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AMERICANS RAID
GERMAN TRENCHES
DESTROY TMEIR DEFENSES AND '
PICK UP MUCH WAR
MATERIAL.
f . ONLY FEW AMERICANS LOST
American Batteries Leveled German
Trenches Before Infantry Made Attack.?Use
Gas Shells Effectively.
American initiative has asserted
itself on the Lorraine front in France.
Three savage raids on the German
lines have been made by the Americans,
who succeeded in reaching the
second line of enemy trenches before
ordered to return. During their stay
iu unruian-aeia territory they destroyed
craefully built defenses aiyl picked
up much war material.
The American artillery ably assisted
the infantry in the operation. A
heavy brarage Are was laid down in
front of the advancing Americans and
the (Hermans had fled before the wave
of infantry reached the hostile positions.
Ater the Americans had been
in the German trenches for a few
minutes, the German barrage Are was
loosed on them, but the American
guns answered shot for shot, and silenced
a number of batteries. The
American artillerymen used gas shells
with good effect. Near Toul the
American heavy guns have been in
action.
Three rlads 011 the British lines
have been attempted by the Germans '
in the Armentieres sector, but the :
British, in spite of a heavy Are frorm
the enemy's heavy guns, repulsed the
Teutons. The flghtlng has spread along
the (tanders front, the Ypres and
Passchendaele sectors flguring in the
official reports. The activities of the :
contending armies have spread farther
south, encounters near St. Quentln belng
mentioned for the flrst time in
recent weeks.
WILSON EXTENDS SYMPATHY
TO THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE
Pledges Any Aid Possible In Driving
Out Autocrsey.
Washington.?On the eve of the
gathering at Moscow of the Russian
congress of soviets, which is to pass
Judgment on the German peace accepted
by the bolshevik! at Brest-Litovsk,
President Wilson has sent a
message of sympathy to the Russian
people through the congress, with a
pledge that the United States will
avail itself of every opportunity to
aid them in driving out autocracy and 1
restoring Russia to her place in the
WHPM rwrlt\\ ~ * A
... ...... luuipmir iiiivereiKiiiy and
independence.
The President's message, telegraphed
to the American consul general at
Moscow for delivery, follows:
"May I not take advantage of the
meeting of the congress of the Soviets
to express the sincere sympathy which
the people of the United States feel
for the Russian people at this moment
when the German power has
been thrust in to interrupt and turn
back the whole struggle for freedom
and substitute the wishes of Germany
for the purpose of the people of Russia.
Although the government of the
United States, unhappily, is not now
In a position to render the direct and
effective aid it would wish to render,
I beg to assure the people of Russia
through the congress that it will avail
itself of every opportunity to secure
' for Russia once more complete sovereignty
and independence In her own
affairs and full restoration to her great
role In the life of Europe and the modern
world. The whole heart of the
people of the United States is with
the people of Russia In the attempt to |
free themselves forever from autocratic
government and become the
masters of their own life.
(Signed)
"WOODROW WILSON."
RAILWAY L08E MAIL
8UIT8 FOR $40,000,000.
Washington.?The attempt of the
ijp rauroaas 10 recover rrom the govern- |
raent $40,000,000 under the old system
of weights compensation for transport* 1
ing malls was defeated In the court of
claims. Tho court roafTrmed a formor
decision In favor of the govern- J
ment. The court also held for the
government In the suits of New England
railroads who claimed extra pay i
for transporting parcel post.
CASUALTY LI8TS MAY
BE WEEKLY AND SEMI-WEEKLY.
Washington.?In discussions of the
war department's new policy of announcing
names only In the casualty
lists from France, it developed that department
officials are considering
adopting the European custom of publishing
casualties weekly or semiweekly.
Instead of dally. This plan
has been snggested on the ground that
it would effectually conceal from the
jk enemy the losses In particular en
The
SPENCER S. WOOD
8p?ncer 8. Wood Is on# of the for*
tun ate officers of the American navy
who have Juft boon advanoed from tho
rank of coptaln to that of roar admiral.
TALK OF OFFENSIVE DWINDLES
TRANSPORTATION REQUIREMENT8
OF THE ARMY RUNNING
ON SCHEDULE.
Great Battlea May Not Materialize in
West This Month?Generally
in April.
