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f i l : A* it SIXTY SIXTH YBHR — / / •- 7- . / / 7 ESTABLISHED 1852 ' //' Sixt* sixth yenR ■i— •-•"I- -, VOL,. LXVI. 7 I BARNWELL, S C , THURSDAY. A UGUST N, *191 s NO. 42. ■\- r THE WAR EVENTSyOF THE WE€R. Our Time to Shout, 35000 Prisoners Captured -Germans Given Som6 of Their Own Medicine. Ainericaiis -abound in many good qualities, one’of which is tin* hriief that they are the best people -<«n the f,y*e <>f the earth. Yi>u can miever convince them that anybody else is superior to them. S6 it comes; about* that we have had a very difficult time with ourselves while the <ieFlfians were"'" w inn i tig' theii victories earlier ! iii the year. Now it lias come our time ,to shout and we are' shouting for the splendid victory; which is now being, pushed to comple tion- bv the Allies, bur months past it lias been wiv ui- a Case -of “grin and hear it." / . The AllukT succo-G of the past week: is only the fruit . of the strategy- of (fen. F<*ch in see ing a weak place in the western Jhmk of the enemy 1 a'ml by a -kiltui•witlulrsvwa: ttfrlrnItrcr .hat dpot with all TNOMAS : “BOULWARf f r -i ' i < r ‘rill Ills killful in A1 though the enemy to’eiilar and- 0ion to strike itile /forcel needed to tod it The; Allied, task, ha- been to bring -nbuut rout and eo.ufusion, while t!ie .German ta-k bus . l»een to, extricate -his armies from tileattempt tr envelop 1 them. Both sides hav e -uccceded Ui part. Tin: uiiml er of - upan prisoners captured has been ■■ around dd.i'hat thi time - • viugAh.-i; have been vyrf* their withdraw';! it ha." t >>t the lit : man' a, very liiglK tigure of . k:ded and * wound. ;The Abies i.ive \\on bay*. nearly all id'tied gnniul lost t~- Hied ler.ivan- in their last teg attack. They have also 'won tin- Initiative from tilt* German-, and will not now ‘have to cmtv on iv defensive warfare. We append below an account from eye witnesses of various stage- of th.i,s great battle. VII I.AO KS NOW \ vN ilWClNS. Yesterday I went * y» r the ter ritory caj|>tnrtd by our troops northwest aihj norm of Chateau- TbUrry 'm the ^victorious ad vance. 1 saw place-’ tliHl had been villages Beileuu, Torcy, Boure-ches, and -y on. | 1 lie lieavv hand of war has wiped A Marriage of Great Interest Thru- out the State. , The an mour.ee me lit of the marriage of Miss Vera Thomas to. Mr. Thomas McCullough Boulwatv was received with great pleasure by their many friends throughout Barnwell comity./ „d Miss Thomas is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs* Nathan .1. Tlinmas, of Cope, S. ('. and will be pleasantly'remembered as one of the'most efficient teacher in the Appleton High School two years ago and for the past two years was a*-, mem ber-of'the ‘facultv of the Willis- ■ » •’ -/ / 1 . ton High School. By her charitt- nvg - personal it v and attractive manner she - ha- won j a host of friend's. ; ■ Mr. Bbulware is a practicing lawverof the Barb well Bar, :rrrdr, * < - since hi« adoption here has by ttf - his ■splprrdid legal' mind and ability won for him - self a very lucrative practice;. He is a 'member of the firm o'f Holman A Bftulwafe. ‘ , ; After speiUhrUg their honey- ,moon visiting the many healih resorts of North and South Uingrfina- Mr. and Mr-*-, Bnul- vCiin‘ *Mill make their future home in Barnwell. STAMP OUT ILLITERACY Should Be Made a Matter of Personal Well as State! Pride. * , At this tijne when the whole world is engaged^ hi the greatest war in hi-tory/and the vital eneigieTofVul the people of the earth arc l>cing strained’ to It he Utmost towards the accomplish- meut Jot an everlasting peace, upon the basis of intellectnaf goverment and an eo lie- fore; the law.of all classes, it be comes important that our peo ple should he e lueated more and more so that their proper pi a/e may be taken in tin* counAds of the world after the war; that readjustment of conditions 'may be co-iitinurd and settled, upon an equitable basis in^ Older that ail rivalries..nmy receive justice in.tin* final settlements of file various and divfcfse interests, ot the* people. To that end, in ith. Carolina a movement against iilUefficy is.