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WHITE REGISTRANTS
CALLED FOR AUGUST 29.
The local board has called the following
white registrants to report for
military duty on Thursday, August 2?,
, 191-8, at 5 o'clock p. m. These young
L mp-n will be sent to CaniD Jackson
on August 30, 1918, leaving iXewberry
on the C., N. & L. at 9:53 a. m:
A. J. Bowers, Jr.
Holland L. Sligh.
Herman Willie Vaughn
Beaureguard Thomasson
Walter Gus Franklin
Thomas Leroy Cromer
^ Leiand Epps 'Rikard
William David Shealy
L. Fred Paysinger t
Clarence Eugene Perkins
Thomas Aiken Hair
John Henry Boozer
John Archie Long
George Bearden
William Alvin (Rawls
{R. Sammie Nobles
Luther Seymore
T7!nr\c Porrv Kirtar/?
' Otis iSampson Lindler
George Wilbur Hawkins
Francis Leroy Suber
George V. Shealy
Matthew Stock Fulmer
i
^ Morse Buford Dominick j
Tames L&vi Dennis
Arthur Elmer Derrick
Thomas Jefferson Davenport, Jr.
Shirley Pomeroy Daniels
?Baba Thomas
Ollie Lee Shealy
Lor.nie M. Mills
Claude Johnson
Thomas Otho Sease
' .Tames Arthur Grant
James Launcelot Swindler
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Attend Sanitary Campaign.
Please make notice in your paper
that Reevrend Hugh JR. Murchison,
_ Field Agent of the State Council of
Defense, and Dr. Aiken of Columbia
?m ?n^^T.aceoc tr? tha VP whPfTV
Will ILL dive CJ.UU1 w - . - ? ,
county Council of Defense and citizens
next "Wednesday morning, August 21,
at 11 o'clock in the court house. All j
public spirited citizens are urged to
attend this meeting. We desire to j
plan a Sanitary campaign in Newberry
county and wish to work out a sched- !
ule of meetings at this central meet- !
ing. Everybody is invied to attend the :
meetinw.
T .M. Mills,
Sec'y Council of 'Defense of Newberry
County.
Ridge Spring Club.
The Ridge Spring Home Demonstration
club will meet Thursday after- I
noon, August 22nd, at the school*
house at 4:30 o'clock.
Willie Mae Wise,
County Agent.'
Walter Crapps is on the submarine
chaser Anniston and has had some :
th-rini-nfr ?-x:T>eriences, but has not yet i
. caught a submarine. He sends his j
mother a picture of his ship and also
of a shark which they caught. The
_ shark was 14 feet long ?nd ?s a r:an- j
gerous looking animal. He also sends '
a picture of the boys on board, and
only throe frcm South O.rolirn.. He j
is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Crapps
of the Beth Eden community and vol- |
unteered when only 19 years of age.
He saj's he like it nfie and is enjoying I
the best of health.
k Dr. TV. F. Pi^'loy who is somewhere (
W in France sends the editor of The
Herald and Xews a copy cf The Stars
and Stripes of date July 28. It is ,
published weekly and is the official
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newspaper <ji m:iun.uu
tionary forces and contains much valuable
"matter as to the war op2atiens.
Learn to Get AIo
r It
has been done befor<
fined sugar was unknown. (
you can use honey also. Be
natural sugars of fruits, will
v~,,
curies U-gu. J.UU Will ycu ai
way. The Allies do it now.
war used more sugar than
per head a month now; Fra
; and Italy only one. Show y
and use less than your ratio]
fice as compared with ali tha
yourself.'
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REGISTRATION 1>AT
U GUST 24TH 1918.
All :oung men who have come of
age since June 5th, 1918, and who wiix
come of age on or before August 24th,
191S, mut appear before the local
?
board at tne new court nuuse, dewberry,
S. C., on August 24th, 1918, between
7 o'clock a. m. and 9 o'clock
p. m. to register. There will be only
one place for registation in the county
and that is the new court house. Any
young man who is absent fi;om his
home on that date ust appear before
he nearest local board before that
'"me, fill out his registration card and
mail it to this local board so as to
" J ? ' ? ~~ 1 ?J V,? A ll cru ct 94t?!
:eacn mib iuu<n uucti u uv
Th;'s must not confused with the
anticipated general regisartion from
18 to 45. Only oung men who have
come cf agesin ce June 5th, and who
will come of age before August 24th
are required to register.
