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THE NEW VAND HER Vol. LXX-No 42. WINNSBORO. S. d DAY, MARCH 30, 1916. Established 1844 You Ar TO-A Field Day Winnsborc Pupils, Teachers here in full force an Ai attractive pi ranged and there wI and amusements foi BUSINESS SECTION OF LEXINI0RAAME W, u Any ire Protectioi Leion,M S.Tet og ..t jieiia* to L r loss e.xated by Mayor Charle E. Taylor at $100,000, less thai half covered by insurance. Driving southward before smart breeze, the flames at o'clock were sweaping both side of the main street and they wer checked only by a sudden shif of the windT-which came simul taneously with the arrival of motor fire engine company fron Columbia, 12 miles away. Tei minutes afterward it was appar -ent that the fire area had reach~ ed its extreme extent, thougl brisk work was still required t quench incipient blazes in ne2arb structures. Lexington's -water supply from wells only and the town i without even a volunteer fire de partment. Bucket brigades dii what they could but were ham pered by an early develope< scarcity of water and pails ani of ladders, pike poles and axes Household goods were remove< in time from most of the dwell ings, but practically nothing wa svaed from the mercantile es tablishments. Some of the mer chants retrieved portions of thei stock, only to have them con sumed as they lay piled in th street. Early this morning but thre business buildings in the tow1 are stant aig. These are th large two story brick building occupied by Caughman & Kami ner, general merchandise; th Kauffman building, occupied b: the Harman .Irug' ,mpany, anc -* the structure which houses thi store of Meetz & Sons.' The following buildings wer< destroyed: A. C. Sawyer's drug store, two story, brick; A. J Mathias, general merchandise wooden; Lewie Hall, general mer chandise, one story, wooden; E B. Roof & Son, groceries, oni story, wooden; Barre Hardwari company, two story, wooden Reagin Shoe shop, one story wooden; Pickens Mitchell's mea markct, one story, wooden; Cor ley Barber Shop, one story, wood en; Roof building (not occupied two story, wooden; E. G. Drehe company, clothiers, one story brick; Enterprise Hard ware comn pany, one story, brick; Surratt, bazaa, one story, wooden; G M. Harman. rasidenlce, two story a Invited [TEND Exercises April 14 and parents should be .d make it a great day ogram has ibeen ar II be friendly contests, all. SCHOOL FOR GREAT FALLS Modern Building to be Erected at Early Date. Chester, Mare6-25-Wr 41 ttatttan early date on a ig, oedod bilding for Gieat i Is said:that thisst 11be' creI few years, when it is said'the new industries that are going up I will give tht place about 4,000 population. Governor Mannmg Signs Bills Columbia, March 27.-Gov. anning today approved several Facts of. Statewide importance. They, in'clude a measure for teaching agriculture in schools; I Torrens system, board of con ciliation, and several school acts. Gov. Manning today signed the act tor-. amend the code so that the naval militia will share in the special tax in Charleston. R. H. King, of Charleston, was today reappointed by Gov. sManning as a member of the -State board of charities and cor -rections. D.Davis Loses in Augusta ~Dr. Fire. iDr. Tom Davis was a sufferer ini the Augusta fire last week. sHis handsomely appointed office - and splendid library were burned, -Being in a fire proof building he r carried no insurance. * Mr. A. L. Douglas Has Mov ed. On Tuesday Mr. A.L. Douglas' afurniture arrived here from Col 3umbia. Furniture vans met it - here and it was immediately a taken to Avon, the Douglas plan tation near Woodward, where I Mr. and Mrs. Douglas are going to make their home, exchanging city life for the delights of up-to a date rural life. We are' glad to welcome Mr. Douglas back to .Fairfield county. - wooden: Lexington Dispatch, one -story, wooden; Hendrix Furni ture company, two story, wooden; SCitizens Telephone exchange, brick; Mrs. E. G. Wingard's gro cery, one story, brick; Meetze ho tel, two story, wooden; S. J. -Long's barber shop, two story, -brick; Bank of Western Carolina. one st.ory, brick; unoccupied resi dence owned by Scott Hendrix, two story, wooden. 