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watoh v?nr?? Your Label H H and Keep ' I W V Paid Up. JL i VOL 11, ff o 31, SEMI-V ! MONTENEGRIN PORTS ARE CAPTURED King Nicholas Has Only a Few Miles of Seacoast Left. HARD FIGHTING IN FRANCE Hermans AiiacK ana capture First Line Trench?Russians Still Advance. Two German air raids on the! coast of England; the capture of Montenegro's two principal seaports by the Austrians and the taking by the Germans of trenches from the French near Arras and in the Argonne forV est are told in the latest official communications of London, Vienna and Berlin. First one German aeroplane and 12 hours later two German seaplanes flew over and dropped bombs on the east coast of Kent. Nine bombs were dropped by the aeroplane. One man was killed and two men, one woman and three children were injured. Some damage was done to property. The raid of the seaplanes was without effect, apparently, the London war office declaring that no damage was done and that no casualties had been reported. The aircraft, in hnth insfonpoo escaped, although they were fired upon by the British guns and chased by British aviators. Antavari and Dulcigno on the Adriatic coast of Montenegro, have fallen into the hands of Austrians which leaves to King Nicholas only a few miles of front on the sea and gives to the Austrians command of the coast from the gulf or Triest virtually to the Albanian frontier. Vienna reports that Ihe Montenegrins continue to lay down their arms and that in addition 1,500 Serbians have surrendered in the p-st few days, although a serd-official communication says that a consider-: - able portion of the Montenegrin army has declitied to surrender and that fierce fighting has been resumed in the mountain districts. Heavy fighting has been in progress in France, a French advanced position on the road between Arras and Lens being attacked by strong German forces. The infantry attack was preceded by mine explosions and a violent bombardment arid the Germans captured a first line trench on a front of several hundred yards. French counter attacks were immediately inaugurated and a portion of the captured trench was reiaaen. me (jermans, however, at the close of the day, occupied about 200 yards of the advanced trench which formed a salient in the French lines. The British forces in Mesopotamia going to the relief of Kut-el-Amara, are being hampered by bad weather, nevertheless fierce fighting with varying success is being indulged in with the Turks. General Sir Percy Lake, the new British commander in chief, reports that the casualties oh both sides have been very heavy. The Russians are continuing their advance against the Turks in the Caucasus. Petrojrrad says the Turks are making aj precipitate retreat in tne region of Er^irum and that the Russians are capturing prisoners and ammunition and other supplies. The roads are strewn with Turkish dead. The Russians also are on the; offensive attainst the Teutons' south of Dubno, one of the Vol-1 hynian triangle, of fortresses' and on the Dniester and Prulh - river in east Gnlicia. At one point along the Pruthi Vienna says the Austrians blew up a Russian trench killing1 nearly all of the 300 men in it. | iE LJ = WEEKLY. SOUTH CAROLINA I _ TEACHERS TO MEET [ State Association Holds Annual Gathering at Columbia In March. Spartanburg, Jan. 25.?The S annual meeting of the South Carolina Teachers' Association, ? ? ...u u cm UI^IXIKXHIUII WillLII IS SlCclUIly growing in influence and val- h ue not only to the teachers themselves but to the whole ed- o ucational life of the state, will k be held in Columbia, March 16 to 18. Interesting programs that will be vitally helpful and prac- p tical are being prepared by the ^ various departments, viz: de- ^ partment of city and town su- ii perintendents, the Scbool Im- a provement Association, the As- ^ sociation of Elementary schools . the College Association, the As- * sociation of County Superin- ^ tendents, the department of S language teachers, of English