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w Z77! } eve .Y(( 1Qltatantvr"+ t .,".a.amraacwY^sraviwwnioar(nr e.n It tl"i -At7 1 71MLti!(7(JY1W pIV.(Rt.'JL IA{Rf lllvYll'1JRfR"ffIKV71ry1.tirV H!T(ILAf(/F!7JIO MV(A'Tf-,TJJfR .xl"+((T l'YAISO \'rMt'f }tl(ter +",. 1ri 4 LAU E NS f 1 (i' KIN E;;,, d f)EC. 26, ;<)17 1 IN..w.NN.r I r1MN"" .YM r'. . rM 1YrM W v'.O, YY"1M1111y1I. M y DR N leiP[RIS Flames Cause Horrible Christmas Holocaust ALMOST WtiPES OUT FAMI~L~Y Mother and Six ('hildreti 31 tel I cati by Flamines it h 'teir Iiome Nen r tIrei' n nood. Pot her Wits Not, ni 1om1 Neg.hbors Try in Vain It Maice 1teseue. (reenwood, Illece'mber 25.. - Mrs. .1. LambIert Vlhittian and her six chil dren, aged front three to thirteen years, were horned to deal.h .ast night at tmidniglit in their count r) home four miles west of Greenwood. This hor rible tragedy on Christmas brought to Greenwood a sadness that was very noted. 'Mrs. Whitman and her six children had presumably made their prepara tions for Christmas, and the father was in town. A neighbor, Mr. J. .H. Davis, one of the cotton weighers hero, was late getting home, and had just arriv ed in his yard when he saw the fire. Hastily putting his horse back in har ness he rushed down the road to the house. Although the building 'was blaz ing from every side he could hear the cries of the unfortunates inside. Wrap ping his laprobe about him, he at tempted to enter time and again, but was driven back by the flames. The cries increased, and this morning all that was left of seven -9oings of the day before was a charred heap of bones. The frame of the mother was clear * ly apparent, lying across a bed, where she had possibly tried to rescue some of the children and had fallen, over cogIe ty smoker 'T'he charred remains have been brought herp and are in the It. W. - Blythe undertaking establishment. To morrow they will be started to Due West in a single coffin and buried that way at the former home of the mother. The oldest child, a young boy, was away from home. on a visit. He and the father survive out of a family of nine. .The house was known as the Itykard place, just beyond Salak, and Was one of the landmarks of that sec tion of, the country, 'where Mr. Whit man had lived only one year, working a, crop on the place this year. TURKS CONDUCTING GUERILLA WARFARE Driven F}romn Jerusalen Ottoman Troops are Trying to Harass British. Country .Suited For IL London, Dec. 23.--since the Turks Were driven out of .Jerusalen they have been conducting guerrilla warfare to the north and east of the city, split ting up into numerous small bodies to attack British outpost, to snipe pa trols anti genierally to makce themselves 'unplteasaunt, says lieuter's correspond cnt at .1 eruisal1em, tel egrauphinug utnde r date of D~ec. 15;. "such tactics", the correspondent continues, "are greatly facilitatetd by the fact that the country Is so hilly end intersected by so many tavine'i and small rivers. A remarkable oppor innity to view this ,flghting is afforded by the Mount of Olives, which makes what is probably the most wonderful observation post in the world. .In the clear atmosphere of 'Palestine, objects .. that are from 1,000 to 6,000 yards awvay Vlook as if they were within pistol shot. The winding course of the Jordan is dearly visible and mno'or boats may he seen skimming the surface of the Dead Sea. "One of the most brilliant pieces of work tduring the recent operations was the capture of ,Bethlehem. The Turks had strong fortifications here with nu.. merous field guns on the outskirts of the town." DIU(AS FINALLY FRMBE. Ilohtheviki Itelease Former American Vice Consul. Petrograd, Dec. 22.--Victor Hugo Dugan, of Nebraska, the former Amer '. ican~consul at Liege, Belgium, and later vice-consul at Petrograd, who was arrested in August, 1916, at the Finnish frontier on suspicion that he became a German spy after he had left the con uar service has finally sheviki to leave Russia. Hie left'Petro *rad. this mnorning for Stockholm., '.\ i'Jl O' 11 t. W. P.'IIO.i.