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% V ft WoLCME LID, \CSBEB 25. NEWBEEBT, 8. 0, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1915. TWICE A WEEK, $1-50 A TEAR. THREE BIG BATTLES BROUGHT BY SPRING; ? VT I SUPREME EFFORT OF. ALLIED FORCES STILL TO COME. German Attack Around Ypres De-1 scribed as One of the Fiercest of tiie War. ; { Although spring has faiied to bring the long expected "big effort" of the I allies against tre German lines in f France and Belgium, it !has furnished three of the most desperate engage- 1 } ments of the war. Tha first was at Nueve Chapelle, where, in three days fighting combined losses numbered 30 000 or more, with victory resting on the Britis*h arms. The second was southeast of Ypres, when tbe British captured hill Xo. 60. | This involved the most furious kind ' of fighting and after the hill was taken - i hv thp Germans for a UUlilUdii um^uw v; v ? several days. Then, bringing up heavy reinforcements, the Germans began an attack around Ypres, wt':ich is described as one of the fiercest of the war. Tbis ?'"'amanf wac nartlv in the nature of iiHJ 3 i-mi-u 1. ^ a surprise and the allied lines were pushed, back for a considerable distance. Some of this ground has been regained, and according to Paris, the Germans not only have been checked, T7,-ronr*h tut the Belgians, jBnusu by determined counterattacks, continue to force their adversaries back. The Germans are reported still to be employing bombs containing gas forming chemicals, and their use is admit* ted and justified by the Berlin press, one Berlin newspaper asserting that bombs of a similar nature have been employed by the French ana unusn. i The^ full force of ti':e German attack is being directed .against the British front from several directions l and ijere the Canadian troops, who alre^Sy ?ad distinguished themselves by brilliant counter attacks when the Ger mans swept the Frencn line back, are V bearing fbe brunt of the battle. With 750,000 men on the continent, K announced recently by the British Br chancellor of the exchequer, reinforceK ments doubtless have been hurried forward to fill t'~e gaps in the British lines. In one of the its infrequent bulletins, P the Belgian legation at London an' nounces that the town of Tiberns, west of the Ypres canal, which was captared by the Germans Friday night, has been retaken by the French and Belgian troops and tt~at the Belgian artillery has been engaged in a duel norm an batteries the whole v? nu I.UC vivo?? length of the Belgian front. The Carpathian situation remains with no notable change. German newspapers insist that the German fleet has been cruising in the North Sea. According to these published reports, the German fleet has been "vainly seeking the British fleet.'" Tf:e position of Italy witn respect to the war remains as it has from the beginning?one of "armed and watchful neutrality." NEW SENTIMENT THROrGHOFT S. C. The Record, 25t"n. .Tas. A. Hovt, president of the PeopVs National bank and speaker of the house of representatives of South Carolina, has been one of the closest students of conditions affecting the people of the State and from t)ve conditions illustrated by the depositors of his bank as well as by information from the State at large, he feels that there is a new sentiment throughout the State and that tf~e people are feeling more ready to attack the prablems tTio future ATr "Hnvt feels that the era of depression is over and that prosperity is ahead for those who will take hold of the situation and go to work as if there had been nothing to disturb tibe normal. iCard of Thanks. We take this method of returning sincere thanks to the many friends and neighbors who showed ft':eir sympathy and kindness during the last illness and at the death of our mother. Mrs. Nancy Taylor, and assure them we appreciate it all more than words can express. Her Children. y?* THE SEWS OF PROSPERITY. j Rev. i\ H. Sabers Resigns a? Pastor of A. R. P. Church?The Literary Sorosis?.Personal. Special to The Herald and News. Prosperity, April 26.?Misses Martha Creighton, Isoline Wyche and Willie Mae Wise spent Saturday in Newberry. Miss Gladys Miller, of Little Mountain, spent Saturday and Sundav with i Miss Clara Brown. Dr. J. S. Wheeler was taken Saturday night to the Columbia hospital l'or treatment. i.Misses Aline Griffin and Aubrey Oxner have returned from a short visit to Whitmire. Miss Viola Adams and Mr. John Adams, of Pomaria, spent Monday with Mrs. J. H. Crosson. Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Blaekman. of Lancaster, have been visiting Rev. an,! Mrs. Z. W. Bedenbaugh. Dr. .E. X. Kibler and Dr. G. W. Harmon will attend the Dentral association, which meets in Columbia Tuesday. Mesdames Elizabeth DeWalt, G. Y. Hunter and Corrie McrtVaters are spending the week in Atlanta. I Mrs. J. B. Bedenbaugh, of Pomarla, sjient the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. iM. Werts. Miss Annie Lee Langford, of Winthrop college, is home for a few days' stay. ! Rev. C. H. Xabers has resigned as ! pastor of the A. R. P. church, his resignation to take effect May 2nd. j The Literary Sorosis meets Friday j afternoon at 4 o'clock with Mrs. A. G. | Wise. Messrs. >A. B., W. J. and G. S. Wise j and Mrs. J. F. Browne spent Sunday | in Columbia, the guests of Mrs. A. H. i^Kohn. j Dr. Y. M. Brown, of Newberry# spent I ouncray ai uomc. Supt. G. D. Brown goes to Chattanooga this week to attend the Southern | Teachers' conference. SPECIAL PULLMAN FOR CHATTANOOGA South Carolina Party Will Leave Columbia on Carolina Special V JL 3C.\l iaunuaj. Among those who have made reser* vetions of space in a special Pullman car, to leave Columbia on tue Carolina Special of the Southern railway next Mondav for Chattanooga, to attend the j Southern Conference for Education ! and Indusry, are the fllowing: J. E. j Swearengen, State superintendent of J education, Columbia; .'William Spenser j Currell, president of the University of 1 South Caroline, Columbia; the Rev. j J. H. Harms, D. D., president of Newi berry College, Newberry; J. P. Kinard, j Ph. D., president of Anderson college, Anderson; H. N. Snyder, Ph. D., president of Wofford college, Spartanburg; W. M. Riggs, president of Clemson college, Clemson; J. H. Brannon. county superintendent of education. Spar | tanburg; ?\3iss Lois Erwin, Miss Helen I Prince, Miss Catherine Mulligan, Spar! tanburg; Miss Wil Lou Gray, Laurens; ' Miss Sadie Goggans, Newberry; Miss I Kate Simpson, Camden; Miss Mary } Eva Hite, president of the South Car.. ! olina School Improvement association, I Columbia; J. B. Felton. county super intendent of education, Anderson: George D. Brown, county superintendent of education, Newberry; Lueco Gunter. State supervisor of elementary rural schools, Columbia; Miss Leila A. Russell, Winthrop college. Rock Hill. 1 "v jivic juiuiai wi??uvu Two school districts that have recently h'eld elections on the voting of a special tax were Wheeland and Kinards. In Wheeland fc'-e vote was on the question of an additional tax of two mills, making a total of four mills. ! Tho orMiHrmal fwn mills was voted and this school will another year be a rural prided school with two teachers, an.i will receive $200 from the State. At the election at Kinards the vote was unanimous in favor of a four mills tax, making tT:is scholl also a rural graded school, with two teachers and $200 State aid. This is a line school and it is expected that a portion of Laurens will join in the four mills tax, and in t-^is war the district will probably be aple to employ three teachers and receive $300 State aid. i NEGRO INVADES GREENVILLE HOME SHERIFF AM) POSSE SEARCHING FOR FI GITIVE. Officer Will Take His Prisoner to Columbia if Capture Is Made. The State. Greenville, April 25.?Sheriff Hendrix Rector and a posse are scouring ! the upper end of this county and also ' Pickens in search of a ne^ro who1 Saturday nigot at 8:30 o'clock en-1 t' ered the home of a white woman near Traveler's Rest, in the upper section of this county, and after assaulting1 her robbed the house. The negro' called in the afternoon and talked to i ! the woman and asked wo ere was her ! J husband. He retired to the woods until dark and t' en surprised her. ! A negro suspect was arrested early ' j this morning by the sheriff, but he ! was not the man, according to the victim. She said the negro had bad , scars on both cheeks and no mus-1 tache; tre man caught had.the scars, | ! but -had a mustache. He also proved a good alibi. I Reports are that the citizens in the upper part of the county are aroused and several have called at the jail to know if the right negro had been j caug!'t. promising a visit in case j he had. I ^1? - ? ? ~j f Uftf Via I i snerm rtector aimouutcu wai ; would not bring the negro here, but would hurry him to Columbia in case he catches him tonigftt. -=3S=? | OUR SCHOOL GARDEN AT JOHXSTOXE ACADEMY ______ i Last fall, in November, our principal, Miss Lizzie Neel, had the school garden broke up. She inteded to begin +i-rv wordan at that timp hilt CVT1 3C . l-C jjUl U^U UL VilUt ? V? w ? , I count of the heavy rains that continued through the winter it was not I planted until in February. Then, with the help of the school children, she sowed mustard, turnips, radishes, lettuce and set out fifty cabbage plants. Chickens belonging to a colored man living near