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r VOLUME XXXH. vHorry's Conl v * 1 ??r* unDDv eciino urn i iiunn i olnuo ncn FIRST CONTINGENT > ? fl District Board Certified List of r* 19 Picked Men, Last Thursday FROM LIST OF 19 LOCAL BOARD TOOK 12 Twelve Men Make up 5 Pt,r ^ Cent of Horry's Quota of 233. On last Thursday, the district exemption board for the eastern district of this State, certified to the local board here, as liable to military duty and not exempted or discharged, the names of nineteen picked men from the 4b0 who were examined in ^ August. The names of the 19 certified to the local board follow: John P. Durham, Jr. James B. Watson. James L. Bell. James Clyde Floyd. Brook Harvey Elliott. Malcolm B. Mishoe. Fred G. Graham. Allen Thurman D rw. Allen Jackson Booth. Tobias Rowel 1. Jerry Lide Johnson. George Jerry Graham. Samuel Wesley Wilburn. Herbert Thompson. Edgar R. McM. Gore. Norton Albert Johnson. Calvin T. Montgomery. II Frank William Sessions. I.ucian Augnsta Vereen. On Friday morning the local board mailed to each of the nineteen men above named the notification card provided by the' war department, read ing one side as follows: "You arc hereby notified that you have been selected for military service as a part of the quota from Local Hoard for Horry County. You will therefore hold yourself in readiness to report for military duty at the office \ of this Local Board at a time to be specified by notice at the office of this board in the near future. Notice will also be mailed you, but the posting of notice at the office of the J&oard will charge you with the obii Jgation to report. From the date sd specified for you to report you will be in the military service of the United States and subject to Military law. "While as much time as possible | will be allowed you, you are hereby ) cautioned that the necessities of the service may require you to be called on very short notice. You should therefore put your affairs in order to report upon 24 hours' notice." Enquiry at the offices of the local board did not disclose the method used by the board of selecting the 12 ^rp.en from the 19 to go on Sept. 5th to ' the mobilization camp at Columbia; but it is supposed that the selection was made by lot. On Saturday the local board had selected the 5 per cent of the quota, I amounting to 12 men, and to each of those who were to leave on the 5th, r' the board mailed the following card filled out to suit each name, one side reading a3 follows: "By direction of the Secretary of War, you are hereby ordered to report a ii ?ri f a.i _ t i n i .i. lo vne uii ice 01 uns i,ocai Doarn ai on the day of 191 , for military duty and for transportation to the Army mobilization camp at i: y Froni the date herein specified for you to report, you will be in the military service of the United States and subject to military law. Failure to report or unpunctuality are grave military offenses punishable by courtrnartial. Willful failure to 'repoF. with intention to evade military ser vice constitutes desertion which is a capital offense in time of war. Pre i Wm t tingent of T< Raid Englan ITALIANS STEADILY ADC MiDPUIAin ntl mil. iTiHiiunniu un Udine, Italy?Field Marshal von Arz, chief of staff of the Austrian army, is reported to be inspecting the Italian front for the purpose of reorganizing his troops, demoralized by many recent defeats. Meanwhile, the Italians continue their steady advance and are spreading over a larger tract of the country, especially through the Hrestovizza valley and over the l>ainLza plateau, capturing trench after trench and in some cases finding contingents of Austrian troops literally exhausted and suffering from thirst and hunger, their moans of communication having been cut off by the well directed Italian fire. sent yourself at the precise hour specified in order that you may not begin y< ur military record in the service of .sour country with a delinquency. You will bo held under the orders >f this board until the hour of departure of your train. During this period the Local Hoard will furnish you food and lodging. If you live within one hour's travel of the office of the Local Ho i'i <i, you may obtain permission to sleep and eat at home, but only if you flil out and forward to the office of the Loeal Board at once the printed application for this permission at hte end of this sheet. You will not be permitted to take with you op the train anything but hand baggage. You do not need bed. ding or changes of clothing except as specified below. You may take with you only the follownig articles: Soap; shaving accessories; comb and brush; toothbrush and tooth powder; towels; underclothing and socks; and if you desire, changes of collars and shirts, but you will have no use for these after arrival at the mobilization camp Since you will not be permitted to retain any trunks after your arrival at the railroad station, the articles listed above should be brought in a hand bundle. If you desire to do so, you may return the civilian clothes you are wearing when you arrive at the mobilization camp to your homo by express or otherwise, but if you desire to make no such arraiagement, it will be better to appear in civilian clothes that you do not care to kesp. The list of 12 selected fr?m 4 . 