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KEOWEE COURIER (Established i H UK) Published Every Wednesday Morning flubacrlptinn fyi Per Annum. Advertising Rutes Reasonable. -By STIOGK, SHELOR ?V SCHRODER. Communications ot a personal Character charged for as advertise Muants. Obituary notices ano tributes of r*??>eet, of not over 100 words, will fc-i* printed froo of charge. All over tfc?t number must l>o paid for at the rate of one cent a word. Cash to acco m pan y m a nuscrlpt. WALHA LEA, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1018. WS. Si laMaVNOtmoM ttsvao mr tum OMITED STAT** Buy Them And Help Win The War FOR SALE EVERYWHERE CAMPAR?N MEETING AUG. 15. On Thursday of next week the can didates for Congress and for United States Senator will be in Walhalla Tor the purpose of speaking to the people of Oconee. This season of the year presents, to the farmers espe cially, probably the nearest approach to a leisure period that they will have for the year, and it is probable and desirable that the candidates will be heard by as many as possible. The Courier has In tho past advised, how ever, in spite of some criticism, that those who have Important business to attend to on the campaign meeting ?lay should attend to that business and absout themselves from the meet ing. We still believe this advice to nc correct - -not that politics is unim portant, for it is not, but for the sim ple reason that good business ls more important than hearing speeches when the speakers are so well known, their characters so familiar to tho whole people, as to enable voters to . .ast their ballots intelligently and in tho interest of good government. Come' to Walhalla Thursday of noxt week if you can do so without neglecting sumo essential business metter. Oconeeans will give all the enndldates attentive hearing and a fair deal. That ls our county's repu tation and must be maintained. But Oconee ts doing a great service in the ynaklng of food and feed crops essen tial to war work and the provisioning v)f tho population, civilian and mili tary. Let us neglect nothing so Im portant for any other ocnsideratlon. The candidates should be heard by every voter who can attend without detriment to his country's or his individual interests, and we feel sure they will have an audience In Wal halla next week that will well Jus tify tho expenditure by oach candi dato of his best talent. SUBMARINE DOES DIRTY WORK. Ambulance Transport Torpedoed and Hunk-i'23 Lives Lost. London. Aug. 5.-One hundred and twenty-three persons are missing as tho result of the torpedoing of the Brltlsb ambulance transport War ilda. The vessel was torpedoed on Sat urday morning near a British port while bringing wounded men to Eng land from France. The missing are Jis follows: Two military officers, a comman dant in Queen Mary's auxiliary corps, ono American soldier, seven of the crow and 112 others. Tho ship was returning from France and nearing a home port when tho torpedo struck her. pene trating the ward room where patients were accommodated. After being torpedoed the ship re mained afloat for two hours and a quarter. Immediately after the ex plosion five boats were launched, but because they could not lu> cleared they were smashed and many of their occupnnts were drowned. Destroyers rushed to tho spot whore the submarine was seen to submerge and dropped depth charges. .Moro than G50 survivors have been landed at a British port. Seven Americana on Hoard. Two American officers and five pri vates were on bo.uti the vessel. Roth officers are officially reported Bavod. They wore Capt. .1. T. Beatty and Lieut. IL T. Hubert. The ship was struck in the after part of the engine room. Three mem bers of the staff were killed here and tho dynamos were destroyed, plunging the vessel into darkness. Juot over the dyan mos was the ward room, containing more than 100 patients. Most of those were killed outright by the explosion. The others, injured by tho explosion, woro trapped end perished, except tor a few who Jumped overboard and were picked up. The Warilda was built at Glasgow In 1?12. Sho was 111 feet long, had a boam of 50 feet and a depth of 34 feet. Her registered tonnage was 7,713. Sho was owned by the Ade laide Steamship Company of Port Adelaide, Australia. Still time in most places to plant ?sorn for late roasting oars. Such a patch will help to givo the family a tCT.rlod diet in late fall. OIL TANKER IS SENT DOWN. O. H. Jennings Figured Twice in Sub marine War Annals. Washington, Au?. 5.