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COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS
SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS
IN VARIOUS SECTIONS.
News Items Gathered All Around the
County and Elsewhere.
Ehrhardt Etchings.
Ehrhardt, August 27.?We are
glad to see so much cotton
coming to town. It looks good to us
all. It is bringing a good price; opening
at 25 cents per pound. About
100 bales were sold here up to Saturday
night.
We were very glad indeed to see
our friend, Hon. James F. Byrnes, in
town iwice lasi wecK on nis way 10
and from Jacksonboro, S. C. In the
party also was our friend, Mr. Bob
Gunter. Very sorry, but the writer
did not get to see him. From what
the writer heard, he thinks Mr. Gunter's
big car was the cause of him
not staying in town, for it took all
his time tp keep up with the rest of
the party/who were in the lead in
a Ford.
We are all glad to see Mrs. Frank
H. Copeland out again after a very
severe illness.
The writer is glad to report that
Mr. J. P. Griffin, who is in a sanitarium
in Charleston, is doing fine and
will soon be home.
Messrs. Frank H. Copeland and
Stacy Kearse, who motored over to
the capitol city last Friday, say that
the roads are real rough for two in
a touring car.
J. lie uui) tiling hc (jail ncai nuiu
the small children is "old school
starts in a few days."
We are glad to learn that Messrs.
. J. M. Dannelly and D. C. Copeland
will begin work on the brick building
soon. Let the good work go on.
We are glad to see Mr. H. A.
Hughes and Mr. G. B. Cyayton enlisted
among the county's most progressive
farmers. They have each
purchased a farm tractor. It looks
like farming.
The deer hunting crowd are counting
the days until /the first of September,
so they can go hunting. Mr.
J. C. Kinard, Mr. F. H. Copeland,
and Mr. J. F. Chassereau are practicing
their dogs. Don't forget us when
the venison comes to town.
The picnic at the new park last
week was fine and a large crowd attended.
There was a good speech by
' S. G. Mayfield, Esq.
OLD TIMES.
Colston Clippings.
Colston, Aug. 28.?The farmers are
? busily engaged in picking cotton now. They
hope to make a good crop and
get a good price for it. ,
Miss Alberta Kearse is spending
some time with Miss Mamie McMillan.
Misses Nettie and Inez Clayton
spent last week with relatives around
Denmark.
Miss Evelyn Kirkland ik visiting
relatives in the Buford's Bridge section.
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Witt and James
Reynolds, of Callison, spent several
days with relatives in this section.
Mrs. Thomas Clayton returned with
\ them Tuesday.
Misses Bessie and Hattie Kirkland
and Messrs Roy Williams and Eddie
Walker dmed at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. /G. W. Folk Sunday.
The Sunday visitors, of Mr. and
Mrs. S. W. Clayton were Mrs. Lucia
Sandifer and children, Mrs. Julia
Sandifer, and Miss Lessie Sandifer,
of Bamberg; ana" .Mrs. ruray Ayer
and children, oi Olar.
Miss Laura McMillan was the pleasant
guest of Miss Mamie McMillan
, Saturday-night.
Mj; \Tohn G. Clayton, of Walter.
fcoro, spent Sunday with his parents
in this section. He has recently been
t called in the service of Uncle Sam,
also Mr. Reuben Kearse. They both
v have successfully passed the physical
examination.
Governor Manning has recently is\
sued a request that all churches send
up a special prayer in behalf of the
soldier boys next Sunday. The public
is invited to cooperate in carrying
out this request with the Colston
Branch church next Sunday morning.
Mrs. M. S. Wooley left Tuesday to
visit relatives in Barnwell, after
i spending some time with relatives
here.
Misses hitnei .virwinian ana mviei
Kearse. and Mr. Albert McMillan din-{
ed in this section Sunday.
Mrs. William Zojgler and children!
are visiting relatives here at present.
Mr. and Mrs. Jeter Creech were tlie |
welcome guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Clayton Sunday night and Monday. !
Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Birt and fami-j
ly of Williston, visited relatives herei
CHARGED WITH MURDER.
Gen. Parker Orders Removal of 24th
Infantry to Columbus, X. M.
Houston, Tex., Aug. 24.?Blanket
charges of murder were filed tonight
by District Attorney John Crocker
against thirty-four negro soldiers of
J
the Twenty-fourth infantry held in
the county jail as a result of the
trouble last night, which ended with
the death of seventeen persons, four
of them oitv noliee officers.
This was the first move indicative
of an attempt by the State to retain
custody of the soldiers rather than
turn them over to the army for punishment.
