Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 12, 1918, Image 2
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? K'I 'MipI Kane. a rich New Vorker, n
is amusing himself gambling with war a
m.nlug* stainps. His game i.s to match fi
anybody who wants to plav with a war t>
Havings stamp. If he loses he pays
with another stamp. a?<i if he wins ti
the losei pays the price of the stamp I
an<! keeps it Kane <ioes riot make
anything cither way. hut h?- helps to "
sell a good many stumps. The poll' e a
lo not inte rfe re with the game. (J
A total of 4 47 casualties in the
American expeditionary force iri
Krance was announced Tuesday by the j.war
cp-partment. Of this number Is
were killed in a< tion and 36a wounded
in action. The rest died of disease.
The casualties cover a period of oneweek
The announcement was made
following receipt of a cablegram from
ieneral Pershing, saying that his
censorship regulations were not intended
to suppress casualties. No addressees,
however, were given.
Senator Stone of .Missouri, cnair- j
until of the foreikn relations committee,
was stricken with paralysis
Wednesday, while riding in a street
ear en route to his office in the
eapitol at Washington. The senator
was removed to the senate office
huildink. where rneiiical assistance was
summoned, ami later was taken to his .
home The attack affected the senator's
left side. He was about to fall
when two other pussenkcrs on the car '
cauKht him. A physician who made a a
hasty examination of the senator dei
lared while his condition was serious,
it was not critical.
The Times sa>s that the new Man j
I'oWer Hill, the tirst readink of which
was moved by Premier IJoyd Oeorkc
hi the house of commons Tuesday,
provides not only for raisink the mill- I
tarv ace to fifty hut also the imme- ,
Mate withdrawal of exemption from
men in crudes I and 2 within the
present irtilitary ake limits, with the "
exception of those enkaked in vital national
work This will brink elergymeii
and other ministers of relikion
wit inn the orbit of service acts by the
offer of non-combatant work and the "
r<-seindink of the disdslon that men r
shall not be sent to serve abroad before
they attain the ake of nineteen.
From the heud'iuarters of the
Aim-rii-an Kxt?editlonary force In t'
France came this Liberty loan cable (.
messake from 'Sen. i'ershink: "Kvery
dollar subscribed to the Liberty loan
is a dollar invested in American man- n
tiood. Kvery dollar subscribed as the ?
result of self denial means partnership
in the hardships and risks of our men
m the trenches. Kvery dollar subscribed
will confirm the determination 11
of our people at home to stand by its |,
army to a victorious end An over- ,,
whelmitik subscription to the Third
l.ihcrty l/inii will tie a patriotic ex- 11
pression of confidence in our ability a
as a nation to maintain all that we ,-i
hold dear in eivilixatlon "
Three and a half years of war
have caused an increase of $111.TWO,- .
mo.mm in the public debt of the
twelve Icadink warritik nations, ac- '
corditik to tahulatlons made by the u
Federal deserve board. < if this, $72,4ija.mm.iiiiu
represents the debt increase
of the Allied nations, and $20,- "
::mt.mm.mm that of the Central I'ow- a
- - -? rl* I. . . I **?(<?.?( Ctiitno iL.tit inniiei'oil ! I
since the ruuntry entered the war Is
Kiven as $6.r?r.o.o<ift.00<t. the standing
J.hi. 31. (treat Britain up to Feb. 16
showed ail increase of $24,178,000,000. i
including S7.027.ooo.000 advanced to n
the Allies and doinitilons. Russia ranked
second with S20.2S1.000.000 last s
Sept. I. and France third with SIS.- p
62S.o6o.niin last Jan. I. The United
States was fuurtli and Italy fifth with
S3.KK4,ooo.ooo. (ierinany's war debt 1
reported last l>ecenibcr was $24,243,iinn,ooo.
and Austria-HunKary's at the n
same time S1S.033.OO0.0O0. f,
.lames M. Keck, former assistant
United States attorney Keneral. declared
in New York, a few days ago In
an address that he was violating no 11
pledge in stating that the British d
casualties in the battle_of th?Somrne ^
last year numbered 5o6ToO"t) anil that ,
the French lost 240.000 men killed at
Verdun. The Held east of Albert.
where they are battling now, is prob- c
ably the greatest graveyard in all the |,
world, he continued, "and never before
in the history of warfare has '
heroism reached such heights as In 6
this year of mix. I was privileged to g
spend four days with British forces on t.(
the West front and I saw them in action.
I have witnessed the French sol- ''
iliers and I have been among the Brit- I'
isli and French people during their e
greatest hours of trial. They do not t.
boast, they do not promise, they do
not cry and whine. If it may be call- "
ed boasting, the French people have
made but one declaration 'they shall
tied pass.'"
Representative Dyer. Republican, ?
of Missouri has introduced a bill to
curb lynching. The measures ask >
"that every person participating in I*
such mob or riotous assemblage tl
shall be liable to prosecution, and up- p
on conviction to punishment therefor,
according to law. in any circuit court
of the United States having jurlsdic- P
tion in the place where such putting p,
to death occurs." A county where the ,|
crime occurs shall be subject to a
forfeiture of from $3,000 to $10,000 '*
for use of the dependent family. "If r<
such forfeiture is not paid upon re- vv
covcr.v of Judgment therefor, such ...
court shall have Jurisdiction to enforce
payment thereof by extent or levy of 11
execution upon any property of the ir
county, or may compel the levy and
collection of a tax therefor." Negligence
bv officials shall be punishable s<
by imprisonment for live years, $f>,000 c<
line or both. Jury service is denied
every person who has participated in
lynching or expressed an opinion in
favor of it. ti
Fifty million dollars is being asked tl
.?# ...,oo !?* I 'htiipimttl HlirlAV of I.
the shipping board. for development
of I'lincrclo shipbuilding. The plan Is
to establish at once five government 'I
yards, two on the l'acitlc and three In a
the south. Sites for the plants already
are under consideration and will be
announced shortly. Three in the a
south probably will include one al- s;
ready planned for Wilmington. N. C.
Transportation facilities and easy- excess
to ceiuent and sand will govern
t In* selection. The first vessels turned n
out by the government yards will be p
7.r>0u-ton tankers, both because of the w
shortage of oil carriers and because in
the present stage of concrete ship c
development the board is more confl- o
dent of success with the tankers than it
with general cargo craft. As yet. con- ...
crete ships are admitted frankly by
experts to be "a gamble" because the VN
behavior of such a vessel under load a
In a heavy sea is unknown. Mr. Hur- j,
ley and *Jeneral Manager Ptez of the
Ktnergency Fleet t*or|>oration. hold 0
that in the present emergency every n
possible means of adding quickly to v\
the tonnage available for war purposes
should be utilized, tlreater
chance of success is expected from the w
operation of concrete tankers, because o
the liquid load will constantly seek a
level and not entail the strain on the
ship that a solid load would do in a
heavy sea.