4. - - \ * * iwumy, aim u> wnom tno a novo cam was mailed out last Saturday are as fellows: John P. Dorham, Jr. James B. Watson, James I,. Bell, Jam# Clyde Floyd, Malcom I). Mishoe, Allen Thurman Dew, Allen Jackson Booth, Tobias Rowel 1, George Jerry Graham, Sam'l Webster Wilburn, Edgar R. McM. Gore, Lucian Augusta Vereen, The law provides for alternates, and f've were selected and notified as follows: Alternates. Frank Wm. Sessions, Cuivin S. Montgomery, Herbert Thompson, Fred G. Graham, B'ook llarvey Elliott, The .twelve selected to go, and alsi the alternates were notified to appear here ami ronnrt fn thp Irwnl Wir I headquarters on Tuesday. The Red Cross organization at Conway at once took hold of the matter of showing the appreciation of the town to this first small contingent of the soldier boys from Horry County. (\\r l?n ion/I fV?r? fiin/lo . KVJ V1IC I UillUI L\Jl piUVIUlll^ a dinner for the young soldiers at 8 o'clock ir. the evening at Hotel Grace whore girl members of the red cross showed by their presence their sympathy.^jjd appreciation of the dangers and self.denial that the young men of Horry must go through while the United States is at war. The twelve men who were selected were notified to report at the headquarters of the local exemption board at 1 o'clock on last Tuesday, September 4th. The alternates were also no^.ified to appear at the same time an;l place. There was no tardiness or ab purr I iONWAY, S. C , THURSDAY, SE welve men a irl-?Italianc I iu uuimiiy i SIX GERMAN AIRPLANES ATTACK ON CHATHAM London.?In last night's air raid 107 persons were killed and 80 wounded at Chatham, it is announced officially. OM i ne victims were navai men. i5>i\ airplanes took part in the raid. * In addition to the naval casualties, one civilian was killed and six were injured. Very Loud Noise. Reports received here from southeast coast towns say that duri.ng Mon day night's raid the air along the coast and for some miles inland resounded with the noise of aircraft engines, One of the raiders passed over a coast town headed seaward, its engine making the loudest noise ever I heard there from an aircraft. The sound resembled the noise of a Zeppelin and came from a great height. The raids over the southeast coast on Sunday and Monday nights seem t > have been more for the purpose of testing the possibility of attack by moonlight than in the hope of doing any considerable damage. Like the single aviator who dropped bombs on Dover Sunday night, those who came last night kept at a very high altitiiflr> uml \i-li iln f lifti i< ? ? ? V. . , MUM f? IIIIV VIIV1I Miav-IIIIIL^ V.I/U1U be heard, they couhi not be seen. Nevertheless, our airplanes went up in pursuit. After dropping bombs over a wide area, many of them falling into fields or the sea, the raiders departed quick Chatham is on the east bank of the Medway, 80 miles southeast of London. It is the seat of immense military and naval establishments, including a vast dock yard, an arsenal and extensive barracks. The term "naval ratings" applies to the grade of men on board ship, usually those before the mast. o CATTLE DIPPING IN HORRY. 10,580 head of cattle were dipped in J Horry County during the month of! August at 121 dipping vats, and more vi ts are going in every dry. Four, Inspectors 'have been assigned to the work. They are as follows: W. T. j [Johnson, J. A. Calhoun, B. H. Vereon. ; J. H. Smith. This makes a total of 1 fifteen men now engaged in the work.j ! [ sonces on the part of either the principals or the alternates. After they had been called together at the appointed time and place, J. P. Derham, Jr., was appointed to take command Mr. Derham is a son o!> Gen. J. P. Derham of Green Sea, and is the only one in this first contingent ! ic is said, who has had any military! training. The dinner given in honor of the soldiers by the Red Cross chapter was served at 8 o'clock at the hotel. Invited to attend the dinner with the soldier boys, were Rev. J. M. Lemon, L. D. Magrath, and S. C. Dusenbury, | all of whom have been active in the red cross work in this county. After j appropriate remarks the first con tin-} gent of Horry's quota sat down to a I dinner which was furnished by the ladies of the red cross. The girls decorated the dining room at the hotel in the early evening. The decorations | consisted of striking pictures calling I attention to the war and the necessity I now facing the country, Old Glory in I various sizes and shapes, red cross emblems and suitable