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2: <Thr lamforg iiirrali) ?| One Dollar and a Half a Year. 1 BAMBERG, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 12,1317. Established 1891 COUNTRY NEWS LETTERS j SOME INTERESTING HAPPENINGS, IN VARIOUS SECTIONS. j News Items Gathered All Around the j County and Elsewhere. Colston Clippings. Colston Clipping'*. i Colston. July 10.?A good deal of J rain has fallen in this section during; the past week. We regret to say that Mrs. T. D. j Beara is not get tin? on as wei. us ui the time of the last writing. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Beard and family, of Bamberg, and Mrs. S. P. Chisolm spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Beard. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Grimes and fam-j ily. of Bamberg, visited relatives in , this section Sunday afternoon. Miss Kate Rentz. of Ehrhardt. visited her sister. Mrs. J. M. Clayton, several days last week. Mises Blanch^ Spann and Gussie, Hutto. of Bamberg, are spending I some time with Miss Mamie McMillan i Miss Inez Clayton spent Saturday! night with Miss Yirgie Barnes. Mr. George Fender, of Bamberg.! spent Sunday with his parents. Mr. j and Mrs. C. C. Fender. He has re-! eently joined the navy. Messrs. John G. Clavton and Ado!-' I phus Jones, of Walterboro. spent Sunday and Sunday night in this section, i Messrs. R. L. Jackson. George j Kearse. Ta'bert Padgett, and Mr. j Curry motored to Barnwell Sunday afternoon. The fourth passed off very quietly j in this section. Some people enjoy-j ed the day a? Spring Branch and oth-j ers at Springtown. The young peo-: pie enjoyed a party given that night by Mrs. F. M. Ray. .Miss Evelyn Kirkland was the j pleasant guest of Miss Mamie McMillan Saturday night. The friends of Mr. Perry Padgett j are sorry to know that he is still con- i fined to his bed. Mr. Johnnie Clayton spent Sunday with Mr. Champion Barnes. Little Miss Gladys Brabham, of Olar. visited her uncle. Mr. B. L. Kearse. several days last week. Misses Laura McMillan and Alberta Kearse are spending some time near Olar. Miss Evelyn Kirkland was the pleasant guest of Miss Claire Kearse Sunday. Mr. Weslev Clayton, of Ehrhardt. i was a visitor in this section Sunday, j Miss Alberta Kearse spent several days last week with Miss Mamie McMillan. Mr. Roy Williams, from this section. joined the navy last week, but he has not been called for service vet. V Miss Minnie Kirkland spent several days with Mrs. T. D. Beard. The children who have parts in children's day exercises, which will be held on the fourth Sunday in this month, are each and everv one requested to meet at Colston Branch Baptist church next Saturday afternoon promptly at 4 o'clock. Miss Lottie Rentz is spending somej time with her sister. Mrs. J. M. Clayton. j Mr. Willie Best, of the Kearse section. was a pleasant visitor in this .section Saturday night and Sunday. The Govan and Colston ball teams crossed bats on the latter'sj diamond Saturday afternoon, but on, account of the unfavorable weather. I only a few innings were played. Mr. and Mrs. .1. M. Clayton were the pleasant guests of their parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Clayton. Sunday. I A party of young people from this section visited Clear Pond Sunday afternoon. Schofield Sketches. Schofield. duly lb. ? The Saltkoatchie Lumber Co. is shut down for some necessary repairs but will start iin ai>nin in the next few days. *->1' ? Mr. G. R. Morris and daughter. of Oiar. were visitors here on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. R. Peoples spent Sunday with relatives at Oiar. Mr. and -Mrs. Zip Lain, of Columbia. visited relatives here this week. Messrs. Laurence French and J. L. Owen motored over to Barnwell on Sunday last. Mr. !>. L Shiplert has returned - after spending several days with his family in Virginia. Mr. A. T. Inal inet spent last Sunday in Savannah. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Fn-n.-i; ar" visiting relatives in Georgia. Messrs. Lewis ('lust and George M Intosh are spending several da>s with their fa mi I v at Williarnsporr. t'a. DRABLFR. I g KIA TO LKMiiKK<; cAriTUKi*. Ku?ian<% Continue Fierce Oft'eiisive .Movements in (.alieian IMstrict. London. July i l.? Halii-z. the strategic iiatewa> to Lember-t. capital of Galicia, has been raptured b> the Russians, says a dispatch from Renter's Petro^rad correspondent. Russia's armies have brohen tiiei Austro-Gennan line in the HaliczStauislau sector, one of the most important on the eastern front, and the Russian advance continues. The Aust".'