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IIS iu iil nwEiswv FUEL SITUATION SO ACUTE GO\ ERNOR CALLS UPON SCHOOLS TO GIVE AID. . DISPATCHES FROM CDLUmEL Doings and Happenings That Mark th Progress of South Carolina Peop!< Gathered Around the State Capita Columbia. Asking that all public, private an rural schools extend their Christma holidays for to extra weeks to cot serve even the depleted supply of fu( now on hand, Governor Manning n sued an offkial statement to the tru: tees o? the colleges and schools c South Carolina. The statemcr voices a recommendation to the schoc board that to make up for the tim thus lost the school session be coi tinued for two weeks past the regi lar time for closing in the suinme and that the teachers be paid for th two weeks that they will not be worl . ? ronnactari hnlidav extei iug 111 LUO Iblluvuv..,. . aion. The governor's statement is a follows: "The fuel situation in South Care lina is acute, and radical steps ma; be necessitated shortly to relieve th emergency. It behooves every Sout! Carolinian to eo-operate in every wa; to alleviate the suffering of the poore classes of domestic users who. througl * "* -M J" titoro unable t< iaCK OI reauy muu^j, ??~ ? lay aside a supply of fuel. "In an effort to conserve the smaJ supply of fuel now on hand and t assist those who are unable to secur coal or wood, I call on the trustee of every college, cither state or de nominational, and all schools, rura and urban, public ?nd private, to ex tend their Christmas and New Yea holidays two weeks. In order that th< pupils and students may not suffe because of a curtailment of thei 1 T ""nrimPTtrl that the school extend their sessions two weeks infr the summer months from the regula time for closing. "As few of the women teachers o the state receive a compensate worthy of the great and sacrificinj service they are rendering the caus< of education, I hope that the trusteei of the schools will pay tnese teach ers for the two weeks the school: close during m? auuua^ sured that these women, patriots a they are, will be willing to render fur ther service, if necessary, to ma"ke u] for the two weeks' salary, even t teaching the fortnight in the summe months. "Chambers of commerce and othe eiyic bodies in the towns and cities o the state are requested to lend thei: m-nneration in this period of fue crisis. I would suggest that they hole community gatherings at which th< people will be requested to pledgi themselves to the use of a minimun number of fire places in their homes Also, tt would be wise, I think, fo; ?ic?h civic bodies to call on farmers and others coming to the towns wit! empty wagons to load them with wcoc ?r?ir rfosrrfnt.ion for gale in th< v?VMv??r _ towns. "I call upon the mayor and intend ants of the cities and towns of Soutt Carolina and the elective councils o1 the various municipalities to emulate tbe example of several of the citiei of the state in the establishment oi municipal woodvards, at Which fue be sold at cost. This will greatlj wxfuee the amount of suffering- among aft poorer class of citizens. "Kncwing that South Carolinians lingly suffer privations for the good their state and the common weal I feel assured that any appeal made t? them for co-operation ia the pros eat fuel emergency will be met bj them with the fullest acquiescence. 1 aih confidinet that the trustees of the educational institutions of South Caro lina, the chambers of commerce and other civic bodies of the towns anc erities and the governing bodies oj the various municipality will rendei all assistance to B. B. Gossett, state fuel administrator, in his efforts t< reduce the privations incident to the feel shortage." MM! Schools Improving. Extraordinary progress has beer made in improving facilities for the pab7ic schools in the mil! villages, according to the annual 'report oi George D. Brown, mill school super visor. The work of the two years is somewhat dovetailed or overlapped bttt during that time special taxes have >?en voted in 73 schools, Audobon Society Elects Officers. A meeting of the Audobon Society tsjels held when officers for the ensu fc?g year were elected. Dr. E. C. L Adams was elected president; Geo Bell Timmerman, vice-president; V, F. Fnnderburk, secretary, anad P. W iSentwell, Jr., treasurer. The legis iftture will be memorialized to "take tbe office of chief game warden out ol ** 'Kxr maHrtw t>i a nff!f?P Pi tfye by the two houses. The present l&w requires that the society re com mend the candidate and the governoi to appoint on its recommendation. To Build Bridges Over Santee. The state highway commission will recommend to the United States de partment of agriculture that two steel bridges be constructed over th?