Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Odds and Ends About the War Cotton is selling in Bremen for thirty cents a pound. Thirteen thousand, five hundred and forty-seven officers and men of the British navy, including marines and members of the naval division, have been killed or wounded, or re- j ported missing from the beginning j of the war up to May 31, according ^ to announcements made in London today. Of this total 8,245 were killed. "^he English express surprise that j so many of the civilian population have remained in the war zone in | France, but is is explained by the fact that prices in hotels, wineshops,) and in the small general stores with which every little hamlet is supplied, are on a level with those in a western American mining camp or a fashionable New England summer resort. Most of the tradesmen will be able to retire when the war is over. The Russian Army is followed by a bathing train of nine baggage cars which affords the soldiers every facility for keeping clean. They are required to bathe once a week and to have their uniforms fumigated. The train is in use day and night. ^ The Aldrich manufacturing company of Buffalo, N. Y., has recently turned down an order for five thous-' and dollars worth of brass shells for the allies. The president of the company said that he did not care to help prolong the war. Owing to the continued rise in the price of meat, the English people are ? , befog urged by the government to more beans and lentils. The Germans are bending every | energy to keep up their food supplies J All the German citie? and towns are turning to account their waste land. Cologne, for example, has made contracts with farmers to sow 1,500 acres with peas for the city, and it cultivates potatoes on every availa- J ble piece of ground within the city ( limits. The lots have been divided up into smaller parcels, and the lat- ^ I WAKE I] I ?1 gj3JSMMSM2I3JSM2M2M3J3JSJSMSJ3Ii | Abbevilh I Chs | JU s Come and be i jjj It will do you II^f3fSi^n3n3n3fr3fii3f3!r3Jr3I?JJ13]i>lI3M3M3Mc . jjj Ladies, make if; here. We w JT. fortable, and jjj PRICES on i f jfj -^S-EXTl ffi Laces, Emb ? wear, S Will receive a f ^ week. Don't fa |i? Come, we'll be g KC LC Mrs. J gj Abbeville . ter turned over free to families will ing to cultivate them. Berlin and j several of the adjacent municipalities have helped by making appropriations of money, and Berlin has also contributed some 15,000 loads of manure from the stockyards. Thus Greater Berlin hopes to contribute ! considerably toward solving its own j food problem, and what is going on i at Berlin is being repeated in every j town in Germany . In this way it is expectcd that the potato crop of 1915 will be the largest ever grown in Germany, and that the supply of other vegetables will also be greatly increased. The European war is swelling the government's cable toll bill into large figures. The state depart- , ment's bill for cables alone last month reached $18,000. One month recently the cable bill rose to $30,nnn One of the horrors of war in Munich, the greatest been drinking cen- , ter in Germany, is that the con- . sumption of beer is having to be curtailed, the army taking up a large part of the products of the brewer- s ies. The beer gardens are closing ^ at seven o'clock and the patrons are being encouraged to ask for lemon- 1 ade. ! ( The foregin trade commission of ( Pittsburg, received an inquiry from Russia for fifty thousand artificial legs and arms. Those who send kits and comforts to the soldiers in the trenches have , been sending money, socks and chocolates as staples. Chocolate is being considered as a ration, and under pressure an ounce of chocolate a day would sustain a man ana arive i away hunger. The Spanish monks J in some of the South American coun- i tries have been accustomed to use < this allowance as a light ration. The Baldwin Locomotive Wovks, < which obtained recently a $6,000,000 j contract from the Russian Govern- ] ment for 250 locomotives, has em- < ployed a corps of extra watchmen to guard the plant. I I * 1 Shrapnel shells at the rate of almost 1,000 a day are being made for the British Government at the IngerA . ????? rp GE s a booste: 3J3J3JSJ2I3M3M3MSi3I3ISJSJSJSJSISM2MSf3JSJSJS i is Going to He Eiutauq LY 16,17 and both benefitted an and all the famil i our store your headqu ill do our best to mak in the meantime give anything you may wish RA SPECIAL PRICES roideries, Musi Summer Dressi shipment of Mid-Sum til to see them. Silk Ho lad to see