The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, November 26, 1915, Image 1

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" FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 19f5. TWICE A V EEK, $l.o0 A YEAR. VOLUME Lin., NUMBER 86. . ANIMATED STORY OF ! TERRIFIC FIGHTING . HAND GRENADES WROUGHT TEH. RIBLE HAVOC. 1 ! IVaies of Suffocating (Masses Swept ^ -41' - T inCtc 1*1 mer me ?. ihukdu umvc * > ifcos Territory. Berlin, Nov. 23.?The fighting around Loose, where the British succeeded in capturing a part of the foremost positions of the German lines in Sep-1 tember, is still the subject of descrip tive reports in the press. One of the j most animated of such descriptions is j from the pen of Bernhard Kellerman, "known in America as the author of "The Tunnel." He says that after four cays of in- j conceivably heavy artillery fire the British began a gas attack on the morning of September 25. Four sep- j arate waves of gas, alternately white j and dark gray, were blown forward! toward the German lines; and at the | same time the British artillery was! hurling gas bombs upon the Germans, j > The latter coughed and held their; ground as long as they could, but many fell, unable to resist the fumes. In the midst of all this the Germans ~ ?< +V./N evnofltOf] IP were preparing iui mc ... | fantry attack. Finally the British appeared. emerging suddenly as if from nowhere, behind a cloud of gas. and wearing masks. They came on in thick lines and storming columns. The first line of the attackers was 1 quickly shot down by the hail of rifle and machine gun bullets that rained upon them from the shattered German trenches: the hand grenades especially wrought terrible havoc, some of them cutting down six or eight men. fThe dead and wounded soon lay like a wall before the German position. The second and third lines of English suffered the same fate. It was estimated ^ that the number of British killed-before this German division alone reached 8,000 to 10.000. The fourth line of attackers, however, finally succeeded in overrunning the decimated front line of Germans, who stood by their guns to the very last: those of them who had not fallen ^ were made prisoners. Not on? of them returned to tell what happened in this terrific fighting. On the neighboring front, too, the British succeeded in braking the German first position: and gained here from 500 to 2,000 yards of ground. At the second German position where their reserves ^ we in waging, the attack was complete checked. The fighting lost some'hins: of its fierceness as the afternnn waned; and September 25 end ed v *th hand-to-hand encounters and h*r ^ - -"nade a'tack* at various points along the front. The Germans made an attack durin? the nisrut. ana regained a nart of tve 'ost ^n-ound. Th#1 Brit'?h rernwod the npxt morning their attends to break thro* "i *1,? />I^^TVIqn i?r-- "Th^v *ried with quite new tactics?or, rather, with very old tactics that are out of date in this war. It was a thin? "Expected: and th#> staff '^Vod ot> p-ith open-mouthe^ Shortly "bpfor^ noon it wsc obsprv?d that the PriHc'h tMo-VH* r> ^ i*-> ^s^hflon > fnrrnat'on of e's^1 ? "-r- advances: from Too? to attack us. Their arwa = sending down a hail of shpHs to beat onen a path for fhese ^tortn?"