Manninghas Sold 00,000 Lbs. Tobacco this Season, Paying Out600,000 VOL. XXXVIII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, ANGUST 7, 1918 ALLIES STILL 4 PRESSING HUNS BACKWARDS I tI American and French Cannon Reply- 111 ing Sharply, Paying Hun A Back with Interest h 35,000 GERMAN PRISONERS ta Clemenceau Gives Inkling of Fruits s of Victory-Over 200 Vil lages Delivered Conditions on the battle front alone - the Vesle river between Soissons ant Rheims remain unchanged, and rela tively speaking, there have been no developments of outstanding import ance on the line running form the re- Pi gion of Montdidier toward the English ;t} channC ' In both 1 egions, however, " there is a tensenert which seems to f? forecast the aprpoaching dawn of bigi events. The bad wvathcr-heavy rainfalls, t' the swollen ;.r and the resultant t " wretched condition of the t. rrain with , which the Allied troops along the Vesle now have to coat n1, not to mention the necessity of bringing u) guns, ammunition and supplies which were left far behind in the rapid adJ.. vance-doubtless is having more to do l with the holding in leash of Marshal Foch's troop? 4 lian the opposition the Germans are throwing in their way. The Getmans have been shelline I Wieavily the Americian and French sol-I-i dier who have made their way across k to the northern bank of the Vesle or l delivering heavy counter-attacks i against them. but everywhere thev, G have met with a stonewall of resist- nU anee vhich has not permitted them to In counter balance their losses of ground. he Allies Stand Firm r -They also have deluged the south- y' -ern line of the streani with shells of a all calibers, including gaa projectiles, Y and even have brought their famous t< flame throwers into play, but all to no u purpose. The Allies everywhere have of remained firm, in the . round they a have won, But the Gerni.a ns ha e not been per- " rnitted by the Alies to have a mon- t" opoly of the initiative. Where they have thrown 'nelW against the Amer-- (I cans in the Fismes sector, Amcrican fi missiles have been returned with add- ' s*% ld est. This particular sector W r een 'a veritable inferno. Gas in tl f . cquantities was released against si i .e Americans who, wivth their gas I" .nasks adjusted. were virtually un- - harmed by the noxious fumes. A kind-| . ]y switch in the wind at one time even turned back the gas against the ene- h my. The French also have answered the Germans in kind. r< . Moving Northward t1' During the lull in the fighting on's! the Soissons-Rheims sector the Ger mans are believed to be moving their fa main bodies northward to the posi- . K tions they have chosen for ca stand, f' aand doubtless the Germa.n Crown e Prire iL ehnde oring hat:stily to re- a c'onstitute da well as he may, with the forces at his c mrnind, his badly shut tered armrie s. As inkling of whr.t the Germans 3 have. los:t in meni made prisonor and grns captured by the Allies has be come public through an utterance of the French premier at a session of o the ministerial council at hich Gen. c e"clh was made a imaushal of France. 3 "Thirty-five thousand prisoners and s 70() cannon have ueen captured," said t the premier. who adde that Pair's no T, longer was; in uanger, that Soissons h nd Chateau Thierry had been recon- p ( (uered and that 200 village: hadl been n delivered through the formidable 1Ar'rt of Ic h', men through the if So+i n :-R~hed;r~ sali~nt. 11 A4round~ Montdtidier I:t Much interest attaches to the man oeuvers of the Germans andl the dI French and British troops, with the r latter of w'homn some Americans are e believed to be brigaded, on the front p *ru.mmig fromt M'ontdidler to the region f aroundI Ypres. Ultimately the optera-e tions here rmay have a strong bearing p on those now in rogress in the south and if the Allies keep tup their success- h fuli thrusts and the G;erma~ns continuep to withdraw, compel a realignment of t the entire battlefront. b The French north of Montdidier if have crossedt to the wvest side of the Avre river between Braches and Mor ~isel. Here a fairly deep) penetration into the Gema line wouldh become a' I' d rireet m~enace to the Junction point of' the armies of the Ger-man Crowni Prince Rtupprecht. On both sidtes of A miens, where the Germans have A been shelling British positions, uisinig a qluantities of gas, evidently wvith the hI intention of. revent ing an atack in s force. In Monday night's attempited Zep- if pelin raid on London one of the big ti 4 dirigibles was sent crashing in flames n into the North sea by British arimen, ( while another, woundedi by the guns of the defendting fliers, hadl to scurry homewardl to evadte destruction. Of the five machines whis, set out on the I mission of devastation lnt one( rectihed London. Ir)T IkAV IN COLUMIA CumiAug. 