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Watch Rex ponds to
the Personal Tocci
W nil mechanirsJ devict* « t uhk t
wafxih ■'»n»es neurcßt to imvtiig Life,
•bf.sc* and feeling. It jwtt p. cold
and brat, di.n.jmrai and dry air, rerug-
Bizra g.-> •(! trrarmrai from bed ; in flirt,
it i« as Hffli«irive to the wuy it is cured
for ns l j»et dug would t>e, says popu
lar S'-ieiice Monthly. A watch eve®
Su<» ieiriji<-raii>eni ihut it acquires rup
idly wccordtug To 'he imrjierumrt:* of
its wrarer. If tw. jhthoub were t«
«rhanpe walclw* that had beet kraqt
rng jetrfert tiir* the watches would
pro •(*<■<: *<i get out <rf orikr quickly.
A winch is the imw delicate and
<x implex niochaniKHi <rf gjiiiHy we. It
ties 213 purls *«inie * small that ’iiey
tare just about visible in Ute uuaidod
eye, A brrak of miiludjuKTmei.i of any
<«f these parts is sufbcieiit k mar its
utility as a Timepiece. To make a
watch requires rbout 4.W00 flietinct
<»}ierati<nis.. Involving a years work
I‘a rt of the niechiiniKtn strikes 17.7,0 e
<kKi blown a year, while tise balance
wheel revolve* a (lisraiice of 4.9W0
nillra No oilier piece of machinery
known is snibiertrC to such use Tel
a good watch will keep perfect t me
through two or tiiree genpruTiaM
< >nce y onr watch has been regulated
to fit your gut, it will require very
little attention. It should l>e oiled once
a y ear, protected from duKt. dumpnew
«nd sudden .lobs, and wound every 24
fh'urs at <ai:-'r ' the Mime time te the
minute. With this Blight amount of
care even a cheap watrt should lust
for years
Early Locomotive Did
Not Operate in Rain
Nearfy nil the great inventions and
•dincoter.es winch have made modem
life h< wonderful and at the same time
wo strenuous have been produced with
in the st century. A huge step for
ward was made. Homething about a
•century ng , when rise Hiram engine
was adapted to haul trains of “wagons’’
<m railroads,, a copy of the I’hilade)
yihia t’broi. cie of that jwrlod con
tains Tiue unique advertiHemem No
floe— Tiit' looomothe engine (built by
Mr. W p.aidwin of tiiis city) will de
yiart daily wben weatier is fair with
a train of piiKHengers; on rainy days
iiorws will i«e attartie® ” This en
gine. ■’built by Mr. Baldwin. ’’ was the
beginning of the great Baldwin loess
motive work* which is now one of
tl» teggesn things of the kind in tbs
wartd Mr. Baldwin made the union
isdiing boast that his original engine
would “draw 30 tons on a level road."
Now a ntngle freight cur will hold
ttwice that much.
Cun Fire Doesn't Kdl Fish
That tint. contrary to popular super
et'tition are not frightened or killed
by iseavy gunfire-. is reported by an oh
server for ibe Cumfomia fish and game
commiraion, who was on the VnfTed
Staler tiatUeßiilp Idaho In fieet battle'
jo-iic off the California coast The
Iteiiviests gusty of the fleet were tired al
intervals for hours and over a large
arnra of The- ocean, yen during the thick
<rf the tiring no fish were see-n to jump
from the water as frightened fi«h do
Dor whs a single dead fish found
aftrrwa rd*.
It is rapli tied that rhe vfbriithmi
•of the air produced by sound abov*
•wui*e are not funsmitted to the water
te any appreciable extent Sever*
ahocke under w ater Hoch as Thowe -One
co mine' exptisions. kii fish, but they
are- apparently little affected by de j
tom tion* above 1 the aurfuce
SEEDS
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If you want Seeds at the highest p-rity and germi- |
■ nation at lowest prices, buy fi\-m
B CRIMSON CLOVER RED CLOVER ■
HAIRY VETCH ALSIK.E #
■ alfalfa mammoth clover ■
■ DWARF ESSEX RAPE SWEET CLOVER ■
a We can furnish inorulati:«i cultures for above Seed. ■
■ Our purchase of a car load off the above Seed gives ■
us the opportunity of cuocmg you very attractive prices B
■ if j j will write us stating Quantity anu kind wanted. ■
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: : H. L. COFER SEED CO. j
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MR McALPIN THORN'TC'N
Front point of service., Mr. The m
ton is one of the oldest members of
the Board of Education, having t.een
active m the affairs of the city’s
schools for six years.
Mr. Thornton for many years has
t>een one of Hartwell’s landing cotton
buyers; be was former Mayor of the
City of Hartwell, and m various
other ways has bee® identified with
affairs of tbs- community
His work on the Board has been
of great worth to the community.
Relief for the Fars
Application of photography u
sound by a London scientist has now
made possible the ellmmution of ear
jilSTcihg noises In railway oj»eratJon.
Luder the direction of Fros. A. H
Low an extended ser es <>f tests made
for the underground electric railways
of Loudon, has disclosed the principal
sources of disturbing noises in sub
ways with the renult tfiat Londoners
in the future will iravel in coni;»ar»-
tlve silence.. The intensity of noisea,
is measured by means of an ingenious
device consisting of a trumpef to catch:
the sound, and arranged seas to cause
a diaphragm to vibrate, Tiiis vlbra
tlou oj>erates a mirror, causing a i>ean,
<»f light to play on a sensltlsied film.
The study of the plates makes js»s
Bible the deiectkm of the iHuse*.