- now being urged and our people , aru be- \ RED CROSS DEPARTMENT. j , It may interest our readers to have revived the different ac counts given of the origin of the Red Cross, as a symbol used for many'years by orders and socie ties devoting their efforts to the sick and wounded. In the tenth Century the Cru saders were given the insignia from which they got their name, “Soldiers of the Cross” by. Pope Urban 111. He made them a most MINIMUM PRICE FOR COTTON Use of Fireworks to Be Prohibited — Slackers to Be Looked After., Columbia, August 3—The State Council of Defence lias gone on record, by the adop tion of resolution^ at the bi monthly -meeting held here Thursday, iis favoring a gov- erment financed cotton * cor poration; and recommendation has been made to President eloquent address, ending with the* ynd Congress that ac- MORDECAI MAZURSKY MAKES QOOD. away all -einhlanc place- and left lying of habitable t • -olate and <lu»tv ruins of stone and morr- I w tar. Tlye village that sheltered Add io',i,0lMl soul- is now hut piles of dehns. ! saw dead German.- in- profu-idn. where they fell and died, -aw * the hodie-.of Americans wlib died to save r ranee and civilization from those Ger- u aiLs. Going north from the wrecK- ige of Lucy ic I Socage, 1 could tin* imouLe '■liof resist the impul-e to through the Bdi- k* Beliea.u where I had heeii during the lighting a month ago. which ;jpievented^ mueb.' inspection'. Across the. field with the shell holes-so tuick tliab one could >to another'. I machine of the '.4 Lfun eoniing more and*more interest- - # - 4 \ “ i ed in the deveidpj.*nitnit of- the. min'li ail'd heart of the youth of the laud* that they may her en abled to assume, the-:'responsi bilities of citizenship, that South Carolina may not he behind her sister state-* in the great progress that America will make in all the department- of life when conditions are once stored. more .re V li /' v noted outburst, “Ye are soldiers of the cross, wear then, on your breast, or your arrq a blood red cross, the sign of him'w ho died for you.” The cross w as adop ted at that time us the banner of the Crusaders. In the* sixteen til century St. Caniillus founded an order or “as sociation calk'd “The Minister!; of the Sick;” adopting as a badge of -that order a red cross on a white ground. Thtdr---hospit;ds w ere alp ays know n by the , flag of this design that- w a\ed over tion hi* taken, through tin formation of such' a government 1*1/ agency. U> tlx . a mimmnm | pi ., elork for Capt. .1 price which the farmer may ht* guaranteed for his cotton. Another resolution adopted at this, probably,the most con structive meeting .yet held by the council*of Defense, directed the attention of tlie'WarDepart- im.nt.an.l Conoross to the labor illar/vell, S. C.. 1 lo ei lUte-’i 1 . . A .11 * ^ V t 1 / 1 1 • Tin- many friends of Mr. Ntorde.cai M. Mazurskv will be pleased to kn^nv that he has ‘made -nch rapid pi ogres- fn the Field servict* of the A viation corps. Jt'is with pride that we are reproducing the following clipping from the Kedy Field Eagle*J ]>ublished at.Ivelly.Fi Id, Texas, where Mr. Maznrsky is in .training./ r “Cot j) 1 . "Mprth*cai Mazurskey was recently. promoted to tin* ratik of sergeant. 1Ie acts as ty- H. Beaii. • instruct*►r-iiispeetor of- th.e Flying D<*partment*: and handles the great volunm of work connected . w’qh the schools -or ground oflic r- and enli-ted men, besides many im portant records Hi-honn* is in’ shortagt* cr iiwhich -is iiU South aggravated (-aroLina. by tli many women March 22, l‘Jl>. For one month he-worked muler (-ai^-.- ITarty? (traham,. now Field Ad itant. them. They were obliged to care ^ JU t 1 ,!U ,nan > " «*men '' ho-e for all,sick or wounded brought unst>aiids are in the military | n \ n q then was trtund'erivd'tlo ; tlfe to them/ Saint, C'amillus selec* service- nave-,left the field- 1 led'this l ftag not to revive that of where they h;fv§ been accu-- totned to work in former the Crusaders, hut in memory of his mother. Lady C amilla, who kind had a dream in w hich she saw her son, then bv.po ( means a saint, dead with a red cTossbh fns breast. Then came the w ar be tween the allies France arid Pied mont (one of the continental col onies of the Island of Sardinia) aerq-s them ju-t where thev fell a month ago. Her*) were flu* remains of a kitchen which had served -its la-t ideal : In*re tin ruined (tirgoirr through the wrecked door of which one nm id gee ft ye (d- ’111 a n bocl ic- lving where oin**of our 7 A Shells had got. them while sleeping. Here lav a box of unused hand- grenades ; here a pile’of am munition which had never killed Thu Il!itej*a, *y, (hxniini-siquTf}and Austria; with the horribkC-^ 1 '!!. 