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Our Adrertieers Reach /I I M I . -jB + I To? 14. tajui P??? Erery Comer of the Town and Cooatry R I I a ^ a. ^ a a a R H aa ^ A ^ ^ I Will Brlng^^WMe to Tee Ital WW -~ vilirt aiu Viihrnntrlp i-^Volume 20 CHERAW. CHESTERFIELD COUNT?S. C.. JULY 6. 1916 'dumber 34 ?-??? ? . mail? _ BRITISH PLEASED . AT THEIR SUCCESS I director of General Staff Sums I'p Events of Drive for the Associated Press. FOLLOWED JOFFltE'S PLANS While French Were Guarding Verdun English Prepared for Great Offensive. London July 4.?"Only German soldiers in open field formations now stand between the French and the River Somme" said Major Gen. F. B. Maurice to-day referring to the part of the river which flows northward * " ? - *> ? cant.w n Inn & which xo xne easi ui uc otv^. the Frenc have made their greatest gains. "The last of the enemy's defensive works in that sector have been captured by our allies." In giving the results attained by eht allied offensive of the western front, Major Gen. Maurice, who is director of the military operations oi the general staff, continued: "Much underserved oblique has been heaped upon the British army by English, French and American people because we apparently did nithing to assist the French in the desperate fighting on the Vesdun front. But all this time we were doing the part requested by Gen. Joffre. "Accirding to this plan we conserved our troops, accumulated sup. plies and waited the word for the grand offensive, in which we were to play our part with the Russians and Italians, as well as the French. Aaturally during these anxious weeks we could give out no exciting news, because our deliberate preparations were not good copy. For certain tactical and moral reasons, which need not be dilated on, it was necessary that the French should not lose the east bank of the Meuse, and Gen. Joffre informed us that he could hold the pisltions which command that part of the rlwr until the end of June, so*we knew we were going to strike at the beginning of July. staffs included offensives by the Russ, sians and Italians which, 1 do not need to tell you, already have begun. We are not disappointed with our own advance, which we expected to be lsow, and we are enormously pleased with the wonderful progress made by the French who, with comparatively light losses, are sweeping forward to the Somme. "It is quite evident the Germans were surprised by the strength of the French offensive. They evidently believed our allies would be kept too busy before Verdun to participate seriously in the western offensive, which they knew was coming. Consequently they made extensive preparations before our front, pilling up reinforcements there while comparatively neglecting the southern sector, dominated by the French. Tae Germans, anticipating our move, brought up great forces, much of which consisted of independent units called Mosqueton battalions, armed only with light machine guns. It was these battalions which inflicted the heaviest losses on us. Determined Resistance. "Our enemy is brave and resourceful and put up a desperate defense especially in the region from Gonmiecourt to Fricourt, where he evidently expected our main attack. In this region the fighting was especially severe. The chalk formations gave the (ivnuitus a s^icuuiu v-wnnc iv ?... the best use of their miners, who constructed dug-outs and other defendve works, which our heaviest shells could not destroy. From these works Mosqueton battalions put up most determined resistance. "Physical features made the capture of Friciurt peculiarly difficult and our severe losses there were not unexpected. Montauban was one ot the strongest positions occupied by the Germans, but our advance there was brilliant and rapid, without the losses suffered between Gommecourt and Fricourt. "On the whole we are well satis, field with our advance. We will continue our artillery preparation, as we have no intention of butting our head against a stone wall. The human factor must be considered and this factor presents some unexpected problems on the German side, since after all the progress of any offensive. We are meeting strenuous opposition. Prnirress Will He Slow. "Our progress most certainly will be deliberate. Many places like Fricourt will be taken only after over^xomiug desperate opposition. "That our gallant allies should adB vance faster with smaller losses than we Is not only the fortune of war, but may be called poetic justice, since they lost so heavily during the long weeks while we were getting ready i to take our share in the great off< sive. However, it must be clear nc even to laymen, that the blame het ed on us for not going to the aid the French before Verdun was qu underserved, as we are doing exac what Gen. Joffre requested. A when he gave the word we sprang the attack in which we have suffer greviously, but which eads to no i gret beyond sorow