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'V-T, . - 9 T— SIXTY SEVENTH YEAR / ESTABLISHED 1852 SIXTY SEVENTH YEAR =7= VOL. LXVTt. BARNWELL, S C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER NO. THE WEEK IN WAR. DEATH OF W A. 8. NEWSOM. HAfcRY M. WOODWARD Austria Surrenders — Military Successes Continue—Ger many’s Breakdown— Diplomacy to the / Fore. One of Barnwell County’s Most Es timable Citizens. // The .events in this war are so; j;reat that so short a space as a' week t will not show much change. This may be seen in the: contrast of battles * in the Civil war when its greatest bat- tie, Gettysburg, was fought in two days. In this war many battles have lasted as long as four months. This is the most stupendous conflict the worid 'has'ever seen, and while each week brings some changes, yet even these will be bettffiE tmder- ‘ stood.if we see them as parts of the whole. It will be remembered* that the German high command real ized early in the spring that the | best plan was to divide its ene-1 inies and crush them in detail. Jackson followed this plan in the Valley of Virginia £nd suc ceeded in defeating forces su perior to his own. The Germans had all the advantages of being Williston, S. C., Nov. 4.—The death of Mr. W. A. B. Newsom, one of Williston’s most, esteem ed and best loved citizens, which ' ’ /” * v v . /. # occurred at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Robt. Black of Bamberg, November 2, after a long illness, was not unexpect ed, nevertheless, caused many a heartache. - Deceased was sev- ty-nine years of age. He had been a deacon in the Baptist church for many years, and much of his time was given tq work for it. He always had the affairs of his church at heart and was regarded as one of its most consecrated members. Mr. NewsomV native home Edgefield, but for about forty- five years he had lived in this community. He enlisted at the outbreak of hostilities between the North and South and served with distinction till just before tHe close of the war, when he w^s severely wounded. ^ In March, 1867, deceased was married to Miss Mary E. Mat thews of Edgefield, and' in Write* Letter in Captured Ger man Du gout. The following letter recently received by Miss Kate Wood ward, of Barnwell, 'from her brother, Lieut. Harr,y M. Wood ward, who is in active service overseas will. be read with inter est by his many friends through out the State and county: “Sept. 30, 1918. “Dear Kate : 4 “For the first time' in over a month I find time to write a tet ter. During that time I have sent you several field cards as to advise you of my safety, and ,1 hope that you received them all right. | “On the 12th of September was we opened up in the first big American offensive, and as. you know from the papers, it was a big sucqess^ I wish I could de scribe the scenes of our sur- THE UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN BIG BENNIE, THE GRANITE WELL, LETTER FROM CAPT. Fiftey Per Cent. Oversubscrip tion Asked During Drive Week of November 11-18. ~~ i on high ground and of forcing March - 1917 - thev celebrated * . ... . Fhrtii- mtLIon u-oHdinir ;it tlipir their golden wedding at their home here. Williston and the Baptist church have sustained their enemies toward the rivers which must divide them as they were pushed nearer the coast. Germany knew that it was beat en, but it risked a gamblers; 01 si nceie ancl earnest - chance. It failed for many rea- 1 hristian, whose greatest pleas es. Ludendorfs sledge ham-; ure "'as in following in the foot- mer strategy required too long ; s foR s Ok the Master Jie lo\ed so an interval before his artillery ! The interment was in. the and supplies could reach his ad vanced troops. His forces by roundings to you, but. this is be yond me. Anyway, it is one of th'e greatest events of my life, and I shall never forget the bat tle in which we completely pinched off the salient of St. Mi- hiel. Our first positions were just north of Bernecourt and -we advanced along the line to Flirey, Essey, Bouillonville and Thiacourt. At the last named an irreparable loss in the death p| ace we were drawn out of the Williston cemetery. Rev. Geo. P. White and Dr. W. M. Jones* line and for ten days and nights we hiked across tjie country and arrived in time to take part in thje drive'on Montfaucon, which started on September 26th. “This fight is still raging and V \ve are steadily driving the Columbia, S. C., Nov. 2,~Ir view of dispatches from New Y J ork stating that Director Gen eral John R. Mott has decided, with the approval of President^ Wilson, and the War depart- j ment, to ask for a fifty per cent, j over subscription of the $170,- 500,000 United War Work Fund, to be raised during the week of November 11-18, it was stated Saturday at South Caro lina headquarters for the drive that this State will have -to over subscribe it.