Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ill' ^ news IN STATE SKETCHES Corporal Lewis Abercrombie, of ' Laurens, vfas killed in action and Private Floyd Major, of Greenville, I was wounded severely, according to 1 tie casualty list of the keek. A third day has been added to the sessions of the South Carolina Press Association, to be held in Gaffney in 4-a fo/iilifofo on UdAb iUVAVUf til VA t4V? ?v 1V?VA4?VMVV %? automobile trip through the mountains. Ed. H. DeCamp, who is to be ' one of the genial hosts to the convention, is making strenuous efforts to provide an instructing and entertain- , ing program and is anxious to give the newspaper makers a "joy ride" 1 ciation met in Gaffney ten years ago. ; Of special interest is the opening of the new hotel, which is to be christen- ^ ? ed by the Press Association. < Major R. E. Carwile, State officer j in charge, published a bulletin on last ^ Thursday respecting the compensa- ( tion to be received by the members ( of the local boards. For services , m ( rendered between March 1 and June 30, 1918, $3 is to be paid to each lo- ( cal board for each registrant induct- j , ed into the service during this period t and accepted in camp. This $3 is to be distributed e.venly among the three ^ (Siuiici vi ngi auivuic. JU. iiaiiio auui ' W. D. Garrison, both of Anderson. | ( (>. Railroad Commissioner: H. H. Ar- t nold| of Spartanburg and A. A. Rich- i <'.v ardson, of Columbia. Fourth Dis- i I, .-.y. ... 1 trict Congressman: Horace L. Bomar, j ] 'T- --, Spartanburg, and Sam J. Nickels, i ] Spartanburg. - ! < ? * , ' NATIONAL NOTES t 1 Registration day for men between, j ;the agei of 18 and 45 has been setj < /for September 12. ; i j ' Provost Marshal General Crowder , | . warns all men of draft age to ascer-ji f-tain their exact ages before registra-'i my ;-* < ?- ^ J & tion day of the new draft "Failure!, V; ^t? do this will not excuse a man from ] ; presenting himself for registration, ; if, as a matter of fact, he comes with- ] in the age limits laid down by con- j gv agres*." '] j |gp * I 1 >; k "Miss Jfcanette Rankin, representa- ( tive in congress, was 2,500 votes be% < hied Of; i 0. M. Landstrom, in the JitikteVide' campaign for the Republii *** nomination < for .United States ? Senator 'from Montana, according to if?*t ** ' . >> ... Doara m^emoers ior eacn man so m- c ducted or is to be distributed accord2 ing to later instructions which may between July 1 and August 31, 1918, in addition to the allowance of 30 f . cents per questionnaire finally classified, and in addition to per diem for c registration, the $3 referred to above f is to be paid to local board members. 1 The city of Marion suffered her.]most disastrous fire of recent years z Wednesday night about 11 o'clock!r when the building occupied by Byar's I Garage was discoevred in flames. De- i 1 spite the efforts of the citizens and i the fire department, the flames soon i SY'. i spread to the residence of Abe Solo- < mon and Mrs. James M. Dozier. The ] garage being of wood and the floor \ being soaked with oil, the heat was 1 so intense as to make the work of the < firemen and citizens extremely dif-jt ficult. Total losses in buildir.gs and ^ - automobiles are estimated at thirty c s or forty thousand dollars. <\ . The State Democratic Committee < - j meets in Columbia today to declare ] the nominees of the Democratic prim-'s ary of last Tuesday and order a sec-' j ond primary, to take place the fol-jj iawiiixm tnaa/]ai<p -p/w* aak /i 1 . juwuxg x ucouajr , xvi vmvco 1x1 ( Meanwhile Ashley C. Tobias Jr.,. ] ; - secretary of the committee, has plac- ( d an order for the printing of 45,-; i 000 tickets for the second primary, I { September 10. Four offices are to! ( be filled: United States Senate, short1 ( V - term; attorney general, commission- c ;< ' er of agriculture and railroad com-1 :J. ... missioner. A congressman m the' n " Fourth District is also to be chosen, i Candidates are: United States Sen-1 s ate, W. P. Pollock, Cheraw; and Thos. j i Peeples, j Columbia. Attorney; < General: Claud N. Sapp, Columbia; t .Sam M. Wolfe, Anderson. Commis-ic #-v-T A /wnnnlfiivo P Uoi>Y*ie or rl 1 I. NOTES ? | The seizure of 406 stills and the arrest of 197 moonshiners caught in the act, are the results of one of the ?9f est raids etfef conducted by th? g< \ernment. During the course of the campaign, which lasted for two months, two sheriffs and five moonshiners were killed and many wounded. The raids