t teachers and teachers of do- jj mestic science. "All the educational interests of the state are considered in " the work of these special de- I partments and associations by r men and women who are actually engaged upon its practi- s cal' problems. Every teacher J in the state will have ^ chance a of getting light and help in her v special field," says an officer of v the association. o The open meetings of the as- s sociation will be held Thursday night, Friday at noon, Friday t Friday night and Saturday t morning at 9 o'clock. Especial- t ly attractive programs are in t preparation for these meetings. 1< The officers of this associa- c tion are expecting a very large t attendance this year. Colum- r bia is accessible to all parts of r the state and it^ chamber of commerce and all of its educa- s tional institutions are joining t together to make the coming I meeting a memorable one. t marking a real advance in the c history of the association. f The officers of the association are: Dr. H. N. Snyder, o president; Miss A 1 e x i n a li Evans, Cheraw. and A. R. o Banks, Columbia, vice presi- a dents; R. C. Burts, Rock Hill, e secretary; W. E. Black, Lexington, treasurer; Miss Annie Bon- r ham, Columbia, and A. B. Rhett t Charleston, members of the t executive committeee. j t MURDERERS OF a AKERS EXECUTED s Duran Brothers Died, Cursingi Americans, in Juarez Cemetery. c El Paso, Texas, Jan. 24.? a Bernado and Fedrico Duran the a Mexican cattle thieves, con-j 'v deinned to die by the Carranza t authorities for the killing of r Bert Akers at San Lorenzo, a 9 few miles below the interna-U tional boundary, Friday, were y executed at daylight in the t cemetery at Juarez Sunday, u The body of Akers was interred; here late Sunday afternoon. y The Duran brothers died r cursing Americans. Bernardo1 j appealed for mercy on behalf of his brother, Fedrico. ^ "It is unjust to kill two of us for one American," he said. "It is giving two eyes for one tooth.! l I am willing to die, because I killed the gringo, but my brother ought to he allowed to live." The bullets of the firing squad killed Fedrico, but Ber- t nardo was still conscious after, e he fell and the officers com- j a mantling the firing squad gave j c him the "mercy shot" through | o the head. e The bodies of both Mexicans t were buried immediately, but r th(lt of Bernardo, who confess- c cd to having fired the shots that killed Akers, was exhumed , s to satisfy a doubt concerning t the identity of the slayer e Douglas Downs, an Ar eri-! t can, who was with Akers seek-' <] ing stolen cows, and who es- s caned the bullets of the Mexi- ] cans, declared after seeing r Bernardo Duran, that the pris- ? oner was not the man who shot " A 1 rv - - 1 AHvrn. u?wn? was at th v n Juarez cemetery when the hotly '.1 of the executed man was expos, e ed, admitted that he had been f mistaken in his identification i( Saturday night. i d SlNCAST J ANCA3TEB, S. C. JANUARY 1 IEUT. GOV. BFTHEA ~ AUSWTJ TELLS OF HIS TRIP CHARE iays It Seems Almost Like a Claim That Inh Miracle That He Is Left to Well Dispose Tell the Story. Teutonic INGS PRAISE OF GERMANS MAK HENRY FORD RAIDS ays Norway, Denmark, Hoi- Activity of Engli land Sympathize with Allies. tamia Hampei Sweden with Teutons. Weatli Columbia, Jan. 24.?A. J. In the progress lethea, lieutenant governor of the Albanian boi outh Carolina, after undergo- sians have tafc ig many hardships and dis- principal trade c greeable experiences as a mem- and in addition er of the Ford peace party, re- Podgoritza, Dailo umed Sunday morning from sic in Montenegi lew York, where he landed bians forming th Saturday after a tempestuous Scutari, retreat* rip across the Atlantic on the without resistanc iner New York. "It seems al- The Austrian c nost like a miracle that I am nication reports jft to tell the story," said Mr. tenegrins are layi lethea in describing his expe- arms and that t iences. in the towns o< Mr. Bethea thinks that the ceiving the invad* ympathies of the people of , mannpr