^ quota only twenty- five per cent, to do its share. “Realizing that more money would be needed than was asked for,” said State Campaign* Di rector A. A. Protzman, Satur day, “South Carolina had al ready assumed a quota of $1,- 000,000 which amounted to a 25 per cent, increase in its share of f AND SAFETY FIRST.’* j, By Pi Bon When I was just about six j years old my father moved into jthe Piedmont section of this i State and'made his hohnF ia *a*j I manufacturing town for six! vears. The? w heels of two grfeat R- BOYD COLE . t ’ _ ‘ ’ 'fvV . ;'-U x Attend**'Field Officer* School. Sergt. Isadore Owen* High ly Commended. Mr. Allen J. Owens, of Barn well, has just received the fol lowing letter from Capt. R. * / cotton mills in this village wore made to turnbv t he power of the yellow, rushing water* of the turbulent PaColet River. Though there was water a-i’len- \y to make the mighty turbines turn, yet water to drink . ... V much of. a problem because at that time all -the drinking \va- ter luuiJij Jjte,drawn from deep wells and the dwells must be sunk to a depth-of a< hundred or hundred and fifty feet through granite, 'practically evet*y iiich. There was not a' well in the town ' of. Trough Shoals less than one hundred feetdeep. Digging, or rather blasting, a well w as an engineering feat of no mea v n proportions, and when a gang of negroes with a white! boss set up a work shack across from our;house about four hun dred yards on what was known is • Boss 1.me," and commenced the original goal, there!oie a to-! f j owll into the earth, 1 with tal subscription in this State of j mv playmates “hung around $1,250,000 wdll carry us over the top in the new $250,000,000 goal.”'. ; . , Dr. i Mott, in asking'Tor the bv the hour delighting in the ’’.-ledge songs" sung by the men j certainly as they swung their heavy ham mels in peifect time upon tlie oversubscription, gave the fol-;' u ‘ad l * l ° *t j ' ' 1 lowing ten reasons for the in-; creased,ne3d: T. Beca teel diill; Tire hurry and bustle of the work men as they windlassed tlie ’’shooter" out of the well after lx* bad tired the-fuse, ancl the to cover to be piotec- running concentration weakened other h* 8 pastor, officiated.^Surviving enemy backry Ilc^ismJtting up sectors of his lines anil exposed Mr. Newsom are his Wife and them to allied attacks, which f»*“’ children, Mr. J. E. New- happened when Koch turned the 1 Williston and J. A. New- tide in July. The German peo-, som Jacksonville,^ I-la., Mis. pie had been deceived so often Dr. Robert Black and Miss Hat- *• that they were now war weary, j tie Newsom of Bamberg. ■"'The Americans were arriving I he honorary pall bearers : a strong resistance though, and is only being forced back by hard Work. “I am writing this in a cap tured German dugout just south of Montfaucon. The quarters are very comfortable, and it is in far larger numbers than j were * he deacons ot the Baptist evident that the Huns had no in~ their enemies believed possible, j churclj: Messrs. A. M. Kenne- tention of giving them jse of the remark- able increase of the American ! army and of its inevitable.cpn-^.a ,| 1B s |,y,wer of granite tinued increase: The budgets ofjlfter Tfr^tTtHst was excitement • Nrsi Ai. for my crowd of fel- at least three of the seven or ganizations uniting in the forth coming campaign were based on data assernbled last spring, when it w’as thought there would be not more than 1,000,- 000 American soldiers in France 1 by November first. As a mat- lows. SomeGmev~ a' workmen out on top -'oilId g<> down into the well by sliding down the .rope Boyd Cole,, alko of Barnwell, who has been engaged in active service overseas and is now at tending a Field Officers’ school in France: f “France, Oct. 5, 1918. was ^ “My Dear Allen : ' !’ “I know you will be surprised to hear from me, but having just had a talk with Isadore’s Cap tain I determined to write you. I ( am not at present with my command, but am attending a three months’ school for Field Officers. It was atlthis school that I met Isadore’s captain*. He is here at sichool, too. He said that Isadore was doing fine and that his health was good. To use. his language, he said: ‘Owens is without doubt the fin est first sergeant in the army. I just couldn’t get along without him. His men all like him, but respect' him and never hestiate to obey any order he gives.’ It did me good to hear him spoken of so highly. No one short of a full fledged man can act as first sergeant and make a record like. that. I am writing you this because I arr. sure it will tic 4 gratification to you and to teadore’s friends back home. “I have been getting on splen didly. - Good healthy plenty of work arid good substantial food. I left the front line trenches to come dow’n here, the'change is , , , . quite a big one. Instead of hav- tne dirt tub was on the • _ . , . i; . : , in K to ,lve in a trench or dugout 1 think tins was against ... B i..., and contend with shrapnel and their enemies believed possible. le nuon ot giving tnem up f When those budgets were made, Ludendorf should have seen the,by, J. C. Hair, W. E. Protho, H. There are gun positions ^U|moveo^er. it was thought that situation as a whole rather than ; Thompson, T. P. Mitchel and Since 1 F. T. Merritt. Active: Messrs, broken ’ U. C. Matthews, Q. A. Kennedy, his gambler’s chance, then his machine has everywhere. J. J. Bell, M. C. Kitchings, J. A. It is a well known fact that! Lattimer and Lan Quattlebaum. the German high command are an d Belgium. They have mis- past masters in the art ot. tell-1 judged the whole situation in ing falsehoods so skillfully that j thinking that at this day of vic- they are believed by everyone, j tory they can save themselves We Americans' have swallowed ; from utter defeat. Thtfir appeal many of their yarns. It is be- \ f or an armistice has been laid lieved that their present situa- jbefore the allied, council in Ver- tion is due to their habit of j sailles in whieh^Col. E. regiment. It nassing counterteit truths, j House* is* the representative of possible that When Focfi was getting them in , the United States. Whatever a hole, Ludendorf suggested an . language the terms may be armistice in the hope that his j couched in, thev can be boiled armies could be extricated from i down to “Surrender uncoqdi- their perilous positions. But: tionally or die?’ his bait for the allies was swal-! The military events serve ,to lowed by the war weary Ger-j enlarge this view. On the home. They 1 around us and they keep up a continuous roar. The Germans also chime in and. shells are constantly falling all around us. It is a somewhat peculiar feel ing that one has to hear them coming over and you don’t know* whether one is gbing to fall on you or not. -*• “We have been very fortunate so far, and have only lost two men by shell fire in our entire does not seem so many shells could fall in an area where there are so me.nv men and do no •while hi-ttoln. the rules of the foreman but i . . . tTTe men often did it anyhow, P° lson I am * n m y comfort- ter of fact, the number there by | eilll( . r u , , uv( . , inleor heca „. e it was more interesting than being slowly windlassed down, lcannot say. that date wdll be 2^00,000. When those budgets were made,> the total number of American soldiers on both sides of the At lantic by next summer* would not exceed 3,000,000, whereas our military leaders are now preparing for an American army, before the end of next summer, of between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000. “ “2. Because of the marvelous * * * expansion of the American navy. When America entered •» - the war, we had less than 70,- 000 men in the navy. There are now oyer 600,000 * sailors and marines and the number will be In this crew of well diggers was Ben weighing more, damage than they do. I! further greatly increased. Rel- just iike him.j_ a big yellow man named A powerful man w'as B£n, about two hundred pounds’, six feet four inches high, (l judge that’s how high lie wa;*), and a biceps of such prodigious !si/.e that it looked artificial, Big Rennie 1 . 7 lie yvas called ; ;(thl he sang a song : the only words of which l remem ber \ye re, • “Yoiider come a ’Oman, look like Cora, She got a razor in her hati." IIow lie could ring it out ! and we lioy.s .used to tt v to sing suppose the .Lord must by with atively, the organizations which us - , , . litre uniting in their campaign “1 haven’t time to write you j^ve neglected the navy, but it more now as I am constantly on duty and the battle is raging a great eas- more now as i um cunsiaim.v un j s their desire to help this arm man people back home. They tern battle front the Germans duty and the battle is raging 0 f the service as much as any wanted not only an armistice, are everywhere showing them-! still. Please tell ail the rest that j other, and therefore, 1 a much •but peace at any./ price, rhcjyojyes interior, and losing posi- j 1 am_ja.ll right and will .write | larger sum of money will be German army is still a formula- j fj ons that require additional re- them a long tetter just as soon nee ded for this purpose than is ble fighting machine- held t(G i treats., The hinges of their ! as it is possible, but will have to i’ether by the highest disciple. * strongest defence sysfenlS are' The. never fought Reiter than 'being hammered to pieces. In recently. Tlteir trouble is back ! Italy the Austrians who * have always been defeated bv Ital- hi-me, not in the army. German business -mem know that they are ruined unless peace comes. They also know that’ .huge in demnities must be paid out of , their earnings. So they are «• asking themselves “why should _ war continue solely to keep the kaiser arid his class in power.” White it is true that the . i American armies are largely . 