6.-The tempera-n b urahd99 degreesinClmaa 1today, tehighest record for this date a since the establishment of the eather Ia bureau bore, thirty-two years ago. Thep highest previous recordi on August 6 I was .98 degrees. in :1905. _. d ANNING'S POLIG[ FORCE' UAN!S IN RESICNATION The police force of Manning, con sting of Messrs. S. J. Clark and J. . Peavey, have tendered their resig ttions to the council. It seems that ey asked for a fifteen dlollar a oath raise, which council refused. 11 other salaried of working people tve been advanced on account of the g;h cost of everything, and we think e policemen should be paid more, r they cannot live on the present lary. OTICE TO COUNTY RED CROSS SUBSCRIBERS Miss Jessie McLean has beer em oyed to assist in the collection of e Second Red Cross War Fund. Pay ents can be made to me as hereto re, or to Miss McLean at the Red I ross Work Room. Subscribers living in the Sumtmer n section can make their payments the Bank of Santee if they wih FRED LESESNE, Local Treasurer. STRUCK flY L(ICHTNING iss Nonie Goodwin, of Snoak', In stantly Killed W;lterboro, Aug. ,--Mis ' Nonie odwin, the elde-t daughter of the on. and Mrs. .John C. Godwi, .as lied by a bolt of lightning Friday ternoon at their homi~e. near Srrouak, the upper part of the county. M; c oodwin was standing in the kitchen, mar a table which whc at-.h-d t ,'h all. The bolt struck the roof of th'. >use nad descen:lcd one of the up ght studs, leaping throuigh the ung lady, who fell. expirin wid-.. .ely, it seems. Her riother(:nd a mng man were sitting on the piazza the kitchen and they were rendered iconscious. Efforts were. made at ice to resuscitate the stricken one-'. rs. Goodwin and the young man, ere soon conscious. but Miss Good in, having received the full effect of ie bolt, did not revive. The dleath of th> yon ]a y we a Weided shock to her friends and the iends of the family over the entire runty. She was just reaching m:.r omanhood and was a student at Win Irop College, having won a scholar Nip there two years ago, wh re she as justly popular and rute ru: in r studies. The funeral was held at the Good in family plot Saturdcty afternoon, ing conductedl 1,y her pastor, the ev. E. Scorgins. A large ntnmber (if datives and friends assembled to pay is last tribute and to express their lnupathy to the family. A rather peculiar coine.'dnt as the et that \liss Good;wh(o r. grandfather, >hn Goodwin, was killed within ten et of the spot where sh was s trci: ) on July 26, )875, forty-thare.:s" ro. SE'VEltA L 111E FRtOM kA"I Iercury Stand. t 9: in Ne, York City New York, Aug. %.-The wen dav intense heat, which rased the mer try to a maximum of 93 dugr(s at aend 4 p. mn., caus' ti: de'uth of !veral persons here today, and pros -ated more than a score of others. his evening the temperaturt "rn: still igh in the eighties, witn utti' pros Let of relief frome :;.other -w :tering ight. ''heire was a g!nerail exd to bath g beaches, .md -o d':e:"- the irong which made :t wa to '.ieev (land that manny womlen fi .obl'e aniting for ear11 andlJII nnrc chil ren becamne s'pa rated'( from heiri pa :nts. Manuy persons who foarnd va mat spots on the toirrid1 ane pre itired to spend the~ nxgit nthei hoeing >r' a sea breeze. O)theire. ani~ ow to seape from the ''it y. too': ;(dws to ark lawvns. Fearing a longi cam .zty -t the eait spiell cont inuied, the he.al th de' :artment issued a Jlong list of"c n'i >lbe observed by adlults in prot(etme~ ithi themselves and their chi inire'n -omi heat andi~ humidity. IIOOVEIC VISITlS THlE FI'JUNT ays HlomIage' to Ameurican" W.hQ Fell in Battle l'aris, Aug. i;.