-German forces already have withdrawn beyond the Loininea river, about ten miles west of Jesunn1 vchioh was occupied Sunday bv the Russians under (Jen. Korniloff. The Russians have taken four more villages and increased their captures of prisoners more than one thousand. Seven more field guns and other war materia! also fell into Russian hands. >lade Wide Breach. West of Statiislau the Russians have penetrated the Teutonic lines to a depth of nearly seven miles and between Stanislau and Ha'.iez they have widened their wedge. In their retirement the Austro-Germans failed to make a stand at two rivers, the Lukovitza and the Luvka. It is probable that thev mav entrench on the! west bank of the Lominca. A stand west of the Lominca. however. hardly will prevent the forced evacuation of Haliez. the strategic: key to Lemberg. as the Russians are within less than eight miles o:' Halicz on th.ree sides and only one avenue o; retreat from the BrzezanyZlochotf-Brody line by the AustroGermans almost a necessity. Meanwhile the Russian artillery is' hammering the enemy lines south of. Brzezany and north of the Pripet j marshes, near Riga. Pvinsk andj Smorgon. the fighting has increased.) On the Western Front. On the western front, along the) Cheiiiin-Des-Dames. the French have! repulsed more attacks by the troops! of the German crown prince. Thej French also threw back a strong at-j tack near Hurtibise, in the Cham-! i pagne. A violent artillery duel is in prog-j ress between the Germans and Brit-j ish in Flanders. The German fire! has also been intense along the frontj held by the Belgian army. In Flan-; ders. near the French border, thej British have advanced their line east! of Ostaverne. The Germans cannot declare their j terms of peace and "must fight and1 conquer." Dr. von Bethman-Hollweg,! the imperial chancellor, is reported; to have told members of the reichstag. Peace without annexations is' not looked upon with favor by the German government, the chancellor, is reported to have said, adding: "1 am sure we can win if we hold out." I The tension of the political situa-j tion in Berlin is still intense. Not That Kind of I lace. "Ernest." said the teacher of geography, "tell what you know about the Mongolian race." "I wasn't there." explained Ernest hastily, "I went to the ball game.? [Detroit News. h I Coj>e Culling-.. i j Cope. July 7.?The protractedI meeting which commenced last Sun-i I day morning at the Sawyer Memo-j rial Baptist church closed on yesterday afternoon. There were twentyfour additions to membership, ten by i | baptism and fourteen by letter. The | Rev. B. F. Hal ford was assisted by [ .Mr. Joe Cohen, a converted Hebrew.; j of Charleston, and .Mr. Cohen's manner and style of preaching the Cos-: pel. together with his having been converted to Christianity, made him | a drawing card, and each day and j night the crowd grew larger ami .larger, until the last two nights. ; when standing room only was avail' i i j abte. The annua! protracted services of Fnion .Methodist church, of this 'place, will begin on .Monday night, i July bth. A song and prayer ser'vhe will ! " i t-Id at s:l." and preach: inu will begin at The Rev. \\*. A. Massa!>eau. of St. Paul's. Orangebung. will as*i-t the pastor, the Rev. O. W. Pukes. Kver>bod> cordially invited t<> thes^ servicts. The crops around 0?pe. which arc ioo! i:iu exceptionally tine. have* all I ho moisture they need at present, for las? Tuesda> night this section was visited my a heavy rain, which, was much needed at that tin^n and again last nisiu we had one or the old-time trash movers, ami any more rain at this time will do nw:e harm .than good. IN THE PALMETTO STATE 1 SOMK <><<1 KKKNCIIS OF VAIIIOl'S KIM>S IN SOlTH ( AKOl.INA. State News Boiled Down for Quirk Heading.?I'ara^rapli- About Men and Happenings. S. H. Johnson, an Anderson merchant. was arrested last week charged with attempting criminal assault upon a nine-year-old wh.ite airi living near his store. The first open cotton boll of the year has been reported from the farm of .Marion Wise, of Barnwell county. The Barnwell county cotton <roo nrosnect is fine. James A. Hoyt. former speaker of the South Carolina house of representatives. left last week for Detroit. Mich., where lie becomes general manager of a large bank. B. T. Bishop was killed at a saw mill near Landrum. Spartanburg county. Thursday morning. His brother-in-law Burcli Saint is charged with the killing. Saint is believed to l?e crazy. The Easier Baptist church in Spartanburg county, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground last Tuesday night. The church cost $i'.4<1 ? and there was no insurance. The church was built by the Easier family. Certificates were presented Friday to ninety-eight young ladies of South Carolina who have been attending the two week's short course at Winthrop college given to members of the girls' clubs of the home demonstration work in South Carolina. Hugh Wilson, a white farmer of Newberry county, killed Colin Morgan. a negro, with a pitch fork Thursday. While the two men were working they fell out. a fight ensued and the negro was killed. Wilson surrendered to Sheriff Blease of Newberry county. KNOKMOrS'COST OF ARMY. Statement Issued Showing Amounts Fxpended in 1915 and at Present. Washington. July ?An idea of the enormous cost to maintain