the school house ate up part ofthem. but with careful work t':ey grew out and the garden if, iooking fine at present Last fall the children also helped | dig a :ie?;> rrench wrrch was filled i with stable manure and oak leaf i much Here the teacher sowed sweet | peas. A row of lillies in front of the ! steeps add to the beauty of the well! kept scaool yard. In the flower garden there were 12 cose bushes bought and set out in February. There are also violets, jonquils, verbena, lillies, Eas'.ter lillies. Tho phildrpn take delight in their garden and flowers and it is scared by our very efficient teachers. They encourage the pupils by taking an interest in the work themselves. No fault can be found in the school yard for cleanliness. When it is time to set out tomatoes, peppers and potatoes they will be added to the gardee. It is hoped that i enough will be raised in the school > garden for a canning club demon , stration. I might add here that when I Miss Willie Mae Wise visited the school ! to organize a tomato club every girl j old enough joined, and all except two I of them have tomato plants enough o set out the one-tenth of an acre. This is something we have been wanting, and I am sure 11 is going iu be a great success. .Johnstone has i one of the very best teachers in South Carolina, thoroughly awake to the best interest of her sc' ool, and if the ; canning club and the school garden ! is not a success it will assuredly not ! be because she does not try to get her ! pupils to take an interest in the work, i Miss Wise also is doing a noble 1 work in organizing canning clubs, and she should have the co-operation of ? * ? ? tVi/i er> hnr?1 Manv j t V y p <1L1 U XX U i. til v. o vjav v* ?- -?? ? % ! girls marry ana (have never even canned a can of fruit, made a glass of jelly nor a can of preserves; hardly j know how to put up a can of pickles. I But with the clubs they enjoy learning and profit by what they learn. I think J'DOin an' JllSl Jiaau. Ola Banks. | Tbe Ladies Aid Society of t'*e Church ; of the Redeemer will meet Tuesday afj ternoon at 4 o'clock with Mrs. J. B. ] Fox. itiffirp'"" . ; 1.. . . . ... - GERMANS iLAIM GROUND IN WEST RETAIN TERRITORY NORTH OF YPRES. In East Situation Remains Unchanged With Two Attacks by Russians *? K.^.l IVfJI U19CU. Berlin, April 25 (Wireless to London).?The army headquarters gave out today the following report: "(Western theater of war: We obtained further results at Ypres. The ground captured on April 23 north of Ypres was still retained yesterday in spite of the attacks of the enemy. Further east we continued our attack and took by storm the Solaert farms, south west of St. Julien, as well as the villages of St. Julien and Kerscselaere, and advanced victoriously towards Grafenstafel. During these engagements about 1.000 Englishmen were taken prisoners and several machine guns were captured. 'A British counterattack against our postition west of St. Julien was repulsed this morning with very heavylosses to the enemy. "West of Wiel attempts of the Britj ish to make an attack were quenched I At the very start by the fire of our artillery. ! "In the Argonne we reptilsed an at tack by two French battalions north of I Fleur de Paris. > | "In the Meuse halls, southwest of i Combres, tne French suffered a heavy defeat. We began an attack at this point and in the rush broke through i manv French lines lving one behind I j the other. The French attempted at | night to take away from us the cap! tured terriaory, but again failed, with j -heavy losses to them. Twenty-four j French officers and 1,600 men, with j 17 cannon, remained in our hands af1 ter these engagements. "Between the Meuse and the Moselle fighting at close quarters occurred only at certain places. On our southern front the fighting at Ailly has not yet come to a conclusion. A French night attack in the wood of Le Pretre failed. "In the Vosges a dense mist pre.. !12*_ VOCffpfdAV. vented an mnuai> ...?v. "Eastern theater of war: The situation remains unchanged. Two weak attacks by the Russians west of Ciect' ano were repulsed. "In reply to bomb dropping by Russians on the peaceful town of Denburg, the railroad station at Bailastock was again bombarded dv us. iwtm? bombs were dropped." >'ewberrians at Reunion. Among the visitors to the State reunion were Col. W. Y. Fair, Dr. Jas. ~ - ~ T * A ~ Mcintosh, Col. tieo. joansumc, oajji.. W. C. Sligh, Capt. M. M. Buford, Dr. <W. A. Fallaw, E. P. Bradley, J. G. Rikard, D. M. iWard, M. H. Buzr.ardt, J. A. Rikard, W. W. Johnson. E. P. Matthews, >E. S. Cromer, J. B. ChamI bers, J. C- Shealy, E. D. Lathrop, W. ^ a r Prnmpr. X. B. (U. 1/CIUtiv, n. ". 