Washington.?Troops and supplies
(or Oeneral Pershing's forces now are
moving to France on schedule time, it
was learned on high authority. While
figures may not be published it was
stated positively that transportation
requirements of the army are being
met by the shipping board, and the
Immediate situation as to ships was
described as satisfactory.
In view of this assurance that the
United States will be able to maintain
its place as a fighting unit on
the battle front, .reports from the
western front are being scanned more
eagerly than ever by officers here for
the first signs of the 1918 campaigns.
It is felt strongly that the opening of
major operations in what President
Wilson has predicted will prove the
decisive year of the great war will
not be much longer delayed.
Mud has been the determining factor
of many previous western front
operations. So long as the ground is
soft with the winter's rains, it is impossible
to move forward great guns
and necessary transport trains to
support an advancing line. Even in
Flanders, however, indications this
year are that the ground will harden
early in spring, permitting either side
to undertake the enterprises planned.
in *prn Heretofore.
In previous years. April has seen
offensive operations set in motion by
the allien. For that reason many officers
here seem to anticipate raiding
and minor assaults before the middle
of next month will show in themselves
that the ground is being mapped, information
obtained and local strategic
advantages established by one side or
the other in preparation for a great
effort.
To others it appears probable that :
no offensive will be undertaken on
any considerable scale before May 1.
They form that view on reports that
the French offensive in 1916, started ;
in April, proved to be at least two |
weeks early. The guns and transports
could not be brought forward !
to consolidate all the ground the
troops were able to wrest from Oer- I
mnn control.
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MORE U-BOATS DESTROYED
THAN GERMANY BUILT
In December, Is Statement Given Out
at Washington.
Washington?More submarines were
destroyed by the allied and American
naval forces In December than Germany
was able to build during that
month, according to information that
reached Washington. This fact developed
in discussions of the statement ;
made to parliament by Sir Eric C. !
Oeddes. first lord of the British admiralty.
that the submarines were being
checked.
GREAT BRITAIN SPENDS
DAILY 6,577,000 POUNDS
London.?Great Britain's loans to
her allies up to February 9 had totalled
1,264.000,000 pounds sterling. An- 1
drew Bonar Law, chancellor of the '
exchequer, announced in the house of
commons. The national debt at the
*nd of the financial year, the chancellor
stated, would nto exceed 5.900,000,000
pounds sterling. The dally expenditure
from the beginning of the
financial year to Feb. 9. Mr. Bonar Law
said, was ^6.657,000 pounds sterling
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FOBTMII
SECRETARY BAKER
IS NOWJN FRANCE
HI8 VISIT TO FRENCH SOIL 18
PURELY MILITARY AND NOT
DIPLOMATIC.
EAGER TO 60 FOR SOME TIME
Thinks Trip Will Better Fit Him for
Meeting the Many Needs of General
Pershing.
Paris.?The American secretary of
war, Newton D. Baker, has arrived at
a French port.
Washington.?Upon hearing of Secretary
Baker's safe arrival In France
through the Associated Press dispatch
from Paris, the war department announced
that the secretary's visit is
purely military and not diplomatic,
and is for purposes of Inspection and
personal conferences with military officials.
Mr| Baker is accompanied by
Major General William M. Black, chief
of engineers; Lieutenant Col. M. L.
Brett and Ralph Hayes, his private secretary.
Ni official report on the secretary's
a;ri/al had been received. The dedepartment
issued this statement:
Sailed February 27.
I "A cable disnatch from PaHb ?n I
the Associated Press announces the
arrival at a Fronch port of the secretary
of war.
"For some timo Secretary Baker has
desired to visit the headquarters of
the American expeditionary forces.
He sailed from an American port
about February 17.
"Secretary Baker has not determined
the length of time he will remain
in France but his stay will be long
enough to enable him to make a thorough
Inspection of the American forces
abroad and to hold important conferences
with American military officers.
"It is expected that not only will
Secretary Baker Visit the American
headquarters, but his inspection tour
will cover construction projects, including
docks, railroads and ordnance
| bases, now under way back of the
Amerian lines.
"The secretary's visit is military and
not diplomatic. It is essentially for
the purpose of Inspection and personal
conference with military officials.
Secretary Baker plans to spend a
brief time in France, inspecting in
person the concrete results already
achieved in the efforts of his department
to place in the field this year
an army that will be a factor in the
campaign. On the eve of his departure.
Mr. Baker told members of the
press who had been In the habit of
soeing him every day that he did not
expect to be away for any considerable
length of time.