COLORED REGISTRANTS
CALLED FOR AUGUST 21
The local board has called the following
colored registrants to report
for military duty cn Wednesday,
August 21st, at 5 o'clock' p. m. These
men will be sent to Camp Jackson on
-v < 1 P
August Z_nu, leaving .xenucuj w?u w,
X. & L. at 9:53, a. m:
William Holmes
fames johnson
James Xance
Oscar Stephens
j Dock Burgess
Belt Burton
j .Tames Keitt
Willie Maybin
f Lat Gary
| Coly Kineaid
C~rl Suber
Ilcbsrt "'v.n Ldu
I addio Wheeler
Claud Swittenberg
Henry Hutcherson
Henry Suber
Eddie Gallman
Willie Eigner
Tommie Henderson
Henry Suber
Finkney Sanders
William Swittenfcerg
Emry smiin
Elmurrv Jackson
Henry Lindsey
Luther Spearman
Geroge Chai>lin
Jimrcie Shelton
Eddie Frank Dean
James Arthur Glenn
Pies Reed
Nathan Gaffney
Sammie Sheely
Henry Cannon'
Fed Anderson
Dorroh Williams
Jobnie. Goree
^fayer Benson
Ben Duckett
Mr. ana Mrs. A. B. Harman and little
Frowes Caroline, Mrs. Annie P. Oxner
r'nd son W. B. Oxner, all of Columbia,
ct)eni the week-end with Mrs. G. W.
Larson, mother of Mesdames Oxner
and Karman.
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* MORE FRUIT and LESS SUGAR *
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How? *
More Less -A
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? V-UUUCU 11UH UUUU r
Dried Fruit Jelly -A
Fruit Butter Preserves *
Fresh Fruit Sweet Pickles *
*
Hon. Geo S. Mower has received
notice from his son, Dr. Frank D.
:o\ver, that he has arrived safely over
j-"cas.
ng Without Sugar
3. A hundred years ago re)ur
ancestors used honey and
sides there are syrups. The
serve today as they did cen1
the sugar you need in this
England, which before the
we did, has but two pounds
,nce one ana a nan pounds,
ourself a patriotic American
i. This is but a slight sacri,t
the Allies are doing. Do it
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WH.SON SAYS BELEASE IS NOT
A?,' ADMINISTRATION FRIEND
In Lciier Replying" to Inqniry the
rresident Says That He Has Not
tiip Least Fear That South Carolina
Will Belieye Blease to be a Real
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F:*:'?nd to tiie Administration.?ins
Record Stands.
Sparlanburg Herald.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 15.?The
president, just before leaving Washington
late last night for a visit to
Colonel House in Massachusetts, sent
the following letter to the Herald correspondent:
The President's Letter.
"My Dear Mr. Daniel: Replying to
your letter of August 12th, let me say
that I have perfect confidence that
the people of South Carolina will
judge rightfy in the senatorial con
est and I have not t^e-least tear tnar
! they will believe that 'Mr. Blease is
. or can be a friend to the administration.
The record of his opinions is
already written and it is a little late
to expunge it.
Sincerely yours,
"Woodrow Wilson.
AVas Reply to Daniel.
The president's letter was in reply
to one from The Herald's correspondent
riatpri isst. Mondav. as follows:
"My Dear Mr. President: I have
; noted much satisfaction in letting the
people know your desire that a cer!:r"n
little band of wilful men be not
re-elected to the senate and house of
i
; representatives because of their ob^
<= ruetionist tactics on maters of vital
importance in the conduct of the war
Blease-s Record.
j "While I feel confident of the defeat
J of Cole L. Blease for the senate to
j succeed the late Senator Tillman, I
; fppi that an exDression from you for
I ihe benefit of the people of 'South Car)
olina would help to make his defeat.
; overwhelming. You are doubtless
! aware of the savage attacks made by
' Elease upon you and upon the admin|
fstration, several months after Amer|
i'a entered the war in which, among
; other things he declared that the blood
j of every American soldier killed on
! foreign soil would be an unwarranted
sacrifice of American manhood charge!
able to you. He is now telling his
. ' -n-? + V.? ic l'n f^irnr nf a thil'd
I lUllUVVCiS LI_lfct,L UC " i.1* f yji VA. 1- _
j te^m for you, that he will loyally supj
port you if he is elected and is making
i r?*>?r similar statements that are at
I absolute variance with his wfiole cai
\
I reer and his wholfe record in and out
i of office. Even as late as June of this
j year in a public speech he dared the
! f?deral government to take the bridal
. off during the months of July and
August and allow a free discussion af
I the war and its causes.
j "I should be very glad if you couid
! find it consistent and convenient to
j favor me with an expression for pub
: lication as to the desirabilities of the
(!e^?t of Blease. His opponent, 'Mr.
riTl, is a loyal and patriotic citizen of
'! rr.y home city of 'Laurens and will
! make a worthy successor of Senator
j Tillman in the senate.
