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MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 18, 1922.
25 Per Cent. Off
Our entire line XMAS GOODS.
Save money by buying from
N. T. PIKE DRUG COMPANY
Headquarters for Santa Claus.
Couldn't Eat or Sleep!
Mre. William Cobb aays, "For a
whole week I had practically no Bleep
and lost my appetite completely,
was bitten by a bed bug and infection
iet in! I got a can of Royal Guaran
teed Bed Bag Liquid and went ovei
the bed room throughly—I got imme
diate results.” 25c. Sold and guar
anteed by Ingram Drug store.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR MAYOR
I hereby announce my candidacy I
mayor of the city of Thomaavllla. subje
to the white primary to be held on tl
21et of December. 1»XL
Two years aao you elected me the chief
executive of your city when it was badly
In debt. In fact so badly In debt that
some of our citizens were considering
changing the form of the city government.
Sine? that time considerably mora than
half your floating Indebtedness has been
paid, notwithstanding tha fact that mm*
than Seventy-five Thousand (t1S.000.00)
Dollars worth of psrmanent public im
provements have been made, and your
water and light rates will be lowered on
the first day of January next
Having undertaken the Job of freeing
our city of IU floating debts, aa far as It
may apply to the mayor's office, with
your permission, I would like to compla'
Respectfully,
H. J. MacINTYRE.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
I. W. Hopkins having been c
r proven highly eatle-
FOR MAYOR
appeared In both
Thursday.^
candidate In the primary
In view of the fact that
elective office with good
Ic *2.000 per annum, th
)l!c policy and the epli
BELGIAN CONGO, COUNTRY OF GOLD AND DIAMONDS, ALSO
RADIUM STOREHOUSE
WOMEN BUDDIES WORK
THROUGH RED CROSS
Chicago, Dec. 12.—Girl "buddies”
ed strength of the organization has
been tendered the disabled soldier
and hia family, according to Miss
Hoyt.
"We know, as women of tried
patriotism” ssid Miss Hoyt, "that we
have something to offer the formet
service man not possible by other
workers. We have a gounded know
ledge of him, a bond of common
memories, and undying admiration
for bim and his sense of our under
standing.”
The league also is working with the
welfare section of the war depart-
ment, said Miss Hoyt, pointing out
that last summer it supplied 45
volunteer hostesses at summer
training camps.
The proposed plan of service fox
disabled aervice men, as outlined by
Miaa Hoyt follows:
In hospitals, finding entertainment
for patients, providing wholesome
outings, finding a market for the
products of occupational therapy and from the period of p oat-war de- balace of about $35,000,00 a year
shopping as well aa doing other pression.
errands for patients. j Unemployment virtually has disap-
I"‘ b ”« b * b ‘‘!tation d . Ih , i„ the
ing the Red Cross when men are dis- **
charged from hospital., to connect d "' ned tb « 01 worker *
them with normal life in finding them created a temporary labor shortagu
positions, lodging or convalescent in several lines of industry. The fa
re, 'create in construction industries is
In the family life, by assisting furnishing work to thousands,
home service and field workers in*, “Improved foreign trade has been
follow-up work in families of disabled ! a big factor in the revival," says the
former service men. By forming dis* 1 statement. The first six months of
aster teams in every locality of doc- J this year show a favorable trade bal-
•*, nurses, motor drivers, -canteen- ^ance of approximately $32,000,000,
i, etc., which will be at the call ol t as compared with
i adverse trade
ago. Since the war, the Dominion
has risen from ninth to fourth place
among the exporting nations of tbei
world and now leads all tha countries
in the per capita volume of exported
Old and Gray.
A woman and her niece were stand
ing at ihe blink of the Grand canyon.
Finally the woman spoka, "Do you
the Red Cross in every emergency, j
CANADIAN LIVING COSTS
NOW BACK TO PREWAR
Montreal, P. Q- Dec. 9 __(By
Mail)—Living costs in Canada are
nearing pre-war levels, the average
cost of the weekly family budget,
according to government statistics,
now being $10.28, as compared with
$11.82 last year, and $16.92 in 1920.
The index of wholesale prices is
lower than it has been in years.
Financial experts point out that the
decline in commodity prices has been
accompanied by a remarkable revival
of business throughout the Dominion.
The past year, they say, has been
the last struggle fa the transition
WHEN IN DOUBT
PLAY SAFE, INVESTIGATE
Army Goods
that includes almost everything.
You can't get stung.
