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i ii* x M # **Ju*l Like a Member of the Family” il VOL XXXV 111 MRttWIlL-S^iULVf JULY TERM OF GENERAL SESSIONS TO CONVENE HUNTER’S LICENSE ACT BECOMES LAW THURSDAY Judge S. W. G. Shipp to Preside.—Firrt end Second Week Jurors. The July term of the Court of Gen eral Sessions for Barnwell County will convene here Monday, July 12th, with Judge S. W. G. Shipp, of Florence, presiding. Only criminal cases will be tried at this term and as the docket is said to be quite large it is expected that the Court will be kept busy.’ First and second week petit jurors have bpen drawn, as follows: 5 First Week. Allendale: McRoy Boyles. Baldoc: Sam Ferguson. Barnwell: R. J. Keel, J. W. Patter son, A. A. Lemon, J. L. Snelling, Jesse Halford. Bennett Springs: J. M. Dunbar, W. J. Rogers. . Blackville: H. L. Buist, F. W. Delk, John O’Gonnan, Butler Bodiford. Bull Pond: W. Z. Bryan, H. G. Bryan. Four Mile: E. C. Hutchinson, M. L. .McElhaney. George’s Creek: L. B. Creech, J. H. Fix, W. A. Hartzog. Great Cypress:, W. H. Ulmer, G. S. iBoynton. .. ^ ■ M.Rich Land: H. B. Anderson. [ r Rosemary: A. 1. McLemore, B. E. Grubbs, J. F. Halford, A. P. Mitchell, ■ >V. H. Woodward. Sycamore: J. W. Main, D. S. Cone, O. D. Allen, Jr.» W.€. Manuel, Willie Thomas, F. W. Manuel. Wiliiston: R. Bolen, F. T. Merritt. Second Week. Allendale: J. A. Wideman, J. H. Howlett, J. W. Lain, T. D. Johnston, W. T. Googe. ^ Barnwell: W. T. Aycock. Fred Hair, Q. W. Moody. Bennett Springs: Lewis Bradley, J. R. Rosier. Blackville: E. C. Matthews, D. P: MaVtin, L. J. Baughman, Jno. Kemp, B. L. Boylston. Bull Pond: J. D. Gray, G. H. Bryan, J. H. Harley. - Four Mile: T. A. Greene. Georges Creek: Hugh Sanders, A. N. Black, B. J. Hutto, H. J. Baxley. Great Cypress: C. P. Morris, J. S. Plexico, Grover Sanders, R. W. Wingo. Rich Land: F. H. Dicks. Rosemary: J. N. Folk. Red Oak: W. B. Seay. Sycamore: L. L. Brant, C. F. All, C. M. Croft, J. W. Goodson. Wiliiston: J. B. Kitchjngs, D. L. Merritt. New PLANS MATURING FOR A BI-COUNTY BALL LEAGUE Wil- Barnwell, Bamberg, Denmark and liston to Furnish Sport. If plans which are now under consid- «ration fully materialize, the fans of Bamberg and Barnwell Counties will be given an opportunity to witness league baseball this summer. , The towns of Bamberg, Barnwell, Denmark ind Wiliiston will furnish the sport, id with the possible exception of the itter only home men will be allowed to play. This concession will be made because of the fact that Wiliiston hasn’t .enough players to make up a team suf ficiently fast to compete with the other towns. The matter was discussed here Mon day afternoon by the managers of the Barnwell and Wiliiston nines and a fi nal decision will probably be reached today (Thursday) at Bamberg, where Wiliiston is scheduled to play a game. That such an organization would be welcomed by baseball enthusiasts is certain and the success of the league would be practically assured from the '.first ^JTwo games a week will be the schedule and if it is decided to put plan into execution the’ league probably open next week. A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. Toung Morris Rich, of Blackville, Suf- t fen Los* of Ejre. A most distressing accident occurred at Blackyille Monday afternoon, when Morris Rich, a young dental student about 21 years of age, suffered the loss of his right eye. From what can be learned here, 'Mr. Rich watching «ome men blast stumps in a field, pre paratory to making a baseball diamond, when a piece of .wood struck him in Regulation Applies to Barnwell Couatr.—Text of the Act Perhaps very few people in Barnwell County know that the hunter’s license act, adopted by the general assembly at its last session and which applies to this an sixteen other counties, becomes effective today (Thursday.) The coun ties in which the new law takes effect are: Lexington, Barnwell, Beaufort, Calhoun, Charleston, Chester, Darling ton, Dillon, Dorcheiter, Florence, Greenville, Hampton, Jasper, Laurens, Marion, Oconee and Orangeburg. All others are exempt, Text of the Act. Following is the text of the acl: “Section* 1. That every resident of this State must obtain a license in ! order to hunt birds or animals within the borders of this State, except land- i lords and tenants and their respective children on their freeholds and lease- j holds, respectively, for which license ‘ ihe’Shall pay $1.10 each year, said li- , cense to be known as a ‘county hun ter’s license,’and it shall entitle the I owner and holder thereof to hunt, in accordance with the laws of this State, anywhere in the county in I which he resides: Provided, however That any landlord may give written permission to any resident of the | county in which he lives to hunt on his premises, which said written per mit shall be exhibited on demand of any game warden or officer, and fail ure to do