Norway, Denmark and Holland .. ' , re with the entente allies, Air raids have t'hile the citizens of Sweden fa- various localiti or the central powers, because again have passec f an old grudge against Rus- an aeroplane whi ed by all the ant The lieutenant governor in- ancj pursued by 1 erestingly describes his trip whether bombs \ hrough Germany. He says not "stated in tl hat before you enter Germanic nouncement. This erritory, your person and be- venture of the 1 ringings are put through a thor- days, the othe >ugh search. He was stripped having been dro o the skin, and his belongings docks, barracks ninutely scrutinized; even his Dover, and on nedicines were poured on the aheds' at Hougar ire to test if they were explo- apPordin*r to Rer ives. "These Germans do Gievegli, Mona hintrs thnrnnffWu " ooi/i ... - ? ?" points held by tl Sethea, in describing the Teu- nes near the Grei ons. He thinks that their effi- visited by a lar iency would be * good thing squadron and v or the American people. barded, while Ge "The North sea is a hotbed jn Belgium also > if mines," said the South Caro- the Entente allie inian in describing the passage The British tP if a ship, preceded by mine plosion of a mine weepers that explode mines jn the Arras regi very minute. erable damage "The country is beginning to trenches and als( ealize that it is at war, and man trench morts toth people and the powers that fire near Ypres. ?e seem resolved now to fight Floods and j o a finish," said Mr. Bethea in | weather are Y :iving his impressions of the operations of wakening 0$ England to the against the Turi tupendousness of the conflict tamia. The higl n which they are engaged. Tigris is preventi Mr. Bethea says Henry Ford meats. During s an unselfish, big hearted man, fighting an arn ?f whom too much cannot be clared for the aid in praise. He is a man, dead. ;aid the lieutenant governor, in northwest P vho would spend his entire for- ish hav6 been si une for peace. Measured by, attack on a camp notive and purpose, Mr. BetheaI aj tribesmen, the laid that the peace pilgrimage I jng dispersed ar vas successful, in that peace destroyed, alk had been started among 1 The military s he neutral and belligerent na- passed its third ions. | British house of "The world would be a much I Vote of 383 to 3t letter place to live in if we had j sent to the house nore men of the type of Henry chamber is ex rord," avers Mr. Bethea. the measure i amedments to tl VATER POWER IN ? as adopted are 5 CONTROL OF FEW gone far townr _ ? those who previ 2ighteen Corporations Have One Half of Country's Hy draulic Resources. TO RETURN Washington, Jan. 24.?Con- Prisoner Will lie rol of the country's water pow- j sacola, r used in public service corpor- j ttions has passed into the hands! Gulfport, Miss, if a comparatively small group' W. Tidwell, alias if corporations with an "almost rd examination v ndless maze of interconnec- j before United St ions,55 according to a special sioner Tyler at eport sent to congress by the: charge of violatii lepartment of agriculture. j "white slave" ac Eighteen corporations are] turned to jail he hown to be in control of more; formal order froi hnn half of the water power'court for his rerr mployed in operation of public j cola to answer th itilities' while more than one-' Tidwell was [uarter of it is controlled by under the name ix. the authorities s; The report resulted from a , he is Tidwell and esolution asking information, j der a seven yeai lassed at ihe last session of tence at Grcenvi ongress. The secrelary made I manslaughter for 10 recommendations because Walker of that c lone were requested, but it is years ago. The pi xpected the report will be used was out under or guidance in preparing leg- pending decision slation affecting water power Carolina supreme levelopment. appeal from that ^ ER NEA 25, 1916. ll/r POLICIES MUST HE BACKED BY FORC1 \r A! nAKIIA Xiiti?n;il Purposes Cannot H iE ALBANIA Uphten?S^.Say8 abitants Are' Washington, Jan. 24.?Na d Toward tional policies of