--Tho sinking of Ihe American tank steamer O. B. Jennings yesterday, 100 miles off the Virginia coast, announced to-day, revealed the presence of at least two Gorman submarines on this side of the Atlantic. The second raider has been operating off the coast of Nova Scotia and nearby waters for several days, where several fishing schooners have been sunk. Radio ealls for assistance from tho Jonnings yesterday apparently brought the first information that a subtnerstblo was in the waters where the llrst raid was carried out in May and June. Patrol boats rushed to the assistance of the tanker, but when they arrived th?; ship had been sent to the bottom. They picked up one boat load of survivors and search is now being made for the second boat containing the captain and 13 men. First reports to tho Navy Depart ment to-day placed the number of survivors landed at .'IO, but lalor lt appeared that ?12 might have been picked up. Only meager details of thc sinking have yet been received. Presumably the Jennings was sent down by shell Uro, but this will not bo definitely known until naval officers have had the opportunity to question the sur vivors. All hands on board got away In the small boats, and as the wea ther was fair lt is expected tho miss ing men will be found either by pa trols or passing steamers. Stops to deal with this latost raider have been taken by tho Navy Depart ment and patrol boats and seaplanes already are searching tho coast wa ters. Officiais reiterated that the movement of troops to Franco will not be interfered with. tn Men on the .Fennings. New York, Aug. 5.-There were 19 , men on board the Jennings. This is the second appearance of the Jennings in the marino casualty j news this year. On March 24 tho tanker collided oft the British coast j with tho British steamship Wari Knight, also oil-laden, and :'.7 lives I wore lost. All but one were burned to death on the decks of the War I Knight, sot afire by tho collision, and ono of the Jennings' crew was drowned. The Jennings, allume, was a menace to shipping, and was shell ed by British warships until her decks were awash, extinguishing the fire. The ship was then towed Into shallow water and salvaged by wreck ing tugs in the service of the United States forces abroad. Temporary re pairs were made and she was on her I way to a United States shipyard when sunk. The value of the ship is said to have been more than a million dollars. COTTON SH IP SUNK BY SUB. Bound from Savannah "Porto" Struck 550 Miles Ol? Coast. Washington, Aug. 1.-The Portu guese bark Porto was sunk by a Ger I man submarine f>.r>0 miles off the At lantl coast, July 27. The Navy De partment announced to-day that tho crew of IS men had been landed at an American port by a British steamer. After overhauling the bark, the submarine's crew destroyed it with bombs placed in the cargo of cotton. No further details were given, but it was assumed that tho crew was per mitted to take to the small boats. The Porto was bound from Savannah for Oporto. This is tho first of cial word of a submarine operating off tho coast re ceived here since a sea wolf appeared suddenly off the Massachusetts sea board eleven days ago and shelled a tug and barges lt was towing. This occurred several days after the Uni ted States cruiser San Diego had been destroyed off Fire Island, N. Y., pre sumably by a mine planted by the submersible. Thero was no information to show that the submarine which sank tho Porto was the same one that attack ed the tug and barges, but it was as sumed that it was. There have been several unofficial reports recently of stoamers sending radio messages that they were being attacked off the coast, but If they wero destroyod their crews have not yet been landed on American shores, so far as the Navy Department has been advised. No Longer Big Factor. Washington. Aug. I,-The theory of the submarine as a determining factor in tho war has been exploded, Secretary Daniels declared to-day, after reading the. boast of thc dor man emperor that German subma rines aro "tenaciously attacking and lighting the vital forces which are streaming overseas.' Mr. Daniels pointed out that not ii single Ameri can transport carrying troops to Eu rope had been sunk. Million Damage by Storm. Houston, Texas, Aug. 6.-That Gerstner Field, a training camp for aviators, was badly damaged by a storm and that property loss in and around Lake Charles. La., would amount to a million dollars, was the information conveyed tn the general office of the Southern Pacific In Houston late to-day by a conductor of tho lines who made his way to Vinton from Lako Charles and re ported from that placo. The storm area, he said, extended as far east as Jennings, and as far west as Vinton. Reports to the chief dispatcher's Office of tho Southern Pacific here said an 80-mile wind had swopt over Vinton, La., ton miles east of the Sabine river, and ?57 miles cast of Beaumont. Several structures, In cluding a rico warehouse, aro report ed to have boen blown down. Winds and heavy rains wero re ported as far west as Crosby, near Houston. Telegraph and telophono wires went down this afternoon east of Echo, 20 miles east of Soaumont. Wires wore also reported down be tween Now Orleans and Lake Charles. NOT We huvo employed M r. minster, S. C., to represent and Investment Oompnny itt < We have several gond rea und wi? are in position li' land.-? for sale good service. if you have a farm for <; call on Mr. Shirley at West in you what we have. ANDERSON REA INVESTMENT E. R, HORT( EIGHTEEN TO FORTY-FIVE Is Ago for .Military Registration bl Prospect for September 1st. | Washington, Aug. 5.