so shall be prima facie evi dence of violation of the provisions of this act. “Sec. 2. That any person who has been a boda fide residet of this ' State Mr one year previous to the en actment of this law may procure a 1 license to hunt, to be known as a ' ‘State hunter’s license,’ for which he I shall pay the sum of $3, and it shall entitle the owner and holder thereof to hunt, in accordance ( with the laws ! of this State, for a period of one year I “Sec. 3. That these licenses shall : be issued by the clerks of court games, i warden, or any bonded agent of the chief game warden, and they shall be - paid the sum of K> cents for each li cense sold by them. , Law Eaforcamaat Fund. “Sec. 4. That all sums of money col lected from the sales of said licenses shall be transmitted to the State trea surer and placed to the credit of the game protection fund, and that the chief game warden at the end of each year shall return to each county the total amount collected from the sales of said licenses in each county, leas the actual cost of of enforcing laws in said county: Provided, Th; t in Chester and Hampton counties not more than one-half of the fees collected shall be expended for the enforcement of the law, and that all such moneys shall go into the school fund of the respec tive counties where collected.” Sec. besides exempting 27 counties as above stated, prescribes penalties for violation as follows: “That any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than $10 nor more than $2S or be imprisoned one day for each dollar fined and not paid: Provided, however That the provisions of this act shall not be construed as applying to the public lands and waters of this State, and, no license of any nature whatever shall be required of any resident of any county of this State to hunt on such lands and waters within such coun ties. . , ONE YEAR AGO MONDAY FATAL SHOT WAS FIRED • • Austrian Archduke and Wife Were Killed in Bosnian Town and Europe Was Plunged in Great War—Results of Eleven Month's Fighting. arms after five days of fighting and the Austrian^ were routed. In the meanwhile the battle of Lor- GAUC1AN TOWN GOES BEFORE GERMAN FORCE HO. 43 OLD SCORE WIPED OUT; TO MAKE FRESH START the will WINS BY RALLY. Wiliiston Boys Launch Fierce Assault in Eighth Round. Wiliiston, June 25.—In the most sen sational game ever witnessed in Will- iston the locals defeated Bamberg this afternoon by a score of 6 to 4. It was a tie score, 1 to 1, »up to the sixth inn ing when Bamberg scored another. In the eighth the visitors scored again At this point the crisis came when Mitchell for Wiliiston led off with a two bagger to right followed by Beard, Gooch', Browning and Willis each get ting a two base hit in succession and Rygers singling. The rally netted five runs for the locals. The feature of the game was the playing of Mitchell, Beard Kennedy and Browning for the locals and Rentz and Cooner for Bamberg. the face with such force that his eye Batteries, Wiliiston, Smith and Quattle . —j *-!- » honnr tUmh»ur " Rowell, Free and [ ! was knocked out and his face other- ^ au ™! Bambei'g, frightfully, disfigured. The young 6 , Cooner. was placed on north bound, train and hurried to Philadelphia for treatment. It is not kqown at this time whether or not bis injuries will prove fatal. . Mr. Rich had a brother killed in an automobile accident at Or-angfeburg about a year age. Daath of a Child. Allendale, June 28,—James, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. George Barker, aged 1 year, died Friday evening after a long illness'. The parents hare the sympethy of the whole community in their sed bereavement. One year ago Monday the Austrian archduke, Francis Ferdinand, and his wife were shot and killed in the little Bosnian town of Serajevo by Garvio Priuzip. It was the act of Prinzip, a poor student, which ultimately resulted in ten nations going to war. These nations, are, on one hand, Great Britian, France, Russia, Serbia, Japan, Belgium, Italy and Montenegro, and, on the other, Germany, Austria rod Turkey. The war to date, according to conserva tive estimates compiled from the best available reports, has caused a loss to the various belligerants of more than 6,000,000 men, dead, wounded and prisoners, and more than 500 ships. Of these about 120 were war vessels. The outstanding results on land are these: The regular portion of Belguim ia under the control of Germany. Geftnany has been driven from the far East. A part of the Dardanelles is in the possession of the allied troops. Portions of France and Russia are in the possession of German troops. A strip of Alsace has been taken from Germany. On the continent of Africa parts of territorial possessions have been lost by both aides. Various island possessions of Ger many have been taken by the forces of the allies. I Italian troops are in possession of a strip of Austrian