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VOL. XXXVII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1917.28 HALICZ, KEY TO [EMBERO, TAKEN BY THE RUSSIANS London, July 11.-Halicz, the strat egic gateway to Lemberg, capital of Galicia,-has been captured by the Rus sians says a dispatch from Reuter's correspondent. Russia's armies have broken the Austro-German line in the Halicz Stanislau sector, one of the most im portant on the eastern front, and the Russian, advance continues. The Austro-German forces already have withdrawn beyond the Lominca river, about ten miles west of Jesupol, which was occupied Sunday by the Russians under Gen. Korniloff. The Russians have taken four more vil lages and increased their captures of prisoners more than one thousand. Seven more field guns and other war material also fell into Russian hands. Made Wide Breach. West of Stanishlau the Russians have penerated the Teutonic lines to a depth of nearly seven miles and be tween Stanishlau and Halicz they have widened their wedge. In their retirement the Austro-Germans failed to make a stand at two rivers, the Lukovitza and the Luvka. It is prob ablet they may entrench on the west bank of the Lonica. A stand west of the Lomica, how ever, hardly will prevent the forced evacuation of Halicz, the strategic key to Lemberg, as the Russians are within less than eight miles of Halicz on three sides and only one avenue of retreat from the Brzezany-Zlochoff Brody line by the Austro-Germans al most a necessity. Meanwhile the Russian artillery is hammering the enemy lines south of Brzezany and north of the Pripet marches, near Riga, Dvinsk and Smor gon, the fighting has increased. On the Western Front. On the western front, along the Chemin-Des-Dames, the French have repulsed more atacks by the troops of the German Crown Prince. The French also threw back a strong at tack near Hurtibise, in the Chain pagne. A violent artillery duel is ni pro gress between the Germans and Brit ish in Flanders. The German fire has also been intense along the front held by the Belgian army. In Flanders, near the French border, the British have advanced their line east of Ost taverne. The Germans canot declare their terms of peace - and "must fight and conquer," Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the imperial chancellor, -s reported to have told members of the Reichstag. Peace without annexations is not look ed upon with favor by the German Government, the chancellor is report ed to have sai, adding: "I am sure we can win if we hold out." The tension of the political situa tion in Berlin is still intense. - 0 Services at the Methodist Church. Manning Methodist Church, Dr. Watson B. Duncan, Pastor. Sunday School at 10 A. M., Mr. Joseph Sprott, Superintendent. Men's Bible Class at same hour, lHon. Charlton DuRant, Teacher. Preaching at 11 A. M. andl 8:30 P. M., by the Pastor. Morning Subject: "The H1oly City." Evening Subject: "A Fool's Solilo quy." The sermon will be a studly of the story of the man wvho tried to feed his soul on wheat. Bloth the morning and evening ser vices will be somewvhat shortened for the rest of the heated term, Epwvorth League at 5 P. M., Mr. J. 13. Cantey, President. Prayer Service on Trhurisday at 5 P. M., followed by the Teacher-Train ing Class. Public cordially invited to all ser vices. GEN. WOO )OI' AI DDR ESS GEO)RGIA ED)ITORIS Augusta, Ga., JTuly 10.-Major Gen. Leonard Wood, commander of the De partment of the Southeast, will dleliv er an adldress at the annual convention of the Georgia Press Association, which meets in Thomasville next week. Answering an invitation ex tended by J. C. McAuliffe, president of the association, Gen. Wood has ac cepted and will speak Wednesday morning, July 18, at 10:30. NEWSY NOTES FROM GABLE Mrs. W. H. Woods and son left this rmorning for the mountains of West ern North Carolina to be gone the re mainder of the summer, In the mean time any one will please take pity on the doctor and remember he is batch ing it. When anyone wishes to go to a pic nic the first consideration is where is the picnic and when, but after being informed it is at Gable all the doubt as to their good time vanishes and they immediately make preparations for a day. of sport, but Mr. Editor we cannot call this just a picnic but a fourth of July celebration and a va cation picnic are usually very tire some things, but a day as we have just celebrated would be termed a whole week