\SON Sit. Deat.h Occurred at. Ils llome on Suilli aian Streel. Friday .Mtiernoo .iter 111. > 5 N' S'ern) Weekls. ' Paaloole Thomason. '-I., a life r.i(('ut of the co1u11', excet dity . ; :.rly llh. a1 1 ont, of its sig t resi -:nstd citizen, dier at his home in hi Is li t lI iday afi'te'r a : hort illness o i ,1 week o ten dlay;. I n tetrme(n took pia(e in the i.aurens1 <Tleir ry Kuur Ibiy afte-rnoont h I rice b;;ehm1il: coin pa re i by it i . I. 1 (1 T mhplmn. A t - ior of 1 he (: l' i t !h tist lm: etr e. Iii 'ie: <dth the cunmty iloes an iright and honest. citizen, one' who Was :;r(,' ly r'dmired by' (house wvho kntew him. .\lr. 'lThomason was born mn I )ouglas vill. Ga., Feb. 2ti, Isl12, hi et was broght this trounty uon the diath of his mtotler and reared by his grand eoarets nea Tumbling Shoals. At the age of 17 he volunteered~ fol:.eric inl the Confederate army, being a member of Co. C, Capt. Matt Jones, Fourteenth South Carolina Regiment; in 1862 his regiment was transferred to Virginia and placed with Gregg's brigade and participated inl more than 20 battles before the close of the war. At the batttle of Frazier's Farm, June 30, 1861c:, Corporal Thomason received a cross fire scalp wound from a mine ball and this would give him much pain at imes through the r4 years that he bore It. At the end of six months he re turned to camp and took part In some of the great campaigns that marked the summers of 1863 and 1864, Includ ing cetty'burg. Intle spring of 186 he with his camrade and inseparable companion, L. iram Mahaffey, after wards his brother-in-law, were cap tured and sent to Hart's Island, N. Y. In June they were sent to Savannah and from there walked home, a dis tance of 180 miles. A few years ago Mr. Thomason wrote an interesting sketch of the war campaigns that he and his friend Mahaffey participated inl. .M1r. 'Thomason is survived by his widow, who was before merriage Miss Eveline Mahaffey, of the county; two daughters, Mrs. Lena Sneligrove, of Atlanta, and 'Mrs. Charles M. Wolff, of Laurens: three sons, Joseph K. Thoma son, of Ilickory Tavern, William P. Thoma son,of Laurens, and J. Furman Thomason, now at Columbia Universi ty, New York ,taking a post graduate course. The second son, W. Hosea Thomason, died a few years ago. Mr. Thomason was 50 years an active mem ber of the Baptist church, being an of ficer for a greater part of the time. He was a member of the Rabun Creek church, which he joined In 1859. He was also an active member of the Ma sonic order and filled many of the sta tions in the lodge. For several years he was a member of 1,aurens lodge, No? 260. Until a few years ago Mr. Thoma son was engaged in farming, but fail ure in health forced him to give it up and recently lie moved to the city. is :11 \ is E 'Hi.\SE R OE Orhlnates 1i Engine loom. .. Iwo Sailors liin. An AtlIanmti l(:I'art, I ):e. 22.-A United States subarhi'lne chiager was hburned to the wvater's edge near here late today by ai tire whliich is said to have orig lnated in the enigine iroom. Twvo of the crew were ijured and lakeni to a naval hospitald. The chaser carried 1,800 gallons of gasoline, which was dumped into the water by another chaser fIring a shot through the tank after two shots from ia nearb~y battery had mIssed their mark. The chaser was beached by the crow after it was foundl that 'the flames could not be controlled. An attemnpt then was made to putncture the large gasoline tank by projectiles from short hiatteries. Two shots missed their mark. Another chaser then came in and puit a hole through the tank with a well-aimed shot. The gasolIne spurt ed1 out, flames shot uipwvard and a short time later the little craft was a total wreck. Naval officials In charge of this dis trict refuse to discuss the burning of the craft and few details were avail able tonight.After a valiant attempt to put the blaze under control the crew of the chaser took to the small boats. It was during this operation that two of them were injured, fr. C. J0. 'Parker has joined Mrs. Parker hero at the home of Mr. and Mra. W. . 3Richr.. GOVERNME OPERATE President Wilson Mak< matioi Christmas Da: Friday. Washing ton, Dec. 26.