Announcement that Gen. Parkor
had ordered the removal of negro
soldiers of the twenty-fourth infantry
from Houston to Columbus, N. M.,
served materially to restore a spirit
of quiet here tonight after a day
of unrest following the race rioting
last night which result?"? in the death
of seventeen persons' and the wounding
of more than a score.
Coming as the climax to a series of
minor troubles between city police
and negro military police guarding
Camp Logaii, Houston's mobilization
site for the Illinois division of the
National Gjiard, Thursday's outbreak
created a reign of terror for many
hours. Of the 1-25 negroes to leave
their camp Thursday night with stolen
ammunition for a raid upon the
city all but 8 were accounted for at
6 o'clock tonight. The remaining fucritiiroe
are ovnprfpH tn he rounded UD
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early tonight, scores of civilian and
military patrols being in the field
hunting for them.
Saturday night and Sunday.
Miss Annie Hutson, of Springfield,
has been elected to fill the vacancy
in the Colston Rural Graded school.
Miss Natalie Kearse is spending
some time with relatives near Olar.
Clear Pond Cullings.
Clear Pond, August 28.?Rev.
D. H. Owings filled his regular
appointment at Bethesda church Sunday
morning. On the 4th Sunday
morning of next month he will preach
to us of China, tell of his work and
experience as missionary there. He
will also have with him some Chinese
curios which will be of interest to
many. We hope to have a large congregation
on that day.
Mr. Clarence Carter has returned
to his home in Columbia after an extended
visit to his uncle, Mr. J. R.
Morris.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Richardson, of
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Bamberg, spent several days last
week with Mr. and Mrs. P. K. Hughes.
Miss Ruth Morris is at home from
a visit to relatives in Augusta.
The Sunday visitors at the home of
Mr. G. W. Folk were: Misses Meta
Hughes, Bessie and Hattie Kirkland,
Messrs. Roy Williams, Roy Hunter, C.
E. Walker, James Bolen, of Brunswick,
Ga.; Tillman Carter, of Ehrhardt;
Monroe Crider, Mayfield Bessinger,
Gilmore Beard, C. E. Hughes,
of Hampton, and Mr. and Mrs. D.
Rice Steedly.
Miss Mamie Morris, of Augusta, is
spending a few days at home.
.Miss Meta Hughes has returned
from a visit to her sister at Ulmer.
Messrs. Fulton Drawdy and Abie
Summers, of Branchville, visited in
the community last week.
Misses Sallie and Myrtle Morris, of
Ehrhardt, visited Misses Ruth and
Adrene Morris last week.
Miss Reba Steedly has returned
from a visit to Miss Gracia Black at
Hilda.
Misses Dorris and Pet Folk attended
protracted meeting at Springtown
church Tuesday.
BranchvHle Brevities.
Branchville, Aug. 25.?Mrs. Carrie
Byrd and daughter, Miss Wilhelmina,
have returned home from a visit to
relatives in Savannah.
Mrs. E. F. Cabell is spending some
time with friends in Martinsville, Ya.
Mrs. \V. A- Izlar and children, of
Augusta, are spending' some time
with relatives here.
INIiss Lurline McKenna, of Charleston.
is the guest of Mrs. M. S. Bell.
Miss Aline Hay, of Columbia, and
Miss Katherine Rhoad, of Hunter's i
Chapel, spent the week-end with Mrs. I
D. L. Rhoad.
Mrs. H. Weiss is spending some!
time with relatives in North Carolina.
Mr. Root advises "shooting at sunrise"
for the pro-Germans who hinder
the government. Mr. Hoover will
probably approve the hour, as it
come before breakfast and thus conserves
foodstuffs.?Memphis Commercial
Appeal.
IN THE PALMETTO STATE
SOME OCCURRENCES OF VARIOUS
KINDS IX SOUTH CAROLINA.
State News Boiled Down for Quick
Reading.?Paragraphs About
Men and Happenings.
The pay roll at Camp Jackson in
Pnlnmtn'o f<~>v tlio u'poI.* priHin<?r Inst
VjUiUXlllyfltt, 1 VI W*?V M VVil. 0
Saturday, totaled $1 60,000.
The Bank of Wadsworth, Spartanburg
county, has been commissioned
with a capital of $100,000.
J. P. Jeter has been appointed as
supervisor of Union county to succeed
Dr. J. T. Jeter, resigned.
James F. Hunter, 55, committed
suicide at the home of his son-inlaw,
Will Hunter, near Pageland,
Wednesday morning. Ill health was
the cause.
A paper mill which is a branch of
the Southern Novelty Company's
business at Hartsville, is about ready
to begin operation. Old paper will
be used chiefly in the manufacture.
