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Nice Dress Ginghams IT/2 Host Ginghams 19c Yard Wide Bleeching .... 16:t \ Good Towels 0 11c Men's Shirts 67c Men's Hickory Shirting . .I8V2 Men's Good Hose 10c Ladies' Hose 10c Big lot Overalls $1.48 Ladies Silk Hose 21*c Men's Silk Hose 29c Men's Nice Handkerchiefs ...5c lied Ticking, (good quality) Me Big lot Men's Pants ? from $1.38 l*p Boy's Pants (iSc lTp Big Lot Figured Lawn .... 15c I5ig lot Men's Shoes ? from $1.98 to S6.50 IMg lot Ladies' Shoes ? from $1.68 to $4.98 Men's Suits, ranging in price $6.98 to $18.50 Ladies' Dresses ? Just Ask Us Our Prices. Big lot Ladies' Waist, $1.25 to $1.50 values 98c Big lot Silk Waists ? from SI. 98 to $5.98 Ladies' Handkerchiefs .... 5c AMERICANS IN SOUTHAMPTON. Welcomed by the English Mayor and Cheered l?y Crowds in the Ancient Town. Southampton, Feb. 21. ? Twleve hundred American soldiers, mostly survivors of the steamship Tuseania, were the quests of the city of South ampton today at a theatrical enter tainment at which Mayor Peace and other officials and American Consul Swalm were present and spoke. The soldiers, many of whom were still wehring mixed American and British uniforms as well as civilian attire, given to them when they were rescued, were brought to Southamp ton on special trains from an Ameri can camp. They marched through the streets of the ancient town headed by u band. The thoroughfares were decorated with British and American flaps and were lined by cheering crowds. The populaton of the town, which has seen hundreds of thousands of Brit ish soldiers going jgid coming during the war, was impressed by the Ameri cans, many in the streets remarking they were surprised at the splendid discipline and the seriousness with which the Americans appear to be going to war. Mayor Peace in a speech of welcome said the British formerly regarded the Americans as cousins, but now looked upon them as brothers. He referred to the Americans of Lin coln's time as freeing the slaves, and said America was now freeing the world. "Your one idea is to win the war," he added. "It is the spirit that per vades your great country that we Englishmen most admire." The Mayor then referred to Presi dent Wilson and was loudly cheered, j He said that no man had done more than the President to acquaint the world with the just aims of the Allies, and no man had performed greater service to civilization in this crucial period. In conclusion the Mayor said the civilized world expected much of America, and after seeing the fine fellows of the American Army today he was confident that the civilized world would not be disappointed. Creech School. There will be a box party at Creech School near Creech's Mill on Friday night, March the first. Everybody invited. ? Teachers. (>oing Hack to 18(15. We arc going back to 18<>5 without a change in the war. If this closes soon we will stop going back. Hut if it doesn't we must obey orderr. and cat less and work more to help feed the soldier boys, for we can eat peas and collards and turnips and soup, i ate turnip soup and corn bread for dinner today and did not think hard about it, and went out to plowing, and I am 71 years old. Some think mighty hard because they can't get biscuit every day. 1 am willing tp let the boys have the flour to eat to do their work on, for it is hard work, 1 have tried it. We were not fed so well, but got along O. K. for wc had flour to eat. We must feed the sol diers and not let them suffer for they have got to do the fighting. It looks a little hard to sit down to the table and see no biscuit on it, but if this war keeps on long we may have to eat bread and soup and be glad to get it. I know how hard it was in time past and we may be going back to the same way again if the war don't close soon. We must be satisfied if your boys and my boys are fed. I 'was mighty glad that the President ; made some provision for the boys. I Yes, let us plant wheat and then we shall have it of our own. We have the land and can make the wheat. Now let us get busy and don't go back so far. I hope the trouble will soon be over. Yes, let us plant good gar dens and we can make something in this w?y to feed ourselves and ftie children. May the Lord help us to look to Him for help and not get too far back is my prayer. ROBKRT STRICKLAND. Four Oaks, N. C., R. F. D. 1. Keep Down Bread Trice. No form of the pernicious habit of certain congressmen could be display ed that would bear the marks of un popularity so strongly m the bills that are pending for the increase of wheat prices with the resultant effect of boosting the price of bread. It is fortunate that the Food Administra tion is assured of the entire force of ? the administration in combatting the new spirit of profiteering that these bills represent. Entirely aside from the merit or demerit of high price for wheat, the fact has been demonstra ted that the farmers are making big [profits from their cereal. ? Baltimore | American. The war is costing the combined allies more than $30,000,000 an hour. The daily fate of this huge sum is simple waste. A shortening of the war by days or even hours would mean the redemption of colossal waste. We must bend every financial ef fort towar shortening the war. Every small amount invested by a child in Thrift Stamps tends to wards this end. The influence of every Thrift Stamp purchased is a little momentum toward earlier vic tory. Thus a child's savings may be in strumental in definitely shortening this war and in saving many times its own value in money, to say noth ing of conserving human life. Encourage your child to invest in 4% interest-bearing Thrift Stamps instead of merely hoarding his pen nies in a tin bank. Thrift Stamps cost 25 cents each and may be bought at the postoffice, from your mail carrier aad at most stores. Wins Five-Dollar Prize. Henry Belk, of Monroe, who was fifteen on his last birthday, won the $5.00 prize offered by Mr. R. A. Mar row, Chairman of the War-Savings Committee of Union County, for writing the best article of not more than 100 words on the subject: "Why We should buy War-Savings Stamp-." Henry's article was the best, so the committee decided, and it is here given : Why We Should Buy War-Savings Stamps. "To help kill 'Kultur' and make the world safe for Democracy is why every member of a family should have a War-Savings Stamp. While many cannot scrap up enough to buy a Liberty Bond, all can Vanscript' $4.13 and buy a War-Savings Stamp. "When you buy a stamp you not only help Uncle Sam but yourself. You pay $4.13 for it now and he hands you back $5.00 in 1923. If you wish the light of liberty and democ racy ? kindled by our forefathers in 177G ? to continue to burn, we must each do what we can. All can buy a War-Savings Stamp. HENRY BELK." A Bit of Financial History. The credit of the United States was so high and unquestionable that in 1000, two years after the Spanish War, 2 per cent bonds were offered at par and oversubscribed. This is a * financial performance no other nation has ever equaled. United States 4 per cent bonds in 1888 sold as high as 130 and in 1901 brought 139 7-8 on the stock market. The%United States has never de faulted on any of its bonds. Not one of its bondholders has ever lost a cent of principal or interest except those who voluntarily have taken losses by selling their bonds in a period of tem porary price depression. ' One hun dred cents on the dollar, principal and interest, has the United States always paid. Back of the $'350,000,000,000 to $300,000,000,000 of our national re sources stands the rugged honesty of America. Liberty Loan Bonds are the safest security in the world. The Reason. Jess ? How do you suppose he came to p?>pose to me? Bess ? Got tired of talking about the weather, probably. ? Boston Transcript.
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