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FORTY-FOUR survivors. Crohn liner Foundered mi Rocks North of Capo Race. St, Johns, N. F? Feb. 25.? lioat crews r<>ni the Newfoundland steamer l'pott >ro, hraving the breaker* which are ittorlng to |tlwfs the wreck of tin* imI Cross liner Florlael on the ledges iorth of Cape ltaco today, took off 14 irvlvorn, all that wore left alive of 10 ship's company ?*f 1JW. The death 1st tonight Ht<HHl at 1)2. Of the resoi hmI, 17 are passengers. Only two of no 12 women on board ami none ofj he four children were saved, ('apt. William J. Martin, of the Flor-j iel, ami Maj. Mlehael Sullivan, of the Newfoundland forest y batallton, on lis way to rejoin hi# command In ?otland, were among those rescued, talph Burnham, one of the six cadets >f the Kyyal Flying corps on the lost Reamer, wiiH Included among the sur jlyors. Tho rescue was informed with great rallantry. The Florizol was impaled >n a rook, surrounded tiy half aubmerg (I lodges and lay 900 foot from shore, between her half-submerged hulk and [he cliffs which jut from the water's ^dtfo to u height' of ;MH> or 400 foot, dtli no iH'ueh to s]teuk of at high tide, ;he water was white wl1h an almost un jrokon swirl of breakers, making it Im possible to solid out a lifeboat. A do 4irli!iient of naval gnners managed to jlioof a line aboard the steamer last (li^'lit. but those on board were power oss it? make it fasti as the fore part of the steamer was continually buffeted i?y hutfc seas, tin' aftermath of yester [lay's blizzard. in l lu1 forecast lo, into which the breakers smashed their' way. and in (he fore rigging tho -11 survivors hud jllnl helplessly. Outside the ring of *n rf l;^v a fleet of rescue steamers, in ?ludiag "fho I'rospero, which liad beeji pent by the government to the scene llvitli special .life-saving apparatus. Hy virtue of this equipment, the I'rospero's crow claimed the honor' of ling, the breakers and picking off the helpless survivors. John Shannon Munn. managing di rect nr of liowrlng Brothers. Ltd.. own >rs of (be sbtp.wllh Ills I h roe-year-old ilauirhtor Betty, and the child's nurse Were among tho passengers who rush led up from Indow as the Florlzel struck In the rocks with a terrific crash early ,'ostorday morning in the. blinding hii/. fctard. Munn was on his way to Now Vprk to join Ills wife for a vacation hip to Florida. Most of those lost were swept, over board wltliin a few minutes after the esse! struck. Appointed Township Assessor. ]>. M. Kirkloy has boon numVl by Governor Manning as township asses IKor for Buffalo in^ the place of A. J. (Jretroiy resigned. Lugolf Newu. Lugotf, S. 0,, Foil. The enter tainment given by <be Junior Society hero last Friday night proved quit? | a Huecess. Quit a uliv 111 I U? auiuj of money was made. Lieut. It. -W. (Jetty* is home ou fur lough from Chlcamauga Park. Ills uihav friend* hero arc glad to *ee liiui, Mr. tieorge Tumor of ltoyklu was the week-end guest last week of Mr. Alva llusb. Mr, (irahaiu Hammond of ltocky Mount, N. t\, spent Sunday hero. Mr. an<l Mrs. W. 1*. Thomas of Caiu ilon wore here on Sunday Mr. I.. L. Whltoker leaves for ramp Jackson ?mi Wednesday. Messrs. Willie and John ltoseboro, of Camden, sjm'jM Sunday lw?ro. Miss Kathorlno Thomas, of Columbia, Is tho KUOHt of Miss Tlnnlo Tram this week, 1 Mr. J. Team (lettyn of Colombia spent tin' week end here lust week with his parents. Messrs, James Uosi>oro and s, L. Clyhurn motored to lllsbopvllle last Sunday* Mr. Sam Clarkson and daughter Miss Amelia of lOastovor, spent Tuos I day hero at tho homo of Mr. H. R. Clarkson. Messrs, Sauford Join's ami Swlutou I Ward, left on Monday t'? ? r Philadelphia, lVnn. Mr. It, It. Thurmuud was in Cam den <m Tuesday. Misses Viola Shuinperi and l.ila Met 'tie spent last Saturday in Colum hia. Mr. .lames Team was in Camden on Monday, Mr. Charlie ltro\ton ? ? f Columbia spent Friday here. The man\ f r i* *i i ? i - of Mrs. \V. *A. Itnsh will lie irlad to Know ?he is improving. j 1 Mr. Thomas .1 White. Sr. was In J Charlotte last week. Iti'itish Casualties Lowest in Weeks. I London, Celt. St. ? Kritish 'easualt ies i reported in the week ended today were ?1.5 1, the lowest of any week for sev eral months. They wore divided as follows : r ? Killed or died- rrf wmnirtsy OTttrrrs. 21 : men, 7.'lt?. Wounded or mi sslnjjj; OUlcers. 77 I men. 2,7.'M. Make Negr? Knlist. iVill Klder. a negro living near Kichhurg, was taken in charge by citizens of that community last week on the serious charge of writing an obscene letter to a white woman and was told that the charge against him would not be pressed on condition tljat he enlist in the army and upm the expiration of his enlistment not return to this part of the country. The ne gro enlisted immediately. ? Lancaster News. We're Not Selling Out WE'RE But we are making such astonishingly low prices on our entire line of winter-weight suits, that, from the way they are going, one might think we were selling out. You shouldn't let this* opportunity get away. It's your chance to get a perfectly up-to-date suit at a price actually below wholesale cost. \ Better come now, as they can't last long at these prices. Baruch-N ettles Co. ? CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA