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ji?e 080 Entered at the Postoffice at Ne^terry, S. Cn as $nd class matter. E. H. AULL, EDITOB. Frilay January 2^191S The Herald and News will observe one day as fuel consevartion day hut as we stated in the Tuesday paper we are so situated that for the present * it shall be Tuesday of each week anct no fuel of any kind will be burned in the office. We can not see what difference it makes so that you save the fuel. As a matter of fact'we consume very little fuel any way and no coa* at all, but we are hoping to be able to get some coal, very soon because the wood with our stoves gives very Vflot o -r> r? -??rm va tn Vopn fir in J? labile livat MUU J WU u vv r c. 'Spe&king of the constitutional ^provision which forbids a citizen of' this State from holding two offices at one time, how about the secretary :o Congressman Stevenson who is also reading clerk of the South Carolina Wnnco r\f Ronrpupntntivos .-(rl'sftll. ville (News. ' Pshaw, now you go way off^ancf sit down. Don't you know that you should not be asking any such searching questions like that. Now if you known of any magistrate over in your county who wants to be intendant or his town of hog wallow why then tne constitution applies and he is forbidden by the court and by the autfi x_ -1 1 J A /->, onues tO IlUill iwu ?uuii u;x:tcs ui profit under the constitution and he must surrender the one or the other. But these legislators and congressmen and senators asd governors and j others high in authority say what they ' claim Blease said in his famous Rich- j mond speech, "To hell with the con- j stitution," if it should interfere wit.a . their holding on to these trusteeship ; Ana rue irusiessmp must ue a ^uuu | thing or they have an ilea that the ' institution could not go if they should ; not hold the job. The Xew'berry Herald and News seems to believe, like Col. Henry Wat- j terson, that a democrat has no rlgnt to be a prohibitionist.?Anderson Mail. No, no. A democrat may be a prohibitionist if he wants- to and ' practice total abstience of all things V that he^ imagines are injurious to him, but lie is not a good democrat it ne undertakes to regulate and direct ! /the same course for his fellowman if j that fellowman is not doing anything to hurt him or his neighbor and if he 'should do anythisg -to do injury to either then let him suffer for it an:l , pay the penalty. LETTER FROM FRANCE. Mr. B. L. Dorrity has received a 1 very interesting letter from Iiis ?0Dhew. Conoral Robert L. Dougherty,j who has been in France for severa: mo(nths with the American forces. It is largely personal and whitfe the writer says there are a great many things about which he could tell an interesting story it is not wise to co so and the censorship will not permit it He says: We had a pleasant, un\ eventful trip. Didn't see a submarine," speaking of the trip across. Speaking of the censorship he adds^ "We can say we are well and that is about all. For the past month I have been workii^ at the office of the division Quartermaster in the subsistence department. I have been detailed from my regiment permanently I expect. I like the clerical work very much. It is very instructive. I've been getting along very nicely since I've been in France. My health is fine. Except for a little cold I haven't hac any sickness at all. The rather vigorous engineering has done n,a gooG..* He says he expects to get back m 1920 and will spend the summer with Mr Dorritv in the mountains The letter was written the day "before Christmas and he was anticipating a turkey dinner with all the other good things that go with it. The bovs are all in fine spirits an1 are going ir give tbe Germans "Hail Columbia" pretty soon. DRAYTON RUTHERFORD CHAPTER U. I> C. Sfnce the surgical dressings classe will beiin og the afternoon for nc regular meeting of the chapter, thnt meeting is moved up just rne w?eT% Tuesday, January 20th., with Miss \*ora Long as hostess. This is the tn.