7 Wheeler, L. G. Wheeler, John F. Taylor, R. I. Stondemayer, W. H. Sloan. J. C. Sligh. .A. A. -\ates, G. A. Mills, J. W. Monts, B. H. Miller, A. M. Milj ler, J. P. Kinard, J. J. Hipp, H. T. Fe!i? T vir p p p.romer. J. P. iers, . w. 1 uul", iv. . ? Blair, G. B. Aull, D. T. Long. Godfrey Harmon, G. P. Griffin, Sumter Holt. J. H. Crouch, Frank Bobb, L. S. Bowers, X. H. Young, Mr. and iMrs. Rainy Hirt, Mr. and Mrs. Joun C. Adams, Miss Xel-\f7-c a ci Sale. Miss lie Auauio, .ui o. . ?. , Blanche Sale, Mr. and Mrs. Win. Johnson. W. F. Suber, J. W. Lake, Mrs. Charles (West and little son, Misses Lillie Maee and Mari Moore, Rev. and i j Mrs. C. H. Xabers, J. Marion Davis i and son, Wm. Whitesides, Capt. W. W. ! Riser, Dr. J. Henry Harms, Dr. W. E. I reiiia.ui, 01. >ine Ford Care Sold in One Week. We told you Mr. Will Smith, of Summer's garage, was a good seller. Look j at this list for a week. You needn't ! look at it that long, but take it in as I being good work for one week: Ford | roadsters went to Boyd Jacobs, Dr. W. | A. Dunn, B. A. Dominick, R. L. Lewie, j of Newberry; G. R. Miller and R. H. : Burris, of Kinards, and Ford touring j cars to J. Wm. Hipp, of Whitmire, and ? * ^ TI'Vv AT*rTT I'. Lj. WaiKIIlS. IH .\cnucii;. The jitney bus has had one good effect at least. It has improved the sight of the street car motorman.?Rochester Herald. | A>DERSO> LAD IS ELECTROCUTED BY FAULTY WIRING Mother Swelled Burning Clothing and Went to His Aid?Found Wire Wranned About the Body. Anderson, (April 24.?James Payne j McCown, aged 13, the second son of S. A. McCown, a prominent merchant here, was electrocuted in the basement of the McCown home, one mile east j of Anderson, at noor today. Mrs. Mc Cown detected the odor from the burning cloth and went into the basement. She found her son on the cement floor with an electric light wire wrapped around his body and his clothes on fire. She attempted to unwind the wire from t-'ne boy's body and was knocked down by the current. Two white men in the yard were called and both of them were knocked down w':en they caught :hold of the boy's body. The wire was then jerked loose from the rosette. Physicians were called, but evidently the boy died instantaneously. A similar coincidence appears in that young f.VIcCowan and Ernest Cod':.ran, who accidentally killed himself three days ago, were classmates and exactly the same age. Another coincidence was that former County Treasurer .lames M. Payne, grandfather, and for whom the lad was named, died eight months ago today. This is tJ" e second tragedy to occur in this house, the other being the selfi destruction of U. E. Seybt four months ago, who built the magnificent 'home less than a year ago. The insulation on ti-e thumb switch was broken, and it is believed this caused young McCown's electrocution. EDUCATES EMPLOYES Fine Work of Textile Industrial Institute in Spartanbnrg:. Commerce Reports, the new publication issued daily by t-'ne bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, contains a story of interest in this section. It is entitled "Half-Time School in Cotton Mill Town." It is as follows: "In September, 1911, the Textile Industrial institute was opened in Spartnnhnr? S. C.. in the faeart of the Southern manufacturing district, for the purpose of discovering, training and placing practical men and women as leaders among the half million cotton mill operatives. The institute addresses itself to t'ne task of furnishing a class of young men of high moral character and special training, wt:o j shall rise to positions of influence ana intelligent leadership as superintendents and overseers in the mills, while its young women graduates are being ; trained to establish such homes as I will challenge their less fortunate ac) quaintances to do likewise. I "Rv o svctAm of half-time alterna tion between work in tJ-e mill and class room duties the institute discovers the fittest young men and women and affords opportunity for self support. The training consists of thorough grounding in the common | branches, accompanied by religious ini struction and sociological studies, and I practical work in textiles and homei ?T:ln inctriwinn is lars:elv in j IIIctlVHlg. i HC uwi.1 uv?vU ? u ? I dividual in character, and every effort is made to promote initiative and selfdevelopment. The principal of t:e school is a practical mill man, who is able to supervise the theoretical side of the work in the school as well as the practical work in the mill. The home-making course for girls includes I practical lessons in cooking and sew ing, with informal lectures on housekeeping, sanitation, home nursing, personal attractiveness, beautification ol premises, kitchen gardening, poultry