
enza.
In response to a request for definite
Information concerning Spanish inilu
enza, Surgeon General Rupert Blue of
the U. S. Public Health Service has
authorized the following ollicial inter
view :
What is Spanish Influenza? ls it I
something new? Does it come from
Spain?
"The disease now occurring in this
country and called "Spanish Iniluen
za' resembles II very contagious kind
of 'cold,' accompanied by fever, pains
Coughs and Sneezes
Spread Diseases
As Dangerous as Poison Gas Shells
in the head, eyes, ears, ba'ck or other
parts of the body and a feeling of se
vere sickness. In most of the cases the
symptoms disappear after three or four
days, the patient then rapidly recover
ing. Some of the patients, however,
develop pneumonia, or inflammation
of the ear, or meningitis, and many of
these complicated cases die. Whether
this so-called 'Spanish' influenza is
identical with the epidemics of iniluen
za of earlier years is not yet known.
"Epidemics of iniluenza have visited
this country since 1G47. It is interest
ing to know that this first epidemic
was brought here from Valencia,
Spain. Since that time there lia ve
been numerous epidemics of the dis
ease. In 1SS9 and 1S00 an epidemic'
of iniluenza, starting somewhere in the
Orient, spread first to Russia and
thence over practically the entire civ
ilized world. Three years later there !
was another flare-up of the disease.'
Both limes the epidemic spread wide-!
ly over the United States. I
"Although tiie present epidemic is
called 'Spanish iniluenza,' there is no
reason to believe that it originated in
.Spain. Some writers who have studied
the (pies;ion believe that the epidemic
came from tile Orient and tiley call at
tention lo "the fact that the Germans
mention the disease as occurring along
; be eastern front in the summer and
fall of 1917."
How can "Spanish influenza" be rec- j
ognized?
"There is as yet no certain way in i
which a singh' case of 'Spanish inilu
enza' ' ?ai be recognized. i>n the om
er hand, recognition is easy where
there is a group of cases, In contrast
lo ila- on; brea ks of ordinary coughs
ami colds, which usually occur in the
cold months, epidemics of influenza
may occur ai any season of the year.
Thus the prosein epidemic raged most
intense!;,- in Europe in .May, .lune and
July. Moreover, in lin- case of ordi
nary colds, the general symptoms
(fever, pain, depression) are by no*
means as severe or as sudden in th<-ir
onset as tiley are in iniluenza. Final
ly, ordinary colds du not spread
through the community so rapidly or
so extensively as does iniluenza.
"In most cases a person taken sick
with influenza feels sick rai ber sud
denly. Ih- feels weak, has pains in the
eyes, ears, bead or buck, and may be
sore all over. Many patients feel
dizzy, some vomit. Most of the pa
tients complain of'feeling chilly, and
willi ibis conies a fever in which thc
temperature rises to pm to 104. In
most casts the pulse remains relative
ly slow.
"Ii: appearance one ls struck by ibo
fact Hint the patient looks slek. IPs
eyes and Hie inner side of bis eyelids
may be Slightly 'bloodshot,' or 'con
gested.* as the doctors say. There
may be running from the nose, or
there may be soire cough. These signs I
<.:' a cold may mu be marked: never-1
tholess the patient looks and fc-els very
"Ia addition m the nnpi rfiir.ee and
the symptoms as airead; <!.
examinetmn of the path <>'.'> : u <???'. may
aid the physician in recognizing
?sh iniluenza,' fur I....-; !.. 1 :. ?
that in this disease the nuniher
white corpuscles shows little or no
crease above the normal. It is po
ble tli?it the laboratory Investirai
now being made through the Natic
Research Council and the Uni
grates Hygienic Laboratory will i
Kiah a more certain way In which ii
vidual cases of this disease can
recognized."
What ?6 the course of the dioea
Do people die of it?
"Ordinarily, the fever lasts fi
three to four days and the patient
covers. Rut while the proportion
deaths in the present epidemic 1
generally been low, in some places
outbreak has been severe und deo
have been numerous. When death
curs it Is usually the result of a cc
plication."
What causes the disease and how
lt spread?
"Bacteriologists who have studied
fiuenzu epidemics in the past h.i
found in many of the cases a v<
small rod-shaped perm called, after
discoverer. I'feiffer's bacillus. In oil
cases of npparently the same kind
diseuse there were found pneumococ
the germs of lobar pneumonia. Si
others have been caused by strep
cocci, and by others germs with lo
names.
. "So matter what particular kind
corm causes the epidemic, it ls ix
believed that influenza ls alwo
spread from person to person, t
perms being carried with the air nlo
with the very small droplets of mud
expelled by coughing or sneezii
forceful talking, and the like by o
who already has the perms of the d
ease. Tiley may also be carried abo
In the air in the form of dust corni
from dried mucus, from coughing ai
sneezing, or from careless people wi
spit on the lloor and on the si dewai
As in most other catching diseases,
person who luis only a mihi attack
tin? disease himself may give a ve
severe attack to others."
What should be done by those wi
catch the disease?
"lr is very important that every pe
son who becomes sick with inllu.cn:
shtfuld po home nt once ami po to be
This will help keep away dangcroi
complications and will, at the s;in
time, keep the patient from scntterii
the disease far aud wide. It is high
desirable that no one be allowed
sleep in the same room with the p
tient. In fact, no one but thc nun
should be allowed in the room.