^ for the pavrpent of annnal dues Matters of ^m^o-tanoe a~e to oomc before t^rc chanter, and a full atterxj ance Is desfrel. ? H # ? IMPORTANT NEWS' THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI8 AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS J0f_ THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The Southland Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic. The Dallas, Texas, firemen formed a labor union affiliated with the American Federation of- Labor. Twentyone fire refused to withdraw, and were suspended by city council, whereupon practically the whole department went on strike "for their rights as American citizens." Conviction of four officials of the . Hamburg - American line, including Karl Buenz, managing director, 'on charges of violating the customs laws in sending supplies to German cruisers early in the war, was affirmed by the? United States circuit court of appeals at New York City. The* decision also upheld the conviction of the j Hamburg-American line, which had I been sentenced to pay a tine or one i dollar. Higher wagfcs will be asked of the railroad administration soon by nearly all classes of organized railroad labor. It is stated, however, that strikes are in nowise contemplated. | Frank Gwynne Tuder, leader of the Australian Labor party, has been elevated to the premiership, says a Melbourne dispatch. j Most of the industries asked to reglass industtry might be one of these, complish it by shutting down entirely foY one day each week, as the paper board makers already have been ordered to do. Some industries, however, cannot shut down easily for a day, and they will be asked to cease oper ation for as long as a month later on in the year. It was suggested that the glass industtry might be one of these. Explaining his recent'order giving fuel administrators authority to close industries to supply householders witii coal, Doctor Garfield said this pcv.cr wculd be permitted to be used cr.-y in emergencies. At Gamp Funston, Kans., three tnen were kiiled and two seriously injured when the army bank there was robbed by a man dressed in the uniform of a captain in the United Stater,- army. The three men, civilians, were killed with an ax, it is reported, while they were at work in the bank. C. F. Winters, vice president of the National Reserve bank 01 Kansas uuy, mo., was seriously wounded and it is feared he cannot recover. A series of tornadoes that broke over Central Georgia are known to have killed one man. Three others are. known to have been injured. A cloudburst followed the first tornado and the greatest damage to Camp Wheeler, seven mil^s south of Macon, Ga., where more than 20,000 men are encamped, is from water. Many tents were blown down. The collapse of a corral of the 122d infantry (formerly Fifth Georgia regiment) caused the death of a private named Harris. Establishment of a government powder plant at Hadley's Bend on the Cumberland river, near Nashville, Tenn., has been announced by General Crozier, chief of the'ordnance bureau of the war department. Con! ~J?"* -IT + % i-v-\ rv> ^ n f a! tr Sirucuuil Will ue aucii lcu iijjnicuicii.ci.t on the plant, which will cost about | sixty million dollars, and will employ about fifteen thousand men. The tract 1 on which options were taken includes ; 4,600 acres and the price to be pai?" i for the land is approximately half a million dollars. Enforced food conservation in restaurants and extension of anti-hoarding regulations to make them apply to the household are included in the plans of the food administration for creating a larger export surplus of food for the allies. Washington. Every phase of the war department's preparation for battle against Germany was outlined and'defended by Sec retary Kaker before tne senate military committee. He answered those who have criticized the department during the committee's investigation with the assertion that no army as is now under the American flag had ever been raised, equipped or trained so quickly and that never before had such provision been made for the comfort and health of an army. A dispatch from Madrid says the Spanish king has s'gned a new decree dissolving the cortes. Elections will be held February 24 and the new parliament will meet no March IS. The women suffragists feel sure of forcing the senate to pass the Susan B. Anthony suffrage amendment before the present session ends. The shortage of food abroad probably will brin? an early determination of a policy respecting the balance to be maintained between food and troop shipments. A decision will be left largely to the allies, since they best can determine which will b^ the most useful