of pleasure put into just a few wee hours. We started off the morning by eating no breakfast and you know by that every one was look ing forward to dinner. Our program was as follows: Every one assembled in the new pavilion erected for the celebration and after a few dances dinner was announced-we will just call it dinner but it really was a ban quet. The Blessing was asked by the Hon. Harry Lesesne of Manning. After dinner there was a procession of automobiles to the plant of the Black River Cypress Co., where the stars and stripes were raised to the tune of Star Spangled Baner by an orchestra from Georgetown. The flag that was raised measured 12x20 feet and was raised by the following ladies: Eva Gable, Margaret Fields, Erin McFaddin, Gladys West. Every one retired on account of rain but again assembled at 8:30 P. M. to en joy the dance which was a decided success. Those who took part in the dancing and entertainment were as follows: Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Gable, Mi-. and Mrs. Joe Rittiner, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Fields, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. McFaddin, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Millsap, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Woods, Dr. and Mrs. A. F. Doty, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Walther, Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Sims, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Rose, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McFaddin, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bigham, Mr. and Mrs. Meridith, Mr. and Mrs. Christal, Mr. and ,Mrs. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Warwick, Mr. and Mrs. Bracher, Mr. and Mrs. Roy McFaddin and Mr. and Mrs. M. E. DuBose. The following ladies Misses Wheeler, Bigham, Janie and Ina Mc Faddin, Carline Bigham. The follow ing young men: Eugene McFaddin, Lee Flowers, Randolph Graverly, Mark Smith, Nick Epps, Ryan Woods, Mike Turbeville, Ray iurdin, Wallace Dardin, and othern too numerous to mention. The (lance broke up in the wee small hours of the morning. We were indeed glad to have so many Lake City and Manning people and it is the desire of the dancing set to give at least two dances a month at the spacious pavilion and hope we will have just such a crowd at each lance, and will have them even though we have to barbecue some more hogs. Bud Rose. Owing to be crowded for space we are compelled to leave out a piece of poetry entitled, "The Kaiser's IDream," 2ontributed by "Bud Rose." We wvill publish it next wveek, for it is a good tme.--Ed. NOT VERY ANXIOUS FOR MEXICO'S HIELP United States Not Advising Carranza to Break Relations With Berlin GovernmnientI. Washington, .July 1 0.--Reports that Mexico is about to break with Ger many led to the authoritative state ment that any such move would not be based on adivice given to the Amer can Government. Ambassador Fletcher, who came bere to report in dletail to Secretary Lansing on condlitions in Mexico, has told the. :State D~epart ment that de sp)ite some1 imp~rovemenat in Mexican affairs~ generally, much remains to cause concern t othe American Goy 2rnment. 'rhis circumstance is con sidered important because a break with Germany would give Mexico an ilpportunity to get money and pla1ce Lhe United States under certain obli gations. Those ofmcials who have not been eager to see Mexico join in the war lo not object to seeing Gen. Carranza mupplied with money, but they believe that without contributing much real iid to the Allies, Mexico wouldl make t hard for the United States, France, Great Britain and other nations with grievances against her to assume a tern -nttitude after the war. THE TOBAC( Tomorrow is the open Warehouses in South Car where there is a warehou the people to sell their tol kets. Manning is doing county tobacco should be and iot in some other < housemen will work just a price for your tobacco as they will get it if the tol at all. You cannot expect yoi anything if you are goin; some other place and con your money there. Manning wants your t realize the more money t lighter becomes the bur( everyone receives an ind Bring your tobacco to you have tobacco to sell, you will get the right tre The two Manning Wai located-in fact right at t R. D. Clark of Clark's W Cothran of the Central 'W possibly can to make yo are working for their int BRING YOUR TOBAi News of Lo Mr. Dud Plyler took a pleasure trip to Charleston yesterday. J. A. weinberg, Esq., spent yester day in Charleston on business. We received from Mr. J. M. Appelt of Jordan a full grown cotton boll last Thursday. Married last Sunday night at Turbeville, Mr. Thomas Coker and Miss Octavia Morris. Mr. E. D. Cole, president of the Sumter Coca-Cola Bottling Co., was in town Thursday last. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Bradham of Kingstree are visiting the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Furman Bradham. Mrs. S. J. Clark, accompanied by her son Chovine, were guests of friends in Charleston over Sunday. Dr. H. W. Lewis, a graduate opti cian has an ad in this Issue which we direct attention to. Dr. Lewis, since leaving Manning about three years ago took a special course in Chicago and New York, and we feel sure he will give the eye expert attention. Monday afternoon during an elec tric storm Mr. Young Eadon had a pair of mules hitched to a telephone pole in front of his store at Benbow's Crossing, when a bolt of lightning struck the pole, killing the mule near est the pole, and not injuring the other. Dr. WV. J1. Burns of Bremen, Texas, is visiting his brother-in-law, Mr. WV. 1. lludnal in the Fork. Dr. Burns once lived in Manning, and here spent his boyhood dlays, going to Texas about twenty-three years ago. He is now the head of a large retinary col lege in Texas. We acre informed that if the town (foes not complete its agreement with the government as to marking thr streets and numbering the houses, the town mail delivery will be disconi tinuedl. In our opinion it will be a good idea for this burden to be taken away. This delivery is very expen sive and( not even a luxury. Yes, ab~out everyhody in this conm munity has told us what to p~ut in this paper, and what, noc. to put in it; how to say it, and howv not to; wvhen to publish it, and when not to; wvho to boost, and who to knock. And being an obliging, cuss, wve do just as we durned pleasO. Wouldn't you. On Thursday and F'riday of this wveek Messrs. Brunson and F'ulton of Company "IK" (Florence), will be in Manning and Sum merton on recruit ing service, and will be glad to talk with all men wvho have any idea of entering the army. Remember, fel lows, after you are drafted you will not have the chance to choose your place. so now is your time to get in with a clean outfit of home hbos If 0 MARKET. ing of all the Tobacco Alina. Every community se is striving hard to get )acco at their home mar the same. Clarendon sold in Clarendon county ounty. Manning ware s hard to get the highest the next man will-and bacco is worth anything ir county to amount to g to sell your tobacco in sequently spend a lot of obacco-the merchants hat is spent at home the [en all round-in fact irect benefit. Manning every day that You can rest assured atment from everyone. rehouses are centrally he business section. Mr. arehouse, and Mr. R. D. arehouse will do all they u comfortable, for they erest as well as y6urs. DCO TO MANNING. cal Interest you are interested, see Ingram Wil son, who will be pleased to talk the matter over with yon. New subscription to Red Cross Fund, Miss Sallie Hodge, . Alcolu, $10.00. Summerton held an election last Saturday to determine an additional two mill school levy, and there were only three votes cast against the in crease. This. town has a very fine school, but to make it more efficient, and with its growth, it was necessary to have more teachers, thus the ad ditional levy. Manager Plyler has some excellent bookings for the next two weeks. To night he has Manning's favorite ac tress, Clara Kimball Young, in one of her biggest successes, "The Dark Silence." On Friday night, July 20, "Fatty" Arbuckle will be seen at his best in "The Butcher Boy." Mr. Ply ler is giving the people of Manning the best series of pictures ever play ed here and his bookings for the next three months are the very best in filmdom. Read the program in his advertisement on page 8. It is a good one and he should have crowded houses. - -0 Woman's Missionary Society. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will hold its regular monthly meeting on Monday at 5:30 P. M. An interesting pro grammec has been arranged and a fuall attendlance is expected. Besides the regular business "Thanksgiving A nn'' will be rendered. 