3Chester's first Chamber of .Commerce held its first meeting on Tuesday afternoon. NEXICAUS FAIL TO~ RALLY To Miscalculated When He - dicted a General Up g Against U.N. Field Headquarters of4 - can Expeditionary For.. lonia Dublan, Chihuahua; ex i6o, March 26.- (By aerop to Columbus, N. M., Marci . Evidence that Pancho Yilis preparing to resist the Am n pursuing columns and Mexican people are ndt. rallying to him, has been ed by the officers and t ts of the American troops. i Officers who have ridM the various fronts in the *.f Guerrero where Villa e6. the expedition crossed der, have found num ii cations that Villa mis. completely when he",;, e that his Columbus d cause,a general uprisingt.trst Americans. The status of the is that Villa is er ually southward tr1 fbce recruits into his ran en are feeling the pi-, er and are hoping for an - mer to shield against., the mountains, wher& idv retreated somewhere. : Namiqnipa. The question of over g importance is: Al ."Will Villa continue to , e for resistance?" Itis frankly hopedba for that is considere. eh a~i, barring Vila's own- men, o, American expeditio udessftalgeonclusi #fse to mak.e~ it/may require nop of&e wh reliable facts about the e o the American expeditiongn hey .have been told that thvu neri cans are an invading .a . a dangerous enemy; that tl, nust fight for their lives. . t all those whom I saw seerr to be a very credulous people. ' "They appeared to be , .ting -with some suspicion it is true butnevertheless waiting Eefore making up their - minds.. This waiting I took to be a hopeful sign. It was like going into vil lages where the inhabit~t re gard one with open suspi'i but are ready to be friendly vid ed they think our n is friendly. That, I thi--as the attitude of the people to ards us in many of the places w e Villa Villa hoped for recrui For two weeks res along Villa's trail show he b-frced recruits into his band cus tom has been to line ost of the male population . aspec tion. The best have ulled out of line and told r that they were honored ' e the others, because .they bcme "Villa's men." - In the Casas Grand ein at (aleana and El Vall Villa se cured fully half a hi4ded men by this method. The disappearance -fthe Car ranza garrison at Na iquipa and subsequent reports that these men had joined Villi was taken at American headquirters as an indication of seri<us trouble. American officers siid the Con stitutionalist troopsiappeared to be cooperating withgood will. Occasional defecti>ns of Mexi can troops have ben expected but there has been jno sign of a, break reported hern on the part of any of the Const(utionalist of ficers. All appear to be follow ing orders from G iterrez, Mili tary Governor of Thihuahua, to close in on Villa frin all, sides, Villa, so far as the American scouts have learred, has not faced any strong Donstitutional forcees, but has attacked Consti~ tutional lines whei2 only a small force opposed hidiuick charges. In such ;,fights, a:cording to re liable reports reaching here, it has been a case of "Villa coming in on one side of the town while ;he garrison went out on the! )ther. There has not been a real test >f Villa's strength. Mexicans! vho have seen Villa's men say -hey are ragged in the extreme rhe men rushed into houses in 3aleana begging for food, some >f them shrieking for it as if they were nearly crazed with hunger. Where Villa has gone he has threatened he will return and kill or. torture Mexicans who have beei friendly to the Americans or even those who have worked for Americans. Meanwhile Villa has been given surprisingly little time for rest because-of - the rapid southward advance of the Americans. Little has been announced about the work of maintaining a constant ly lengthening line of communi cations, but the fact remains that the men not only have received their supplies on time but that more supplies are. available each day, not only in more volume, but in more variety. Intervention Inevitable. Charleston Post. The Mexican situation is get ting worse each day, as it was predicted and as it was reason able to suppose it would become. The invasion of northern Mexico by American troops for the cap ture of Villa has had the effect of turning considerable sympathy toward,the bandit, and there is beginning a flocking to his stand ard not only ot the countryside ut of followers of Carranza. Many of. the Carranza troops were formerly Villa's men and -tie call to them to rejoin their old leader is not easily resisted -when the traditional hatred of the "Grinao" is an element of the situation. The reported re 4olt of Gen. Herrera with two thoiand men, from the stand d of Oarranza to that of Villa %aKvembmias gircumstane, onceriitWa&shington and _wh6le borde.