"IC there is cough and sputum <
running of the eyes and nose, cai
should be taken that all such di
charges are collected on bits of pan:
or rap or paper napkins and burne
If the patient complains of fever ar
headache, he should be given water 1
drink, a cold compress to the furchen
and a light sponge. Only such med
cine should be given as is prescribe
by the doctor. It is foolish to ask tl:
druggist to prescribe and may be dai
perons to take the so-called 'safe, sur
and harmless' remedies advertised b
patent medicine manufacturers.
"If the patient is so situated that h
cnn bp attended only by some one wh
must also look after others in the fiin
Hy, it is advisable that such attendar
wear a wrapper, apron or pown ove
the ordinary house chillies while in th
sick room and slip this off when lea\
inp to look after the others.
"Nurses and attendants will do wei
to guard against breathing in dangei
ons disease perm* by wearing a simpl
fold of gauze or mask while near th
patient"
Will a person who has had influenz:
before catch thc disease again?
"Ii is well known that an attack o
measles or scarlet fever or smallpox
usually protects a person against an
other attack of the same disease. Thii
appears not to be true of 'Spanish In
fluenzn.' According to newspaper re
ports the Kin:: of Spain suffered ar
attack of Influenza during 11 ie epi
Jemie thirty years apo, and was apair
stricken during the recent outbreak ir
Spain."
How can one guard against infiu
enza?
"In puardimr against disease of all
kinds, it is important that the body bi
kept strong and aWe to fight off dis
ease perms. This can be done by hnv
Ing a proper proportion of work, play
and lest, liv keeping lbc body well
clothed, and by eal inp sufficient whole
some ami properly selected food, in
connection with diet, it is well to re
member that mill; i:j one of the best
all-around foods obtainable for adults
HS well as children. So far as a dis
euse like influenza is concerned, health
authorities everywhere recognize the
very close relation between its spread
and overcrowded homes. While it is
not always possible, especially in
times like the present, to avoid such
overcrowding, people should consider
tin' health dancer mid make every
effort to reduce tho home overcrowd
Ing io a minimum. The value of fresh
air through open windows cannot be
over emphasized.
"When crowding is unavoidable, as
in sine; cal's, '?ire should be taken to
keep rho face sn i urned as liol to In
hale directly the air breathed out by
another person.
"It is especially important to be
ware of tbe person who coughs or
sneezes without covering bis mouth
ami hose, li nb > follows that one
should keep mil of crowds and stuffy
places . as nindi hs possible, keep
homes, olfices and workshops well air
ed, spend sollie time oui of dour.-; each
?lay. walk io work if at all practicable
- ill short, nuilee every possible effort
to breathe as much parc air as pos
sible.
. in health matters follow the ad
vice of yoi v doctor abd obiry tile repu
i:?.!'.'> nf your local and state health
oflicer*
"Cover up each cough mid cheese,
If you don't you'll cpread disease."
i
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As the seasons change we ai
to supply the needs of our
The crisp mornings suggest i
from low-cut to high-cut sho
our new arrivals in fall f(
All of the new shapes and
leathers, both in Crossett sh
Selz-Schawb shoes.
New arrivals in 'stylish hats,
ably the straw you have bec
ing all summer is about go
stylish new felt hat is in ord
Come in and let us show you
our stock.
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OB
AUGUSTA BEE HIVE
We make our annual bow to our Edgefield friends
and invite them to make our store their headquarters
wheli in Augusta. We are showing the largest
stock of
Dry Goods, Clothing, Notions, Millinery, Shoes
and Men's and Boys' Clothing \
that we h:ive ever shown. These tjoods werebought
early and we have marked them far below their
present values. We can save you money on what
ever you buy from us.
We desire to call especial attention of the ladies to
oin* Millinery department. The newest and best of
everything and a large assortment to select from.
AUGUSTA BES HIVE
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OFFICERS : J. C. Sheppard, President* B. E.^Nichols?n, vice-President
E. J. Minis, Cashier; J. H. Allen. Assistant Cashier.
DII??CTOUS : .!. C. Sb<>pp::rd, Thou. ?I. K:ur.sl*ord. John Rainsford, B. E ,
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tual Insurance Asso
ciation.
ORGANIZED 1892.
Property Insured $2,500,000.
WRITE OR CALL on the under
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desire aboui our plan of insurance.
We insure your property against
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NING
and do so cheaper than any Com
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Remember, we are prepared to
prove to you that ours is the safest
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known.
Our Association is now licensed
to write Insurance in the counties
of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCor
mick, Laurens and Edgefield.
The officers are: Gen. J. Fraser
Lyon, Presiden, Columbia, S. C.
J. R. Blake, Gen. Agt., Secy. &
Trea.s, Greenwood, S. C.
DIRECTORS..
A. 0. Grant, Mt. Carmel, S. C.
J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C.
Jno. H. Childs, Bradley, S. C.
A. W. Youngblood, Hodges, S. C.
S. P. Morrah, Willington.S. C.
L. N. Chamberlain, McCormick S. C.
R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C.
F. L. Timmerman, Pln't Lane, S. C.
J. C. Martin, Princeton, S. C.
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