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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. (Advertisement) ANNOUNCEMENTS (Advertisement) 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. ssrJ 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 -ovy \ i ■