The secretary and his party left
Washington without any other attempt
to conceal their movements
than a request that the press refrain
from reporting hiB departure. The
newspapers again worked in hearty
co-operation to make the Journey as
safe as possible from German submarines
for the party. No hint of the
trip has been printed.
TORNADO TAKE8 TOLL
OF LIVES?WRECKS HOMES
Lima, Ohio.?Five persons are
known to he dead, several other are
reported killed, scores are Injured,
scores of homes were completely or
partly demolished and hundreds of
barns nad outbuildings were razed hy
the tornado which traveled across
nortwest Ohio. Estimates of property
damage was one to Ave million dollars.
No serious damage was done in any
of the larger cities, most of the destruction
having been reported from
country districts. The tornado began
in Vanwert county, on the Ohio-Indiana
state line, and traveled in a
northeasterly direction, lessening in
intensity until it died out east of Tiffin.
Towns suffering the most were
Vanwert. Middlepolnt. Convoy. Lima,
Deshler, Hamler. Continental. Ottawa,
Findlay Napoleon. Holgate. Miller City
and Tiffin.
SAYS WE TALK TOO MUCH
INSTEAD OF GETTING TO WORK.
Daytona. Fla.?America's reasons
or entering the war were outlined by
Vice President Thomas R. Marshall.
In an address here before the community
forum in which he criticised i
Americans for "talking too much instead
of getting to work and winning
the war. Don't talk about what you
are going to do after the war." he. !
said, "but talk about winning it. I be- j
lieve I am about the only man who
has kept silent.
DEPARTMENT STANDS FIRM
ON CASUALTY ORDER.
Washington.?The war department
gives no indication of yielding in Its
determination to withhold the home
addresses of soldiers killed or wounded.
or who die of other causes In
France. Rasing its position on the
objections the Fronch government
made to General Pershing against the
American method of issuing casualty
ltats. the department Intends to meet
objections with the answer that the
system betrays military Information.
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MADAME DE MENOCAL
This photograph of tho beautiful
wife of the president of Cuba was taken
a few days after she had completed
the task of raising a cash fund of $1r
000,000 for the equipment and maintenance
In France of a hospital to be
manned exclusively by Cuban physi*
olans and nurses.
NFXT DRAFT 15 DELAYED
THOUGH MANY MEN WILL BE
CALLED OUT DURING
THE YEAR.
Announcement Expected to Outline
Manner of Filling Present Organization
to Full Strength.
Washington.?While a largo number
of men will be called out during the
present year to till up tho army and
complete lit organization, it was learned
that war department plans do not
call for the creation of any additional
divisions in 1918. The announcement
concerning the second draft expected
soon from Provost Marshal General
Crowder may outline the manner in
which less than 1,000,000 men?probably
not much in excess of 800.000?
are to be summoned gradually during
the year to complete the existing
organizations.
Delay in the announcement as to
the next draft is understood to be due
to uncertainty as to which method of
alloting quotas to the states is to be
followed. The senate already has
passed and the house military committee
hae favorably reported an
amendment to the law to base the
quota on the number of men in class
1, instead of upon the total registration
of a state. This change is regarded
as certain to be made, but to
avoid further delay schedules of allotments
under both systems have
been prepared at Provost Marshal
General's office ready to go out as
soon as final action is taken.
Am tn fho hntn ???
%uv ui?w ui Liin ncruiiu 11 rail,
members of Congress from agricultural
sections have been practically
assured that no withdrawal of met^
from civil life was contemplated which
would embarrass harvesting. It has
been indicated, however, that a relatively
small number of men must be
called to the colors prior to June 1
and the process may start In April,
when equipment, clothing and quarters
will be available. The men are
needed to fill up to full strength divisions
sla4ed for early departure to
Europe and also for field army and
corps troops nt attached to divisions.
The replacement detachments
also must go forward at an accelerating
rate since American troops are
now actually holding a sector of the
French front and men are being killed
or wounded in action every day.
The completion of the full program
of the war department without creating
any additional divisions probably
will absorb in the neighborhood of
600.000 men. The extont to which it
has been necessary to increase artillery
quotas throughout the army
and to add special units of all sorts
has surprised every officer and accounts
for the existing shortages to a
large extent.