* San tee River on proponov! slate highways to be constructed from Charleston into the interior portions of the state. One of the proposed bridge Bites is at Lanneau's Crossing, which is about 20 miles east of Lanes, and the other Pinckney's Crossing, which is in the neighborhood of 20 miles east of Orangeburg and St. Matthews. The estimated cost of the former is $173,000 and that of the latter $154, 740. The federal government will pro vide one-half of this necessary amount, contingent upon the o^her half being ^l-oci^ATite r>f fh?> rmmtifvc VJ V 1UUU KT J I VOUiVnv^ w *. ~v. e directly benefited. Specifications eall for steel structure J* acroee tke river portions three feet above ttio "rater, ereosoted pile tres tles i.cvom tke lecees&ry waterways ^ In swastps rmd earth emhantanents ( s about four feet high, which is above f *" the average hfgh water level. -* 7? Serve Many. [ *" The hL?ln*ay' ever Lanneau's Ferry t 3" will open at much needed highway f from Charleston up through George- t Lt town county, providing an excellent t ^ outlet from Marion, Horry and adja- ii e cent territory into Charleston. rJ The route into Orangeburg opens up \ l" i v. ? i . +v. : ?-u ? ! tuiuiLici it-11 ii-ux y, wauugn wiuui a r large volume of traffic will pass to e ward the coast from Orangeburg, ^ Clarendon. Calhoun and adjacent ter i- i1 ritory. The road will also provide an , D immediate connecting lfnk with the j, south-western portions of the State, j y The resolution of aproval rea<2s: r Whereas, the county officials of the e counties adjacent to the Santee River c 1 requested this department to have sur- f * vevs made of several proposed cross- \ * ings of the said Santee River, surveys f have been made at Pinckney'g Land 0 ing, Murray's Ferry and Lanceau's, t and the following information obtain- c frnm en-rrrrsTre ttrir o Plnckney's Landing. 0 Swamp on north side 9,600 i * River 580 r j Swamp on south side 000 c Total distance 10,180 feet Murray's Ferry. c 0 Swamp on north side 5,300 f r River 400 J r Swamp on south side 19,550 ^ s c 0 Total distance 25 250 feet | Lanneau's Ferry. Swamp on north side 5,000 f River 580 1 ? Swamp on south side 800 Total distance 6,3S0 feet Estimate No. 1. Based on steel bridge over river, and creosoted pile trestles over swamps from high ground to high ground, three feet above highest known water. Pinekne,'s will cost $339,270 Murray's will cost 705,800 Lanneau's will cost 310,560 Estimate No. 2. Based on steel bridge across river and heart pine pile trestle, untreated, from high ground to high ground, 3 feet above highest known water. Pincknev's will cost *221.480 3 Murray's will cost ?44,240 2 Lanneau's will cost .... 264,S30 i Estimate No. 3. Based on steel bridge over river, ' three feet abo^e highest known water, 5 creosoted pile trestles across neces ^ sary waterways in swamps and earth 1 embankment averaging about four 5 feet fcigh, which will be above aver age high water. Pinckney's will cost ....$154,470 i Murray's will cost 241 230 P Lanneau's will cost 173,300 * And, wherees, the commission has 5 gone int? said estimates carefully, it P has decided that while estimate No. 1 I would be the most desirable, at the r saane time the expense connected with > tne croesing oaeea on mis estimate is t prohibitive; ' Therefore, be it resolved, That the I state highway commission approves as > federal aid projects the two crossings n - of the said Santee River, one at r Pinctaej'i Landing, a.nd the other at r r Lanneau'? Ferry, based on estimate ^ t No. 8, for eaci of these proposed * 5 crossings, and will recommend their T approval to the United States depart- * I ment of agriculture, provided, the (: I ^ 1 counties Interested can finance their w f proportionate part of the cost. ^ s 5 Remember Gospel of Clean Plate. > Organization is being perfected by > the United States food administration v in South Carolina for the plaaing of a s supplemental food card in every one j of the 400,000 homos of the State. At (1 the same time every effort will be made to increase the membership of s the food administration in this State. v During November 100,000 homes were s secured as members of the food ad- j ministration. In this new campaign , every effort will be made to sign up t > every home in the State for member- r ship in the administration. s Thfi snnnlemftntal card bears a + message from Herbert Hoover, United fi r States food administrator to the Amer- b lean people. p The card contains the following specific appeal to every home in South Carolina. "The food administration, aside from those general directions, asks every h J one to maintain rigidly a minimum n I of at least a "One wheatless day each week and 1 I one wheatless meal each day; the - whe&fl '"i dry to r>e