---Gc cupation of the nation's rai claimed by President Wilsoe at noon Friday, December 2 taming his place in the cabii ury, is placed in charge as dir Every railroad engaged ir appurtenances, including stea all systems will be operated F eral. In a statement accompanyi ident stated as soon as congr ommend legislation guarant maintenance of railroad pro; ernment backing will be give securities that a market be fc COMES AS j The president's move, althc at this time as a great surf Washington including railroa erally believed he would awa gress before taking any step. Baker under authority conf tion act. Direct management of the officials and the railroad boa heads, will continue to direct retary McAdoo's general sup( E X-00lt0NEls x4IIM$'90N 1DEA0, Buried at Leesvlle Church Tuesday Afternoon. Rt. 0. Hlairston, for eight years cor oner of Laurens county, died at his home near Clinton Tuesday morning and was buried at Leeaville Methodist church, of w hich he was for many years a member and officer, Wednes dny afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. W. L. Mlliken conducting the services, a number of his friends from various parts of the county, including 'lau rent', being present to pay him a last tribute. Mr. Ilairston was 70 years of age. At the outset of the War Between the Stales he enlisted for service and foughtl I gallantly I hroughout the con flirt, always helin spoken of as a bravet soldier1 andl good citizenU. lieI is surived by his w'ife and two chhldren, .\i r. 0. L. lairston, of ('lintlon, and -.\iIr. billie .IY ey, ofi (hreeniville. Native of This County Dies al. lls Home in Fountain Inn A flAer Shaort Ml ness. .\r. D). 11. Roper, a Maot her of -Messrs. C. ii1. and M. L. Iliper, *f is cily, a son of Mr. L,. 1I.' toper, died at his home In Fountain Inn Monday morning after an Illness of several weeks. life had been critically ill for several (lays and (leath was nt unex pected. The funeral servicew were held In the liaptist church in Fountain inn Ohristmas day, being conlducted by the pastor. Mr. R~oier had been for many years a deacon andi Sunday School superintendent in thia church and wvas one of its most active work era. Besides the two brothers and fathi er already mentionedl, AIfr. Roper has two other brothers, Rev. -t. P. Roper, of Petersbuirg, Va., and Mr. P. J. Ro per, of Fountain Inn, -tosenrvive him, in addition to hIs wife, who wa~s Miss Abercrombie, and six ebildren. lHe was 39 years of age. Although not a resident of this city, Mr. 'Roper was well known here and was held in the highest esteem by aUl his acquaintences. 'ieut. Joe Smith has been spending the holidays la the city. RAILROAIY! N .r-Reaching Proch r. To Becomeibi Effectiv V trramint oc sciron and o lroads for th,- wor was pr tonight, to become effecthi 8. William G. McAdoo, ri iet as secretary of the trea ector-general of the railroad general transportation wit Lmship lines is taken over ai is one under the director-ge ng the proclamatiou the pre ss reassembles he would rei Being pre-war earnings ani .erties in good repair. Go' n to new issues of railroa und. k SURPRISE. ugh forecast for weeks, cam )rise to nearly everybody i d officials. It had been ger it the reassembling of co He acted through Secretar erred in the army appropria roads will remain in hands c rd, comprised of five railroa actual operations under Sec ,rvision. J. N LEAH DTAD. Prominent Farmer of Upper Part 1 County Died of Blood Poison. Mr. Jas. N. Leak, a prominent fai mer of the upper part of the count: who served as mayor of Gray Cour while a resident there, died Tuesda morning, his death being due to bloo poison caused from a slight cut froi a razor with which he had shaved lirr self a few days before. The funer. services were held at -)ials chure Wednesday morning at 1i o'vcll , ing largely attended, by relatives an friends. air. Ieak was a jovial an kindly friend and very popular where ever he was known. lie was a ro c5essful and progressive farmer, n sides dealing in rea1 estate from tin to time'. Mr. Irakh is survived by his wir' whlo wvas a, Mi ss; 1 arrett., and a gram