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KI? "TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, ANO IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THB HAY: THOU OANST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, .WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1010. in QUAR' Our new Low ! and Women are day. We are pretty styles in C. W. fe? J. E. WALHA! IT PAYS TO Bl MKS. EMILY THOMPSON DEAD. Kim Came at. Homo of Daughter, Mt?. J. I ielu nd Marett. Seneca; March 12.-Special: Mrs. j C. V. McCarey went to Greenville last Saturday to spend a few days with her sister, Mrs. T. E. Strlbling, who ! is quite sick. Ogilvie and Hal Todd were here Sunday, ?both coming over from Greenville, where Ogilvie holds a re sponsible business position and Hal is in training nt Camp Sevler. Miss Dickinson? of Pendleton, ls visiting her niece, Mrs. W. S. Hun ter.' Mies Lalla Ballenger returned to her home near Richland Monday, af- j ter spending three weeks in Columbia with her sister, Mrs. B. Of Whitten. Thore are many friends who will be pleased to learn that Mrs. Whitten has-greatly improved from her recent serious sickness. On last Wednesday morning, March 6, Mrs. Emily Thompson died at the homo of her daughter,. Mrs. J. Leland Marett, of this place. She had been sick only a short time, and the news of her death came as a great shock to her many friends here and elsewhere. Mrs. Thompson was a native -Georgian, but for many years had made her home In Seneca, whore she was much beloved by all who knew her. She possessed many noble traits of character, found only in those who are devout Christians. Hers was a life filled with gentleness and helpfulness to others, and she wlll.be Sorely missed by all those with whom she came in contact. Funeral services were held at the home Thursday afternoon and inter ment was niado in Mountain View cemetery. She is survived by four children-John and Oscar, or Atlan ta; Mrs. Rn st, of Pittsburg, Pa., and Mr?. J. Leland Marett, of Seneca. Miss Macie Sltton returned to At lanta Sunday. She was called home some time ago on account of the ill ness of her mother, Mrs. J. E. Sltton, who is now greatly improved. The little child of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Grant, who has been critically ill with pneumonia; ls improving. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Kelley, of Ta ma8see, anent Friday in town with relatives. Miss McDaniel spent the past week end -In Westminster. John Lawrence was homo recently on a 4 8-hour furlough. He is in tho Coast Artillery, stationed at Fort Moultrie, S. C. Ml LL ll We wish to announi March ?4tl Nineteen Hundrc and extend you a cordia SPRING 8 MISS NORA In Chi Weatminsl ?w rERS! Shoes for Men I arriving every showing some BAUKNIGHT, ?Y FOR CASH. FORMING A TANK REGIMENT. Fowl Plant to Turn Out 8ub. Killers mid Rig Tanks. Washington, March 10.-Col. H. B. Ferguson, of tho Engineer Corps of the army, is in charge of the for mation of a special tank regiment, which is now being organized at Camp Meade, Md., by process of se lection from thousands of men who have volunteered for this service at the cantonments throughout the country. Col. Ferguson is a North Carolin ian, and belongs to a family distin guished for "doing things^" Ile su perintended the raising of the wrecked battleship Maine from the bottom of the harbor of Havana-an exceedingly difficult engineering feat, inasmuch as almost the entire bow of tlxe big warship had been blown off by the explosion which sank her. A report comes from Detroit that ono of the special war uses to which tho big plant of Henry Ford is to be put, in addition to turning out stand ardized submarine killers at tho rate of perhaps ono a doy, is to be the construction of "tanks" by the whole sale for the use of our army on the western front. Red Cross Ladies Thankful. Tho ladles of Walhalla Chaptor of the American Red Cross were very much pleased with the financial re sult of the dinner served by them last week. The receipts amounted to $87.40, almost all of which will be clear. We wish to thank the merchants and others who so generously re sponded to our appeals for assistance, and to those who so liberally patron ized the dinner. This is everybody's war, and it is only by sacrifice and co-operation that we can hope to win. The women are to-day taking a part (scarcely dreamed