for the fallen; 1 it now is our time to stand the bn of battle. "South of th Somme the Germa were completely surprised and our lies will get through to the river wil out much loss. In that region y may look for immediate developmen as the fighting there now is in op field formation, the last of the ei my's works having been captured, glance at the map will show you tl our allies are clear across tee i work of trenches. "Farther north you will note tl while our line is now behind the fii series of German defences, we are fied places. / BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE Appropriations Sure to Reach 1 tal Never Known Before in Nation's History. Washington, July 2.?Congress preparing to complete its program] of financial preparedness with eve indication that appropriations tl session will aggregate consideral more than $1,500,000000 at let $500,000,000, of which will be for r tional defense. According to statements based figures complied by Chairman Fi gerald of the house appropriate pending measures by senate comm tees, the grand appropriation toi may reach $1,650,000,000, exceedi by more than $500,000,000 the recc of any previous congress in the r tion's history. Last week Representative Fi gerald submitted a statement to t house showing that the grand to for the present congress based bills passed and pending, wov then the senate naval committee h added nearly $50,000,000 to the na> bill and the military committee h ..won., . army , propriation measure "by appro raately $10Q,000,000. The principal appropriation me: ures awaiting senate considera^i are the army and navy bills. Tb carry $282,000,000 and $315,826,8 respectively, and together with t fortifications bill, which has pass both houses, would appropriate I national defense more than $622,00 000. There is every indication tb the senate will accept at least t major part of the proposed army a nacy increases, but conferences pre ably will pare them down. Win ever happens, however, leaders both houses agree* that the total appropriations will break all recon The senate plans to take up t na\al bill as soon as the agricultui bill is out of the way probably witt a few days. The big building pi gramme providede for 1917 and t provision for a three year constri tion policy probably will mean a < bate of several weeks. Meanwh the army bill will come from comra tee and an effort may be made pass it as soon as it is ready setti uaiuc nit? uavai uni tumpui ai 11 v . With its own on appropriate nearing completion, the house ready to take up the $210,000,t revenue bill introduced yesterdi The house adjourned from yesterd to next Wednesday and the reven measure is expected to come Thursday under a special ri and be passed Soturday. Th the house will mark time wa ing for the house to catch \ Besides several of the big supj measures the senate has the shippi bill, the child labor bill, the $2,00 ooo militia relief measure, conser I (ion measures, the immigration t and many minor matters to dispt of. If there is to be an adjournment time for the political campaign c< gross leaders believe some of 1 measures of the president's legis tive programme must be sacrlfic They believe the immigration bill a perhaps the conservation ineasu can be delayed until the short sessi in spue or ine crowueu sen; calendar and the threatening Me can situation, the subject of adjou inent constantv is discussed ab< the capital. The house could adjoi within a few days, but senate lea< say that under the most favora circumstances, tliey ciuld not pos blv get throught before the middle August. Should war come congr probably would remain through the beginning ?>f the shirt session December. The Chronicle now only $1 a yeai 'V ::: CARRANZA'S REPLY C I SETTLESJIIFFICULTY ntl TO CONTINCE NEGOTIATIONS ed re- ! or DeFacto Government Yields In PrlncI- <iat int pie sto Demands of United States? or Mediation or Direct Converns sations to Follow. I al" Washington, July 5.?Early re- ^ th- sumption of friendly diplomatic con- C ou j versations with the de facto govern- G *s> ment of Mexico to the end that pesce J ien and order may be resiored in n>'thorn * ie": Mexico aird along the oorder is ev ?ect- G A ed here to be the next step of the Una- C iat' ed States in its relations with its sou 1 iet thern neighbor. * The crisis precipitated by Villa's lat raid on Columbus N. M., and culmirst nating in the fight at Carrizal between * in American and Mexican troops appear- C ed tonight to have been dissipated by B an amicable note from Gen. Carranza a presented today by his ambassador C designate here, Eliseo Ar^edondof. C The note proposes that the differenc. ?" es between the governments be settled BC by mediation or by direct negotiotions. It is remargable for its brevity, its restrained and friendly tone jand for the absolute lack of any of is [ the strong, "even insolent language I j which characterized the last two