? masses. At the same time the enemy mounted artillery, in broad rtayHsrM. ror]e ut> to take a position t*"i ~o to thf past of Loos, which *- ir*^nor rv>r>rp than a siisrh?" elevaS ^ 4-Vn in thp iqnds**ar?f? bardlv noticed in ri^inc across fMd. The batteries were carrying bridge material with in f>n?hio $^em to makp cro^sovpr fronohpt; and natural obstructions. St'll morp?one or two mnnntpd cavalry regiments were obon +*?? n'ain far to fh^ rpar. T7*:rrV.t rtnirc of infantry, mounted artnwv. oavalr" in the backeround? t>>at wp?! too much! A veritable battle ni-an of a past age, trie product of a tvmv^ in its dotaee and a half-centurv ^ behind thp times! Commanders of armies eet out of date in our times as rapidly as inventions and sciences. whereas the lesson taught by this war ^ is that the lives of soldiers should be entrusted only to *he most modern, the most plastic and most hisrh'v mdov*p^ mind3,?the very mok of th? nation's bpst t?'pnt. The Ffns^lish should I GENERAL SESSIONS COURT. A Heavy Week's Work?A Number of Additions to the Cliainsrane: from Tills Court. :!he court of general sessions has been in session here this week and considerable work has been accomplished. Thursday being Thanksgiving day, court adjourned Wednesday s afternoon until Friday morning, when it will reconvene for business. In addition to the true bills publish- . ed in the last issue of The Herald and News the following true bills have, been rendered by the grand jury: j The State vs. Xeely Renwick, burglary and larceny. Henry Counts, forgery. R. P. '\Villard. violation dispensary -law. Tut Wicker and Sam.^etzler, aiding! convicts to escape. W. A. Asbill, breach of trust with i fraudulent intent (two cases). j. George W. Cromer, official miscon- ? due-:. E. S. Werts. murder. Ira Jones, assault and battery with' intent to kill. Bruncy Rikard, housebreaking and . larceny. Will Jackson, Tom Allen, Jay Mc- j Daniel, Clarence Jones, John Wil-j liams, Richard Jackson, Ed Jackson, j alias Ed Jones, George Thomas. John Henry Robertson, Hamer Smith alias Hamer Gilliam, Mary Jones and Lillie ! Martin, charged with conspiracy and privily stealing from person. John Glasgow, privily stealing from! person. The following cases have been disposed of since Tuesday's issue o. The Herald and News: Claud Mack, housebreaking and lar- . ceny. Pleaded guilty. Sentenced two years in the reformatory for colored boys at Lexington. Henry Mason, pleaded guilty violation of the dispensary law. Six months or fine of $100. This sentence was conditioned as follows: The prisoner may pay fine and time will be suspended during good behavior. If he can not pay fine he may serve three months with three months suspended during good behavior. The fine was paid. Jim Rice pleaded guilty to aiding prisoners to escape. Three months or * $^0. Paid. John Baily. House breaking and :larceny. One year on the chain gang or in the penitentiary. Neely Renwick, alais Xeely McCrackin, burglary and larceny. Agreed upon verdict of guilty with recommendation of mercy. Five years in the penitentiary. In the case of Will Jackson, Tom AlJave sent back their old celebrities to take charge of communications. "Splendidly, with admirable courage, the English troops came forward to the attack. They were young, wore no decorations; they carried out with blind courage what their senile commanders ordered?and this is a period ' of mortars, machine guns and the tele1 phone. Their behavior was splendid, but all the more pitiable was the breakdown of their attack. "The eight-rank columns, ^ before they had advanced ten paces, got into our mixfd fire of rifles, machine guns and artillery?all at the ca'll of the telephone. Our batteries were onlv awaiting the signal. His English excellency was not prepared for this. Fresh reserves were put into action, only to be mowed ^wn by the crossfire from our machine guns. The English mounted artillery had a wretched end; it not only got into the range of our machine guns, but at the same .time our heavy mortars (called by telephone!) raked it so rapidly and thoroughly that the men did not even have time to limber their guns. The cavalry regiments waiting in the background for the order to attack were greeted with some salvos of heavy sabres from their scabbards. That ended the battle. The attack broke down in front of our wire entanglements. ".An enormous number of dead lay before our trenches. The enemy's 'osses for the two days before this German division alone amounted, at a low estimate, to 20,000 men.'