The Point of Vieu
"Tlit' finest Bight tn tie wt-nd to
day.’’ Hays the Ltlca < ibserver-DiH
jiatch “is the mile after mile of coxy
warm-lighted bouses’’ It is a fin«
sight, though we object to the rank
hig system in fine Bight* Lt is a fin*
sight to the motorist, driving along
on a chilly evening The lights go
up in the bouses that line the road,
and be Hays,. “Ah. these b<»u»e« suf hap
py jH-opi*A ntJ somebody about to
draw the shades in one of ’he bouses
looks out at the speeding motorist
and nays yearningly. ‘TTerty soft t»
be able to dash around the country
anywhere you like ’’ —F. I’. A. in New
Turk World
Camels Hair Cloth
Real camel’s hair is used in making
camel’s hair cloth. It comes from
the cooler sections of China, as the
hair obtained from the camels in ths
warmer sections is neither fine nor
abundant At a certain season of the
year camels shed their hair, which
dr.ijrs off in bunches,, most f-eeruMitly
while the camels are asleep. Win®
ii caravan Is on a trip there is always
a special bey wimse duty t is to gathe’
up the shed hair in hashrts. When a
port Is reaclied the hair is sorted and
baled for export
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THE HARTWELL SUN. HARTWELL. GA. AUGUST 15. 1924
Horseshoe Lore Has
Place in All Lands
If a girl walks along ti>e read and
finds a bors<-sb<»e wr.li the <«p<t»> ' n ®
facing tier it means good luck. The
first found boraes ■ sue filings at
home over tl»e win iou. but the oj»en
tmd must face ini the room. The
others st>e places in her hope chest
until «Dci; rime as she finds her "bt?au.’
Si>e fin ws bin. t«< beiweM by then
throwing out one fiorHesiboe after an
other, b that he will not oimerve it
until the last one, over the window , is
reached. When she throws this one
out she nay* “Soresboe dear, please
ring out and attract my young mar
If I de not marry in a year, I’Ll be
come a Hen ant g fl; if I do not marry
tn two years Til be able to marry only
the sbejiberd . and wiio waits for three
years remains an oid maid.”
Anyone finding a borseßboe should
j>ick it up, turn it about three times
and then throw it over the head. If
the Hb<»e falls with the open end facing
the person be shall have good luck.
If it turns the other way, it portends
hard luck. —Csech >s>ovak Review.
Lend of Romance
The details of The story of the Ara
bians iiave tr-ei carefully recorded
slid cberislied by Nova Scotians. Fvery
landmark mentioned by Longfellow it
“Evangeline’’ is t«eing preserved, and
everything i.fisociated with ti>e Aca
dians is treasured. At Grund T’tw is
lelng created the Acadian Memorials
park in the (■♦■icer of the old-time vil
lage. The sites of the old well, the
priest s bouHe the church and the long
row of willows wiiich still lint the
Hired will be included in it.
To suggest the Normandy whence
the Acadians came, a email of
Norman architecture has already bee®
built. A bronr* statue of an idealized
Acadian girl, ti»e work of Henri He
i>efi a direct desceiidant of the Grano
Pre French, will tie placed on a gr: as
plot within the inciosure of the para.
Bays the Detroit New-
Solving the Problem
There ba? been a good deal of ar
gument aiH.ut the way the young peo
ple earned on in the town square
these evenings. Many erf the city fa
thers tbougiit it a public Bcandai. but
they didn’t have a big enough ajijiro
pnatfii® re employ s;<ecia! poli<*e.
The village iialfwit, bowerer, fen
that be could solve the problem. He '
irffered to do it for a can <rf Mack
paint and two dollars. One of the
tow® fathers was rash enough to fur
niHh these requisites.
Next day the towi was elertrifiee
m see that all the ’Na Parting’ signs
r'iTmdatioui the square had, by the in
•ertioa «rs an “S’ »efore the second
word became effective warnings rc> xw
KHmta youth..—-I’hiladeljihia Lettger
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iThe Success Os Our I
SCHOOLS
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: To The Citizens of Hartwell, ;
• School Patrons and Pupils: •
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J We want you to know that The Hartwell Cotton Mills is behind every J
■ move for the betterment of Schools in Hartwell and Hart County. As one ■
” of the largest tax payers of this community, we are doubly interested, and J
; stand ready to co-operate in every way. «
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There is one thing on which rests the success of any enterprise; be it a 1
large factory, a professional office, a place of merchandise, a commonwealth
■ or an institute of learning. This all important factor is co-operation—the ■
J co-operation of even* individual who is in any way connected or interested J
■ in the enterprise. ■
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■ Believing that the progress of our business and our town rests largely 1
i on the progress and success of our Public Schools, and that the !
■ success of our schools depends, to a great extent, on the co-operation of the 1
Z people of our town, w’e have endeavored during the past years to give our i
■ schools our earnest co-operation in every way possible. 1
i The Hartwell Cotton Mills:
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: JNO. H. CHEATHAM. S. W. THORNTON,
J Pres. & Treas. V. Pres. & Sec. J
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AN EFFICIENT SCHOOL
IS A
VALUABLE ASSET
Ooe of the prime uecessities of a well ordered comuarity is
an efficient school Prospective citizens are not impressed with
a community unless it is equipped with educational facilities of a
high order.
Hartwell owes its growth and development in large measure
to its superior school system. In the past it has held high rank.
For this record to be maintained, citizens must support it to the
fuDest extent
The Hartwell OH Mi.ll stands for and by the school.
HARTWELL OIL MILL
GINNING—OIL MILL
T. L. Matheson. President and Manager