mottoes. The decorations were admired by all who | saw them. There wao a crowd of business men present as well as friends of the departing boys. The contingent was furnished with rooms at the hotel by the local exemption board, and left Wednesday morning on the early train for Columbia. Forty per cent of the quota amount ing, with the alternates to more than. a hundred men will be called here *">; leave on the 19th inst. Still another forty per cent will be notified for Oc-| tober 3rd, and then the remaining 15, per cent will be called out as soon as possible after that.. Horry's quota in the first increment of the new nationVi army is 233, < u W? PTJSMBER G, 1917. re off-fieri toching on LIST OF REGISTRANTS FAILING TO REPORT Last week the local exemption board here certified to the district board at Columbia, the names of those who were called for military service, and being duly notified failed to appear and submit to examination. Those so reported by the local board are as follows: Lmpv Roberts, Allsbrook, S. C. Chas (ileaton Hardee, (ial. Kerry. Co. A. 1st Rat. S C. Kng. Clreenville, S. C. Hicks Patrick Singleton, (lal. Kerry. Cy. Stonev. Bueksnort. ? ' - ? I - - Cltiud F. Smart, Toddville. FSW Inf. Fort Screven, Ga. Louis Connor. Little River. Joseph C. Macklin, Myrtle Leach. Sam Harper Singleton, Lucksviile. FWS Inf. Fort Screven, Ga. Of the above list three, Sam Harper Singleton, Charles Gleaton Hardee, and Claud F. Smart, proved to have been enlisted already or since June 5th, in the service of the army; s) of course the non-appearance o* these three will be excused on that ground. ' , As to the remainder of the list of absentees The Herald has been unable 10 obtain any information as to their easons for not appearing when notified. I According to law they are regarded as being in the service, but occupying the position of deserters from the army; and severe penalties are due to be visited upon them late*- unless thev an show a satisfactory excuse- for their default. BURROCKS SCHOOL OPENS SEPT. 17TH The students of the- Burroughs High School are getting their books in order, and laying plans for a successful session which begins on September 11th. The names of the corps of teachers wore published in a former issue ol I this paper. Some time last year the school was itted with steam heat and now the children are looking forward t() comfortable rooms. The steam heating system was used last Winter with satisfaction. iNDUStRIALOPENING A GREAT OCCASION The Horry Industrial School \\ !* J open the next session on September 11th, 1917. Attention is called to the i large advertisement in another colum of this paper telling of the basket picnic and the addresses that will be delivered there on the occasion. The many friends of this institution feel that the school is about t ^ begin its most successful session. N pains have been spared by the Presi-I dent, the Rev. S. C. Moiris, in laying j the general plans for large success, j Attend the picnic and other exercises on September 11th and see if it is not the place where you want to send your boy or girl. WHAT WE "The war was begun by many, who proved to be also t gary. These men have never men, women, and children of selves, for whom governments < ments had their life. They h i serviceable organizations whi: trigue bend or corrupt to their garded the smaller States, in \ j could be overwhelmed by force struments of domination. Tli avowed. - - "If they succeed they are world are undone; if they fail, world will be at peace. If the within the menace. We and remain armed, as they will rej] the next 3tep in their aggressio unite for peace, and Germany row Wilson, President of the I raid, man Airplane Victorious i WILSON IS AGAINST CLASS EXEMPTION Washington.?In disapproving a proposal by Representative Shouse ol , Kansas that all men engaged in agricultural pursuits last March be ex empted from military service, President Wilson today wrote the congress man that a class exemption woul lead to "many difficulties and t many heart burnings." The text of the president's lotto, follows: ""My Dear Mr. Shouse: 1 have you letter to August 25 and realize th very grave importance of the matte you broach. 