? Transportation of American troops
to Franco is already proceeding at the t)
accelerated rate contemplated by the
speeding up me;isuros taken after the ,
hat tie of Plcardy began. Acting Sec- 11
retary t'rowell makes this statement. ai
hut will give no details. For military w
reasons the extent of the increased ,,
troop movement has not been made
public. Following the conference between
Secretary Baker and Allied of- a
tleers orders were given under which a w
British official statement was issued s.
saying that American forces were to .'
he brigaded with British troops in or- 1
der to h;isten American participation ai
in the war. Officials explained that jw
the process to be followed was similar
to that adopted in placing American
troops in the front lines with the
French for training. It has been es- w
timated that thirty days training of 0,
this churacter. with American battalion
units assigned with the British organizations.
will fit the new-comers o<
for active duty at the front. All divi- ei
sions now moved from this side are
composed of men who have had
several months of preliminary train- ei
ing and who need only final instruc- bi
tion to take their share in the fight- tl
ing. The training process will be .
quicker with the British than with the
French, it is believed, because the tr
language difficulties do not exist It A
as :n<ii' *t?->i that the new plana call
>i more extensive tradlps scheme ,
ith the British army than has been
n<- eas? with General Pershing's orig- 1
t.tl fore< Th<*r?* probably will be no I
?tempt to set up a purely American I
ir<e within the British ranks, as has (
en dune with the French. The
,m-rlcan.- are to be withdrawn when
rained ami turned over to General
'#r-hinsf as a part of his army.
t'r ^iritrillr (fitquirrr.
Intered at the Postofflce at York as
Mail Matter of the Second ClaBg.
YORK. S. C.:
FRIDAY. APRIL 12. 1918.
Tin- l.on<l of I he government is a
oml oi sviiiiaiith.i anil i o-op? rat ion
iimng tin- |KO|ilf.
man run no more run away from
us luty than he ran run awav from
lis shallow.
This war is <hhng gom! in that if is
turning Americans* Ioser together for
uiii-rli'n. M<-n ami women an* never
I their lu-st exrept while serving each
t her.
Alma-jean I loops have at last arrivi|
on ?l.. Itritisli Mont in upon i*|-il.ie
iiuihers ami the\ will ligure in the
i-poits from now on.
Yes. York county farmers are going
a huv homls. Many of them have aleaily
hollaht ami others will buy.
"ork county farmers have sufllcient
utelliKeiiee to appreciate the responihilitv
that confronts them.
The Itritisli government ha vim; conisleil
evi rythiiiK for w hich Irclaml
as aske.l as to home rule, there is
o longer any reason why the Irishlen
shoiilil not give their service in
war that means as much to them
s to anyhoily else.
The leal success ot the Liberty
..... .i.......i.li: in,.,n the small sllhscrili
is. Tlp-re will he plent.x of IiIk
to I'onii' in; IiiiI it is tin mini
i of snlisi'i ilii'is Unit will count
ion- than tin- ;imount. It is importnt
that tin- whole pie eouie into
lie ureal movement.
11 we went into this war hccuu.se
iertuans elainieil the narht to assassiate
American citizens on the hiKh
i-as. ami elsewhere. how can we make
eace with ieriuany until we have
< invoiced her that she must never
iiore ilare to assassinate American
itizens? The issue is one that does
ot admit of compromise. It must he
utiuht to a finish.
The president has under lonsideraon
tie idea ol stahaliziiiK prices ol
omrstie necessities. includitiK cotton
isjds uoolcifs, ma n il fact ures._ clothHK.
shoes, hats. etc. More than SO
adiitK cotton manufacturers of the
otintry have made representations
lokitiK to the estiihlislunent of presnl
and prospective relations with the
o\i rniiiciit. At the present time the
overnment is takiiiK ahout tin per
rut of the woolen output and the
tibllc uliout >< per cent, nitil tin'
rii-i' situation is badly in need of
tearing up. It is undi't'stooil that the
uttiiii situ.ition will lie taken up imleiliately
nltcrw'iird.
IVople who say they are not eont'l'lteil
about the war been use it does
ot affect them are. we are sure,
peaking thoughtlessly. Among stteh
eople are some who during the pa at
tiroe years have, for the llrst time
t their lives, been able to net out ol
ebt and net a little ahead. These poole
do not seem to realize that their
noil material fortune is been use of
te war. more than anythtntr else, and
>r that reason alone, if for no other
ason. they should help sustain the
or. Hut that is not the main point,
he Amerienn citizen who says he has
a concern as to America's fortunes
i this war has no business in Amerii.
He is too cowardly to light hitni'lf.
and he is too mean to help his
[nintry tight.
The South Carolina food admitiisration
is calling ujion the people of
lie state to substitute us far as possi!?
potatoes, either sweet or Irish poitoi's
for wheat. The idea is to use
lie perishable food before It spoils
nd noes to waste in order to save the j
ss perishable food, which we can just
s well do without. Wheat is necestry
for our soldiers in France. The .
uestlon is whether we will cut the
heat and let them have nothing, or
bother we will eat perfectly good
orishablo foods and let them have
heat. The question also in the cirumstancos
is whether we can enjoy
ur wheat as in other times, or will
choke us going down our throats,
lie war of the American Revolution ,
as won by sweet potatoes. Marion I
ml his men and Sumter and his men
ad little else for weeks at a time, and j
xcept for the work of Marlon and his i
ten and Sumter and his men there i
ould have been no King's Mountain
r < 'owpens. Lot us therefote leave ,
heat alone and live on potatoes and
ther such foods. At the same time, '
.??. let us remember to produce poitoes.
While doing all we can to present '
le importance of the third Liberty
win to our readers on our own aeLiunt.
it gives us great pleasure to i
. knowledge the valuable assistance
e are receiving at the hands of 1
rominent and influential business i
pople and leaders ot the best thought 1
ml sentiment ot the county, fit course !
e know that what The Enquirer >
iys on this subject makes more or '
ss impression upon all who read 1
ml think just as does what othei (
rople say. Hut The Enquirer alone
tnnot impress this important mat r
as it can ami is being impressed
ith the united practical help of oth-s
who have so earnestly and vigorisly
joined in this campaign. What
ir different leading business and oth
people are saying in their adversements.
speaks for itself; but in
tch case the importance of what they
tve to say is further emphasized by
le fact that they are willing to volntartly
pay their own good money for
le dessimination of their messages.
11 of these advertisers are doing
ivha' they arc- asking other people to
Jo. buying third Lil?erty loan l?onds.
ltd we are sure that hundreds and
hundreds of York county |#eop|e will
hee.i their most earnest appeals and
lO likewise.
Roads.
The suhje. t is very tiresome to
some people.
The roads, themselves, however, are
tiresome to everybody.
As a matter of fact the roads of
this country are a most serious reflectton
upon our people.
The desire for comfortable, handsome
and expensive homes is fairly
well develop"! hereabouts. There are
many people a ho rejoice in such
homes, and very few people who do
not desire them.
Then- are lots ot doless jwople
however, who will continue forever to
desire h.mdsome comfortable homes;
!iut who will never makf a stand toward
trying to get them.
It is a credit to tiny man to own a
line house, and the actual builder of
sii' h a homo is entitled to especial and
particular credit.
The builders of ni<-c homes are people
v.h.. i-,.-. They are the people
who contribute to the building up
of the entire country.
I tut a progressive constructive people
cannot continually remain in their
homes. They must minute with other
people, socially, commercially and industrially.
and such mingling calls for
means of intercourse.
This means roads.
The facility with which business
may he transacted depends largely on
the character, uuality and reliability
of the roads.
