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71 r * / " y ? ' VOL. 11. No. 70, SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER. S. 0.. .JUNE 9. 191(i. <" Better Ba June 1 a The Undertaking Was Successfully Carried Out By the Members of the Civic League. FOR GOOD OF BABIES NOW AND IN FUTURE1, _____ Splendid Lecture Delivered By Dr. I. W. Faison of Charlotte Very Interesting and Instruc-! tive. The Better Babies Contest helcl in Lancaster Thursday and Friday, June 1-2 under the suspires of the Civ_ ic League, proved a tremendous success from every conceivable standpoint. About 80 babies were entered and examined during the two dayOne of the highly interesting features of the program was 'be address delivered on Thursday by Dr. I \V. r*aison of Charlotte, a noted InV sj ecialist. His lecture about babies and their proper rearing which he delivered in the auditorium of tin school building before an appreciative audience, was closely listened to throughout and enjoyed by all present who went away from the meeting feeling that they were well repaid for their attendance; that they had gained much valuable information from listening to Dr. Faison's fine lecture concerning the health and the proper care and protection of children. The splendid lecture and all examinations of the babies and the valuable lessons given regarding their care and protection by Dr. Faison were given to the audience gratis, or. as he said himself for the good of all the babies of Lancaster. The local doctors who gave so muc:i of their time and assistance gratis to making examinations deserve great commendation and the thanks of the entire community. Too much praise cannot he given the Civic League and the ladies of the town and community who worked so hard to make the undertaking such a pronounced success, all of which will redound to the genera! uplift of the town and community. Following is a list of the babies in both the county and city who won blue ribbons and the sweepstake prizes: COrXTKY Itlue Ribbon Boy: Allan Vanlandingham, SO. Girl: Mary Bailey, 04.5. 1 year to 2 years Boy: Marion Bailey. 83.0. Girl: UubyBurnette, 92.3. 2 years to 3 years. Boy: None. Girl: Ruby Vanlandingham. 82.8. Sweepstake Prizes Girl: Mary Bailey. Boy: Allan Vanlandingham. TOWN Blue Ribbon Corlnnne Thomson Klllson, high est, 98.7. 6 months to 1 year. ? Boy: Pollard Smith Thomasson 93.7. Olrl: Juanita Ellison. 93.5. 1 year to 2 years Boy: Wilson Crow Robhins, 93.0 Girl: Mary Stewart Bnrtlett. 93,.r. 2 years to 3 years. Boy: Soilie Hlrseh, 94.0'. Girl: luicy Witherspoon, 96.0. Town Sweepstake Boy: Sol lie Hlrseh. Girl: Corinne Ellison. DR. WILLIAMS AT YORK SPEAKS ON JOURNAUS& York. S. C., June 9.?In the York vllle' Opera House tonight. in th preser.ee of a large gathering n newspaper people and citizens of th town an country surrounding. IV Talrott Williams, director of th Pulitzer School of Journalism of Col unihia Privcr. Ily. New York, d llvered a powerful address on "Th American Press." York people characterized the ad dress-as one of the most powerfc and convincing ever hea/d here. Dor tor Williams received an ovation. T- 1 bies Conte nd 2 Gram INTERIOR OF COI CHARLES D. HILLES Charles l>. Utiles is chairman of the ({ publican national commit ten. DAMAGE FROM HAIL I Helton Country Keels Force of i Storm. Helton, June 8.?This sec&ttn was] visited by an electric, hail, rain and wind storm Tuesday afternoon front 4 to 5 o'clock. In talking with the farmers from the various sections a-hn no mo ? tnti n ? ii\> v?uiv i\j n/n ia iuua/ iiir^ rrpui I no serious damage was done to the crops. In some sections the nail cut the cotton and spilt up the corn, up' rooted some trees and washed the land. The greatest damage was done in the Union Grove section, some four or five miles northwest of Helton. Some of the farmers report th- !r < r ~r very r.erlov !y damaged Vy he ha'.l ltd the lands badly washj ed. Some outhouarn were bio a .1 down and some tenant houses blown .off the pillars. No otto was injured as far as can he learned. I TO SELECT CHAIRMAN - Wilson to Pick New National Committee Head, r ^ p Washington. .1'^y X. President ' I Wilson has decided fo elect a man e for chairmen of the ;t naocratie nn tional eommlttee heft re the conven Hon meets at St. I.otii.t end send itiin e to the convention a; his person I rcprcrer(alive. It v is said t day a I- final election had not been made, il It isj understood the new nation 11 chairman probably will not he an official of the government. v st Held I i Success .ISEUM DURING A CON NEW SERVICE STATION GOES TO GREENWOOD Seagrave Company F|nds Pied mont City Ideal Place for I)i>t t'ihution of Timely Aid. Greenwood, June 8.?As a furthe