FIVE MILE DRV ZONES
ORDERED BY DANIELS
Washington.?Five-mile dry zones
around the Aieven permanent naval
training stations and camps, irrespective
of whether there is an incorpo
rated city or town within those limits.
was ordered by Secretary Daniels.
Other orders may be issued later
CAPT. BLUE REDUCED
10 NUMBERS IN GRADE
Washington?Capt. Victor Blue, who
commanded the battleship Texas when
that vessel went ashore off Block Island
several months ago. has been reduced
10 numbers In grade. In announcing
the action. Secretary Daniels
disclosed that he had modified the
court-mart'al's sentence of the loss of
20 numbers, upon recommendations
for clemency by the court itself and
Admiral Mayo ,oomman4ing the Atlantic
tleet.
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JH 14, 1918
LIST OF CASUALTIES
NO LONGER ISSOED
INFORMATION COMMITTEE DISCONTINUES
PRACTICE ON
WAR DEPARTMENT ORDERS
REQUESTED BY 6EN. PERSHIN6
Enemy Able Through This Source to
Gain Valuable Inormation at to
Unita in France.
Washington.?Issuance of daily lists
of casualties among the American ?x??ditlr?nnrv
fnrrpa vna HI*i<nntlnn?H hv
the public information committee as
the result of an order of the war department
under which the names of
next of kin and the emergency addresses
of soldiers whose names appear
on the lists hereafter will be
withheld. The official explanation is
that the purpose of the order is to keep
information of value from the enemy.
On being informed of the order the
committee took the position that long
lists of men killed or wounded would
be worthless to the newspaper correspondents
without the addressses and
u notice was issued advising the press
that in future all information regarding
casualties must be obtained from
the war department. At the adjutant
generals' office it was stated that the
lists would continue to be sent to the
committee and would be available
there.
While the disagreement between
the committee and the department
probably will bo straightened out soon
so that the "expurgated" lists may
be made available to all who desire
them, the purpose of the department
to withhold the addresses apparently
is unalterable. Acting Secretary
Crowell said the order was issued at
the urgent recommendation of General
Pershine and that it would be
permanent. Both Mr. Crowell and Maj.
General Barch. acting chief of stafT,
declared that the purpose was to close
up a channel through which the enemy
might obtain valuable information, and
both disclaimed any intention of Reeking
to conceal heavy casualty reports. ;
"You may say for me." said General ;
March, "that the war department has ;
not and will not hold up a single name
for an instant longer than It takes to !
get it out.
PLENTY OF "BRAINLESS"
DAY8 SAYS SENATOR REED
Says We Will Soon Come to Bread
Cards if We Leave it to Hoover.
Washington.?Strictures on government
price-fixing and the activities of
the food administration monopolized
one day's session of the senate.
Led by Senator Reed, of Missouri.
Democrat, a group of senators of both
parties made the attack. Charges that
a general policy of fixing prices for
farm products, not authorized by the
food control law, is being instituted,
were made by Senators Reed and Borah,
who said the licensing power of
the law was being so used that its
actual result Is an unauthorized pricefixing
program.
In a four-hour speech teeming with
bitter criticiam. Senator Reed also denounced
the fuel administration, asserting
that Administrator Garfield
had not told the truth regarding rosults
of the coalless days' order,
which he described as a "lockout" of
certain eastern industries.
Senator Wolcott, Democrat, of Delaware.
said Mr. Hoover had donled
adoption of a farm produce pricefixing
plan, disclaiming authority, but
he and other senators insisted that
acts of the food adminiatratino, particularly
under its wholesale and retail
dealers* licensing power, was haying
that effect in actual practice.
"We would not hare had ao many
meatless days if there had not been
so many, many brainless days." Senator
Reed declared. "A few more acta
of the fod administration, and we
will have bread tickets. I believe the
efficiency of the United States has
been reduced 20 per cent by
Ignorant interference with business
methods."
RETAIL PRICE OF COAL
30 CENTS TON LOWER
Washington.?An average reduction
of 30 cents a ton in the retail price
of all anthracite coal sold for domestic
use between April 1 and September
1. was announced by the fuel administration.
together with regulations '
governing- the retail distribution of all 1
coal for the year beginning the first :
of next month. The rules aro designed
particularly to prevent hoarding and
insure the filling of all domestic needs ;
for next winter during the summer.