Indifferent roads are not conducive
to business developments, they are not
conducive to progress.
The roads of this country, are better
than they were twenty years ago: but
they are hardly more creditable to
present day conditions than were the
roads of twenty years ago to conditions
of the old days.
The country has progressed considerably
because of better roads, but
the people are not yet doing for the
roads nearly as much as the roads are
doing for the people.
We are dodging our responsibility
as to the roads, and our conduct is no
credit to us.
To be sure the man who builds for
himself a handsome home is to he
commended. It shows that he Is not
content to remain on a common level
with the more doless.
Ilut while the realized desire for a
good home speaks well for the man
who has achieved it. he must not
stop there, for it is not permitted of
men who would continue to desire
commendation in well doing to rest
on things accomplished.
The building of homes must be followed
by the building up of country,
and then is no better way of building
.... Ihun !.? ?hn htlihlinff f? f I '
iiiads.
Thi'i'i' is no better barometer to thi'
progress and advancement of any
people than the condition of their
roads, and there is no better way to
advance the progress of any people
tli.hi by means of building roads.
We have made some start in the direction
of road building?some little
start, l/'t's go down after the proposition
and build some sure enough
roa ds.
Politics vs. Statesmanship. ,
'JUflViblieiJ senators started a big
flurry Tuesday" for the removal" of'
tleorge Creel as publicity director because
he said in an address on Manila
\ :
I will be proud to my dying day
that my country was inadequately
prepared when it entered the conflict.
To have been prepared would have
given the lie to everything we our
I...II.......I In .....I .n ....... nil' ..v..I.I
the position before the world."
Some of the senators denounced
Creel its a traitor and others wanted
tci know what the mothers of the boys
who are going to the front would
think of a man who was glad their
boys had not been previously prepared.
It is it ticklish subject; but we do
not mind saying what we think of it,
and that is simply this: These iiepuhlicans
are simply indulging in
artisan politics at a time when such
polities is worse than murder. They
are liddling while Home is burning.
We would not have said what Mr.
Creel said the way he said it; but we
ilo not see anything unpatriotic in it.
and we do not think the Republican
senators who make believe they are so
shocked, see anything unpatriotic in
it either.
What Mr. Creel means to say its we
understand him, is about like this:
"(iermany. like a malevolent thug,
with murder in ids heart, practicing
daily with a pistol in order that he
might the surer kill his victim on the
first convenient opportunity, has for
half a century been prcimring herself
for the subjugation of the balance of
the world." and Mr. Creel is proud
that his own country has never been
guilty of any such practice or desire.
Mr. Creel has a right to feel proud
that his country has never occupied
such an attitude.
So far as we are concerned, we
regret that the L'nited States was so
illy prepared as she was to go into
this war, and we think it an everlasting
shame on American states
manship that such was the case. But
iu dealing with such a serious matter,
we want to be frankly honest.
If the issue of compulsory military i
service in preparation for war had i
been raised five years ago. we think (
we would have opposed the proposition
to the limit of our humble abili- 1
ly. We are speaking now as we saw
things then. We could hnve argued
that there was no danger except from
(iermany. and with four thousand
miles of sea between us and Germany
there was no need for fear, as the
whole world could not come across the
oceans and whip us on our own i
shores.
But we do not see it that way now.
With flying machines and submarines, i
the situation is different, and it is
i-ns> to see that had we not gone Into i
this war when we did, Germany, after
overpowering Russia. Krnnce and later
Kngland, could and would have very i
easily come over here and reduced us i
to subjection before we could have '
got ourselves ready to flght.
But after all. everything those Re- I
publican partisans are saying about i
['reel is little else than an arraignment
of themselves. The Republicans
had control of this government for I
sixteen years continuously preceding i
the breaking out of this war. They t
saw or ought to have seen the rapid I
and steady growth of German mili- i
tary and naval power, looking forward <
to the destruction of human liberty t
throughout the world, and they should t
have put this country in a condition '
jf defense. If these Republicans had t
t>een possessed with the courage of <
patriotism along with the vision of i
statesmanship, commensurate with i
the power that was theirs, Mr. Creel <
?ould not have made the speech he
lid make on Monday, or If he had i
made such a speech under the con- |
iitions that now exist, he would in- )
leed be guilty of treason. i
It is the Democratic party that has ]
made such preparation for war as
has been made and It is the Republl- i
an party that is responsible?not '
taving made adequate preparation ?
>efore. I
?? building them, the better it will In
'or our food supply and for the prosperity
of the county generally."
it? EXTRA PENSION PAYMENT
u_ There has been considerable confuog
sion with regard to the exact meaning
of ihe recent act of the general ason
seiablv with regard to the payment ol
pensions after the death of the pen y,
sioner. Clerk of the Court Ia>gan has
l?een making inquiry of the comp^
troller general as to the facts, and
the comptroller general advises that
the legal heirs ol a pensioner whc
LOCA^AFFAl RS
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
She rer t Quinn?Ask you to buy a bund. H?
he government and thereby help the pi
eminent to help you. They have bought.
(.lover Cotton Oil Co. Give* no .ce tb- Si
urday. April 13th. will be its last gmnii
day this teuton.
J. V\. L>ob?on Offers three up-stairs rooms
his residence, for rent. Building lots i
West Madison street for sale.
H. L. Summit;? Wants to sell his home i
has; Jefferson street. Six rooms, panti
etc. See him at once.
K. P. i'ropst. Yorkville No. 4?lias Sug
Imp eane seed for sale. Also barrel of ni
molasses.
Teachers Newport School?Invite the public
an entertainment at the Newport school tl
Friday evening at 8.3U o'clock.
Southern Manuiacturing Co., Chester?Nee
35 more girls in its sewing rooms. Nil
clean work.
Yorkville Cotton Oil Co.?Wants more cles
second-hand bags; no objection to nc
patching. Last ginning days.
M. L. lord. Clover - Sells Goodrich and U.
automobile tires. Prices right.
Carroll Bros.?Have top dresser for grain, a
suggest that you buy a mowing machine 1
fore prices advance.
McConnell Dry Goods Co. Have men's bl
serge and worsted suits at SIS. You
men's silk lined suits at 135. Double B
clothes for boys, I3.H5 to 310.50.
Star Theatre Gives its programme for I
morrow and Monday. Two new- serials
begin soon.
Carroll Supply Co. Ask you to see them
once for top #resser for grain. Supply
limited. Act at once.
Central Loan Coin, of York Co.?Urge you
huy Liberty loan bonds liberally. It la i
absolutely safe investment.
First National Bank of York?Puts the out
tion up to you. "Have you done your duty
and urges you to buy Liberty loan bonds.
I/oait and Savings Bank Points out that
ran serve you in many ways in your businc
atfaits. Have you bought Liberty bonds?
York Hardware Co. Tells you that Liber
bond* arc the foundation of victory in t
war. Buy. See page four.
F. I". Dalley Co. Points the way to neat a
clean shoes. Use "3-in-l" shoe polishi
See page four.
First National Bank of Sharon Suggests th
you feather your nest with Liberty loi
See page four.
W. E. Ferguson -Tells you that the light
liberty must be kept burning. Buy Liber
loan bonds. See page four.