territory. The outstanding results at sea are these: German and Austrian mercantile shipping has been driven from all the open seas. German and Austrian war vessels having a total displacement of appruxi matelv 257,000 tons have been des troyed. War vessels of the allied nations haying a total displacement of approxi mately 192,000 tons have been sent to the bottom. The greater portions of the German and allied fleets in the North sea re main intact. Except for communication through Holland and the Scandinavian nations, Germany is cut off from the rest of the world. Effort on the part of the Germans to place the British Isles in a similar pre dicament has resulted in the sinking by submarines of hundreds of vessels (lying the flags of the allied and n<u- traj nations. The sinking in this manner of the Cunard liner Lusitana with the loss of more than 100 American lives precipi tated a request upon the part of the United States that such practices in so far as they might menace Americans be stopped. Prinzip’s crime was committed on June 23. An investigation disclosed what was alleged to be proof that the assassin was the tool of a group of Serbians. On July 23, after consider able correspondence and negotiations, an ultimatum was seut to Serbia by the Austro-Hungarien government, which Serbia declined to meet. A week later a general mobilization of Russian troopa along the German border was ordered and the following day Germany de clared war on Russia. The news of that event was followed in a few hours by the announcement that a general mobilization had been ordered by the French cabinet. Germany’s First Demand. On August 2 German troops entered Luxemburg and Germany demanded free passage through Belgium to the French frontier. This was refused and two days later Great Britian dispatched tb Germany' an ultimatum demanding that the neutrality of ^Belgium be main tained. The ultimatum was rejected. Gt rman forces attacked Liege. On the same day President Wilson issued a I roc a nation of neutrality. The following day saw the declara- tibn by Great Britian of a state of war with Germany, and two days later the Germans entered Liege as the French Invaded Southern Alsace. ‘ These events were quickly followed by an affirmation on the part of Italy for her neutrality, by an Austrian in vasion of Serbia and by the sending by Japan of an ultimatum to • Germany. This had to do with the German pos session of Kiao-Chow of which Tsing- tau was the port. By August 17 the first British expe ditionary force had completed its land ing in France and on that day there began also | fierce battle on the Jadar between the Austrian and Serbian .1 raine had opened and the German troops had entered Brussels, the Bel gian capital. A few days later, August 23, the victorious Germans entered Namur and began J an attack on Mods, defended principally by the first British expedi tionary force, The next day the British troops began to retreat from their po sition and from then on until Septem ber 12 the German troops drove through France under the leadership of Gen. von Kluck. Zeppelins bombarded Ant werp; the French were forced to evac uate Mulhausen; the Germans took and swept over Longwy and reached Sen- lis, 30, ’miles from Paris, where the columns swung to the eastward. The French government fled to Bordeaux. In the meanwhile German and Aus trian ti oops had met the Russians. A victory at Krasnik was announced by the Austrian government on August 23, while on August 29 the German army uuder Gen. von Hindendurg de feated another Russian force in a battle at Tanneburg, which lasted three days. Louvain was burned by thd Germans on the same day that the Japanese blockade of Tsingtau was begun. The blockade was maintained more than two months before Tsingtau surrendered. Two days after the French Govern ment moved to jlordeaux the battle of the Marne was begun, a few hours be fore Russian troops succeeded in occu pying Lemberg, the capit il of Galicia. Before the French and British troops, the Germans in France were forced to retreat as far as the Aisne. Events of the next few days included the bom bardment of Rheims by the Germans, and the sinking by a German subma rine of the British cruisers, Aboukir Cressy and Hogue. On the same day the Russian troops attacked Przemytl and took Jaroslau. British troops from India were landed from transports at Marseilles on Sep tember 26 and were immediately dis patched to the northward. Before their arrival at their destination the Germans had inaugurated a siege of Antwerp, which resulted in the Belgian government moving from that city to Ostend. Two days later the bombard ment of Antwerp began. The Belgian government remained at Ostend for I about a week and then removed to Havre, France. Forty-eight hours later ' the Germans captured Ostend. Mean while the allied troops occupied Ypres, And a desperate