of a few years ago) in the world's affairs, and it is their determination and encourage ment that will spur our boys to greater efforts. Let us all, men and women and lit tle children, work together to the end that, through our united efforts, the cause of freedom, democracy and lib erty may be aided, and the overthrow of autocracy assured. Mrs. J. A. Stock, Chairman, Finance and Publicity Committees. MERY! :e our r O.P?BNIISIG, i and J 5th, d and Eighteen, 1 invitation to view the JOHNSON, arge. ter, S^C. CRIMINAL COUNT CLOSED. Only a Few Cases Were Tried After Courier lto|>ort Wednesday. following is a record of proceed ings of Criminal Court last week, tak ing Up the record from Wednesday morning: State vs. Sly m an Yarld-violation of qaurt-a-month law. Pleaded guil ty. Sentenced to serve six months on county works or State peniten tiary, at hard labor, or pay fine of $1,000. On payment of $100, bal ance of sentence to be suspended dur ing good behavior. State vs. Baxter Roach, Jr -as sault and battery with intent to kill. Guilty of assault and battery of high and aggravated nature. Sentenced to serve one year on public works of county or In Stale penitentiary, at hard labor, or pay Uno of $800. State vs. Mrs. .Redd Church and Miss Wallie Church-keeping bawdy house. Guilty. Sentenced each to serve one year In county jail or State penitentiary, at such labor as able to perform, or each pay One of $1,000. That upon payment of $250 each, balance of sentence be suspend ed during good -behavior. State vs. Frank Fant-larceny. Nol prossed by Solicitor. The de fendant was convicted at a previous term of Court, defendant giving no tice of appeal, and right to appeal having been granted by the trial judge. State vs. B. C. Rogers-swindling. Found guilty at November term of Court and sealed sentence left. Fail ed to perfect appeal and present Court ordered judgment of tho Court enforced. ? State vs. J. H. Butt-violation pf dispensary law. Tried at July term and sentenced to serve 18 months on public works or in State penitentiary, sentence' to run concurrently with sentence imposed in 1916. Notice of appeal given, but appeal not perfect ed. Ordered that sentence of pre vious term of Court be enforced. State vs. J. O. Oweus. Sureties in this case cited to appear at next term of Court to show cause, if any they can, why bono* of $200 should not bo [estreated, and judgment entered against them. The following cases were contln tfed till next term of Court: State VB., J. C. McClain, disposing of prop erty under lien; John Wilbnnks and Louis Wllbanks, violation of dispen sary law; Mlsh Cobb, violation of prohibition law; Henry Blackwell, violation of prohibition law; John Sullivan, violation of . quart-a-month law; Robort Gaillard, seduction. Tho Grand .fury made its final presentment on Tues day afternoon and was discharged from further service at this term.' Thc presentment ls as follows: To His Honor James E. Peurlfoy, Presiding Judge: i We horeby present to your honor, That we have passed upon all bills of 1 indictment that were handed to us j by the Solicitor, and have reported ! same to this Court. 1 We have appointed a committee of three to investigate and examine the books of all county officials, with au thority to select an export accountant to assist them in same, and to make their report at the session term of Court in November. By committee we have examined the county jail and find same to be in a sanitary condition, well kept, with all prisoners properly treated. The last report of the grand jury rec ommended that tho Supervisor pur chase necessary hose to be attached to the waterworks for the purpose of protecting the Jail against fire, but so far this recommendation lias not been complied with. We again call attention ,to this necessity, and urge that sumo be done before tho next Sessions Court. We recommend that our rural con stables exercise more dillgenco In the future than-they have in tho past In enforcing the automobile speed limit law, and also, that they observe tho desires of citizons In tho rurn.1 com munities when called upon to do so, to assist them In keeping down .dis turbances'and genoral violations of law. Wo recommend that our Supervi sor and tho Southern Railway Com pany speed up the work in regard to building a road for the residents In the community near Madison in going from old Madison ^ new