Clinton Bros. Give a list of specials for Si
urday from their stock of "Good things
eat."
The crowd at Itock Hill Wcdnn
day could not have Iwen less thsi
five thousand, and It was pronnmy i
much as ten thousand.
It would hardly he fair to individi
alize among the workers who ina<
the l.iliert.v loan rally tit Itock II
hist Wednesday a great success, fi
till acquitted themselves most htint
somel.v.
There were two "I'ni'le Sam's"
the Liberty partide in Itock Hill Wei
ncsday. one imperson.ated b> W.
Cherry. Esq., and the other by Docti
Kinard of Winthrop. Moth impersot
at ions were remarkably good.
There is a very bad place in tl
Yorkville-Rock Hill road just noil
of Xewjiort. Automobiles and othi
vehicles get over it with great dirt
culty. The next worst place in I)
road, but little better than the 01
mentioned, is within the corpora
limits of Yorkvillc.
Ex-Sheriff A. B. Suttle of Clevelar
county. X. died last Saturday t
a Southern train at Creenslioro, whi
on his way to visit his daughter, Mr
Charlie Forbes at fireenville. X. i
Suttle was sheriff of Cleveland com
ly for twelve years and was one <
the best known and most highly ei
teemed men in his eounty. He wt
lit years of age.
"So far as I know." said Congresi
man Stevenson to the editor of Tl
Kmiiiirer in answer to a question i
liock Hill Wednesday. "I do not e:
pect to have nny opposition for ri
election to congress; but howev<
that may be, of course, I am going 1
grff tfrtrfrEftpte 0* Vhf Fueil tViWm
a chance to send me back or leave n
out."
WITHIN THE TOWN
? The dally voluntary prayer mee
ings being held in the Episcop
church this week are being well a
tended and during next week I hey a
to be held in the Presbyterian cliurr
? People who bought nitrate of sot
of the government to lie delivered
Yorkville, will take notice that tl
first one-third installment on their 11
?|Knne quoins is I'sinru'ii iu .mm
here today.
ABOUT PEOPLE
Miss Susie Wallace of Smyrna
visiting Mrs. C. F. Sherer in Yorkvill
Mr. anil Mrs. C. K. Sherer of Yorl
villi, spent several days last week
(JafTney.
Mrs. Lawton Ash of Orangeburg,
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I
T. Williams, in Yorkville.
Mr. H. B. James of Yorkville
spending some time in western sto<
yards.
Mr. J. Y. Lucas has returned to h
home in Yorkville after a visit to reli
tives in North Carolina.
Mrs. L). T. Woods has returned
her home in Yorkville, after a visit
relatives at Huntersvillc, X'. C.
Mrs. Alfred Brown of Huntersvlll
X. ('., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. D. '
Woods in Yorkville.
Miss Kula Oaskey of Salisbury, I
C., is the guest of Mesdames J. Y. Lt
cas and J. I'. Pugh In Yorkville.
Miss Annie Chambers who recent
underwent an operation for append
citis at the Fennell Infirmary, has r
turned to her home on Yorkville R. ]
D. Xo. 6.
POTATO HOUSES
While in liock Hill Wednesday,
representative of the Yorkville Et
iiuirer had a short talk with Mr.
W. O'Neal on the subject of potai
houses.
Mr. O'Neal is the pioneer in Yoi
county along this line. Along wit
several otner gemiemen 01 hock xiii
he set out early last summer to bull
a house to take care of such potato*
!is the farmers of the surroundir
country would raise and bring in. Tl
other gentlemen were called off i
the war, and Mr. O'Neal went on wit
the enterprise alone at an expense i
about $1,000.
It has been previously stated thi
the capacity of this potato house wi
5.000 bushels. It appears, howeve
that this is a mistake, that the capac
t.v of the house is onl> about 3,04
bushels. Also while for some reasc
or reasons, a good many potatoes wei
lost in this potato house the percen'
age of loss hns been nothing like tf
50 per cent that has been stated.
"I have learned that there is
good deal to learn about the prop*
care of potatoes," said Mr. O'N'ea
"and I know a great deal more tha
I knew last year. I am putting thi
knowledge into good use this yea
and I am still learning.
"I have no hesitation in assurir
nntnln Viaii or. la n o/w>
?UU lliai HIV (A/U4IV livuat IO U ftW
business proposition," he went on. '
am pleased with my experience so fa
and f see more in it than I have y<
been able to develop. And you ca
any that the potato house does n<
rail for an investment of $1,000 <
anything: like it. Three or four hur
3red dollars Will give you a house I
which you can store more than
thousand bushels of potatoes, and
:>ught to be a paying Investment c
any plantation, whether operated s
an individual enterprise or by the et
aperation of several farmers."
Mr. O'Neal said that he is arrang
Ing to put out at least five acres <
potatoes this year on his own accoui
ind with fairly good luck, he expect
:o have from 500 to 1,000 bushels <
potatoes of his own raising.
"There Is plenty of room for pota
to houses." declared Mr. O'Nea
There ought to be one or more |
very community, and the sooner ou
>eople can be Induced to take hold t
died .liter wmnutr 01, i?g, uie ?rn^
titled to collect the (tension payment
' or 191 y. Comptroller Hernial Saw 101
%er's letter to Clerk Logan is as fob
*l lows:
s- "Heplying to yours of the 6th instant.
with reference to the recent aei
nd (>Jt8s?d Ity the general assembly, 1 beg
to say that this act was signed by tht
ue governor on March 9. 1919. I have
BK referred the matter to the attorney
ilt general's office lor an opinion, anil
under the ruling, all pensioners dying
to- previous to December 31, 1917. should
to have their money refunded to this office
by the clerk of court. It seems
that the act is not retroactive: but
unless the act is changed at the sesw
sion of the general assembly in 1919,
?n u pensioner's estate will be allowed tc
draw another pension in 1919. provided
the pensioner died between thi
" date of January 1st, 191 s. anil DecernIter
31st. 191S."
n? Here is the act (tasscil at the re
...?Inn nf the irenei-al niiuemlilc
he "Section 1.112. After the death ol
any pensioner. whether such pensionnd
<! tie a soldier, or soldier's widow,
e*. the widow's child, children, or party
with whom soeh deceased |>ensionet
at last resided, shall collect the (s-nsion
*" to whictP such pensioner would have
ot tieen entitled for the year of the death
ty of said deceased pensioner, and shall
apply such sum so collected to the
it- last illness and funeral expenses ol
to such deceased pensioner: Provided,
that if there he a legally appointed
executor or administrator, the pen*
s. sion shall he paid to such executor 01
administrator for the purpose aforesaid.
provided that the said pensioner
die after the payment of that year,
the representatives or legally appointed
executor or administrator of said
deceased shall he entitled to collect a
le pension for the following year for tht
ill purpose herein mentioned."
or
' HERE AND THERE.
