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We are goi] Lowest Pric that he is g, Winter Consisting of m Suits, Boys' Su Hij Caps, will go at tr Blankets i You know the m ried the best liI m Blankets in Clar are all of the ve m close them out q let them go chea We want yo made, and j' we say that Ir S. C. BOYS REIURNING HOME Transports Reach New York with Two Pametto Officers IN ALL 4,992 MEN RETURN Capt. ludgens of Laurens, and Lieut. Jos. F. Smith, Waterloo, Among 'Them. Newv York, Jan. 20.-Four steam snips, their (decks crowd1ed with American fighting men, hundreds of wvhom gazed upon the home shores from cots and convalescent chairs, passed the Statute of Liberty today amidl a dIin from harbor craft bring ing home 4,992 heroes. Trho climax of the demonstration came whei the hospital ship Comfort, bringing 371 sick and wounded, en-I tered the upper b~ay andl was hailed by (heers from the throngs on shore and the strains of "Home, Sweet Home,"' from a band on board a ves-I sel carrying Mayor Hlylan's commit tee of wvelcome. As the Comfort came abreast the Statue of Liberty a great shout arose from her dleck, crowdedl to the rails withr soldiers in bandages, su pportedl by crutches a nd canes or sea tedl in easy clairs. Thbrough the port holes of the hospital ship glimpses were caug ht of the more ceriously wvoundled. The other steamships wvere trans ports --the Lapland, whbich brought 2,065 soldijers, the Sierra, with 1,115, and the Wilhelmina, with 1,041 aboard. Of the sick andl woundled brought back by the Comfort 129 were naval men and four were ma rmies. Mostly (Casuals. 'The troops of the Lapland for the most par(e were casual companies madle up of men from base hospitals in France and England and most of whom werre c'onvalescent. One other detachment, the 114th trench mortar battery, wvhich had not seen service at the front, was on its way back to Camp Heauregard, La. The cas uil companies and their destmnations are: Numbers 211, 212, 213, Camp Dix; 214 U~pton; 215, 216, 338, 4119, Mead; 4 I7, Gordon. The La planrd also ear ried 5i0 ensual officers. Among the troops on the Sierra were the 337th regiment of field ar tillery and 237 casual officers andl on isted men, the latter from hialsa ag to reduce our stocl es possible. We are n ping to reduce the pri Clothing a big line of Men's its, Pants, Hats and emendous Reductions mnd Comforts it we have always car ie of Comforts and endon county. They ry best make, and to uick, we are going to 2. u to come in and lool ;oods that we always an article is good, it i in France. The artillery regiment was trained at Camp Dodge, Des Moines, and comprises selected men from Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri. It had been in the Claremon sector of France. "Sparks" and "Bird Men." Of the men on the Wilhelmina, 405 were from the radio station near Bordeaux, where they were engaged in constructing four radio towers. There were also 200 men of the naval aero squadron, with a base in North ern France. Also on board were the 334th and 336th divisions of the med ical supply unit, the 311th sanitary train of the Eighty-sixth division, tI' headquarters field hospital andl to hospital units and 172 woundled. Among the wvounded officers on the Oomfort were Lieuts. Joseph F. Smith, Waterloo, S. C., and Benjamin F. Malone, Monticello, Ga. The Comnfort left Plymouth .Ja nu ary fifth and five (lays later put into the Azores after a stormy p~as sage. A Turkey dlinner wvas served the wounded before the ship put to sea again and the trip from the A zores was in smooth seas. Hluns in D~ire Straits. Graywas in dire straites wvhen the war ended, according to Capt. Robert W. Hludgens, of Laurens, S. C., wvho arrived on the Comfort. lHe was attached to the 118th infantry, Th'irtieth in fantriy, Thirtieth division. and when the town of IHellecourt was captured the captain said the Amer icans found the 1bodiesC of German sol diers being prepared to be renderedI into fats. A com plete rendering plant waioundl in a tunnel heside the lHellecourt canal, Capt. Hiudgens said. Tbhree wou nded h eroines also were aboard the Comfort. All wvere nurses andi one of them, M iss Marie Smith, of IBerkeley, Cal., was woundled in the foot by sh ra jnel at Chateau-Th-.ierry wvh ie attached to a medical unit with one of the sixteen inch naval gun