J. K. Durst has resigned as State
senator from Greenwood county to
become clerk of court of Greenwood.
An election for his succesor as senator
will be held in Greenwood within
a short while.
Governor Manning has reprieved
Markev Palmer, an Orangeburg coun
ty negro under sentence of death for
killing an officer, until Qctol^r 12.
The case of the negro is to go before
the pardon board for review.
Walter Syphrett, a white carpenter
of Orangeburg, was run down and
killed by an automobile driven by A.
C. Watson, Wednesday night. The
accident was declared by a coroner's
jury to have been unavoidable.
, Supervisor G. W. Langford, of Saluda
county, has sold the county's
sixteen mules to the United States
government for $2,700. He has purchased
a heavy tractor to be used in
doing the work formerly done by the
mules.
In the county court election, which
was held in Barnwell county Tuesday,
the voters snowed the proposition
under by a majority estimated at
four to one, the unofficial returns
being 153 for anfl 450 against, with
seven boxes unheard from.
Major General Francis H. French
who will command Camp Jackson at
Columbia, is a native of Indiana, and
was graduated from West Point in
1875. He has seen service in Texas
and Colorado, Porto Rico and the
Philippines. He has been inspector
general of the Northern and Southwestern
and Philippine Divisions and
the Department of Dakota.
Some weeks ago, Dr. w. u. namrick,
of-Gaffney, in demolishing an
old building on one of his farms found
lying exposed to the air on the surface
of the ground several partridge
eggs. He took the eggs home and
set them under a bantam hen \yho in
due time hatched them and is now
going around the premises with eight
little birds in her wake. The birds
are about ten days old and it is inI
teresting to see them following the
I hen around. They are as gentle as
| chicks of the same age. Dr. Hamrick
is very proud of his birds and hopes
to raise them to maturity.
Our Airmen Destroy Many Planes.
Grand Headquarters of the French
Army, Thursday, Aug. 23.?The Lafayette
Squadron, composed of American
airmen enlisted in the French
aerial service,, was cited in army orders
today for its courage and spirit
of sacrifice. The citation, which is
signed by Gen. Petain, commanderin-chief
of the French armies operating
on the French front, follows:
"The squadrilla composed of
American volunteers who have come
to fight for France in the pure spirit
of sacrifice, has fought incessantly
under the command of Capt. Georges
Thenault, who formed it for an ar
dent fignt against our enemies, m
very severe combats it has paid the
j price of serious losses, which, far
from weakening, have increased its
I morale.
''The squadrilla has brought down
i twenty-eight airplanes. It has
j aroused the profound admiration of
I commandets who have had it under
I their orders, and also of French
| squadrillas which are fighting beside
j it and"' have desired to rival it in
I valor."
| A sheet iron elbow which conveys
j warm air from a gas range or oil
I stove burner is a new invention, the
purpose of which is to permit women
to dry their own hair at home after
washing it.
COMPLETE CONTROL OVER COAL.
Government Will Name Coal Administrator
to Take Charge.
Washington.^Aug. 22.?At a threehour
conference with the Federal
Trade Commission today President
Wilson took up the whole subject of
war prices and went over in detail the
commission's . figures on production
costs. Most of the time was given to
a study of the committee's report
just completed on the cost of producing
steel.
Further measures to control the
coal industry came in for discussion
and it was learned later that last
mgnt s orcier nxmg a scaie 01 prices
at the mouth of the mine for the entire
country will be followed closely
by others designed to give the government
a complete control of the industry.
The President went to the trade
commission offices, where he found
Commissioners Davies and Colver and
the conference began. Before it had
gone far the commissioners called in
Secretary Bracken and experts who
have handled the cost accounting
work. Together they explained to the
President details on reports on coal,
steel, copper and other basic materials.and
outlined the work accomplished
in getting production costs.
For several days the President has
givenMiis attention almost entirely to
the work the Federal Trade Commission
is doing. Officials with whom he
has consulted are of the opinion that
a definite price policy will be formulated
in the very near future.
CPPfTirn.iR VICTORY
Italians Scale Heights and Break Enemy's
Line at Several Places.
Rome, Aug. 25.?The Italian troops
on the Isonzo front are marching to
complete victor}-.
The battle along the Isonzo has developed
more brilliant success for the
Italians, who are making one of their
greatest efforts of the war. General
Cadorna's men, who at the beginning
of the offensive effected a new crossing
of the river North of Gorizia, at a
point where the Austrians believed
such a feat was impossible, have won
another spectacular victory by scaling
Monte Santo, 2,245 feet high. This
mountain, top, seven miles Nortlj# of
Gorizia, dominates the plain to the
East of the city, and the Austrian
forces there have been able to hold
up the Italian advance. The Austrian
line of defense was broken at
several points and the Italians are
pursuing the retiring enemy.