son, Nye Wi lsona, who v.as reare i'cI Mr. anhd Mirs. Ikak. REIUNION AT ('IJNTON f'onifederate War-i or (Celeblrata Is 79th Birthday Among Many 1k aives. On the 19th, inst., at Clinton, Mr. P'resis Adair, oneof the old (Confel crate war-horses of that town, eel bra'dtedi his 79th birthday, by giving SUmfptulous dinner to his childlr< grand-ch ild ren, great grand--childr< and al few friends, fifty-two ini i counting himself. Before and aft, the spread, or spreads, the party gat credl around the fireside and enjoys the pleasure of reunion and convern tion, the day being counted by all hem as one of joy and delight. Courl ed among the party were four childre three sons-in law, two daughters-i law, twenty-one grand children (fo not present),* seven grand-childre nix great-grand-children (one ni present), six of his 01(d neIghbors a1 two of hIs young lady friends. & Adair', who is 79 yearn "young"~ w about the happiest person present as is seldom that ho is able to have many of his family and friends arou: him, Calhoun McGowan, 10sq., of Chs lotte, spent Christmas day I nthe el with hi: parns, Mr. and Mrs. F. ilconnrm M 1KhIN( ('M.IEl{'1.I, GAINS bats Petrograd C'orreslondent of the Post. Germians are Expected to Ar r ih e it. Pet roigo rad. I'y the Assoc"iated Press. Itoit n. Dee. I' . P'etrogradl dis ira ch .' rep.;ort : ui;hat. att imt s 8'' I - ill: made by thI(. iohdiI o-iki commis *ari1s 1 ne oliate i 1h th e l 'Ikr;i n)i, ;.: ;or a: . ;tline,(nt for (Ihe dli'ffer .:. repo:t(I :'r; ii4) ito( tilmriti of t};( h i . ' l ir:,.e Iuia t hve'IIm n1 . are : ; ;d ) :o(ar ,;a 1ieopo3als a rlge.in( t . , :r<: a ( -a ((-< i m rai1 n ame(s nt. T3h3 Ie r 1 1 1t IIi 1t: . 1; h ' r t i r ts o: m ji ( a y e i v itie ( n th .r (f e110.I ' l (i' t , ;rlinians and (' : he -li; - iieal of -1(. '1-Omlieil of more ol hteilii 't roop slinthw(ard to oppose (th' ( -i-aini an ap~parently the"re have ben no h ostili S- ies on a t o large sea l. rleany nes:; wisemtrhis fromr Pe hitrograd speake of the snpposedtt im t accoding arrival of the rertans .here, d which is said to hy the Universa topia of discussion in the city. butl every; 1- one seems to have a different ver' Sion. tl any of these stories c-nte around the reported concentarion - near the capital of ( larg oIe ( hof released German war prisoners to Swhom arms are being handed over, d according to some of the reports. The Petrograd correspondent of '- The Post says the Germans are lmak d t" the "'ost of a commercial op portunity such as the world has never seen before, inasmuch as nRussian in dustries are nearly dead and the Ger mans have no competition, and have e been pushing trade since the frontier was opened. The Germans have r:,fused to admit that n. Zinoff, a close associate of Nikolia enirfe and other folsheviki, whom the soldiers' and 'workmen's delegates wished to send in to spread their doctrines in the Germnan army. L- They also delaned to'admit Trotiy's newspaper printed in German for a'rmy propoganda. The jlioishoviki f are negotiating with the social revo lutionists of the left for the formation 3of a coalition government. The trial of persons who have been arrested by the Bolsheviki authorities was to have begun yesterday before a military revolutionary court, ac cording to delayed dispatches from Petrograd. A dispatch from Tashkent, capital of Turkestan, describes the lynching under horrible circumstances of Gen eral Korovithenko, who was Keren sky's military commander in the province. The Italian embassy has made a d formal protest against the pillaging by armed men of the department of the enemy's first secretary. It is reported that the Germans are h moving troops from the Russian front and western fronts to the southwest ern and 11111ania fronts. UlIAlI.:!"'ON 'APEI ]LOSES ~1ECOND1 (1LASS PRtlIill.'(D:: e The Amlelet nn lins htixht. of Entry to the 31ail a 1 s Seconid ('lass Matter ilevokhed. C (harnlestoni, S. C., D~ec. 29.