battle had begun on the Vistula river. German assaults upon the allied lines between Ypres and Nieuport continued fora week and then weakened. The Germans operating in Russia meantime had been defeated after a ten days’ battle before Warsaw. In Africa revolt and mutiny broke out. These disorders were headed by the Boer leader, Gen. de Wet, Gen. Beyers, Col Maritz and others. Col. Maritz was driven from Cape Colony, Gen. Beyers was killed at Vaal river, and Gen de Wet was captured after he had been in the field for more than a month. Native troops in the African provinces belonging to Ger many, Great Britian and France were lined up on the boroers of the respec tive provinces. Fighting was general. During the latter part of October the British dreadnought Audacious was sunk off the Irish coash; the Russians successfully attacked Lodz and Radom, driving out the invading Germans. Turkey joined the war at that juncture by na^val operations in the Black sea. Odessa was attacked. November opened with, a German naval victory over a British squadron off the coast of Chile and the Turkish warships bombarded Sebastapol. Two days' later German warships ventured from their anchorage behindt he naval base at Heligoland and bombarded the British coast in the vicinity of Yar mouth. On November 5, Great Britian and France declared war on Turkey and the forts guarding the entrance, to the Dardanelles were bombarii&i by • a fleet of allied English and French war ships. On the north the Russians re occupied Jaroslau after several days of ferocious fighting.., Work of Cruisers German Cruisers which had been stationed in foreign waters at the open ing of the w$r had by that time given a good account of themselves. The Em- den, operating in the Indian Ocean and adjacent waters, overtook and sunk more than a score of mercantile ships belonging to the nations allied ajgaiost Bsrlin Roports Fall of HaHcx lag of ths Dniester. London, June 28.—Berlin the fall of the Galician town’ of and says the Austro-Germao: crossed the Dniester river, means that the five days’ des; rear guard action by the Rpssiai ended in their retirement. How the stubborn resistance of thi: of the forces of Grand Duke undoubtly has enabled him form his lines along the rive: and Stry without interference. The river San now takes th^ jilace of the Dniester as the scene of a san guinary battle in the Russian effort to prevent the investment of Warsaw. Petrograd admits the ptlrement of the Russians to the river Gnila Lipe, which is 80 miles from the frontier, but military experts do not expect heavy fighting along that river. They express the opinion tl^at the nex{ seri ous battle probably will occur along the Zlotal Lipa river, which runs parallel to the Gnila Lipa, further eastward, where the Russians would benefit by the railroad with which the Tarnop line connects. These opera tions and plans, according to military men, confirm the theory that the Dniester forces merely were covering for the northern army. The reorganized Russian cabinet has returned to Petrograd after a field conference with the emperor and Grand Duke Nicholas. The Russian press devotes considerable attention to the reconstruction of the cabinet the convocation of the duipa, and the mobolization of industry for war pur poses, one writer declaring that the pronounced "we” and “they” as ap plied to distinguish the govenment from the people will now cease to exist. Gen. Polivanoff, who has been desig nated as minister of war, was assist ant minister of war during the organ ization of the army in the Russo- Japanese war. He has the reputation of being an excellent soldier and orga nizer. , Through passes 3,000 feet in altitude the Italians have entered the Austrian territory south of Riva on the western side of Lake Garda. They are now within six miles of Riva, the only im portant town of this lake. In the West the only important ac tions, according to the French, con sisted in the repulse of German at tacks on the Colonne trench and near Metzeral. Berlin claims that French attacks at $11 points were repulsed. J. W. Pattar so* aad J. A.W0Ba Elected Leaden of Team* Fairly good scores were made by the members of the Blue team in Inal Wed nesday’s event J, W. Patterson re tained first place by the nartftw margin of one bird, with B. P. Davies and L. A. Cave still tied for second place. Neither H. A. Holmes not J. G. Wooley, the leaders of the Reds, were present at Friday’s shoot. The score of last week’s events is as follows: The Blue*. t.- R. S.Bailey i....-.' 11 P. M. Buckingham 4 La, A. Cave 12 N. L. Kirkland:. 10 H. D. Calhoun § W. L. Cave f 6 C. A. Best 11 J. W. Patterson 10 B. P. Davies .........* 12 W.'A. Hayes 10’ J. J. Bush 9 The Rods. , J. C. Patterson 8 JA. Willis 11 T. S. Cave 7 W. J. Lemon b 10 W. E.McNab .4 H. A. Simms 6 P. J. Drew 4 W. C. Milhous Johnson Hagood 7 J. H. Lancaster..... 