crews. Members of the gun crew de clared she kept. on attending to the wounded until ordered from the field by a n ofli(cr. Tlwo Other Hieroes. Two others on the Comfort were A. J1. Tlobin, of Austin, Texas, a boil erma'ker on the UInitedI States steam ship Olympia, who servedl at Arch angel, Rlussia, mm~ lb: I M. Hemp, of D es Moines, a 'ad io operator on the .Jacob Jones, when that era ft was sunk, by a torped(o on December 6. All branches of the service were represented a board the Lapland, in-. cluding women nurses andl war work c of Winter Goods an got going to put on a i ce on goods there is a Sh We have an ext We are able to fit e family with the ver These Shoes are g, at prices you neve S We have a het All kinds and patt for skirts in stripes for $2.50, will go other Silks will be F proportion. c over our stock. We have sold at reasonat s good. on the trip and this was responsible for the death on board of Capt. John R. Buckingham, of this city, attach ed to the ordnance department. Col, Watson of the ordnance department was aboard the Lapland and he said the rigors of the voyage aggregated a stomach ailment of Capt. Bucking ham. Premier Mine Laying. Rear Admiral Jos. Strauss and commander Wim. Glassrord, who won distinction with the American naval forces abroad, arrived on the Lap land. Admiral Strauss was the head of the greatest min3 laying expedi tion ever attempted wvhen atn Amer ican and British fleet wvorking under his ordlers, spread 70,000 mines across the North sea from the Scottish coast to Norwvay, 245 miles, and virtually bottled up the German submarine op erations out of Helligoland and Kiel. Lieut. Geoffrey Edgar Duveen, of the British navy arrived too late to see his father, Henry .J. D~uveen, the ar connoisseur, wvho died last Thurs dlay, Lieut. Daveen, wvho knew that his father was ill did not learni of his death until the Lapland arrived .in quarantine. Trans-Atlantic Flight. Sir Charles C. Allon, head of the Glosport Aircraft Co., Yachtsman, wvho arrived, 'caid that had the British G;overta..,ent allowed the use of an aircraft engine that had been devel 0oped, the Atlantic would have been erossed by an aircraft at least four times b~y now. "It is logical that a flying boat must be0 the craft to make the trans Atlantic trip," salid Sir Charles. "We are building the largest flying boat in the wvorld at the present time, wvhich can make the trip and return at an economical speed of 75 miles an hour if necessary. It would 1)e a sportsman gamie t~o cross by airplane at high speed, but it is the flying boat that wvill be selected to make the voyage ani undoubtedl success. It is dloutitfuil If any crossing will be made before next year." A board the Lapland also were sev eral men, casuals from the 27th divis ion commanded by Major General JTohn I". O'Ryan. Captain Clifford B. Harmon, a pioneer in aviation, who has been acting as an instructor for A merican flyers at the front returned to this country. ----o A DVERTISE IN THlE TIMES Plies Cured in 6 to 14 Days Druggists refund money if PAZO OINTMENT falle to cure hiuing, Bind, Bleeding or Pro~ruding Piles. InatntyrellevesItchng Pile and youan ed ll NG Al d to do this we are going to close it out at the very egular sale, but you know that when J. H. RIGBY says i reduction going on. oes Ladies' and Children's ra large lot of Shoes. very member of the y best Shoes made. :>ing off our shelves W rheang ofWe have a big stock of Ladies' and r heard of before. ~~~ Children's Cloaks---All of the very b: c Ulks ivy stock of Silks. materials and latest models. We are ens. Silks suitable going to close them out at once at $1.78. All our :educed in the same Cos t! have a store that is crammed full of the very best goods le prices. We stand back of all our goods, and when The Young Reliable, Manning, S. C. Are You Startin Off Right? Have you decided to farm the scientific way this year? It you have, you will have to buy Farm Machinery that is -modern. We have a room stocked full of the latest in improved Machinery, such as: WALKING PLOWS, kiDING PLOWS, WALKING CULTIVATORS, RIDING CULTIVATORS, DRAG HARROWS, PEG TOOTH HARROWS, STALK CHOPPERS, COTTON and CORN PLANTERS VELVET BEAN and CORN PLANTERS, KIRSTIN STUMP PULLERS. Come in, we would like to demonstrate these machines to you. THOMAS LIVE STOCK CO. H. M. THOMAS, Manager.