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ffcMl II II ! - II ' .'fe lleraiD jh$ Hem ! IJ* ?**Entered at the Postofficc at feerry, S. C., as Slid class matter. E. H. AULL, EDiTOIi. Friday, January 11 191S Snmp nnp tcld us the ether day that we used four colums of one issue to tell that we needed a linotype operator. "Well, that may be true. We have been put to great inccmven- f iences and expense even to get out a j sorry paper, and we hate to print a jJ sorry paper, because we know that we ; can make a good one in our part of it. i Charlie West is coming along pretty j well and it the war will just ena De- ; fore he is called we will get along all- j right. He set all the type we are j using for this issue, but of cours we < had a great deal more good stuff that we could have printed, and it is a pity to waste it. The presuleiit's speech to congress sounds like an early peace to us. We are mere strongly entrenched in our | view that the war will end before the j: spring and that President Wilson is i the man of destiny to bring lasting i peace to the world. The same that | we said more than two years ago before this country was engaged. One member of the legislature had the temerity to offer the suggestion , that it was a violation of the constitution for a member to hold two offices, but the legislature would not even recieve the resolution If it had ad- , opted it, as itj should have done, that is if it wants to obey the plain mandate of the constitution, there would . have been several vacancies. The constitution says that the acceptance j of another office vacates the seat in j the legislature and if it is applied to | some little magistrate ^ho wanted al 0 j to be intendant of his town the con- i stitution would be enforced but not to a member of the legislature, nay, nay. In the list of the sanitary rating | the markets The Herald and News | printed J. M. Counts as 85 per cent i perfect. It should be JH) per cent \ perfect. !We regret the error. It was ; ours and we gladly make the correction. Mayor Wright is right. We should j . spare the birds. There is no good in permitting such sport. And in these times of trying to conserve everythng ' * tha n? snrfi etins and ammunition ! akd the labor used in the sport might very properly be directed in other and useful channels. ITEMS FRQM WHITMIRE. A happy New Year and best wishes to the Editor and the Herald and <NewR* At the Municipal Election held here Jan. 5th the following officers were elected?Mayor-S_ A. Jeter; Allermen, R. M. (Bullard, J. A. Darly; J. G Holder, and W. R. Watson. j Messers Wm Scott and Jno. W. ! Hippp have bought out the interest of Mr. C. H. Cooper in the merchantile establishment of C. H. Cooper Co. j i Fcr Bferi Eccl C Ledgers, Jrurri Cash Borks, I Record Bock.% and Memcrare Start the New Year Wi mr j n Mayes ct The House cf a 1 ?~ Thee enterprising young men will bo J?!rul to welcome their friend to tho stove and will givo them a fn.ir deal. Wm Coleman Co., Bankers, anr The Fnnk of Whitniire have consolidate1. The busing of thee two banks will be done at ""the cf the Ban.'? o Whitmnv .Mr K K Child is iosident of tV b.mk t:n:s ionr.cn v a -V "S. YOal?o:i Cn-'siiv"*. Mr. H. C. Leaman, who hns boon cashier of the bank of Wh Coleman and Co. Bankers has acre 'tea a position with the Palmetto National Ban!; of Columbia. Mrs. S. A. feter recently. For the past seven years T. C. ]bter ir.i" held the position bookeeper in the Palmetto National Bank. On Dec. 14-th he was -called into the service of his country. He is now at Headquaters Sanitary Detachment. Camp Jackson'. The following students spent the Christmas holidaays he-re with' thei: sume their studies in the following colleges,?Roy Suber and Joe Dunc&nClemson, John A. Jeter Erskin. Oscar Nance-South Carolina University. Ernest Hurt and Ruby Hrru-Drauo-hons Business