com- pat 'ry munications from the de facto govern- am lis ment It treats as a closed incident wir )ly the exchange of unfriendly communi- Sut I of cations which rought war almost 1 ia~ within sight. var Up to Wilson Now. Hu on No formal comment on the note was cut tz- obtainable from state department of- in 118 flcials. A copy was forwarded to the sto Whit House immediately upon its re- I tal ceipt and President Wilson will deter- vac nS | mine the course to he pursued. The can ,r(i fact that Secretary Lansing completed wai ia" preparations today for a month's va- of cation to begin Friday is regarded as afti tz-'significant, however, of a feeling on Mif he his part that the crisis is over. fito tal As a matter of general principle the,see on Washington government always has \anc fid favored mediation of any dispute suit- j'ent as'able for such procedure. tan ral! There is every indication, however, beg as j that in the present instance it will ed, xi- coming, negitiations directly with the 'hie Tarranza government. Hit is- *be on TORRENS ACT IS ab< iey NOW EFFECTIVE 10 43, - 8ta he The Torrens system of registration 8bc ed of land titles is no effective in South :or Carolina. Under its provisions the 0,- clerk of court is to appoint by Au- ? lat gust 1 three or more attorneys, who he are to be examiners of titles; the Pa| nd county commissioners must provide ^ f >b- a register of mesne conveyance for it- the registration if titles. The pro- J of visions of the act are assumed volof untarily. tb( ds. The advantage of the Torrens sys- rei lie etm is that after land is once regis- J *al terer under this plan, there will be pIc lin no further question of the title and it bo) :o- will not be necessary to have the title ] he examined for any subsequent trans- ,bei ic- fers of the land. The object of the aft ie. system is to give a clear title ti land. ile The Torrens act fixes the fees that ^ it- are to be allowed to the title exami- tin to ners, officers and surveyors. The ex- ^a ng aminei* is to receive a minimum fee v of $5 for examination of each title of be< ins property assessed upon the tax books cai is at $1,000 or less, and for each addi- 1 )00 tional $1,000 of assessed value he is sp( to rprpivp so oents. The surveyor ay employed under the provisions of the ue act is to be allowed not more than up 40 cents per houh for the time ac- vic lie tually employed. ne' en In order to guarantee the title, and it- at the same time to protect against 1 lp. loss persons who by the system lose W11 >ly an interest in land not through their * ng own negligence, the State provides ra' 0,- an assurrance fund, out of which 1 ,a- claims will be paid. This fund is >111 formed by a fee of one-tenth of one me >se per cent, of the assessed value of the regitered land. This amount is turn, fis jn ed over to the State treasurer. Su m- J .. MeBee Items. H., the The many friends of Mrs. Axie Shaw da; 'a" were much grieved to hear of her ed. death, which occured at the home of ind her son, Mr. Charlie Shaw, neartown K] reg on last Tusday at 4 o'clock in the afternoon . Mrs. Shaw was the widow on. of Mr. Roderick Shaw, whose *death Annnpoil cav.ral van ra Don mi x'~ Mr. J. E. Middleton left last week qui rn. for Baltimore for treatment. Mr. pr Milddleton writes that he is irnprov- sa ing very much and hopes to soon be on irn able to come home Mi lat* Dr. Vaughn carried Mrs. Jessie re ble Steen to a Hospital in Columbia for ar ?si- treatment last Friday night. tic ,,f Mr. Robert Turner, of J'ageland; eg9 a candidate for Superintendent of be Education, spent a few hourB in town re t0 Saturday. bu Messrs Clyde Haley and Roy Neally, Ai of Florence, spent Sunday in town. ta Mr. H. B. Poston, of Patrick, spent ca r. Sunday iu town. OD ONGRESSIONAL I ITINERARY Fffl FIFTH OIS1IC ielow is a list of the plfw >s an es at and on which the oai lldate Congress from the Fifth tfstrlc 1 speak: tklgeway, Tuesday, Jtfly l&h. Vinnsboro, Wednesday, July 12th. Ibsster, Thursday, July lStlL resrt Falls, Friday, July 14th. rork, Saturday, July l{j& ' tlacksburg, Tuesday, July 18th. laffney, Wednesday, July 18th. Hover, Thursday, July 20th ort Mill, Friday, July 2UU lock Hill, Friday, July list, a .ancaster, Saturday, July ??4. [ershaw, Tuesday, July 86th. lamden, Wednesday, July 28th. laney, Thursday, July alio. lcBee, Friday, July 28th. \i Iheraw, Friday, July 28th, _ft night Ihesterfleld, Saturday, July 29th. f SSIAN CAVALRY EMEB8 ^rjTGAR] trols Cross Carpathian* Cut Wire and Blow Up Boildliigs. tendon, Jufly 5.?Russian cavalr; rols have crossed the Capathian 1 entered Hungary, according to i eless dispatch received here fron :harest. $ 'he dispatch says the pafrolg ad iced from Kimpolung andj entere< ngarian territory on Tuesday. The; the wires and blew up'juilding which food and munitiths wer red. t is added that the. news that in lers are again on -^H^f^rian so. ised a deep