1 ^r n,w at tin* lie;ul i battlefield of Solfcrino, more dead of tiii- great movement and was e-tabli-hed at the request of the . mum uvm • k- w j marine: there lay a caclte decaying food—here, and every- where, carnagm in profusion, when* the (iermatis had" tried vain io halt the Americans. in Near the northern edge of the wood was a large rock, and, scattered about it lay the - re mains of a German airplane, which had hit it sqiiarelv after some""Allied aviator laid sent d bullet tli rough its pilot.'Parts of the airplane had been scat-, tered fifty feet in eve»*y direc tion. Here lay tiie body-of an which had not been A liieric^n fbifnrT“irr I tinn* to,>hnrv. We spri'ad a -lielter half over it, and, sticking his bayonet, i in the ground, firing his steel hat oiYit, so he would he found and given a decent grave. ! ’"Li'living, tin* northern end of the wood-, we came ^\\a-4rench which the GermHns hbd tried to hold. The German.dead there were so thiek that They lay one - upoii auother in ghashtlv array v We \yenf. on intfo what had been Belleajn. Not one building was left standing. American- State Ft'ueridjoii of women s clubs, 11 commits itself io the following principles,: Fn>t, The promotion of State' pride that* Soutii Carolina should \take a foremost position^ in stamping out igTiofance How existing a- moiigst tier people'.. Second, to ith demand for univer- 1 education as a protection a- e iLu Soutfi Caionnah . , , and dying on it than the world bad ever seen before. Both em perors, Napoleon and Francis Jo seph; were shocked when they visited the hattlefied to see the immense number of men there, and to hear their cries and groans, with no one even to try to help them. There was another A’ishor to that awful spectacle, one 1 lenrj Danant, a young Swiss gentle man of wealth and intellectual attainment, whose heart was so touched.that he got what assis tance he could and labored ten days and nights among the suf ferers. This put the idea in the mind of an organized body of men and women to keep in readiness for such work. He wrote a little hook called a “Souvenir of Sol- ferino,” which is a classic in its simple uneffected eloquence. It is no mean example* of good style and English. Henri Dunant did rest, from -his labors with the the rapacity of the enemy ami it ! ,<>ok ; llc ' u ' m fjW. < l ourl , ,<l - f) / Court carrving witli him his idea is the earned di-iire.of the Com-. „f f„ r min,r' in tin„.^„( gain-t tlie terrific tests to which our political fitness and indus trial competence will he put af- te’ the war. Third, To treat it as a war measure of tire first magnitude, as education is a mam dependence tor success of the American forces in this great c’a'r. ( It is recognized that efficiency in all dcp|irtnu'iits* must he es tablished to save'the \vorld from yea r-, are snb-isliiTg oil t he allowances remitted by the \Va.r Department. An apjipro- \) ria'Te re me ly t o relieve tTiTs -itnation i- asked for,' since many women are living m idleness- while the farm Tabor moie acute. ol'licv of ('apt. Ileaii.-' BRABHAM- -MIMMS i ! Mi>- Letlia BrahhanT'and Mr. Charlie Minims' were quietly jlharr ied on Sani rdu y a ft♦ *rnoon by the Rev. Mr. Peeler at the Methodh.t par-onage in Barn well. 4> v _ . / T !i<*. bride is tin* only daugh ter of Mr;, and Vi-. W. P lv'o. uLhei resolniion-, both ] Jtralihain, of Barnwell, and hn'j of state-wide importance, wen* adopted, - "Ono of these de-pre. cates the salt* and use of tire mission that none of'pur people,; shall, by illiteracy, Vu- deprived of the enjoyment of religion, comniluiication with their rtla- V / y tives and friends in the wqr and to otherwise enjoy to.the fullest extent the best of huimwi^happi- ness which c;in only, come by and through a Tull intellectual dcVeio]>mt iU-U- i This ‘commission is working under the leadership' of‘ the State Department of Education and to give its best energies to organizations were, busy debris cleaning •iip the step from one reached the rocky edg woods. Here; in posiiiqqs, twciiry Germans had been s-b-qg-ipeml. . IiVrt and the A' yvas ■'dueje^up bile and ba-ypnict lockXjhak-kig a cross marking the p/avc cf - some marine?