College, Victorii Jeter, Nettie Hurt, and Emmie Duncan-Columbia College, Ruby Zei^ierGreonville Female College, and "pjujjoAv-'jf isoa 'H uy-Tv' Mrs. Edith Hill and son. Coleman Lyles Hill of Chester are visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pitts. Mr. Otis Suber of the Coast Artillery Fort Moultrie is here spendinT \ few days with his parents, Mr. a : 1 Mrs. Z. H. Suber. Mosscrs T. H. and A. M. Watson *n-l their famlies spent the Christum^ holidays with relatives at Banihorg. Mr. Geor.ee Young, who for the nart -e^rnl v^ars has been an emnlcfye'1 of the S. A. L. R. R. in Florida i^ 'isitino- hisfather, Mr. J. I. Young before answering the colors. Dr. T. P. Woods of Fort dethrone ^fter snending several days here with Mrs. Wood and little Brother has returned to his post of duty. -> r T\? ?i. ? i i 1 /I Mrs. tt. -VI. JL>?uun.trnL u.uu tiumicu snent the holidays with her parents in Clio. Thoy have returned home Mr and Mrs. T. L. Miller end Mr FL M Miller have returned from a visit to relatives in Cross Hill. :~i5 C. Jct-^rs, Principal of l"io ^hools at Rormma-i. S. C. thp .holidays with he-^rents. Mr. and Mrs S. A. Jct^r "^e will resume her work Jan. 14th ?<Wf ? rr"- r\ P"??(lntr soVo'*] . J1 pfl"" mvT*<-aitt mrv'*^^TiflTv' a ?e Ne^bcrv colIe.'Tr - f ty* A?* TRCF m IMRING TANKS 1 : DON'T ASTONISH DANIEL g Washington. ? Secretary Jo- e J sephus Daniels of the navy de partment is nothing if not blase. J Recently, when he was in- J specting the marine corps camp 2 at Quantico, Va., enthusiastic J officers demonstrated some new tank style gun tractors for him. J They ran the machines on the ? level, then up grades and over J obstacles. Secretary Daniels en joyed the demonstration, but did ? not burst forth into expressions ? of great wonder. a J Then the officers volunteered J to run a machine down into a ? J trench, up the side and out J again. Another said he could J make his machine climb a wall, J but Secretary Daniels led his o J party on to inspect something J else. ? * "I've heard tneyve got tua- e chines in France that will climb J J trees," he said. ? , JO ^ I IL) s f(rro rn f!?p U V V lAi* v ^ vy v c T(H F? F f -'. 2J?j T~~ 5 * s.. i fy; - < ' '" i ^fc ip Peek?, i in!?p Bccks, urns. :fh a f (w ['ad Ecck ink >tnrp U HV1 ML ' flcu ai d T} ? f r / * i - i f , I EDITH CAVELL'S | Seeks Vengeance for Brutal Murder of His Boyhood Companion. NOW Hi THE SiSHtl CQiu-o Rejected Many Times by Recruiting Officers in United States and Canada cn Account of Small Size ?Wants Blood for Blood. Camp Gordon, Ga.?There is one lad i wearing khaki in this camp who eni tered the army with a fixed determin; ation to avenge a deeply seated prij vate wrong. j He is Lawrance R. Cavell of Chii cago, first cousin and boyhood companion of Edith Cavell, the English Red Cross nurse whose execution at the hands of a German firing squad in Brussels sent a thrill of horror through the world. It was no easy matter for young Cavell to break into the army. Not until after several vain attempts, both in the United States and in Canada, did he succeed in .setting himself straightened out on the firct quarter of the course which he ^""pects to lead to the satisfaction of his desire for revenge. I At the time of the murder of his ! cousin he was only eighteen and small for his years. His father had been engaged in business in Chicago since he had transplanted the family from the native heath in the county of Kent, England, some years before. Kent was also the ill fated nurse's home, and as a very small boy young Cavell had developed an admiration and affection for his cousin, some ten or fifteen years his senior, that bordered almost on adoration. Rejected by Canada. j Inexpressibly shocked by the news of his cousin's atrocious death, the boy immediately presented himself to the agents of the Canadian recruiting forces in Chicago for