to themselves in prosecuting th'i war. Senator Jones of Washington says: "Every scoundrel in the country is stocked r.r on m.Iitarv supolies wh'oh the quai tevmaster cla**ms tie is unaole to obta'V Senior Jones wants t&e - governirusm to : famish/officer? thoir uniiorms at cost ; The food administration has d ed to purchase 30 per cent of output of the flour mills. Out of it will supply the allies, the army navy, ami will maintain reserve st to meet local shortages. Citizens or subjects of Euro neutral countries, regardless of wl er they have taken out first pa for American citizenship, will be f from liability to military service ii United States if they appeal thr< their diuloraatic reDresentatives Washington. The senate has adopted Senatoi rah's resolution requesting the i committee to consider the advisat of amending the present rules s< ! to permit the consideration of | ties in open session. Even some plants making munit and other war supplies may hav curtail fuel consumption during next sixty days, Fuel Administi ^1/1 ooi/1 i'rk o ctofmri nrtf ocon vxa.i liciu. saiu, 1:1 a. cicou the public that every effort wil made to distribute the available ply of coal where most need, and no partiality will be shown in section. Woman suffrage by federal con? tional amendment won in the b wiih exactly the required numbe affirmative votes. Ship losses and crop failures ab have brought about such a sei food situation in the allies coun that the United State^ is plannin release for export an additional i ty million bushels of wheat, alth< the country's export surplus had shipped by mid-December. The pie of the United States will be a by the food administration to cut 1 consumption to make up the amoui be exported. With every st<ite in the union ding, Georgia was selected by the ] office department for the initiatio motor car trunk line parcel post vice, with Atlanta as the base. i European. Germany was never in such da of collapse from internal and exte difficulties as at present, says the respondent in Germany of The Tij an analysis of the existing "situa The political struggle concentr around Foreign Secretary Von Ki mann has been reflected in vie scenes in the main committee of reichstag. Public action of the ciaiist minority " cannot be longer sisted. Initial comment in the Austrian German press on President Wils message is bitterly hostile. His gram is declared to be unaccept; and one pan-German paper says "more brutal still" than the re statement of Premier Lloyd Gee The president is accused of desi to hinder the Brest-Litovs-k neg tions, and Vienna newspapers dec tlfet his peace conditions are ; as could only be imposed on the tral powers if they were defeated i pletely. The number of British ships i by German submarines in the i less U-boat warfare which has 1 in progress since last February passed the thousand mark. Leon Trotzky, speaking at the p conference at Brest-Litovsk, told Germans that the Russians were t not as the representatives of a quered country, and did not inten ask pity, bat were just as stro rpVnliitinnarv as ever. Snow has come to the aid of Italians. The Austro-Greman o sive apparently has reached a ha not an end. The whole mountain f where the Teutons had been ma slight but steady gains is buried der from three to five feet of s: making infanttry operations imp ble and hampering' the Teutonic ply lines seriously. It is apparent that the Germans not be able to begin operations h * effc/rt to complete their conques venetia wnne me suppiy uuest snow-bound. As the Russian peace deleg passed along the way to renew negotiations with the Germans, Russian troops in the trenches Bre3t-Litovsk, urged upon Trots "Be firm. Don't make a dishonor peace. We did not overthrow czar to bow to German imperiali ' A Constantinople report has it within the Ottoman empire there tavi' rt o- nf hrie-atids estim 4V?