you, wheth as. S. Co , - - South soil Rand plant, Plrillipsburg. Special guards watch the plant day and night. At West Easton, Pa., shells also are being turned out. There three stands of barbed wire have been placed on top of the high fence to keep intruders out. Men work behind high canvas walls, under the supervision of three British officers. GERMANS SEIZE AMERICAN SHIP Berlin, July 7.? The American consular agent at Swinemunde, Prussia, reports that the American steamship Platuria, from New York, with a cargo of petroleum consigned to a Swedish port, has been held up by a German warship and brought into Swinemunde. New York, July 7.?The Platuria, one of the standard uii company s trans-Atlantic fleet left here laden with petroleum on June 3 for Karishamm and Oscarhamm, Sweden, was intercepted by British war vessels, taken into Kirkwall, held there i for two weeks and released July 1. It was the first time, a representative of the Standard Oil company said, since the war began that one af their vessels had been held up by J a German warship. Cheer Up rhat Tired Grouchy Feeling JUCHiis h buzy uivor. LIV-VER-LAX will clear you out, i and make you feel fine and dandy again. It is just as effective as calomel, but has none of its well known disagreeable after effects. LIV-VER-LAX eliminates poisons, ^ cleanses the system, and relieves j constipation in a thorough but pleasant manner. A little taken regularly, means consistent health and no j doctor bills. 1 Guarantee. Every bottle bearing * the likeness of L. K. Grigsby, is guaranteed to give satisfaction or your money will be returned. For sale here in 50c and $1 size bottles at any druggists. i LiaiiifilliiJHlBJEIiUBIZfEfiiai IT BUSY | R 1 2JSJSJSMSM2JS!SMSiSMSMS!c3JSMSri jjfi we a Big i lua | 19 I id entertained. sjj y good-Come jjj iQrfprs Tu-hilft ffi twit* ^ ?f | y e you com- ffl 3 SPECIAL ? to purchase. ijj I ON^^e" jfj ins, Under- | _ . IT es, Etc. s Dj mer Hats this ^ se in all shades i er you buy or not !fi, chran i Carolina yj ifj ipi pi whpi hhbbpbm Jui uuu Oiw uuuuuui wnicn wim Keep You Cool. See Us for anythir Electrical. If we haven't it i stock we can Order for You. > -n mil VI WW FREE TEXTBOOKS IS MOOTED QUESTION Idea Starting in Augustu in a Small way uckuiiimg .... State Legislature. Atlanta, Ga., July 8.?The question of providing free schoolbooks for pupils who want to or do go to the public schools of the state is be coming a widespread one in the legislature. Quite a bit of attention was given to the suggestion made by Superintendent Brittain in his report, and to his comment on the origin of the idea of free books for the lower grades in the city of Augusta by a small coterie of men. Gradually the talk has grown into the introduction of several bills, none of them directly along the line suggested by Superintendent Brittain, but all of them, in one way or another, aimed at the same end. s. It is also a vast ] Lute necessity to tl COME AND U A Guaram If your House is it reasonable rates For Your Inform A whit? waist and lrnionminff W a ttc ^VMki wwv ww w ?rvw two and a half (2 1-2) TAKE NOTICE: follows: Five hours f( Half hour for 2 l-2c. We are Headquar ters for Electri< Fans * w 4 ?? 7ft!| V r . . Summer Time i& I ! here and summer I clothes require cont~ . . stant pressing. This. Can 136 1101118 more sat~ t isfactorily with an. Electric RON u than with the oldfashion energy - consuming sad irons andL \ hot fires.. An Electric r Iron is a Time Saverii?/1 +imo 10 WAnotr nuu UXJLLLV AMVVJP ? Labor Saver, and is therefore an abso? le hjousewife. ET US SHOW THEM TO YOU tee Goes with Each Iron i not Wired, See Us. We will do this^ o ition the Cost of Operating is as Follows: . skirt can be ironed in thirty <3Q) minutesr^, r on the Meter, which means a cost of only?" cents. f* -L* mi x :^ T ^ it IfflB MB ELECTRIC Hit / }l | The Purchase of a ;! f Wedding Gift | | Is sometimes a perplexing problem, because the| giver does not know what to buy, We make a | specialty of helping prospective gift-givers select | . just the right gift. It makes no difference whether ]| " *1... Unrro an avnoncniTQ nr an inPTTlfln Z< Lilt) puiuuaaoi uujrn uu. uajjuuuhu w ^ | sive article, [f we please him we figure that we Jf | add just so much to onr prestige and good-wil1,. iz which we consider a valuable business asset. ^ | We have Gifts Ranging for $1.00 to $100 I W. E. JOHNSON, The Jeweler3^ ' I ? rue cost 01 operating an jMeuinu jjuu a?sr 25c- Two hours for 10c. One hour for 5o~ Quarter hour for 1 l-4c.