Wednesday. By ? wheatless ve mean to eat no wheat a nrodvts. I c lalifomian Describes American Military Base in Making. IN WOM MT TIME ob Contains Quintessence of Haste, Methodical, Intense, Intelligent, Ef ficient?Troops Are Coming, Sup plies are Coming and Provisions for Their Housing Must Be Made In Time to Receive Them. A California!! with the United States roops writes from "Somewhere in France Denr : It is two weeks si* ee wrote you. I have been delaying he last few days, expecting to hear rom you by the "next mail." The >ulk of the "next mail" arrived two >r three days ago, but driblets have >een coming through daily since. There's another due tonight and? lere's hoping. All told I've sent you ive letters sinee arriving here?don't :no\v how many arrived. Also I h:ive been rather busy of ate. I have been assisting in the pro motion of {in epochal event?the first American boxing tournament held in France. It took place Saturday night n a strange little theater on a crooked ue in a nearby city before an audi 'nce of 500 Americans?soldiers, sail irs, marines and civilian employees of he A. E. F.?and 200 French, mostly vomen. The feminine sex are great ight fans over here. All the American sports have been ried out over nere aireauy. tsaseDuu rented interest, but football was a ?n.sation. It was while I was on a tlcket-sell ng tour for the fights that I got my :ro->test insight into what is going on iver here. Base in the Making. T have seen a New York skyscraper .'limb toward the infinite, a story a lay; I saw square rods of concrete toured into forms 'that molded a dam vhich impounded a lake and reclaim id the fifth of a state; I have seen tow railroads fell their way across lesorts and mountains and rivers. I aw the Panama Canal "before they urned the water in the cut." More pectucular these, possibly, but no nore impressive than an "American Military base" in tne maKmg. Ana cer ainly no busier. On a certain day a few?a very few -months ago an American general ;tood on a certain spot and, shifting a jointing finsror. said: "There will be railroad yards, and here docks, and there a rest camp md that building over there will be a >ase hospital." And from that certain spet today >ne looks and sees what very soon vlil be yards and docks and camps tnd a hospttal. In one direction a string of low vooden buildings stretch as far as *ision. They are ten abreast. Four Hundred and forty of these buildings, sach capable of housing sixty men. rwenty-six thousand troops they will tccommodate. And within an hour's narch are five other such camps. A highway parallels the waterfront md it was on this that the American reneral stood the day he swept nis inger in the circle and conceived the mprovemerrts that are becoming real ties so rapidly. A town was within he sweep of his arm. It is being re-. noved. Houses a centnry old are he ng razed. The space is needed for rackage. On the other side of the road the locks are going in. Dikes are being milt a quarter of a 1 i from shore nd dredges and hyd x\ ? pumps are anking silt behind them. Work Against Time. 1 The work must be done by a stated late. It is labor against time. Troops re ooming. Material is coming. Am rmnition is coming. And this must be eady for Ihom. The job contains the [uintessenco of haste?methodical, in ense, intelligent, efficient. Here nre rorking thousands ? Americans, French and white-clad German priso ners, unsmiling, slothful, stolid, each :ansr with its poilu guard, invariably mall in comparison both to his harges and the long rifle ho carries, upermounted with its 24-inch bayo let. A construction locomotive passes nth a trainload of rails. American teel! The engineer is in khaki and to wears the red and white hatband if the engineers. Further along is a big, four-story tone building that was a schoolhouse rhen Washimrton was inaugurated. It Tanas wun nn tne aigmry or us ag<> n twenty acres of groomed forest and awn. But now it radiates wooden ex ensions, extending incongruously be leath the limbs of the chestnuts. Open paces hold barracks. A famous cha eau on an adjoining estate is being itted as officers' quarters. This is a ase hospital?one of many. Its ca pacity will be nearly four thousand rounded and sick?three regiments. j I Thirty-Thre-e Millions in Motor Fees. A special congressional committee as announced that, according to esti iate, motorists will pay $33,095,000 in utomobile license fees during the year 918. Son Born to Veteran 86 Years Old. A son Tcns born recently t?" Opt. nd Mr*. Milton Gnrrijrus of kokomo. cd. The father is eighty-six yeai, id, and a veteran of the Civil war. Ambulance Drivers Work Close to Firing Lines. ! Shov; Unfailing Courage in Time of Danger and Display Splendid Ability' as Drivers