* The lesson that Kellermann thinks should be l;amed froai the fighting here is that "war is not a sport in the hands of a dozen provileged dilletantes." len, Jay McDaniel and others, charged I with conspiracy and privily stealing from the person, a verdict of guilty was reached by the jury about 8 o'clock 'Wednesday night. This trial consumed the entire day ind commanded considerable interest. This is , 0f pickpockets arrested by Policeman H. 0. Stone on show day here, the 27th of October. Mr. Ston? locked up on that day seven of these men and two women, all belonging to the same gang. A few days later he went to Rock Hill as Sheriff Blease's special deputy, where he identified and * '1 -C j-r-~ ~~ ~ ~ arresiea mree more in me 5^115 auu j brought them to Xewberry. 'The en- j tire gang served time of thirty days for vagrancy from the recorder's court. Since the court had adjourned to j Friday morning when the verdict of j guilty was reached by the jury Wed- j nesday night, the sentence of the court j was reser.ed until Friday morning j when sen ence will be passed on the i prisoners in this case. Eugene S. Werts, murder. The court! agreed upon a verdict of not guilty, j This indictment grew out of the case ' of the old man who died in Prosperity j a week or so ago as the result of in- j juries received from being run over by an automobile. The old man, a stranger giving his name as Bragg, from Spartanbcrg, was run over at night in the road near iColony church, two miles i this side of Prosperity. Luther Matthews, assault and bat-! terv with intent to kill and carrying! concealed weapons. Pleaded guilty j and given six months or pay a fine of; $200. Andrew Wheeler, obtaining good= j under false pretense. Tried and found i not guilty. j Ira Jones, assault and battery with I intent to kill. Tried and found guilty of assault and battery of a high and ^'ed nature. Given six months or $150. Andrew Robertson, assault and bat- j tery with intent to kill. Tried and found not guilty. Henry Counts, forgery. OPleaded suiltv and siven one year and $1. L. E. Kempson. forgery. Tried and ! found guilty, and given one year and j one dollar. Kenny Sheppard, 'violation of dispensary law. Pleaded guilty and fined $200 and six months. The prisoner has the option in this case of suspension, during good behavior, of the six months time, provided he pays the fine, i John Glasgow, privily stealing from the person. ?Tried and found guilty. Will be sentenced Friday. vnv DlkiTAUlTPS WtPVVn Ti f I 1 .1 OI V H'.i lljkj x v A?IU JU v Silverstreet, Mayer Jlemoriil and Summer Memorial?Re?. & P. Koon Called as Pastor. A meeting of the executive commit-1 tee of home missions of the Lutheran j church in South Carolina and the offi- j cers or tne .\ewoerry wuicieuue w oo held at the parlors of thd Lutheran manse in Newberry Tuesday evening. The joint council of the Mayer and Summer Memorial churches and the Silverstreet church was als-o held. The matter of forming a new charge to include Silverstreet, Summer and Mayer Memorial was discussed and it was decided to form a pastorate out | of these three churches with the par-! } sonage at Silverstreet, where the j church owns a welling house. It is understood that the Rev. S. P. j Koon, who is now serving the Silverstreet church, has been called and that he will accept the work, to enter upon the duties on the Irst of January. Death of Mr. Jessee SIje?. lessee Slice, aged agout 22 years, died of tuberculosis