raising, etc. ' There is a well-defined demand in | the mill communities for men and wo"* J1? q f men fitted witn tne picp CL aiivit forded by the institute, and the success of the experiment seems assured, T e institute is financed by private contributions and subsidies from the mills and other corporations. There is hearty co-operation on the part of cotton mill presidents and fc.eir several corporations, which have, with the con~ J sent of tJ' e stockholders, assessed themselves three cents a spindle to assist in the erection of the main building of the institute, at the same time declining any official relation with the enterprise, in order that no sinister motive might be suspected in their +v,a rail mads pt' liantnropy. vi mc entering Spartanburg agreed to trans BIG GtRMAN EFFORT SEEMS NEAR AT HAND RUSHES IN FLANDERS AND THU VVOEYRE SHOW TRY COMING Attack Originally Leveled at tlu French Has Been Transferred to British Lines. * j vjs London, April25.?The Germr.i j rushes in Flanders and the Woevr i wnere they claim considerable sueces . are believed to be forerunners of a ' other big effort to break through tV. . allies' lines in the west. For many days Belgium has ber? sealed from the observation of ne i trals, while German reinforcemen t i arp hpin^ movpri'tn thp south to ta\ * ' part in the new offensive, which the j hope is to carry tfcem to Calais. T! attack in Flanders, originally leveled ! at the French, has been transferrr ' to the British lines 'held by the Ct! nadians, on the immediate right c ; the French, and there for two day; the men from the Dominion have ber r engaged in a deadly contest with Vr' t . Germans. The Germans claim tit a: British counterattacks have been i ! puisea. | V > ! The French, on the other hand, 3f clare ttfe allies' counterattacks cor. ! tinue with success and that the Br!: ; is;'.: hold all their positions, and ru| peat the charge that the Germans a: using bombs containing asphyxiatin.gases. ! The Frankfurter Zeitung justifies the use of their missiles on the grounl that the allies ihave done likewise. j The German attack in the Woevre. i "or in the Meuse hills, was directed ' against the French positions southwest of Combres and according j Berlin, the French suffered a heaw defeat. Paris, rrowever, says that yer'terday by counterattacks the Germans were driven from the French first lino which they'had pushed back. - ? . -i These offensive movements by V - % Germans have "been made possible ' the state of. tibe ground in the- eas* ' where operations are virtually impo: sible until flooded rivers have subsided. Taking advantage of these conditions, the Germans transferred a large number of troops to the west t"> make another big effort, which show they are not content to rely on a "passive policy. It is believed that 300,000 ne^ German troops f:ave reached Flanders and that more guns and material ar to be used than were provided for the original attempts to destroy ttallied armies in the west, attempts which met with failure both in August and in October. In the meantime the eastern frorf. is enjoying a period of comparative calm, except in the mid-CarpafoMans, where the Russians continue to attac'* 1 the Austrians. In Uzsok pass and t* the eastward, where the Austrian* ?and Germans are trying to crush tin . Russian fiank, both sides report successes. Operations in the Dardanelles stiv: .are apparently confined to the bom-bardment of fc':e Turkish entrench ment, while preparations are bein,7 made for landing the allied force* part of which is already on Turkish MrritArr at ,Fn ns and other points. ICi 1 ACW j ? w Death of Mr. J. H. Setzler. ! J. H. Setzler was born in the Poir.aria section of Newberry county, December 23, 1847, and died at Greer >'ville, S. C., April 19. 1915, at 3 o'clocv j and was buried at Laurens, April 20 He leaves five children, Mrs. Riden. hour, of Birmingham, Ala.; Mr. M. K Setzler, Mrs. Bramieu, i?na. OVUVUCl u, of Greenville, and Mr. Robbie Setzler of the U. S. navy. He is also survive' by two brothers and three sisters, Mrs Lou Lyles and Mrs. Xora Rhoden, c* Xewberry, and Mrs. N. C. Wicker, o' ? i the county. :i gf ' port material for this building free oJ M ; charge. I x - ? f nV> a1 o r* i j it is necessary 10 rai?e a oluv/iui ship for each student, since there i' no endowment to cover the margir. of difference between half-time earnings in the mill and the costs to tb'^ ' institute for schooling. 1 ' j Although this enterprise originate* ' and is being directed under privat3. ' ( auspices, the plan contains certain features that are applicable to puti lie school conditions. The president of j the institute is Rev. D. E. Camak. i . * ' /, r'jiigu