and Mechanicians?j American Society Girls Doing Great! Service In Gathering Up Wounded | on the Battle Front. Over the shell-warred ground of! Flanders, and in practically every dan- i ger zone on the war map of Europe,: women ambulance drivers are today; winning laurels for the sex because of thoir nnfnillnjr courage in time of dan- j per and for their splendid ability as driver? and mechanicians. In the ante-bellum days of 1014 breaking the speed limit in a car strip tr> ita Vmef ro ci n cr trim iroc I" m tv no i;v??v, LXii.11 ?? uc ol tlie chief outdoor sports of many 1 of the rich young women 111 America ; and on the continent, but the soldierly | clad, patriotic girls who are doing their bit at the front today are getting more thrills to the minute than any speed! emnusiast who has paid thousands of dollars in fines for the privilege. Collecting the wounded is not the j simple ihing of running over to the; station to meet the trains and trans- j porting the wounded to the nearby j hospitals. Indeed, not. The women i drivers of the ambulances go rir,ht j 4- "r V\ r\ ai? * ? a f J /\n ti?i f n l?An U]J nj nit? oLatiuix wicmi-i i^u.^u 1 of the big guns. i Show Their Nerve. They think nothing of getting a bit of shell through the bonnets of their' cars and it has yet to be reported that: British Woman Ambulance Driver. so far any of the girls who have vol unteered for this dangerous branch ot the service have pulled any Lydia Languish atunt In the face of an emer gency. Attached to the Scottish Women's hospital, which, by the way, was plan ned and is beinf carried out entirely by women, is an X-ray automobile, driven by a woman, which has sated a good many lives. As the wounded are taken back from the line a picture is taken and developed as the car runs back to the hospital. In this way the women sur geons realize the most critical cases and they are rushed straight to the operating table. The picture of the { wounded being ready for the operating surgeon, she knows exactly what she has to deal with. Many of the boys owe their lives to these X-ray ambu lances and the plucky girls who are, driving them. Women of wealth all over the world have found they could serve their country best by using their knowledge of how to drive and care % a car. Hundreds of them have volunteered, j Society Girls in Service. Miss Maria Laurence-Wetherill, a New York society girl, has been driv ing an ambulance 011 the French front. She is accounted one of the most skill ful operators in the motor service. Miss ITilda S. Ambiei of Bridge yui I, VUULU. 11 u."5 JU111CU. UL1U t UiUULL^* Ambulance division. She is also an expert driver and mechanic. Miss Am bler has adopted the uniform worn by the British Royal Flying corps. Mrs. Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff is another well-known New York wom an vho is quickly helping in the res cue work of the wounded boys on the allied fronts. She heads a number of women drivers from the National League for Woman's Service who left early last month for France and who are stationed somewhere along the lines, doing their share in the work of ru liing the wounded to the hospitals and also in permitting other men to rush to the colors who would be obliged to drive the ambulances had not women proved .such splendid su;> siitutes. II V Vi: ATTII4?"T1VI' pr::e> to iri'.ky uri cord wood. gr. en or dry, :'or Im mediate, fall. spring or s::mmer de ivery, Ke sure to see mo lefore you sell. H. 0. Long. 11-23-tf. Silverstrc, S. C# 11-27-at. TAX KKTl'ilNS i\;lI I or an authorized agent will be a* ;.!te following places named below, or the par: ose of taking tax re.'urn of both real and personal pro^ert) .or fiscal year 1&1S. Whitinire Tuesday .)an 5th. Glenn Lowerv Wednesday Jan. Oth. Kinards Thursday Jan. 10th. Longshores Friday Jan. 11th. Cha;pells Monday Jai. 15th. P. N. Boazar Tuesday Jan. 15th. Silver Street Wed. Ja 1. 16th. St. Lukes Thursday Jzn. 17th. O'Xealls Friday Jan. ISth. Prosperity Mon & Tues. Jan 21st & 22nd. kittle Mountain Wednesday Jan 23r1. Tolly Street Thursday Jan. 24. Pomaria Friday Jan. 25th. O'vnmhville Tuesday Jan 29th. i. h. Crooks Wednesday Jan 39th. Maybinton Thursday Jan. 31st. Ar.'l in the Auditors office in the Courthouse until Feb. the 20th after which date 50 per cent penalty will be aaded. The law requires n fo\- o-> all notes mortgages and mo~ev<?. al so Income tax on incomes cer $2 500. There'is a captation tax on all do^s of fifty cents. All male persons betyeen the ages of 21 and CO are liable to pay a poll tax of $1.00 unless otherwise exempt. All pernors owniner nrone^ty ir> more than one School District will I9l7 Design | ; RE8crss 4 ? I Christmas Seal Th~ rv(- r'l-iv' ?frr< ^ c JL HO Ik VI Vlil IUUAaU^ helpfulness