- If Her colufins that have 1en,ent after .Villa will be seriois, and rein foregments in -strength will have to be ser:t and the field of oper ation in northern Mexico spread over a widei- area This is the course that was predicted when the hunt for Villa was first un dertaken. Practically the whole of the regular army is already employ ed in Mexico arnd along the bor der. and it is not adequate to the service with which it is charged. There should be a force at least double that now available ready for service on the border or to send across if the situation should develop rapidly. It would have been better had a volunteer ai a~y been organized at the beginning, held in reserve for whatever the needs might have been, and, .by its preparedness, going far to ward preventing the arising of such needs, It is imperativ.e that such an army should be organ ized now, and the proposal made by Senator Sherman of Illinois, yesterday that 50,000 men be called into service merits the 'ost attentive consideration. Perhaps that is not sufficient force for the occasion, but it would serve to begin with, and certainly a beginning should be made. The Mexican situation is critical and it has passed definite ly beyond the stage of watchful waiting. The hunt for Villa is steadily and rapidly taking its normal and inevitable course to ward intervention. Fairfield Cotton Crop. The last ginners report shows that Fairfield produced 23,338 in 1915 as compared with 26,012 in 1914. This is the smallest re duction of any county in the State and proves that our lands will produce more cotton to the acre than any other county in the State, without the use of fertilizer. On last Thursday a banquet was given at the Jefferson hotel in Columbia for the corn club prize winners of the state. Medals and money prizes were presented to the winning boys at this banquet. AFTER A NEW COUNTY ( Meeting Held at Fort Mill, S. C., and Advocates ( Get Busy. Fort Mili, S. C., March 27. There was a meeting held here today in the rooms of the Saving t Bank of the citizens of the town I in conference with a committee E from Rock Hill consisting of Ira I B. Dunlap, C. L. Cobb. W. B. t Wilson, Jr., and J. W. Marshall ( with reference to the formation 1 os a new county of which Rock I Hill will probably be the county seat if the proposition goes 9 through. The new county will I take in parts of York, Chester and Lancaster counties, includ ed in which are 13 cotton mills, the two plants of the Southern i Power Company, and a large - number of other manufacturing industries. Petition blanks were left with W. B. Meacham, presi dent of the Savings Bank and that the proposition is receiving support is evidenced by the man ner in which they are being free ly signed. Save Your Paper and Rags. As a result of the scarcity of the materials that go into the making of paper the department at Washington has sent out the following circular: The attention of the depart ment of commerce is called, by the president of a large paper manufacturing company, to the fact that there is a serous short age of raw material for the manufacture of paper, including rags and old papers. He urges that the department should make it known that the collect ing and saying of rags and old papers would greatly better ex isting conditions for American manufacturers. Something like.15,OW0 tons ofV per board are- manixfacture every dv.ifn the -United:States and a .large pprtion of this, after it h erv Ae eseslver in p ai-t burned or 4 e-6 This, of course. has At be re placed by new materials. In the early history of the paper indus try publicity was given to the importance of saving rags. It is of scarcely less imhportapee now. The de-artment of commerce is I giad ti bring this matter to the attention oT the public in the hope that practical results may flow from it. A little attention ~to the saving of rags and old papers will mean genuine relief to our paper industry and a di minishing drain upon our sources of