evidence of the desirability "rtf Green wood as a distributing point the Sea grave company of Columbus. Ohio oiii> of the oldest and largest nianu faeturers of tiro apparatus in th< Cnited States, has decided to locat< its service station for the Carolina here. This station will lie of th sanii class as the stations of this compan' at Chicago, Hoston. Seattle, and Sa Francisco. The station will he ii charge of M. M. Sanders, who is ng\ in charge of this territory for th Seagrave company. v corps of cor, pet.cnt assistants u II he associate, with Mr. Sanders. Supplies ; n parts of all types of machines wi1 he carried in stock here. Tit, statin will he ready for service to their en turners in the near future. WOMAN AND TWO SONS INJl-RED IN Al TO WRECI Darlington, S. ('., Automobile I*a> sengers Thrown From Car?Mr! \V 11 son's Injuries Scrlou*. Mrs. Wilson and her two son from Darlington, S. C., had a nai row escape from death this aftei noon about two miles this side r Kershaw when their automobil ' turned turtle, pinning them beneat thp car. Doctor Fennel of Roc Hill and Do -tor R. ('. Brown of thi place were sent for. It was foun that Mrs. Wilson is seriously it jured. A message from Kershaw late th afternoon was to the effect that Mr Wilson's recovery is improhahli Her two sons were hurt hut vet little. DORALKAN SAYS ') Y pz tMi I : Weatlvr f?>' cnst for South Car Una: Partly clou ly Friday, prohab showers near the coast. Saturli fair. "Do the best you can until y< can do tetter." Accept For VENTION SESSION i j kkme-xti JWHH8I F;^*v ^'' ^p| W/>"REN G. HARDING i ai f 1 Senator Harding or Ohio is tern j porary chairman of the RepubJicai convention. I AMERICAN TROOPS TO GUARD PEKINGN Reported That Cnited StateForces In China Ha*e Beer Made Ready to Move. London, June 8. An Kxchang? s telegraph dispatch from Tien Tsiu r* China, says that the United State r~ troops at that place have been or dered to hold themselves in read! I, ness to proceed to Peking. K The dispatch also says the Frenel is authorities already have dispatcher a strong force of native troops frou 1 the French protectorate at Anna1. I to Pelting. A delegation of otticer s. of tlie body guard of the new piesi t'. dent Li Yuan Hung, lias asvur?d hin s of the fealty of the guard. ARMY AVIATOR KU I BY !\\U. AT PEXSACOFJ C r | Pensacola, Fla . Juiu Lieut R \ it". Sa lilcv .Navy aviator, was k'j' I ....._ . ... .... ... i i'-n -.I iiiacnme i"ii on idl / ' ' nd his aftcrm on. It i-i rep. rt? no of ilio tail pieces (ft!.- ni.i hin heraine dpfanr' <1 cans tiK Sat'hM t i?>pc control, j Lieutenant Saulley est >h)U . d j world's record for h'^li 'Lint 11 j hvdroptan,. on March 2" uh?r asfrnrird to jr.,072 f?ot. Ho was .or 1 idsrwl one of the b it at tori i o . V 1 H: 'IVPpr- ' ly. ,y tut vativ? of I< ntm-ky II . a? AiiK.intod f,*o?v that 1 ' nd h < . n 'i t ;> t 'u ! .(. tl )U P. asacola station ?int# Jan.iai 1915. I A Invitatioi Peace I\ GERMANS CONCEDT LOSS OF LUTZOW PI Great Battlecruiser Sunk In Action. I\i ROSTOCK VICTIM TOO Anolher Scout Added to IteH?nV C:isu;i1ity Cist In North Stv Fight. M. ilin. Juno 8 (via London).? An '*" oflli'in) statement issued today gives :i< t>11. total, loss of the German ! 'eh u sons forces during tlio battle ofT Jut- s:' I land and up to tlie present time as T>r one battleoruisor, one ship of (lie l'n? I , of older construetion. four small]'" cruisers and ilvo torpedo boats. The ':M -t itement says: 'Of in < lo ses the battleship I'ommern was launched in 1905.!*^ Tiie loss of the cruisers Wiesbaden F Elbing, Frauenlob, and five torpedo SC boats bat already been reported in Phial statements. For militarv T reasons we refrained until now from making public the loss of the hattiecruiser Lutzow and the cruiser Rostock." The destruction of the Lut/.ow W was claimed in the first statement '' ?sued by the British admiralty. At the sane lime the British claimed ' that two German battleships had ci 1 een sen? to the bottom and six destroyers as well as a submarine. The British, however, only claimed to have sunk one German light cruiser. Tiie Rostock was of 4.900 tons, built in 1912, and carried a crew o!' ' .172 men. She was armed with 12 1 rour-lnch guns and two torpedo v tubes. The I.utzow was a 20.000 j ton ship. The statement savs iheso are all ! the losses sustained by the Germans. L' T!' 1>.