to others is in that seal. Fut it on your Christmas mail The seals cost one cent each. l"h e mo'.is j f-'> ' C i* Tuberculosis: in your community and to protect you a?d vour family aeainst this di-ease. You must buy three limes as many this year. , Wnr increases Tuberculosis. In the first million men examined for the army over 25,000 new cases or iuoer culosis were discovered; thousands more wili break down i~ the training camps and at the front. Help to provide proper care for the: e bovs and protection for your comrnui: tj g dust the spread of the disease. Buy RED CROSS CHRIS-"MAS SEALS The Bale of the Red Cross Seals in No .vLorry is in charge or the Bachelor Maids. Committees of the Bachelor JYLaius wni can upon me people 01 .vc.vhcrry and off&r these Red Cross Lou.s lor saxe. SUBSCRIBE to the HERALD AJNl news. THttiwrmT ?nCT?mfirfir tmnrwn An Ambition ar "y HE needs of the South are i< of the Southern Railway: the grow 4>e apbaiidiag oi the other. ^ Use Souttcrn Railway zsks no fav accordcJ to others. The ambition of tbe Soafbem Rail wr.ky of interest that is bora of co-opei S>e railroads; to see perfeaed that fair at *icw of raitroads which invites the aeencies; to realize that liberality of ti lo obtain the additional capital needed fc niarged facilities incident to the dem tarvicc; aod. finally? To take ks niche la the bedy p?2 rrcat Industrie*. with no more. t and equal appwtuaxic*. " The Southern Sen ' r<~- . :; ( ; to :rake r ' rr.s for oa'li l ist:! t. ;.s t!.e Tax '.'oaks wiii i;e made u.) by S.hool Districts instead Oi Tcwn.ships in 191S. J. F5. Hal face. County Auditor. SOT If E OF I'lSAL SETTLEMENT. I will make n. final settlement of the refute of I n!n V Summer in thp Pro bat?' Co rt far Ne.vberry County, S. C., on Wednesday the 2nd day of rnr>ua~y TMv nt 1') o'clock in the forenoon ami will immediately there after ask for my discharge as Guard inn of said estate. j. w. Summer, Guardian. December 3rd, 1917. ? CHANGES of SCHEDULE OX SOUTHERN RAILW.a* ' Herewith stnt-'nu-nrt showing Chans | es in ti e Southern Passenger trains at Newberry, S. C . effective November I 11th, 1917 as follows: ' No. ]" Sou. train due at Newberry ! 8.43 a. m; no changes. No. IS. Sou. train due at Newberry i 12:27 p. m.; 12 minutes later, j No 1" Sou. train fine at Newberry 2:"." p. m.: 5 minutes later. >. jt, . <n. i:. ;u U'.e ;:l .NK?ueny S:_."> p. m; 31 minutes later. f. and L. So. 9: "3 a. m. | No. 52, 1:00 p. ! No. 53, 3:33 p. m. j 'No. 54, 7:00 p. m. T. S. Lefler, T. A. Newberry, Nov. 6, 1917. I XOTICE or A?TAL MEETING. Notice is hereby jriven that the an ' nual meeting of the County Board of Commissioners of Newberry County" will be held at the office of the Coun ty Supervisor on Thursday, January 10. 1918. All persons holding de mands of any kind against the County, not previously presented to the Board, are require! by law tp file the samu with the Clerk of the Board on or be fore January l. 191S, so that they may be examined and ordered paid i ai ine annual meeting, ana it is I msde the duty by law of all persons holding such accounts of claims, not paid, to file them as required in this notice N'o Haim against the County ?=ha111 be valid and payable unless the same is presented to and filed with the County Board of Commissioners dnrin? the fiscal yo?r in r-hich It id contracted or the next thereafter; r.vd a!l claims rot so presented an<l filed will bo barred. H. G. Hollowav Clerk, etc.. a 0* r>~? or ? V. V. vyvmicj oupw Viaui. AKSUAL MEETING Th? ream In r annual meeting of tha eb&re-koldars of The National Bank of Newberry. S. C., will be held in the President's office on Tuesday, Jan uary Stb. 10IS, at eleven o'clock, a. m. for tbe election of Directors and such other business as may come be | fure said meeting. T. K. Johnstone, Cashier^ NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT, I wil! make a final settlemeit of the estate of W. 9. Seybt in the Pro bats Court for Newberry County, S. C., on Tuesday the 1st day of January 1918, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and wi" immediately thereafter ask for mj discharge as executrix of said estate. ALMA E. SEY&T. Executrix. WiH GENTLE, young horse for sale. John C. Goggans. 12-11-tf FOR SALE?To close an account 100 shares Dunean Mills, Greenville, S. C., (common stock) make bast cash of jfer. J. D. Andrews, attorney, Spar tanburg, S. C. 12-18-3t. id a Record ientical vrith the needs th and succcss of one meana ors?no ipccUl privilege not way Company is to see that ation between the public and id frank policy in the manaer confidence of rcvemmental eatment which will enable it >r the acquisition of better xa* 2od for increased and brstr tic of the Sooth alongside a* *H vith equal liberties, a?a? r vv