-Herbert C. Loover, mnericana food admoin ist rater, has aid a visit to the battlefront, w'here Le renderedl homage to the Amaeneanc ,Id iers whlo have fallen (in the field I' hoinor. Among)1 the pda ces he v.'is ed was Belleau woodi~. lle' went over he groundl where the A 1('rican .rmny indle such a heroic stanid a int the ermans. WIFE K 1LLE1m IH USBAN'.D 'oman C;laims Man Snappjl Pietol at Her York, A ug. (.-Bob Black wood as hiot to delath by his wife at Clover, 'n miles north of Yorkville this iorning. Blackwood arnd his wife lived t Clover cotton nill. Today Bob mapped a pistol in his wife's face, and ecording to her story, she took the istol from h. i and shot him through to'heart. No witnesses to the t-rago up. WESTERNER WRITES of lF[ AT THE FRONT The following letter was written by a young westerner to his father. Be cause of the real human and descrip tive matter in it, it was copied by the censor, Lieut. W. M. Bomar and sent to his brother, I. J. Bomar of Man ning. Anywhere in France, D)ear Daid: Well, we surely are getting educat ed in the way of war anyway. I can t^ll you our rest camp is very dif. ferent from what the front is like true 'tis only a barn-but oh! such a barn. We were' back from our first trip to the front. We were resting on easy duty, and just beginning to enjoy rest when the order came to "make our packs." You know over her, that me:ans a ticket to "Nowhere." The drinking crowd began to wine up, and soon everything was lively. The re(st of us kept up our nerve as best we could on "aqua pural," Then what followed seems like an awful dream, the long ride in trucks, j to the tune of "Back Home in Indi ana," "Mother Machre'e," "The Girl I Left Behind Me," etc., etc., till the or der camte for absolute quiet and no smoking. We had struck the danger zone. The short jostled and jolted sleep of the wor'ried boys was con stantly interfered with by the grind ing of the bra k's, constantly ::tarting and slinping of the truels, and the noise of guns and burs'-ing shills. Then the final step fol:owed by the long,long march. The pack straps cut our shoulders like wires, the can teen:; rattled empty in the cups, and ti(e bunch who had "wimed up" against orders, wabbl''d and rolled sidewise with weariness, and utter exhaustion is they walked, but walked on and on in the dark (so dark that cach man held the rifle of the lad in front so that he'd know where to go and, too, it help:ed to tell you t'iv fellow in front was still there) till tih' blood pounds through your temples, your mouth is parched with thirst.. We we'lked on up hill, down hill, through fields and woods, ditches and banks, .nd shell holes and mud, the whol'' line making no soui save the dull thud of many feet, except occasionally the rattle of stray piece:; of equip meat-a rifle touched a helmet- a bayonet. scabbard ra'tld on its b:'lt hooks, or a ennteen clanked in its ctap --that was all--save the shells. A suppresrced half w:nisper c:en down the line, "laIt." Then e:'me the inevitable "Rear of I;ne lost, Private ----lost." Then the short wait, fol lowed by "Forward,'' and again we were off. The flash, flash of the hirh explosive;, the roar and crack of shrapnel and the whine of the splin ters, Ih' rising crescendo that let a man know a shl!l was con ing, all tended to show us that our journey would soon be .ver'. The' front. could not he far away. Theni can. th(' roar of the gas shell with its peculiar sound in flight and its muffled explo sion, th-- gagging and choking tremor of the new men in their fir:t, gas at tacc. Suddenly our guide stooped. A man had risen on each :id" of him placed a cocked automatic toward the place where he had stor"d his last hot. meal-his hurried explana'.ion and w'! were on the front at last ,a.fLer a long hard night. and dawn just start ing in the I'.ast. 'h' cammc the pla ing of the men--the Ii'utenuarnt's cheerful ( ?) invigorating ( ?) "Boys, here we are-we'v' got to dig in be fore morning. The Hocies are on' hundred yards forward. Be sure and "i iiouflage carefully--Well I guess I better go and dig sorme myself." Did I dig? Dig? I)ig? Iy God, I)ad, Amiericani was readly for just such an ordeor. With muy toy trenching tool I went dlownm thirough that. French dirt. Iike rain ini the sand countryw. It was "r'iooit hog or dIite ini the morn inrg.'' Anrd then the second morning a fteor murch ranging hby onie gun and thie aid (of aI Roche plane, (lie ((lun got oiur r'ange, andl we' were glard we hadI du1g. We had a real shelling, till our heark swaii from the rinig and~ scream i of the flyinig pieces and the shr'apnel amnd' h ighi explosive witlIt its sie'keniig stinking A . 