America's fighting forces is given in a statement issued by the committee on public information today showing the relative amounts expended in 191 t when tlie country was at peace, and to be expended this year. Subsistence, for instance, which in 101") was supplies at the modest cost of S9.S00.000. this year lias been provided for in the appropriation at $ 133.O00.000. Clothing and camp garrison equipage. which two years ago were had for $6.">00.000, will cost this year $231.0 (>0.000. Ordnance stores and supplies which in 191* were furnished for only $7o11,0uo. this year will cost more! than $ 1 0 6.0 00.000. Manufacture of arms which in j 191." cost $4."0.o0O, this year will cost more than 0o0.000. Ammunition for small arms which in 191.") was had at $S7.".ooo. this year will cost $148,000,000. Transportation, which in 191." was! furnished at $ 1 3.000,000. this year! will cost $222,000.00. Regular supplies, which in 191." j cost S10.00o.h00. this year will cost' S11 o.o 00.0 00. For aeronautics $4"?O.OOo was ap-l propriated for this year. This does' 1 not. of course, include the adminis-! tration's big aircraft programme! which calls for an initial, appropria-j tion of SO2,9.000.000. Among the items already purchas-1 I ed are: .",<?00.00n blankets; 37.000,000 yards of bobbinette: 2.o00,o0iF cots: 400.00o yards of cotton j cloth: 21.30o.oo0 of unbleached drill-' i ing: tl.ooo.mio pairs of shoes audi 11.10 1.omo pairs of light woolen j socks. Sold 4:?0 Males of <"?>tton. L aniens. July 1 o. Yarborough Bros.. of the Fr.oree section, today, sold bales of cotton in Laurens at 2?; 1-2 cents, the lot aggregating at i>roximarely S.~4."ou. Tlie ci'tton is in a local warehouse ami was bonarht by R. <1. Franks. Laurens representative t'f?r Cooper ?v (Iriffin. of (Rvenviile. The lot consisted of a part of three, crops proum-ed by t!ie Messrs. Varhoroiiirh. the 1 b 1 4 crop having been! placed in the warehouse when the staple was sellinir at live cents. The price paid today for the lot is the , hiahest yet paid in tliis section or in | the State perhaps. to < ontiiol \>n:m< an uxpohts l'ir<t ('on si deration American Needs. Second A Hie"'. Third Neutrals'. Washington, July S.?Government control of American exports authorized in a provision of the espionage act. was ordered put into operation July 1by President Wilson toniaht with the issuance of a proclamation requiring the licensing of shipments to all countries of the most important commodities. Tiie president declared the governmeii's policy will be first to give consideration to American needs: next to meet as far as possible the requirements of the Allies: and lastly to supply the neutral countries wherev er practicable, it is maae near tnat every erf mt will be made to see that no supplies reach tiie central powers. The commodities named in tlie list pot under control are coal, cok&. fuel oils, kerosene and gasoline, including bunkers: food grains, flour and meal: | fodder and feeds, meats and fats, pig! iron, stee! billets, ship plates and structural shapes, scrap iron and scrap steel, ferro manganese", fertil-i I izers. arms, ammunition and explosives. Sixty-1 lay Mmbargo. The inclusion of foodstuffs in the proclamation lends color to statements that the administration is considering the advisibility of a complete embargo for sixty days on all food shipments to give tlie country time to ascertain the amount of its supplies and to give allied and neutral countries an opportunity to present a full programme of their require-j tiients. The president said the government! was trying to first ameliorate pres-! out food conditions and conditions that are expected to arise between now and the next harvest. Many officials. alarmed at the present wheat i shortage, and the heavy drain the! Allies and neutrals are making on American food supplies, are urging an immediate embargo on food shipments. Firm (?i'asp on Shipping. Through control of coal and fuels the government intends to take a firm grasp on shipping. An arrangement under negotiation will give the American'and British governments control not only of all allied tonnage, but of neutral vessels as well. Ships now on runs not regarded as necessary to a successful conduct of the war will be forced into trades considered more essential, and vessels held in port through fear of subma-j rinp attack will he recmired to go ir.toj service. Control of iron and steel was made necessary by war demands on the iron and steel industries. A shortage of steel in this country is threatened because of the lar.se amount that is being diverted to munitions manufacture and the construction of the government's merchant fleet. Japan's heavy purchases of steel plates for merchant shipbuilding made necessary that plates he put under control. Other Regulation* Expected. Specific regulations governing food in ports and shipments of other commodities named in today's lists are expected to be issued by the president within a