Mr. John Knox of Clover, told Hen
in and There. Tuesday, that he had rel_
eently visited the artillery range neai
. CJastonia. "I Just wanted to see whal
' " the hoys were doing. They have fine
["' guns and equipment," said Mr. Knox
>- "and they know how to shoot. I told
some of the hoys that there was only
one thing needed to make the work
le they were doing look like the real
ill thing, and that was a few guns over al
(>|. the targets returning the fire of the
gunners who were practicing; hut they
'* didn't seem to cure for anything like
ie that just now." concluded Mr. Knox
ie Mr. Thus. F. Jackson, the Clovei
p. dairyman, has two or three ueres ol
wheat just north of his home on the
Yorkville-Clover road that attracU
id the attention of the passerby. The
wheat is about knee high and as rank
. , green in color us wheat ever gets. "]
tell people that I am not needing nl*
trate of soda for my wheat," said Mr,
I'. Jackson to Here and There. 'There
hasn't been anything put under thai
f wheat except stable manure, and il
shows what stable manure will do foi
a grain crop." Mr. Jackson's dairy
is now includes only thoroughbred Jersey
cows.
%*? I A Wil1itY???it avni'figupil thr
opinion to Hero and There a day or
H' two ago that the pig situation ha.*
iii-en very much improved in the Mt
Holly section of Catawba township
3* and he believes it is getting better
throughout that whole section. He
*\c had been selling most of hie
exc^lfif"Sucfl as'^ouiiJ' he ntecgtl1(1
sary for his own use, and he has nol
been demanding the. prices that could
have been obtained because he fell
they were loo high. He has sold pig.at
$5 each, for which he could have
t- easily got six or seven dollars or ever
a| more, and he is of the opinion that th(
. problem of the pig market is now
swinging the other way: that whereat
ff there was a great scarcity of pigs a
h. few months ago. there now promise.*
to be a surplus, and that prices will
,a soon decline very materially,
in < private Pearson took the eye of th<
in- Winthrop girls along with everybodj
else, at Rock Hill Wednesday. He was
t, undoubtedly the lion of the hour. One
' sweet and pretty young lady, to whom
he had been Introduced, asked, "Mr
Pearson, what about the aviation service?"
"You mean the liyers?" "Yes,'
the young lady replied, in a tone thai
i indicated an interest beyond mere cu
riosity, which, however, Mr. Peareor
k- did not seem to notice. "Oh, they art
in Hying over the lines all the time.'
"Well, are they in much danger?'
is "You mean from the standpoint ol
a. comparative mortality?" inquired th?
soldier. "Yes, that is exactly what ]
k mean," said the young lady, with increasing
seriousness. "Oh. yes, thej
are killed every once in u while; bul
they do not fare as badly as the Infanis
try. The brunt of the lighting runs
about liko this In the order named:
Infantry, heaviest artillery, and avlato
tion. The infantry has to do much
to of ihe work, though outside of thess
three, the other services do nol
e, amount to much from the casualt)
T. standjioint. comparatively speaking."
S\ FIFTH DISTRICT BANKERS
' ,\ meeting of the Bankers of the
j . Fifth Congressional District wsis one
l_ of the features of the I.iberty Voar
e- rnllv in Rock Hill last Wednesday.
F- The attendance was very good, especially
among the bankers of York
ami Chester counties. There were
representatives from other parts ol
a the district.
The meeting was held in the MasonJ*
ic hall on the third floor of the Nato
.. ...t Unnl, n> than
UUI1U1 C-IUVMl uann uuiiuuip, U<p? ?MV*?
were talks by Mr. W. J. Roddey, Hon
k W. F. Stevenson, Hon. A. L Gaston, ol
^ Chester, and Mayor R. S. Stewart ol
Lancaster.
,(^ Mr. Stevenson addressed himsell
?s more especially to explanations ol
g amendments to the banking laws passlc
e<l and pending, dwelling at some
t0 length on an effort that had beer
made to exempt from taxation such
portion of the stock of a bank as may
of be invested in Liberty Loan bonds. He
said that a serious effort had beer
lt made to provide for such exemption
in the case of banks that were mem18
bers of the Regional Reserve system,
7' which the authors of the system were
{- inclined to leave state banks out ir
the cold. The proposition, however,
m had been defeated as it should have
r(" been, and he was satisfied also that
Liberty bonds would not be exempted
,p In a way that would enable banks to
escape taxation on their capital stock.
J' He did not think this would be right.
Banks do not get their Income so
' much from their capital stock as from
1that franchise privilege that enables
them to concentrate and utilize the
savings of the public, and under that
view of the case it would not be right
.5 to exempt the banks from taxation on
i.t bonds except to the extent that the
_ earning capacity of the amount invest?t'
ed In bojids bears to the earning capacity
of the remaining resources ol
the banks. State banks he said have
)r invested as loyally in Liberty bonds as
i. have national banks and should be
n accorded the same treatment. It is
a true that state banks have the priviit
lege ot getting into the reserve sysm
teni; but they must have time in
lb which to make the change and it
?. would be inexpedient and wrong to
try to force them all in at once.
Mr. Gaston urged the importance of
>f investments in Liberty bonds, and his
it address was impressive and instructs
Ave.
>f The most forceful and eloquent
speaker before the association was
- Mayor Stewart of Lancaster. His subL
ject was the work of the state council
rt of defense. He pointed out the serir
lous situation on the Western front,
n expressed the fear that Italy would
i
' soon lie down as Russia has done, and
intimated the possibility of England
and France having to give up and
leave the entire burden upon tht
L'nlted States, In which event the wai
will go on for years. He warned the
bankers that there was much disloyalty
and indifference in the country, and
urged them to give the matter their
, attention, to the extent of teaching
and preaching the duty that rests
upon every good citizen, and to watch
i forsigns of disloyalty, which should
bs^promptly reported to the department
of justice.
1 Afrer the meeting, upon invitation
of the local committee the bankers rei
paired with visiting friends to tht
quarters of the Elk's club over Reid &
'o.'s store where a delightful luncheon
was served by organized ladies of tht
city.
LIBERTY LOAN RALLY
There was a tremendous gathering
, of York county people in Hock Hill
. last Wednesday on account of tht
' Liberty loan rally. It was the bigI
Rest crowd the city has ever seen, si
. say many of the oldest residents, and
I the occasion was a complete success
f rnm nfiirf attinihioint
' The programme consisted of a great
patriotic procession. considerably
, more than a mile in length, patriotic
' speeches, earnestly and vividly im,
pressing the danger, the duty and th*
responsibility of the hour, and an exhibition
drill by the old Catawba
ititles, now Company H. 118th regiment
at Camp Sevier.
There were some disappointment!!
to the committee, especially in that
the- battery of Held artillery that had
been promised from Charlotte, was
i unable to get there because of othei
| more serious duties, and because alsc
I Captain Leslie Vickers of the British
army could not be present: but these
disappointments to the committee
j were not notices! by the- groat crowd
of visitors because of other interest
ing features that seemed to leave nc
suggestion that anything could bt
lacking.
The street parade, which begar
moving at 2 o'clock in the afternoor
passed down Main street by the reviewing
stand against iVXeal's oltic?
' across from the National Cnion bank
along Itailroad avenue, out to Oakland.
and on to the college. Thousand!
ol people packed the sidewalks or
either side, as far as the eye could
. lake in each way, and the processior
. as timed from the reviewing stand
. was a full half hour in passing a
[ given point.