10. gas-every nmuscle eraml uiped in in voluntarly terr'or wheni the shells wvould burst almost oni top of uis. Ihut scaredi-Dad)ri wve just t hought andlo got toio fair out in fronit arid somue ('nterprisirig Ainm'rica n machinie gun.. nier turned'o hiis wveapon on us. Crawl ? We couldln't. Mlove? WVe dairesn't. T1hihink ? We searcely had room for that. An I11 wond(ere'd why I had not more ofteni thoultght of the girl I left hbeh ind me, and1( the sins of my youth ful day rs, for, IDad, your soni I uke wvas Ijust ab)out to cash in his checks. A mac'hine guni fire firoim two I(eet abhove your head to within a sixteenrth of an inc'h (If your baickbone has tendenhrcies to make you retrospet'otive. Anrd when that gun is in dlirec't line with yours own back borne, it miakes the real nastiest souiid I ever he'ard. That d--..-dl gunner mowed the grar s oiver our headls, and it fell over us, and I never came up, but every time a bul let piassed over my head like the' eranak of a pistol, I went closer, closer to Mother Earth's bosom. Scared ? Scared ? I bet my backbone glowed and shone yellow and was visible for a inile, anid I could hear six oth'r QUALIF[ID CANDIDATES FOR PRIMARY [tCTION For Congress Richard S. Whaley For Solicitor F'rank A. McLeod. Lewis E. Wood. For State Senate .John R. Dingle. Charlton DuRant .J. W. Wideman. For House of Representatives D. Luther Green. W. W. .Johnson. Miller 11. Mallette. W. 'T. P. Sprott. W. 1. Woods. For Clerk of Court A. 1. Barron. E. B. Brown. .1. 1. Cantey. .Jos. S. Dickson. T. II. Timmons. For County Treasurer L. L. Wells. For ('tunty Auditor Andrew P. Burgess. Hugh A. Plowden. For .Judge of Probate Thomas Ml. Kennedy. Clarence 11. Mathis. .1. Lawson McLeod. .1. M. Windham. For Magistrate at Manning To be voted for at the Clarendon, .anning, Manning Farmers' Plat form, Bloomville and Jordan Clubs. . ). Alsbrook. .. Furman Bradham. 'Thomas Nimmer. lR. l.slie Ridgill. For Magistrate at Summerton To be voted for at the Summerton, Davis Station, Panola and Davis, Cross Roads Clubs. A. J. Richbourg. For Magistrate at l'inewood To be voted for at the Pinewood Club. For Magistrate at. l'axville To be voted for at. the Paxville and Silver Clubs. L.. S. Barwick. .1. \V. Mins, Jr. For Magistrate at 'iurbeville IT be voted for at the Douglas, Sandy Grove, Gibbons II ill and Seloe Clubs. 1. 1). Baird. L.. D. Barrow. For Magistrate at Foreston To be voted for at the Foreston, Foreston Reform and Doctor Sammy Swamp Clubs. J. 1.. Graham. .1. E. Rtichbourg. For .lMagistrate at Alcolu To be voted for at the Alcalu, Fork :..1 Iarmnony Clubs. W. 1). Young. For .lMagistrate at Gable To be voted for at the Sarid iniia (lob. T. 1i. Mcl addin. For M agistrate at. New Zion To be voted for at the New Zion, ,Midway and Oakdale Clubs. W. F. l'lemnming. F'. .\l. Gibbons. --W---S STATE CAM'AIGN .l EETING lanning, Tuesday, August 13th. 1918. Begin 10:30 prompt 8 Minutes Commissioner of Agriculture V. 1). Garrison. II. HIarris 11. T. Morrison Railroad Commissioner TI. .1. MceIauighlin A. At. Rtichardson D. L. Smith .1. T. Vowll Su perintendent of' Fduent ion J. E. Swveari igen, Victor S. Rector Attorne~y General '.N. Sapp It. P. Searson S. M. Wolf J.l. DeschamIIps John11 T1. Duncan John G. Rtichards A. J1. lethena ilbt. A. Cooper We are plea:-dc to anniounce that y.oulr old fu nny fri ndi, ' ":r ftyv Ari ,buckle'' wi!l be at th( P'astime Theatre 'fuesdlay, A ugust I1th, m "GCood Night Nourse."' It's a side.-ripper. C ome pre pa redl to laugh as that s what you are gomng to do. It's fonny. pa irs of teeth chattering in tone and correct time to my own. But we stav ed right there till our time was lOp and we crawledl in :andc told thiat guo that he had ben wvaschiig his good buf lets on a bunch that was simply too lucky to die. Y'ou should have seen his face. Hut it ain't all hard, Dad. I've seen some of the scarad(est men over noth.. ing (over niothing when it, was some timg .else) r~nd some of the funniest situations you ever heard of, but mn tally, morailly and physically I am the same boy that left old U. S. A. weigh 1'29 stripped, aind am hard as nails as the boys 5fay. Well, goodbye and gaood luck. S Your s~on, Luke. MR. COVERT PLOWO[N AND MISS [THEL WELS MARRIED A wedding which carme as a sur prise to the friends of the couple was that of Mr. .J. C. Plo en of Manning and Miss Ethel Well., of M1t. Carmel. It was a very quiet affair, only the members of the immediate families being present. Mr. and Mrs. Plow len arrived in 3Manning on .