the Unite* Allies. States, particularly mainten ? ance of the Monroe doctrine, ai E AIR open door in the Orient, supre > AT DOVER niacy in the Pacific, and Asiati ~ . exclusion. onn hp nr?hplri a?i? ; sn in raesopo- backed by force, Brig. Gen ed >y Mad Montgomery M. McComb, pres !fr* ident of the Army War Col ?tnnthwnrH on 'eSe told the senate militar soutnwara on colTimittee Friday. The tradi der, the Kus- ^jon entangling alliance ;en Albania's should be avoided, he declared ity?Scutari? further emphasized the neces have occupied s^y that the United States b xrad and Nik- PrePared to fight alone for it 0 ideals. ro. Ihe ber- "Unless there is force behim e garrison at these policies," he said, "the; id southward will not play an important par e. n the history of the world." ifficial commu- General McComb, who ap that the Moil Peared a hearing on th , . army increase measures, sug ing down their gested that the Monroe doc he populations trine was tending toward devel :cupied are re- opment of a Pan-American er arvc in ? friend tente, which "might or migh not be a good thing," but di not alter in his opinion th taken place 111 urgent necessity of militar es. Germans preparedness. 1 over Dover in General McComb said th ch was engag- war c?Nege had taken the poll i-aircraft guns c'es he mentioned as the basi British' airmen its study to formulate a defi vere dronned is nite plan already made publi he official an- for a regular army of 500,00 i was the third men the colors or in re kind in two serve within eight years and r vUit< hnmlK continental army of 1,000,00 pped on the men in the same time, and station at the aviation NO ACTION TAKEN n, near Dover, AGAINST LYNCHER! iin. stir and other ~ * le Teutonic al- Jur>' Flve, Negroes Die ek border were of "Strangulation and ge French air Wounds. iolently bom rman positions Sylvester, Ga., Jan. 24.?Th vere visited by bodies of five negroes take s. from the Worth county ja trough the ex- here last Friday and rushed i near St. Elois, automobiles to the adjoining on, did consid- i county of Lee, where they wer to German hanged and shot, were cut dow ) silenced Ger- late Friday and were burie irs by artillery Saturday. A coroner's inquest returne generally bad a verdict that the negroes cam tampering the ! to their "death by stangulatio the British and gun shot wounds at th ks in Mesopo- hands of unknown parties." 1 water in the ng troop move- THE STATE MILITIA the lull in the ... listice was de- NEED OI* .>.>0,00 burial of the ! One Half of This Amount I Igypt the Brit- ,)ue Government for iccessful in an Property. > of the Senus tribesmen be- The National Guard of Sout id tlieir camj) j Carolina wants an extra apprc ervice bill has' of $25,000 from th reading in the 'feature ol the state in add commons by a !?" l? 'h.e? ,ap,r?prl > It h?w been itlon of $2o,000, stated Major P of lords which Hard>' Silcox' who with Ca^ pected to pass j ta'n % H. Ortmann of the Ge, nmVirUr W J man Fusiliers: Cantain .1 l ie" original bill G n"' ?/ the? s"jnte'' Gu?r(1: mid to have a Lieutenant Martley Bui ri conciliating of the naval reserves, was pres ouslv onnosed ! ent at the meetinJ? of the Sout ousi.\ opposed .HrolJna Nationai Guard Ass( ; sociation in Columbia Friday. TIDWELL. The extra appropriation i ? absolutely necessary as th Taken to Pen- state owes the government fc Fla. equipment that was lost abou ? the time of the Spanish-Amer ? /Jan. 24.?-G. can war. The money due to th Atwell, waiv- government at one time was i ;/hen arraigned, excess of $100,000, but ha ates Comnus-, been gradually cut down. Th Biloxi on a National Guard officers of th lg the Mann i state are exceedingly anxiou t and was rc- to see the bill pass both house re pending the of the legeislature. m the federal lovnl to Pensa- HEATH SPRINGS SCHOOL le charge. PLAYS AT COLUMBL arrested here of Atwell, but School Teams Plav Has iy he admitted | . ,, e . , x,. . . that he is un-' betball Saturday Night. rs' prison sen-j r?, ? ~ ~ . ille, 8. C for! rhe Heath Sprmvs hig ' killing h ? ' "chool and the Columbia big ity, about two -chool will play basketball i risoner said he tl?e tfymnaeium of the Colunr $5,000 bond bia M. C. A., next Saturda by the South 1 nififht. The Columbia high scho( ; court on his team recentiy defeated Heat sentence. * , Springs team at Heath Springs mdi, . m. dfc it C, 1 bmkmwf- - . - ? ^ 1 "W T WEATHEB I ' m Wednesday fair; I colder in north- , J * west portion. | $1.50 A YEAR *|MR. W. M D BROWN ~ * DIED LAST^SATURDAY _ After An Illness of Several , Weeks Duration?Heart Failure Cause. 