Madison. We find these people to be without any road at all botween these points. We hereby present Willis Wil liams, colored, for bigamy. For wit nesses to prove same wo offer the names of the following: Isaac Wood, Clary Williams, Valley Williams and .1 G. Singleton. Also, Jule Rholettor for assault and battery with Intent to kill, with the following witnesse to prove the same: Mrs. Jule Rholettor, Oscar Pitts and Oldridgo Cox. Having passed upon all matters that have beon brought before us for attention, and thanking your honor for tho courtesy extended to us, wo bog leave to be dismissed from fur Hier attendance upon this Court Wi L. Thom a s, Foreman. K. VJ. Vernor for Congress. (Tugaloo Tribune.) We are informed that Oconee will in all probability hove a candidato for representative in Congress from the Third DistricL^as tho friends of iou Tino mon moss. Kolimri Campbell will L??t?rt nt the Wnlbnllu Auditorium Widely. By nu arrangtmoni with tho Wal halla Chapter of the Hed Cross So ciety, Roland Campbell, a former Anderson county boy, but whoso home ls now lu Chicago,, will lecture at tho Walhalla High School audi torium next Friday night. An ad mission charge of 25 cents for adults and 16 cents for children will ho made, one-half of receipts going to the Red Cross, half to the lecturer. Mr. Campbell served eight months lu- the Flench army as an ammuni tion driver and has seen quite a hit of hard service on the battle front. He was wounded In service, nnd ls homo now to recuperate. l-l ls fam ily ls not unkonwu to many Oconce atis, and he has close family connec ROIiA.ND CAMPBELL. Hons hero. Mrs. W. ju. Vernor, of J Walhalla, ls a cousin of Mr. Camp bell, the late Mrs. T. A. Norton, (Mrs. Vernor's mother) and Mr, Campbell's father being brother and sister. Mr. Campbell's lecture combines tbe presentation of numerous inter esting pictures, many taken by tho lecturer himself and tho exhibition of quito a nuinbor of the implements of war now in uso in the great world war. Mr. Campbell conies to Walhalla highly recommended and endorsed. The people of Walhalla and sur rounding communities ..should take advantage of hearing him, and wo bespeak for him a full house. And remember, half tho receipts will go to our local Red Cross Chapter. Box Slimier at. Oak (?rove. On Friday evening, March loth, the Rural School Improvement Asso ciation of Oak Grove school will give a box supper to the young people of the community. They are going to sell hot coffee, chocolate and cake. Each girl is expected to bring a box filled with something good for her and tho buyer to eat. The proceeds will go to improve thc school build ing. We will appieciate our neighbor L* jrlnglng boxes, too, and thank them. The public is cordially invited to attend. Remember the date and place-Oak Grove school house, Frl uay night of this week. Rainfall for Week. Rainfall for weok ending March 10, 1917, at 7*1). m., is furnished us hy H. W. Brandt, co-operative obBervor. Tho record lollows: Date- Inches rainfall. March 4-Cloudy.46 March 5-Ptly cldy (fog) .... March fi-Clear. March 7-Clear.01 March 8-Clear. March ?) -Cloudy. March 10-Clear.17 Total ... : .'i4 After the rain of Saturday night tho weather cleared, and on Sunday tho wind blow cold from tho north east. Early Sunday evening lt began to feel frosty and fires were necessary for comfort. On Monday morning there was a light frost and thin ice. It is thought fruit is'still safe. Income Tax Ret oms-I>ast Chance. There will be two Federal income tax representativos visit Oconee to take returns. Those two gentlemen will bo in tho county on tho dates named below: Walhalla-March 14. Westminster-March 15. Seneca March 10. Seo theso officers and make your return. April 1st is tho final limit for making returns, and this is the la^t visit officials will make in Oco neo. Hon. E. E. Vernor, of Richland, are urging him to make the race. Mr. Vern er has not made positivo an nouncement as yet, but there ls talk of him making tho race. MANY PLANKS HAID PAMS, Quick Mut ry of French Filers Pre vents Siica'ss ol* Attack. Parla, March {?.