GEN. PERSHING WILL GET
SUPPLIES OUT OF SPAIN
Wnoklnvlnn ITn^.\p lt,o
?f uuuwi HIC WlllUiOltiai
agreement between the United States
and Spain, the formal signing of which
in Madrid was announced at the state
department not only will Gen. Pershing
get the supplies from Spain which
he desires for his troops, but a French
credit in Spain is arranged and tho
Spanish government permits free export
to the allies of pyrites, minerals
and manufactured wool.
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SOME CAMP SEVIER NEW
Bomb Found in Warehouse Prove to
Be a Piece of Fireworks.
Masons Form Lodge.
Camp Sevier, Greenville.?A presidential
warrant was received for the
continued detention of the three alien
enemies who have been lodged in the
county jail here for the past several
days. No charges were made against
them at the time they were taken
into custody.
Two of the men are Austrians and
the third a German. The latter and
one of the Austrians were soldiers at
Camp Sevier, while the third was
taken into custody when he offered
for enlistment.
A training school for army secretaries
was commenced by the Army
Y. M. C. A. here. The course will run
for three weeks with a total of 17
hours' Instruction each week. The
Camp Sevier stair will first be put
through the course, which will be repeated
regularly, secretaries who have
Just entered association work being
sent here to take the training. Members
of the local staff and outside authorities
will give the lectures, all of
which will be essentially practical, relating
to the methods to be used In
daily work. H. F. Holtzclaw. Ph. D..
the educational director, has been appointed
dean of the school.
Firing on the artillery range at
Cleveland Mills, 26 miles north of
here, will commence soon. The range
has been practically ready for some
time, as have the barracks, which will
accommodate one battalion. The order
in which the battalions will visit the
range has not yet been decided upon,
but each will stay two weeks. Four
of the brigade's six three-inch guns
will be used in the firing.
An ordnance repair shop. In which
all the ordnance equipment of the division.
from six inch howitzers down
to web belts, will be repaired is being
constructed. The shop will contain
lathes, drills, planing tables and
similar machinery, all driven by electrical
power, and even a complete optical
repair department for the repair
of the telescopes with which field
guns, range finders and sharpshooters'
rifles are equipped.
The American expeditionary forces
will outrage the continental belief that
woolen underwear must be worn the
year round. On the recommendation
of General Pershing, cotton underwear
has been prescribed between May 1
and Sentemhpr 1 inafpnd of u?rh? i??a1
underwear, as heretofore. Heavy
woolen underwear is still prescribed
for the winter months.
An army lodge has been formed
among the Masons at Camp Sevier.
Excitement over the discovery of
a supposed bomb in a large warehouse
located in a railway terminal in Greenville
was changed to amusement when
It was discovered that the "bomb" was
a piece of fireworks left over from a
celebration held some time ago.
Sterilizing of water for human consumption
was discontinued, after having
been in force for several months.
Given Prison Sentence.
W. 9. Rogers, charged in the ITnite l
Qiotoo * *
um.co iuuii usm wini peraonanng
himself as an agent of the ITnfteil
States government, brought in a verdict
of guilty. Following the reading
of the verdict, S. J. Williams, indicted
on the same charge, entered a
plea of guilty. This was done
in accordance with an agreement between
the attorney for the accused
and the district attorney, the evidence
in both cases being alike.
Each was sentenced by Judge H. A.
M. Smith to fines of $1,000 and one
year in the Atlanta federal prison.
The men were book agents selling
an expensive work. They used their
assumed connection with the government
to induce people of German an- I
cestry to buy the hooks. They were !
arrested in Charleston. They especially
stressed their alleged connection
with the government in iducing people
of German ancestry to buy their
books, emphasizing it to such an extent
that in some cases it amounted
to coercion. It was claimed that some
people bought the books and made the
Initial payment who were unable without
privation to keep up their contracts.
There were those who signed
up for the books because they feared
government action if they refused. The
books sold for over $100 a set.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS ITEMS.
The car load of young hogs brought
to Laurens to be distributed to the
county boys' pig clubs for breeding
purposes have been sold, principally
to the boys of the county, while a few
were taken by others. There wero
124 gilts in the lot and the price was
25 cents the pound.
Fitzhugh McMaster of Columbia, a
former Winnshoro man, has offered a |
prize to the pupil of Mount Zlon school
who writes the best historical sketch
of Winnsboro.