\Ionday. Mir. Plowden, who is assistant cahsier of the Bank of Clarendon is one of the most prominent of the younger business men of the city. As Miss Wells, M1rs. Plowden frequently visit ed in Maniing. here he has many iriends whc vill welcome her here. -W-s-s ADDI1ION.A LOCAL NEWS S.e" Fatty in "Go :;~l ight Nurse," Tuesday, August 1:th. One .1-room house, . and back porch, acre lot, (hurcn St r. et. near eraled school. Write today for inforiation. E. C. A LSBRIOOK, We learn with regret that Lieut Ervin D. Shaw o1 Suno1 -r. has been reported among the missing in action. Lieut. Shaw is a grandson of .\lr. 1). W. Alderman, and well known in Can ning. Every effort is being made by his family to discover hes. where.. abouts. The .Junior lission iani of the Presbyterian church will nitet Thurs day afternoon at. .5:30. A very inter esting meeting is being planned, and a full attendance is desired. Some for eign curios will be shown. Cothran sold on Tuesday, August the hth, A. 1)., one thousand ninc aun drted and e 'rhteen. (3,477 . 'unds of tobacco f~, $2:3.737.23. This gigantic sale avera. d, floor sera]; and all, the neat sum of $:37.-l0. We do not think the state can beat this average for so many pounds of tobacco. There must have been at least. seven oi eight thousand pounds of scrap that brought from ten dollars ip. We sometimes lead while others follow, and wonder how ('i thian d:, it. We feel very gratetfulI to the people Ii' Clarendon for the way they are subscribing to The Times.' We have place d more than 100 new Hanies on our lists in the past two weeks. Also we thank our friends who have cotle in and paid up,. They ,ealizet a good .paper ano believe inl inid: e it, it. Chief Hertr:.mi Weinbterir h-ft Sutd. day night for (h:irleston. where he entered the navy. Mr. Weinberg had been chief of the fire department for nearly a year, and ima; le a1 g2otod one. The boys escorted hi!. to the train on the big truck, and b:d it, God speed on the deep briny vat .r. The store of A. Nir.a.rr it Sumt I mHerton] was robbed ilia St Sirlay night. aitd his el i-. . er o ft'i, . The fire was extin; uishe'd with lit ::is nuih."t caus' s i t o-.rb. ne to leak the 'o of the N.rth rn low :,nd ebange' the alirt-f. blut mn expert opinion the stor- w two wellk to acceomplish ,be r~esu M'NNING TO HiAVE NEW TOBACCO MIRlO I ahming: will have another t.- :ec miarehouse next seas on. .Alco-r,. y G. Satterfield and it B. 'l'Trrei hdve bought the property olppo itet :' I warehouse on Church st i t"-, ar wily erect. a modern btiilding. on i t-f bot. is 2-Itt by I165 feet, .snl the -are. house will covet- all t'xceplt the -e ways.. Both of ths- geuitlemein ar~ (exp;eienced tobacco imen, andm wt no doubt do a great. deal in nimkn' Man ning the largest miarket it tht ->ate. .\lr. Sat terifitlI has - b n hvi'.: to bacco ont our- inarket for it pm :wt; seaisonis, and1( will imion hieret the :irst of the year to taki- l''mronal iIharge and sutperv is ion of the t'iectioni ,.iS ware'houist. it- haii beeni buvin for Lyiggett atiu Alyters on the NothI 'ars ,hniaimket for sev-irat years. th T'errell is an t'xpu--er'-e warc- isi manit, andi thie twvo t ont hier wit! - a grea t aisst to Ii Alainiiu tobim-, -m ':et. Germaiun .Aliniste'r of' Aliariine ft o t I Ij'p .lobs iral von Capelle, Geirman iniister ot mine ii.ill r-esigii shorsly aV icem-'l i to lierhn di ispatlce tin thps Stttaag the A ugsbur-g Z/eituny. Adiraitl von l'aplIt- m-ceedli Ad irnal von T'iitn'z as.-u-iernmn minister of marine mi Mar-ch, 1916. 11i4 re ported res ignatiomn inay haV'e Sme c'onnec-tion wvith the retfiremiint. of Ad. m niralI von I lo tz'etndosrff, heath of tht naval general sta ft, an noune onut Aui gust 2. Several days be'fore- his an niouncedI retiremettnt Von I Ioltzyendlorff had aploized.'( for the failure- of G'er nimn submarines toi sinki Ameitrican t ranlsports. St't l"att-y ini "Gooid 'Neht Nurst', Tuesday, August 13th. See "Over the Top.'