impresBldlff? BMape"st ter, near which just thci member the Barrow family had 6pent th ernoon on a quiet family picnic ss Jennie Sue Barrow^Md gone in the pond to wade, wMnj she wa n to be sinking bey oad'hp*, height I Mr. Barrow, with Ms blothing on ered the water to gfpto befdssis ce. When he apprgnchrt her hi ;an to sink and the ofi&d -disappear but in her struggles. sU^i^hA a below the fater foiiftt uiomen 3 head, however, reapjlared abo\ i water, but, imbedded ill the san )ve his knees, he was njever abl extricate himself and was drowne nding up with the top oil his hea >wlng above the surface or the pom 4* Sews From Mt. Croghou. It. Croghan, S. C., July 3.?Mrs I Moor returned to }her home i geland last Tuesday after spendir ew days with her parents, ^r. an s. J. L. Burch. dr. and Mrs. R. B. Redfearn le turday for Hoffman, N. C., whet sy will visit Mrs. Redfearn's pt its, Mr: and Mrs. G. F. Myers. The boys of Mt. Croghan have con ited their new ball diamond an pe to have some good games soon. Miss Blanche Watts returned t r. home in Pageland last Tuesda er spending a while with Miss Alir. json. dr. W. A. Rivers is spending son ie in the mountains '.of Nort rolina. There is a jitney buss line runnic ftveen Cheraw and Pageland. Th is a 12-passenger one. Mayor Dunlap, of Wadesboro, N. C mt a few hours in Mt. Croghan la: ursday. Messrs Andrew Huntley and Max vers voluntered to give their se: es in Mexico if their country slioul ed them. They have joined tir eraw company. dr. Bud Moore is reported very sic Lh pneumonia. dr. W. N. Ratliff had a fine l.o"ii sed watermelon the 2nd of July. Messrs. J. 0. Taylor. M. P. Gale, an J. Rayfield attendol the Mason :etlng at Florence last week, rhere will be Children's Day ext es at Elizabeth Baptist church no: nday.. Messrs. William and P. E. Borch, , , W. N. and L. Ratliff .peut Saiui y in Wadesboro, N, C. EQIIBE.IIENTS FOR BEESBOLLMEN It has been learned that there uch confusion as to what the r< irements are in order to vote in tf imary. The only requisite necei ry to vote is that one put his nan the club books before the primar iny people seem to think that ta ceiDts and registration certificate e necessary, stated a local pol :ian this morning At the general election in N'?ven r it will be necessary to have t& ceipts and registration certificate it one can vote at the primary i igust regardless if whether he hi x receipts and registration certil tes, if he have his name "jenrolU i the club books. Strength and Effic National i ! r d Peace Footing of th ^ 4 ? ? -m r . * ' Soldiery and Metr GREAT activity la regard to the United States militia marked the year 1914, and great progicos was made toward the creation of an efficient held force. While the commissioned strength suffered , diminution?partly due to the ellmlnal tlou of surplus staff officers?the enl Hated strength greatly Increased, due in measure to an anticipation of Immediate active service. As a precaution for efficiency the uae of typhoid prophylactic was undertaken on an extended scale during the year. Nearly 80,000 members of the mllltla were inoculated with the serum. Within the >m year also considerable progress was j made in preparing the necessary forms and instructions for the induction of the militia Into the service of the United States. The following table shows ^ the strength of the organized mllltla in 1014 as reported by Inspecting offls cerse Numbers In Militia. Enlisted Y * Officers. men. s Alabama 163 2,609 Arizona 4o 645 a Arkansas 109 1,402 a California 262 3,604 Colorado 122 1,983 Connecticut 177 2,511 j - Delaware 41 466 1 District of Columbia 124 1,721 I Florida 78 1.0/5 ! y Oeorrla 226 2,490 : g Hawaii 66 858 | Idaho 68 839 e Illinois 608 6,447 Indiana 186 2,109 Iowa 217 2,014 " Kansas 132 1,720 0 Kentucky 164 2,210 ( Louisiana 66 1,009 1 M Maine 108 1,404 . s Maryland 167 1,986 p Massachusetts 424 6,369 c Michigan * 189 2,418 !. Minnesota 220 2,243 Mississippi ,.. 94 990 Missouri 244 8.840 6 Montana 40 636 #, Nebraska 132 1,384 Nevada .... [r New Hampshire 90 1480 , New Jersey 804 <014 New Mexico 57 110 K'New Fork 974 IUP North Carolina 209 <967 ;< North Dakota ?T ?9 e r ,690 6,637 t t - Oregon M? Pennsylvania 746 10,190 e Rhode Island 96 1.803 South Carolina 1M 1.7M I 1 is Photo by American Press Association. Typical National G 3t State militia Is for the most part eqi Is experienced In camp Ufa ie x. ' I South Dakota 68 873 Tennessee 117 1,798 Id Texas 192 2,731 .. Utah 29 .119 Vermont 75 817 Virginia 206 2,600 ,i- Washington 88 1,312 West Virginia 104 1,517 Wisconsin 193 2,931 t>. Wyoming 54 760 Total 8.792 119,251 id The report (1014) of the secretary of | 1c war gives a total of 8,323 olBcers and 119.!