Columbia has been selected by three
big fraternal ordors as the place of
meeting for the 1918 sessions of the
grand lodges. The grand lodge officers^
of the Odd Fellows and the
Knights of Pythias have voted for the
capital city and the Red Men announce
that their April meeting has been
transferred from Seneca to Columbia.
The Red Men will assemble in Columbia
on Tuesday. April 9. and the convention
will develop into a patriotic
demonstration. A feature of the great
council meeting will be the presentation
of an ambulance to the military
forces at Camp Jackson.
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TEACHER SHORTAGE
AHOTHERJRORLEHI
WAR IS BRINQINQ DEARTH SAY8
STATE SUPERINTENDENT
SWEARINQEN.
STATE BOARD HOLDS MEETIN6
Appeals for Free Tuition to Wlnthrop,
University, Clemson and the
Columbia.?A general dearth of
teachers Is expected for South Carolina
schools by John E. Sweartngen.
State superintendent of education.
This statement was made by Mr.
Swonrlngen following a meeting of the
State board of education.
It was also emphasized by Mr.
Swearingen that in all appeals for free (
tuition, in cases denied by the State
board of charities and corrections, the
appellants were sustained. There were
1R or 16 of these. The following statement
was given out by Mr. Swearingen:
The State board of education has
adjourned. The special business of
the meeting was the disposition of
appeals from students at Clemson,
Winthrop. the University and the Citadel,
who had been denied free tuition.
The parents and guardians of the
Interested students sent their evidence
in writing. The secretary of the state
board of charities and corrections was
called on for the records of his board
and furnished an oral statement. Two
appeals were carried forward to a
later meeting. In all other cases the
applications for free tuition were
granted by the State board.
The question of the addition of titles
to the library list was Bent for
the next meeting. The difficulties of
the book trade have made it impossible
to purchase at least one-third of
the titles now on the library list. Desirable
volumes like "The Maid of tho
Foothills." "Palmetto Stories." etc.,
have gone out of print. A new and
revised library list will probably be
ready for distribution at the opening
of the schools in the fall.
Some 700 rural graded school applications
will be paid. Many teachers
and many schools are inquiring about
this payment, and the money will be
forwarded at the earliest practicable
date. Local school officers should call
upon their county superintendents or
their county treasurer for information.
In accordance with the standing reg
uiuiiv/ii ui um LHim ut me spring iflacilera'
examination will he held at every
county court house Friday, May 3. All
prospective teachers are advised to
take this examination. Every indication
points to a shortage of teache-a
unless the availuhle supply is increased
at this examination and at the college
commencements in the early summer.
May Draft Stenographers.
Columbia.?A letter has been sent
to all of the local hoards of the State
by Capt. R. E. Catwile, S. E. R., and
approved by Governor Manninng. urging
that the filing of occupational
cards be finished at the earliest possible
moment. It is recommended that
if It Is found to be necessary, that the
schools be closed for a short period to
allow the teachers to give their full
time to this work, as it is imperative
that the c4khsideation be completed at
oncew It is aleo recommended to
the boards that if sufficient teachers
can not be found to do the work, that
citizens can be called to assist In indexing
the cards.
The headquarters office of the Stato
urges upon the secretaries of the various
boards throughout the State the
necessity of sending at once a list of
all stenographers who have been placed
in Class 1, who are eligible In mak:
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up, ui# mo uv taiitiu ? ihw (lays ago.
The volunteer-inn has been alow, and
the department states that if this number
has not presented itself for service
by March 8, preparation will do
made to apportion the number among
the boards of the State, and call them
by draft.
Will Sue the 8tate.
Columbia.?The act empowering the
estate of Thelma Sandel and Minnie
Sandel to sue the State for damages
for the deaths of the two children at
Lone Star In 1915, alleged to have resulted
from the Injection of anti-typhoid
serum, supplied by the State
board of health, has been signed by
Governor Manning. A number of other
persons, at that time were made 111,
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this same serum. The cane is to be
brought in the court of common pleas
for Ricflland under authority of act..
No Music Festival.
Spartanburg-?There will be no
Spartanburg music festival this spring.
Thin announcement wan made following
a meeting of the directors of tho
organization. A few days ago the directors
decided that the festival would
bo held and sent Dr. Edraond Morris
to New York to arrange details with
aft is** and orchestras. Dr. Morris returned
and submitted a report showing
the difficulties in the way of a
successful festival to be too great to
overcome His report caused the
abandonment.