*"b at three hundred thousand. They mostly armed deserters from the s bent on pillage, and venture towns and sometimes attack the ular troops in order to get arms food. The hospital ship Rewa was t< doed and sunk in the Bristol cha while on her way from G'bra1 tar the wounded were savod. Tti^re 1 throe casualties among the crew "The additional strength which enemv can obtain frrm the evenl Russia and Italy already has largely discounted and tho u'tfrnati struction of the enemy's field fr: has been brought appreciably nea is the confident summing up of British commander-in chief in Fr and Belgium of last year's work Germany announces a further e: sion of the barred zone. It bee effective January 11. The exten<particularized in the message a ths region around "on^my suppoi point.5'' on the ('ape Verde islands the point of support of Dekar, Fr -Senerai;, y.'ith the adjoining district. President Wilson's address to gross on th? country's war aims, characterized by William B. Thi son. *>er.d of the American Red 0 riissK'.n co Russia, as an adapt? r*.Vt!; tie Ru?s:ar> people nnd prcgrrrn of the Russian democra . _ ecid-'vnx.L < U)SE ALL DAY the TiCESE NEWBERRY MERCHANTS this! and ^jle und.3rsigned agree to keep their OF63 stores closed. all day on Mondays for j pean the next n*ne ^onc*ays. letb.- ' ,R- Smith & Son j pers R. B. Lominack & Son reed Johnson McCrackin Co. i the \ >Gvo C. Hinn 3ugh Reighley & Buford *u Boozer Bros 1 i ; i J. M. Counts Bo~ A. L. Rikard 'ules jility - Br>'son Grocery Co. ? MC I Summer Bros. Co. U do | trea-: RiKard & Long ! E. M. Evans & Son :ionsj The J. W. Kibler Co. '? to I otto Klettner the! C. J. McWhiter atorj q g Hutchinson f ' !n?g! Hutchinson & Snelgrove * 1 be ? sup-1 A- R Boozer that; s- *' Trakas any J- T. Dennis ; Hudson & Bouknigbt titu- " R. 0. Sli'gh "use j. j# Hitt r of W. S. .Mann The Purcell Co. road _ . _ . . d a. Livingston ious tries ParI J?hnstone g (q L. Havird line- G-. L Jones 3ugh Timmerman & Xesiey been .} a. Senn Peo- J. R. Thornton 3 J :heir it to The Dutch weather prophet predic- , ted the snows that have fallen, W P. ! bid- ? post- "^,eat-her Prophet Houseal is a sue- m n of cessful w, p. He now says the severe ?ser" form of the winter has passed. This i will be confidently and thankfully entertained. . ! nger Little drops of coal chunks, little :rnal cor- ?rains sug' lQake a mighty rustle l ji, in In this neighborhood. You have to tion. hustle and tussle for it. ' And tne ated .. , flour is running the same way. jem)lent Subscribe to The Herald %nd News. So- , ' re- ~ ' NOW TOR SOME FUNI and ?,r''e SkOW ring Otia, & Razzle-Dazzle of Fun? ;lare W Musicand Prancing Girls 5uch umi^jn &y9l\ tinkling qfa cen- wrjm:r^ *v song hits i.u | com ?A HULA HULA QA jr^QV DANCERS OU t>t / /I 1 ma2e-l carus, uoifleo^ A\ Voiced California Nightingale hasj m 4*. PEOPLE ! c\ Ls 403RV eace; ^ Gl RLS the, % * * ^ corn!: Opera House, Friday, Feb. 1 . d to ' ngly the ffen 'ront Condi king unS mi- mi ,? ::Tle Naiiona i an i 'arc Newbe athe From Report to Showing Condition at I able the sm." i xi 1 ^ mat | atel! Loans and Investm ir"? Liberty Loan Bond nreegr U, S. Bonds and Cash and Due fron Drpe*: nnel . All w ere \ ! j ^ | ^ ?n t anital block br-^n C* * 1 1 T "r "* ? *<*?- Surplus and Unaiv irces . "* -g ?, rer,"; Cll'Clli&tlGD ance Dividends Unpaid <cf:en-' Deposits :s.me ;io?\s * : inir "Ii 7*A/J A//*f*nfs Jl 11^1 TUilUfl was B. C. MATTHEWS, T. K. J( President Il'OSS ition cj:a State, Co Make This Bank Your To Assist Yoi in computing your Tax" we suggest th /^1 1*4 - T Checking Account IN end jof the year you: be an accurate i "Income" and your c dependable record of This is the most S Satisfactory method. i Open a Checking Accoa \ THE EXCHANI % Of Newberry "The Bank of the For Blank Books ( rtrsrw c DUUA JJ Ledgers/Journals, "" -Cash Books, Rec Record Books, i and Memorandum Ny n. . .1 17 17^ IIT-.l Stan me new lear mm a Mavoc' Rnn 17 aw j vu wv The House of a The 1844 * #*? . - insect Statem OF ?rrv .Smith Caroli J J ^ the Comptroller of th< the Close of Business Deci RESOURCES ents - s s, Installments - i Banks and U. S. Tree LIABILITIES ided Profits I al Bank ofh DHNSTONE H. T. CANNON " - ^ * Cashier Asst. Casftier uiity and City Depo, / ' J Business Home AR 1918 "Income at you open a OW?and at the r bankbook will . j ecord of your ^ anceled checks a rj your "Expense" ^ imple, Safe and it Tomorrow GE BANK K ,s. c. ! People" _ . i A looks I 'orji Day Books, ieipt Books, irne Books, 1S' - ^ i New Blank Book k Store (usand Things Jtf ent Newberry ina * e currency ember 31, 1917 $545,036.05 J 47,343.00 J 100,000.00 1 s. 189,492.51 a $881,871.56 | <?1 f\n> nrsfi aa iuujuuu.vv; 14,214.28 98,800.00 4,058.67 1 664,798.61 V $881,871.56" 1 fewberry W. W. CROMER j Asst. Cashier ^ s itory f