-87 enlisted men. r. It is an error to suppose that thp tt nominal strength of the national guard v | Is all there is to it for effectiveness. A ' peace strength Is recognized and also J-1 an emergency or war strength. For r-1 Instance, the ten company regiment of I peaco Is Increased to twelve companies for war, and the fifty to sixty men company is recruited up to 100 men. Then there Is what may be called an untabulnted or uunsslgned reserve, , comprising men who have had one to ; three years' training In the guard and is have been discharged, but consider ?-[ themselves members of the guard and ie will volunteer to join their former rog3_ iment or any guard regiment not filled to the maximum. This gives cohesion 10 to the force, the partially trained drop- ' *' ping in alongside of the thoroughly 1 lX trained men. 1 isj How Militia Is Officered. ( i-. tt oaf,, oov fhnf fho nntlAnnl guard can muster within a few days , i. upward of noo.000 well and partially , ix trail.cu soidiers. From amoug these j g efficient men there will be selected un in ?'i , - lie admirable uew volunteer army j lav, ihe first and second lieutenants i IS ami the caj tains ol' entirely uew com- 1 punles recruited among the uuorgnn- , id ized national guardsmen. These new , J commissioned officers will be efficient | iency of the juard and Militia e Organized Citizen lods of Increase privates oF active corporals and sergeants from the ranks of the national guard regiments. Thus with the standing national guard regiments recruited to war strength, whieh is easily double the peace strength, and thousands of guard loncommlssloned officers scattered :hrough the new volunteer regiments >f the same territorial sections as commissioned officers of companies, nadonal guard efficiency will be exerted >ver a force estimated at 600,000 to rOO.OOO men. Major General O'Ryan, commanding :he national guard of New York state, n a recent article declared that the nllitla today Is 100 per cent better than it the time of the Spanish-American ,var and that the time to talk of a mllila camp as a place for revel and frolic s past He goes on to say: "This question of our national defense simmers down to a necessity for nore militia, properly organized and rained, and to a system of reserves for he army and the militia. Twelve divisions comprising about 350,000 men vould be the Ideal number. To create inch a fighting machine would Involve :omparatlvely little expense. The prlnary result would be an adequate irmy. But the result would be much nore than that It would mean a jackbone of quiet patriotism and a tnowledge of what war means. The atter would make any half baked popular demand for war less possible." Opinions of Governors. The question of increasing the millla forces of the country is one that las been the subject of much eontro'ersy of late. Recently the New York rimes submitted this question to a lumber of governors of various states, lost of the governors sent answers idvocatlng an increase of the militia orces. In his reply Governor Walsh tf Massachusetts says: "Additional militia troops to the num>er of 100,000 men should be organized o make up the deficiency in the differ nt branches of the service, so that publicity should be begun at once in this country, In order to acquaint Americans with the militia and to in uard Camp Scene tipped with regulation arm; tents and form them ofTts needs." Governor Willis of Ohio says: "For state purposes the Ohio national guard carries probably enough units to take care of any internal or local difficulties, but as an integral part of a national defense it would be the part of wisdom to increase the units not only in this state, but in all other states. To accomplish this federal assistance and federal control and supervision to a greater degree are necessary. "Our national form of government is such as to make it unwise to maintain a large standing army. It is also true that national preparedness for defense is a question that cannot lightly be turned aside or overlooked. It is tremendously important that our government take reasonable and prompt steps to acquire a reasonable sized, mobile, trained soldiery. This can be accomplished more quickly, more easily and more properly, also with less expense, through the national guard of the country than In any other way yet thought j of and suggested." The secretary of war In bla last report says: "If all of the national guard could be summoned In the event of war and should all respond (an inconceivable result) and If they were all found fairly efficient In the first line?that is. the troops who would be expected Immediately to take the Held?we could summon a force in this country of reg-. ulars and national guard amounting to 3,818 officers and 150.492 men." The plan, approved by the war department. for the organization of four held armies of three divisions each, which plan gives the number of troops Df all arms that each state would bo called upon^o provide Immediately for I the national defense jn the event of a ?z ***??' ? national crisis, 'has been transmitted to the national guard commanders. Doubling the