- Ton or twelve squadrons of bombing airplanes par ticipated 1? tho German raid on Paris Friday night, according to oftlcial in formation. The casualties were nine killed and 39 wounded. One of the raiding machines was i destroyed. An official statement says 1 an airplane of tho Gotha typo was found in the forest of Complegne, where lt had fallen while returning from tho raid on the capital. The ma chine had been demolished and its crew of four burned to death. Some of the raiders came by way of the Valley of the Oise, others fol lowed the route of the Marne, While still others came from tho direction of Greill. An official account of the raid says that t,h? alarm was sounded at 8.37 o'clock Friday evening and was pre ceded by cannonading. French artil lery opened Uro at 8.5-1 o'clook, pro ducing a violent curtain of fire from all military posts in the regions north and northeast of Paris, which was maintained without Interruption until the raiders departed. Sixty-one defensive airplanes from the entrenchment camps of Paris took the air. A large number of en emy machines was repulsed by the aerial defense and did not succeed In reaching Paris. These machines were forced to drop bombs in consid erable numbers in open fields and in the suburbs. Although the raiders came in lar ger numbers than on any preceding raid, the bombs dropped in the in habited districts were far loss num erous. President Polncare visited the places where bombs had fallen and .spoke a kindly word of encourage ment to the people whose homos had been destroyed. While the raid on Paris waB in progress French aviators near the front, who kept in constant commu nication with the capital, took the air and bombarded tho airdromes from which tho enemy machines arose. Janine.-' L. Dumesnll, under secre tary of aviation, went to the principal airdrome outside Paris when the first alarm was sounded and remnin I ed there throughout the raid, con gratulating and cheering tho pilots and observers ns they arose in the darkness on their dangerous task. New arrangements for sheltering the peoplo and other precautions worked well and tho authorities are generally satisfied that the effects of the raid were reduced to the lowest degree i o- slblo. The American Red Cross mobilized 105 men at the first warning and ten cars sped off to points where bombs had fallen. A number of army am bulances from Ncuilly also were out and Y.M.C.A. workers aided in the rescue work. Thirteen Were Killed. Paris, March 10.-lt now is report ed officially that 13 perBons were killed and 50 wounded in Friday night's air raid. German Officers Killed. Grand Headquarters of the French Army, March 9.-The commander of tho German airplanes, which at tempted to terrorize Paris, Capt. Fritz Kckutein, and three companions, one of whom was an officer of the Emperor's White Cuirassiers from Potsdam, were killed when their ma chine crashed in the Complegne for est, lt is questionable whether the commander ever reached Paris. Second Raid Takes Heavy Toll. Paris, March 12.-Thirty-four per sons were killed and 79 others wore injured in Paris and its suburbs ns a result of last night's German air raid. In addition to the bomb victims, (if) persons wero suffcoated through crowding in a panic into a Metropol itan railway entrance to take ?ofugo from the raiders. These were for tho most part women and children. Of the bomb victima 2 9 were killed and 5 0 Injured in Paris and live kill ed and 29 injured in the suburbs. The Germans lost four airplanes in last night's attack on Paris. Nine squadrons took part in tho raid. Ono raiding Gotha was brought down in flames and fell on a spot three miles from Chateau Thierry. A German captain who was on board and was taken prisoner with the crew belongs to the third squadron of the German seventh army. The fog wns thick onnogh to cause tho general belief that thcro was lit tle chance,of an air raid. This be lief, however, Was shattered at 9.10 o'clock when tho warning was sound ed. Tho raid ended abortiv after midnight. This was the second aerial attack on Paris of tho last few days, 13 per sone having been killed and 50 wounded in a raid last Friday night. French Gnus Drop German Plane. A German airplane waa hit by French anti-aircraft guns last night and fell north of Soissons, the war office reports. Three passengers, two of thom officors, wore captured. Soissons ls near the bend in the battle Uno northeast of Paris. The machino brought down thero may have been ono of thoso taking part in tho raid on tho French capital. A MM H HAN HO VS SHOOT WF.LL. I'. S. Piltro! Kel um trom No Man's imui WM4\otit Scratch. Wit h tho American Anny in Prance, March 10.