On the reviewing stand were Dr. D
B. Johnson, president of Winlhrot
j college, Hon. L. S. Howe, assistant
. secretary ot the tu usury. in churgt
. ol customs. Hon. W. H. Stevenson
I rcpicsentative of the Fifth congresi
sional district in congress, lleorge K
I'earson, a survivor of the world fam,
ed "i'rincess I'at" regiment of Cana,
dians, that was almost annihilated al
Vines in 191C. .Miss Katherine Synon
' of the National Women's Liberty lour
J committee, Hon. A. I>. Gaston, of tht
the Fifth district campaign, Mrs
' Alexander Long, of the service com'
inittee, Mrs. W. ti. Henderson, of tht
t ited Floss, Ira H. Dunlup, count>
- .'iutiri.ian of the council of defense, C
t L. Cobb, general chairman of local
' committees, and a number of othei
ladies and gentlemen.
> l)r. W. (1, Stevens was chief mar1
shal of the parade and had for hit
1 assistants J. M. Youngblood, S. J
' Kimball, E. E. l'oag, W. W. Fennell
' Alexander Martin, It. Z. Thomas, J. Ft
Tucker, H. M. Dunlap, D. C. Johnson
C. W. Kutterree, Hall Spencer. A. C
. Fennell. Alex Willlford.
T'ne formation was as follows:
t Standard bearers, preceded bj
binders; Catawba Hifles, Thirtieth
| infantry band, Wlnthrop Scout girls
Confederate veterans, U. D. C.'s
Children of the Confederacy, D. A
i lt.'s, King's Daughters, Carhartt and
Tbwmh \\r~ r'lo PoH Prnoo
r IToait tAliJUD, IkCU <IV>l?ewll
t Liberty Loan committee, Women'i
I Science league, War Garden. Boy's
t Achievement cluli, Canners and Foul\
try clubs. Food administration, visit.
ing bankers, merchant's bureau ant
! sales people, secret orders, Winthro;
> 1'raining school, city schools, rura
r schools, U. S. postotflce, cotton mills
i representative negroes.
i Each and every division of the pai
rnde was most creditable; but amont
I the most striking features were several
allegorical representations. Lead,
ing the Ited Cross division was Joar
'f of Arc on horseback, followed bj
twelve ladles also riding horses and
, carrying banners. "Liberty driving
' Hindenburg," with two soldiers keeping
the German general in leash witl
' their bayonets made a serio comit
hit: but the most tragic conception ol
, the whole pageant probably was ti
large float on which France. Belgiutr
and other natives of civilized Europt
| were bowing in humble supplicatior
; to Liberty. Each division carried ar
, appropriate banner, and there wert
many individual legends like; "Wc
r offer our lives, will you lend your dol
lars?" "Bonds or trondage, which?'
' "United we stand:" "Food for th<
' fighters!" "Buy a Liberty bond and
' save a soldier."
' The passing of the procession pro'
vokeu constant cheering and applause
1 from the throngs along the sidewalk
: and from the people on the reviewing
stand.
1 At the college was another beauti!
ful, novel and impressive sight. Tht
t students were lined up the full lengtl
f I L. oiiiM-lnir itfalt/U'OVtt fmm
ui mr iuiis VU.....P, .........
the main entrance of the executive
building to the froqt gates of the
campus, facing inward, and on the
steps of the main entrance, was a
! great animated flag of girls in red
i white and blue. The speakers and esi
pccially invited guests reviewed these
sights and the disbanding pageant;
from n reviewing stand that had beer
erected here for their convenience, and
; after this review the exercises were
L transferred to the college auditorium
p for such of the grown folks as could
' be accommodated, and across the
street in front of the college for the
. more than a thousand children and
others who could not get In range o!
the speakers elsewhere.
' The college auditorium comfortablj
. seats 1,500 people. It was more thai
; half filled with Wlnthrop students
i These, however, gave way to visitors
' all but the seniors and juniors, wh(
were to render America and the Stai
f Spangled Banner, and after these twe
> patriotic hymns had been rendered
| the juniors gave way and left the
j ushers to fill their places with more
[ visitors until the hall was crowded
with full seventeen hundred people
, with other thousands still outside.
I)r. Johnson introduced the speakers.
They were Hon. L. S. Rowe. Mis;
Synon, and Private Pearson. Mr
Rowe had some very pleasant thing;
to say of Rock Hill, of Dr. Johnsor
' and Winthrop, of Hon. W. F. Stevenson,
and made some references to the
' duty of the Individual as to the Lib'
erty loan, and Miss Synon, quite a
' pretty and remarkably bright and
: earnest young lady, by the way, made
' a stirring address on the responsibili'
ty of the women of the country with
regard to the loan, and the war generally.
She told how there was
' mourning in every home In France,
1 how the women were plowing in the
1 fields and how they had given up their
' rpen. and everything they have, and
how they still stand as firm as a rock
for the principles of liberty and jus1
tlce upon which the fate of humanity
1 is hanging. She urged upon all to
think war, act war, and work war. and
p to continue steadfast until victory is
won.
But the speech of the occasion was
1 that of Private Pearson of the "Prin!
cess Pat." Private Pearson is a hand1
some, stalwart man, who. after passing
through two years of the most
terrible possible stage or tne war?
most terrible because then the Brit>
ish troops had but the illest of equipment,
and had to stand against German
butchers almost without arms
and ammunition?was incapacitated
from further sen-Ice by reason of an
attack of spinal meningitia He is a
man of about thirty or thirty-five, of
fine education, and before the war
was engaged In literary work. He is
a good speaker, possessed of an exquisite
sense of humor, drilled In
rhetoric, and knows exactly how to
achieve almost any "desired dramatic
effect. He told how his splendidly
I trained but poorly equipped i
iuent presented a living wall of
I and blood to German steel, and
> they were cut down at the rate
from 5 to 50 a day. and how on
i day, the regiment, with an ori|
. strength ot only one thousand.
I two hundred men. He told in a
that made his audience absolute!)
r lieve that the soldiers didn't i
i dying?that they gave up their
t willingly, and gladly, only that
I want to make the enemy pay
highest possible price before the)
In one o: his personal reminisce
i of the early days before Ypres. he
. how the Germans, in force of tlv
( six to one. lay behind sandbags
forty yards away. While he wa;
i sentry duly one morning ubout d
> he saw the shadowy torni of a
man stealing out ot "No Man's L
through a gap in the German lir
sandbags. He knew that fellow
been scouting and that he had n
. inalion about the Canadian stre
| that would prove disastrous. Bee
1 Of the poor light and the poor 11
he was ufraid to risk a shot;
, within a few moments he ohsi
t the fellow juking along the treiv
going from man to man. Only
1 flat cap would from time to time
i up to a level of the sandbags a
moved along. K\ ideiitly the Oct
was telling what he had <lisco\
preparatory to a raid. Then the
' man having passed down one
from the gap, started back to it
to th? m.n oil tl.e othei side, ibid
|>ass by that gap again, at. I
' attempting the iNtssage. he fmio
duck low enough. "Souk thing hap
i eu from our hues and th re was an
er German in hell!" Here IVI
l'earson digressed enough to e.\|
that he did not feel called upo
i apologize for the assertion he
made, for the ivasoiy that "if l.c
' not for these monsters, 1 am utuib
1 imagine why it should have ever
> instituted." Hut the most impm
part of .Mr. Pearson's address
when he described the detenu
condition of the soldiers for Ine
1 artillery, for luck of ammunition
lack of entrenching tools, lb
, how he had been compelled to ill
under lire with u pick with one t
?"with one toothpick." Itch i
back to the time he marched on!