A. T. Chastain
PHONE 192.
lair and Just admlnlatri
indard of duty, whl
FOR CITY MARSHAL
r tha whit# prl-
i my candidacy
night sergeant, haa made r
ES
l Impartial anforca-
he city without fear
I greatly appreciate
rapport at the polls
J. A. HUGHES.
"Discovery in the Belgian Congo mined and it is believed that much of the American doughboy in France
of large quantities of pitchblende, a more exists. Now, when science I canteeners, hospital hut workers,
radium-bearing ore a discovery is finding epoch-making uses for Salvation Army lassies and others—
credited with the significant result radioactive substances, the opening I »re to continue their work for former
of reducing the price of radium from j up of what is believed to be the I service men through the American
$120,000 to $70,000 a gram—has ’world’s richest radium ores caps Red Cro "* declares Miss Anna Hoyt,
served to emphasize the probable | Congo’s mineral climax. | national chairman of the Women's
great importance to the world of this J "Congo la not entirely a tol'd O j '’e™'*a_S'rri_ee League. Tho Unit-
r.S n w ‘“ W In the extreme «ut aro. 1
it shall have been fully developed," -. nn . , .
says a bulletin from the Washington,> d0 °° ,eet * •
n r n..j ..... ,u. I “■« sen—rise mountains as high .a
Pike's Peak. In this upland region
“In It. potentialities, th. Belgian 1“' we,lber !? d<U * h “ al * nd lbe
Congo might b. died 'the Small of ' lopc ‘ * nd *” dM ?' dbed by
Africa,“ continue, the bulletin. r ‘ V ' ,e ” “ b * w » r ' d * b '*“‘
"I.ike th. largest of South American ^ ' p °“. *'* rb * tb ' nl * b ‘
states, it is of vast extent, covers the “J** 4 , b ? lh * ° f
heart of a continent, I. situated in t \ ™’ Ed ™ ,b *
th. tropica, and haa flowing through b ° , "^ 0, l V*' n '™ b "’ of ”*” *
it on. of th. world-, greatest river., “*•“■»» relatives, genii.,
capable of carrying «, empire’, eoml'"' Ecl?i *" Gov "" m ', ’’ "”" ld "-
mere.. It 1. only to th. AmMonJ n * *J e *'“ inE “ ,d " ot * 1 * r * e .* re *
premier of riven, th.t the Congo in thin regioa aa a gonll. refuge
River can in truth be compared. preserved
Other great stream, are longer than ' rom threaten,
either, hut n/lne appHeache. .them them, and where eelenti.ta may atuay
closely in the volume, of water which ‘ be „ m , " tkeir natural haunt,
they pour Into the sen. The avemge 1 N * t " r, “'"* have found that unlem
width of the Congo Is five mile, for ' orne 1 rod these gonHa. are far from
about half its nearly 3000 mile, of ,er ” io ““' *" d “J* p " dlcled tb * t f
length, and In places It 1, a, much aa f rote ' l ' d the? wil1 bt ‘° me
16 miles wide. tamed.
Congo can best be understood if on.
imagines the country lifted bodily ”
down on the surface of the
United States. Its 909.000 square
miles would cover almost exactly one-
third of the area, not including
Alaska. If the southwestern corner
of Congo were placed at San Diego,
California, the southern boundary
would roughly correspond with the
Mexican border, and the southeastern
corner would fall at the southern
point of Texas. Forming a very
rough square, its northeastern comer
would lie at Des Moines and its north
western comer in Yellowstone Park.
"But though this comparison gives
good idea of Congo’s great size,
In | its latitude and climate
different from those of the states
think | covered. If it were shifted tc
Western Hemisphere in its
latitude it would lie astride the
Amazon and would
the Guianas and Yi .large slice of
northern and central Brazil.
"What is now the Belgian Congo
has had an unusual history. Living
stone and Stanley put the country
‘on the map.’ Soon afterward, in
1882, in international committee
organized a government, called it
Congo Free State, and selected Kini?
Leopold of Bcerium to be its ruler.
Many irregularities fa the ad
ministration of the region
alleged to have resulted from thh
personal rule, and in 1908 Leopold
ceded the territory to Belgium,
year later King Albert came to the
Belgian throne, reforms were pushed
in the Congo and a new constructive
era began.
"Measured in dollars and effort '
expended, much has been done to
open up the Belgian Congo. Fleets
of government as well as private
steamers ply the several navigable
stretches of the Congo and the lakes. •.
Railroads have been built around the
various regions of rapids and falls,
and are being pushed into the in
terior, and laid to connect with Brit
ish and Portuguese lines at the bord-
Scores of radio stations have
been set up and now fling their mess
ages where in the past savage drum
signals alone were heard. The
Belgians even have a trans-Congo
Wall Papering,
INTERIOR DECORATING
PAINTING
TINTINQ
—AND—
MIRROR SILVERIND
David S. Pittman
518 West day Street
PHONE 533-J.
roplane mail aervice which rushsi
European mail across the country
twice a month on the arrival of
steamers at the Atlantic port of
Boma at the mouth of the Congo.
"But with all thia activity, the sur
face of the Belgian Congo’s pouibili-
ties has barely been scratched-
Enormous tropical junglea like those
of the Amazon valley await proper
forestry. In tha southeast
tensive rolling prairies teeming with
game, that, with the solution of tha
tsetse-fly problem, would make
cellent cattle ranges. And chance
discoveries have shown that the
mineral stores of the country
seemingly unlimited Copper, Ufa,
gold, and diamonds to the value of
many millions of dollars have been
extracted. Some coal and iron la
Discount off on all present prices of
LADIES’ READY-TO-WEAR
Including, DRESSES. FURS, COAT SUITS, COATS, SKIRTS
This includes our entire stock of the above items.
Desirable Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear—all this winter’s newest is being presented at this re
duction as long as they last.— Those who shop early will na turally have the best choice.
THE FAIR
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