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Mimnaus w g On F rom tl we greet, wl gifts as you of the price ? Rushed here fr est ever known in t f 200 More A collection of coats such as these< ? And every one of to realize ready moi f " At prices that a '*1 the newness of the s I How Abe I The broad assortment of fii B along this line. We have 'em f< 1100 pairs large size white b j j V. S. CASUALTIES FAR I> ARREARS. 16,000 Major Casualties, Including ' Killed in Action, Died of Wounds or Disease, 5ot Yet Reported. Washington, December 6.?The w$r department announced today that 16,000 majof- casualties, including killed ill action, died of wounds, died of disease or other causes, severely wound ed and missing, have not yet beei finally reported to the next of Mp The arrears in minor casualties i? much larger, it was added. ? From cable reports expected, tho Apartment hopes to clear up the arrears in major casualties within a j week, except for a few names with respect to which identification has not yet been completed. The minor casualties not yet reported to the next of kin represent slight wounds involving relatively brief disablement .^nd in most cases the "men sustaining v/them already have been healed. The / total in this class also includes many 1 duplications, the same soldier having 1 been slightly wounded two or more times. The official statement issued today shows that the total major casualties reported by General Pershing on November 27, 50,928 have been reported the next of kin, with 7,550 still ro IW reported. Of the 14,565 missing and prisoners of war sent in by General Pershing. 14,093 have been reIprted to relatives,. but of the 189,P>5 total wounded, only 69.841 have been cleared up finally. The statement gives the following official explanation of the discrepancy as to wounded: "Ten thousand men seriously \wocnded and reported by cable are fjeing held up Decause ot discrepancies in- initials or enlistment numbers, and 100,000 men. less seriously j^crounded, including many slight casBRia|ties, are still to "be wrawn from W thr hospital records which have been " forwarded by courier from Prance. : "The records are not alphabetical and the work is necessarily slow, as the same name usually appears more than once Tr> one case a single name appears in 20 different places. The work npon these hospital reports wa~, seriously delayed "by the influenza \ epidemic. ."^he foregoing statement does rot cover all the discrepancies as will be seen, but in dealing with so great a ^ / 3 Si: ; " WammkL ;h's ] WT1r.1l VV llfl le gift as big as iiere else could \KJc Lau t-. t * we quote. Coi lOO IN om New York by expres his section. Every suit * m 4TII i w????i New Coats Ruj coats in which every mc at such prices. We hav< $12.50. $1! ' " F them made in the highc iey. Dresses worth $1? f ire almost beyond belief, style and values represer ?ut Those Christmas nu litv handkerchiefs we carry at tl; or men, women and children from 5c to Blankets Make Idea! lankets, pink and blue borders, worth $1 0 I 1VJL number of cases it may be assume; that the remainder is in process o j check:ng and that reports will b< made within a few days as to all iden , tifiable casualties.' j The statement attributes the grea ; delay in reporting casualties and tin large numoer of errors which hav< been found the fact that "our grow ing army was operating -on man; fronts under many .commands and ii I the later fighting it was used to pres I the enemy for a quick decision, ever; other consideration being subordin j ated." HE RESOURCES HIS RIGHTS . TO THE GERMAN CROTV> Prussian Government Has Also With drawn Privilege of Immunity Fron Law Heretofore Held by Hohenzoil V-A uc# i Paris, December 6.?Crown Princ< Frederick Wilhelm has renounced hi right to the German throne. A dispatch received in Basel iron the semi-official Wolff bureau quote the crown prince in renouncing thi | throne as having said: i" "I renounce formally and definitel: all riolits to tne crown 01 rrussia am , ? i the imperial crown w.hich would bav< fallen to me by the renunciation of On | emperor-king or for other reasons. j "Given by my authority and signet by my hand. Done at Wieringen, De J cember 1, 1918. ] (Signed) "Wilhelm." j In an interview with a correspond j ent of the Assocated Press on the Is ; land of Wieringen, received in Nev | York, December 3, which bore no evi j dence of delay and presumably was | given not earlier than December 1 I Frederick William said: j "I have not renounced anything. an< j I have not signed any document what ; ever." He added that should the Germai government desire to form a repabLV he would be content to return to Ger many as a simple citizen, ready to d< 1 * ~ noeiot hie. T"V eve cm.yi.iimg iu aooj ;i "u w to work as a laborer in a factory. ! Xo More Immunity for Hohenzollern< Berlin, December 6.?The Prusssiai government has formally withdraw! the privilege heretofore held by th< members of the Hohenzollern familj of immunity from law. i Newberry's G i i > 1 _ tne neari s aesirc you choose from stand back of th< me with the crow fore Coat Sui is and go on sale tomorrow was bought at a decided un $25, shed Here by Ex; del is a new one, in which e e more coats on our racks tl >.00, $18.50, $22.50,! Iandsome Satin . sst of style. We bought the 150 JR20.00 and .