at the home of his father, Mr. Jno. A>. Slice, at the Mollohon mill village, Wednesday night and was buried at Capers Chapel, near! Chapin, Friday at 1 o'clock. The deceased is survived by his father and j 11" Vi -c*-? ctorc ! tll? lUilUWiug uiyiucio a, xi u oiaiwg. i John, George and Hutto, Mrs. Daisy i Arrowood and Mrs. Sallie Woodward. I i Mr. Slice was a member of the Junior! Order. He has lately joined Summer; Memorial Lutheran church, at Molio- j hon. Maybe the allies can't put Turkey down, but watch Uncle San achieve the feat tomorrow with tears of gratitude or of repletion welling from his noble optics. - ??**' 1 * ? Subscribe for The Herald and Xews. i ISENKOWER CASE FOR DECEMBER WILL \OT BE REACHED AT YORK . THIS WEEK. Chances Are It Will be Called Second or Third Week?Solicitor A1 E. Hill to Assist Prosecution. The State. York, Xov. 23.?It is thought that the case against Ernest fsenhower. Jesse Morrison and Jim Rawls. to be tried in the York county court on a change of venue from Fairfield county. will not be reached this week and some of the attorneys in the case say that there is some doubt as to whether or not it will be taken up next week. The chances are that the case will hardly be called before the third week of the present term of court. If the latter be correct the case will not come before the court until the week beginning December 6. Judge Havne F. Rice will preside over the trial, and while it is not definitely known just how many attorneys will appear in the case, it is said today that J. X. Henry, solicitor of this circuit, has requested Governor Manning to lend A.bert E. Hill of Sparcanburg, solicitor of the Seventh judicial circuit to assist in the prosecution. The governor has agreed to do so and Mr, Hill has agreed to assist in the case So far as is now known these two attorneys, with <Thomas F.. McDow of York, will constitute counsel for the prosecution, although it is possible that some other local attorney will also appear. For the defense C. L. Blea^ of Columbia will appear for Isenhower and Arthur L. Gaston of Chester. Wilson Hanahan of Winnsboro and John R. Hart of the York bar will appear for the other defendants. lU'smuers 01 uie counsel saia ioaa\ that the trial of the cases, if all defendants were arraigned together, would hardly consume more than three days or four days at the outside, but that if a severance prevailed and the defendants are arraigned separately several days over a week might be necessary to conclude all the cases. PeoDle in Fairfield. Chester and York counties are all interested in the case and there seems to be a considerable interest in other portions of the state as well. It is predicted that there will be more people here to witness this trial than York has ever seen at a session of court. NOT CONSTITUTIONAL SAYS JUDGE WILSON Another Judge Finds Flaw in Title of Act Creating Gallon-a-JIonth Liquor Shipment Law. Tli a Ofof n x kz uiaic. Spartanburg, Nov. 23.?Judge John S. Wilson in the court of general sessions here yesterday held South Carolina's gallon-a-month law unconstitutional in its application to intrastate shipments of liquor. The trouble is in the title of the cat, according to the court's ruling, and is one that legislative amendment will cure readily. The court held that the title of the act does not conform to article 8. section 17, of the constitution, which provides that any act or resolution having the force of the law shall relate to but one subject and that shall be expressed in the title. The Mtle of the gallon-a-month law states the subject of the act to be that the regulation of the shipment of alcoholic liquor into 1a v i ?a ine siaie, out maites no reiereuue 10 shipments entirely within the state. The question of the constitutionality of the act was raised by !C. C. Wyche, attorney for Boyce L. Turner, under indictment for transporting 150 pints of beer from Union into Spartanburg county last summer. 