* In The middlpof tli peacefully grazing^ war -ha'd made field iay. rhaps iTicjA carcass of a cow. \ when a -No Ma Land of her pasture. Along the ■edge; of tlip wbocjs lay Ixxiies of ^byrses caught,-hy tdic^ (Terman machine guns. /s* It was uncanny to-go through those woods which.-now have a place in American history! Every other tree was cut off by shell Jire. Not a square foot of. ground but bore mark- , .of fighting. German hiachine guns in cleverly concea led nests stood With the bodie*t>f bodies lyiJ^ J ; MConim-i«d on Srcouj l > - - ' -L' r-- '- Jt *“ -y—— It ,, ■ — CRVilVW I NT ACT AMID \V H K( K To tin* east lay in the rum- of the church stood a large crucifix, tin* only thinu untouched by ‘shellfire in the whole -Village. To the north lay the remains of Torcy, wliere our barrage had caught and killed so m itJ*1 ‘■persons and and other energies to tiny eradi cation of illiteracy from tin* It will also endeavor'to Statt project legislation as well as to Bouree-ches > create a progaganda of... agita- same condition. In the| tl01l within legitimate dines. form a center to which atid the iiii exchange of imforma'tion and acorre|lation of other agtJL- working to the same end cies, m; of forming, in times* of peace, societies to care for live victims of war. Tl his is fetich exalted work that Dunant realized,that it must he voluntary. He, then, indeed is the outcome, since our works dtiripg t'n* period of the war and calls upon the munch.- paiitics to forfinl eUlieiz^TTie other urges memhqrsTpT the county uhits to keep oil the alel t for slackers,.. for , those who ahu< the system of paying ajlotipeuts,' and for. other irregularities. T lie Council of Defence appropriated $1,000 to help finance the work,of-the State Illittracy Commission. A The executive committee of i • the council of Defense. has been enlarged by the addition of three members, who are Robert McDmigall of Columbia, \\ . A. Stuckey of Bi-hopville, been m the emi'lowment <-f the* 1 - - * • i Su.fifherii Bell for the past few months> The groom i,. a and Horace Marion. Tilghman ot CAN0IDA1E FOR MAYOR. 1 hereby announce in candidate for * reeleonon' for Mavor of the Town oy Barnwell must Pt* voluntary lit* then, ^ { to tIie rill , s regnla- may be regarded as the real form- ... J \ ■ dor of the-rcal RedCross. Great "' e , mu Oft 11 ' 1 primary election and pk- dge myself to own nations\ass(k‘iation has aut-1support*!lie nominee- thereot .. • • \ . . • . i i -...: l I i.. ..i. .. grown the visions^ of the most -enthusiastic. Its limits are only the ends of the earth. Who dare say ever again that human na ture is not improving? \\Tign such an expressisn of good-will,, self sacrifice and endless giving, has become so grand and far reaching. The war itself can on ly divide, the world’s attention with its achievements. _Jn/the New York Times of July 28th is a letter from Mrs. If. G. Squires of New* York, written from the hospital of Saint Vin cent De \ Paul, near Chatteau- Thierry, where the Amentbans made their first wonderful re- Emile Harley: Mr. W. II; Duul-an left last week for Chick Springs, where iie will spend a well earned va cation of two w^eks. ' ' / - j •. ' ■ i slowly. Is Barnwell wideawake? Does (every woman “see her duty a dead sure thing, and go for it ttyar’ and then’7 If-we realized that for lack of what, as a community we can do, our men “overthere” will suffer and die, we would not live our daily- lives without something being ■’ everv twelve hours. ” position with the Char-lo-iori t ! misoli- dated Rwy. and Lighthtig Com pany, of Cbai-te-toH^ S. C. Mr. and Mrs.'Mimms left mmediately after tin* ceremony via tlu* Atlantic ('oast Lino for Charleston, where they whj make their .future liotmq They have the best wi-in- of their friends for a long Mfe of happiness. CREECH—SANDERS Mrs. LottieS. Creech and Mr.. M. II. Sanders, of the Big Fork-section, were married on Monday the 2S)th ult.; by the Rev. .J. R. (’rrHttm- at hi- resi dence near Allendale. They have, thebe-t wishes ('f their many li'icpd- for a long and happy union. * ■ -f- ..... ■ ; CHURCH NOTICE Rev. Melton Clark,*I). D., of Charleston, will preach at the ihjrsbyterian-^imreTi in Barn well at 4; *30 o’clock ySunday atternoon. A cordial inyitutten to hear luiti is extended to all.. done We Messrs..