AMERICAN RED GROSS TO ENROLL 24,000,000 SCHOOL CHILDREN IN JUNIOR AUXILIARIES To the School Children of the United States; A Proclamation The JYesident of the United StateH is also President of the American Red Cross. It is from these offices joined in one that I write you a word of meeting at this time when so many of you are beginning the school year. Tne American Red Cross has just prepared a Junior Membership with School Activities in which every pupil in the United States can find a chance to serve our country. The school is the natural center of your life. Through it you can beat work in the great cause of freedom to which we have all pledged ourselves. Our Junior Red Cross will bring to you opportunities of service to your community and to other communities all over the world and guide your service with high and religious ideals. It will teach you how to save in order that suffer ing children elsewhere may have the chance to live. It will teach you how to prepare some of the supplies which wound ed soldiers and homeless families lack. It will send to you through the Red Cross Bulletins the thrilling stories of re lief and rescue. And best of all, more perfectly than through any of your other school lessons, you will learn by doing those kind things under your teacher's direction to be the future good citizens of this great country which we all love. And I commend to all school teachers in the country the simple plan which the American Rod Cross has worked ovit to provide for your co-operation, knowing as I do that school children will give their best service under the direct guidance and instruction of their teachers; Is not this perhaps the chance for which you have been looking to give your time and efforts in some measure to meet our national needs? (Signed) WOODROW WILSON. President September 15, 1917. Of the Junior Membership of the. Red Cross, Mr. Henry P. Davison, Chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross, said : "I believe a program has been made out here which is the most important single movement that was ever started in America for ttle protection of the American public and the future of the people. "When I was talking with the President about the pro gram I then said that I believed that nothing in the Red Cross was as important as the Junior Membership work, and that alone from the standpoint of our own people." Under the slogan "Every School a Rod Cross Auxiliary and Center for National Service," the Junior Red Cross has perfected plans for the en rollment of every school child In the United States as a member of a Red Cross Auxiliary, the date of the cam paign being from Lincoln's birthday, February 12, to Washington's birth day, February 22. The Junior Red Cross is a branch of the American Red Cross through ?which every school in America is giv. en the opportunity to carry on author ized Red Cross work by forming a School Auxiliary, upon the payment of twenty-five cents membership fee for each pupil enrolled in the school or by a pledge of satisfactory service in Red Cross work. It is the only agency which is approved by school authorities to enlist the children in patriotic work during the war. All other organizations must work through the medium of the Junior Red Cross, whose services have already been re quested by the United States Food Administration and by the War Sav ings Stamp Committee, of which Frank A. Vanderlip is chairman. The schools, however, are not the only units in which School Auxiliaries may be formed. The other educational units which have been recognized as suitable centers in which to organize Junior Red Cross work are Agricul tural Clubs, Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Oirls, Night Schools, Sunday School classes and such authorised educa tional center* as may be properly or ganised under the supervision of the local representatives of the Red Cross Chapter. The United States Department of Agriculture has already offered to use the Agricultural Clubs for Junior Red Cross work. Every child who is en rolled in a School Auxiliary Is entitled to wear a Red Cross pin, although not considered a regular member of the Red Cross, Conference at Washington. A Conference of prominent educa tors and persons interested in the work of the Junior Red Cross met In Washington, D. C., January 7th and 8th, at the call of Dr. Henry N. MacCracken, National Director of the Bureau of Junior Membership. The presiding officer was Dr. John H. Finley, Commissioner of Education for the State of New York, and prominent among those in attend ance were Dr. Philander P. Claxton, United States Commissioner ot Edu cation, the Red Cross Committee ap pointed by the National Education Association, consisting of Dr. Finley as Chairman, Mrs. Mary C. Bradford, President of the N. E. A. and State Superintendent for Colorado, Pro fessor Marion L. Brittain. State Su perintendent of Georgia, Dr. Francis O. Blsir, State Superintendent of Illinois, and Dr. Margaret McNaught, Assistant Commissioner- of Elemen tary Education of California, and the War Savings Education Committee appointed from the N. E. A., consist ) ing of Dr. Finley as Chairman, Mrs. Bradford, Professor F. B. Pearson, State Superintendent of Ohio, and Professor John D. Shoop, Super