'The court directed a verdict of not guilty in the case, holding the act not in accord with the constitution of the state as it re * - ?1- i - r ! ...l 11.. iaies 10 me movement ol riquur \wiuii,y within the state. There have been several convictions in the city courts on this point of the law. England figures that to keep up its war expenditure of $25,000,000 a day, bon-bons, cut fiowers, grand pianos, and joy wagon may have to go by t'fle board. ADMIT VIOLATED CIGARETTE LAW John and Leila Horn Plead Guilty to Indictment Charging Sales to Minors. The State. Spartanburg, Nov. 24.?In the sessions court today, John Horn and Leila Horn entered pleas of guilty to an indictment charging supplying cigarettes and tobacco to minors. They were sentenced to serve four months or $50 fine and three months or $25 fine, respectively. This is probably the first case that has been brought in this vicinity under this statute. It is alleged that the defendants on October 5 sold cigarettes to three boys under the age of 18 years. KEPORT OF CITY SCHOOLS 4 fiAfi r A >.on 1TA vmil fil IrKAUfcS run LAiJI iUV^ in. High School. Tenth Grade?Enrolled 44. Percentage of attendance 96. Tardies 5. Honor Roll: Irene Hunt, Annie Kinard, Bertha Gallman, John HiggiiK-, Grace Wilbur, Roberta Lorainick John Floyd. Geo. Rodelsperger. Helen Summer, Joe Vigodsky, Tommie Paysinger. Ninth Grade?Enrolled 34. Percentage of attendance 93. Tardies 14. Honor Roll: Roberta Mann, Emily | Hoof, Ruth Schumpert, Frances Houseal, Drayton Nance, Nancy Fox, Marie Sease. Eighth Grade?Enrolled 55. Percentage attendance 96. Tardies 14. Honor Roll: May Tarrant, Marguerite Wertz, Daggett Norwood, Callie Boyd Parr, Edwin Setzler, Abhie Gaillard, Robert Schumpert, Edgar Papisinger, Susie Maude Wilson, Mary Nance, Mary Klettner, Sue Ella Peterson, Caldwell Sims, Lilian Brown, Vera Derrick, Hattie Mary Buford. Hundarry Street School. Sei.enth Grade?Enrolled 25. Percentage attendance 97. Tardies, one. rionor Roll: Alliene Dunn, Mary I T IT?.? ATaP ,.O Worl. r ranees -Junes, na.unc nn.ui a h , na Schumpert, Mildred Tarrant, Clarke Flcj.d, Ben Sloan, Willie Sloan, Car,-oli Summer. Siixth Grade?Enrolled 29. Per entage attndance 96. Tardier, none Honor Roll: John IChappell, Ella Dunn, Everett Hipp, Eva Robertson, Marie Schumperi, James 'Wallace, Mildred Wertz. Fifth Grade?Enrolled 39. Percentage of attendance 92. Tardies 1. Honor Roll: Wright Cannon, iMaude Ham ilton.Buford Cromer, Margaret Kinard, Olive Morris, Willie !Mae Culbertcon, Martha Lathan, Boyd Wheeler, T. W. Smith. . j Fourth Grade?Enrolled 35. Per-1 cen age of attendance 96. Tardies, none. Honor Roll: Pauline Boozer, Helen Jones. Mildred Livingston, Con-1 nie Maddox, George Fulenwider, Philip ! Crotwell. Samuel Matthews, Hassell j Mims, Thomas West. i Third Grade?Enrolled 25. Percen tage-attendance 98. Tardies 1. No M/->nnr Rnii rlosptf two weeks account scarlet fever. Second Grade?Enrolled 33. Percentage attendance 84. Tardies 1. Honor Roll: Mary Alice Hipp, J. D. Hornsby, Minnie Morris, Marcus Caldwell. Kate Bullock, Nannie Laurie Boozer, Edward Schumpert, Frank Adams, Harry Thomas Summer, Mamie Boozer, Aldine iMims, Lyl White Bullock, J. C. Scber, Evelyn McGraw, Anna Badham, Paul Denning, Mary McClure. First Grade?Enrolled 32. Percentage attendance 94. Tardies, none. Honor Roll: Karl Long. Rose iTurpin Tarrant, Clifford Kilgore, Edith Dorrity, Clara Davis, Lula Werts, Dell McFall, Olive Burns, Sarah Buzhardt, Noland Wesson, J. D. Butler. / Speers Street SchooL Seventh Grade?Enrolled 23. PerI centage attendance 97. Tardies none. I i?nio 'noli Psivsincer. I1UUU1 IVV/U. %J Ulliv, 0-_, Mary Alice Suber, Aubrey Tilley. Ruth Koon, Sam Bean, Claudia Wheeler, Irwin Leavell. Sixth Grade?Enrolled 29. Percentage attendance 97. 