few days. Even if a complete embargo is not placed on food exports for a time it is known many restrictions will be made. One argument advanced by advocate* of a complete embargo on food shipments is that the neutral coun tries and the Allies have presentea entirely different statements regarding the amount of foodstuff's going from the neutral countries into Germany. The president declares in his statement that this government has no desire to do any injustice to neutral countries and intends to cooperate with them. 100.000 Troops for South Carolina. Columbia. July l o.? it appears now that more than one-fourth of the new national army will be trained within the State of South Carolina. Forty thousand men will be located at Columbia, and onu each at Spartanburg and Greenville. These mon wii! reach tile camps before the end of the summer. It is understood in Columbia that practically the entire national tiuard of New York will be >ent to the Spartanburg camp. The Souti: Carolina national uunril ! will be sent to the camp at C.reen| ville. No definite announcement hps been made as to when the (iist South i Carolina will be moved to'Greenviile. Col. P. K. McCulIy has not yet re; ceived definite orders, although it is understood pliat tile movement will I ! be completed before the end of the | week. REGISTERED MEN NOTIFIED >11 ST HOLls THKMSi.LVKS ?\ IIKAIHXU.SS. Men to Insjuvt List and Inform Themselves of Serial X umbei. Washington, Ji:I\ S.?Another step in build in a up t lie selective army v\as ta'ien today with the distribution of ! a circular by Provost Marshal Gen. jOrowder. noti'yin* the registered men to hold themselves in readiness for appearance be-ore the board which it-i'l cvantiniO'nil ;) " d i-onsid er exemptions. I How or when the government will select the men to be examined is not detailed in the circular, but it is revealed that registration cards in each county or cit> jurisdiction are to be numbered with red ink and that '"as soon as the drawing is complete lists showing the order in which the red ink numbers are drawn will be publ lished in the press and will be posted at the office of each iocal board." It already has been announced that tlie selection will take place in Washington and the general presumption has been that some device similar to a jury wheel will be employed. Mattel of Exemptions. j Exemptions are to be determined | by the local boards, the circular j shows, only for the previously an! nounced specified causes, such as re| sponsibility for support of relatives, j and not for agriculture or industrial I u/\n JAt'All /-Jo \ * r? t't Al* t 1 ^ rv A w! i <T _ i j \ rii ua,? 3 a t ici mc; ! nations are posted will be allowed for | filing claims. Then there will he an 1 additional allowance of ten days for j filing proofs, and the hoard must decide within three days after the proof is filed. When the case of any registrant has been disposed of so far as the local hoard is concerned, the names of j those not exempted or discharged will ( be posted. Claims for exemption for i agricultural or industrial work must be made within five days after such posting and must go direct to the higher board sitting for the judicial district. Appeals from the ruling of the local boards must be made to the higher board within ten days. Time \~ot Mentioned. The circular does not cover the summoning of the men for actual service, pointing out that selection acceptance does not mean an immediate summons. Then the time of the drawing is not specified, but issuance of the circular is taken to mean that the work of selection may be in progress within a few days. The steps a registered person should take are set forth in great detail in the circular. First of all. the registrant is advised to find out I ^ I/a*., aa h iaa n n 11' tut? I'WcHiuii ui iiir unar ui iuinn.< or city local board and then ascertain, if he intends to claim exemption for agricultural or industrial reasons, to what district board he must apply. Cards Xuml>eied. "Every board has numbered the | cards in its jurisdiction with red ink | in a series running from 1 to the j number representing total number of cards in its jurisdiction." continues the circular. "Lists showing the names of persons in the jurisdiction of each board and tlie red ink number of each card are open to inspection at the office of each board. Inspect the list and inform yourself of your red ink serial number. "These red ink numbers are to be Hmwn hv lot to determine the order I in which registered persons are to be called by the various local boards. Ixx)k Out for Call. "As soon as quotas are assigned to leach State and each board, each board will call upon persons whose cards are in its jurisdiction, instructing them to present themselves for ex| animation. This call will lie posted ; at the local board and the papers i will lie requested to print it. A noJ tice will also be mailed you. but the j posting: of rhe list at the office of the ! board