enlistment in the overseas service, but he was rejected on account of his age and size? he was many pounds underweight. He even went to Canada and brought alt the political influence he could compass to bear in order to carry out his purpose, but again was turned down. | No one could have hailed the en. trance of America into the war with more real joy than he. It would give him his long awaited opportunity to gain some recompense for the murder of his cousin, he thought. He was again doomed to disappointment. A recruiting officer told him that he was ; too small. Nothing daunted, he car' ried his case to Washington in person ; and the matter was placed before the war department through an influential army officer in Chicago. Permission was given him to volunteer in the signal corps, and this he iid in Chicago last June, He has just been transferred to Camp Gordon as a member of the outpost company of the 317th signal battalion under Major Hemphill. Eagerly devoting himself to his duties and apt to learn, he already has been scheduled for the rank of tOD sergeant in his company. He also has developed his physique until now he is as hardy as the best soldier in the army. He hopes for a transfer to the aviation section, as it is the goal of his ambition to hurl bombs on the Boches from the air. A visitor to Camp Gordon this week to see his son, Cavell's father called on Captain Allen of the outpost company and recited the story of Lawrence's long baffled determination of revenge, a thing the boy himself had been too modest to do. Like Oldac Sister to Him. # The father said the lad -had been brought up in the same house in Kent with Miss Cavell, and that her relationship to him was rather that of a devoted elder sister than of a cousin. "It matters not what branch of service I am in," the boy told his father. "I shall die satisfied only when I have drawn blaod for blood, and I pray God to live to see that day. I expect to. He will answer my prayer. "Edith was murdered without a hearing ir* cold blood by the kaise:*. Slie was an i^Dgnsn gin, ana intjy sang the hate song over her dead body. I expect to sing the song of hate over the dead bodies of Germans. No sacrifice is too great, no punishment too severe, no hardship too trying; death itself a coveted reward, just so I am permitted to put bullets into German hearts as that firing squad under orders put them into my rousin's heart. I am in the war for a purpose and I shall accomplish it." Deeply grained us his hatred of the HI r. r'nxroll "XtULOIl luce I'UU giutui, VUIWI said that his son had no quarrel with individual Germans. Scores of them in Chicago, he added, had expressed to his family their horrified resentment of the execution of Miss Cavell. 7 Chance to Marry Free. Lorain, O.?Mayor L. M. Moore of Lorain has been mayoring two years, and has not yet performed a marriage ceremony. Now he wants to marry some couple before he becomes an "ex" and before his powers as a matrimonial splicer expire. "I have read up on the requirements and believe I can do a good job," said the mayor. uA!l I need is a couple. To tne first applying I will marry them free, aixd give the bride a present." ~m mm iS HOME MADE Can Be Continued Indefinitely In South If Farmers Do Their Part, Sa>*s Kactings Allantn. Ga.?(Spec:al.)?That the prf-iii wave of "farm prosperity" in the South is "home made" and can he continued indefinitely is the interest i i'-^ siaitun-ai uiiiue ieui"iiu? uy i>. G. Hastings, President of both the South* astern Fair Association ajid the Georgia Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hastings said: "Unthinking people are very apt to attribute the present wave of farm prosperity in the South to the present high price of cotton rather tl^an to its real cause." "Naturally, the high price has helped a great deal, but the real reason for the money being in the farmer's pocket or bank is that when the 1917 cotton crop was made the farmer owned it instead of owing it to supply merchant at the end of the season, as was usually the case in times past. Never before had the farmers of the South come as close to feeding themselves, their families and their live stock from their own acres as in 1917. They ' v.! need of few store purehr.nos r.r 1 i.aie few or no debts." if the 1917 crop had boon made ci\ t. t.