i Montreal to the plaudits of the p
, lace, he emphasized the mocker
such demonstration when he i
himself opposed to a well armed
{ well equipped enemy while he
his comrades had little else to
[ with than tlielr bare hands. Itei.-i
to the story of soldiers seeing ;> I
' on the battlefield, he said yes. soli
, sometimes saw them but they
| not the Kind that visionary sent in
| UllSIS IlilU III lllllu lln i .....
t in the shape of a squad of sol
I with machine guns. or butteries o
: tille.-y pouring "5's at the rate i
a minute. The greatest comfort
can come to a soldier lying ii
J trench so nurrow that he hardly
turn over on his side without lltv
J a bullet is to heat big shells fron
own batteries behind zixzing t
| head at the enemy. Some of t
shells cpst $2,000 cash: but -the
' dlers do not count that cost?it
makes them feel that the shells
that much better. "They tell me
j the -e bonds that are being ofTerei
. good, that they are worth 100 ?
, on the dollar. 1 never had any m
and i do not know anything about
| do not know whether the bonds
\ good or not. and about that 1 am
. concerned; but even If a stack of I
that high are not worth the |>owd
i would take to blow them up. I tell
I" >.? ' thorn 111 i v nil villi nun
consider them cheap ut the pric
you will do your full duty hack
\ the man will do their full duty
yonder, loyally and cheerfully,
to laying down his life without c
' plaint; but If you don't do your
here you need not expect much
' him over there. In this war i
man, woman and child is a sol
evet the man up to eighty yeai
, age and every one is either i<i
, against us. If he is helping al
can. by every means in his powe
' is on our side, and if he is not I
' ing, he is on the side of the enem
j Private Pearson was frequentlj
, terrupted with laughter and hand(
j ping, and at times his*audience
j almost In tears?part of it really
in tears. After he sat down the
dience continued to applaud unt
j had made repeated acknowledgr
, After the speaking in the audi
I um, the Catawba Itifles gave a
interesting exhibition in thrust
parry at the bayonet drill.
LOCAL LACONICS
Our April Quota.
i South Carolina's April quota
' selectmen for service is 1,973, of w
I 458 ure to be whites and 1,11{
' groes. York county is to sen
whites anil 43 negroes. Six w
and 21 negroes are to go from Dii
' No. 1, and seven whites and 22
r groes from District N'o. 2.
i Liberty Loan in Fort Mill.
; The people of Fort Mill, town
i township, are very much Interest!
i the third liberty loan und the
scriptions for the bonds has been
general and liberal. Dr. J. Lee Si
chairman of the Fort Mill loan i
' mittee takes this as an indication
! the Fort Mill folks are more ali\
I the war situation. The farmers o
township are showing decided ii
est in the third loan, whereas Ir
! two previous loans they appt
! more or less indifferent. The first
> of the loan was ushered in with
siderable enthusiasm, bells being
and whistles blown. Practically
' of the Fort Mill allotment was t
? up the first day. Committees fron
1 ladles' organizations, led by Mrs
' B. Ardrey. Mrs. J. T. Young, M
' Susie White and Minnie Garrison
' been making a house to house car
1 in the town, and other committee
to canvass the township outside
' town.
i Big Find of Stolen Goods.
Magistrate R. L. A. Smith of P
I River township, went out to the 1
of Charlie Hawkins near Hie
i Grove. Wednesday, to search
I stolen goods. Charlie Hawkins
' his two sons were committed to
' last week, charged with having I
I en into the W. M. Whltesldes
f Magistrate Smith and party f
Ifircm nnnntltioq nf atnlon enod?.
f eluding clothing, hardware and
i cellaneou.s merchandise. Some ol
. stuff was hidden in the home, i
. in outhouses and some under
> ground. Some of it was identlfle
" the property of S. B. 1'ratt of Sh<
> some as the property of Shannc
. I'laxico, also of that place, and i
' as the property of various other
' chants, From circumstances in
I nection with the stolen goods
. from other Information, it api
that the stealing has heen goini
for years. Whoever accumulated
i stuff, presumably, of course, the
cupants of the premises, had
i stealing from whomsoever they <
i whenever opportunity invited.
? In a speech to the British h
i of commons last Tuesday, Hon. I
1 George announced the raising of
' age of conscription in the British t
and proposed home rule for Irel
1 He gave as a reason for both pro|
tlons conditions on the western f
1 the demands of the greatest batt
the history of the world now in
' gress, which battle, he said, might
' for months. He described the wI
as much for the benefit of Irelan
for anybody else,* and said Ire
must do her part. America, by pui
her troops at the disposition of
' Allies, had saved the day, and An
ca's help was to decide the war it
1 vor of the Allies. John Redmond
other Irish Nationalists, raised vi<
1 protest at the premier's propositic
conscription for Ireland, and said
conscription could never come,
premier, however, went on with
speech, as though everything had
settled, notwithstanding the clairr
the Irishmen that the carrying ot
conscription would mean war agi
Ireland.
? A dispatch from Columbia qi
Hon. John L. McLaurin as saying
there Is no truth In a story tha
has burled the hatchet with Hon.
L. Blease, and that he will let I
known within a few days as to wh
er he will be a candidate for
United States senate. The auth<
upon which the dispatch was sent
does not appear to be exactly clei
regi- FIGHTING IN PICARDY
flesh _____
Terrible Battle Continue# Without
otu> Much Interruption.
iinaJ The assaults of the ticrtunns against
los' the British and French lines in north way
. j,e_ ern France continue with undtminishnind
ed determination, and although the
lives cables are not surticientlj clear to
*the **'Ve lo,nl'rehensive Idea of the exr
go. sul ,fle situation, there is no
noes rva8on to doubt the extremelj gm\c
, l(,lj nature ot it all.
Aineriean troops an- now rcinforo
onTC I "1=? Mritish Hue in France along
s on|t,u' greater i>ortion ot which tlltf tier*
J|Wn mans are keeping up their strong uttler
tucks hordes oi men and great
ami" concentration artillery in assaults
ie of fhat now uppurentjy haxe their oh.
had Jcctive u; Northern France and Hellfor
B'"111- " w:,s a happy lot ot men that
ngth *XVUI>K into the sector chosen tor
a use them.
lark From the soutli ot Ypres in liclgi*
l>ut' urn the region ot l*a Masse. in France
rved "1'' ncw ofensne ot the tierinans is
irhes "*'ing carried out with great d? sp< ration.
with thousand* ot men under
hob cover of unprecedented bombardments
s j,t. of the allied rear lines, endeavoring to
man I'lerce the bravely defended fronts
cred Mritish and l*ortiigncs??
and now also at some unnamed |N?int
" by the Americans.
II it t>n several sectors of th< new :'0
had ,nl'c "attic "n'' a ' 'w deep salients
I "jn have been driven l?> tin- enemy, but
tl to in the process the Germans nowhere
p,,n. have been able to break through, the
tin* merely bending back tindei the
Ivate Brent pressure, I'articularly deep are
plain w,'dgea northwest ot Armentieres and
n to northwest of l?i Fasse?salients wind
had seem to make certain the evacuution
11 is t"c Mritish of Armentieres.