<822.50. ,,VWJ T ??- Choice : v New Patt< Values you cannot match ited. Handkerchiefs "? v?rin>,? nrir?< is sufficient argument $2.00. ? Ii Gifts 0.00, cut to $7.50 pair. r IB H lBBk I LLOYD-GEORGE REPEATS ' P t j KAISER MUST BE PUNISHED, tl el f( -! London, Dec. 6.?"The British gov-j ernment will tise its, whole influence e; II at the peace conference to see that ni g | justice is executed," says Premier e j Lloyd-George in a lengthy declaration ;r - i setting forth his government's po^- Vs \f j icies. * t ^ i j Justice, the prime minister makes 3 j clear in his statement, includes the _r j ^ y principle that "the central powers _ must pay the cost of the war up to j the limit of their capacity." This prhi- j cinle. he said, has been accepted by j * all the European allies. i "The kaiser must be prosecuted." j the premier says, "for the frightful j Q ? terrible, hideous, abominable rime j u which has sent millions of the best r young men of Europe to death r.nd'J i mutilation- and has plunged myriads I ill ! of homes into desolation." i The premier made no reference 01 2 ' fn ; whatever to the project of a league R ' v? "; of nations I rl, Expulsion and exclusion of all ^n- u" r\ ! pr emy aliens constitute another plank 3; in the premier's platform. ** L i He assails bolshevism as "the poison p : of droduction." w 'T1 Upon the subject of internal re* j construction as between captial and * I labor, the prime minister's statement - r>Aritair5 thp fnllnw.Tl cr ' j "T say to labor: 'You shall have 3 justice. You shall have fairvtreat- | -1 ment and a fair share of the amenities j j of life. Your children shall have equal j t!< ! oonortunities with the children of the) ?* rich.' | T! "Tj^ capital T say: You shall not | u _ be plundered and penalized. Do von1* M i j duty hv those who work for you and j -1 your future is free for all the en- ^r' 51 terprise or audacity you can g/ve us.' S1 "But there must be equal justice. n and labor must have happiness in its A( j heart. We will have no sweating a id of labor must have its just reward!" ^ Leasfue of Nations "Most Important hs Task. fu London. Dec. 6?"It is not doubted rc * that the United States will accept ;ts su J nroner share in the resnonsibilitv for | m; 1 _ - t j post-peace protection of the worlcl j j from rash acts l^adins: to devasta-, I < tior." said Arthur Jame^ Pnlfour. jeil * British foreign minuter, tonight in aj lie 1 tall- with American new-paper corro-j wi ! spo^dent? ; m: v "* " ?- i-1- * nt*n I ofl 'Mr. JBaiTO'ir sain Hie uiicioiuru <" ' 7 liminarv deliberations will be more I tii , important and longer than the final] dii HnHMumH i reatest Sfror iristmai ?. to tnp tnKftn i such variety 3 merchandise ; d. its at $25.0 in four big; groups. Th ? AOO I-A tf>OA der-pnce. $zo.du, -pou .00 jress. A Tremer :very group represents t lan all the stores in town $25.00, $28.50, $31 1 onu oim ui csa i lot from a manufactur $15.00 ;rn Hats i in any other Newberry Cowrie RitrKf now rKmtmas stocks are at th a.ter on. Right now Christmas merchan Give a Woman Something for Christ oom Slippers, Kimonas. I eace conference at which, he said. | le enemies would merely he present )r ratification purposes. The most important task, the forigrt minister said, is the establishlent of a league of nations. Mr. Balfour added that the prelimiary meetings will arrange "preserition of the broadest international i?tice." He added the peace conference ould coffsider the Roman (Vatican) uestion if it were presented to it. - .M Lti SAJI M'lJLlj STANDING ALOOF. ncstion of Ex-Kaiser's Extradition Not Yet Considered. Washington, Dec. 6.?The United ates government is still standing !oof from the controversy in Europe fer the possible extradition of the irmer German Emperor for trial. It as said at the State Department to ay that this question had not been msidered in Washington and that le American Government had exressed no opin.'on on the subject hatever. SENATE CONFIRMS GLASS o Be Secretary of Treasnry, Succeeding McAdoo. J Washington, Dec. 6.?The nomina-| on of Representative Carter Glass, j : Virginia, to be Secretary of the reasury to succeed Wm. G. McAdoo as confirmed tonight by the Senate ithout. objection. Mr. Glass immediately will resig.i om congress, in which he has served j xteon years, and will take up Pis ?w duties on December 16. Mr. Mcloo w 11 continue as director general railroads until his sucessor for at position is appointed. Representative Glass said today d every reason to believe that the ture policies of the treasury would >t be different from those being pur_ ed except as varying circumstances av suggest. "There is no further statement that :ould make at this time which would :her interest or enlighten the puljsaid Mr. Glass. "T would readily ish that T may succeed even approxiately as well