-The admin istration's new man-power bill ex tending the selective service act to all men between the ages of 18 and 45, ? inclusive, and authorizing tho Presi dent to call such persons into mili tary service "in such sequence of ages and at such times" us ho may prescribe, was introduced to-day in both Houses of Congress. The measure, which was prepared by Secretary Baker, with the appro- | val of the President and Provost Mar- j shat General Crowder, was referred to the military committees. Con- \ gressional leaders plan to have the j mensuro considered soon after the j summer recess period is over, the latter part of this month. In presenting the bill to the Sen- ! ate chairman Chamberlain, of the Senate military committee, explained , in a brie) statement its purposes and gave assurance thal everything would be done to expedite Its passage. While Senate leaders admit there will be some opposition, they hope that it will be finally passed by Septoinber I. ! The principal portions of the bill presented as amendments to the orig inal draft law are as follows: "The President may draft such per sons to military service in such se quence of ages and at such time or times as he may prescribe;. a citizen or subject of a country neu tral of the United Statos shall be re lieved from liability to military ser vice upon his making a declaration in accordance with regulations as the President may prescribe, withdraw ing his intention to become a citizen of the United States.and he shall forever be debarred from be coming a citizen of the United States." ? The provision referring to persons engaged in industry and agriculture, j providing for their relief from mill tary employment found to bo neces- . sary to duty would be amended to 1 read : "Persons engaged in occupations ' or tho maintenance of the military es- j tablishment, or the effective opera- i tion of the military forces, or tho ' maintenance of national Interest dur- j lng the emergency." Chief Section of Measure. The principal section would pro vide: "All male persons botween the I ages of 18 and 45. both inclusive, j shall be subject to registration In ac- ! cordanco with regulations to be pre scribed by the President, and, upon j confirmation by the President or I other public notice given by him or ? by his direction stating the time or j timos and place or places of any such ! registration, it shall be the duty of I ?til persons of tho designated ages, | except officers and enlisted men of the regular army, the navy, and the national guard and naval militia while in the service of tho United States to present themselves for and | submit to registration under the pro- j visions of this act;.that per- i sons shall be subject to registration j ts herein provided who shall have i attained their 18th birthday and who j ?hall not have attained their 46th birthday on or before the day set for the registration in any such procla mation by thc President or any such 3ther public notice given by him or by bis direction, and all persons so registered shall bo and remain sub ject to draft into the forces hereby authorised unless exempted or" ex cused therefrom . . . tho President may nt such Intervals as he may do jiro from thoo to time require all malo persons who have attained tho ige of 18 years since the last preced ing date of registration and on or be fore the noxt date set for registra tion by proclamation of the Presi lei't, except such persons as are ex unpted from registration hereunder, to register in the same manner and subject to the same requirements and liabilities as those previously rogis ered under tho terms thereof . . ." Rainfall for Week. Rainfall for week ending Aug. 4, it I p. m., is furnished us by H, W. Jrandt, co-oporatlvo observer. Tho ecord follows: r)ate-- Inches rainfall. Inly 29-Ptly eldy.12 Inly 30-Cloudy.44 inly 81-Ptly eldy.2 5 \ug. 1- Cloudy.09 \ug. 2-Cloudy.1.67 Vug. 3-Clear . \ug. 4-("lear . [tainfall for weok .2 . 57 -? Grand Dukes Reported Executed? Paris, Aug. 4.-Three Russian grand dukes, ono of whom seoms to bo Nicholas Nlcholalovitch, former ?ommandor-ln-chlef of the Russian armies, have boon executed by the Bolshevik!, according to Moscow ad i/icos to tho Bayerische Zeltung, of Munich. frank H. Shirley, of VVest the Anderson Weal Estate karnoo Oounty. , I estate men working for us, giv<> any ono having farm ile. or if you walli to buy, histor and got him to show L ESTATE AND i COMPANY, }N, President. EVADING MILITARY SERVICE. Leon Myer Green, Well Known in South Carolina, Implicated. Washington, Aug. 3. - United States Commissioner Richardson to day fixed at $5 0 0 each ball bonds for the bonds for Edward Travis, mem ber of the Corporation Commission of North Carolina and one of the most prominent lawyers of that State; Del i m Barnett .losepb, of Chicago, and Loon Myer Green, now of New York, formerly a colonel on the staff of Colo L. 131ease, of South Carolina. i The three mon were taken into ; custody lato yesterday afternoon on . warrants sworn out before Commis sioner Richardson by a special agent of the Department of Justice on a cbarge of conspiring to evade the draft law. Green is within the draft age, and the warrant charges that tho three men conspired to obtain for him