-A small Ameri can patrol early Friday morning mot an enemy patrol in No Man's Land, near Chemin dos Damos, and fired on the enemy. A sharp skirmish rosult od, tho accurate firing of tho Ameri cans causing ono enemy casualty ami undoubtedly wounding throe others. Tho Americans returned to their lines without a man hoing scratched. Tho troops on tho Lorrnino front at the same time Buffered an extreme ly heavy concentrated bombardment. Northwest of Toni tho enemy ft rod nearly a hundred gao shells into ono of tho American battery positions in a short space of time, but not a sin glo tuan so far has been sont to a hospita 1, I heir escapo hoing*- duo to the rapidity with which gus masks were adjusted. American artillery blew up an en emy ammunition dump. Tho heavy shells dropped there resulted lu ft, Hash followed by llames and groat clouds of smoke. Tho American ar tillery also shelled heavily the one my's first and second linos. American snipers have boen espe cially active, one sharpshooter killing a (?crinan who was walking on a parapet, while other sharpshooters were successful in hitting othor Ger mans who showed themselves. En emy automatic rifles wore especially active Thursday night and early Fri day morning, but did little damage Americans Moro Active. With the American Anny fir Franco, March li.-American troops, co-operating with the French, have* carried out throe raids opposite tho American sector in Lorraine. Two of the raids wore executed slmulta neuosly Saturday night. The Americans swept pant tho Gor man Hist line mid penetrated to the enemy's second lino, GOO' yards back. The two simultaneous raids, one northwest and ono northeast of (deloted), were made after Intense artillery preparation lasting for four hours, in which tho German positions were leveled. ^ At midnight two forces, each one of-(deleted), with sninll French forera on their flanks, moved upon Die German objectives behind a creeping barrago, each on a front, of GOO yards. When tho Americans roached tho enemy first lines the bnrrago was lifted so as to box In tho Gentian positions nt both points. The men dropped ir,*o the enemy's tronches, oxpecting a hand-to-hand fight, but tho Germans had fled. Con tinuing the advance, they wont for ward OOO yards to tho second Ger man line. Al] tho time American machine guns were firing on each flank of the two parties to prevent tho enemy from undertaking flanking operations. One F rone h flanking party found two wounded Germans in a dugout and took them prisoners. Tho Americans found none. The Americans remained for 45 minutes in tho enemy lines. They found excellent concreto dugouts, which they blew up, and also brought back large quantities of material and valuable papers. While they were in the enemy Hues Gorman artillery be gan a vigorous countor barrage. It was quickly silenced by American heavy and light arUJJery, which hurled large quantities of gas shells' on the batteries. Haid by Aiiiericnii.s Alone. New York, March 12.-American troops again have raided successfully German positions, This time the raid was made on the sector north west of Toni, where tho Americans hold a long line. Also they made tho effort alone and penetrated tho Gorman front lines for 500 yards without help from their French bro thers in arms. After au artillery bombardment of 46 minutes and behind a barrago, tho American raiders went Into tho on omy lints and brought back much material and Information. Mast of tho Germans, apparently expecting the raid had rotlred to the roar Unes. There was som? haml-to-har.d fight ing, however, with Germans who had been loft in the dugouts, and a num ber of these wore killed and wound ed. The Americans returned with out tho loss of a man, having spout 15 minutes within the enemy linea. This was the first raid undertaken by the Americans without tho aid of tho Pronch. JDlsewhoro on the westorn front tho German raids are becoming moro numerous and Stronger. In tho Ypres sector, in Flandors and around Ar-* mentiores, between Ypros and Arras, tho Gormans have carried out strong local efforts. At all points tho Brit ish repulsed tho enemy with loss. Two U, fi. Aviators Dead in Franco. Washington, March ll.-Tho Navy Department to-day announced the death of A. D. Skeggs and h>B, Havio as the result of an airplane accident in naval aviation sorvlco lu France. Details of tho accident aro not given*,