-- "s of the British are again 1 said to have been heavier than adj rnitted by them. inclnrting the dread- ^ nought Werspito, the hattlecruisvr Prinee s Koyal. the crtiiser Binning ,am and probably the drendnou-'h: > j Marlborough. I | 1 ' The statement savs many official J -j and semi-official reports from the1 . British side have systematically spread abroad "in order to deny the' 1 greatness of the British lefeat in (1 the naval battle of May 31 and ore-: r ate an impression that the battle was i ' a victory for Hritish arms." The statement continues: "It is sa- i { serted for instance that the Germans i left the battlefield and that the Rrit- j ish fleet remained master of the hat- t tletteld. With regard to this it is f stated that by repeated effective at. , i i i tacks of our torpedo boat flotilla s j; during the battle on the evening of t May 31 the English main fleet was forced to turn round and it never , i 1 again came withtn sight of our i R forces. t "The English assertion that the; English fleet in vain attempted tnji reach the fleeing German fleet in t order to defeat it before reaching its ; i home points of support is contradict-'' ed bv thf> alleged official .English ji \ !atem? nt that \<liniral Jolliroe with J his grand fleet already had reached i he ha sin of Scalpa Plow In the Orkneys. 800 mi'es front the battlelleld < 1 on Jun^> 1. "Munterotis fjerman torpedo flntil-j ' ':? sent out after the day battle for 11 ja night attack toward the north and t | bevond the theatre of the dav battle ; did not find the English main fle d i in spite of a keen search. 'J " a ? further pi'oof of the fnet oo'> i ?, t v the F.'iprlish of the nnr-j tw-ipation of the* entire battle fleet' i- i th( battle of May 11. it is pnlnled ' . ? n t' t' the British admiralty report no. a lpounced Hint the Marlborough ft h; d been disahled. Furthermor c ' our uthruafines on .Tune 1 hted "oot^er of the Iron Ouk> . < las 1 heavily damaged steering tc (Continued on page four) I tp-i.'W J ill A 1 \ Meeting ^publicans Decide to Seek Reuniting of Their Shattered Ranks. ..atform adopted as urged BY lodge X. 'solutions Presented By Committee Ratified By Body? Nominating Speeches to Come To-day?Harding Looks For Speed. \ Chicago. Jiino 0.?Th, Republican, mention today accepted the invitain of the I'mpri s~ivp convention to coniciencH tor harmony. A propo1 to that end adopted first in the ogressive convetninn was received the Republican convention and lopted with a few scattering "noes" id virtually no demonstration. Senor Stnoot of I'tali, Senator Rorah ldiho, Former Senator Crane of assnelu? tts. Nicholas Murray Butr of the New Yorh delegation and ormer Representative A. R. Johnm of Ohio wei> appointed as the epubican conl'eren?e committee, hey at once began arrangements for eetimr the Progressives. The romplex'on of the committee as generaHy regarded as one that ould not accept Roosevelt for tho residential nomination but on the ther hand would not insist on lughes. The whole effect of the de_ elopincnt was to throw the republian nomination into uncertainty unil 'lie conferees report. The other principal developments n dip Republican convention were lie adoption of the platform as remrted by the resolution committee leaded by Senator Lodge, a half minite demonstration for Col. Rooseelt when his name was mentioned or the first time in the convention lie perfection of the permanent oran'za'ion 9<d adjournment until 11 ' lurk t otnoi row. S?-*-.itor i.-lvc mentioned Col. Con evei.'s liitnie in reading the *hiili tip'nes plank which declare! ()' the porev inaugurated hy Mcvinley and lontiniiid l.y Roosevelt. Phe di 111011stration was principally n the galleries. The outstanding incident of the lay came with Senator Lodge's anlouncement of the woman suffrage dank. "The Republican party, reafflrmng its faith in government of the leople. by the people for the people, is a measure ?f justice to one-half he adult people of this country, avors th? extension of suffrange to vomen," read the senator and the uiffragists began their demonstraion. "But," continued Senator I.odge vhen the noise subsided, "it recoglizes the right of each State to settle his i|U?ation for itself." There wee roars .of laughter at his uiialilying phrav to what the uiffraggists had comHuered as a lenr cut victory and the convention til rang with the d^rnonstration of ho-e who approved fjie qualification. The temper of It he convention mi 'uigot< tr. hear ^the minority lit'ht ' < illnsi rated hy their con- * lac 11 ar<l Kdwin J. t'lross of Milwaukee, who nr. a member of the re-olutions committee presented his iwii minority report containing ....in 111 mi' mucn Discussed policies regarded ns ultra-radical, ranging from governmental mnnufacturo of munitions to the initiaIivp, the referendum and the recall. Impr.t rt delegate* tried to Jiowl him down hut lie was reputedly proti'cted hy Chairman Harding, who 3 insisted that he sho 'Id he heard. A chorus ' " disposed of his referred .J > i-o nm:ttoo 9 1 committee itRelf. raf(Continued on page four) ^ |