! ' With the highest respect ?vnd esI
teem, I am
"Very truly yours,
"Thomas H. Daniel,"
It is apparent from the president's
letter that he is entirely familiar with
the utterances cf MP. Blease, whi<^h
are mderstood to have been closely
watched by the agents of the departj
of justice.
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! Mesa Thompson, the aged colored
j citizen who is so well known in Xewve-ry,
lost his wife Martha, who died
!i~t Thursday morning, at the age of
a'^c"* PO years. She bQro a good rcp ' afion
p.r.d had lots of friends also
j
among the white people, whom she
served is various capacities during the
many years of her life >Mose and
Martha married in slavery times, and
lived to see more anniversaries ?r
f -heir wedding day than falls .o the
j lot rf wedded couples. Mose says be
j was about 16 years old at the breaking i
i out of the war with Mexico.
' It. Osce Co-eman has had to under-;
ro anipu*at?on of the left hand jus* j
abrve the wrist, resulting from d
wound received -n r^ccnr fighting in.
Tron~e. Lt. Coleman's nt.rse vvrote
his parents tba* he improving
fr.d v.'-s arxious ro get back
'o -he trenches.
FreMder.f 0^. W. Sumr,0r of th?
Mcllohon !viapri'actur:iiz company re'urrod
SnVrday from a business trip
o y.cxv York. !
BLEASE'S EVEN TEMPER
UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES
SURPRISES HIS ENEMIES.
Evokes Wild Enthusiasm From 10,000
People In His Two Days Speaking
Tour in the Most Populous County
in the State.?Not Once Does He
Ever Show That the Malice of His
Enemies Has Affected Him.
Spartanburg, Aug. 17.?Again today
... :'U. u g poi.ivd out lcc enthusiasm
for Clease at four meetings, thus
demonstrating in ten meetings yesterday
and today that this, the biggest
voting county of the State, is solidly
for him and the Reform ticket, and
nothing can take it away. It is a safe
estimate that he will carry the county
by at least 1,500 votes.
I'nder all the circumstances many
expected that Governor Blease might
today or yesterday lose his temper,
hitting back at those who have succeeded
in wringing out of the president
at the last minute the evidently
reluctant and tame letter addressed to
Mr. Daniel, correspondent of a lccal
paper.
Probably the old fire-eating Blease
would have "come back strong," more,
perhaps, to the delight of any of his
friends, but nevertheless of doubtful
? ? + T>,i f iroro OitViOT clir
J JI Up! iCt > . OUt tuc)' ?? ^v%*
poised or disappointed. Blease kept
;ho even tenor of his way, and quoted
to one of his friends something to the
effe; t that "he that keepjtli his temper
is greater than one who ruleth over
o. nation," not an exact quotation, but
puite an appropriate paraphrase or*
S. ri?)t!:re. Blease said that he was
keeping his temper, and was leaving
to the president, his proper function of
ruling the nation.
Moreover, Blease said in private anil
public that ;:ndoubtedly the president
had heard nothing but bad about him,
c-Lher fabrications out of the whole
cloth or distortions or partial quotationfc
squeezed out of the endless
speeches he has made. 'However, he
r> rrre dif'c-^r* wi'!
be i'ormed on both sides when he goe?
to Washington.
At each of his meetings he reiterated
what he first said at Wagner:
"Whatever I may have said, or whatever
I may ha\*? done, the people of
South Carolina know that I have
never made them a promise mat 1
have not fulfilled. I have never said
that I would do a thing that I did not
-'o it: I have never said that I would
not do a thing and then go on and
do it. That everybody knows. I
"And I want to say this: Tha*
when I am elected to the United States
sena"'" am going to President Wiihi
ell him that here is an Amer.
^ ->r tor, and, whatever is neces?a^
/in this war, I am with him
to the rinish. i
' If ir be r.ecessaryV in order to win
the war, to break the precedent set
by President Washington, in reference
to a third term, I shall tell President
Wilson that I will support him for a
third term and make speeches for him
in any part of the American continent
! o which he may wish me to go.