0 Married on Tuesday. At the Methodist P'arsonage in Manning on Tuesday, July 3, 1917, M1r. Edgar F'rancis Way and Miss Lilly Maria Frierson were happily married, Dr. Watson B. Duncan per forming the ceremony. A large num ber of relatives andl friends attended the marriage. -o Scholarship Vacancies. Mr. Editor: Will you please publish this notice, ltting the young men know that there are three four-year vacancies in Clem s(on College from this county to b~e lilled next Friday. Also the teachers scholarship ina the South Carolina Un i versit y is vacant. T1his makes four vaace op)en to the boys of this county. The examination wvill be held Friday comning, July 13th, beginning at nine' o'clock. Besides these four year positions, there is a one'-year~ schola rsh ip at Clemson vacanmt.I want everyone in the county who is at all interestedl in the welfare of our bioys, to place this notice before them at once, and let them come he're next Friday dleterminedl to win some one of these nice positions. Get busy, young men. E. .J. BROWNE, County Supt. of Education. GOVERNMENT FORECASTS LARGEST YIELD OF CORN IN HISTORY OF COUNTRY Washington, July 9.-A three bil lion bushel prospective crop of corn this year is the answer returned by farmers of the United States to Presi dent Wilson's c-. for food for Amer ica's allies in the war. Never before has such a crop been grown. In its first forecast of corn production this year the Department of Agriculture announced that July 1 conditions forecast a crop of 3,124, 000,000 bushels. Record Acreage. Sixteen million more acres this year were planted to corn than last year and the acreage exceeds the former record area planted in 1909 by 13,000, 000 acres. The wheat crop, responding to bet ter weather conditions during June, shows an increase of 22,000,000 bush els in prospect, with a total of 678, 000,000 bushels, or 38,000,000 larger than last year's crop. A record crop of white potatoes also is forecast with a production of 452, 000,000 bushels. That would exceed the previous largest crop, grown in 1912, by 32,000,000 bushels. Pros pects of the rye crop show a slight decrease from the June forecast, but the production will be a record with a total of 56,100,000 bushels. Principal Crops. Production forecasts of the coun try's principal crops, announced today by the Department of Agriculture (expressed in millions of bushels) fol low: Winter wheat 402; spring wheat 276; all wheat 678; corn 3,124. Oats 1,453; barley 214; white pota toes 561; rye 452; sweet potatoes 822; tobacco (pounds) 1,215; flax 17; rice 344; hay (tons) 103; apples 200; peaches 435. Areas Planted. First announcement of areas plant ed (in thousands of acres) follows: Corn 121,045; white potatoes 4,384; sweet potatoes 904; tobacco; tobacco 1,418; flax 1,939; rice 968. Wheat remaining on farms .luly I estimated at 15,720,000 bushels. Con dition of crop July 1 1ollows: Winter wheat 75.9; spring wheat 83.6; all wheat 78.9; corn 81.1; oats 89.4; barley 85.4; rye 79.4; white po tatoes 90.1 ; sweet potatoes 81.9; to bacco 86.8; flax 84.00; rice 85.1; hay 8.1.3; apples (14.0; peaches 55.2. CONTl'IBUTED. Editor manning Times: In readIing; the controversy now go ing on between the Governor and Dr. Adams, I am reminded of an expres sion that was current when Mr. Man ning ran for Governor and was elect ed for the first term-it was that it would be mighty hard to elect him in a second race with Blease, as h: (Manning) was no politician. It is hard, at this time, to reconcile this expression while thinking about the Audubon Society appointments. My reflection is that the political game can be learned, even late in life. Perhaps we are getting on as well with fish prot~ct ion, etc., as if we had a dIuIy appointed brand-new warden any way. It is commonly stated that some of the lakes on Santee are trap pedl almost continuously, the game fish being put in private ponds and the (otiters eate~n or otherwvise disposed of~. I underntand this is no violation of law, but if, as most people agree, choice fish are getting scar reer in San - tee everiy year, it wouldi a ppear that this law was framed to1 fit thie inidi v idual who could sp~ort a fish pond. rt~. her thani the mass:'s who hav to fisht in the few~c remain in: st reamis that. are nt postedl. Uniless5 there a rises in or coun~ltry, ia Socialistic paty or~ id ea, suiflicietI lv strong to have enacted legisitiion that will reserve to the publie us~e such fewv fish inrg jphices as are ntow left, it is goin ig to be good -bye cat fish fitew, ward~ien 0r noV~ warden, unless; one entjoys nmembersh ip ini somie clubi or oiwnsf at pond. 