■ .1. Albert Knelling and U. Boyd Conner are numbered among th^ forty reg istrants which H.utn Carolina had tc5 furnish under summons .of Geiiej-al Crowder for Liifiited service men. They left here Mon day afternoon via A. C. L Railway and will reach Syra cuse. N. T . \V«UT:e-day morn ing about 10 :.•*()-.wne.re .tl’ev will enter the training cani’». J " i, Mess rdf .1. M cord. She tjplls of the awful , suf- would mot let the sun gd down ay be instituted tjbnd to raise > feringsjjof the wounded 'brought ! on empty hands, empty of the money and otherwjseXto assisr in from the'hattlu line; “Six Inin- ihinoro nnr m<»n nn/L nm any Germans. | ^ tl every po-siide manpey toward ^ re( T were put down in the yare of the hospital. We selected those we could save and rushed them to the operating rooms, . the others we had to leave to eie like heroes, alone. All the surgi cal supplies left over from the last shipment from The Red Cross, I had saved,. God only knows what • we would have done without them at that horri ble moment. W r e four women never took time to rest for four days and nights. We worked like dogs.” When we read a report Nov v< stood in territory j accomplishment bf educa- ^ where th.e Germans were driven 1 tiomd activity: The internts of he'kOut on 1 hui-da} morning, Back J 0l j r people in Barnwell Countv ot lore} one enddof a field, j s earnestlv desired rind the citi- jas tilled "ith ,gia\es "here zenship of the County ar# re- tfKTiprmans buned the dea^J quested to y;tlly-To„dhe move- Tallufg belnud their Iiiiots A n Ament and to create a sentiment rtiurmitj w»re^.tnnlp<a fnr Intf i. r j , . . !• I dugoutsxwere tables set for last ip favor'of this great purpose, Thursday Topriuiig^ break a>t, and. _ to . correspond with the °|T r5 Chairtnan of the Coinraittee,Mr. t!!Hre. In a j Patterson Ward I aw, in Col um- which the German to leave -hot oiiahe corner were threeTre^-and in b ia. He will be glad ta Jfurther ' g - enailt ‘ S Worm anyone on the. subject. ■ ] This paper commends ttre things* our men need and an suffering for. How * do we ‘know but that next week we will hear of Barnwell County meij brought in with wounds cryjng out to.US for surgical dressing? T am afithorized to say that, the wool has come and head quarters, has sent us a ^sample sock. On Friday of this week, between the hours often and twelve a. m., the Red Cross room will be open for those who care to get and ammunition A 1 ' •>»»*, were in- (moveinent"' to tlT/' i.TiLUr and diM^lunl lioles where tlie (tpr- e am»stly ve.|uo)ti (;•>■ >’■ iti'Hi with the. LoinmhjsjOLi dressing class must wait for so the wool. Our expert, knitter like this ajeelipg of desperation- gnd tehiporary chairman of the comes over us, that our surgical Wool Committee will be |here to serve alt who £all. many weeks, that the work of .Mr. W. H. ^Duncan, thet chapter.is being done So Press Cofresponentior the K. G» W * f Ea-terling; B. Ka-u-rling and Tl S.tU* lv c, <)JL Baniwed, and George Easter ling, bf somewhere in Florid 0 ,' let t this citv Sun day and m »tor- ed to Gledii Spriugs-Tpr a two weeks ita}/ These gt* .tleineh are all large planters’and did not leave for their -ummer vu- eation until their crops, which give promi-e*"bf a hp-ge yiel^, w» re layed by. • Rev. and Mrs. Snydet\ and family spent)', last week end in the city while eh route from Blufton where they bad b«eijt spending their summer vaca tion. Uev r Kiiyder served as pastorthis circuit x for feur: years during which time be r endeared himself to the peajd* / in Barnwell gnd the surrounihn^ ' coinniimitv, . .* " j \ t. A k