'ft-lt, it is also true that the j break up, in Bulgaria, Turkey, H and Austria is having • its full effect on German troops. They '^re now fighting not Tor victory*, but to save German cities and - people from the same devasta- ■*- “tion they wrought in France ' V • :: * • • > ? ians, Serbians, and French have suffered ’ a disastrous defeat which has forced their line back to the border. Their great naval base at Pola was raided last week, and their largest dread- naught was torpedoed. They have also retired from Trieste, and the inhabitants have re-' quested the allies to come and protect property. In Russia or der is slowly coming out. of chaos, although- the* Bolsheviki have threatened to majte Nov. 10th the greatest massacre in hUiory. Already they are kill ing without* trial moFc than 5T)0 Cont.i.Ui'UloarrhP ge. wait until this battle is over. “Don't worry about me, for I am all right, 4nd am certainly expecting to return some ' day soon and to tqlk you to death* about the war. » “Devotedly, “Harry.” ’ j —- ■ WEIGHT OF BAGGING AND TIES IS NpT TO BE CHARGED FOR. Columbia.—It has come to (be atten tion of the Food Administration that some of the ginners are charging .on weights which include the weight of bagging and ties. The ginning prices recently announced by the Food Ad- imjnistratlon. were for net lint cotton. Bagging and ties weight 25 pounds to the bale. Therefore, ginners must not charge in exeese of $2.50''per bale, for ginning, unless the weight of the bale, including bagging* ami i as. is-more .than 525 pounds. For the over that weight, at thft. raU of 7*' n®nts- per .100 pounds of lint cotter, is the proper charge. now included in their respective {budgets. “3. Because thi swar, unlike others, is‘not alone a war of armies and navies, but a war of entire peoples. In particular, it invoh’es vast iiumbers of the’ in i'his negro, Bep, was fellow to do the sliding act 1 down the roj t* Avhen the tub was at the bottom {^atud. one day when the well had been exc^van-eU- to ( a depth of over a hundred*'feet, and still no Water, Ben was out oTi top, and to ho extra fancy, hejuiu|*ecl to catch the rope to si hit down; and the-f staph 1 pulled out that held the rope to* the windlass. \ \ Inn— hio able quarters in a large build ing and going to school eight hours a day. “How is my old friend Bel linger Maher getting on? Give him my regards and tell him I often think Uf him. Also giv^ my regards to Mr. Simms, Judge* ’Snelling, Seymour and my other friends. Till them to write. “With b*st wishes and kind est regards, “Yours sincerely, x * “R. Boyd Cole, “Capt. U. S. A. Army School of the Line, A. N P. O. 714^ , France.” IHt SU6IB (MTIOn S MEASURED lA SPOONFUL Columbia.—How man^ teaapoonfal* are there In one pound of sugar? With the sugar ration at 2 pound* per person .per month It is welt enough to know this. There are 9<5 level teecnoonful*—S for *ach day. Tliter*' are 49 bounded teaspoon^fui* --1*4 for each day. There are ?,2 heaping tea spoonful*-# aln'os' 1 fir each day.. * Tt ■should he remembered that the 1 nt)lu l hereivin irotn the mg ne- oroT tliVoat warned the work-; r° unds p r per ^ n . ii ; v i I covers, the .ir^pf^suear for ill' ll lurLovv to watch out 1 hard , lnHll(1 inB , lhp fiWppt ly had they crouched ’ back per month ration all pur- poses—including the sweetening of tea coffee, dessert and in cooking. .us, ..«.«»«.» u,. j||H , )H .^ 1 . lot „ |e )lfe p. W e U • dustnal classes. Since our fi-) ri| J, liD i )ody ()f t j„, ifi r, a^onition, -^-Safety nancial plans-were announced,: | a |;; n g lnal) swislieil by their fifst." . threlajms of- these industriai i i, ea ,i s U | lt i‘-Bit; Bennie” lay a- The -ti.ry ..f -Bis^umieV” classes'at Home and overseas - eriunpl.ed and jellied mass at death is told a>anadded \varrt- have been pressed upon'us, and f t heir feet, gasping his . last 1 i.ng to the writer as well as to it has been made.clear that we\ breath. T'tle tremendous drtif),’j.ije reader to take, heed of all %must augment greatly our ef-'^ad broken him* up and driven ditugers to mind, body and soul, forts on behalf ,of ttfe millions ! a rih through his heart. * ' l^t us. obey Orders of th.»se, of men and women at work in; 1 here he lay, a dead nian who have a right to dictate,. • i through his own folly and dis- and ler us too set up rules of our obetliem-e of orders. It tlie own io always “Stop, look and ■ staple^Rad only been,stronger, •li'-mir" . ~ if lie had lioUinatle the jump, ~ Tins well tliat brought death , if, if and if again. * .?.? / to the woikiriau never did give * How-often do we have it din- up hoy water, and t*> this day ned into qur eajs, “Safety first,” remeiu^a deep, dry hole in lhn.-'* [Ou evert side we ?ee“ the warn-j ground. * . ■ “ j countless militarized and other indispensable war industries. ft . . “4. • Because the burden of tills; war falls so heavily upon • Ik. <t. the women of America sfnd of CobUUu^d un Fildi i’Afce ) X.V- sa . ; _ n * *.r.. •,,-| | t n, m i B A/ ■ ^