in administering the < fairs of the treasury as has the dislguished man whose retirement so stresses the country. It is my judg- : e Mi ? Shnni of remembranc of beautiful a 70U select and f\ FanK jl is sale of suits is beyond .00, $32.50, $35.00 and ? iclous Disposal of W he utmost in value. It i combined. They are matchl 3.00, $35.00 >es , er who was willing to ta store. One must see fc-ariy ana i^ome urn eir freshest and best- Right now we ce dise is on display. mas She Can Wear.?Handkei chiefs, He raent that his retirement is a national misfortune." BIG HOG, BIG POTATO, BIG RADISH Mr .T R. Flovd who superintends the farm on the Glasgow place for Summer Brothers company killed the other day a porker weighting 604 pounds and he has several more to be killed. JVlr. W. P. Lominick grew some second crop of Irish potatoes that weigh 1 1-4 pounds each and the yield was fine. Then there was on exhibition at the Exhange bank the other day a radish that weighed some 8 pounds and Mr. Hen/y Parr said the flavor was fine and it was tender. And then don't forget the bi<r sweet potatoes that we have told you abov.t. This is really some country when you come to think about it and the possibilities are almost endless and beyond conception. Grow anymr.15 needed for man or beast And this is a time above all others when every available foot of land should be utilized for the growing of food because this favored land will be called upon to feed the world for the next year or more, or there will be starving and suffering in the world Plant schne food stuffs. And theu plant some more. It will be needed and will bring a good price even if you should have some to sell. SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. ?o? .Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell, by order of th3 Probate Court, at public auction to the highest bidder, on Monday, December 23, 1918. at 11 o'clock a. m.; at the late residence of Joseph L?. Phillips, deceased, being on the Frank j Spearman place near the railway station at Spearman, the following per???Arvci?fTr tn-mif * flno hnisp dUIitti pi upci tj, tv ???v. , one buggy and harness, one-horse wagon, four hogs, corn, fodder and hay, all household and kitchen furniture. agricultural implements etc.. belonging to the late Joseph L. Phillips Terms of sale cash Lilla Phillips. Administratrix, ADe runups, Administrator Of estate of Joseph L. Phillips, Deed Dated at Newberry, S. C., the 7th day of December, 1918. 12-10 4t ! imnaugh's I (TT I \JUlg e to friends nd practical stand back question the great^38.50 suits cut to ?omen's Coats is amazing to buy ess bargains at these prices? \ t { Ice his loss in order % them to appreciate en in give you service impossible >siery, Waists, Petticoats, Bed. * ___________ ' Yital Conservation Ranch?for rent (350 acres, six miles south of Newberry, C. H., S. C.) A thoroughly reliable and progressive family will have a most unusual opportunity ta establish a lucrative business and acquire a very valuable property.. Dr. Gustavus Werber, Newberry, S. C. 11-29 to THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA** County of Newberry. Whereas, one-third of the , resident freeholders and a like proportion of the resident electors of the age of twenty-one years in the Fairview school district No. 18, the county of Newberry, State of South Carolina, have filed a petition with the county board of education of Newberry county, South Carolina, petitioning and requesting that an election be held -n the said school district on the question of levying an additonal special tax of four (4) mills on the taxable ! property w'thin the said school dis trict. Now. therefore, we the undersigned composing the county board of educa; tion for Newberry county. State of J South Carolina, do hereby order the | board of trustees of the Fairview ! school district No. 18, to hold an election on the said question of leying an 7 oncnJol tov nf fnnr f 4^ mills. i dUUtlUllai OJJtWttJ VI*" I.UUA V _ ; to be collected on the property located | within the said school district, which ! said election shall be held at the Fair. . J I view school house in the said' schooi > 'district Xo. 18, on Saturday, the 2.1st.| day of December. 191S, at which said I election the polls shall be opened at 7 a. m., and closed at 4 p. m. The members of the board of trus| tees of the said school district shall act as managers of the sai'd election. Only such electors as reside in tho said school district and return real or personal property for taxation, and who exhibit their taxes and registration certificates as required in general elections, shall he allowed to vote. Electors favoring the levy of such tax shall cast a ballot containing the word "Yes" written or printed thereon, and each elector opposed to such levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "No" written or printed thereon. Given under our hads and seals this the 7th day of December, 1918. C. M. Wilson, (L. S) O. B. Cannon. # J. M. Bedenbaugh, County. Board of Education, Newberry County, South Carolina. / * -