11! PROMINENT CHURCH AND BUSINESS MAN c| f, Funeral Services Held at Late i. Residence?Many Beautiful Floral Offerings. y Seldom has there come such a - shock to the entire community 8 as came Saturday morning '"with the tidings of the passing h of Mr. W. McD. Brown. This e good man had for the fortnight 8 previous been suffering with a severe attack of grip, but not until Friday was his condition y regarded as critical. About 9 * o'clock that morning his heart became involved and further complications arose, but as the e I day wore on he seemed to rally. At midnight, however, his conj'idition rapidly grew worse and all hope of his recovering was 1 abandoned. At 6:30 Saturday t morning, January 22, he pass" ed quietly from earth. e, The passing of William Mcy Donald Brown is no common loss. He was a man who had .e identified himself thoroughly l" with everything that was high 8! and ennobling. Mr. Brown was '* i a son of the late Daniel W. ^ Brown and Amanda Barnes, the ** latter a sister of Col. Dixon Barnes, who fell at the battle ^ of Sharpsburg, while in com "Inland of the 12th South Carolii na regiment. He was was bom I on one of his father's large plantations in the southern part of 5-1 the county and there also his early boyhood was spent.' Afj ter local school preparation he " ; entered the King's Mountain Military school, in old Yorkville, where under the tutelage of Col. Asbury Coward, his education G: was completed, n Mr. Brown was married ilj February 4, 1874, to Miss Ella n Crawford, daughter of the late ? I Capt. R. L. Crawford, e Four children of this marn riage, three daughters and one (1 son, survive him, viz: Mrs. Stewart William Heath of d Winnsboro; Dr. Robert Crawe ford Brown, Mrs. Robert F. n Fleming, Jr., of Laurens, and e Miss Betty Brown. His first j wife died in the early 90's find in 1898, Mr. Brown was married to Miss Margaret Davis, , who predeceased him three years ago. Mr. Brown was identified s with the firm of Leroy Sprinars and Company almost from its organization, later with Heath, i Springs and Company, and finh ally with the Lancaster Mer} cantile Company, of which he has been one of the managers e and principal stockholders for a '" number of years. Fair and del" pendable in all his business reL lations, loving and tender to" | wards his own people and ever r*, ready to help any in need of his j assistance, his circle of influj' i ence was wide and helpful. Mr. ' Brown loved the open and >pent : many happy days looking after " his extensive farming affairs 5" in which he was deeply interested. He was regarded as one 13 of the most intelligent and suce cessful farmers in this section. |! He loved all growing things, . | flowers, trees and little children. e l* j His gentle nature inspired e' trust and confidence which he n ever held sacred. 3 | Mr. Brown was a model citi0 t /"V *"* - * * ' I une iu wiiu/ji uie nest in* ^ e i terests oi the emrimmiity ' si were very dear. He w?a, nroreK^ s over, an earnest Christian ge' tleman and the Presbyte" church, with which lie hp r been connected as private \ bev and later as the tive and efficient chahrYJ^ !- (he board of rlp^pnne will --------- ^ his presence, his wi ?e courK and his well directed efforts u. I, serve his God. x _ There was no more regular church attendant than he, who gave to spiritual thin^n first y place in his life. Of simple, un"j affected tastes, a home-loving hi and contented disposition, he (Continued on Page Four.)