will be deemed sufficient notice l j to charge you with the duty of presenting yourself. :: : Watch, the lists at the office of vour board and see f j when you are called for exemption, j "You must report for physical ex animation, on tho day named in vour j call. ! "If you are found physiralh dis! qualified the hoard will give you a I certificate which will explain to you 1 what your further duties aaI "If von are found phvsiealh qualii j tied and file a claim for exemption | within seven days after your call >oji | will be ijiven ten days after filinir j your claim of exemption to tile proof J in support of your claim of exemp SI N.XTK YOTlS "Ito.NH-hKY." Distillation (inly <>i' Light Beer and Wine.?No Liquor. Washington. J'> 7.?The senate went on record today in favor of "hone-dry" national prohibition during the war. -o far as whiskey and other distilled beverages are concerned. Liquor legislation was written into the food control bill in one of the j senate's bitterest contests, which i would strike at consumption of disi tilled intoxicants by commandeering | stocks in bond in addition to abso lnf^lv r\ r f\ Ji ? hi f i t* ?r nionnfoetiirn or importation. The beer and wine industries would be left undisturbed. While the final prohibition legislai tion will be evolved in conference bej tween the two houses, it is generally regarded as probable that the house ; will accept the senate's change after ! a fight in behalf of' its original secI tion. Senate l*rovision. The senate provision would limit ! consumption to stock in retailers' | hands or withdrawn before the law i goes into effect. Stocks of distilled ; beverages in bond were estimated to1 night as between 200.000,000 and I 3O0.OOO.oo0 gallons, and the annual normal consumption at 120.000.000 gallons. To purchase this enormous quantity of liquor, or what is left of ! it. after withdrawals in anticipation I | of the legislation, it is estimated the government would have to spend from $300,000,000 to $1,00-0,000,j 000. The probable loss in federal I - . ~ ? 4*.. 11 A A : revenue is piaceu at irum .j.vu.uvu,i <>? () to $400/M>0.000, although this i i as well as the cost of purchase would ; depend entirely upon how much liq1 nor was withdrawn taxpaid before ! the commandeering. i Promises l>elay. | The senate's action promises inI definite delay in enacting the war I tax bill, further delay on the food | control bill and indefinite postponej ment of congress. The revised $1,i 670.000.000 war tax bill was withdrawn immediately after the finat vote upon the liquor question to seek new sources of revenues in case taxi ation on distilled liquors is eliminated. The senate's vote to have the government virtually buy, for industrial purposes and thus withdraw from consumption or revenue purposes, the great stocks of distilled flquors held in bond followed rejection of a pro j posal to deal with beers and wines, a | proposal to authorize the president I to suspend manufacture of the j "light" intoxicants being defeated. tion. If Accepted. j "If you are found physically quali1 fied and file no claim for exemption, I or if you do not appear for physical examination, your name will be post; ed to the district board as one who | was called for military service and j was not exempted or discharged. On the eighth day after call, or within two days thereafter, copies of the list i of persons so posted to the district . boards will lie given to the press with ! a request for publication and notice will be mailed to you at the address ! on your registration card. "Watch the notices posted in the J offices of the board about ten days ' after the day you were called and [ make arrangements for the prompt ' receipt of mail." Information Furnished. The circular says the methods of proving exemptions will be detailed to the registrant and blanks fur1 nished on application to the local i board. The method of appeal also J will be made plain, and it is set forth that appeals must be made i | within ten days after the local board i has refused the exemption, that the , proof must be filed within another : five days and that a decision must be made five days thereafter. "Only the district board." concludes the circular, "can receive claims for discharge on the ground ' that you are engaged in industry, includinsr agriculture. Only decisions oY district boards on industrial claims ! for discharge can bo appealed. If you desire to appeal the decision of the ; (iistri'-t board to the President, you may do so within seven days of the date of mailing to you of the decisi ion of t!ie district board. As soon as your case is finally disposed of. the adjutant general of your Stat? will notify you bv mail that you have been : selected for military service. i "Notice that you have been selecti ed for military service will not neoes sarily order yon into service. The I notice to report for military service I will come when the government is I ready to receive you." I