Ie to Mritish |M)sitiotis southwest of Arbeen
nt?*ntieres. lying between the river
ssive '*>s i,n,l Foi'be, north of Armentieres
was along the live tulle front l>etwccii the
ele'ss I'loegsteert wood and the Wytschaetcj.
Messines ridge have been pressed
for back by the Germans. Fast of La
told ** ** F'iccnehy hill, the key to
ju Hethune, has been tenaciously held by
ooth *> ? Mrlttsli and the town of tiivenchy
rring retaken. while to the north in the
[ tl, region of Ypres the enemy's attacks
opu- ',avc "cell decisively repulsed. The
.. Mritish in recapturing tiivenchy made
ound n,'arly a thousand German prisoners,
and 1''"' 'atcst German ottlcial statement
pnd asserts that between Armentieres and
tight res the Germans have crossed
rring ",0 IAs river and that north of Ar,?"i?
mentlores the lirittsh lines on both
'Y sides of \\ aastcn-\\ :it lieton have been
w > l*'n?'t rated. ^'x thousand prisoners
and loo guns aiv claimed to have
more token by the Germans in the
, ' lighting hetween A fluent ieres ami l-i
. 1 Basse canal.
f 3o *1'H?- famous Vitn> ridge, won a year
thai :,RO ,'u> Ganadlnns. is receiving a
prodigious visitation of shells from
German batteries,
itinir While the lillttle in the north has
. been in progress the lighting south of
1 . the Sotnmc. where the liritish are
\ ' * aliened against the Germans. has
. been rather subdued. Not so. howevnlv
on ' sectors where the French
ire alu' 'lernians are disputing the oceui1,
iianey of the terrain. Furious assaults
. and counter assaults have been going
, on around by the board sets forth,
etits tj?. |)(tnri| Hanpranl-Kn-Sante?it
I "u* V'"!,K'' changing hands inati>
' times." At last accounts the French
1 ar? not alone held the village but also the
'.n nearbv cemetery.
:hem
er it 1 1
x'"! MERE-MENTION
and
e. If The DuPont Powder Company of
here Wilmington. Del., subscribed for $ ?.over
aua.uau of Liberty loan bonds, to be
even placed outside of Delaware, and
. out- agreed to duplicate the total subduty
seriptions of Delaware up <o an adof
ditional JlT.OUO.OtiO, which is Delavery
ware's allotment of the third loan
Idler. Surgeon General Gorgua hus begun a
s of weeding out of all reserve army medir
or cal corps officers who are not lit for
I he active service. It is estimated tliut
r. he about 1,500 commissions will be rci?'lp
yoked Tho American ship Lucia.
>>' " the vessel that was pronounced "un'n
sinkuble," and which left an Ameri
"n" ,hr w"fkif r? h* ij^ai
was arrived at a European port. Ttie iaiwas
cja jpj not. encounter a submarine on
1 au* her trip over Because of short"
age of labor in a local plant, ten
nent. prisoners were released from the Jail
l,or'* at Reading, Pa., this week on their
most promise to go to work Rev. Vinand
r,.,it Hell of Syracuse. N. Y., lias been
excommunicated from the Presbyterian
church by the Syracuse Presbytery.
He was charged with selling
fraudulent diplomas to persons which
would enable them to enter Auburn
of theological seminary French uviurhlch
tors have discovered the location of
i ne- the Gorman gun that has been bomd
13 hording Paris, and bombing by the
hites French airmen has made the continuitrict
ed tiring of the big gun rather unsatlsne
factory A Paris paper says that
Kola Pasha, who is under death sentence
for treason, has made some Important
admissions and that further
an<l important revelations regarding Ger5d
in man propaganda, may grow out of the
sub- confession A patrol of American
both soldiers was tired on by Mexicans
iratt, across the ltio Grande, east of Fort
com- Hancock, Texas. Tuesday afternoon,
that Several of the Americans were hit
e to uy a collision of airplunes at Kelly
f the Field. San Antonio, Tex., Tuesday afnter
ternoon, one cadet "was killed anil
i the another seriously injured. The collared
Union occurred at n height of 350
- day feet. Snow fell throughout N'ew
con- Kngiand, Middle Atlantic and Central
rung states Tuesday night and Wednesday.
half m
aken
t the The Church and Bond#.-?The Asi.
W. sociate Reformed church of Yorkville,
lsses s. C? Is very anxious to impress upon
have the general public of Yorkville and
lvass vicinity the importance of buying
8 are Liberty bonds, und has fallen u|m>ii
the newspaper advertising as the most effective
means of reaching the public.
Accordingly we find in the current issue
of the Yorkville Enquirer the folIroail
lowing striking advertisement, which
iomc ix signed by various officials of this
kory church:
for "Whereas, our country, the United
and states of America, is engaged in the
jail world war in defense of liberty, huirok
manity. justice, truth and right, the
mill, principles upon which the Son of God
ounil has established Christian civilization,
in- m support 01 wnicn principles we
mis- stand pledged with ull that wo have.
' tho "Thoroforo, be it resolved,
some "i. That earnest, faithful service of
the country in this most righteous underd
as taking, is service of God.
iron, "2. That with our young men offerin
& ing their all, including their lives, it
some is our sacred duty to give them all
tner- the sup|?ort in our power,
con- "3. That we pledge ourselves to buy
and Liberty loan bonds and war savings
tears certificates to the limit of our ability,
g on and that we call upon all our fellow
the citizens to do likewise."
oc- And why Hhouldn't the church take
been a leading part in financing a war
ould which is lining waged for Christian
freedom and liberty the world over?
Ministers of all c.hurches offer public
prayers for the success of the Amerliouse
can arms. To get right out In the
Joyd field and boost bonds as the Yorkvllle
! the brethren are doing seems merely
irmy another way of practicing one's
land, preachments.
posi- In the Civil war the mothers of the
ront, south labored by day making garle
in ments for their soldiers and by r.ight
pro- their voices were lifted up In fervent
last prayer,
ir as Very soon every person In America
d as will feel keenly the nearness of the
land present conflict, and when this Is
ttlng true, it will not be necessary to &d'
the vertlse bond sales. Every loyal
fieri- patriot will seek out the banks handli
fa- ing them and do his bit to the exand
treme limit.?Charlotte Observer,
ilent ? ?
n of ? At the annual session of the Great
that Council of South Carolina Red Men.
The held in Columbia last Tuesday, officers
i his for the ensuing year were elected as
been follows: Great prophet?Cannon G.
i? of Blease, Newberry; great sachem?D.
it of w. Smoak, Greenville; great senior
ilnst sagamore?R. N. Leonard, Union;
great junior sagamore?H. C. Summers.
Jr., Anderson; great chief of
lotes records?R. L. Cromer, Union; great
that keeper of wampum?W. M. Allen,
t he Greenville. Retiring Great Sachem
Cole Cannon G. Blease was elected one of
t be the representatives to the Great Couneth
cil of the United States. Mr. O. 8. Gothe
ree of Newberry, was chosen to All the
jrlty vacancy on the board of trustees. Unout
ion was chosen as the place of next
ir. meeting.