* u.^4 iAu*is ci plane ali cotton *;y a!J ford at present prices there vc'ui'.l be suoiilv merchant prosperity. but little or none on the farms." "Naturally, the temptat.'cn is gro-t to increase cotton acreage and decrease food and grain acreage in 191S. The man who does it is foolis: The whole world is short of food anu i :s condition will not only continue lnu get worse as long as the war lasts. Continued high prices for food is as certain as -sunrise each morning." "Real money-in-liand farm prosperity is nhsolntelv dpnpnd^nt on tho growing on one's own acres of all the food, meat, grain and forage needed for home needs. Once that is provided for, every other available acre can safely be planted in cotton or other cash crop. The larger part of the cost of making cotton or other cash crop is in the food, grain and forage consumed in making it. "These items 'hDine made' can be produced at from one-third to onehalf the price the merchant charges and home production of them means just that much reduction in the cost of niaking the cash crop. * "Farm prosperity in the" South can and will be permanent just as long ao our farmers continue their farm opei* ations on a 'home made' basis." GERMAN TROOPS ARE RUSHED TO CAMBRA1 Geneva, Friday, Dec. 7.?Both Field Marshal von Hindenburg and Gen. v<">n Ludendorff are on the Cambrsi front, According to a disnatch from Stressburg today. Railway traffic through lie Rhine towns has been congested from this source, owing to the flow of froons and artillery being rushed 'brousrh to this front. No civilians are permitted to travel along the Rhine and the German frontier remains closed. Cond Newb From Report t Showing Condition al Loans asid Investt Liberty Loan Ben U. S- Bones Cash and Die fro Capital Stock Surplus and Undi ^ ^ i* circulation Dividends Unpaid Deposits TL? AJnS-Zm 1 SiSZi 1ULLIUI J. C. MATTHEWS, T. K. President State, C :i$i| rx; * . : :r ~* W-: -r' >yv * . % * <><-; f 4 ; v - $>^':>' ;>. : V * .; ' */ * : . :*: _ '.' / ; S00v")ld oouno nai :>:?y. ,; . - . f I 0)Sl>n ]SOD| Jlj} | ; paU<m?l/l 3AQf] JPt^ r ric^-nin minn ri in n-iun ox ^|s>wvv.>u vv\*tk\s wuv Q y $Mrnmdivnam J* ;* * ; *!; '** *-; ' " .' --/ jauosjad H.H'JO| ipriia oojf j | aaiifie i i i Make This Bank Your I I I It MS G Soil i j of great satisfacti< know that in case of loss of position that; / / A 11 1 Account to "tail DacJ j We hope you will ne fortune bat, have yo you will not? better play sate,? i I OPEN A SAVINGS AC THE EXCHAN Of Newbern "The Bank of the i "1 84-4 Sensed Statem OF a! Rank nf Mil %jr& ierry, South Carol o the Comptroller of th t the Cicse of Business De( DrsmiDrrs i-ents ds, installments m Banks and U. S. Tre< LIABILITIES * \ id ^ viae i rrcrns J "?/w/ IS f ui jliui trv v/# x JOHNtTONE h. t. cannon Cashier Asst. Cashie 'ounty and City Depo / r M* s <.:,: , > : ' tVI &&?&'< ^9 * Ml-ouo iiioaj j ^ _ _ . " i Si oa.:tj) j\n;| , sRoy | M 1 mm Mas f 1 . ' ^ r^W ?/' "%<? \ )iUAaSs"}Oii Xq I 3AYS | , fek | ' Business Home ?ree? on a nn e>mf<>rt to i accident, sickness or you have a Savings iver have such-misu any assurance that ? B I 1 COUNT TODAY V GE BANK i i, s. c. ^ i People" i - ..1 ? 'V - J lent ina ^ te Currency :ember 31, 1917 , j i $545,036.05 47,243.00 100.00000 1 1 on a. r\ o r 1 I as. $881.871.5S J $100,000.00 ^ 14,214.28 98,800.00 a acq an i *T,UUU.V 8 664,79861 J $881,871.56 M dewberry \ W. W. CROMER r Asst. Cashier sitory