supply for new materials. A list of dealers in paper stocks can be obtained from the local chamber of Commerce or Board of Trade. WILLIAM C. REDFIELD, Sec. Time Of Civic League Meeting There was some misunder standing this month about the day of the meeting of the Civic League on account of the fact that there were five Fridays in this month. Hereafter the meetings will always be held on the FOURTH Friday in each month in the Town hall. There will not be another meeting un til the fourth Friday in April. Presbyterian Minister Dead. Rev. J. G. Mayes received a telegram yesterday morning calling him to Walhalla to preach the funeral of Rev. J. G. Law, pastor of the Presbyterian church of that place and who had oied that morning. Rev. Mr. -Law: visited Winnsboro and preached - at Sion church on one occasion last summer. June 20, 21 and 22 are the dates which have been set for the State Firemen's association, which will be held in Orange burg this year. L. L. Baker of Bishopsville, state agent of the boys'corn club work, is organizing a number of pig clubs over the state. "Pigs and Prosperity" is the slogan of these clubs which follow close on the heels of the corn clubs in AROLINA PEOPLE POSSIBLY SEE DANGER ,onsul Dawson and Vice Consul Pressly at Tampico. State. Richard C. Reed, Jr., paymas er, U. S. N., a son of the Rev. t. C. Reed, D. D., of Columbia eminary, is abroad the gunboat &aritta, which was ordered yes erday to proceed to the Mexican il field port of Tampico, there o aid the gunboat Machias in )rotecting American interests. L'he natives are reported as ex ited and anxiety is felt for the afety of aliens. Tampico is the home of several 3outh Carolinians. The consul )f the United States at the port s Claud I. Dawson of Anderson, mnd the vice consul is the vene -able Rev. Neill E. Pressly of innshoro for many I years a nissionary of the Associate Re Eormed Presbyterian church in the Mexican oil fields. . Soldiers Warned Against Al-_ cohoL The following is clipped from the current issue of The Literary Digest, which in turn - quotes from The British Medical Jour nal. The appeal itself is; drawn p by the Academy of Medicme in Paris, and should interest many others besides soldiers, for which reason we reprint it. SOLDIERS-BEWARE OF ALCOHOL "Those who, like you, are ex posed to exhausting labor, to pe tilaus enterprises, and to strong emotions, are ever inclined to look to alcohol as a- stimulant and a comforter, and to seek for it in the tavern as a distraction for the monotony of cantonment and garris-n life. "It is. therefore, well thatyou should know 'what use you may make of alcohol without impar ing orhah - are widespread. "1. It s said t o g iv-e stregthe h s hol gives warmt T s - feeling for al few mimites .but the feeling of warmth which spreads over the limbs after a nip of brandy is delusive and is soon followed by a lessening of warmth and -trength. Men who take nips are far more sub jet to chills and to diseasest to which mien at the front are lia ble. Itis, further' asserted that in the form of a 'pick-me up' alcohol stimulates the appe tite. This is quite wrong. It would be difficult to produce any man whose appetite had ever been stimulated by a 'pick-me up'. These 'pick-me-ups' habit ually taken, lead without fail to disease of the stomach, liver,and mind. "4. Lastly, it is maintained that alcohol taken during meals, as wine, beer, or cider, aids di gestion. All important distinc tion must be drawn between 'distilled' liquors like brandy, and 'fermented' liquors such as wine, cider, and beer. Alcohol is altogether noxious. The small glass after meals should only be taken on rare occasions. Fer mented liquors, on the other hand, may be drunk subject to two conditions. They must be consumed in great moderation, which, as regards wine, should never exceed one. liter (a pint and three-quarters) in twenty four hours, and only at meals." The cotton warehouse of E. T. Hart mn Columbia was burned last Thursday night. Only ten bales of cotton were destroyed. as the other had been moved just a few days before. Thomas J. Pence, for a long time a promiment Washington newspaper correspondent and later secretary of the national Democratic executive committee died in Washington on Monday of pneumonia. He was a native of Raleigh, N. C.