--h p~ermit of Tihe C'harlestoni Amueri(an, to be e2 need as secont. class miail mat ter', was todlay revwoke 1 ' y Post - mlaste'r J. M4. Poulnot on1 the groundlt that the lpaper had violated the act1 of J1une, 191'7. .Noticee was ser'ved upon31 Walter F. Litvingston, lpreside'nt of' the American Co., A. Clifford Th'lomp sonl, mianaginlg editor' and Nolly . ISains, city editor\ in the absence of JIohn P. Gr'ace, editor and generalI amanager. Some time sinice The Amernican w~as Isummoned to show cause why It should1( not '1) deplriveid of tihe mail Iinig privilege. A hearing was hmeld in Was;hington In November but no an nounemnent was mnade as to what ac tion tho government would take until erceof te;papers today. by Postmlastecr P'oulnot but i't. 'was rlearned that the p3ap)ers ser'vedl on of nficials of thle compan1y staled that the trIghts of the American Company to id second~ class maiiling pirivileges had r. heen revoked because of the vIolatIon Sby The American of the law piassedl in iJuno. SJohn P. G'race, editor of The Amern id can, is not in Charleston tonight and no statement was gIven out by the officials of the pap~er. Tihe American was established in 1916. ty Mir. (Gus Simmons, of Kansas City, is P. villtng him, parents, 'Mr. and Mirs. 0. Ii, Smmns, STARIS ARM[ NIAN RIND $100.00 R'ce tid From Unknown Contributor NAME OF DONOR s NOT GIVEN idrlfTh i t r,~l aj., sge ejle I (loc' of II i~t l;, l i ll it lif (l tr' e linIltlredlt oit ' o- i!ig ; anil '^aturda to be. yWit to '.n erin -ta! li . S heit ' . , - ts lo lg s i ll g . et, 111II1 184(astt Wr ('1 11 'u( ( '1 ei(0 tit 1 tihra n the intils oah - dresse'r to "Th'e" Editor of Thel( Adver' tiser" en lsin". a hIall ~ilnfrd doll ar hi!I with the reg11111 l ha iat it be sent to the sh. ii rst anid ip-r)eenltd Armenians "aross Ithe sea". lt was snggested in the letter that olilvts do as the writ 01 had done alnd that a Fund be ather ed for these allhI1t'd !e oIl le. I t. va riois Itimes and from various sources certain stuns have h'Tn sent. fromt this county to aid the .rmenians, but. this is the first Iolntriltetion reivedo by the Advert iser for this spellti puirpose. The money has been deposited in the bank and will be held for several days until others may have the opportunity of increasing it. !1n the lei ter the Uniknown writer quoted two Ipasagis of scripture, one froni Second t'hroniles and the other from the third chaleter of \lalechi in which are pictured the fruits of tithing and offerings, ain the protection which the Lord willgv tl thoe who suppor: Ilif work . 'T11dhe issaes quoted hing as follows: 2 1Ch1oniees 31: .,-10--And as soon as the cotamnhnt came abroad, the chilndrett of Israel heoght in abun temdnce the lirst frits of corn, whie, and oil, and honey, and of all the Increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brosught they in abundantly. And con erning the children of Israel and Ju dFah, that dwelt In the cities of Ja'd they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tith the ly ings which were conseCrated ril'o the Lord their God, and laid the by heap)s. In the third month they bey an to lay the foundation of the heals and finished them in the seventh month. And when H ezekiiah and the brinces co'ne and saw the heaps, they 'blessed1 the Lord and his people Israel. And then IHeze ktah questioned with '1( priests and the levites conerning the hXn.is. And (Continued on 'Editorial Page.) BARONESS Z111 NiER TELLSlt E tS ORY Woma n Who hats Husband Serluig it German Arm) ()ns Trial in ('tatt.a noogn, Chattanomga, Tenn., Dec. 2 -Fol it' ta a ii. urn alin irt's (. m'ination r'f 1': : oness I l :rn . Z:I';n, r. , har'gedt with tle violatitn- o f e - : 111b neslate h111jed tlas a le1-twdh aimy. Thiahroness remine tetol~ that wi'ne stanforlil two hoars anda n f.he Hr whle t Aenreprlin moem ad ta ncte haer riag)evtl te.r coitndant anrd laronhad Zgoner o) Vans' ug to dla hulsband, sat wferith the e'antei of omustietion a wom'fat nflei effort lto securet' t~'~am he rel aseoZlnr n~at obnoadiole Amicainns. Thera ll othe anerman coll or ad wasaretod oins Lnon ias an alein wast rlmae ton his pomis. as :'neof cordially Inarvigted.GytPrt escpe. and jodte orm.an Trmy. ofatm hagont Warehinon thi houds er sthetuit with homdepartmen