"I go yet still further and will say
to him that I will raise a regiment
now, or at any time in the future, if
he deem necessary, of as true South
Carolinians as ever went on a field
of battle, and resign my seat in the
senafe and lead the regiment for the
right of the American people."
^limnaugh
Hps j'.'st returned from the north0..r
where he bought for the
"?r>of ra^h' the largest and most seasonable
stock of merchandise that he
" h?d and the goods are coming
every day. Xow is' the time to
t"1n o^-^rjfoo-rk pf tV,q that llO
is offering. He is also selling all midsummer
*oods at great reductions to
room frr the seasonable fa 1!
goods now arriving. i
Miss Ella Watson of Whitmire ar.d
.Mr. C. B. Eison cf 'Union county wer-3
married at Whitmire on the 11th instant
by the Rev. D. W. Garvin.
Miss Mary Duncan and Mr. M. 0.
.T. Kreps. Jr., of Columbia, were mar~i
r "r. Columbia on the 17th instan'.
i.T. r>rv v 0 , Kreps. :
!
Privates Sam Xeai and Otis LorM
the ^Drm?~ Of '1 ] < >rv _ !
'ce 3rd the lr>t;*pf do^n1 h?*i^c '-* j
it Camp Tackson, spent the week-er ;
*?. .ve'.vvo"rv
LETTER FROM OUR BOY.
We have been printing letters from
the soldier boys over there, and we
believe the people like to >?ad them
We know that we are interested sufficiently
to enjoy the reading of any
lpt.f.pr from anv of the bovs. and es
"?':ially frrm those whom we know
Of course they are not permitted to
write anything about what they are
doing, but even what they write is interesting
We have been receiving
regularly field cards, they are called,
from our boy, and they give one great
satisfaction to know that he is well
and setting on fine. In fact, all the
letters have the same sprit of good
cheer and hopefulness, and that means
much for the success of our arms.
Our boy requests that we do not
?1 nftn. in full jKnf aftPr I
pi 1JLI t IllO lClLCi 111 jlua*9 uui/ tAfcvw* > - ?v*- j
ing it we do not see where there is '
any objection to the printing any part j
of it, and feeling that he has some j
friends who would be interested in I
reading a letter from him we arr? j
printing it just as he wrote it, with i
'i->e pretention cf some purely person- !
al reference
We feel like he does, that if we j
fore *n hi"5 place that we would rather
remain with our company as first
orgeat, or even as a private, than b?
p p-cr. I'entenant in some other com- '
r.trv penpfiallv when we had been
vjf
w{*h the hoys for two years and all of
them were fond of us, but his spirit
is fine, that if duty calls him elserr*?ere
he goes.
We had a letter from Captain Van("
:v"r ccrre time n<ro tellins: us that
he hr?r7 recierned his commission as
pp^t.v'n a^d was on his way to join
his old company as a private, and for
? <? tell Humbert he was coming.
We know he will be disappointed when
he does not find Humbert with the
company, but we hope he may find
him somewhere and that they will
meet.
i-'ve the spirit also which makes
the bovs feel that theirs is the best
company over there. That is the
?"irit of loyalty which means much.
All the boys seem to think that they
have already won the war and that
the fighting is about over. "We hope
they are correct, but they must know
that we over here are going right
along with preparations as if the war
was to last for several years, ana mat
is$the right thing to do. Let the
enemy know and realize that we mean
Vi<-ir,ec;c: and that we are going to
Mftan rp the rarch while we are at
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July 23, 1918.
My Dear Papa: ?
Received your letter two days ago,
nrd I sure was glad to hear from you.
as that is the first letter that has
reached me from you. I have received
about six papers since I left home, so
you see how slew second ciass mail
comes. If there is any thing that happens
that you think I would be interested
in either er.f it out and send
it in a letter or register that paper
and maybe I will get it. I almost had
tr> fight, when the old Herald and News
arrived in camp as the boys were 20
to see them. Every t*:rre th?^
mail comes in they will always ask
me if my paper came and when I ten
them no you will always see a look of
rV'^n"^ointment on their faces.
T ha"?*e ^e^e'v^d n "f letter**
from Pa?il Vandiver and the last or.o
" ?+ j ?was <V"*tp o^r,>v
i'<?.rr> Tre :rt Co Ij, l?3t.h T*if and is
- -?~ivptp. J ani rnder the impression
that when he resigned and reenlisted,
that he enlisted with the first division
coming across with the understanding
that he could transfer to his old Co.