3 G. W. Manville - 3 H. L. O’Bannon • R. C. Holman I . 2 At an informal meeting Friday after noon, J. W. Patterson was elected leader of the Blues and J A Willis of the Reda. These two gentlemen will select their teams from the Club’s member ship. It was also decided to “rub out and start over.” That is, none of the previous scores will be counted, as the teams that will complete for the trophy spoon are to be selected from the bent shots on the Blues and Reda. There is quite a bit of rivalry among the mem ben and it is expected that every one will do hia beat from now on to make a record. ORANGE SORGUM VS. COTTON SEED HULLS A PLEA FOR CLEAN BASEBALL Rain | troops. Victory was with tuc Serbian “Wall-Wisher” Thinks Monday’s Was Blessing In Disguisa. Editor Barnwell People:— > In common with hundreds of resi dents of Barnwell County, the under signed was keenly disappointed that the rain prevented the game of ball which was scheduled for Monday after noon. But, also in common with many whom he has heard express themselves the writer is disposed to think that, under all the circumstances, the rain was a blessing in disguise. Unless rumor is very much contrary to the facts there were considerable sums of money staked on the game. It was notorious that the game would have been in no sense a test of skill on the part of the baseball players of the two towns behind the rival teams, for the line-up on either side was to have been made up largely of outside hired players. The writer knows of at least one vis itor to Barnwell who put a 45-calibre pistol in his pocket when he left home —not with any direct intention of using it, but to be prepared for emergencies. If one hundred other men also carried guns to be ready for emergencies, the fact that considerable sums of money were at stake made it well within the bounds of probability that there might have been trouble. re is a vast difference between clean baseball between bona fide teams napr county and vicinity and hired aggrega tions gotten together to win at all costs. Let us continue to have clean games A Well-Wisher. < Cawaty Planting Jnnn 20—JatylO. (J. C. Barksdale, CountyDemoastratioa Agent.) , Orange Sorgum should be planted in three foot raws before July 10th, gad thinned to eight or tea inches in th* drill that the stalks may have space to grow at least an inch in diameter at tho base, that when shocked up in largo shocks as corn is often don* far shredd ing will retain the up until the folioti-- ing Spring and thus furnish sUcdttloal food during the Winter months whoa often nothing else is available. W. R. Elliott, of Winnsboro, prepar ed four acres as for cotton and planted about a peck of seed per acre on Jaly 14th, and fed eleven head of growa cottle from October until February 15th. The cows in milk had cotton seed meal in addition to forgum run through a feed cutter, and the dry cattle received nothing but sorgum the entire Winter and kept in good fleah all the time. Many farmers who constantly pur chase hulls and then haul them many miles can easily plant a part of their grain lands to orange sorgum, or some other large growing variety, and thus save their feed bill during the Winter, depending, of course, on the yields ol the crops. Two-fifths of an acre o( good sorgum will feed one grown cow for four or five months. Land that wU produce a bale of cotton should, with two hundred pounds of soda produce at least ten tons of sorgum. The price of a ton or two of hulls will pay for a feed cutter and the sorgum should be cut into small lengths, say from one- quarter to a half inch lengths. When the crop is planted in late June or early July it will mature in October«nd should be shocked before killing frost and securely tied around (Contmued-on Page Eight.)* ., 4 the top with binder twine. Tighten the »ind» in nbnn. two ..eta, the leaves haye thoroughly dried, then the cane can remain in the field and hauled as needed. After standing a few weeks in the field enough patt be hauled at a time for several weeks’ feed ing and piled on the barn floor. If house room is abundant the cane can behouaed on end and kept perfectly safe, but wiB heat if piled green. Cane housed will dry out faster than if left standing in. the field. ( ■ , Chit out the feed bill of hulls and cram sorgum, and don’t be afraid of sorgum j ruining your land, as cotton wtB pro- \ Fairfax Boys Win. Fairfax, June 26.—The Fairfax third nine defeated the Ulmer third nine on> the' latter’s diamond Jby the score of 8 to 2. The feature of the game was the batting of Harter, who secured four hits out of fire times up, one being a three bagger, also the fielding of the entire Fairfax team. Ulmer........... OOO 000 200-2 Fairfax .... '... .100 Sanders and Griffin Harter. Umpires, Harter and Weekly 022 021-8 i; Prleacher 4 duce better after sorgum 0: lowed by cotton. . .. * ** t M Am ad. in. The Pefffej