were conducted in various parts of Tennessee, North Kaiser Wilhelm is at Bad Nauheim, visiting King Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, according to official announcement in the German press. Ferdinand is under treatment | at the famous "cure" for heart and nerve diseases. Unofficial reports have it that he is insane. ? ? rj;* *:y. ti The British, since .Aug. 0-have tak;n more than 47,000 prisoners and -- 'j cnin cnr\ lave tapiuxcu uctwccu uvu aim uvv :annon. The total captures by the lilies since July 18 is considerably nore than 100,000 and not much less ;han 2,000 guns. The number of Germans killed since the beginning >f the war is said to be at least 2,)00,000, probably considerably more. Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. The raids neted some 30,000 gallons of moonshine vhiskey, which was poured down nountain streams; -100,000 worth of ;,t>ppcr stills and other papaphernaha tnd ten tons of sugar. Farmers who have been called in he draft age will not be given an xtension of time to harvest their rops, Provost General Crowder rul id recently. The $8,000,000,00ft revenue bill las been pracitcally completed and igreed to by the Treasury Departnent, Chairman Kitchin, of the louse Ways and Means Committee las /announced. Revised estimates ndicate that the bill will produce an iggregate revenue of $8,100,000,000 lurif!& the fiscal beginning November Lst, next, Kitchin said. "The Treasiry Department and our Committee lae gotten together absolutely and satisfactory on a 12 per cent, flcit ;ax on normal incomes above $4,000 vith no differential on unearned incomes." Washington, Aug. 29.?The purihasing power of $1 in the food martet, during the last five years, has shrunk to 54 cents in Washington ind Baltimore; 57 cents in PhiladelDhia; 59 cents in New York and Chi:ago, and 63 cents in San Francisco. In oth'r words the increase in the :ost of food during the five year perod was 85 per cent, in Washington, ?4 per cent, in Baltimore, 77 per :ent. inNew York, 69 per cent in Chicago and 58 per cc-nt. San Fran:isco. Uncle Sam is getting tired of foolng with Germanophyle, slackerspirited parasites in our industrial ind civic life, who call themselves iniependent thinkers and are really ;raitors. William D. Haywood, "un:rowned king" of the Industrial iVorkers of the World, and 14 of his :hief aids in the conspiracy to over;urn the American war program, arere sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, ECan., by Federal Judge K. M. Landis. Before pronouncing sentence on the defendants, Judge Landis reviewed it some length the salient points in Jie government's case, laying especial stress on the I. W. W. preamble declaring eternal war on the employing class and denouncing war with jther nations; the meeting of the executive after Amerina had entered the war at which it was decided to expel members entering the military service; and later the concerted plants by strikes and Rebellion to block war measures. "In times of peace you have a legal right to oppose', by free Bpeech, preparations for war. But Mrtien war has been declared that right ceases forthwith", was the court's cloning remarks. INTERNATIONAL I&EATI0NS The present motto of the Yanks over there is: "Heaven, Hill or Hoboken by Christmas.'' : #lS!e %. #. I&deis, self-named leaders of labor, were be^.AiV si-;.. . ing sentenced in court in Chicago, ' loyal Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was the guest of honor at a luncheon, in London Friday, at the Carlton Hotel, which was attended by the larger part of the British government. i , Twelve hundred Gfcrman mutineers have joined forces with an armed , peasant body and attacked the German forces in the region of Dymera, 24 miles from Kiev, according to Russian wireless received from Moscow. ( Fierce fightihg has taken place between the Germans and the peasants and there hae been heavy losses on both sides. i The German retreat in France is ' 1 ' i. . ? . '-*** }. a painful failure, as the Frankfurter Zeitung, the most important news^ paper in Germany, admits. The pa j denly, although the aggitation for in creased pay had been on steadily aj mong the police for more than a year without result. IF UK HURTS | BEGIN ON? Flush the Kidneys at once when Backachy or Bladder bothers?Meat forms uric acid. I No or woman who eata meat regularly can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys occasionally, says a w^llknown authority. Moat forms uric acid