2. Tardies 1. Honor Roll: Earl Chandler, Harold Hipp, Carrie Nell Swindler, Henry Lominack, Edith Wilson, Welch Wilbur, Flemmer Jones, Winnie Taylor, Wiliiam Mc ' ^ T ^ Swain, Blanch saie, ii.ricu juues, ircan Spotts, G. ;V. Boozer, Susie Buford. Fifth Grade?Enrolled 39. Percentage attendance 96. Tardies 2. Honor Roll: Colie Blease, Rosa Copeland. Melzie Hallman, Elizabeth Harms, Car1 j lice Weeks, Minnie Williams, William j Eddv, Henry Gauntt, Herbert McTeer, 4 <$> COTTON MARKET tf> A <S> jfewberry. 3> Cotton ll%c $> 3> Cotton seed, per bu 60c ? <S> <? <$>' Prosperity. 3> Cotton 11 }4c <S> 'Cotton seed, per bu 57c <S> - <S> <$> Pomaria. ' Cotton 11 V\t Cotton seed, per bu 57c & $> <S> Little Mountain. ^ Cotton 11^4c ^ ^ .'Cotton seed, per bu 57c ^ ? <? SilTerstreet, ^ ^ Cotton 11/4<J ^ Cnttnn seed. ner hu 60c ^ ' > > Cttappells. ? V Cotton 1154c <? <? Cotton seed, per bu 57c ^ <S> <S> EInards. ^ <3> Cotton 11^4c ^ Cotton seed, per bu 58c ^ <$> ^ <? Whitmire. ^ ?> Cotton H^4c ^ ^ 'Cotton seed,-per bu 57c ^ <S> <S> Cortez Sanders, Hubert Setzler, Griffin. Williams, Iceland Wilson, Janies Derrick. Fourth Grade?Enrolled 33. Percentage of attendance 99. Tardies 5. Honor Roll: Margaret Farrow, Bennetta Buzhardt, Edna Sanders, Ella Bowman, J. W'. Earhardt, Jr., Gladys Havird, Leila Chappell, James Nobels, Jennett Harman, Mildred Perrj, Tuonito T-Titf 'R.iihtr R/voc 'XXTil ' uuuiwa XVU \J J XkVUUAVA) XVVtfU f f ** son, Gladys Soiber, Azile Whitaker, Beverly Evans. Third Grade. Enrolled 17. Percentage of attendance 91. Tardies non<e. Honor Roll: Mildred Spearman, Thomas McTeer, Effie Player, Edna .Jacobs, Sadie Jones, Estelle Whitaker, Leon Taylor, Tyler Robinson, Arthur i'sbill, William Milam, iChappell Teague, Thelma Griffin. Speers Street Second Grade?Enrolled 23. Percent attendance 93. Tardies 3. Honor Roll: Gladys Williams, Ernestine Melton, Mildred Jones, John Hu? bert Boozer, Carlisle Kennedy, Thelma Bowles, Thomas Spearman, iMattie Senn, Pauline Klettner, Earl Turner, Margaret Chalmers, Earl Holsonback, Evelyn Baker. First Grade?Enrolled 21. Percent of attendance 98. Tardies one. Honor Roll: Robert Kennedy, Leroy Anderson, Prince Chappell, Ralph Bedenbaugh, Mack Reid, Deronda Milam, Eldridge Teague, Mary Derrick, Margaret Shaw. ^ j Woef Vn/1 ' *** 4 I ? Vjjl' K/VMVVM Fourth Grade?Enrolled 22. Percent attendance 97. Tardies 4. Honor Roll: Annie Lou Connelly, Ernest Layton, Bertie Inabinet, ' Andrew Thornton. Third Grade?Enrolled 39. Percent of attendance 96. Tardies 3 Honor Roll: Bertha Gentry, Gladys Carter, Louise Shealy, James Lindeey, Zack Franklin. second liraae?enrolled oz. rerceat of attendance 83/, Tardies 2. Honor Roll: Enal Culbertsan, Brunell Carter, Hiram Franklin. Alvin FYanklin, James Fulmer, Walter Fulmer, Mamie Lou Gentry, Aaron Leopard, Louise Danielson, Myrtle Outz,Louise Thomas, Olin Smith. First Grade?Enrolled 52. Percent of attendance 87. Tardies none. Honor Roll: Roy Jones, Jack Senn, Herman Franklin, Sudie Crump, Mary Chan dter, Ella May Miller, D. P. Ward, Vernon Bouknight, Lula May Gilliam. Genell Hair, Furman Goree, Leroy Sandford, Irvin Attaway, Robert Napier, Carrie Stevens, Otto Campeen, Roland Wesson, Tommie Mims. Mollohon Kill School. Enrolled 79. Honor Rolf: Nellie Brown. Ella May Longshore Edna Stilwell, Rois Mitchell, Hattie Tew, Mamie Lee .Arnold, Lossie May Tew, George Brown. Enrollment to date: High School f ft* T"> 01 o itto. rwunary street oeuuui ^xo. Sneers Street school 185. West End School 165. Mollohon Mill School 179. West End Night School 26. Hoge 485.