Further South, on the Garso, fighting
continues violently and incessantly.
Austrian efforts to win back lost
positions were defeated.
Gains at Verdun.
New gains have been made by the
French on the Verdun front, rounding
out the victory won in the offensive
begun on Monday. The French advanced
North of Hill 304, Paris announces,
and captured three fortified
works near Bethincourt. The official
German statement, however, says
French attacks between Malancourt
and Bethincourt, as well as East of
the Meuse, were repulsed.
On the British front sharp local en-|
gagements are in, progress.
The official German statement concedes
a small British advance near the
Ypres Menin road, but says that at
other points the British were repulsed,
with heavy losses. The capture of
a British position East of St. Julien
is reported. ,
The situation on the Northen end
of the Russian front remains obscure.
Official Russian reports earlier in the
week made it appear that a German
offensive, with the capture of Riga
presumably as its objective, was under
way.
The German communications have
not borne this out, except that an advance
to the River Aa at several
places was reported on Friday. The
German statement of Saturday spoke
of no more activity in this sector.
Neither did the official report from
Petrograd mention any operations
near Riga.
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On til6 uenirai rtussiiiii u mu a uw
man battalion penetrated the Russian
lines Northwest of Pinsk, but- later
the Teutons were ejected by a counter
attack. On the Roumanian front
i fighting has died down,
i In the Caucasus the Russians are
! showing greater activitv at several
j points. Turkish positions on (the
i heights in the region of Mount Henv!
redag have been occupied, the Turks
J
| retiring under pressure,
i A rod attached to a desk and teri
' minating in a cup. which fits under
| a child's chin, has been invented in
j Europe for the purpose of compelling
j school children to sit erect. i
ENTIRE DEPENDENCY BASIS
XOT TO FORCE MARRIED WOMEX
TO MAKE LIVING.
Five Per Cent. First Increment of
Drafted White Men Called to
Colors Septembers.
Washington, Aug. 25.?At the direct
suggestion of President Wilson,
Provost -Marshal General Crowder
telegraphed to all governors tonight
a supplemental explanation of regulations
governing the status of married
men under the selective draft law.
Xo change is made, and the purpose
of the new statement is to clear misunderstandings
which have arisen in
what General Crowder describes as "a
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lew instances.
In a letter to Secretary Baker,
President Wilson states his opinion
that the regulation requiring local
boards to establish "the fact of dependents
in addition to the fact of
marriage dught not to be abrogated."
This leaves the regulations as they
are and the supplementary statement
is designed merely to make the application
of the rules uniform among all
boards.
While the statement regarding
married men was in preparation, orders
were issued changing entirely
the mobilization arrangements previously
made. Congestion of rail
traffic and the necessity of making
better provision for the reception of
the men at the cantonments dictated
the changes.
Ordered Out in Batches.
Under the new orders 5 per cent,
of the white men, preferably those
with military experience, from each
local area, will be started to the
Qontomhor n instead nf SO ner
cent. They will go in five daily detachments
of equal size and from
skeleton company organizations.
The next 40 per cent, will go forward
September 10 when the second
30 per cent, originally was scheduled
to go; a second 40 per cent, will go
forward October 3 instead of the
third 30 per cent., and the remaining
15 per cent, will be called up as soon
thereafter as practicable.
Local boards are directed to disregard
order of liability numbers to
some extent in selecting the first 5
per cent, as men experienced, such
as cooks and former soldiers, are desired.
Warning is given, however,
against getting into this levy by reason
of his experience any man who
might not otherwise1 have been included
in the first increment of the
district at all.
Following is the text or the message
sent to the governors dealing
with the status of married men, prepared
at a conference late today between
Secretary Baker and Gen.
Crowder.
Message to Governors, v
"A feeling has been expressed that,
in passing on claims for discharge on
the ground of dependents, local
boards ought, in no case, to refuse a
discharge to a married man or to the
head of a family. The law under
which local boards act requires that,
dependency as well as relationship,
must be established. The matter having
been presented to the President,
the following are his orders thereon:
" 'We ought as far as practicable
to raise this new National Army without
creating the hardships necessarily
entailed when the head of a family
is taken, and I hope that for the
most part those accepted on the first
call will be found to be men who had
not yet assumed such relations.