which clogs the kidney pores so they sluggishly filter or strain only part of tli? waste and poisons from the blood, then you get sick. Nearly all rheumaj tism, headaches, liver trouble, nervous. ness, constipation, dizziness, sleeplessness, bladder disorders oome from sluggish kidi neys. I The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts, or if the ! urine is cloudy, offensive, full of aedij ment, irregular of passage or attended I by a sensation of scalding, get about four ! ounces of Jad Salts from any reliable I pharmacy and take a tablespoonful iu a glass of water before breakfast for a j few days end your kidneys will then act j fine. This famous salts is made from I the acid of grapes and lemon juice, oomi bined with lithia and has been used for j generations to flush clogged kidneys and | stimulate them to activity, also to neuI tralize the acids in urine so it no longer I ?-i-i:? i.i Ai?_ | C&UbttB lmuiuuii, luuo Ciiuiu^ uiftuuci' u?' i orders. Jad Salts is inexpensive and can* j not injure; makes a delightful efferJ vescent lithia-water drink which all regj ular meat eaters ehould take now and i then to keep the kidneys clean and the blood pure, thereby avoiding serious kidney complications LEFT FOR CAMP JOCKSON I. ON LAST FRIDAY I Especial Interest Centered in the Departure of Weil-Known Young Men. i j Not since the departure of the first | quota of selectmen from this county j has such interest been taken in the j going away of a batch of young men | a? was shown last Friday, when Ab! bevilie county contributed twenty Whereas, hithertoo, one or two j men left for this or that camp, six men of our own city of Abbeville; made the trip to camp Jackson on this occasion. Three of them were prominent clerks in stores on the square and every patron of business in the community will miss them. With R. H. Kay gone L. W. White & ; Company is seriously thinking of i closing one of their stores. He was ; made captain of the quota going away and undoubtedly was fitted for that position for his long experience as chief of the fire "department. Ini cidently the -fi*e cR?par?ment is enjoy frig a, ind quiet -Afcfefci. Th? d^afture ot two Cfifflfa atso A. 1. -1 - _ i ' aL . l _ eaves great in tne ouainew or Cason & McAllister respectively. per says there has ben a striking change in the situation but attempts to reassure the German peoole by Isaying "Foch will never cross the Rhine." The police of the London metropotitan district, embracing an area of 700 square miles and a population of 8,000,000 went on strike Friday for more pay. The "city" comprised within area of a little more than one square mile and which has its own police force is not yet affected by the strike., The strength on London's police force is about 2,000. Accordj ing to the union leaders about 10,000 of these were "out" at noon, and the greater portion of the remainder had shown themselves in entire sympathy j with the strike. The strike came sud ii " f "ttii/. rr.rf" l+tr+mm, >i. w x x.; ^juit* ,\ War Time Li MEMGA h&s te\ 1 eners that wi " C jfli' shortage in tl ' A?* mbiSftir?nV ttiKSfcL^* - H :mL^c< J; 'to- replace a i .; recipes.. shou] SBEB^rn^i hilf ciift of rtrup atid abou Qiifc-itfttffcfc of i 'cirp ofsug: cup of syftip6t one-third ci . mw&wtf 01 one ana one-naif tablespoon third tfibrespoons ,of 6orn suj Siifkr m*y be ?awd by drfiw! jfctfi and fMfc paste* Fruit marmalades; butt* to take the fflaee of the ordii not ae accessories to it... Fro sugar. It may be added wh Preferring, demands this J. ? VO uji ^ 4 ' heavy synip.. If sugar is1 us6d one-half i by andth# iwtf?&e*. Dryrri^ ifl a means of pi pies, cherries/ Strawberries' i When ready to use they sugar in the form of a syrup, fruit juices may be made ii fruit juices with or withou gelatins and frozen desserts. BYesh fruits supply the3p should be used freely. De may be made of gelatins, jui . cakes. | Cliff Smith wore his red ow tie, a j la Dr. Neuffer, and looked very hapj py. It is to be hoped that Cliff King I forgot to charge that last half dozI en collars we bought of his firm be* 1 fore he left The school board, moreover, is facing a serious problem in trying to | find a successor to McTyiere Daniel, | who is to find that the sword is i mightier than the pen and that the firing manual is more important than | the text book.' He bought him a dol! lar Ingersoll before he left and a iriend gave him a cigar: so he wem away well perpared for all eventualiI ties. Di*. Daniel