a deferred classification. In further- . ance of tho alleged conspiracy, the warrant charges that Green entered j into a contract to be employed by I the Perth Amboy Dry Dock Company and to devote all bis time to such employment, "whereas, in fact, he was to be free from obligation to de vote his time thereto." it is also charged in the warrant that Green made oath before his draft board In New York that he was engaged in an industrial enterprise necessary to the maintenance of the military estab lishment. Hack of the arrest is said to bo an allegation of conspiracy to defraud the United States of vast sums of money in connection with contracts which the three men are said to have declared they were able to negotiate with the shipping board. According to reports reaching the Department of Justice. Travis, Joseph and Green had been negotiating with the Dry Dock Company for several months to procure contracts totaling $40,000, 000, under which the Perth ?mboy Dry Dock Company of Now Jersey was to build ships for the United States Shipping Board. lt is reported that Travis, who was a former law partner of Repre sentative Kitchin, before the latter same to Congress, expected to receive a fee of $100.000. Joseph, it ls asserted, looked for $1.50 a ton on each ship built under tho proposed contracts, and Green was to bo employed by the shipbuild ing concern. Richard E. McDonald, a Chicago banker, connected with tho Perth Amboy company, is said to have Jiscovered the details of the alleged agreement and to have advised the Federal authorities, lt ls stated. Bond ls being arranged so that the threo prisoners may be released. They are confined in three difforent ?lty jails here, the idea being to pro vent them from having further In tercourse with oach other. SUD. LOOTS AND FIRES VESSEL. British Schooner Ls I>ostroyed Near the Maine Const. Eastport, Me.. Aug. 3.-A little ?loud of smoke rising to-day from the burning bulk of the British schooner Bornfontain, 7 miles south j( Grand Manan Island, at tho en trance to the Bay of Fundy, marked the scene of the most recent German itibmarine attack on the Atlantic ^oa'st. The schooner, lumber laden, from St. John. N. B.. for a port south, was overtaken just before noon yostor lay by a German submarine, her crew Irlven into their dory and tho vessel robbed and burned. After rowing three hours the men ^cached Grand Manan Island and ?vere put up for tho night at the two island life-saving stations.. The schooner was in command of 3apt. Chas. E. Dagwell, of St. John, ?rho had a crew of nine mon. She .vas just getting into the open sea. 25 miles off Briair Island, when the itibmarine rose and fl rod two shots icross ber bow. The schooner quickly came to and i few minutes later was boarded by i party of Germans. From their dory ;ho crew saw tho Gormans ransack heir ship and remove provisions. They then set the vessel afire. From ''rand Isle the smoke was visible to lay, Indicating that tho craft was still afloat. The crow said the submarino ap peared to bo about 200 feet in length and carried two guns. Some shipping men expressod tho opinion t was tl\e same U-boat that attacked i tug and barges oft Capo Cod on July 21. As soon as news of the attack roached tho patrol station at Ma thias a livoly search for the Gorman was begun by patrol boats and sub marine chasers. Ono of the first women's societies In tho Middle West was the Female Bible Society, of Piqua, Ohio, organ ized 100 years ago. Stop Useless Waste Invest for The Future It will soon be time for canning thc fruits, vege tables and berries, and wc are prepared to furnish you with everything but thc fruit, TIN CANS, FRUIT JARS, JELLY GLASSES, STONE JARS, SOLDER, FLUID, CAP PING AND TIPPING IRONS, PEACH PEELERS. CANNING MACHINES, EMPTY BARRELS, KEGS, ETC. Don't wait too late about getting your Tin Cans and Fruit Jars, Wc now have a good stock of all sizes-Pints, Quarts anc* Half-Gallon sizes-Glass and ^ Tin, ?fi ?fi ?fi $ Big stock now to select from in Screen Doors, J Screen w^ire, Screen Windows, Ice Cream Churns, J Poultry Wire, Hog Wire, Barb Wire, Oil Stoves, ? Majestic Ranges, Floor Oils, Polishes, O-Cedar Mops, J Oil Stains, Paints, etc. ?fi ?fi $ Ford Automobile Supplies. ? Bicycles. Matheson Hardware Go., WESTMINSTER, S. C. t Shoes! = Shoes! Just received a big shipment CYGOEPH and BEACON OXFORDS for Men and Boys. A full and complete stocK of Oxfords and Sandals for Women and Children. CLOTHING! CLOTHING! We Have a good stocK of Men's, Bors' and Children's Suits. Our Style Plus Brands are the best?-the Red Labels, $21; the Blue Labels, $25 per Suit. A full and complete stocK of Dry Goods and Notions. Buggies and Harness, Doors :-: Sash :-: Blinds, Lipae and Cement, Paints and Oils. W. P. lNIJUiHONS, Seneca, S. C. Buggies Wagons I have just received a shipment of the celebrated VIRGINIA BUGGIES at right prices-any style you want. This is thc best medium-priced vehicle on thc market. Also big stock old.reliable Milburn and Piedmont Wagons, all at reasonable prices. Can sell you these goods now for less than you will pay for them later. R. K. NIMMONS, SENECA, S. C.