tendent of Schools of Chicago. The keynote of the Conference was an effort to define the function of the Junior Red Cross, which was stated by I)r. MacCracken to be, First, Educational, Second, Productive, and Third. Financial, in the order of importance named. The following are the members of the Honorary Advisory Committee : Bernard M. Baruch, Council of Nation al Defence; Mary C. C. Bradford, Pres ident National Education Association; Carrie Chapman Catt, Resident of the National Suffrage Association and Woman's Committee Council of Na tional Defence; P. P. Claxton, Unit ed States Commissioner of Education; His Eminence James Cardinsl Gib bons, Archbishop of Maryland; Wal ter I'. GifTord, Director of the Council of National Defence; Samuel Gom< pers, President American Federation of Labor; Henry John Heintz, Chain man; Executive Committee World's Sunday School Association; Herbert C. Hoover, United States Food Admin istrator; Julia Lathrop, Chief Chil dren's Bureau, United States Depart ment of Labor; Eva Perry Moore, President National Council of Wom en; Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Con gress; Frank E. Vanderlip, Chairman of War Savings Committee, United States Treasury; Frederick Walcott, Food Administration; Mrs. Josiah Ev ans Cowles, National President of the Federation of Woman's Clubs. Dr. Philander P. Claxjton, United States Commissioner of Education, stated that he had carefully invest! -gated the program of the Junior Red Cross and had decided that it was the organisation most practically fitted to enlist the interest and activity of the school children of America Into a sys tematised program of practical patriot ism. Slats Advisory Committees. State Advisory Committees to the Junior Red Cross composed of men and women prominent In educational work have already been appointed in the five states of the Southern Divi sion as follows: Tennessee: S. W. Sherrlll, State Su perintendent of Education, chairman; A. ?. Kincannon, School Superintend ent of Memphis; W. EL Miller, School Superintendent of Knoxvllle; C. H. Winder, School Superintendent of Chattanooga. Georgia: M. L. Brittain, State Su perintendent of Education, chairman; C. H. Bruce, School Superintendent of Macon; C. B. Gibson, School Super-, intendent of Savannah; Chancellor David C. Barrow of the University of Georgia; Mrs. John W. Rowlett, State President of the Parent- Teacher Asso ciation. Florida: W. N. Sheets, State Super intendent of Education, chairman; J. E. Knight, School Superintendent of Tampa; F. A. Hathaway, School Su perintendent of Jacksonville; Dr. A. A. Murphree, President of the Uni versity of Florida. North Carolina: J. Y. Joyner, State Superintendent of Education, chair man; C. P. Harding, School Superin tendent of Charlotte: John J. Blair, School Superintendent of Wilmington; Dr. Edwin K. Graham, President of the University of North Carolina; Mrs. Thomas W. Lingle, Dean of Women of the University of North Carolina. South Carolina: J K. Swearingen, State Superintendent of Education, chairman; A. R. Rhett. School Super intendent of Charleston; Frank Evans, School Superintendent of Spartan burg; Dr. W. S. Cnrrell, President of the University of South Carolina. Hermlta** Cotton Will Nowh. The rooking elans composed of the young girls of tho villus* meets ovcry Tuesday night. They are Into and aro making a <hh?K book of eoo* nomical recipe*. Tito serving of fotnl and tin* kind of food needed to keep ones liody in good condition is dem onstrated and talked of They are a pleasure to touch. Saturday nigld a largo crowd of |hm>|>Io witnessed a lovely little o|?or otta ohIN "Hetsy J toss" or tho "Mak ing of Our Flag." It was given hy the school children. Tin* audience was delighted and tor hum I it tho Itest ovor given hy tho school, ICsisvlttlly sweet wns tin* minuet danced by the smallest hoys and girls. Tho girls wore pink and blue drosses, whleb Jn>?l 080a | km! the tloor and the boys droned like tloorge Washington, white wig and all. Little Miss May tJardner, made a demure "llotsy Ross" and pleaded all with her quaint little ways, It was a very crvdltuhlo little enter tainment considering tho length of t lino I hat w as in ken to get it up. Mrs. 11, \V. Storey, of Kershaw, brought her little daughter Ailleen to the Caunlvn hospUal Sunday, where -he has undergone a flight operation. They s|ient Sunday afternoon with friend- in I he village. W'e are glad to say thai Mr. T. H. II l/.el. our spinning ihdiii overseer, has brought hi- faniil.N to live in the vil lage, We feel that lhe.\ will be a great help io all I' .1 Sherwood, ehairman at tiie I ><'I?um ra I if Parly In llor.ry County, ?oiggesis (hat I lorry have n "eanr palgnles-," campaign this summer in oidi'.r to prevent the factional disturb alters and the loss of time and money that follow in the wake of count \ campaigns DR. R. E. STEVENSON DENTIST Crocker Building Camden, S. C. WE WANT ?YOUR - Barber Business Share 10c Hair Cut 25c Electrical Massage 25c Hand Massage 25c Glovers and all Oil Shampoo* 5#c Plain Shampoo 25e EUREKA BARBER SHOP I. B. ENGLISH, Prop. DR. J. W. SHARP VdoiiMry Suriceoii an<l (knitlst 1 wwkf a Nporlalty ?f 8uri?wy Md ltontal Hurgerj. 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