was at the depot and for the first time in his life played second fiddle to his son. Willis Murray, another Abbeville boy, was one of the most independent of the lot and already talked like a soldier. &==? * ERSKI , Ejghty=Sec <-r ' Loans " and Scholarships > I For Worthy Applicants i. ; I I V ^ |! jliiwhj m t || DUE WES Sweeteners rer&l excellentwat ttoe swest- i 11 be used largely during the le sugar/supply.4' ' napl* mi? be used til preparing de*> si dUfre* requiring sweetening, up of lyTup or heHey; 1* w*<J sup of sugar the liquid in the j Id be. decreased one-fourth. ' i qupfitf of siijarar 1* equivalent >f a cup of hoiSi^f; afcotit oft*- ! t one-half cop of corn sugar, i sr is equal to aboutv one-half ! ip of corn sugar. One table-, is-tablespoon ef horisy, about ! s of s^irtfp affd'orftf itati onefar. flfti 'uMuJtM : A k.d a ted oft the1 b*?4kfa*t crtetfl* tra Mid jetties should be uied iary iwutniiv ^ft meal and lit* , may be preserved without en sugar is more plentiful. year a thin syrup instead of a ?f the amount may be replaced reserving (without sugar) ap?nd black caps. r may Ijaye added the needed When sugar is more plentiful I ito jellies or may be used as ! it sugar, as beverages, fruit j lace of sugar in the diet. They ' aserts where sugar is scarce | nkets, custards, puddings and B J | He jumped smartly'on the train and \ took a seat in the front of the car. j Not so Russell Thomson. As long as the train could be seen down the track Russell could be seen hanging over the rail of the rear vestibule, ~ ~ 1. J J J.1 a iiauukciuuiex jlii uiie uanu ana mat | trusty cap in the other, waving at j the girl who stayed. . ' ! It was an unusually large crowd that bade the young men farewell,' but not altogether a sad-faced onej A few of the courageous ones, direc-j ted by that efficient chorister, Miss Edna Bradley, gendered numerous vocal selections, including that beautiful piece, "The French Girls May| be Pretty, The French Girls May be Witty, But Don't Forget Your Wan-; dering Girl Tonigth". The canteen j ladies gave special lunches to the young men and served them iced tea.' I r I [NE COI ond Year Begins Sep ^ Military Instruct) , Government Courses in Scien< guages, Hisl PltilAsnnkv s JL IlllVOV/Jk/llJ ?. Medical Cot A College to De well as Intel Total Expenses $201.50, i , Room, Elec Heat, Tuitio Board at Ac / JTa v I-rt ~fr\ I'm / [I 1 1/1 Jill/ l/l/II INE COI T . . .. ' fi Lieutenant Guelty. son of the Etfi? JH copal Bidhofp of Soxith; Carcflfarf the one in charge of the men; also re-flj ceived a package. He akf be ex-^B pected to have-Well taken care of thejH morals of the men during the jour IB riey. ffl I I .-I mi.?' rnii t I. .11..n Everyone SMI ? : Drink Hot Water H in the Morning I : HQ With away *11 the itomach, liver, J and bowaf poUcnabefore J 1 fartaktot . | Tofdai paor Mtt day in a*Mayf?ufc> colds, ^heuinaS^o^fe^y!aS?^riM yM wti?i?ia8 tike you bathe otataide; XhJrJarTaatiy nloitf Important, because the s^a port?*- do not absorb Impurities- into the blood, white the bowel pores do, says a W6Dknown physician ; m'_ ?- - ! '- i? .i i im r. w. . . ao nwp uitrro poibung azzu tfmim well flushed from Gf^ rtoaaHA, lfw>; kidneys and bowels, drink bafofro bceskV fast each day. a glass .of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone' phoaphate In it This will cleanse, purify and freshen the entire alimentary tradt, before putting more food Into the stomtch. ;* Get a quarter pound 'Of limestone phosphate from your pharmacist. It Is inexpensive and almost tasteless, except a sourteh ttrtnge which "Is not unpleasant. Drink phosphate tl hot water every mdrtilrig to riaydhrsystem of these vile' poisons and tcndns; also to prevent their formation'. To feel like young .folks feeV; 111(6' you felt before your blood, nerves and muscles became saturated with an accumulation of body pdtsons, begin tMi treatment and abqve all, keep It upl As soap and hot water act on the skm, cleansing, sweetening and purifying,-so limestone phosphate and hot water before breakfast, act on the stomach liver, kidneys and bowels. t7> j tnwuoi/tn* jLjiigi a v cu vjai uo auu iutiuoivuct-^ The Press and Banner Co. C?prHf+>t. iff* MtChim Ni?ipa??r S^dm .... LLEGE : itember 18 ' ion under the U. S. > :e, Literature, Lantory, Mathematics, ind Pedagogy. Preirse Given. velop Character as lect. | Last Year Were including Board, trie Light, Steam ; in, and All Fees. tual Cost. ation Address .LEGE SO. CAR. iiL n? 4 > ?