'ouris truly, SIIOES IOl'GIIT' FOlt ARhMY Washintgton, .July 10.--Contracts for 2,175,000) ptairis of army shoes at an i aver~age prtice (If $4 .7:1 a Pair have jus~t been awarded by the qluartter master's division of the WVar D~epart mient. The awards include 950 pairs (of marching shoes and 1,225,0001 pairs of field shoes. Agreements with twventy nine manufacturers call for the com pletion of all deliveries before the endl of thte year. MUST FIGHT AND CONQUER SAYS THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR Berne, July 10.-According to Ber lin newspapers the German chancel lor, Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, said to members of the Reichstag: "1 re peat that the formula of peace with out annexations unacceptable to us. We must fight and conquer." The -chancellor made a strong at tack on Maithas Erzbcrger, Catholic center, who attacked the Pan-Germans in his address before the main coni mittee last week, and advocated peace without annexations or indemnities. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg said Herr Erzberger's attitude was unpatriotic. According to the summary of the chancellor's speech before the main committee, published in the Lokal An zeiger of Berlin, he said: "We must continue the war with our whole energies. I do not deny that we have great difficulties to overcome, but so have our enemies. We shall see whether their difficulties or ours are greater. "I am sure we can win if we hold out. "Nothing was further from my in tention than to cling to my post, but now it is a question of protecting the fatherland from injury, and for this reason I consider it necesary to re tain my post." Chancellor Standing "Pat." Copenhagen, July 10.-According to the Tageblatt, the Crown Council held in Berlin last evening showed that the imperial chancellor, Dr. von Beth mann-Hollweg, possesses the Emper or's complete confidence; the Emper or, after the adjournment of the coun. cil, conferred with the chancellor un til midnight. Dr. von Bethmann--lollweg's posi tion, the paper states, seems also to be more sec'ure with the political par ties. The radicals are said to be standing by the chancellor, while the center Socialists attach na importance to a mere change of person and not of system. Political circles believe that the matter will end in a compro mise. Fails to Quiet Critics. London, July 10.-Chancellor Beth mann-IHollweg made a speech yester day to the Reichstag main committee, but, according to information reach ing here today, did not succeed in quieting his critics. A Berlin dispatch to the Cologne Gazette, as cabled from Amsterdam by the Central News, says that after the chancellor made his dress Mathias Erzberger, the Centrist leader, declared that the debate had strengthened his conviction that the whole situation required energetic ae tion by the Reichstag. Ile combated violently the cla ims of the 'an-Ger mans and other ann-xat ionists. A German wireless dispatch today says that at Monday's meeting of the Reichstag main committee the sub miarine act ivity was unanimously ree (ognizedl as an "activity wic elihad surpased as!Il txpe)ct ations0." Tenisiont '41ore In (tense. Herlin. Mondlay. .July 9.--Via Lou dlon,, .July 1t0.)---The sit uat ion is un lehange-d. The tension, if anlyth11ing, is maore int ense. The session of the Reichstag was rat her a perfunctoriy allair. ( 'hief interest cenitered abot an an imai~ted meeting ofI thle mailn (com mtittee, duirintg which (hancellor vIIn Biethmnanin- Ilollweg took the flooir twice. Whil t cIhe discussions weore oft a ton'a loidential natuore, b is gen-e-ral be-. lievedl the four-party co~alit ion has inot yet dec(idedl on the tina! draft of the resolution Ceneing war im(s and e-. toratl reforms. No 5ession of the Reichstag will lbe hltdI on Tuesday, as tha04t daiy is to( he dievotedl to1 a futherl sigiienn:01t se Slin (If the nmin commllittee andl meIet ings otf the various party t'ationlls. Ams1terdamI1, ,July 10.-- -erma Im peial IC(ha ncellor von let h mannii HIollIweg, says the K oelnii scht 'o!ks Zteitung, prom ises the Re ichlsta~g that he will c'Iosent to the res ignta tions froni thle Cabinet of Mlin ist er immi er man and1( D r. Karl HIeltl'erith, secre tary of the interior five members of the P'russian Cabinet wvillI be asked to ro~ignl. Manning wants your Tobacco. You can get the highest oncee here. Bring it nn1