National Quard. The plan which has beep transmitted to the national guard commanders contemplates an army, Including regulars gnd mllltla, of 310,264 men, which means almost doubling the present force of the national guard. Under present laws and arrangements the federal government has about reached Its limit of effectiveness In dealing with the forty-eight sepa-| rate and distinct forces, ft naa no power to direct the course of training,; the composition of the several forces and their balancing of arms, and It Is more or lesa helpless In Its authority over the arjns and munitions issued to the states. In some states there have been disputes as to its right to direct the expenditures of the federal , funds appropriated by acts of congress. At the present time the federal government cannot remove Inefficient ' OTinrri officers or reward the efficient officer*. .~v # Other features of the system which regular army officers have criticised as Impairing Its efficiency for service in war are pointed out by General W. H. Carter In his recently published book, "The American Army." Sajs y' the author: "The act of May. 27, 1908, contains a limitation upon military efficiency peculiarly embarrassing when the extent and distribution of the forty-eight states are considered, 'When the military needs of the federal government arising from the necessity to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrection or repel Invasion cannot be met by the regular force the organised militia shall be called into the service # of the. United, States in advance of any volunteer forces which it may be determined to raise.' America's Land Forces. "The most recent statute relating to the war establishment the act of April 25, 1914, provides for raising the. volunteer forces of the United Sfaj^a in time of actual or threatened hostilities and definitely prescribes that the land forces of the United States shall consist of the regular army, the organized landjQPtta.dvhile in the service of the United States and such volunteer forces as congress may authorize. '1 The new statute modifies the act of May 27, 1906, to the exten) that after the organized land militia of any arm or class shall have been called into the % military service of the United States, volunteers of that particular arm or class may be raised and accepted Into -v service In accordance with the terms of the act regardless of the extent to which other arms <fr 11 flJIlfUAT ue UV1UQ TU iiiuiu mm IV any military operations beyond our borders the militia cannot be called ^' into service, but must volunteer, so that until the members of each organization decide whether or not threefourths of the minimum number prescribed as the strength eff the ifcrflcular unit will volunteer the president la debarred from calling volunteers of similar arms or classes. All this, be ttl observed, Is to take place after war Is I upon the nation." MEXICO PREPARES FOR WAR Cull for Medical Men and Women Nurses. Mexico City, July 4.?A call was sent out to-day by the federal board of health for a meeting of medical men for the purpose of forming a corps to serve in the event of a foreign war. Volunteers under 50 years of age are called for. The younger men are to'' * serve in the emergency field hospitaUT* while the others will serve in hospitar headquarters and in towns. Supplementing this call is one for women to train for field service as nurses and the further preparation is ymade of establishing some medical factories to offset the danger of having pupplies usually furnished from the outside cut off. Officers have reached the army headquarters from several sections proposing the formation of "brigades of amazons," It being said that women to the number of many thousands desoim tn cori'n In lha event t\f wftP And vvr ask that they be trained to use rifles. Two thousand of these women were reported to have offered their services in the State of Sonora and other in West coast and Southern States have followed their examples. Ogburn-Morgan. ? Mr. Earl M. Morgan, of Badin, N. C., and Miss V. Ogburn were quietly married last Thursday at 1 o'clock at , the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Ogburne. This came as quite a surprise to their many friends. Rev. J. W. Elkins performed the marriage service. Only a few of the near relatives of the contracting parties were present to witness the marriage. Mr. Morgan is a son of Mr. L. T. Morgan, of the Teal's mill section of this county. He formerly worked in Cheraw, but for several months 'cc has been employed in the auditing department of the Aluminum Company of America at Badin, N. 0. nu lb ail ciingcciv; a~uu tayauic juuug man. Mrs. Morgan is the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ogburn, and is quite attractive. She is a young lady of splendid character. Many friends wish them a long and Joyful life.?Pageland Journnal. The Chronicle?II per year. #