T don't guess I will be here when he
comes, if he does, as I am to go to an
offers training school on the first of
this month. The ro'-r-:e. I und^s^and
is to last 3 months. I am going but
it is against my will for I would
rather stay with my old Co., bv the
way, which is the best Co. over here,
than to ba a first Lieut., in some other
Co. I told I ie-^. Anderson after h-^
told me that he had recommended mo
that T would rather not go but he said
he thought that it was my duty, that
officers were very much in demand
? T ?? on/? Tnn OA Tl HOTlnt
iiere. i am l:^uuu ?uu ??
on me doing my best. \
The weather over here is very peculiar.
Wh?n it starts to rain it rains
for weeks without letting up. The
r<isrhfs n v<*~v <"nol. hut *t is verv
in <!av-:me. T'?e rs-trTrt"
?n the srnr/nett'me only have about
WORLD SHORTAGE
IN BEET SUGAR
Crnns Are dO Per Cent. Less
Thaa Pre-War Average?Central
Powers Hit Hardest.
CANE SUGAR IS ISOLATED.
Allied Beet Production Falls One-third
in Rigid War Economy
Practiced.
The world today is producing forty
per cent, less beet sugar than the prewar
av^racre.
Counting the American, Allied and
German-Austrian crops, as well as the
neutrals, the U. S. Food Administration
has estimated that the world
shortage created by the light crop of
1917-1918 is at least three and a half
million tons.
That the 1917-1918 crop of cane sugj
ar was two million tons in excess of
the previous year does not relieve the
general shortage.
Cuba and Java produce one-half of
the world cane crop, and the Java sugar
is too far removed from America to
transport when shipping is badly needed
to transport and maintain the millmrv
forces in France.
Ill Java a large part of the old sugar
crop is still awaiting shipment. Since
it requires 1.".0 to 160 days for each
boat that is sent to Java, the possibilities
of obtaining adequate shipments
of Java sugar this season are remote.
Allies' Production Falls.
Taking the Allied nations as a group,
official reports show that beet sugar
production is less by one-third than the
pre-war average.
French beet sugar industry has suffered'most
by the war. The French
yield of beet sugar is now only 29.1
per cent, of the pre-war average.
1 ?*A.i i n or Altf
fOI" Lilt? Live ,v ru i ^ yi mv* vuv
i break of hostilities in Europe, Frajpce
produced an average of 752,542 tons of
Sugar each year. For 1917-18 the
French production was 219,416 tons.
With 61 factories operating, as compared
with more than 200 that were
in existence before the war and before
the general campaign of destructive*
ness launched by the German armies,
. France nevertheless managed to manufacture
more beet sugar in 1917-18
than In 1916-17, when the total output
was 202,415 tons.
Italy in 1917-18 produced 100,800
tons of beet sugar, which was 56,000
tons less than the previous year and
110,250 less than the annual output of
sugar for the five year pre-war period.
. ~*A* ^
! One of the great difficulties expori1
ence3 in Italy's beet sugar Industry
was finding sufficient labor to handle
the crop. Thousands of men usually
employed in beet sugar production
were called for military service. The
' yield per acre amounted to approximately
half of the usual quantity ot
beets harvested.
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Tranwood Red Cross.
Therg will be a meeting of Tran
" " in -4 ? 1 V, 1
WOOfl Kea t^ross auxiliary at cue
house Thursday afternoon, August 22,
at 6 a'clock. Important business to
be transacted. Every member urged
to be present, those wishing to join
please meet with us. I have an application
blnnk for the junior organization.
All children that want to be
a member of the Red Cress, come and
bring your 25c ar.d get your button.
Mrs. C. A. Matthews,
Chairman.
five hours of darkness. All of the
jilting and work of any kind on the
line is done at night, and of course
what little sleep you get is in the
morning. There is a lots that I would
like to tell you about, for I have seen
and have been, but as you know thera
is very little of any interest that gets
by.
I gue?s I had hotter close as it is
getting late and about time for me to
get busy Dor.'t worry about me for
I am getting along fine, getting plenty
to eat, and believe me I am coming
back to the dear old U. A. I hon
estly believe that this war, almost a
business now, vill come to a close
thi* yenr.
Write me at loas^ rnce a week for
you have ro id?'? r.cw 've!co*v.o a I^ter
is. If I dorTr Ci I will rond
you one of those Field Po.-/ C^rds once
a week. Ysu Vn^rv that saying that
"no news is gv~cd new-." Please don't
' worry.
Your devoted ?on,
Humbert. "j