1 can not sou my wa\ however, to making so wide and swoe ing a class exemption as you sugges - - - 1 have before me a letter fror. the secretary of war from which quote the following sentence: 9 " '(leneral Crowder has foresee tho practical need of enabling mo a " agricultural work to romain at thoi tasks until tho oloso of the harvest season, and has ingeniously arrange'1 the details of calling them to the col ors s0 that they will be practicalh within the last group, and therefore not have t<> report for military service until on or before October 1. "I feel that a class exemption would lead" to many difficulties and to many heart burnings, much as I should personally like to see all the genuine farmers left at their indispensable labors. ""Cordially and sincerely yours, "Woodrow Wilson." ADVOCATES OF PEACE ! DISPERSEOIN CHICAGO Chicago.?The organiznig commit- j tee of the People's Council of America and Democracy and Terms o| Peace disbanded here tonight. Louis H. Lockner, executive secretary, issued a statement to that effect and stated that the delegates had accomplished their purpose. He issued th following statement: "We have formed a permanent or ganization which was our purpose and w( are satisfied. This was done be f< re the police stopped the meeting '\n tho West Side auditorium." What the meeting accomplished before the advent of the police was to appoint a nominating committee. The members ot the nomination committee are: Prof. Robert M. Lov It, University of Chicago; Victor Per I go/, Milwaukee; James Salutsky, Nov viork; Mary Winsor, Philadelphia; Mmilv Greenbalch, Wellesley College; ! i ank Stevens. Deleware; Sara Pardic'd. San Francisco, and 1.. Maybrick, San Antonio, Texas. o Under the leadership of Or. F. O. Watson, an energetic campaign of four minute men is being conducted it P?amberg, S. C. Fach night some speaker makes a short talk at the i ?oving picture theater along the linos suggested by the committee on public information and it is believed that much good will result I FIGHT the military masters of Gerhe masters of Austria-Hunregarded nations as peoples, like blood and frame as themexisted and in whom govern,Ve regarded them merely as h they could by force or inown purpose. They have re>articular, and the peoples who i, as their natural tools and in- i ieir purpose has long been i safe, and flpmanr f ? ? vxuwuj l*ltu IUV- | Germany is saved and the | y succeed, America will fall all the rest of the world must sain, and must make ready for n; if they fail, the world may may be of the union"?Woodfiuted States. NO. 20. 1 !S ' over Austria DRIVE ifiilNSTFNFMY - ? *WI 111 I V I kllklll I PLANNED BY ITALIANS Twenty-seven Thousand Men Captured From Ranks of Austrian Forces GERMANS DRIVEN FROM TRENCHES The French Troops Continuing; Their Dashing* Tactics With Great Success. After a week of comparative quietness on the Western front indications c-f the last few days are that the Allies are again preparing for an offensive. In Klnndprs flm ..... in lu.iii guns are threatening to rehew their artillery activity against the German forces. The French, while practically quiescent in the Verdun region, are giving another display of their successful dashing tactics in the Champaign region. On the Austro-Italian front Gen. Cadorna apparently has lined up his forces for another drive in the Bainszina plateau and again is pushing forward toward Triest on the Carso. The French assault in the Hurtebise region on the Aisne front Friday night was perhaps the most interesting development of the 24 hours. In one sweep, after brief artillery preparation, Gen. Petain's troops drove the Germans out of their trenches along afront of nearly a mile on the Chemin Des Dames and pushed the French lines forward more than 300 yards. The newly gained ground was held against throe counterattacks, Paris declares. .More Trenches Taken. In the Isono region on Friday night Gen Cadorna's troops took more than TOO additional prisoners, bringing the total for the offensive up to more than 27,000. The Italians captured additional trench elements on the Carso. On the Russo-Gorman front the Ger man cliams of success are growing more or less apprehensive. Field Mrr shal von Mackensen's drive against the Moldavian lines northeast of Fokshani does not seem to he gaining in force, and press dispatches have reported the Roumanians hopeful of retaining Moldavia in spite of heavy Teutonic pressure. Petrograd reports the repulse of an attack on the Ron manian linos in tho Fokshani region. There is more artillery activity than usual along tho Russian Northern front, hut no pronounced movement against Riga such as was suggested by Friday's Petrograd advices has as yet developed. Berlin Claims Repulses. In Macedonia the entente troops have attacked at several points. Berlin reports repulses for the Italians, Servians and French in attempts upon the German-Bulgarian lines. COAST LINE AGENT TAKEN FIRST DRAFT Mr. J. Thurman Mishoe who has held the position of depot agent for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., at Conway for the past several years; was drawn in the first draft of registered men and expects to have to leave here during the mrmfh o ? ?? ~ vice in the new national army. Mr. F. D. Benton came here recently to relieve Mr. Mishoe in his position in order that he might have time to get ready to leave. It is not understood that Mr. Benton will hold the job permanently, and still further arrangements will soon ho made to take care of the position permanently. o W. H. Cannon v'Cto! Conway last Saturday.