" 'The selective service law makes'
the fact of dependents, rather than
the fact of marriage, the basis for
exemption and there are undoubtedly
many cases within the age limits
fixed by law of men who are married
and yet whose accumulation or other
economic surroundings are such that
no dependence of the wife exists in
fact. Plainly the law does not contemplate
exemption for this class of
men.
Not to be Abrogated.
" 'The regulation promulgated on
June 4, 1917, should be regarded as
controlling in these cases, and the
orders issued under that regulation
directing, exemption boards to establish
the facts of dependents in addition
to the fact of marriage, ought
not to be abrogated.'
"The attention of the office has
been invited to the fact that in a few
instances local boards have certified
to district boards as held for military
service men whose families are actually
dependent upon them for support
on the theory that the wife is
able to work and should be put to the
necessity of going to work to support
herself and children. The situation
is stressed in the finding of the district
board of New York City in which
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CAUSE OF EXPLOSION.
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J-teliljerate Act, Says Official Report to
Daniels.
Washington, Aug. 25.?The explosion
at .Mare Island Navy Yard in
July, killing five and injuring more
than 30, is pronounced in an official
report made public today by Secretary
Daniels to have been tile delib.?
a
erate act of some one unknown and
not an accident.
Secretary Daniels today made pub- '
lie a synopsis of the report made after
investigation by the bureau of ord
uance anu navigation ana uie juuge
advocate general of the navy. All *
those branches of the service agreed
that there had been no "hampering \ '
instructions or restrictive directions ' I
of the methods of investigation."
It was the Mare Island explosion investigation
which led to the recent
bitter controversy between Secretary
Daniels and the Navy League, which
culminated in Mr. Daniels' cutting off
all relations between the navaf es- . ;
tablishment and the league.
In a statement recently, the acknowledged
purpose of which was to
force publicity of the investigation,the
league declared that it has been informed
of evidence that a time fuse
had been found leading t^ the black
powder magazine, in which the explosion
occurred, showing a criminal
conspiracy, and that the investigation
was being hampered by powerful
labor influences. *
Hotly Denounced Charge.
Secretary Daniels notiy denounced
the charge t-hat any influence was
holding up the investigation and cut - M
all connection with the league. As to
the truth of the charge that a fuse
had been discovered Mr. Daniels said
the report on the investigation was " %
not then available. . .
Capture Hill 304.
Although it had been believed the
French would rest content with the
gains they had made against the Ger- , M
mans in the region of Verdun, Friday /
saw them again hit the line of the
German Crown Prince, and capture
the famous Hill 304, the scene of
some of the bloodiest conflicts of the '
war, the Camard wood and fortified
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works between the Haucourt wood
and Bethincourt. The penetration of v - the
German front was at an average
depth of one and a quarter miles.
Hard fighting continues between
the British and the Germans around
T VA-tViann franco 9nH VnrftS.
-UtJUS ILL ?U1 IUC1U A 1UUW, ,
in Belgium. The Canadians have
captured and now hold trenches at
the southwestern edge of Lens on the
monster slag heap, known as the
Green Crassier. The position was not
captured without the hardest kind of \ '/
fighting,' being taken and retaken
J several times before it rested securely
| in the hands of the Canadians.
opinion this office concurs, with the
understanding that the phrase 'support
available from relative' is support
partial or total previously extended
to the applicant himself.
"We don't concur in the view suggested
in some quarters that, in se
of wife and children actually dependent
on applicant's labor for sup!
port, and where there are no other
means of support, the wife should be
put to the necessity of going to
work to support herself and chil
dren. Bona fide dependency or wire
and children on labor of applicant
where, in his absence, they would be
left without reasonably adequate
support, after duly taking into con- \ *
sideration soldier's wage and support
available from relatives, as stated
in the rulings of the provost marshal
general, is ground of discharge.
Clearly Expresses Law.
"This opinion clearly and adequatly
expresses the intent of the law in
this regard..v *.] |
"Paragraph B, compiled rulings of
this office Xo. 6, addressed a state of
affairs where the parent or other
reiatives of the wffe or husband are
able, ready and willing adequately
to support the wife and children, if
any, during the absence of the husband.
This ruling was responsive to
a class of cases that had been
brought to the attention of this office,
where claims of discharge had
been made on the ground of depend- .
ency on a husband, who, as a matter
of fact was not dependent upon himself.
The ruling directed the attention
of the local boards to the fact ?
that scrutiny of cases or tins muu
might disclose that no discharge was
advisable.
"It was not intended that Paragraph
B of the compiled rulings
sliQuld apply to the ca?e of the head
of a family whose family at the time
of his summons and prior thereto
were and had been mainly dependent
upon his labor, for support. k
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